Guest post by Joe Hoft
The New York Times (NYT) released another leak from Deep State’s corrupt Mueller team stating that the DOJ’s Bruce Ohr and Fusion’s Christopher Steele were major players in efforts to get Russian oligarch Oleg V. Deripaska to align then candidate Trump with Russia.
Maybe because Deripaska is connected to the Kremlin and has faced credible accusations of extortion, bribery and even murder, the DOJ reportedly thought he would be willing to validate their fake Russia dossier. (The NYT doesn’t note that this has been reported previously and Deripaska laughed them out of the room.)
In yet another leak to the press from the corrupt Mueller gang, the NYT reports –
Between 2014 and 2016, the F.B.I. and the Justice Department unsuccessfully tried to turn Mr. Deripaska into an informant. They signaled that they might provide help with his trouble in getting visas for the United States or even explore other steps to address his legal problems. In exchange, they were hoping for information on Russian organized crime and, later, on possible Russian aid to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, according to current and former officials and associates of Mr. Deripaska.
In one dramatic encounter, F.B.I. agents appeared unannounced and uninvited at a home Mr. Deripaska maintains in New York and pressed him on whether Paul Manafort, a former business partner of his who went on to become chairman of Mr. Trump’s campaign, had served as a link between the campaign and the Kremlin.
The attempt to flip Mr. Deripaska was part of a broader, clandestine American effort to gauge the possibility of gaining cooperation from roughly a half-dozen of Russia’s richest men, nearly all of whom, like Mr. Deripaska, depend on President Vladimir V. Putin to maintain their wealth, the officials said.
Two of the players in the effort were Bruce G. Ohr, the Justice Department official who has recently become a target of attacks by Mr. Trump, and Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled a dossier of purported links between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The systematic effort to win the cooperation of the oligarchs, which has not previously been revealed, does not appear to have scored any successes. And in Mr. Deripaska’s case, he told the American investigators that he disagreed with their theories about Russian organized crime and Kremlin collusion in the campaign, a person familiar with the exchanges said. The person added that Mr. Deripaska even notified the Kremlin about the American efforts to cultivate him.
The corrupt Mueller team is apparently trying to ward off the news that Ohr and Steele were the Deep State operatives who were trying to get Deripaska to join in their Trump – Russia scam. Over the past few weeks it was uncovered that the DOJ’s Ohr, the number four in Obama’s DOJ, partook in communications with Christopher Steele after Steele’s relationship with the FBI was terminated after Steele leaked information to the press.
Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS who paid Steele for his work on a dossier that some believe was made up by Nellie Ohr. To date, nothing material in the phony dossier alleging Donald Trump’s ties with Russia have been corroborated and much has been debunked. Yet, this phony document was used to initiate the Mueller witch hunt and to spy on candidate and then President Trump.
The NYT article is an attempt by Deep State Mueller and his gang to make excuses for their crimes –
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an initiative that remains classified. Most expressed deep discomfort, saying they feared that in revealing the attempts to cultivate Mr. Deripaska and other oligarchs they were undermining American national security and strengthening the grip that Mr. Putin holds over those who surround him.
But they also said they did not want Mr. Trump and his allies to use the program’s secrecy as a screen with which they could cherry-pick facts and present them, sheared of context, to undermine the special counsel’s investigation. That, too, they said they feared, would damage American security.
What liars!
Although, the NYT article does surprisingly mention that the Obama Administration was worried that their actions would be seen as tipping the election towards Hillary Clinton. They also note that the dossier was paid for by the Clinton campaign.
Of course the fake news NYT thinks that when the Deep State FBI, DOJ and spy agencies created a fake dossier and used it to implement the greatest scam in US history, that that is perfectly ok. The Times also omits the many crimes related to lying to the FISA Court to obtain spy warrants as well as the crimes the DNC and Clinton campaign partook when paying foreign entities for information before the campaign.
Finally, what’s disgusting, dishonest and most likely criminal, is manner in which the Deep State Mueller gang continues to lie and leak stories and fables to their favorite MSM fake news agencies who always oblige their requests and promote their fake stories. Press conferences never happen with these gangsters and the Times should be ashamed of being one of their pawns.
The many crimes of the Mueller team and Deep State are unraveling and they can’t create make believe stories to stop the truth from coming out.
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