Here's The Story Behind Trump's Podesta-Russia Tweet
by Tyler Durden
President Trump took to Twitter this morning to remind Americans that the "It was Russia"
stone-throwers on the left may have been living in Russia-funded glass-houses after all...
The story behind this Podesta-Russia link is explained in full gore by Mike Krieger
via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog; dot connectors, Twitter diagram creators and newly minted
Russia-conspiracy sleuths from sea to shining sea take note.
Since anything connected to Russia is now considered treasonous, I�ve got a great
story for you to sniff out.
It relates to John Podesta, but somehow I doubt you�ll be interested in this one�
The Daily Caller reports:
John Podesta, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton�s 2016 national campaign chairman,
may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the receipt of 75,000 shares of stock
from a Kremlin-financed company when he joined the Obama White House in 2014, according to
the Daily Caller News Foundation�s Investigative Group.
Joule Unlimited Technologies � financed in part by a Russian firm � originally awarded
Podesta 100,000 shares of stock options when in 2010 he joined that board along with its
Dutch-based entities: Joule Global Holdings, BV and the Stichting Joule Global Foundation.
When Podesta announced his departure from the Joule board in January 2014 to become
President Obama�s special counsellor, the company officially issued him 75,000 common
shares of stock.
The Schedule B section of the federal government�s form 278 which � requires financial disclosures
for government officials � required Podesta to �report any purchase, sale or exchange
by you, your spouse, or dependent children�of any property, stocks, bonds, commodity futures
and other securities when the amount of the transaction exceeded $1,000.�
The same year Podesta joined Joule, the company agreed to accept 1-Billion-Rubles � or $35
million � from Rusnano, a state-run and financed Russian company with close ties to
President Vladimir Putin.
Anatoly Chubais, the company CEO and two other top Russian banking executives worked together
with Podesta on the Joule boards.
The board met six times a year.
Ron Hosko, a former FBI assistant director said because of the Kremlin backing, it was
essential Podesta disclose the financial benefits he received from the company.
�I think in this case where you�re talking about foreign interests and foreign involvement,
the collateral interest with these disclosure forms is put in the forefront of full disclosure
of any foreign interest that you may have,� he told TheDCNF in an interview.
The existence of the 75,000 shares of Joule stock was first revealed by the Government
Accountability Institute report issued last year.
But Podesta didn�t pocket all the shares.
Correspondence from Podesta to Joule instructed the firm to transfer only 33,693 shares to
Leonidio Holdings, a brand-new entity he incorporated only on December 20, 2013, about ten days
before he entered the White House.
Leonidio is registered in Delaware as a limited liability corporation.
Podesta listed the address of his daughter, Megan Rouse, in the incorporation papers.
His mother and father also appear to be co-owners of Leonidio.
TheDCNF made multiple inquiries to OGE and received no reply.
TheDCNF inquiries to Mr. Podesta were not returned.
That's not the end of the story though, as John Podesta's brother, Tony, confirmed Russia's
largest bank had hired the Podesta Group to lobby for an end to sanctions...
Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, has confirmed that it hired the consultancy of Tony Podesta,
the elder brother of John Podesta who chaired Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, for
lobbying its interests in the United States and proactively seeking the removal of various
Obama-era sanctions, the press service of the Russian institution told TASS on Thursday.
"The New York office of Sberbank CIB indeed hired Podesta Group.
Engagement of external consultants is part of standard business practices for us," Sberbank
said.
Previously, The Daily Caller reported that Tony Podesta was proactively lobbying for
cancellation of a range of anti-Russian sanctions against the banking sector.
In particular, he represented interests of Sberbank and was paid $170,000 for his efforts
over a six-month period last year to seek to end one of the Obama administration�s
economic sanctions against that country.
Podesta, founder and chairman of the Podesta Group, is listed as a key lobbyist on behalf
of Sberbank, according to Senate lobbying disclosure forms.
His firm received more than $24 million in fees in 2016, much of it coming from foreign
governments, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Regular readers will recall that the Sberbank-Podesta relationship goes back many years.
Sberbank was the lead financial institution in the Russian deal to purchase Uranium One,
owned by one of Bill Clinton�s closest friends, Frank Giustra.
Giustra and Bill Clinton lead the Clinton-Giustra Enterprise Partnership, an integral part of
the Clinton Foundation.
Consider if any or all of the above had taken place among any of the Trump administration
- what would have occurred?
How villified would the offender have been?
As Mike Krieger concludes, personally, I doubt any of the above is a huge deal, and I certainly
don�t think Podesta is working for Vladimir Putin under the table.
However, just imagine the hysteria if the above narrative could�ve been connected
to anyone in Trump�s orbit.
It would�ve been plastered on the front page of The Washington Post and The New York
Times with headlines like, �More Financial Ties Emerge Between Those in Trump�s Orbit
and Putin.�
Naturally, you won�t see this story hyped because it doesn�t fit the corporate media
narrative, and the narrative is all they care about.
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