Finding Reynard
1 min readMar 22, 2022

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Holding assets in a country is not the only way to benefit financially from Russia

“A Washington lobbying/consulting firm, the Podesta Group, founded by Obama adviser and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and his brother, lobbied for Russia's largest bank, owned by the government (or, as you like, President Putin). John's brother, Tony, also lobbied for Ukrainian interests (reportedly in partnership with Trump associates Manafort and Gates). John Podesta left the firm years ago; Tony stepped down last November amid controversy over the lobbying. He has not been charged with any crimes.

The Podesta Group also represented Russia-owned Uranium One, which received approval from a federal oversight board that included the State Department under Hillary Clinton to buy about one-fifth of the U.S. production capacity of uranium, a key material for making nuclear weapons.”

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/373363-democratic-ties-to-russia-are-ample-and-often-ethically-dubious?amp

My opinion is we all need to see the corruption that exists on both sides of the aisle and hold our parties responsible. This whole “my party does no wrong”, “Republicans are evil” or “democrats are idiots” does none of us any good.

Making a list of names is a good way to sow mistrust and means nothing at all. Given the past few years every idiot in Russia knows that if you leave Trump’s name off a sanction list you get a lot of liberals jumping up and down saying “see I told you so”. It’s kind of predictable. Just like it’s easy to get Republicans to say that Biden is a senile old man.

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Finding Reynard
Finding Reynard

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