#TrumpRussia was about worshiping a Golden Idle (sic)… and Agent Orange, the God-Emperor, will skate because he renders onto Caesars Palaces.
Because there may have been an actual corporation (LLC) - what HRC called a “factory for conspiracy-theory machines”.
the late peter w. smith created An entity to acquire stolen emails that included: Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Sam Clovis, Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, and Lisa Nelson.
The Mercer set (Conway/Bannon) and now the Kochs’ ALEC(Nelson), perhaps Biglygate will bring the entire GOP (Clovis brought Carter Page to the RNC) down.
More likely it’s protracted lawfare that will see many cutting their losses, perhaps to the squared Oval office. Trump will never admit he’s a dupe/dope. Or maybe he was just an ignorant front, except we cannot expect that he’ll admit that he was just a tool and cut Kushner loose.
The Executive Twig is an awesome prize and apparently those with money sought to get the White House by any means, far beyond ethics, and even farther beyond patriotism with #TrumpRussia. We’ll soon see the differences between a “factory for conspiracy-theory machines” and actual conspiracies.
Peter W. Smith tried to hire Matt Tait for his project, and showed him a document creating an independent-looking organization to try to acquire the stolen emails. The document, Tait reports, “detailed a company Smith and his colleagues had set up as a vehicle to conduct the research: ‘KLS Research’, set up as a Delaware LLC ‘to avoid campaign reporting,’ and listing four groups who were involved in one way or another.” This certainly appears like an attempt to mask the Trump campaign’s involvement in the plot.
The document listed a series of high-level Trump campaign officials: Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Sam Clovis, Lt. Gen. Flynn, and Lisa Nelson. Bannon and Conway, contacted by the Journal, deny any involvement with Smith. But Smith’s comments to Tait indicate a fairly close understanding of Trump campaign internal dynamics. It is possible he was bluffing, but he seemed to be displaying authentic insider credentials.
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Leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Smith sought emails that he believed 1) had been deleted from Hillary Clinton’s private email server and 2) had been accessed by Russians. Smith believed that at least five groups of hackers held the files and that two groups were Russian.
The White House has stated that Smith was not affiliated with the Trump campaign. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that in his search for the deleted files, Smith told several people (such as a computer scientist they interviewed) that he worked for Mike Flynn. Flynn was Donald Trump’s campaign adviser at the time. Months after Smith’s work, Flynn briefly served as Trump’s national security adviser. He resigned after it was revealed that he had met with Russia’s ambassador to the US, purportedly without the sanctioning of White House officials.
Intelligence reports about the time period show that federal investigators were probing whether hackers were aiming to access the emails and deliver them to Flynn via a third party. Possibly that intermediary would have been Smith.
While working as FBI Director in summer 2016, James Comey stated that Hillary Clinton’s email server did not appear to have been hacked. Smith also doubted the authenticity of the emails that he was able to review. He reportedly advised hackers to share the documents with WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has not acknowledged receipt of the files.