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Cheney, Keene, Bolton, and NRA sabotaged Trump

David Keene (left), former President of the NRA, and Alexander Torshin, retired Chairman of Russia’s Federal Reserve Bank.

Two fly fishing buddies. Dick Cheney and David Keene, needed help from a third friend, John Bolton to take out President Donald J. Trump.

https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/the-passion-of-dick-cheney

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/outdoors/06.html

So far they have failed.

They have never given up.

Cheney, Keene, and Bolton starting working together 40 years in President Richard Nixon’s Administration.

https://www.wis.community/blogarticle/meet-nra-board-directors-not-exactly-your-average-deer-hunters

Who was President Nixon’s Vice President?

Dick Cheney.

https://www.newsmax.com/ronaldkessler/davidkeene-nra-acu-cpac/2011/03/28/id/390893/

Cheney ‘s resume is linked here:

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/vicepresident/vpbio.html

David Keene (left) and Dick Cheney (middle)

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4459174/liz-dick-cheney&start=60

http://davidakeene.com/article/nra-chief-david-keene-gentleman-who-sticks-his-guns

Keene wrote an article in “The Washington Times” calling Trump “dangerous”.

The date was March 16th, 2016 before Trump was elected President.

The article is linked here:

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/21/david-keene-snatching-donald-trumps-nomination-wil/

David A. Keene’s political career started in 1964 working to elect Barry Goldwater as President.

Goldwater lost.

Lyndon Johnson was elected President.

http://davidakeene.com/article/david-keene-takes-over-nra

Keene worked as an adviser to Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1972.

http://davidakeene.com/article/nra-chief-david-keene-gentleman-who-sticks-his-guns

After that, Keene became a lobbyist.

Keene has filed 494 lobbying disclosure forms with the Senate working for the Carmen Group.

Keene was President of the American Conservative Union from 1984 to 2011.

https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1413&context=jlp

Keene has been called “Baby Doc”, comparing his power and bullying style to a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier.

https://www.politico.com/story/2011/02/the-complex-legacy-of-david-keene-049445

https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=77948id=77948

Keene’s wife, Donna Wiesner, is an Editor for the Washington Times.

http://www.davidakeene.com/content/donna-wiesner-keene

Mrs. David Keene is also a contribution to U.S. News and World Report.

https://www.usnews.com/topics/author/donna_wiesner_keene

Mrs. Keene also registered as a lobbyist for the Carmen Group last year under the name of “Donna Wiesner”.

https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6608-Short-Form-20181106-2.pdf

Mrs. Keene helped Mariia Butina sell jet fuel to Russia.

Butina is a convicted Russian spy.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-nra-presidents-wife-worked-with-maria-butina-in-effort-to-score-russia-jet-fuel-deal-report

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton was an intern for Keene in 1972.

Bolton is currently National Security Adviser to President Trump.

Bolton’s White House profile is linked here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/people/john-r-bolton/

Bolton is the key figure in attempts to take down President Trump, according to Steve Pieczenik.

Pieczenik has served as Assistant Secretary of State to three Presidents.

“The whole place (Trump’s cabinet) should be cleaned out starting with John Bolton”, said Steve Pieczenik.

The fictional character, Jack Bauer, of the TV series “24”, is based on the life of Pieczenik.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbQrifXJbQo



John Bolton (above)

On Nov. 2nd, 2013, Bolton, Keene, and Alexander Torshin spoke in Moscow. The event was for a Russian “Right to Arms” group.

https://www.ari.ru/tv/2013/11/02/2y-sezd-pravo-na-oruzhie

The House Judiciary Committee began investigating the NRA March 4th.

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/NRALetter.pdf

https://www.thetrace.org/2019/02/keene-brownell-investigation/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/the-pentagon-considers-this-russian-sniper-rifle-a-big-threat-to-us-soldiers-the-nra-helped-promote-it/

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/20/john-bolton-russia-connections-hosue-democrats-789451

Tass is the official news outlet for the Russian Federation

https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/5473764

Unlike the U.S., it is illegal for Russia’s citizens to own guns.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/595897412/john-boltons-curious-appearance-in-a-russian-gun-rights-video

Torchin is wanted in Spain and the U.S. for laundering money stolen from Venezuela.

https://en.crimerussia.com/organizedcrime/spain-reaccuses-central-bank-deputy-chairman-torshin-of-money-laundering-and-criminal-connections-/

“The arrest of Torshin had been approved for laundering money,” said Spanish Prosecutor, José Grinda González.

https://www.propublica.org/article/russian-politician-who-reportedly-sent-millions-to-nra-has-long-history-in-spain

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0338

Last month, President Donald J. Trump froze a billion dollars in gold stolen from Venezuela. It was headed for Russia.

https://brassballs.blog/home/trump-stop-nicolas-maduro-pdvsa-cesar-chavez-delcy-rodriguez-igor-sechin-plundering-billion-dollars-gold-venezuela-russia-rosneft-citgo-gazprombank-norwind-pdvsa-evrofinance-mosnarbank-sanctions-putin-vladimir-jose-guerra-alexandra-belandia

Alexander Romanov, a Russian citizen, was sentenced to three and half years in a Spanish prison.

He plea guilty to illegal transactions totaling $1.83 million.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-09/mobster-or-central-banker-spanish-cops-allege-this-russian-both

Russia owns six oil companies in Venezuela.

Russia owns CITGO petroleum based in Houston, Texas. CITGO’s headquarters is in Venezuela.

https://brassballs.blog/home/trump-stop-nicolas-maduro-pdvsa-cesar-chavez-delcy-rodriguez-igor-sechin-plundering-billion-dollars-gold-venezuela-russia-rosneft-citgo-gazprombank-norwind-pdvsa-evrofinance-mosnarbank-sanctions-putin-vladimir-jose-guerra-alexandra-belandia

Russia’s national bank is exempt from monitoring by the:

  • Securities and Exchange Commissoin (SEC)

  • FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

  • DOJ (Department of Justice)

  • Department of Treasury

So are wire money transfers.

There are no suspicious activity reports (SARS) filed by the Bank of Russia because there is no law making them do so.

https://brassballs.blog/home/peter-strzoks-insurance-policy-is-his-wife-sec-director-melissa-hodgman-who-has-blocked-the-fbis-investigation-of-the-clinton-foundation-for-21-months-and-counting

Alexander Torshin in Moscow, Nov. 2nd, 2013

https://www.ari.ru/tv/2013/11/02/2y-sezd-pravo-na-oruzhie

David Keene in Moscow, Nov. 2nd, 2013

https://www.ari.ru/tv/2013/11/02/2y-sezd-pravo-na-oruzhie

John Bolton in Moscow, Nov. 2nd, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAPmggDDMzs

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/20/john-bolton-russia-connections-hosue-democrats-789451

Alexander Torshin (right) with David Keene.

Alexander Torshin

Before Keene, G. Kline Preston IV was President of the NRA (National Rifle Association).

Preston introduced David Keene, then the NRA’s president, to a Russian Senator, Alexander Torshin in 2011.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-republican-right-found-allies-in-russia/2017/04/30/e2d83ff6-29d3-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html?utm_term=.178f533f96ab

Preston is a Nashville attorney fluent in Russian. He has worked for Torshin for 15 years.

Preston’s law firm has represented Russian business interests since 1984.  

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/01/590076949/depth-of-russian-politicians-cultivation-of-nra-ties-revealed

Torshin became head of Russia’s Federal Reserve on Jan. 20th, 2015. He retired Nov. 30th last year and lives in Moscow.

Torshin will be arrested in the U.S.

On Nov. 2nd, 2013 Torshin was a Russian Senator in the same political party as President Vladimir Putin.

Alexander Torshin, right, with David Keene sitting next to him on the left at an NRA Convention

http://www.cbr.ru/eng/press/PR/?file=20012015_105441eng2015-01-20T10_52_15.htm

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (left), Kline Preston (red tie), and Alexander Torshin on Nov. 8th, 2012

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/03/20/russia-nashville-lawyer-marsha-blackburn/431448002/

Haslam’s brother, Jimmy, owns the Cleveland Browns, a professional football team.

https://brassballs.blog/home/prosecutors-anticipate-charging-23-more-persons-in-pilot-flying-j-criminal-case

https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2016&chrt=V&disp=O&type=U

“It appears the Russians . . . infiltrated the NRA,” said Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS.

The Russian operation was designed to infiltrate conservative organizations.”

Fusion was hired by a Russian lawyer to write two dossiers.

https://brassballs.blog/home/fusion-gps-ceo-testifies-that-cleveland-law-firm-hired-him-through-russians-to-write-two-dossiers-baker-hostetler-natalia-veselnitzkaya-mark-cymrot-prevezon-oil-ralph-blasey-cia-christopher-steele-peter-fritsch-baumgartner-edward-bean-llc

There are 230 persons and businesses registered as Russian foreign principles.

Opposite of secret agent. Known to government as a spy.

Feds know the person or company registered is a spy.

Affairs of another country is more important than their home country of U. S. 

https://efile.fara.gov/pls/apex/f?p=185:136:0::NO:136:P136_DATERANGE:N

https://en.crimerussia.com/organizedcrime/spain-reaccuses-central-bank-deputy-chairman-torshin-of-money-laundering-and-criminal-connections-/

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/oliver-north-vows-to-raise-money-for-the-nra-by-selling-arms-to-iran

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/oliver-north-vows-to-raise-money-for-the-nra-by-selling-arms-to-iran

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/us/oliver-north-nra-president.html

Enter Oliver North.

He was implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal. It was alleged he operated a secret slush fund to aid the Contra guerillas in Nicaragua. The money from drug sales paid for arms to Iran in exchange for U.S. hostages.

Here is a summary of the scandal from the Justice Department:

https://oig.justice.gov/special/9712/appa.htm

His gun runner?

Paul Erickson.

Their best friends?

President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, David Keene, and John Bolton.

Paul Erickson (middle with black shirt and khaki pants), 1990, making a gun run to the Contras in Nicaragua.

Photo courtesy of Paul Erickson.

It was Paul Erickson’s "Kremlin Connection" email that started Crossfire Hurricane, a conspiracy to wiretap the Trump Campaign five months before the Carter Page warrant was approved.

https://brassballs.blog/home/paul-erickson-sent-kremlin-connection-email-to-jeff-sessions-office-to-start-wiretap-of-trump-campaign-for-president

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/politics/crossfire-hurricane-trump-russia-fbi-mueller-investigation.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/politics/fbi-code-names-investigations-crossfire-hurricane.html

Who was Erickson’s co-conspirator and companion from Nov. 2nd, 2013?

Convicted Russian spy Mariia Butina.

https://brassballs.blog/home/jessie-liu-justice-department-maria-mariia-butina-judge-tonya-chutkan-imran-awan-american-university-spy-teams-au-alexander-torshin-russia-oleg-deripaska-potomac-institute-president-trump-spygate-kalashnikov-nato-northern-atlantic-treaty-organization

Russian spy Mariia Butina was working for the Potomac Institute on Oct. 26th, 2010

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/maria-butina-russian-oligarch.html

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/the-pentagon-considers-this-russian-sniper-rifle-a-big-threat-to-us-soldiers-the-nra-helped-promote-it/