—
According to the [yet-to-be dis-proven] Steele Dossier, Micheal Cohen was very busy acting as a “go-between” for Trump and their Foreign Contacts, who had corralled some very “unique tech talent” … which “is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr Trump” ...
Mr Trump calls the memo 'fake news'
by Adam Withnall and Kim Sengupta, www.independent.co.uk — Jan 12, 2017
Mr Trump’s attorney had a secret meeting with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016
[Michael] Cohen had been accompanied to Prague by three colleagues and the timing of the visit was either in the last week of August or the first week of September. According to [redacted], the agenda comprised questions on how deniable cash payments were to be made to hackers who had worked in Europe under Kremlin direction against the Clinton campaign and various contingencies for covering up these operations and Moscow’s secret liaison with the Trump team more generally.
—
This is important. It shows the direct coordination between Trump “representatives” and the “inner workings” of managing Russian-hired hackers (ie the compensating them, covering their tracks, etc).
Mr. Cohen, did you, or did you not — participate in this meeting to get “these Tech ducks in a row” when you met with Kremlin reps, on behalf of your former Boss?
…
And as just reported on Rachel Maddow Show tonight: that the previous ‘alleged’ report (The Dossier), might very well be connected with today’s deeper-dive analysis report, into Cohen’s recent court statements … in which Rachel connected those “Tech” dots, hypothetically.
by Christina Wilkie, CNBC — Aug 22, 2018
[...]
Buried in the legal documents released Tuesday as part of Cohen's guilty plea on eight felony counts, there was a new, previously unreported payment Cohen made in 2016 to help Trump: $50,000 for work that prosecutors say Cohen "solicited from a technology company during and in connection with the campaign."
[...]
The Trump Organization would later say that the $50,000 was a "payment for tech services." However, prosecutors say the $50,000 "was in fact related to work Cohen had solicited from a technology company during and in connection with the campaign."
[...]
Cohen is not believed to have played any part in the official digital operations of the Trump 2016 campaign [an operation run by Brad Parscale], nor did Cohen ever have a formal staff position on the campaign itself.
All of which only deepens the mystery of exactly what tech services Cohen was buying to help Trump's campaign.
[...]
According to Maddow’s report today, this Cohen Tech Services “Invoice” was submitted to the Trump Organization for prompt reimbursement, which was presumably paid. Donald Jr and Eric were running the Trump ‘Payment Mill’ by that point in time (early 2017).
This kind puts the Lanny Davis offer yesterday on the Rachel Maddow Show, in a entirely different spot-light:
On “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Davis, a veteran of the Clinton White House, said his client [Micheal Cohen] had “knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr. Trump knew ahead of time about that crime and even cheered it on.”
Washington Post — Aug 22, 2018
Hmmm … the “computer crime of hacking” … how much do those services usually go for?
When the hackers will work at ‘starvation wages’, because their ‘mother country’ has implored them to — as some sort of warped patriotic “national service” …
Say about 50K? ... to just quietly “go away” … when the time comes?
Looks like this one didn’t get the secret code word …
Inside A Russia Troll Factory | NBC Nightly News — Nov 16, 2017
Vitaly Bespalov tells NBC News that he was part of a “factory of lies” in Russia that churned out fake stories as part of a growing campaign to spread false information. Though the Kremlin has denied these operations even existed, he believes they are still up and running.
Inside the Russian troll factory indicted by the DOJ
Chris Hayes report and interview — Feb. 19, 2018
The “Internet Research Agency” is “some kind of factory that turned lying, telling untruths, into an industrial assembly line,” said someone who once worked there. “I immediately felt like a character in the book ‘1984’ by George Orwell,” they added to the Washington Post.
I for one am hoping that Mueller takes up the Lanny Davis offer for “insider information”, as fast as the Karma-gods will let him, take the meetings.
Strike while the iron’s hot, as the old saying goes.
— — —