Election 2016 Investigative Nightmare: Lots of Questions Few Answers

Players: Secy. of State Rex Tillerson (former ExxonMobil CEO) and 
Russian President Vladimir Putin

Grand Prize – The Big Enchilada

(On hold: $500 Billion Oil Deal)

Maybe this post is more of my opinion than hard evidence, but I think that will be forthcoming, soon than later - however, here is some hard background facts:

From here (Think Progress) a darn good reminder and also from here (NY Times) especially now just as SOS Rex Tillerson prepares to visit Moscow and discuss Syria and other “hot button” issues. It has been said that he will not meet with Putin. I think that could change quickly and I predict they will meet – but we shall see (still my hunch).

What is at stake is a $1 trillion dollar ($500 billion to be precise) huge oil deal between Russian and ExxonMobil (signed by former ExxonMobil CEO and our current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson). That deal is still the issue of the century and still a very critically key question and possibly as they say, on the table and directly related to proven Russian shenanigans in the 2016 presidential election, which BTW is still open and under investigation on several fronts.

If that oil deal was just to enable Putin to line his pockets and or to prop up the Russian economy big time (also to benefit everyone in Putin’s circle) certainly it offers a much more tangible and probable motivation for team Putin to have worked so hard to ensure that Donald J. Trump was elected.

Recall however, it was SOS Rex Tillerson who had made that huge deal with Putin that was later blocked due to the sanctions and that deal could come back to life overnight without those nasty sanctions. Blocking the deal did not just “put Exxon at risk,” as the Wall Street Journal reported in 2014, and also explained here is still the biggest oil deal in history and perhaps still “expected to change the historical trajectory of Russia.”

I think this is the huge untold and not full factual story about the heart of the whole 2016 election cycle – the money – make no doubt about it.

Stay tuned. It ain't over yet as they say.