The Tim Walz – JD Vance debate was even more boring than that of the presidential candidates, with Vance confident on stage and Walz looking insecure and intimidated, JD clearly “won” the last debate before the US presidential election…

I’m NOT saying that Trump IS more corrupt than other politrickters, but it seems like the Trump syndicate do their endless corrupt deals even more openly than other crooks…


Watergate coup accomplice Bob Woodward is releasing a book “War” on 15 October, mostly based on the stories of anonymous sources (where have I heard that before?), so we cannot verify anything.
He claims that Trump provided Putin’s Russia with COVID tests, when there was a shortage in the US, so they could inflate Russian COVID numbers with the developed world. More “shocking” claims include that Trump and Putin spoke on the phone a handful of times, after Donald left the White House.

There are also some tales about Biden and Harris that are surprisingly mild (even positive?). Although it isn’t actually supportive to expose them as completely ignored by the Arab-murdering Netanyahu war machine (sort of conforming Trump’s claims that they are so weak that wars broke out and continue).

And of course… tales of those magical “nuclear weapons” that have scared us $hitless since August 1945: https://archive.is/rWeLa


I think that the following 2 articles with quotes from previous posts are more interesting than Woodward’s upcoming book…

Former Trump campaign and transition aide Bryan Lanza is (or was?) a lobbyist at Mercury Public Affairs, where he represented Putin crony Oleg Deripaska’s EN+ Group.

That’s the Mercury of Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, who in 2014 subcontracted Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager Podesta to “lobby for the Ukraine”…

Firestarter wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:15 pmThe following graph explains this in short.

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In November 2019, Bryan Lanza met top aide to Ukrainian president Zelensky, Andrey Yermak, in Kyiv.


In April 2018, the Trump administration banned Chinese telecom equipment giant ZTE from buying American-made parts, after some lobbying by Mercury, in July the Commerce Department lifted the ban.
The main lobbyist for ZTE was Mercury’s Bryan Lanza, who handled the account with fellow Trump campaign veteran Eric Branstad, who was then a Commerce Department official, and travelled with Lanza to China.

Eric Branstad is the misfit son of freemason Terry Branstad, then Trump’s ambassador to China. From 1983 to 1999, Terry Branstad was Iowa’s governor, returning in that role from 2010 to 2017, when he resigned to become Trump’s ambassador to China. Terry Branstad is also the longtime friend of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
See Terry Branstad (fourth from left) and Xi Jinping (to his left), at the Governor’s Office in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1985.

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Firestarter wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:37 pmOn another Mar-a-Lago weekend, he was visited by Chinese President Xi Jinping, when Trump made the decision to fires 59 Tomahawk missiles at an air base in Syria. The day Ivanka Trump sat next to Xi and his wife at Mar-a-Lago, the Chinese government approved 5 new trademarks for Ivanka’s company.

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Eric Branstad was close with Trump and joined Mercury after a stint advising Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
When his father was governor of Iowa, Eric Branstad got money in return for being the son of Iowa’s governor. At the Commerce Department his interactions with Trump insider Mercury’s Rick Gates drew suspicion: https://theintercept.com/2020/10/15/eri ... mbassador/
(https://archive.is/xMNkD)


In August 2019, Trump insider John Sweeney signed a lucrative contract to lobby for Vnesheconombank (a.k.a. VEB) to stop sanctions from the US government.
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Firestarter wrote:Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s former head of human resources at Menatep Bank and Yukos and current chairman of the state-owned Vnesheconombank (VEB), Sergey Gorkov, met Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in New York in December 2016.

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John Sweeney has also represented Ihor Kolomoisky, the Ukrainian billionaire sugar daddy of Ukrainian president Zelensky.
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Firestarter wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:16 pmAll the Trump-loving Clinton-Biden haters know that Joe's misfit son Hunter Biden got lots of cash for sitting on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
Now it appears that Volodymyr Zelensky's sugar daddy Ihor Kolomoisky controlled Burisma through the PrivatBank.

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Brian Ballard, who formerly lobbied for Trump, has represented Russian oligarch David Yakobashvili, that is also close to Putin: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... -lobbyist/
(https://archive.is/od33K)

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Firestarter wrote:Russian billionaires David Yakobashvili and Roman Abramovich (Chabad-Lubavitch) were among the investors in Telegram Open Network (Telegram’s cryptocurrency). The EU, US, Switzerland, Canada and Ukraine imposed sanctions on them over their close ties to the Kremlin

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