https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Simes

Dimitri Konstantinovich Simes (Russian: Дмитрий Константинович Саймс; born October 29, 1947) is a Russian-American author, editor, and political pundit. He is the former president and CEO of The Center for the National Interest, where he served from 1994 to 2022. Simes was selected to lead the Center by former President Richard Nixon, to whom he served as an informal foreign policy advisor and with whom he traveled regularly to Russia and other former Soviet states as well as Western and Central Europe.

Simes was born in Moscow to prominent human rights lawyers in the Soviet Union.[1][2] He is a naturalized citizen of the United States.[3] He immigrated to the United States in 1973, seeking intellectual and political freedom; he had twice been expelled from university in Russia for protesting Soviet involvement in the Vietnam War.[3] Simes's mother, Dina Kaminskaya, was born in Yekaterinoslav and his father, Konstantin Simis, was born in Odesa, UkrSSR.[1][4] In 1977, his mother was expelled from the Soviet Union for working as a lawyer for Soviet dissidents.[2]

In February 2015, Simes met with Russian president Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials in Moscow.[5] As publisher of The National Interest, Simes was involved in arranging Donald Trump's April 27, 2016, speech at the Mayflower Hotel. In the speech, Trump outlined his vision for American foreign policy and called for greater cooperation with Russia.[6]

In September 2018, historian Yuri Felshtinsky published an article about Simes' past encounters with unregistered Russian agent Maria Butina.[7] Simes' name has appeared 100 times in U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[8][9]

Simes stepped down from his position at the Center for the National Interest in 2022 and moved back to Russia in October of that year.[9] Since then, he serves as a moderator of the Moscow-based political program Big Game on Channel One Russia, together with Vyacheslav Nikonov.[10][11]

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"But the Democrats....."

Evidence mounting against trump, as Russian campaign advisors arrested. How this is bad for Democrats.

"Well, both sides...."

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/seven-gop-lawmakers-make-misguided-trip-russia-msna1119676

In addition to Shelby, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has limited foreign policy responsibilities, the official congressional delegation featured Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas).

Ever since tRump said "Russia if you are listening! "

THAT there was the first clue!

The 2nd clue was the Oval Office visit with Labrov(when he was alive) and another Russian with only Russian photographer and interpreter allowed.

The 3rd clue was Helsinki in 2018 when tRump said he believed Putin over US Intelligence agencies about election interference in 2016.

Another includes calling Putin " a genius" over his illegal invasion of Ukraine. The most-likely selling of classified information, etc. Need we more proof?

when they went to castrate Trump during the prostitute pee incident in Moscow, they found that Donald was already without his balls.

...and said they were daddy's potpourri. 😫

as an apparently offhand remark by a Ukrainian official.

so naturally I'm curious if the line was deliberately promoted as cover, is the Ukrainian official pro-Putin I wonder?

to see how much upheaval such news could create.

Was pro Russia

https://www.npr.org/2016/08/06/488876597/how-the-trump-campaign-weakened-the-republican-platform-on-aid-to-ukraine

actually, he did claim to do so in a bit of reverse psychology the other day (or sarcasm, hard to tell). CNN put his "endorsement" in quotes when reporting it.

this news.

Hiring Paul Manafort who got the RNC to remove Ukraine language from its platform.
Alfa bank and Trump tower servers tied together.
Maria Butina

Robert Mueller got indictments or guilty pleas from;

George Papadopoulos
Paul Manafort
13 Russian nationals
Konstantin Kilimnik
12 Russian GRU officers

The Magat party is owned by Putin.

The G.O.P. has been so weirdly eager to jump into bed with America's enermies.

It would take a WHOLE LOT MORE THAN WHAT SHE HAS to sell out my country.

Actually, I bbc wouldn’t do it under any circumstances but this is a point I’d like to make….

Never!

There will be screams of "WHEN DID BIDEN KNOW AND WHY DIDN'T HE DO ANYTHING BEFORE?!?!?!"

He invited Russian operatives into the Oval Office for the PDB. You can't be more of a Russian spy than that.

they need to disclose the list. if the nra isnt on it, there’s something very wrong.

Being stupid rethugs I can believe they didn’t know where the money came from at first. But it became obvious and now they scared to death they’ll be outed. That leaves them beholding to Russia.

bribery.

They’ve certainly got him by the balls. Remember the picture of him and Vlad? You didn’t have to be a body language expert to see Donny’s submissive posture. I can’t wait for when Kamala meets with him.

This "proves" nothing. In fact, since it's only an indictment, it doesn't "prove" anything about Mr Simes.

Everybody "knows" DJT is a Russian asset. I have yet to see actual "proof."

-- Mal

So I don’t need no stinkin’ legal “proof”.

This guy is an asset. Well, he was the President…that makes him more than just an asset. An asset is the guy in the pizza shop in DC who overhears conversations and passes them along to his handlers.

And I try to keep my standards of proof at least as high as a court of justice's.

-- Mal

So OJ didn’t do it.

are going to get to see much more of T's background and criming from the court. Since Simes is mentioned over 100 times in the Mueller report, someone needs to start demanding that the full, entire Report be released to the public. It may or may not do any good... most of us were hep to this back in 2016 when he won the electoral college (but we didn't try to overthrow the government). The least we should get is an unredacted copy of the report. They might try looking on that super-secret server Barr had access to. That's where they kept all the stuff they didn't want anyone to know about. I remember reading about it, I think, around the time Barr gave us the Mueller "summary."

American banks wouldn't deal with them because "we get all the money we need from Russia."

Direct conduit of US taxpayer $s to Putin.

Many times they’ve directly copied American weapon equipment especially the Air Force. It started back in WWII when they kept a couple B-29s that had made emergency landings in their territory. They took them completely apart down to the last rivet a copied it, making a Russian version. One thing they couldn’t do was produce the tires that were necessary. So they just bought them from Goodyear.

Any way my point is that was far cheaper than designing a long range bomber from scratch. So spending a few million to buy off congressmen, senators, and an extremely easy president was cost effective. It’s hard to say the impacts over the last 8 years but I’m sure they got their monies worth.

I hope we're not neighbors.

that I haven't been the only one following these stories and seeing these obvious connections,

because when I posted a similar story yesterday someone wrote, "With you, all roads lead to Putin."

So I was wondering if it was just me.

Guy and his conservative think-tank chums were all in favor of going to war over Iraq invading Kuwait and then with his neocon think-tank chums were in favor of going to war on Iraq over 9-11.

The two wars are the most disastrous, unnecessary, illegal and immoral "mistakes" the nation has ever made.

Now we now: Thanks, Putin.

And won’t bother any of his fan club but I’m glad to see some arrests. Makes me wonder, I know there are people who hate Trump but buy into a lot of the rethug hate-fear agenda. Will they still vote for Trump?