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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018

Top Brexit Backer Passed Trump Transition Team Info to Russians

Author:     Chas Danner
Source:     New York Magazine
Publication Date:     June 10, 2018 6:25 pm
Link: Top Brexit Backer Passed Trump Transition Team Info to Russians
Stephan:   I am appalled that neither Democratic nor Republican politicians seem to understand that the psychophysiology of politics has become the new field of warfare. Perhaps it's because people like Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi and, of course, Donald Trump, are simply too old and too unsophisticated about electronic media to grasp the concept or the neuroscience. Whatever the reason I think the evidence is overwhelming that Russia both skewed the American 2016 election in favor of Trump, as well as  the UK BREXIT vote, and that there were linkages between both efforts, and the politicians who benefited from these manipulations. Here is the latest validating that conclusion.

Leave.EU donor Arron Banks at a press conference in November 2015.
Credit: Leon Neal/AFP

Concerns about Russia’s election meddling — in the U.K. — reached new heights on Saturday after leaked emails revealed extensive links between one of the top backers of a pro-Brexit campaign and Russian officials. The Observer and Sunday Times of London obtained the some 40,000 emails sent by millionaire businessman Arron Banks, the chief financial backer of U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage’s Leave.EU campaign, and Andy Wigmore, Leave.EU’s director of communications.

The emails show show that Banks had previously undisclosed meetings with Russia’s U.K. ambassador (which were set up by an alleged Russian spy), and had made a previously undisclosed visit to Moscow at the peak of the Brexit campaign. Banks and Wigmore were also offered, at one point, a business deal involving several Russian goldmines that could have been worth a fortune for the men, according to the documents. There is a Trump connection, as the Sunday Times reports that […]

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