Andy Dukes
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It will be interesting what Corsi has to say at the Stone trial in November.
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Andy Dukes
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You have areading comprehension problem if you think that article supports your and the Russian hackers claims.
Sheriff Joe
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If he is telling g the truth?
Sheriff Joe
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Guess who is a board member of the Clinton foundation?
Sheriff Joe
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The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor from Canada
Tom Hamburger ,
Rosalind S. Helderman and
Anu Narayanswamy
May 3, 2015
Bill Clinton was planning a charity trip to Latin America and needed a big plane.
For Frank Giustra, who had never met the former president, this was an opportunity. The Canadian mining magnate and onetime Hollywood studio owner stepped up to let the former president borrow his luxurious passenger jet. There was just one condition: Giustra would come along for the ride.
That 2005 trip was the start of an intense, mutually beneficial friendship — one that has helped propel the Clinton Foundation into a global giant and established Giustra’s reputation as an international philanthropist while helping him build connections in countries where his business was expanding.
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Giustra has since committed more than $100 million to the work of the Clinton Foundation, becoming one of the largest individual donors to the family’s charities.
Clinton has also gained regular transportation, borrowing Giustra’s plane 26 times for foundation business since 2005, including 13 trips in which the two men traveled together. The numbers on Clinton’s use of the plane, never previously reported, were provided by a spokeswoman for Giustra.
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Explore the connections of a Clinton donor.
The relationship has gained attention as Hillary Rodham Clinton has launched her presidential campaign amid questions about whether the Clinton Foundation has served as an avenue for wealthy interests to gain entree to a powerful family.
Giustra, 57, a Vancouver, B.C.-based mogul whose eclectic business interests include founding Lionsgate Entertainment and investing in gold mines and an olive oil company, has come to symbolize a relatively new but substantial category of Clinton backers: foreign donors who are not legally eligible to contribute to U.S. political candidates but grew close to the Clintons through the charity.
[Clintons’ foundation has raised nearly $2 billion — and some key questions]
In a rare interview, Giustra told The Washington Post recently that his friendship with Bill Clinton has grown entirely out of their shared interest in philanthropy — not business.
“I have one very specific reason I have a relationship with Bill Clinton: I admire what he does, and I want to be part of it,” Giustra said. “But I’ve never asked him for a damn thing.”
But Giustra’s donations, and others from his friends in the international mining business, are becoming a factor in Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Last week, the Clinton Foundation acknowledged that an affiliated Canadian charity founded in 2007 by Giustra kept its donors secret, despite a 2008 ethics agreement with the Obama administration promising to reveal the New York-based foundation’s donors.
1,100 donors to a Canadian charity tied to Clinton Foundation remain secret]
For Giustra, the partnership with Bill Clinton provided an introduction to the world of international philanthropy at the highest levels — a feel-good, reputation-enhancing effort that he said he finds more personally satisfying than amassing wealth.
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At the same time, Giustra continued to expand his business empire, closing some of the biggest deals of his career in the same countries where he traveled with Clinton.
In one case, he finalized a massive transaction to buy uranium mines in Kazakhstan days after dining with that nation’s president, along with Clinton and about 50 other guests. In another, a Colombian oil operation he helped form received valuable drilling rights in deals involving a state-owned oil company that went through a few years after he met the Colombian president through the Clinton Foundation.
Giustra said government approval was not required in either case.
[Foreign governments gave millions to foundation while Clinton was at State Dept.]
‘We hit it off right away’
Giustra and Bill Clinton first met on June 5, 2005, after Giustra’s plane touched down at the White Plains, N.Y., airport — the closest airfield to the Clinton home in Chappaqua — to pick up the former president and ferry him to Arkansas and then on to Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.
Tom Hamburger ,
Rosalind S. Helderman and
Anu Narayanswamy
May 3, 2015
Bill Clinton was planning a charity trip to Latin America and needed a big plane.
For Frank Giustra, who had never met the former president, this was an opportunity. The Canadian mining magnate and onetime Hollywood studio owner stepped up to let the former president borrow his luxurious passenger jet. There was just one condition: Giustra would come along for the ride.
That 2005 trip was the start of an intense, mutually beneficial friendship — one that has helped propel the Clinton Foundation into a global giant and established Giustra’s reputation as an international philanthropist while helping him build connections in countries where his business was expanding.
Keep Reading
Giustra has since committed more than $100 million to the work of the Clinton Foundation, becoming one of the largest individual donors to the family’s charities.
Clinton has also gained regular transportation, borrowing Giustra’s plane 26 times for foundation business since 2005, including 13 trips in which the two men traveled together. The numbers on Clinton’s use of the plane, never previously reported, were provided by a spokeswoman for Giustra.
VIEW GRAPHIC Explore the connections of a Clinton donor.
The relationship has gained attention as Hillary Rodham Clinton has launched her presidential campaign amid questions about whether the Clinton Foundation has served as an avenue for wealthy interests to gain entree to a powerful family.
Giustra, 57, a Vancouver, B.C.-based mogul whose eclectic business interests include founding Lionsgate Entertainment and investing in gold mines and an olive oil company, has come to symbolize a relatively new but substantial category of Clinton backers: foreign donors who are not legally eligible to contribute to U.S. political candidates but grew close to the Clintons through the charity.
[Clintons’ foundation has raised nearly $2 billion — and some key questions]
In a rare interview, Giustra told The Washington Post recently that his friendship with Bill Clinton has grown entirely out of their shared interest in philanthropy — not business.
“I have one very specific reason I have a relationship with Bill Clinton: I admire what he does, and I want to be part of it,” Giustra said. “But I’ve never asked him for a damn thing.”
But Giustra’s donations, and others from his friends in the international mining business, are becoming a factor in Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Last week, the Clinton Foundation acknowledged that an affiliated Canadian charity founded in 2007 by Giustra kept its donors secret, despite a 2008 ethics agreement with the Obama administration promising to reveal the New York-based foundation’s donors.
1,100 donors to a Canadian charity tied to Clinton Foundation remain secret]
For Giustra, the partnership with Bill Clinton provided an introduction to the world of international philanthropy at the highest levels — a feel-good, reputation-enhancing effort that he said he finds more personally satisfying than amassing wealth.
ADVERTISING
At the same time, Giustra continued to expand his business empire, closing some of the biggest deals of his career in the same countries where he traveled with Clinton.
In one case, he finalized a massive transaction to buy uranium mines in Kazakhstan days after dining with that nation’s president, along with Clinton and about 50 other guests. In another, a Colombian oil operation he helped form received valuable drilling rights in deals involving a state-owned oil company that went through a few years after he met the Colombian president through the Clinton Foundation.
Giustra said government approval was not required in either case.
[Foreign governments gave millions to foundation while Clinton was at State Dept.]
‘We hit it off right away’
Giustra and Bill Clinton first met on June 5, 2005, after Giustra’s plane touched down at the White Plains, N.Y., airport — the closest airfield to the Clinton home in Chappaqua — to pick up the former president and ferry him to Arkansas and then on to Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.
Hüsker Dü
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Corsi is a lying, conspiracy pushing worm. Like t or stone nothing he says is worth the time to listen.
Hüsker Dü
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t and those around him don't much bother keeping up with their own lies, they just tell more.
Hüsker Dü
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That is what t thinks, the American people don't matter.
Sheriff Joe
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You forgot innocent.
Sheriff Joe
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So what's your prediction of the report?
Hüsker Dü
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Of what? Certainly not of being stupid.
Hüsker Dü
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That the release of the unedited version of the report, for general consumption, will be tied up in courts for years, maybe more than a decade . . . exactly how t would want it.
There’s no way Trump wants that Mueller report released. All the others get released...
Rubio and Cruz saying it has to come out.
Anti-Castro Cubans like them don’t like Russia.
So Mueller had the Papadopolous’ knowledge of the emails the Russians had, the WikiLeaks dump and the Russian hacking of the DNC, so what did they need to know to show actual collusion?
He put a lot of crooks and liars in jail and we know the Russians assisted, but somehow couldn’t pin Jared or Don Jr or Trump with actually conspiring with Russia.
He put a lot of crooks and liars in jail and we know the Russians assisted, but somehow couldn’t pin Jared or Don Jr or Trump with actually conspiring with Russia.
Sheriff Joe
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All the others?
Sheriff Joe
DA
So Trump is innocent.
Innocent of conspiring with the Russians who helped his campaign? Obviously not enough eveidence to indict.
Starr Report. Jaworski/Cox Report about Watergate. You know, the Special Counsel and AG investigation reports.
Sheriff Joe
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That was the supposed crime, so he is innocent, you can say it. Maybe it will start the healing process.
It is going to drop here is 30 minutes or so.
We will see.