Trump dossier

[Paul Rigby]

Why the Trump is a Russian agent' theme won't work

ALEXANDER MERCOURIS
30 July 2016

http://theduran.com/trump-russian-agent-...wont-work/

The US liberal elite is making the same mistake as the British liberal elite did during the Brexit campaign: they think non-elite voters are as obsessed by Vladimir Putin as they are.

Over the last week it has become clear that the default position of the Hillary Clinton campaign is to attack Donald Trump by attacking Vladimir Putin.

That was the same tactic that was used during the Brexit referendum by the Remain campaign. Despite protests from the Russian government the Remain campaign repeatedly claimed that the only foreign leader who wanted Britain to exit the EU was Vladimir Putin. This despite the fact that Putin unlike US President Obama and several EU leaders made no public comment on the issue until almost the end of the Brexit referendum campaign. When Putin was finally forced to comment about it (because of media questions) he said that it was a strictly internal British matter in which Russia was not involved and was not taking sides.

The important thing however is that the British Remain campaign's attempt to use Putin as a scarecrow to frighten British voters into voting Remain was a total failure. There is no evidence it persuaded a single British voter to change their vote.

I predict the same will be true in the US election. Though Britain and the US are very different societies, I think the liberal elite in both countries is making the same mistake: they think non-elite people (ie. the great mass of voters) are as obsessed by Putin as they are.

I doubt this is the case. I think most British and US voters broadly accept the elite's claims about Putin: that he is corrupt, ruthless and authoritarian. However my impression is that this goes hand in hand with a grudging though cynical respect for him as a strong leader who is not to be messed with. More to the point I don't think they think much about him or consider him or Russia dangerous. On the contrary they see jihadi terrorism which unlike Russia has actually carried out terrorist attacks on US and EU soil as the enemy, and are open to the idea floated by Putin and Trump of the US and Russia joining forces to fight this common enemy. Issues like Ukraine and the Baltic States by contrast are remote and far away and barely interest them.

As for the idea that such an extremely American figure as Donald Trump whom US voters have come to know and form a view about over several decades could possibly be a Russian agent, that is just too farfetched for most voters.

Unless Hillary Clinton is careful she could find that by banging on about Putin she is losing the voters' attention. This whilst Donald Trump talks about issues voters genuinely care about such as immigration, law and order and jobs.

The similarities between the far-right Democratic establishment and the English Tory party don't end there - precisely the same kind of donors, hedge fundies, fill the coffers of both:

Who is Funding Hillary Clinton? Here's The List
By Robert Gehl

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/wh...s-the-list

If you want to know what kind of president someone will be, pull back the curtain and look at who's funding them.

As we do that with Hillary Clinton, keep in mind that compared to these numbers in the many, many millions, Donald Trump is a piker having taken a fraction of this money (we'll run down that later).

Topping Hillary's list is the Saban Capital Group. The "private investment firm," (read: hedge fund) has given the Clinton campaign more than $10 million this year alone. Founded by Hami Saban, an Jewish Egyptian national, he has said his greatest concern is to protect Israel. He is also part owner of Univision, Hillary Clinton's greatest Spanish-language cheerleader....

A close second on the list is Renaissance Technologies, another hedge fund. They sunk $9.5 million into Hillary's campaign this year. Founder James Simons has given more than $30 million to Democrats and their campaigns since 2006....

Third on the list is the Pritzker Group, a venture capital firm that also owns Hyatt Hotels (looks like a boycott?). They've given $7.9 million to Hillary.

Everybody's favorite leftist billionaire George Soros has dumped $7 million into the campaign.

So as you'd expect leftist billionaires and hedge funds dominate Hillary's top donors...

Who Are The Biggest Donors to the Main UK Political Parties?

Where do the Labour Party and Conservative Party in particular get their money from?

Kenny Hemphill
04 . 03 . 15

http://mentalfloss.com/uk/politics/27591...al-parties

The biggest single Tory donor is hedge fund supremo and metals trader, Michael Farmer who made eight donations totalling and eye-watering £2.1m between 2010 and 2013. Next up is May Makhzoumi , wife of the billionaire Fouad Makhzoumi the arms dealer, who recruited Jonathan Aitken to the board of one of his companies in the 1980s. Aitken was minister with responsibility for arms sales in the early 1990s and failed to declare the directorship. He was later jailed for perjury after lying in court during a libel action against the Guardian which had exposed his connections with the arms industry.