Thread by @DenbrotS

THREAD

Rosneft—The Crime
It is the ultimate #TrumpRussiaConspiracy
Over a year ago, @GrantStern wrote a comprehensive article laying out how the giant Russian oil company was privatized, with Trump’s assistance, to benefit Russia, at the expense of The USA.
It is reprised here.

2) Trump Russia Dossier Decoded: Yes, There Really Was A Massive Oil Deal
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3) “Circumstantial evidence strongly indicates that President Donald J. Trump and his campaign associates brokered a massive oil privatization deal,..his Organization facilitated a global financial transaction to sell Russian Oil stock to its Syrian War adversary,...Qatar.”

4) “The Trump Russia Dossier describes a massive privatization deal to deliver a chunk of the state-owned Rosneft Oil company to Qatar and also a secret buyer in the Cayman Islands.”

5)”The end result allowed Russia to trade stolen emails to help to Donald Trump’s election campaign..., in exchange for help circumventing American sanctions to transact the sale of Rosneft, which Putin desperately needed to finance his budget deficit.”

6)”The Rosneft transaction also purportedly sent a $500 million dollar brokerage fee to Carter Page, or perhaps the Trump Organizaction.”

7)”The Trump Campaign would’ve been extremely familiar with Rosneft, since top surrogate Rudy Giuliani listed the Russian oil giant as one of his law clients at Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP in 2014 according to Bloomberg.”

8)”The “meeting of the minds”..occurred last April 27th (2016)..Four Ambassadors convened at The Mayflower Hotel, who represent the three countries definitely involved in the Rosneft privatization deal: Italy, Russia, Singapore, and also the Philippines.”

9)”Key players from every country involved were in that one room, for one night, one time only, and even now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions was there.”

10)”Oil-rich Gulf Arab nation of Qatar was the end buyer of a massive stake in the Russian, state-run oil company Rosneft’s privatization deal.”
Grant Stern

11)”The President’s son-in-law and White House advisor Jared Kushner met with the Russian Ambassador during the Transition period, with disgraced General Michael Flynn.”
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12)“Carter Page met with Rosneft in December to assist with the deal, and he’s on the record admitting it but claims he didn’t meet Igor Sechin,” said [Scott]Dworkin incredulously. “Really? It must have been a webcast with an intermediary. Everything in the Dossier adds up..”

13)”Theoretically, the former Merrill Lynch investment banker, Page, may have only been the “bag man” or go-between and someone else is the recipient of the cash premium in the dossier. Five hundred million dollars is a lot of money..”

14)”What is most unusual about the sale is that Qatar is on the opposite sides of the Syrian war from Russia.”

15)”Rosneft began taking steps towards a sale in early 2016, which accelerated right around the time of the Republican National Convention.”

16)”Putin announced the sale after new management changed the Trump campaign’s momentum in an exclusive Bloomberg interview in early September, which set the price at $11 billion dollars.”

17)”Six countries are known to have participated in the massive privatization deal of Russia’s jewel, its state-run oil company, which left the end ownership of the stake impenetrable, and a purchase price of roughly $10.7 billion dollars..”
Grant Stern

18)”In early October, once Russia knew about their damaging cache of Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta’s emails, they re-ignited the privatization sales.”

19)”Nineteen and a half percent of Rosneft’s stock was agreed to be transferred on December 7th, before the board was informed of the transaction’s terms only after it took place.”

20)”Anonymous blogger The Trump Watchdog indicates that the Walkers law firm is linked to Trump economic advisor Steven Schwartzman, a co-founder of the Wall Street giant Blackstone, because they own the Intertrust Group, who provided the Singapore holding company.”

21)”The end game for Russia was to funnel at least $5 billion dollars of new capital into state coffers to staunch some of the red ink expected to plague Putin’s budgets going into his 2018 elections.. while tiptoeing past American financial sanctions.”

22)”Although Qatar has never publicly confirmed how much it has contributed to the deal or the size of the stake that it bought, Glencore and Rosneft say it contributed 2.5 billion euros.”
Grant Stern

23)”...Along with the 300 million from Glencore and the 5.2 billion loaned by Intesa [an Italian bank], that still leaves a shortfall of 2.2 billion euros.”
Grant Stern

24)”The QIA is coincidentally also the largest shareholder in the Swiss oil trading firm Glencore, who executed the purchase with a minimal direct investment, and used the “Singapore vehicle” or holding company to hold their Rosneft share.”

25)”Donald Trump has had business ties to Qatar’s government for years..The country’s state-owned carrier, Qatar Airways, has leased an office in Manhattan’s Trump Tower since 2008.”

26)”Qatar’s complete and total involvement in the Rosneft deal is undeniable.
The small Emirate that just publicly participated in the purchase of Russia’s state-run oil and gas giant — happens to be extremely close to Donald Trump.”
Grant Stern

27)”At the heart of the Dossier’s disclosures is the Russian goal of ending economic sanctions, some of which specifically target Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin..President Obama’s 2014 sanctions have crippled the Russian economy when compounded with low global oil prices.”

28)”The Trump Russia Dossier describes the Rosneft privatization deal almost exactly, and Putin’s resulting purge of Russian allies and ex-officials looks like the kind of deadly cover up a dictator would apply, to erase his friends who knew about the deal.”
Grant Stern

29)”There’s no way a deal of this magnitude would completely envelop the Trump Campaign, its manager, its outside affiliates and inside agents so thoroughly, without the principal or head of a group knowing that something was happening.”
Grant Stern
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