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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 08:37 PM Apr 2019

Mitch McConnell's Brother-in-Law is deep in Trump-Russia

Has anyone else seen this Reddit thread?

Jim Breyer is married to "shipping executive and philanthropist Angela Chao, the youngest sister of Elaine Chao." Wiki

There is way too much info and documentation to post, but here is a taste.

It's worth the time to click on the Reddit thread.


Mitch McConnell's Brother-in-Law One of the Masterminds of Trump-Russia

Jim Breyer, Mitch McConnell's brother-in-law, Facilitates Russia’s Takeover of Facebook through Yuri Milner

In 2005 Jim Breyer, a partner at Accel Partners, invested $1 million of his own money into Facebook and gained a seat on the board (1).

In Feb 2009 Jim Breyer visited Russia with a number of other Silicone Valley investors. While there, Yuri Milner, a Russian tech entrepreneur who founded DST with close ties to the Kremlin, hosted a dinner to cap the entire event (2). As one Moscow source put it:

DST has the backing of the big boys at the top in the Kremlin, which is why it will go from strength to strength (5)

Milner found out Breyer liked Impressionist art and took him to Russian’s Hermitage Museum to view Matisse paintings otherwise closed off to the public. Three months later Yuri Milner’s DST invested into Facebook at a bloated value. (2)

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Jim Breyer and Rupert Murdoch

Then in Nov 2010 Jim Breyer invested into Artsy.net, run by Rupert Murdoch’s then-wife, Wendi Deng, and Russia oligarch Roman Abramovich’s then-wife, Dasha Zhukova. Jared Kushner’s brother, Josh, also invested in the fledgling company (1).

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Jim Breyer, Blackstone Group, and Saudi Arabia

In 2011 Schwarzman was named to the board of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (2), headed by Kirill Dimitriev.

In June 2016, during Trump’s presidential campaign, Jim Breyer met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman, or MBS (8). The next month Breyer joined the board of Blackstone Group (1) alongside Stephen Schwarzman and Jacob Rothschild (3). In the past Blackstone Group had loaned Kushner Companies a combined $400 million over multiple projects (7). In the 2018 election cycle, Schwzarman donated $5 million to the pro-McConnell superPAC, Senate Majority PAC (13).

Jacob’s brother, Nat, is business partners with both Oleg Deripaska (4), Rupert Murdoch, and Dick Cheney (5). Nat is also a major investor in Glencore, one of the purchasers of Rosneft stock detailed in the Steele Dossier (6), and RusAl.

In January 2017, Breyer’s business partner at Wickr, Erik Prince, was introduced to Dimitriev by MBS’s emissary, George Nader, and the Crown Prince of the UAE (10).

On October 22, 2018, three weeks after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, when most American investors were spooked away from Saudi Arabia, Jim Breyer showed up at an MBS-hosted Saudi business summit alongside Kirill Dimitriev of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (9). That same day, MBS pledged $20 billion for Blackstone Group's new infrastructure fund (11) to fund Elaine Chao's $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan (12). Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnells wife and Jim Breyer's sister-in-law, is Trump's Secretary of Transportation.

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Mitch McConnell's Brother-in-Law is deep in Trump-Russia (Original Post) MelissaB Apr 2019 OP
Aren't most of the corrupt GOP players BigmanPigman Apr 2019 #1
Verrrrry interesting!!! abqtommy Apr 2019 #2
So then?............................................. Firestorm49 Apr 2019 #3
Facebook's always been up to its ears C_U_L8R Apr 2019 #4
Yet despite Facebook help to Russia and Trump, Dems delisen Apr 2019 #11
Thanks for posting. oasis Apr 2019 #5
Takes "tangled web they weave" to a whole new corruptible level. Grrrrrrrrrr. n/t MFGsunny Apr 2019 #6
K&R UTUSN Apr 2019 #7
That's a lot of connected dots backtoblue Apr 2019 #8
K&R 2naSalit Apr 2019 #9
face it, the g.o.p. has become a russky cut-out KG Apr 2019 #10
DAMN! I've heard of most of those people! lindysalsagal Apr 2019 #12
Americans can't follow Trump-Russia let alone this bee hive traitors. It's a shame but they will Pepsidog Apr 2019 #13
Holy Shit!!!! 😠 Duppers Aug 2019 #14
Kicking for valuable info backtoblue Aug 2019 #15

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
1. Aren't most of the corrupt GOP players
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 08:44 PM
Apr 2019

tied to Russia in one way or another? I have never heard of so many Russain connections in my whole life. Even Pence and his brothers are connected to Russia.

Firestorm49

(4,004 posts)
3. So then?.............................................
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 08:52 PM
Apr 2019

How many laws were broken?
Who covered anything up and why?
Who’s going to do anything about subversion?

delisen

(6,039 posts)
11. Yet despite Facebook help to Russia and Trump, Dems
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 10:37 PM
Apr 2019

still are beholden to facebook and turn over their personal information.

Pepsidog

(6,252 posts)
13. Americans can't follow Trump-Russia let alone this bee hive traitors. It's a shame but they will
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 11:00 PM
Apr 2019

all get away with it. Nothing but a complete overhaul of our Constitution and laws will save us. You know the Illuminati and other conspiracy theories about a group of wealthy running the world always sounded nuts but that doesn’t mean we aren't heading there.

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