THERE IS ALSO APPARENTLY ANOTHER FEDERAL CASE, ANOTHER FBI
INVESTIGATION ALREADY UNFOLDING
RELATED TO HIM, WHERE HE LIVES
IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
LOTS MORE SHOES TO DROP THERE.
THE OTHER IMPORTANT PERSON IN
THIS INDICTMENT, THE OTHER
IMPORTANT UNNAMED PERSON,
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL.
HE’S EASIER TO FIGURE OUT.
HE’S BELIEVED TO BE A FORMER
MEMBER OF THE RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT
AND SENIOR OFFICIAL AT RUSSIA
SENIOR BANK AND BELIEVED TO HAVE
SIGNIFICANT TIES TO RUSSIAN
ORGANIZED CRIME.
ORGANIZED CRIME. HE IS NOW SANCTIONED BY THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT.
GOVERNMENT. MR. TORTIAN KANNO LONGER VISIT
PEOPLE LIKE SCOTT WALKER IN THE
UNITED STATES.
UNITED STATES. BUT PROSECUTORS ACCUSED MISS
BUTINA ACTING AT HIS DIRECTION
SECRETLY IN THIS COUNTRY AND
PROVIDED A LOT OF EVIDENCE OF
THEIR INTERACTIONS.
THEIR INTERACTIONS. SOME OF THEIR INTERACTIONS IS
JUST PUBLIC FACING SOCIAL MEDIA,
LIKE THIS PHOTO OF THEM TOGETHER
FROM THE MARIA BUTINA FACEBOOK
PAGE.
PAGE. MR. TORTIAN ALSO MAINTAINS A
ROBUST PRESENCE ON TWITTER
INCLUDING THIS REMARKABLE POST
FROM JULY 6th, 2016S, IN WHICH
HE SHOWS A MEDAL HE RECEIVED
FROM THE RUSSIAN SPY AGENCY.
THIS GUY IS SOMEBODY WHO WORKS
AT THE RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK.
WHY DID THEY GIVE HIM A MEDAL
FOR HIS WORK, A MEDAL OF
APPRECIATION RIGHT AFTER DONALD
TRUMP CLENCHED THE ROLE OF
PRESIDENT?
PRESIDENT? I DON’T KNOW WHY HE GOT A MEDAL.
IN THE CASE AGAINST MARIA
BUTINA, ACCUSED OF BEING A
SECRET AGENT IN THE UNITED
STATES, ONE OF THE THINGS WE
LEARNED IN THE CHARGING
DOCUMENTS IS HOW SHE SPENT
ELECTION NIGHT FOR 2016.
AMONG THE DOCUMENTS THE FBI SAYS
IT OBTAINED.
IT OBTAINED. A COUPLE HOURS AFTER THE
ELECTION WAS CALLED FOR TRUMP,
THEY DISCUSSED ONLINE WHO TRUMP
WOULD NOMINATE AS SECRETARY OF
STATE.
STATE. A COUPLE DAYS LATER, BUTINA SENT
TORTIAN A MESSAGE WHO SHE
PREDICTED MIGHT BE THE SECRETARY
OF STATE AND HOW SHE FELT ABOUT
THAT POTENTIAL NOMINATION.
HERE’S WHAT JUMPS OUT AND WHY
THEY MIGHT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT
THIS PARTICULAR CHARGING
DOCUMENT.
DOCUMENT. A MAYOR PUBLISHED A PROFILE OF
CHRISTOPHER STEELE, THE MAN
BEHIND THE INFAMOUS STEELE
DOSSIER.
DOSSIER. PART OF THE BOMBSHELL OF JANE
MAYER, IN ADDITION TO THE
DOSSIER BUZZFEED PUBLISHED AND
WE ALL SAW, THERE WAS A
PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN, PREVIOUSLY
UNREPORTED ADDITIONAL MEMO
CHRISTOPHER STEELE WROTE AFTER
THE ELECTION.
THE ELECTION. ONE SUBJECT STEELE WAS BELIEVED
TO HAVE DISCUSSED WITH SPECIAL
COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER VERSIONS
A MEMO AFTER HIS CONTRACT WITH
FUSION ENDED.
FUSION ENDED. THIS MEMO DID NOT SURFACE
PUBLICLY WITH OTHERS, SHORTER
THAN THE REST.
THAT OFFICIAL SAID HE WAS
RELAYING TALKS CIRCULATING IN
THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
WHAT HE HEARD WAS ASTONISHING.
PEOPLE WERE SAYING THE KREMLIN
INTERVENED TO BLOCK TRUMP’S
FIRST OFFICIAL CHOICE FOR
SECRETARY OF STATE, MITT ROMNEY.
JANE MAYER PUBLISHED THAT SCOOP
A FEW DAYS AGO.
A COUPLE WEEKS LATER THE "WALL
STREET JOURNAL" PUBLISHED THIS
AFTER THE ELECTION OF 2016,
RUSSIAN BACKED ONLINE TROLLS
FLOODED SOCIAL MEDIA TO TRY TO
BLOCK MITT ROMNEY FROM GETTING
THE SECRETARY OF STATE JOB.
SEVERAL MOST POPULAR ACCOUNTS
LINKED TO A PRO PROPAGANDA
AGENCY SLAMMED THE GOVERNOR
ENCOURAGING THEIR TENS OF
THOUSANDS OF FOLLOWERS TO TAKE
ACTION.
ACTION. WE ALL KNOW HOW THIS STORY ENDS.
TRUMP PICKED AS HIS SECRETARY OF
STATE, NOT MITT ROMNEY BUT OUT
OF NOWHERE, THE EXXON CEO, REX
TILLERSON WHOM VLADAMIR PUTIN
HAD PREVIOUSLY ORDERED THE
RUSSIAN ROLE OF FRIENDSHIP IN
HONOR OF THE BIG OIL DEALS THEY
DID TOGETHER.
DID TOGETHER. HE WAS SOMEONE HE HAD NEVER MET
AND NEVER HAD ANY DEALINGS WITH.
WHERE DID HE COME UP WITH THAT
AS A CHOICE FOR SECRETARY OF
STATE?
STATE? THE RUSSIAN TROLLS UP IN ARMS
ABOUT THE PROSPECT ROMNEY MIGHT
BE THE CHOICE, THEY WERE
PUBLICLY DELIGHT WHEN TRUMP
PICKED THIS GUY HE NEVER MET
BEFORE, WHEN HE PICKED REX
TILLERSON.
TILLERSON. THE IDEA THAT A FOREIGN
ADVERSARY MAY HAVE EXERCISED
SOME KIND OF VETO POWER OVER OUR
PRESIDENT’S CABINET CHOICES,
THAT IS AN EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATION.
THAT’S NOT AFFECTING THE
ELECTION, AFFECTING THE CONDUCT
OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AFTER THE
ELECTION.
ELECTION. AT THIS POINT, WE HAVE POTENTIAL
EVIDENCE THAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED
AND IT COMES FROM SEVERAL
DIFFERENT SOURCES INCLUDING NOW
A FEDERAL INDICTMENT.
THERE’S THE MEDAL THAT RUSSIAN
OFFICIAL NUMBER ONE FROM THE
LATEST INDICTMENT GOT FROM THE
FSB WHEN TRUMP GOT THE
NOMINATION AND THE MEDAL RUSSIAN
PRESIDENT VLADAMIR PUTIN GAVE
FOR THE SURPRISE PICK OF
SECRETARY OF STATE RIGHT AFTER
RUSSIAN OFFICIAL ONE AND ACCUSED
SPY, MARIA BUTINA TALKED ABOUT
CHECKING OUT WHETHER THE CHOICE
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE WAS OKAY
FOR OUR PEOPLE.
THAT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING
WARRANTS LOOKING INTO.
DID RUSSIA JUST NOT HELP ELECT
DONALD TRUMP?
DONALD TRUMP? DID THEY PICK THE CABINET?
IF REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS
PROFESSING TO BE SO CONCERNED
AND PUZZLED AND CONCERNED ABOUT
TRUMP’S BEHAVIOR IN HELSINKI
THIS WEEKEND, IF THEY’RE
CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT’S GONE ON
BETWEEN TRUMP AND RUSSIA, THIS
IS EXACTLY THE SORT OF THING
THEY COULD HOLD HEARINGS ON, IF