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Thought experiment: Make a list of all the public figures in this country and around the world the current president has criticized. Ask yourself: “Why is Putin missing from the list?” No responsible American should ever stop asking, “Why?”
3:08 PM - 23 Jul 2018"
The actions media (Fox News) and Trump supporters show as Trump being tough on Russia are Red Herrings, a "Kabuki" dance, fake, a facade to make us believe Trump is not be holding to Putin. Trump is doing nothing to hurt Putin.
Putin has the goods on Trump, PERIOD. Tweety is "Agent Orange."
Putin has Trump working for him on "adoption," meaning Putin wants Trump to erase the Magnitski Act to release the United States hold on Russian oligarch money which is, essentially, Putin's money.
"Browder: Trump May Have Agreed To Help Russian Prosecutors Pursue Him"
RFE/RL July 18, 2018
"Browder, who as head of the investment firm Hermitage Capital was once the West's biggest investor in Russia, was found guilty in absentia by a Moscow court in December 2017 of large-scale tax evasion of some 3 billion rubles ($48 million) and sentenced to nine years in prison.
Following Russian news reports that the Kremlin was requesting interrogations of a number of U.S. officials, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul confirmed in a posting on Twitter that he was one of those targeted.
McFaul called on the U.S. State Department to "get on the record right now and push back on these requests. There is no equivalency between the Russian harassment of Bill Browder" and the indictment of Russian intelligence agents by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller last week."
Here's why Putin wants Browder, and preferably dead . . .
"The money-laundering case involving the Russian company Prevezon was connected with an alleged tax-fraud scheme uncovered by a Russian whistle-blower named Sergei Magnitsky, who was later detained on allegations of perpetrating the fraud himself.
A Russian court convicted Magnitsky of the fraud a few years after he died in a Moscow prison in November 2009 after alleged beatings and medical negligence.
Magnitsky’s death led to a 2012 U.S. law that targeted Russian officials allegedly involved in the fraud and his death -- a law that outraged the Kremlin but led to the adoption of similar legislation by other Western countries."
