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The Junior Trump may have some more “I do not recall”-ing to do …
Unfortunately for him, Investigators now have some tapes, to help jar him out if his early-onset senility, according to the recently breaking trump-cabal-news ...
Secret recording by Spanish police could mean trouble for Donald Trump Jr.
"Mr. Trump’s son should be concerned."
by Judd Legum, ThinkProgress — May 26, 2018
Spanish police secretly recorded conversations between Alexander Torshin, an official at Russia’s Central Bank with close ties to the NRA, and Alexander Romanov, a Russian who was convicted of money laundering, Yahoo News reports. The discussions were related to a meeting Torshin had with Donald Trump Jr. at the NRA convention in May 2016.
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In April, the NRA acknowledged receiving “23 donations from individuals tied to Russia since 2015” but denied receiving any substantial sums. The NRA told Wyden that Torshin only paid his annual dues but said that “[b]ased on Mr. Torshin’s listing as a specially designated national as of April 6, we are currently reviewing our responsibilities with respect to him.”
A report released in May by Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the committee received “a number of documents that suggest the Kremlin used the National Rifle Association as a means of accessing and assisting Mr. Trump and his campaign.” Feinstein’s report concluded that the “extent of Russia’s use of the NRA as an avenue for connecting with and potentially supporting the Trump campaign needs examination.”
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Who is Alexander Torshin and why is he meeting with and talking about the Trumps?
And what does Spain got to do with this?
Just keep reading my friends, and learn what has been hidden in plain sight, amidst the News Archives … all these lost years ...
The Trump-Russia-NRA Connection: Here’s What You Need to Know
Did the Kremlin funnel payments to help Trump's campaign through the National Rifle Association?
by Tim Dickinson, rollingstone.com — Jan 18, 2018
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Trump Connections
At the May 2016 NRA convention in Louisville, Kentucky, where Donald Trump accepted the group's endorsement, Torshin shared a table at dinner with the candidate's son Donald Jr. According to Bloomberg, Torshin claimed to also have met now-president Trump at the convention, and that: "He keeps photos of the event on his computer tablet."
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According to the New York Times, Torshin tried to set up a dinner meeting in Louisville at the time of the NRA convention with then-candidate Trump – with the aim of connecting Trump with Putin. The request was conveyed through a Trump ally in the Christian conservative world, who reportedly sent the campaign an email with the subject line: "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite." (Trump did not attend that dinner.)
Separately, an NRA member, Paul Erickson – who had been part of the 2015 NRA delegation to Moscow – wrote an email titled, “Kremlin Connection," to Trump campaign adviser Rick Dearborn, according to the New York Times. Erickson reportedly told the campaign that Russia was "quietly but actively seeking a dialogue with the U.S." and would be seeking "first contact" at the NRA convention.
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Alexander Torshin, a lifelong NRA member, and long-running money-man for Putin — would be the Kremlin’s guy at the Trump Table in May of 2016. The FBI suspects Torshin used NRA “dark money” PACs to flood the NRA coffers — illegal contributions which may have helped get Trump elected, via that foreshadowed “Kremlin Connection” …
Did the Kremlin Give Money to the National Rifle Association to Help Trump?
snopes.com, by Bethania Palma — Feb 18, 2018
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According to an 18 January 2018 McClatchy D.C. Bureau report, the FBI is investigating allegations that Alexander Torshin, an official at the Central Bank of the Russia and life member of the NRA, funneled money through the gun lobby group to the Trump campaign. [...]
McClatchy added that the NRA spent record amounts of money supporting candidates in the 2016, most of which went to the Trump campaign:
The extent to which the FBI has evidence of money flowing from Torshin to the NRA, or of the NRA’s participation in the transfer of funds, could not be learned.
However, the NRA reported spending a record $55 million on the 2016 elections, including $30 million to support Trump – triple what the group devoted to backing Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential race. Most of that was money was spent by an arm of the NRA that is not required to disclose its donors.
Two people with close connections to the powerful gun lobby said its total election spending actually approached or exceeded $70 million. The reporting gap could be explained by the fact that independent groups are not required to reveal how much they spend on Internet ads or field operations, including get-out-the-vote efforts.
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Lest we think this is wishful thinking on the part of the “Corruption Hunters” — Alexander Torshin has a long history of Russian money-laundering scams, and is reportedly a Russian Mob Boss himself, as indicated here, by the Rollingstone [ Jan. 18, 2018 ]
As a result of this investigation, Spain convicted a Torshin underling – who reportedly called Torshin "boss" and "godfather" in recordings.
This is where Spain entered the Law Enforcement picture. They have long been the victims of Torshin’s exploits and crimes, and they are STILL trying to nail the gangster and his associates ...
Bloomberg News; National Post — August 9, 2016
A former senator in Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party directed dirty-money flows for mobsters in Moscow before he was named a deputy head of the central bank last year, according to investigators in Spain.
Alexander Torshin instructed members of the Moscow-based Taganskaya crime syndicate how to launder ill-gotten gains through banks and properties in Spain while he was a deputy speaker of the upper house of parliament, the Spanish Civil Guard said in a confidential report, seen by Bloomberg, on a three-year probe that ended in 2013. [...]
The allegations related to Torshin in the Civil Guard report are based on recordings made of phone conversations he had with Romanov in 2012 and 2013, as well as documents seized during a raid on a villa on the island of Majorca that Romanov owned at the time. [...] [Emphasis added]
For more details on Torshin’s run-ins with LEO in Spain, among other things, check out this report from www.propublica.org [ Jan 19, 2018 ].
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Remember that opening piece from ThinkProgress/Yahoo News — it reported on these same two subjects Alexander Torshin and his associate Alexander Romanov. This time (circa 2016) the caper they were discussing, which was recorded by Spanish authorities, had to do with the logistics of this:
The discussions were related to a meeting Torshin had with Donald Trump Jr. at the NRA convention in May 2016.
Apparently they had to get “the old gang” back together, to pull this one off …
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Meanwhile, back at the NRA “double-talk” ranch — there’s a lot of hemming and hawing going on, trying to explain away their out-sized record year in Fund Raising in 2016 — the year Torshin and Trump Jr took a meeting under the NRA Fund-raising-lights …
NPR, Tim Mak — March 27, 2018
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Pressure on the organization has also been increased by a McClatchy report that suggested that the FBI had been investigating whether a top Russian banker with Kremlin ties illegally funneled money to the NRA to aid Donald Trump's campaign for president. The Federal Election Commission has also opened a preliminary investigation into this question.
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The NRA said it does receive foreign money but not for election purposes[:]
"While we do receive some contributions from foreign individuals and entities, those contributions are made directly to the NRA for lawful purposes," NRA's General Counsel John C. Frazer wrote to Wyden in a letter obtained by NPR. "Our review of our records has found no foreign donations in connection with a United States election, either directly or through a conduit."
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While the NRA claims it does not receive foreign money for election purposes, the movement of its money among accounts could make it difficult, if not impossible, to track how the money is spent since it is not isolated or sequestered.
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However, the NRA acknowledges that money moves among those accounts:
“Transfers between accounts are made as permitted by law," the NRA's general counsel wrote.
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Just trust them. No need to verify.
Looks like Wayne LaPierre picked a good time to “get out of Dodge” to bring in new PR talent, in the person of Ollie North …
That co-mingling of the $33 Million from NRA PACs funds, with the secret donor list [NRA Institute for Legislative Action (501c) ] with the NRA Trump advocacy funds — is bound to see the light of day soon or later …
Especially if the “Corruption Hunters” in the Senate and the FBI (and in Spain), stay hot on this Torshin money trail …
Funny his arm-bearing interest — since Russia has nothing like America’s 2nd Amendment. Very curious … their very active interest in the financial mechanisms our “free” form of government.
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