If you’ve been reading us for a while you’ll remember when we said Putin claimed how certain investors contributed over $400 Million to the Clinton campaign in 2016.
FLASHBACK: July 19, 2018:
This one flew under the radar…from our archives:
After offering to allow special counsel Robert Mueller’s team to come to Russia for their investigation (as long as there was a reciprocal arrangement for Russian intelligence to investigate in the U.S.) Putin said this:
“For instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder, in this particular case. Business associates of Mr. Browder have earned over $1.5 billion in Russia and never paid any taxes neither in Russia or the United States and yet the money escaped the country. They were transferred to the United States. They sent [a] huge amount of money, $400,000,000, as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton. Well, that’s their personal case.
It might have been legal, the contribution itself but the way the money was earned was illegal. So, we have solid reason to believe that some [US] intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. So, we have an interest in questioning them.”
$400 Million to the Clintons
So, why are we bringing this up almost four years later?
The American-born British financier Bill Browder (whom Putin is referring to) was at one time the largest foreign portfolio investors in Russia.
A quick Wikipedia check reveals:
Browder’s paternal grandfather was Earl Browder, who was born in Kansas in 1891. He was a radical and had lived in the Soviet Union for several years from 1927 and married Raisa Berkman, a Jewish Russian woman, while living there. After his return to the United States in 1931, Earl Browder became the leader of the Communist Party USA, and ran for U.S. president in 1936 and 1940. After World War II, Earl Browder lost favor with Moscow and was expelled from the American Communist party.
Again, why are we bringing this Up?
Cue up: Barron’s Magazine recent article featuring Bill Browder claiming how to stop Putin by starving him of his resources, Russia’s war in Ukraine, Oligarchs and London’s dirty money.
All we’ll say here is: This is a classic case of the pot calling the Kettle Black.
And it dovetails perfectly into our lead article in the March edition of “…In Plain English” titled: How, When, and Why Putin Came to Power in Russia…Proving How Everything is Connected…Everything.
It’s being released tomorrow.
And it will give you a perspective on the entire Russia/Ukraine scene that you couldn’t possibly imagine.
Read it (HERE).
And share this with a friend.
They’ll thank YOU later.
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