Two months before Trump was elected president, Deripaska was in New York as part of Russias United Nations delegation when three FBI agents awakened him in his home; at least one agent had worked with Deripaska on the aborted effort to rescue Levinson. During an hour-long visit, the agents posited a theory that Trumps campaign was secretly colluding with Russia to hijack the U.S. election.Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious, the lawyer said. So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false. You are trying to create something out of nothing, he told them. The agents left though the FBI sought more information in 2017 from the Russian, sources tell me. Waldman declined to say if Deripaska has been in contact with the FBI since Sept, 2016.
So, the FBI tried to recruit Deripaska to help them fabricate the phony Trump-Russia collusion story! Amazing this has gotten so little attention in the press.
This story is already dead on arrival this morning. Not one mention of it on Fox and Friends.
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Wonder if one of the FBI agents who showed up was Bruce Ohr. He’s worked with Bruce Ohr before.