Next Name to Drop in the Glenn Simpson/Fusion GPS Scandal - Rinat Akhmetshin

It will come out in the next few days that Rinat Akhmetshin was a major source for the info that went into the Steele Dossier.

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Who Is the Russian Lobbyist Who Met With Donald Trump Jr.?

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When I interviewed Akhmetshin last year, he told me he had served in military intelligence after being drafted as a young man growing up in the former Soviet Union. American officials quoted by NBC News said Akhmetshin was a military counterintelligence officer, and may still have links with Russian spy agencies, an assertion he adamantly denied to both NBC and the AP.

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Akhmetshin has long cultivated relationships with journalists and government officials in Washington.

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When The New York Times first reported on Trump Jr.’s meeting with Veselnitskaya, Trump said it was to discuss resuming adoptions from Russia. In 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin halted U.S. adoptions of Russian children in retaliation for passage of the Magnitsky Act

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When the case was still pending, Katsyv hired both Veselnitskaya and Akhmetshin to represent his interests.

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Akhmetshin’s lobbying campaign has drawn the attention of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who chairs the powerful Judiciary Committee.

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There are a number of Grassley letters that link all the dots, here is one regarding Akhmetshin.

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Grassley has said Simpson’s ties to Akhmetshin undermine the Steele dossier’s credibility.

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Simpson and Akhmetshin were in contact and have known each other for a long time, people with direct knowledge of the relationship told me.

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If that wasn't enough, oh wait,

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A key participant at the Trump Tower meeting said he “knows” Hillary Clinton and has a personal relationship with her that dates back to the late-1990s. Akhmetshin also testified that he “knew some people who worked on” Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Akhmetshin further revealed that the same day of the Trump Tower meeting he met with a Clinton associate after the confab and possibly also just before. Akhmetshin related a personal connection to Clinton via attorney Ed Lieberman, whose late wife Evelyn previously served as Clinton’s chief of staff when she was First Lady. Evelyn Lieberman also served as Bill Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, and famously transferred Monica Lewinsky out of the White House to the Defense Department. In his Senate testimony, Akhmetshin described taking an Acela train to New York the day of the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting, and says that Lieberman “may” have been with him on the train.

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Akhmetshin admits to being present at the same security conference in Canada where Sen. John McCain was reportedly first informed about the anti-Trump dossier. Akhmetshin says he might have spoken to McCain and the senator’s assistant David J. Kramer at the Halifax International Security Forum in 2016.

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He coordinated & attended the Trump tower meeting, has ties to the Clinton's, "tipped" off McCain, and (it will soon be made public) provided "intel" for the Trump Dossier. Another Russian colluding with Trump or something...