Posted on 02/22/2017 5:17:18 PM PST by markomalley
The John McCain Russian saga keeps getting more bizarre. Sen. John McCain as a presidential candidate in 2008 directly and illegally propositioned Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, to donate to the McCain/Sarah Palin GOP ticket, according to documents released by Wikileaks.
Since the 2016 presidential election in Nov., Sen. McCain has accused Russia of hacking and meddling in U.S. politics and President Donald Trump’s successful campaign. But ironically it was McCain himself who forced Russia to interfere in the 2008 presidential campaign by asking the ambassador and Russian embassy for a campaign contribution.
Adding intrigue to an already bizarre story, True Pundit recently contacted Russia’s Permanent Mission (embassy) in New York for comment from Ambassador Churkin regarding McCain’s unorthodox written request for money. By Tuesday, however, diplomatic staff reported Ambassador Churkin had died suddenly at the embassy late Monday. NBC News has framed the death as suspicious.
Nonetheless, at the time of McCain’s presidential campaign, however, Churkin and the Russian government fired off a terse letter and official statement to the senior U.S. senator’s request for thousands in cash to his campaign.
“We have received a letter from Senator John McCain requesting financial contribution to his Presidential campaign.
In this connection we would like to reiterate that Russian officials, the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations or the Russian Government do not finance political activity in foreign countries.”
Russian officials clearly understood that McCain’s request was not legal per U.S. law which forbids foreign governments from contributing money or assistance to presidential campaigns and U.S. presidential candidates from seeking foreign donations. Apparently McCain didn’t know this or simply ignored it before sending his Sept. 29th letter addressed directly and personally to Churkin at the Russian embassy on 67th Street in Manhattan.
McCain offered the Russians a chance to use any major credit card to donate $5,000 or even more. To be fair, McCain’s letter reads much like a normal campaign fundraising letter seeking contributions and likely would have gone unnoticed except that Churkin was compelled to release an official statement from the Russian government rebuking the request, which in part read:
Contributions to McCain-Palin Victory 2008 (“Victory 2008”) are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. Victory 2008 allocates contributions to the Republican National Committee (“RNC”), the state parties’ federal accounts, and the McCain-Palin Compliance Fund (“Compliance Fund”) in conformity with federal limits. Unless a contribution would exceed federal limits or a contributor designates otherwise, Victory 2008 will divide contributions as follows:
For Individuals – The first $28,500 will go to the RNC, the next portion will be divided evenly between the Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania state parties’ federal accounts up to a maximum of $9,250 for each Committee, and the final $2,300 will go to the Compliance Fund.
The Russian response to McCain’s campaign which was leaked to and verified by Wikileaks is below and at Wikileaks.
Oh, and you can see McLame's solicitation to the Ambassador at this Wikileaks page.
when will Arizona replace McShame!??? pleez....
Is this for real??
If this is true then McCain needs to be shot down out of the sky and forced to eat vietnamese food until he dies.
Jeff Session, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Unless it can be used to get rid of him, who cares. The guy has made a career out of turning one screw-up after another into success.
but that's only part of me
Churkin... Churkin... didn’t I just see his name in the obituaries?
Well, Russia has ways of ‘blackmailing’ officials.
It’s the seriousness of the charges rather than the validity.
Next time I will not skip the important parts of the news.
Maybe.
This was posted on FB the other day. It only made others angrier with McCain.
For real.
Johnny Mac looked in Putin’s eyes and saw the letters $ $ $.
All that such a letter means is that the McCain campaign purchased a direct mail list that had a Russian name on it. It would be mildly interesting to know what list the Russian Ambassador had gotten himself on.
We have a client who was a 6 yr resident of the Hanoi Hilton and yesterday my husband said “he is a fine person, way better than McCain”.
The Duke...
Dead Pool.
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02/20/2017 12:10:15 PM PST · by Candor7 · 19 replies Associated Press ^ | Feb 20, 2:42 PM EST | EDITH M. LEDERER and JENNIFER PELTZNEW YORK (AP) -- Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, a veteran diplomat known as a potent and personable voice for his country's interests as he sparred with his Western counterparts, died suddenly after falling ill Monday in his office at the mission. Vitaly Churkin, 64, was taken to a hospital in New York, where he died, Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador, Vladimir Safronkov, told The Associated Press. His cause of death wasn't immediately known.............................. |
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02/20/2017 9:46:16 AM PST · by John W · 28 replies AP ^ | February 20, 2017 | APNEW YORK (AP) -- Russian officials say its ambassador to the United Nations has died suddenly in New York City. Vitaly Churkin was 64. Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador, Vladimir Safronkov, told The Associated Press that Churkin became ill in his office at Russia's U.N. mission and was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where he died Monday. His cause of death wasn't immediately known. Churkin has been Russia's envoy at the United Nations for a little over a decade and was considered Moscow's great champion at the U.N. |
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