Just finished reading Glenn Simpson’s GPS Fusion testimony before the House Intelligence Committee and it is explosive. Comparing his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee to this latest release is like comparing a Las Vegas buffet to a peanut butter sandwich.
Simpson’s House testimony is far more detailed than the Senate version, giving us a much clearer picture of Trump’s sketchy business associates beginning with Italian mafia figures in the 1990s and transitioning to Russian gangsters after the turn of the century. Simpson displays an encyclopedic knowledge of the nexus of Russian corruption that involves government, business and the underworld and how it all leads back to Vladimir Putin...and ultimately to Donald Trump.
Perhaps most importantly, Simpson’s testimony provides investigators with a roadmap of money trails. One centers on money laundering by known Trump associates and likely Trump himself. A second avenue is the trail of money that is funneled through Russian diplomats to Russian “ex-pats” living in the US who may be doing the bidding of the Kremlin. And finally a third, and perhaps most explosive of all, is the money trail that appears to lead from the Kremlin to the NRA and other conservative advocacy groups. New reporting indicates that the FBI is investigating whether millions of dollars of illegal Russian money was used by the NRA to support Trump and other key Republican congressmen. Simpson told investigators about this possibility back in November.