#FREE Penthouse, Part III, The Influencers
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Trump -Russia, The Betrayal of America
There will be no Trump Tower in Moscow. As long as President Putin has a voice in Russian banking. Russian soil is sacred to Vladimir Putin, never will there be an American glass skyscraper anywhere in Russia. To have an American monument within eyesight of Red Square, would be totally repugnant to a staunch Russian nationalist.
Putin rules a country where often might is right. The Russian mafia is allowed to co-exist in society, gay bashing is tolerated as a norm, and prostitution is a victimless crime. If one gets an STD and brings it home, then it was just bad judgement. In addition, mother Russia likes to keep tabs on its visitors. From my own personal experience, I can relate from personal experience, that there are designated westerner hotels. And even if you stay at the Ritz-Carlton, keep in mind that it was built using Russian contractors with unusual electrical specifications. Count on all the rooms to have microphones, and all the suites to have cameras and microphones in every room. This is part of the Russian state FSB information gathering methodology on western visitors. (This is what Putin was trained for in the KGB.)
Vladimir Putin has a lot of oligarch, billionaire friends. A lot of influence peddling is done by Putin’s oligarch relationships. Putin himself is an oligarch worst at least $40 billion according to Forbes magazine, who studied his assets. However, probably Putin should be regarded as the Supreme Oligarch, who controls the USSR.
According to the British publication, The Guardian, Aras Agalarov and Donald Trump met the billionaire owner of the Crocus Group corporation, when the two wealthy property developers met for the first time on the fringe of the Miss USA contest in Las Vegas in mid-June 2013.
A meeting had been set in motion only a month earlier, when Agalarov’s son Emin, a pop singer, not known in the West, filmed his latest music video in Los Angeles. His co-star was Trump’s reigning Miss Universe, this brought the Agalarovs into contact with Trump’s beauty pageant division.
“The pageant was financed by a Russian billionaire who is close to Putin,” Senator Al Franken of Minnesota told a congressional hearing in May. “The Russians have a history of using financial investments to gain leverage over influential people and then later calling in favors. We know that.”
Just four weeks after Emin’s debut, at a backslapping backstage get-together, Trump announced in Las Vegas that a “deal” was done. The next Miss Universe Pageant would be held at the Agalarov family’s sprawling Crocus City complex near Moscow.
While not a member of Putin’s inner circle, Agalarov cultivated friendly relations with the Kremlin while rising to the country’s oligarch class with a profitable network of shopping malls. However, Putin was watching the Miss Universe event and the opportunity to use Donald Trump as a possible Russian asset.
Less than two weeks before the Miss Universe finals, and after the Crocus Corporation completion of a new and very expensive state university, Putin awarded Agalarov the prized Order of Honor medal. After which the Crocus Corporation was further rewarded with more government construction contracts, including the stadiums that were to be used for the following year’s soccer World Cup in Russia.
Further according to The Gaurdian, Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze, also has his own relationships with several influential Russians. Kaveladze, a Crocus vice president, was the the “eighth man” at the 2016 Trump Tower meeting where Donald Jr hoped to receive dirt on Clinton.
Kaveladze was instrumental in the $341million stock takeover in 2003 of Stillwater Mining in Colorado by a Norilsk Nickel, a Russian mining firm belonging to Vladimir Potanin, a wealthy oligarch friend of Vladimir Putin, and was a business partner to two former senior officials at Russia’s central bank.
Party loyalty is cited as a reason that GOP leaders are not more vocal about President Donald Trump inaction. Trump’s refusal to condemn Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, his wish to weaken NATO, his refusal to acknowledge national threats or listen to expert advisors, and more. Yet there may be another reason that top Republicans are not crying out his lack of logical leadership. Perhaps it's because the GOP leadership are also receiving money and input from the Russian oligarchy. They would prefer go unnoticed. However, their silence is crying out loudly to corruption and Russian influence within the GOP
Again, according to the McClathy newspapers, Donald Trump and the political action committees (campaign funding PACs) for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.
During the 2015-2016 election season, Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard "Len" Blavatnik contributed $6.35 million to leading Republican candidates and incumbent Senators, through their PACs and election committees. Mitch McConnell—was the top recipient of $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names of two of Blavatnik's holding companies, Access Industries and AI Altep Holdings, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org.
Major Recipient amounts:
Mitch McConnell received $2.500,000.
Marco Rubio's Conservative Solutions PAC: received $1.5 million, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: at $1.1 million, BPACS and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham at $800,000
Curiously, none of the money was ever rejected or returned. No objections were made, no push backs what so ever. The law is explicit that there can be no foreign campaign contributions. However, Blavatnik is conveniently a dual citizen. Is Blatvatnik buying influence for himself or someone else? Why have these Republican Party members sold their integrity to the Russians? They have sacrificed all that is decent in the GOP and American politics in favor of outside influencers.
In addition McClatchy newspapers states ‘In January, Quartz reported that Blavatnik donated another $1 million to Trump's Inaugural Committee. Ironically, the shared address of Blavatnik's companies is directly across the street from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York.”
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