Back in 2019, then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a bill to keep sanctions in place on Russia’s largest aluminum producer. In January, as the Senate debated whether to permit the Trump administration to lift sanctions on Russia’s largest aluminum producer, two men with millions of dollars riding on the outcome met for dinner …
Tag: The Russian Connection
Mar 02 2021
The Russian Connection: Still Following the Money
Remember Donald Trump’s business ally Felix Sater who had some really shady connections to Russian oligarchs and a money laundering scheme to build a Trump hotel in Moscow. The tower was never built and questions about $440 million went unanswered. Sater was convicted of first degree assault in 1991 for slashing a commodities broker across …
Oct 09 2019
The Russian Connection: Yes, They Did
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report that clearly states that Russia interfered with the 2016 election directing a disinformation campaign against Hillary Clinton and favored Donald Trump. The bipartisan report blows a huge hole in Trump’s conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine and the Democrats. The report corroborates past findings by researchers and the …
Oct 08 2019
The Russian Connection: “Great And Unmatched” Stupidity
Over the weekend, Donald Trump sowed more chaos when he announced that he was pulling US troops out of northeastern Syria abandoning the Kurdish forces who helped defeat ISIS giving the green light to Turkey to attack the Kurds, whom the Turks consider terrorists. The decision came after a Sunday phone call Trump had with …
Aug 16 2019
The Russian Connection: Kentucky’s Catch 22
The Senate Majority Leader, Moscow Mitch, has put his home state, Kentucky, behind the proverbial 8 ball with his Catch 22 legislative maneuvering to secure a deal with a still sanctioned Russian aluminum oligarch, Oleg Derepaska. His economic treason has left his state’s legislature and the US Congress no room to reign in Russian interference …
Aug 15 2019
The Russian Connection: Moscow Mitch Pas de Deux With Putin
Last month, on the heels of Robert Mueller’s report and testimony before two House committees, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, formerly known as “The Human Hybrid Turtle,” blocked consideration of two bills that were aimed at protecting the US voting process and combating Russian interference. It earned him the new nickname “Moscow Mitch” that prompted …
Jul 26 2019
The Russian Connection: Moscow Mitch
Senate Majority leader Mitch “The Human-Hybrid Turtle” McConnell has a new moniker pinned on him by MSMBC’s host of “Morning Joe” and former Republican Joe Scarborough. During his morning show, Scarborough slammed McConnell for blocking two bills aimed at securing American elections and combatting Russian Interference in American elections yesterday on the heels of former …
Jun 25 2019
The Russian Connections: The Mueller Report In Ten Acts
In order to make the public more aware of the facts that where revealed in The Mueller Report, the report was read by 18 well known actors from the adapted script written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. The reading was sponsored by Law Works and took place before a live invited audience in …
May 17 2019
The Russian Connection: Yes, There Are Tapes
On Thursday in a Washington DC courtroom, previously redacted documents from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team regarding the cooperation of former Trump Nation Security Adviser General (ret.) Michael Flynn. Former national security adviser Michael Flynn told investigators that people linked to the Trump administration and Congress reached out to him in an effort to interfere …
May 17 2019
The Russian Connection: McConnell and Deripaska, A Love Story
While everyone has been fixated on the Trump’s current temper tantrum and fight for abortion rights, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Putin’s “favorite industrialist”, Oleg Derispaska are having an affair in Kentucky. Kentucky might be going into business with the Russian mafia. Not the rough-and-tumble “Godfather” crowd with the bent noses and such …
Apr 12 2019
The Russian Connection: Organization 1
As we all know by now, the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange was arrested in London on two warrants after the Ecuadoran ambassador revoked his asylum status that has lasted 7 years. He was arrested and taken to a magistrates court to face a charge of failing to surrender to the courts which he denied …