In order for a premeditated crime to take place, there has to be a motive. How about 500 billion dollars? Get ready to start seeing and hearing ‘Rosneftgate’ or ‘Rosneftzi’ or some other ridiculous made up word to name Trump’s YUGE scandal.
I was around during Watergate. What they had there was a break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters and 18 minutes of blank recording tape. Say those were like an ice cube size of strange happenings. The amount of VERY SUSPICIOUS activity surrounding Trump, Tillerson, Exxon, Putin and Russia is like an iceberg big enough to stink the Titanic.
I’m going to just list the items that need thorough investigation. I think you will be amazed by the volume. (That’s what I thought I was going to do until...)
Breaking News!: Due to a late night FB session I read a post that outlined Rex Tillerson’s Exxon deal with Russia and how President Obama’s sanctions against Russia for their aggression toward Ukraine impacted the deal. All the puzzle pieces I'd been putting together fell in place. This Big oil deal has the power to explain why Trump ran in the first place, Russia’s involvement, Trump not wanting to release his taxes, the Rex Tillerson appointment, Trump’s rescinding of the oil industry transparency laws and Trump wanting to drop the sanction against Russia. It explains IT ALL!!! This is the Big Oily Smoking Gun.
This is MOTIVE.
Trump-Russia Suspicious Activity and the Big Oily Motive for it All.
1) There's election tampering. Trump has conceded Russian involvement.
“As far as hacking, I think it was Russia,” Mr. Trump said, his first comments accepting the conclusions of United States intelligence officials that Moscow had interfered in the election to help him win. But the president-elect expressed little outrage about that breach and seemed to cast doubt on Russia’s role moments after acknowledging it, asserting that “it could have been others also.”
He also quoted a Kremlin denial Tuesday night of reports that it had gathered damaging information to compromise Mr. Trump. “They said it totally never happened,” Mr. Trump said of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his government. “I respected the fact that he said that.” N.Y. Times.
"Trump Concedes Russia's Interference in the Election".
Trump Putin connection matrix courtesy of CNN: “Trump and Russia: What the fallout could be” www.cnn.com/...
2) Trump publicly called for help from Russian hackers during the campaign.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clinton’s deleted emails. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” Donald Trump
"Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clinton’s Missing Emails"
3) The Wikileaks-Russia hacks connection.
- “The methods of the disclosures "suggest Moscow is at least providing the information or is possibly directly responsible for the leaks," one US official said.
- US intelligence officials are still investigating the degree of connection between Russia and WikiLeaks but they remain confident that Russia is behind the leaks themselves.” CNN
"US finds growing evidence Russia feeding emails to WikiLeaks"
4) The Trump Dossier.
The Trump dossier timeline has been judged by intelligence agencies to be sound giving credence to the idea it contains factual information, as reported from Business Insider. The dossier outlines how Trump was developed as a Russian intelligence asset by Russia’s FSB (Federal Security Bureau), the successor agency to the KGB. "The timeline of Trump's ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct"
Link to Trump-Russia Dossier
5) There's Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort's resignation due to ties to Russia.
“Then a wave of reports about Mr. Manafort’s own business dealings with Russia-aligned leaders in Ukraine, involving allegations of millions of dollars in cash payments and secret lobbying efforts in the United States, threw a spotlight on a glaring vulnerability for Mr. Trump: his admiration for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.” NY Times. "Paul Manafort Quits Donald Trump’s Campaign After a Tumultuous Run"
6) The Deutsche Bank/Russian money laundering connection:
The Deutsche Bank that lent Trump millions of dollars that is now named in a Russian money laundering scheme. "Deutsche Bank fined for $10 billion Russian money-laundering scheme" CNN
And this headline just says it all: ‘When Trump Needs Money he goes to Deutsche Bank’ Wall St. Journal www.wsj.com/...
7) There's the Micheal Flynn connection.
- “1) Russian spies hacked Democratic Party communications in order to help elect Donald Trump.
- 2) Donald Trump welcomed the help, used it, publicly solicited more of it—and was then elected president of the United States.
- 3) President Obama sanctioned Russia for its pro-Trump espionage.
- 4) While Russia considered its response, its ambassador spoke with the national security adviser-designate about the sanctions
- 5) The adviser, Flynn, reportedly asked Russia not to overreact, signaling that the new administration would review the sanctions; Russia did not respond.
- 6) As president-elect and then president, Donald Trump has indicated that he seeks to lift precisely those sanctions caused by Russia’s espionage work on his behalf.” The Atlantic. "Why Flynn's Resignation Matters"
- The firing of AG Sally Yates may have been over her divulging knowledge Flynn was susceptible to black mail by the Russian FSB (formerly the KGB) and not her stance against the illegal Muslim ban. "Justice Department warned White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, officials say"
8) There is agreement by all three major U.S. intelligence branches, F.B.I, C.I.A. and N.S.A. of Putin's and Russia’s Intelligence involvement.
“The report, which draws on intelligence gathered by the FBI, CIA, and NSA, concludes with “high confidence” that “Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election” that included hacking the personal email accounts of Democratic Party officials and political figures.” Vox www.vox.com/...
9) Trump White House phone call to Putin where allegedly recording devices were turned off.
There is no White House record of the phone call despite Russia releasing an official readout.
"Why Didn't the White House Release a Readout of the Call Between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin?" GQ Magazine
10) The White House responds to North Korea and Iran test launches, but NO response to Russia military missile strikes against the Ukraine.
"Donald Trump's defense secretary 'Mad Dog' Mattis warns North Korea of 'effective and overwhelming' response to nuclear attack" The Telegraph
"Trump administration sanctions Iran over missile test" The Washington Post
"Trump's first big test with Putin harkens back to one of the most controversial elements of his campaign" Business Insider
11) There's Trump NOT wanting us to see what his tax returns will show.
The reasons may be threefold. Trump doesn’t want people to know he is not as wealthy as he claims to be. He doesn’t want the American people to know the extent of his financial ties to Russia. He doesn’t want to show the world he owns stock in Russian oil giant, Rosneft.
“President-elect Trump became the first major presidential candidate in decades not to release his tax returns. Just days before taking office, he still refused to release his returns and claimed that the issue only matters to reporters.
When asked during his news conference about releasing his tax returns, Trump returned to some of the familiar explanations he and his associates gave during the campaign, when they offered a litany of excuses to account for the decision.” The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/...
13) Donald Trump Jr. - Russian investments and the Syrian conflict.
There's his son bragging on video about how much money they are going to make with Russia. And his attempts to intervene on the behalf of the Russians in Syria.
“Donald Trump Jr, 38, participated in discussions last month, that included think-tank founder Fabien Baussart and his wife, Randa Kassis. The Wall Street Journal said Ms Kassis is a leader of a Syrian opposition group that is backed by the Kremlin.”
"Donald Trump's son held secret talks on working with Russia to end Syria conflict" The Independent
14) F.B.I confirms DAILY CONTACT between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence.
“Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.”
"Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence" NY Times
15) The MOTIVE: The Big Oily Smoking Gun.
Rex Tillerson had brokered a YUGE deal with Exxon with Russia. President Obama’s sanctions on Russia over their belligerence against Ukraine put a major crimp in their plans. It sure seems this is what it’s been about all along: Putin wants to become an oil tycoon and he’s willing to share his wealth with Trump and Tillerson. This is why Trump ran in the first place. This is why Tillerson was installed as Secretary of State and why Trump wasted no time repealing the law for transparency in Oil dealings. This is why Trump wants to end ALL sanctions against Russia. This is what is known as MOTIVE.
A) Rex Tillerson’s BIGLY Exxon Oil Deal with Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil company and the Obama Administration sanctions that ruined it and what seems to have set Putin, Trump and Tillerson on the road to espionage.
“Rosneft and Exxon were enthusiastic about the deal and expanded it in 2013. But it was canceled one year later, when the US imposed sanctions on Russia over its annexation of Crimea and invasion of Eastern Ukraine. Tillerson sharply condemned the sanctions, saying they caused "broad collateral damage." Business Insider
"A timeline of Rex Tillerson's relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin" Business Insider
B) Rex Tillerson is named Secretary of State despite having virtually NO qualifications for the position. He does have incredible qualifications to oversee a shady Big Oil deal, though. He is objected to by Democrats and supported by republicans. The republicans quickly draft a bill eliminating the laws requiring transparency from Oil companies and it is signed into law by Trump.
“President Donald Trump signed his first significant piece of legislation on Tuesday, repealing an Obama-era rule that forced energy and mining companies to disclose any payments they made abroad.
“This is a big signing,” Trump said, “a very important signing.”
That part’s... debatable. Outside of a few firms like Exxon Mobil — which once lobbied against the rule and whose former CEO Rex Tillerson is now Trump’s secretary of state — it’s hard to find too many people overjoyed that this regulation is dead.”
"Trump signs his first significant bill — killing a transparency rule for oil companies" Vox
C) “Speaking on "Face the Nation" Sunday, Sen. John McCain said Tillerson should be given a fair hearing but reiterated his concerns about Tillerson’s ties with Putin. One of the enormous deals that Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson worked on was a $500 billion oil exploration partnership between Exxon and the Russian government’s oil company, Rosneft. The Obama administration blocked the deal when it imposed sanctions against Russia for its intervention in the Ukraine.” "Could Massive Russian Oil Deal with Exxon Explain Why Putin Appears to Have Meddled in US Election?" Democracy Now!
I don’t know about you but if there has been espionage committed, 500 BILLION dollars sounds like a pretty convincing MOTIVE for those actions/crimes.
Time for a FULL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, not some House Sub-committee White Wash
And let’s be clear here, if this plays out as it almost must given what is already known, we are talking about the CRIME OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM. A great deal of it has already been PROVEN to be true. All of this MUST be investigated and the responsible parties brought to justice.
And in conclusion I have to leave you with a word of caution. Do NOT fall for another 9/11. Trump’s constant missile talk and posturing toward Iran and North Korea is just the kind event he needs to start calling everybody who doesn’t do exactly as he tells them to do unpatriotic.
DEMAND ANSWERS NO MATTER WHAT!!!!
Wednesday, Mar 1, 2017 · 11:49:20 PM +00:00 · jburtonprod
Update 3/1/17: Breaking News! On her Monday, 2/28/17 show, Rachel Maddow provided a direct link between new Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Putin longtime associate and billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev and the Deutshe Bank Russian money laundering scandal with what appears to be a quid pro quo, lucrative real estate deal that garnered Trump tens of millions of dollars. Watch the video!: