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Some of Deripaska’s past has apparently come back to haunt him. He was reportedly barred for years from entering the United States because of alleged ties with organized crime, and while that ban was lifted in 2005, it was reimposed in 2006.

Deripaska enlisted help to try to overcome these hurdles. For example, he reportedly paid $560,000 in the early 2000s to Alston & Bird, the law firm of Bob Dole, the former U.S. Senate majority leader and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, which was able to get Deripaska’s U.S. visa reinstated, at least for a time.

In addition, the Washington Post reported in January 2008 that Rick Davis, who was then the manager of Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, helped arrange a drinks-and-dinner meeting in January 2006 between Deripaska and a small group of U.S. senators, including McCain, near Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum was taking place.

According to the newspaper, seven months later, in August 2006, Davis, McCain and Deripaska attended a dinner in Montenegro, whose governing party had a contract with the lobbying firm that Davis ran together with Paul Manafort.

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Was this the same yacht party that McCain attended?

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First, the subtitles are in English as everyone who watches it will see. You must be panicked to even suggest something like that which is so easily proven false. Perhaps your preferred language when watching Russian videos is Russian? That may be why you don't have English subtitles.

When they are speaking English at the 18 minutes mark the subtitles change to Russian. Get my point comrade?

Second, the video is over 25 minutes long. You responded to it in 5 minutes. Check the time stamps on the posts. Guess you never watched it.

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Hillary's campaign people had "conversations" with Russians too. And THOSE Russians actually provided "dirt" on Trump, which was used to not only obtain a fraudulent FISA warrant but also to besmirch the President with false allegations. Is anyone investigating HER? I know I got to this point with GSTRING before, in some thread, and he asked me if I saw the difference between the Trump campaign and the Hillary campaign, and I said "no" except that her campaign's "contacts" with Russians were more important because they resulted in an actual exchange of information.

I don't know where that conversation is, but maybe GSTRING can explain what the essential difference is between one and the other.

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Apparently, just like GSTRING, you claim not only to know the content of (private) conversations, you ALSO claim to know someone's motivations???

Yeah, right.
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This reminds me that you CLAIM to know that I'm a "Russian troll", and you are so absolutleyfucking100%wrong about THAT that it throws all of your other claims into doubt. Seriously, dude, you need a mental tuneup. And I look forward to the day when I can take you to court, and then post about it here.

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A self-described Russian 'seductress' is claiming she has dirt on Trump

A Russian escort is asking the US government to grant her asylum in exchange for audio recordings that she says reveal new information about Russian meddling in the US election.

The escort says she recorded more than 16 hours of conversations between a Russian oligarch, a top Russian government official, and others about US-Russian relations and the election.

"If America gives me protection, I will tell everything I know," she said on Monday.

"I'm ready to give you all the missing puzzle pieces, support them with videos and audios, regarding the connections of our respected lawmakers with Trump, Manafort and the rest. I know a lot. I'm waiting for your offers and I'm waiting for you in a Thai prison," Vashukevich said in a video she posted on Instagram on her way to the Pattaya jail.

http://www.businessinsider.com/anastasia-vashukevich-russian-escort-ja
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Well, first of all, this is where YOU BELIEVE something. You have turned an opinion into a belief. So I'll take your BELIEF about as seriously a I take the BELIEF in god, or the BELIEF in a flat earth, which is ... not at all.

Secondly ... No, I'll stop at the first point. A BELIEVER is someone who maintains an idea without evidence, or even in the face of countervailing evidence. Until you get past "believing", there's just no reasoning with you because you're immune to facts and logic.

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BTW- you asked me, snidely, how I knew about such as arcane term as idee fixe. That's because I'm smarter than you, better educated than you, and because I don't get all my info from Twitter and FB.

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Well, first of all, this is where YOU BELIEVE something. You have turned an opinion into a belief. So I'll take your BELIEF about as seriously a I take the BELIEF in god, or the BELIEF in a flat earth, which is ... not at all.

Secondly ... No, I'll stop at the first point. A BELIEVER is someone who maintains an idea without evidence, or even in the face of countervailing evidence. Until you get past "believing", there's just no reasoning with you because you're immune to facts and logic. - SIGNY

Actually, Mueller has turned facts and logic into action. Not surprised you're not seeing that - it's a higher form of intelligence that you are clearly unfamiliar with. Do you suppose all of those indictments are based on opinions or facts? Not sure why someone as "smart" as you can't see the obvious.- GSTRING

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And that's because Assange and Snowden did what our current crop of sycophantic msm whores SHOULD be doing, but are too corrupt to do ... lifting the rock to see what's scurrying underneath, holding our government officials' feet to the fire, ripping off the mask of secrecy.

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HAHAHA!
Yeah, whatever.

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MORE "BELIEF". You ASSUME that an investigation is warranted because of your BELIEFS.

First of all... I never said "Don't investigate Trump". HOWEVER, I think we should be a lot more even-handed in our investigations, don't you???

So, how about Hillary? Maybe the FBI should do a REAL investigation on her, instead of deliberately botching the original investigation,

Allowing the destruction of evidence (like, with a hammer),
Tossing out immunity like confetti to people who weren't even being investigated (making it impossible to charge them with anything and leverage their cooperation),
Not requiring Hillary to testify UNDER OATH
Not investigating Hillary with obstruction of justice, even after she Bleachbitted emails AFTER being supoenaed (Man, if I did that at work I'd be in deep, deep dog doo-doo)
Having Loretta Lynch yack will Bill Clinton on the tarmac for 20 minutes ...

I mean, REALLY??? If there's is a way to fuck up an investigation and destroy/ taint the evidence so throughly that it can't be revived, the FBI took EVERY possible opportunity.

And then Brennan, that big fat liar. Maybe HE should be investigated! And, how about Comey? Obama? Lynch? Holder? I'll bet there's some nice big skeletons .... illegal searches, foreign influence, rank partisanship ... in THEIR closets. By all means! Let's start turning over ALL the rocks, instead of doing an endless safari up a single person;s anus.

Yanno, hon, you sure do an awful lot of lying, for someone who claims to be for the truth You're CONSTANTLY lying about what I said. You just did it here, and you did it again there http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=62254

It's one thing to be stupid, it's another to be dishonest. If you can't be smart, at least be honest.



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But not a Special Counsel. At least, not yet.

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There is one other investigation going on, which has received far less attention than Mueller and even fewer leaks, and that is the AG's investigation into the texts between Strzok and Page, and any other indications that there may have been political bias in the FBI's and DOJ's handling of either the Trump investigation or the Hillary investigation.

It will be interesting to see what comes of it. A lot of people have already been reassigned, or quit, or retired, over these texts.

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Well, JUST TODAY you insinuated that I was against investigating the Trump campaign. Now, I doubt that you can find anywhere where I said it shouldn't be done. I think it's politically motivated, and I'm completely against an investigation that starts out with one topic and then veers all over the map until they find SOMEthing ... but an HONEST investigation ... i.e. one that doesn't start out with the PRESUMPTION OF GUILT (LIKE YOU DO) ... will uncover the truth.- SIGNY

Wait, what? You really want us to believe you are in favor of Mueller's investigation of Trump? I thought you were telling the truth with all that "they should investigate Hillary!" and "It's the Deep State!" Both of those can't be true, so... connect the dots.- GSTTRING

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And JUST TODAY, in this thread, you said I was "against democracy". http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=62254 REALLY??? SIGNY

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At one point, Republicans even discussed putting up a physical wall in one of the committee's secured rooms to divide Democratic and Republican staff members. The plan was abandoned, according to sources with knowledge of the idea, a decision that had more to do with logistical concerns than any cooling of partisan animosity.

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OK, this seems to be the memo:
https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/redacted_minori
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Funny thing: when trying to find a copy, there were no Real News links in the search results, only Fake News outlets.

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Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker said today that a highly anticipated report from the DOJ's Inspector General Michael Horowitz will contain "some pure TNT." Horowitz has been investigating the conduct of the FBI's top brass surrounding the 2016 election for over a year. He also uncovered over 50,000 text messages between two anti-Trump / pro-Clinton FBI employees directly involved in the exoneration of Clinton and the counterintelligence operation launched against the Trump campaign.

Swecker: “The behavior if it’s manifested in the action with your thumb on the scale of a particular investigation, one way or the other, that’s borderline criminal behavior — manipulating an investigation. I think this IG report is going to be particularly impactful, more so than any of these useless congressional investigations. I think you’re going to see some pure TNT come out in this IG report.”

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Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker said today that a highly anticipated report from the DOJ's Inspector General Michael Horowitz will contain "some pure TNT." Horowitz has been investigating the conduct of the FBI's top brass surrounding the 2016 election for over a year. He also uncovered over 50,000 text messages between two anti-Trump / pro-Clinton FBI employees directly involved in the exoneration of Clinton and the counterintelligence operation launched against the Trump campaign.

Swecker: “The behavior if it’s manifested in the action with your thumb on the scale of a particular investigation, one way or the other, that’s borderline criminal behavior — manipulating an investigation. I think this IG report is going to be particularly impactful, more so than any of these useless congressional investigations. I think you’re going to see some pure TNT come out in this IG report.”

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Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker said today that a highly anticipated report from the DOJ's Inspector General Michael Horowitz will contain "some pure TNT." Horowitz has been investigating the conduct of the FBI's top brass surrounding the 2016 election for over a year. He also uncovered over 50,000 text messages between two anti-Trump / pro-Clinton FBI employees directly involved in the exoneration of Clinton and the counterintelligence operation launched against the Trump campaign.

Swecker: “The behavior if it’s manifested in the action with your thumb on the scale of a particular investigation, one way or the other, that’s borderline criminal behavior — manipulating an investigation. I think this IG report is going to be particularly impactful, more so than any of these useless congressional investigations. I think you’re going to see some pure TNT come out in this IG report.”

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A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal or harmful act.

According to many psychologists, a person who believes in one conspiracy theory is often a believer in other conspiracy theories. Psychologists believe that the search for meaningfulness features largely in conspiracism and the development of conspiracy theories.

According to University of Chicago political science professors Eric Oliver and Thomas Wood, in any given year roughly half of Americans believe in at least one conspiracy theory. Their 2014 study found that 19% of Americans believed the U.S. government planned the 9/11 attacks to start a war in the Middle East, 24% believed former president Barack Obama was not born in the United States, and 25% believed Wall Street bankers conspired to cause the financial crisis that began in 2008. Those are high numbers considering there is zero evidence to support any of those theories.

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Yet another pitiful attempt to rewrite history, rearrange chronology. The Mueller Fishing Expedition did not even begin until after McCabe, Page, Strzok, et al endeavored to fabricate documents to facilitate the Witch Hunt.

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