Arron Banks, the businessman who bankrolled Nigel Farage’s LeaveEU campaign, had multiple meetings with high-ranking Russian officials in the run-up to the #Brexit referendum, contradicting his denials @carolecadwalla@peterjukestheguardian.com/politics/2018/…
"The documents raise urgent and troubling questions about Arron Banks' relationship with the Russian government"
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#CambridgeAnalytica whistleblower @chrisinsilico confirms: "I have personally seen these emails/documents and informed both British and American intelligence about them months ago"
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Emails by #Brexit backer Arron Banks reveal an extensive web of links between Banks’ LeaveEU campaign and high-ranking Russian officials, including a multibillion-dollar opportunity to buy Russian goldmines brokered by Ambassador Yakovenko spr.ly/6014Dcc3o
Arron Banks' gold connection, Russian ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko, is named in Mueller's indictment of George Papopoulos as an intermediary between the Trump campaign & Kremlin (h/t @carolecadwalla) justice.gov/file/1007346/d… (PDF)
"Yakovenko met Wigmore & Banks Aug 19, the day Bannon became Trump’s campaign manager & days before they travelled to Mississippi with Farage for a Aug 25 rally at which Trump introduced him as “Mr Brexit”. He said a Trump presidency would be “Brexit plus”
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Nigel Farage, May 19, 2017: "#Brexit is the best thing to happen: for Russia, for America, for Germany and for democracy."
A pro-#Brexit journalist, Arron Banks' ghostwriter Isabel Oakeshott, held back 40,000 emails showing links between Russia and the LeaveEU campaign for 2 years while playing down so-called conspiracy theories on TV #BrexitRussiathebea.st/2l22CP1?source…
Isabel Oakeshott to @carolecadwalla March 23rd, on LeaveEU: "There just isn't a conspiracy. Carole - I just feel that you're chasing unicorns."
Oakeshott June 9: I just found these #BrexitRussia emails gathering dust in my attic. (h/t @PropertySpot)
British MPs call for police and select committees to investigate Arron Banks' links to Russia after emails show more extensive contacts than he claimed #BrexitRussiatheguardian.com/politics/2018/…
"The emails show show that Arron Banks had previously undisclosed meetings with Russia’s UK ambassador (which were set up by an alleged Russian spy), and had made a previously undisclosed visit to Moscow at the peak of the #Brexit campaign" nymag.com/daily/intellig…
"Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore were also offered a business deal involving several Russian goldmines that could have been worth a fortune"
As @ScottMStedman points out, the timing matches another Kremlin-brokered deal cited in the Steele dossier
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"#ArronBanks admitted that, months after the #Brexit referendum, “he handed over phone numbers for members of Trump’s transition team to Russian officials" #TrumpRussia
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Turkey has concluded that Jamal #Khashoggi, a prominent journalist from Saudi Arabia, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this week by a 15-member Saudi team sent “specifically for the murder" washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
"#Khashoggi visited the consulate to obtain documents related to his upcoming wedding.
The killing, if confirmed, would mark a stunning escalation of Saudi Arabia’s effort to silence dissent, rounding up clerics, business execs & women’s rights advocates"
"The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. #Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate." reuters.com/article/us-sau…
Interpol president Meng Hongwei reported missing after trip to his native China; his wife hasn't heard from him since he left France at the end of September nbcnews.com/news/world/int…
"China has not commented officially on Meng Hongwei's disappearance & there was no mention of him in official media"
French police investigate disappearance of Interpol chief, place his wife under protection after receiving threats by phone & social media irishtimes.com/news/world/eur…
"The initial working assumption of Western investigators was Mr Meng had antagonized Chinese authorities in some way and had been detained as a result."
American Bar Association reopens evaluation of #Kavanaugh's "well-qualified" rating, based on his unhinged performance during a Senate hearing last week pbs.org/newshour/polit…
"A report by Washington Economics Group, whose clients include businesses like Nascar, projected that automatic restoration of voting rights would lead to $365 million/year in gains for Florida's economy, from lower prison costs and increased productivity"
Amazing statistic: the recidivism rate for people who had their voting rights automatically restored under Gov. Crist is 12.4%, vs a state average of 30%.
Also noteworthy: Charles and David Koch's network has declared support for Amendment 4.
.@nycsouthpaw: When career prosecutor Rachel Mitchell asked #Kavanaugh about his drinking & the July 1 party where Judge and Smyth were in attendance – a key date that aligns with Ford's account – Republican senators then came to his rescue and benched her yahoo.com/news/kavanaugh…
Trump says he rejected a one-on-one meeting with Justin Trudeau at the #UNGA, threatens tariffs on Canada auto exports: "We're going to tax the cars coming in, and we'll put billions and billions into our treasury .. Canada has treated us very badly"
Aside from his economic illiteracy (Americans pay the tariff, not foreign exporters), his personal animus towards Trudeau and Canada – neighbors, close allies, brothers and sisters – is senseless and destructive.