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originally posted by: snowspirit
a reply to: DBCowboy
Seems to be what they've been doing, steadily, on CNN. Start a rumour, discuss everyone's opinions on it, for days, saying what if (a lot)...... until people think it's real news.
Watching the psychology going on, on that channel, is fascinating.
Also disturbing....
originally posted by: theantediluvian
I love how all of you are so capable of compartmentalizing all this to avoid acknowledging that Michael Cohen was at the very least, telling these companies that he could provide access to Trump and taking millions of dollars for it.
As you can see from what I just posted, it's pretty obvious that they're doing a half ass job of trying to put distance between Columbus Nova and Vekselberg. Which is part of an attempt to make this influence peddling simply about Russia so that you can argue that there's no connection from Columbus Nova to Vekselberg, therefore no ties to Russia, therefore "nothing to see here!"
And not only are you wrong, it's got nothing to do with the $100k a month Novartis was paying him or that fact that he solicited them with promises of providing access to Dear Leader in exchange for that money.
Try as you might, you can't dance around that.
And this bit about attacking Avenatti is just weak. None of this hinges of Avenatti's credibility at this point folks, all of the companies, including Columbus Nova, have confirmed the payments to Cohen.
Which brings me to another point about CN — they're the only ones so full of # that they're trying to pass of some nonsense about hiring Cohen after the election to consult on real estate investments.
Oh and just in case it wasn't clear before, while CN is an entity owned by Vekselberg's cousin, Vekselberg's Renova Group is in fact the largest "client" of Columbus Nova which up until this #storm was openly calling itself "the US investment vehicle for Renova Group" and which was listed and detailed on the Renova Group's website as part of their corporate structure, as I posted earlier.
Your boy Mueller already looked at it and said Yea, nothing here, pass it on to NY AG.
I'm sure I could connect you or just about anyone else to a Russian with close ties to President Putin.
originally posted by: IAMTAT
originally posted by: snowspirit
a reply to: DBCowboy
Seems to be what they've been doing, steadily, on CNN. Start a rumour, discuss everyone's opinions on it, for days, saying what if (a lot)...... until people think it's real news.
Watching the psychology going on, on that channel, is fascinating.
Also disturbing....
OTHER THAN the 'Trump-Positive news story narrative: 'TRUMP FREES NK HOSTAGES'.
Cohen "contacted us after the new administration was in place," the official said. "He was promising access to the new administration." Novartis then signed a one-year, $1.2 million contract with Cohen.
“He reached out to us,” the Novartis employee said, providing STAT with the company’s version of events as it scrambles to contain the fallout from being entangled in the investigations surrounding Trump and his inner circle, including Cohen. “With a new administration coming in, basically, all the traditional contacts disappeared and they were all new players. We were trying to find an inroad into the administration. Cohen promised access to not just Trump, but also the circle around him. It was almost as if we were hiring him as a lobbyist.”
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: FauxMulder
I'm sure you couldn't.
You know that it's not exactly unreasonable to take these facts and do what The Hill did in their title and call it Cohen taking $500k from a company with ties to Putin.
I don't know that I'd call Avenatti a loser. So far he's managed to eat Cohen's lunch on the public stage. As I've said more than a couple times in the last few weeks, Avenatti has a lot in common with Trump in terms of style. He's got a thing for showmanship, he's adept at using the media and he's got a combative style on the public stage.
Assuming that there's no serious legal consequences to putting out the information that he did, it's a definite win. Now the world knows that Cohen rushed out to sell access to Trump to the highest bidder and that one of Trump's absolute closest associates, his personal attorney and an exec at Trump Org, is a scummy ass swamp monster.
Vekselberg isn't part of Putin's brat pack like Deripaska (he's I think a bit too old school for that) but he is the 4th richest man in Russia, he does have well established Kremlin ties (including heading up business initiatives for the Kremlin, not least of which the Skolkovo technopark — Vekselberg is co-chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Council and President of the Skolkovo Foundation), he is in fact sanctioned by the US government as of last month.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: Lab4Us
Statements have been made to at least two news outlets from people with knowledge from inside Novartis.
Novartis official: Michael Cohen was 'promising access' after Trump election
Cohen "contacted us after the new administration was in place," the official said. "He was promising access to the new administration." Novartis then signed a one-year, $1.2 million contract with Cohen.
Trump’s lawyer pitched himself as a fixer to Novartis and got paid $1.2 million
“He reached out to us,” the Novartis employee said, providing STAT with the company’s version of events as it scrambles to contain the fallout from being entangled in the investigations surrounding Trump and his inner circle, including Cohen. “With a new administration coming in, basically, all the traditional contacts disappeared and they were all new players. We were trying to find an inroad into the administration. Cohen promised access to not just Trump, but also the circle around him. It was almost as if we were hiring him as a lobbyist.”
Just kidding, he’s an unethical, politically-motivated hack, that fools have run to hide behind.
It is unclear if any of these websites were launched or ever hosted content.
These sites include Alt-right.co, Alternate-right.com, Alternate-rt.com, Alt-rite.com, and other similar combinations, which were all registered in the two days following a speech given by then candidate Hillary Clinton in August 2016 in which she excoriated the far-right movement known for its extremist, racist, anti-Semitic and sexist viewpoints. The sites are not currently operational.
A spokesman for the company told The Washington Post that Frederick Intrater was not acting on behalf of Columbus Nova when he registered the sites, even though he had used his company email address and listed the organization. The spokesman said that Columbus Nova was not aware that the sites had been registered before Wednesday.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
And not only are you wrong, it's got nothing to do with the $100k a month Novartis was paying him or that fact that he solicited them with promises of providing access to Dear Leader in exchange for that money.
originally posted by: notsure1
a reply to: theantediluvian
Lol nothing you write turns out to be true..
You have lost all credibility..
originally posted by: knoxie
Russia-linked company that hired Michael Cohen registered alt-right websites during election.
It is unclear if any of these websites were launched or ever hosted content.
These sites include Alt-right.co, Alternate-right.com, Alternate-rt.com, Alt-rite.com, and other similar combinations, which were all registered in the two days following a speech given by then candidate Hillary Clinton in August 2016 in which she excoriated the far-right movement known for its extremist, racist, anti-Semitic and sexist viewpoints. The sites are not currently operational.
A spokesman for the company told The Washington Post that Frederick Intrater was not acting on behalf of Columbus Nova when he registered the sites, even though he had used his company email address and listed the organization. The spokesman said that Columbus Nova was not aware that the sites had been registered before Wednesday.
LINK
originally posted by: theantediluvian
originally posted by: notsure1
a reply to: theantediluvian
Lol nothing you write turns out to be true..
You have lost all credibility..
Who are you again? I can't think of a thing you've ever said that was worth remembering. You're a non-player character, an extra, background chatter that can be, should be and is typically disregarded.
There's never going to be some point after you're gone where somebody says to another poster, "Hey, Do you Remember that guy notsure? Whatever happened to him? I miss his informative, thoughtful posts."
As for your slanderous drivel, I'll put my percentages against you, anyone posting ATS, Q, the Trump admin and just about anyone else you'd care to mention. I'm consistently ahead of the curve and my predictions are on point.
Go back to eating paint chips or whatever it is you do when you're not posting one-line garbage to impress the morons in the peanut gallery you irrelevant clown.