Looking for a Real ‘Russian Connection’ to the 2016 Election?

Democrats and the liberal mainstream media are still desperately working to create an angle that makes their false narrative about Russia’s connections to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign true.

The latest incarnation brings back former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who stepped down after it was revealed he had worked for pro-Russian political campaigns in Ukraine. The Associated Press is reporting that the Washington insider “proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse.”

In Washington, D.C., they call that lobbying. People get paid all the time to lobby on behalf of foreign countries—and it’s not illegal.

That aside, Democrats and their liberally compliant friends in the media continue to conveniently ignore former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s many connections to Russia. The latest was exposed in a new report Wednesday by The Daily Caller’s Richard Pollock, who wrote:

Rep. Louie Gohmert, an outspoken House Republican from Texas, is calling for a congressional investigation of John Podesta’s role with Rusnano, a state-run company founded by Russian President Vladimir Putin, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned.

Podesta—Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign chairman and former President Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff—first made contact with the Russian firm in 2011, when he joined the boards and executive committees of three related entities: Boston-based Joule Unlimited, Rotterdam-based Joule Global Holdings and Joule Global Stichting, the company’s controlling interest. All are high-tech renewable energy enterprises.

Three months after Podesta’s arrival, Joule Unlimited accepted a 1 billion-ruble investment from Rusnano, amounting to $35 million in U.S. currency. The firm also awarded a Joule board seat in February 2012 to Anatoly Chubais, Rusnano’s CEO, who has been depicted as a corrupt figure.

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