Posted on 07/18/2018 9:56:18 PM PDT by hapnHal
Why is no one talking about the $400 million dollars Russia gave to Hillary Clinton's campaign ???
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered a novel idea to advance the Russia investigation during a joint news conference with President Donald Trump in Helsinki.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team could come to his country, Putin said, if Russian investigators were allowed to go the United States to dig into alleged tax evasion by American-born financier Bill Browder (non citizen) and his associates.
"Business associates of Mr. Browder have earned over 1.5 billion dollars in Russia," Putin said through a translator. "They never paid any taxes."
Putin continued.
"They sent a huge amount of money, over 400 million, as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton," he said. "Well, that’s their personal case. It might have been legal, the contribution itself, but the way the money was earned was illegal."
Did Browder's associates send $400 million to Hillary Clinton's campaign?
No. We found $17,700 donated to Clinton and another $297,000 to the Democratic National Committee.
A little background The Russians say that Browder and his partners at Ziff Brothers Investments, a New York venture capital firm, illegally syphoned billions of rubles out of the country. To add salt to the wound, Browder had led the charge to pass the 2012 Magnitsky Act, a law that penalizes Russian officials suspected of sanctioning the death of Browder’s lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Russian prison.
The Ziff brothers came up during the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr. and others, and Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who promised dirt on the Hillary Clinton campaign. According to transcripts from Senate Judiciary Committee interviews, Veselnitskaya’s materials described the Ziffs as Democratic donors, although Trump’s son said they gave both to Democrats and Republicans.
Follow the money If one examines the Russian Embassy and the Russian consulate in Washington to get details on the $400 million donation you will not get any information back
Browder became a British citizen and can’t legally contribute to U.S. candidates. Ziff Brothers Investments through its executives can give freely, and they have.
Before one get's into their political contributions, people may also wonder if Putin could have been talking about money that went to the Clinton Foundation. In past years, Browder and Ziff Brothers Investments had given to the Clinton Global Initiative, a project of the Clinton Foundation, but the total was not more than $110,000, records show?
In the 2016 election cycle, Ziff Brothers Investments gave $1.7 million. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, nearly two-thirds, or about $1.1 million, went to Democratic committees, and the rest to Republicans. Talk about Russian collusion!
Could be that SOS Hillary helped him get the money out of Russia...tax free.
Thus, a $400-million dollar “reward” for her.
Could be...
Because they didn't. Putin later retracted his statement and said it was $400 thousand.
Putin Says He Misspoke Too, Withdrawing Claim Clinton Got Millions Stolen From Russia
Cutting and pasting from an outside source without crediting that source is plagiarism and is not allowed here at FR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3671604/posts
$145 million laundered thru a Canadian company to sell uranium to russia who sold it to Iran. Treason.
Donald Trump must arrest the Clintons and obama fro treason and have them executed.
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