The Russia/Trump narrative seems to have originated with Alexandra Chalupa, a long time Democrat operative and a Ukrainian activist. She worked in the White House Office of Public Liaison during the Clinton administration. She co-founded the Ethnic Council of the Democratic Party. She organized protests against Manafort.
The narrative is heavily promoted on twitter by Andrea Chalupa, a Ukrainian activist and Alexandra’s daughter. She founded DigitalMaidan, an online movement that made the Ukrainian protests the #1 trending topic on Twitter worldwide
Irena Chalupa, a Ukrainian activist and Alexandra’s daughter(?) is a fellow at the Atlantic Council. Former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma’s son-in-law, Victor Pinchuk, sits on the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council. In 2015 he donated between $100,000 $249,000 to the Atlantic Council.
The claim that Russia breached the DNC email system originates with Crowdstrike, a company founded by Dmitri Alperovitch. Alperovitch is a fellow at the Atlantic Council. Crowdstrike is closely associated with and heavily funded by Clinton colleague Timothy Geithner. Geithner’s company, Warburg Pincus, has provided $100M to Crowdstrike and 30% of Crowdstrike’s board members are from Warburg Pincus. He is a disgruntled Russian emigre.
The DNC refused FBI access to their email system, instead they were made to rely on Alperovitch’s investigation. Alperovitch bases his claim partly on the claims of a Russian blogger. The blogger claims that Ukrainian military units were targeted via malware inserted onto Ukrainian tablet computers, the malware provided to Russia the location of Ukrainian troops. As “evidence” the blogger cites a 2016 International Institute for Strategic Studies report of a sharp reduction of Ukrainian D-30 howitzers between 2013 and 2015. Ukraine denies any large loss of D-30 howitzers in this period. Alperovitch claims this same malware was used to breach the DNC email system. The malware has been available for years prior to the DNC breach.
Clinton’s “Russia narrative” originates with Russia hating Ukrainians who worked for the Clintons. Claims that “Russia hacked the DNC” are based on the dubious claims of persons funded by Clinton associates.
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In October 2016 Andrea Chalupa tweeted “In intel circles, the story goes FSB filmed Trump in an orgy while in Russia. Yes, this all ends in a Trump sex tape.” This claim eventually surfaced in Buzzfeed’s “dossier” in January, 2017.
These attacks on Trump all originate with Clinton associates.
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