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Russian oligarch's story could spell trouble for Team Mueller
The Hill ^ | 7/2/2019 | john Solomon

Posted on 07/02/2019 7:48:37 PM PDT by bitt

Sometimes it is the quiet, elusive ones who come back to haunt you. And for ex-special prosecutor Robert Mueller, one of those might be a Russian billionaire named Oleg Deripaska.

The oligarch who once controlled Russia’s largest aluminum empire has been an international man of intrigue in the now-completed and disproven Trump collusion investigation.

Deripaska was a disaffected former business client of Donald Trump’s fallen campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He also was a legal research client of Trump-hating, Clinton-aiding British spy Christopher Steele. In his spare time, he was an occasional friendly cooperator with the FBI and its fired deputy director, Andrew McCabe.

And, at the height of the Russia collusion hysteria, Deripaska was sanctioned by the Trump administration to financially punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for his meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

With the Russia case, in which he had so many connections, now completed, Deripaska is breaking his silence. And what he has to say could impact Mueller’s July 17 testimony before Congress.

In a wide-ranging interview with me, Deripaska confirmed a story told to me more than a year ago by law enforcement sources: He was indeed interviewed by FBI agents in September 2016 during the early Russia probe, and he told them he strongly doubted the bureau’s theory that the Trump campaign, through Manafort, was colluding with Moscow to hijack the 2016 election.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mueller; olegderipaska

1 posted on 07/02/2019 7:48:37 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 07/02/2019 7:49:03 PM PDT by bitt (US intel is there to protect the safety and security of Americans. It is not a political tool.)
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3 posted on 07/02/2019 7:56:15 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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pingzz


4 posted on 07/02/2019 7:56:21 PM PDT by relictele
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Mueller and the other coup conspirators belong in a gulag.


5 posted on 07/02/2019 7:57:17 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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6 posted on 07/02/2019 8:22:05 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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Ah! So the “Insurance policy” was written before Sept. 2016.


7 posted on 07/02/2019 8:24:37 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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What people don’t know is that Solomon is tasked with a narrative.

The Democrats have had a narrative that was specious, fabricated on the go, and FALSE.

Solomon et al., on the other hand, have a fact based narrative that was set in stone in the early 2017s thanks to verbal debriefing from Rogers and Flynn, is to be released piece by piece with the climax in October 2020, and completely true.

People may doubt this, but it’s blatantly obvious from the tit for tat trio of stories originating from Solomon, Carter, and a smattering of lesser reporters like Ross, Rosiak, etc. These hit their sites, are repeated by Hannity, Rush, Bongino, over and over, and then are retweeted by TrumpMedia©.

At first I was one of those who was frustrated, but it’s a very clearly orchestrated pattern set to cause information chaos (as in Dems dont know what’s coming next) primed right for the Dem primaries (designed to result in a contentious brokered convention), resulting in a horrific, woeful general.

Have fun!


8 posted on 07/02/2019 8:29:04 PM PDT by struggle
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Plus Mueller using the bogus Ukrainian information to indict Manafort. That makes two items.


9 posted on 07/02/2019 8:29:20 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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This will be a fun election cycle, frustrating, but fun


10 posted on 07/02/2019 8:34:34 PM PDT by The Mayor (He is risen! Alleluia!)
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To: struggle

I think it’s amusing that people don’t know real information when they see it in this day and age. ;-)


11 posted on 07/02/2019 9:12:21 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We chose Trump.)
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Trust the plan.


12 posted on 07/02/2019 9:19:47 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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I don't understand why some people are lukewarm about beatings and hangings for "Mueller's Team".

We could take a group photograph, leaving out the soiled pantaloons.

13 posted on 07/02/2019 9:32:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We chose Trump.)
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Team Mueller was compromised from the jump. History will not be kind to the conspirators.


14 posted on 07/02/2019 9:34:37 PM PDT by Kudsman (Im trying to love the tolerant left. They make it very hard to do.)
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To: struggle

Does the narrative factor in widespread illegal alien voting to tip the scales and allow democrats to win?


15 posted on 07/03/2019 3:27:06 AM PDT by odawg
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To: struggle

So what role did sessions play,since it could not have happened without him


16 posted on 07/03/2019 4:24:05 AM PDT by ballplayer
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Maybe someday you’ll figure it out....

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/03/04/mccabe_probed_not_just_trump_but_own_boss_sessions_too.html


17 posted on 07/03/2019 4:33:45 AM PDT by BiggBob
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This whole mess smells of a rouse to cover up the Clinton/ 0bama criminal activities


18 posted on 07/03/2019 4:45:13 AM PDT by okie 54
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