@JayinKyiv Also NYT. What the reporting does establish is that a Russian sanctioned company spent months building financial control over an American energy project marketed as a patriotic win, while the administration simultaneously removed the sanctions tool that would have stopped it.
US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.
According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.
Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.
The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.
The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.
According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.
The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.
The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.
Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.
https://t.co/qZqYXCYSyX
When Trump met Putin in Alaska, people joked he’d sell part of the state to Russia. Well, it wasn’t a joke after all, it turns out. And he’s still trying to do this deal. It isn’t dead yet. Our foreign policy is being sold for parts. Worst corruption ever. Conscience-shocking.
The average family that heats their home with oil is going to pay $1500 more this winter because of Donald Trump’s insane Iran War.
Some people will go cold. Some may die. This isn’t hyperbole. This is the consequence of having a president who just doesn’t care about you.
Canadian PM Mark Carney told the NYT in September that he wanted to "diversify away from Starlink." A scant few weeks later, the Musk/Trump/Starlink cartel f*cked Ukraine to serve Putin. Carney - speaking frankly - now says replacing and even banning Starlink is now top priority.
Elon Musk has given Greg Abbott $500K in campaign cash.
Musk's companies have received $1.6 billion in tax incentives and $30 million in grants funded by Texas taxpayers.
Texans deserve to know what else he's gotten in return.
I’m not a Democrat, but when it comes to alignment with Christian values, I’ll vote for the party whose platform looks more like the red letters of Jesus than the party who supports rapists, war crimes, and racism.
As someone works in human rights, I’ve never seen anything like the Epstein files in my 15-year career
Raped
Cannibalized
Trafficked
Filmed
Terrorized
Tortured
Murdered
13, 14, 15 year children
ZERO arrests. Not a single girl got justice.
THOUSANDS have been arrested for criticising Israel.
ZERO have been arrested for raping children.
I don't understand how we're not having a global revolution right now.
BREAKING: Jared Kushner is reportedly pissed his lawsuit threats against Vanity Fair didn't scare them into retracting their reporting of his laundered foreign bribes because his lawsuits couldn't possibly be backed up by the financial records he'd have to disclose in discovery.