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Trump’s intel pick collaborated with a fierce Russia foe
Politico ^ | July 29, 2019 | Natasha Bertrand

Posted on 07/29/2019 4:50:29 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the country’s vast intelligence apparatus fell into favor with the White House as a longtime, vocal critic of the Russia investigation and the officials who launched it.

But John Ratcliffe, the congressman Trump has tapped to fight the “deep state” from within, has worked closely with one of the men Russian President Vladimir Putin wants most to see in prison: Bill Browder, an American-born businessman who has been on a decade-long campaign to expose Russian corruption.

Ratcliffe was one of our lawyers at Ashcroft dealing with the fallout from Magnitsky,” Browder told POLITICO on Monday, referring to the law firm former Attorney General John Ashcroft formed with Ratcliffe and another former U.S. attorney in 2009. Browder described Ratcliffe as “a highly sophisticated guy” with “no illusions about Russia” who is “professional, capable, and deserves respect.”

While he wouldn’t delve into the legal advice Ratcliffe gave him over the years, Browder seemed confident in the congressman’s bona fides. “All I can say is that he’s a top professional, highly trained, and understands what’s going on in Russia through the Magnitsky case.”

Ratcliffe was one of Browder’s lawyers on the case that — with the help of Ashcroft’s lobbying firm — resulted in the passage of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act in 2012.

Overturning the Magnitsky Act — which authorizes the president to deny visas to, and freeze the assets of, Russians believed to have been complicit in Magnitsky's death and others suspected of human-rights abuses and corruption — has been one of Putin’s top foreign policy priorities.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: billbrowder; browder; dancoats; deepstate; johnashcroft; johnratcliffe; magnitsky; magnitskyact; natashabertrand; politico; pollutico; putin; putinsbuttboys; ratcliffe; russia; russian; russiancorruption; texas

1 posted on 07/29/2019 4:50:29 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
And so it begins.

The derps REALLY don't want a Trumpian to replace their sleeper agent, Coats.


2 posted on 07/29/2019 4:52:25 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Collaborated!?!

Don’t they mean “colluded”!?!


3 posted on 07/29/2019 4:54:50 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: bagster

No. It further proves that Trump is NOT and never was a Russia colluder.


4 posted on 07/29/2019 4:55:19 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

John Kerry collaborated.with thenfierce iranaian foe

Still does!


5 posted on 07/29/2019 4:55:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

The fact Ratcliffe helped Browder against Putin’s oligarchs is a GOOD thing not a bad thing.


6 posted on 07/29/2019 4:57:37 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Funny how they twist the headline from the article content to make it sound like he worked with Russia.
7 posted on 07/29/2019 4:57:55 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The word Politico is a synonym for the word lie.


8 posted on 07/29/2019 4:57:58 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

News today of protests in Russia. Not sure where this will lead.


9 posted on 07/29/2019 5:04:10 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Just so I understand, Working with Russians is bad and working against Russia is bad. This only is applicable when Republicans do it. Does that about cover it?


10 posted on 07/29/2019 6:02:31 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Looks like the senate committee dums got the sound bite they’ve been hoping to find.

Thanks, Pollutico


11 posted on 07/29/2019 6:04:08 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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To: NTHockey

Yup. And didn’t Clinton Foundation accept a huge “donation” from the Russians after the Uranium 1 deal??? This crap is nonsense, pathetically so.


12 posted on 07/29/2019 6:10:17 PM PDT by Professional
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Trump has no need to prove how innocent he is to Russophobia lowlifes and LGBTQ brigade.


13 posted on 07/29/2019 6:15:40 PM PDT by granada
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Well at least he didn’t Personally Deliver Enriched Uranium to the Russians or Sell them 1/3 of our Uranium to make weapons with.


14 posted on 07/29/2019 6:58:19 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: NTHockey

Anti-Russia, Anti-Russia, Anti-Russia!


15 posted on 07/29/2019 7:06:31 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
IOW, the media is in collusion with Putin.

16 posted on 07/29/2019 8:26:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Sounds like he has the required experience and knowledge to do the job....


17 posted on 07/30/2019 5:17:36 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“” “” The fact Ratcliffe helped Browder against Putin’s oligarchs is a GOOD thing not a bad thing.”” “”

It doesn’t help that Browder is a hereditary Communist, a Soros’s associate and on top of that ditched a US citizenship to avoid paying taxes on money he stole in Russia.


18 posted on 07/31/2019 2:28:24 AM PDT by NorseViking
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