Posted on 03/28/2017 7:28:29 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
President Trump took to Twitter this morning to remind Americans that the "It was Russia" stone-throwers on the left may have been living in Russia-funded glass-houses after all...
Watch @foxandfriends now on Podesta and Russia!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2017
The story behind this Podesta-Russia link is explained in full gore by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog; dot connectors, Twitter diagram creators and newly minted Russia-conspiracy sleuths from sea to shining sea take note.
Since anything connected to Russia is now considered treasonous, I’ve got a great story for you to sniff out.
It relates to John Podesta, but somehow I doubt you’ll be interested in this one…
The Daily Caller reports:
John Podesta, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 national campaign chairman, may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the receipt of 75,000 shares of stock from a Kremlin-financed company when he joined the Obama White House in 2014, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.
Joule Unlimited Technologies — financed in part by a Russian firm — originally awarded Podesta 100,000 shares of stock options when in 2010 he joined that board along with its Dutch-based entities: Joule Global Holdings, BV and the Stichting Joule Global Foundation.
When Podesta announced his departure from the Joule board in January 2014 to become President Obama’s special counsellor, the company officially issued him 75,000 common shares of stock.
The Schedule B section of the federal government’s form 278 which — requires financial disclosures for government officials — required Podesta to “report any purchase, sale or exchange by you, your spouse, or dependent children…of any property, stocks, bonds, commodity futures and other securities when the amount of the transaction exceeded $1,000.”
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Odd, there wasn’t a word about this on the MSM this morning...............
I can't help but notice that he's off the hook if they gave him the shares.
I hope that's an omission on the part of Zero Hedge.
On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if our fine lawmakers saw fit to create a little loophole for themselves there.
I’m sure this is leading the News on CNN by Now, I’ll go check. /s
I read Podesta was GIVEN 75K shares when he went to Whitehouse as an advisor
It’s right next to the story about Ford committing to 3 new plants in Michigan! /s/
He would have to report it as a gift on his income tax, I believe.
Maybe he did. The Democrat-run IRS would certainly keep his tax returns a secret.
Even if he "forgot," I doubt anything would come of it. Powerful, connected Democrats don't have to follow the law.
It would have been part of a compensation package. I do not know if that qualifies as a “transaction”
I can’t help but notice that he’s off the hook if they gave him the shares.
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so according to your thinking, the xlintonista regime would be off the hook since all the $$$ billions of dollars laundered through their foundation were “given” to them????
The “transaction” was a gift...the way I read it
I was just reading the language of the law quoted in the story:
“report any purchase, sale or exchange by you, your spouse, or dependent children…of any property, stocks, bonds, commodity futures and other securities when the amount of the transaction exceeded $1,000.”
I couldn't help but notice that the word "transferred" or "gift" was not present.
If I'm wrong, great. That would mean Podesta is criminally liable.
On the other hand, knowing how things are done in Washington, he obviously has not a thing to worry about.
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