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Tony Podesta Threatens Tucker Carlson After Bombshell Report On Russian Influence Peddling
ibankcoin ^ | Mon Oct 3 | zeropointnow

Posted on 10/31/2017 11:50:53 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Tony Podesta has reportedly threatened Fox’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” hours after resigning from his role at the Podesta Group – a D.C. lobbying firm accused by a former executive of pedaling Russian influence along with fellow lobbyist and short-lived Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Last week Carlson reported that Tony Podesta is a central figure in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Directly after his report, Carlson’s show was contacted by a former long-time executive of the Podesta Group with “direct personal knowledge” of Tony Podesta’s questionable activities, which Carlson divulged the next evening.

While the nature of Podesta’s threat has not been made public, Carlson later tweeted “We’re confident the Mueller probe will reveal a lot more about Tony Podesta’s lobbying practices in the near future.”...

...According to the former Podesta Group executive, Manafort and Tony Podesta were running a Russian influence-peddling racket up and down Washington D.C., bringing a “parade” of Russian oligarchs to congress for meetings. Podesta was also “Basically part of the Clinton Foundation,” meeting regularly to discuss the now-infamous Uranium One deal.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; collusion; dnc; ecmu; manafort; podesta; podestagroup; russia; threats; tonypodesta; ukraine; uraniumone
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Manafort worked with the Podesta Group since at least 2011 on behalf of Russian interests, and was at the Podesta Group offices “all the time, at least once a month,” peddling Russian influence through a shell group called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU).

Manafort brought a “parade” of Russian oligarchs to congress for meetings with members and their staffs, however, the Russia’s “central effort” was the Obama Administration.

n late 2013 or early 2014, Tony Podesta and a representative for the Clinton Foundation met to discuss how to help Uranium One – the Russian owned company that controls 20 percent of American Uranium Production – and whose board members gave over $100 million to the Clinton Foundation.

“Tony Podesta was basically part of the Clinton Foundation.”

Believing she would win the 2016 election, Russia considered the Podesta Group’s connection to Hillary highly valuable.

1 posted on 10/31/2017 11:50:53 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
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The Democrat Thug Party.


2 posted on 10/31/2017 11:54:55 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Tucker was so concerned he read the whole letter on air complete with the threat that the letter was copyrighted and he couldn’t present it.

I’m sure the lawyers he consulted beforehand laughed their butts off.


3 posted on 11/01/2017 12:23:45 AM PDT by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Hoisted on their own petar. The Mueller investigation, staffed by hard-boiled Democrats, exposes—the Podesta Group! This is beautiful.


4 posted on 11/01/2017 12:43:18 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5
We will see where this goes...to roost.

I have my doubts...

5 posted on 11/01/2017 12:48:28 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Anyone find it interesting how Manafort was gone from the Trump campaign 48 hours after Trump received his first classified intel briefing?

https://i.imgur.com/jpcYt0u.png

I did some digging and the Manafort-Ukraine news all came out within the same week.

Considering that the FBI had been monitoring / investigating Manafort since (or in) 2013, I suspect it would present some sort of giant liability if that fact wasn’t included in the intel briefing.

Also remember that Hillary received the same briefing Aug 17, 2016 - right around the same time all the Russia stuff started heating up. This is the first article I could find about Manafort and “secret ledgers,” published by the NYT three days before Trump’s intel briefing.

http://archive.is/Z5NPE

One thought is that they knew Trump would see the briefing and fire Manafort, so they began trotting these breadcrumbs out around the same time, then went full bore with the Trump-Russia BS. Quite frankly Manafort could have been a plant in the Trump campaign to try and ensnare him.


6 posted on 11/01/2017 12:53:56 AM PDT by AverageJoseph
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaGrR7MfGTc


7 posted on 11/01/2017 12:55:38 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Tony has the same manners as his brother.


8 posted on 11/01/2017 12:58:07 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: skr

Probably the same appetite too...


9 posted on 11/01/2017 1:09:49 AM PDT by AverageJoseph
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

I still don’t see what all the ‘fuss’ is about.

Didn’t J E Carter make a ‘career’ of interferring in elections overseas...

We have been ‘monitoring’ elections around the world for years.

I guess when ‘we’ do it it is for the good of mankind.

I often wondered what the reaction would be if say Burma sent monitors to OUR elections.


10 posted on 11/01/2017 1:10:04 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: xrmusn

The establishment launched two investigations based on the notion that Trump was colluding with Russia, and that Russian influence is the reason he was elected.

Why? To undermine his legitimacy as President and place an asterisk next to everything he does.

As for ‘fuss,’ We just found out from an ex-Podesta Group exec that Paul Manafort and Tony Podesta were peddling Russians up and down the hill, and Tony Podesta recommended Hillary’s chief advisor at the State Dept. for the Podesta Group - giving them a direct liason. Moreover, all those Facebook ads Russia bought to influence the election were actually meant to help Hillary (BLM activism, etc.) - and sought to *undermine* Trump after he won!

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/31/facebook-twitter-post-election-russian-meddling-sought-to-undermine-trump-244380

So - the ‘fuss’ is about the left accusing Trump of the exact “Russian collusion” that they themselves have been participating in for years at the highest levels.

Let’s not forget Bill Clinton was at Vladimir Putin’s HOUSE the same day he collected $500k for a speech to a Kremlin-tied investment bank which upgraded Uranium One, and that Tony Podesta was paid $180K to lobby for Uranium One *AFTER* they were wholly owned by Russia.


11 posted on 11/01/2017 1:23:08 AM PDT by AverageJoseph
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To: AverageJoseph

When I referred to fuss I was asking since ‘we’ do it, why get mad at Russia if ‘they’ did it.

was put out in a satirical manner....

Besides, the last pResident chastised an opponent for trying to imply that Russia was ‘bad’.... believe he even told him the 80s were over or something along that line


12 posted on 11/01/2017 1:38:26 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: xrmusn

Apologies! My satire detector is often on the fritz.

Great point on the Obama / Romney Russia comment. “The cold war is over” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1409sXBleg


13 posted on 11/01/2017 1:45:06 AM PDT by AverageJoseph
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To: xrmusn

Oh yeah and he also said “The 1980’s are calling, they want their foreign policy back”


14 posted on 11/01/2017 1:46:50 AM PDT by AverageJoseph
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
While the nature of Podesta’s threat has not been made public...

A little hard commenting on something that is both the subject of the article, and yet remains unknown.
15 posted on 11/01/2017 1:50:14 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: xrmusn

There were some European election monitors that came here in 2012. They ran home screaming when they found out most states didn’t have voter ID. Needless to say, the story was not widely reported.


16 posted on 11/01/2017 2:01:48 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SpaceBar

The letter is out there, so I don’t think that’s accurate. Or are we talking a threat beyond what was in the letter from Podesta’s lawyer?

Here’s the letter:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3600212/posts?page=12#12


17 posted on 11/01/2017 2:09:37 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

It is becoming more apparent every day why the private server was in use and it wasn’t for convenience.


18 posted on 11/01/2017 2:14:21 AM PDT by greenishness
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

At what point does the carpet become inadequate to cover all of the dirt? Eventually, the swamp will have to sacrifice a half dozen or more medium to high ranking “lambs” in order to save themselves. (Lois Lerner and higher???)


19 posted on 11/01/2017 2:42:24 AM PDT by Herzo61
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...”So - the ‘fuss’ is about the left accusing Trump of the exact “Russian collusion” that they themselves have been participating in for years at the highest levels. Let’s not forget Bill Clinton was at Vladimir Putin’s HOUSE the same day he collected $500k for a speech to a Kremlin-tied investment bank which upgraded Uranium One, and that Tony Podesta was paid $180K to lobby for Uranium One *AFTER* they were wholly owned by Russia.”...

A hot flash comes over me every time I think of these people selling off the treasures of the US to any other nation, and getting paid for it, as though that property was their own. Have any of you ever wondered why the environmentalists have blocked us from using our own resources for so long? Is it because they want those treasures kept so they can sell them off to others, in this exact manner, to enrich themselves. How is that Uranium deal not a crime because that belongs to the American people, not those elected to government offices. This is so corrupt. I have to stop thinking about it. What kind of human being does these things? I guess they do not care about the legacy they will leave behind when they are gone.


20 posted on 11/01/2017 2:44:58 AM PDT by jazzlite
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