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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump campaign manager admits he's getting help from man working for Russian media and hackers
This was posted on Brad Parscale's (Trump's campaign manager) Twitter feed recently:
Link to tweet
Brad Parscale?Verified account @parscale · Oct 7
The irony that @stranahan is probably right on Ukraine is I have known him since I was a teenager, 30 years ago! We worked together in Topeka Kansas.
Another Kansas patriot.
Keep digging Lee.
7:12 AM - 7 Oct 2019
The man he mentions, Lee Stranahan, is an employee of Sputnik News, which is owned/controlled by the Russian government. He is also the man who has openly admitted to helping to get Roger Stone in contact with Guccifer 2.0 during the 2016 election. Guccifer 2.0 is who US intelligence has said is the outfit run by Russian intelligence agencies and who is responsible for hacking the DNC.
And if you visit his Twitter feed, it's full of demands to repeal the Magnitsky Act sanctions against Russia (you know, the ones the Russians lobbied about during their 2016 Trump Tower meeting.)
(According to his Wikipedia page, he also is a part time erotic photographer, but that's neither here nor there.)
More on Stranahan here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Stranahan
Anyways, Stranahan's most recent work seems to be pushing the theory that it was the DNC who was the real miscreant in the 2016 elections, not Trump or the Russians. He's been focusing--almost obsessively--on a woman named Alexandra Chalupa, who is the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants and who did some contract work with the DNC. Their theory is that the DNC sent Chalupa to Ukraine, where she was able to get proof of illicit payments Paul Manafort was getting from deposed autocrat and Putin ally Viktor Yanukovych. These items then helped with Manafort's ultimate conviction for tax fraud.
Now, it is true that Chalupa was able to get a hold of the Manafort payment records, which were actually proven to be genuine by Manafort's own accounting; however, there's no evidence whatsoever that the DNC sent Chalupa to get those records, or even if it did, whether that would actually constitute a crime.
But that truth's all secondary to these guys---they just desperately want any shiny non-story to distract from the actual story of Russian interference and hacking in the 2016 campaign on behalf of Donald Trump.
And the fact that the Trump campaign is still--still!--in 2019 reaching out to persons known to be agents of Russian media and Russian hackers is absolutely astounding IMHO.
But we're seeing these guys at their last resort. They're desperate at this point, and will do anything. Anything.
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Trump campaign manager admits he's getting help from man working for Russian media and hackers (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Oct 2019
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Ilsa
(61,675 posts)1. K&R. It's all tied together, yet
Trumpers refuse to see it.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)2. Parscale started working for the Trump Organization in 2011
And Jared Kushner made him data director for the Trump campaign in 2015
Parscale knows a lot of Russians.