Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Like Father Like Son or Vice Versa (With strong emphasis on vice)

Congrats, Donald. Thank you Vlad. I'm humbled.
(За здоровье!)

A recent tweet - the father's line:

“Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!”

4:31 AM - 11 Jan 2017
31,776 replies / 23,707 retweets / 86,196 likes

Now from the son, Donald, Jr., an older quote — oops...!!!


Now try to tie it all together, even if that's humanly possible in this PR era with this: BREAKING NEWS FROM WASHINGTON, DC from McClatchy DC News with this startling headlines, which alone is disturbing to say the least:

FBI and five other agencies probe possible covert
Kremlin aid to Trump

The FBI and five other law enforcement and intelligence agencies have collaborated for months in an investigation into Russian attempts to influence the November election, including whether money from the Kremlin covertly aided President-elect Donald Trump, two people familiar with the matter said.
The agencies involved in the inquiry are: the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the DOJ, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and representatives of the DNI sources have said.
Investigators are examining how money may have moved from the Kremlin to covertly help Trump win, the two sources said. 
One of the allegations involves whether a system for routinely paying thousands of Russian-American pensioners may have been used to pay some email hackers in the United States or to supply money to intermediaries who would then pay the hackers, the two sources said.
[…] Mr. Trump, the president-elect, will be inaugurated January 20, 2017 (Friday at high noon), said in a press conference that he believes Russia was involved with the hacking (but possibly others instead), and he has at times called allegations that he or his associates were involved in such as a “political witch hunt” and a “complete and total fabrication.”
Related: Mr. Trump has yet to say whether FBI Director James Comey will be retained. However, the rest of Trump’s newly appointed intelligence and law enforcement chiefs will inherit the investigation, whose outcome could create national and international fallout.
Noteworthy: Mr. Trump's presidential transition team did not respond to a request for comment about this latest inquiry. 
As always, stay tuned. This for sure is a very critically-important story. 

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