Posted on 07/19/2018 2:20:09 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Bill Browder, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Thursday said that if President Trump turns him over to the Russian government he will be handing him over to his death.
"To hand me over to Putin is basically to hand me over to my death," Browder said while appearing on CNN’s "At This Hour."
Putin mentioned Browder by name during a press conference with the president on Monday, where the Russian leader said that the Kremlin would permit special counsel Robert Mueller’s team to travel to Russia and question 12 Russian intelligence officers indicted in the Russia probe so long as Russia is allowed to interrogate some people “who have something to do with illegal actions in the territory of Russia.”
The Russian leader alleged without evidence that Browder, an American-born financier, illegally transferred $1.5 billion out of Russia and had funneled $400 million toward Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The Russian prosecutor’s office later corrected that figure to $400,000.
Browder, who also lobbied on behalf of the Magnitsky Act, which imposed sanctions against Russia, has since denied the allegations and contended on Thursday that he is "Putin's No. 1 foreign enemy."
"What the Russians have said very clearly on a number of occasions is they'd like to get me back to Russia ... and once I'm back in Russia, they would like to kill me. Anything that begins that process is effectively a death sentence for me," Browder said.
However, Browder said he doesn’t believe the US will go in on a “dirty deal” with Putin.
"The United States has very clear laws in relation to mutual legal assistance with Russia, in relation to extradition with Russia and various other things," he said.
"You have agencies that operate on those laws, and I don't think that there are going to be people who work in the apparatus of the law enforcement agencies of the United States that are going to be going along with a dirty deal with Putin."
The White House backed away from Putin's proposal on Thursday after initially indicating that Trump would consider the move.
“It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, but President Trump disagrees with it," press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. "Hopefully President Putin will have the 12 identified Russians come to the United States to prove their innocence or guilt."
The White House response came after almost 24 hours of criticism from Democrats, Republicans and former diplomats that added to the hailstorm of criticism Trump has received over his meeting with Putin in Helsinki earlier this week.
The Senate approved a resolution by a 98-0 vote warning the president not to let the Russian government question diplomats and other officials, shortly after the White House statement.
Can we turn over Soros, instead?
Included in “The Deal” should be to turn on H->! .
I posted 2 links at post 1.
“We should absolutely turn him over to Russia at the first available opportunity.”
Not a US citizen?! Turn him over to the Russians since Sleepy Sessions won’t prosecute him.
Except since Browder is not an American, the President is powerless to turn him over.
It would seem thet Putin is barking up the wrong tree in this instance
“Trump is not turning over U.S. citizens. Period. Not that Browder’s life won’t be examined here...”
I seem to recall something along the lines of Browder having renounced his US citizenship in order to avoid paying US taxes?
Is that a mistaken memory?
if browder is no longer a us citizen and in the usa revoke his non immigrant visa convicted in russia sentenced to 9 years in jail...
hey he should have kept his us citizenship if he wanted protection..
if browder is no longer a us citizen and in the usa revoke his non immigrant visa convicted in russia sentenced to 9 years in jail...
hey he should have kept his us citizenship if he wanted protection..
Browder’s not a U.S. citizen; he renounced his citizenship almost 30 years ago, either because of what the U.S. government did to his commie grandpa or because he didn’t want to pay taxes on his corrupt earnings in Russia.
I hadn’t heard much about Browder before this. But when Putin spoke “Soros”, my mouth gaped open. Interesting, to say the least.
Trade Russia Soros for this guy. Tell them we’ll toss in sons and other family members.
his corrupt earnings in Russia.
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Curious on what was corrupt about those earnings?
He outfoxed the Oligarks, who resulted in his lawyer’s torture and death, and put a death notice out on him.
I suppose that “corrupt” would’ve been correctly put into quotation marks, but they were defined as corrupt by the relevant authorities (Russian), and I don’t find it difficult to believe that someone who turned nothing into a fortune within a few years and in a place where corruption was the rule of the day, did it in an corrupt way.
What is a H>! please?
Worst thing that can happen to Browder is he’d be interviewed in the US by Russian prosecutors.
That’s all.
So this is just an awful lot of kabuki theater over nothing.
H->! —> Felonia Pantsuit
Living in GB is dangerous these days.
Ask Tommy Robinson....
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