Last night, I tuned in to Rachel and watched, as I was working. She started talking about Anastasia Vashukevich. Who is Anastasia Vashukevich? I had never heard of her before. Nineteen minutes later I knew that, unless we overcome the Republican Reich, what happened to her, could also happen to anyone in this nation, who possesses evidence of the Republican Fuhrer’s crimes.
A model from Belarus who claimed to have recordings shedding light on the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia was detained at a Moscow airport Thursday on prostitution allegations, the police said.
The model, Anastasia Vashukevich, had been deported from Thailand earlier in the day after spending nine months in prison on charges of conspiracy and soliciting prostitution.
She was booked to fly to Minsk, Belarus, but was detained along with three others traveling with her as she changed planes at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport, according to her husband and another person traveling with her.
No evidence has emerged of the tape that Vashukevich claimed showed contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russians. Her arrest in Moscow was unexpected and blocked her from possibly talking to dozens of journalists waiting for her in the airport’s arrivals zone.
Gregory Kogan, a close friend of Vashukevich, asserted that Russian and Belarusan diplomats in Thailand had pledged the group would be safe if they left for Russia or flew via Moscow…
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Here is the 19 minute video, from Rachel Maddow, who fills in all the details.
Note the abject terror that poor girl is demonstrating. One does not react that way without having been subjected to considerable abuse. No wonder the Republican Reich has never stopped campaigning to make torture legal here. That’s part of why their party must be destroyed.
It’s not just Trump. The entire Republican Reich shares the guilt for the torture this girl has suffered so Republicans can hide their treason.
RESIST!!
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They (Republicans and other authoritarians) love torture because it “works.” It doesn’t, of course, “work” in the sense of bringing out truth. No, but it “works” in the sense of giving torturers and their employers results to “justify” their positions and actions. Perhaps we need to drop the phrase “torture desn’t work” in favor of something more on the order of “torture validates lies.” That’s not very catchy, but it could be phrased catchier by someone more clever than I. “Torture works for liars”?
Even when she was still in Thailand, it probably would have taken a “Mission Impossible” team to get her out. And, alas, there isn’t a real one.
Ironic her first name means “resurrection.” I fear there will be no resurrection from the living death they have locked her into. Nor from the physical death which she fears, not without reason.
I watched this video this morning, and was filled with doom & gloom for this young lady.
She’s got the intel, the notes, video, audio, and details. She knows about the Russian interference with regards to dt’s elections, along with tycoon Deripaska and a deputy prime minister. (Mr. ‘D’ is close to Putin, and had a working relationship with Manafort.) She has been released from prison, but for how long??
I fear for her life.
She may no longer have the notes, the video, the audio. They would never have forgotten to take them from her if they could.
If she’s smart, she has copies stashed to be opened and revealed, if they kill her.
Or if she’s lucky. She made the offer from a Thai prison and has been at the very least under surveillance every moment since. If she already had them in a safe place with a chain of custody before being arrested in Thailand, yes … if not, probably no.
I agree. Were I in her situation, I would have done that as soon as I made the recording, which she did before Thailand.
I fear for her life too. Releasing and killing here is more deniable than having her die in custody.
Twitler has a strong fondness for evil despots, whether it’s Turkey’s Erdogan or the Philippine’s Rodrigo Duterte or the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman or Russia’s Putin.
They all have one thing in common: they have no moral compass or compunction about eliminating their opponents … permanently!
We know Twitler has no moral compass. I hope it doesn’t come down to learning he’s with them WRT the other.
Why would you question his being with them ALL THE WAY?
Oh come on, it’s bloody OBVIOUS!!!!
Why has trump helped that oligarch, why didn’t anyone from the US help this girl!!!
What the hell happens to her now?!?!?!
THEY ARE ALL TRYING THEIR HARDEST TO HIDE THE DIRT!!!!
Geez i’m pissed off!!!
Trump is in league, it seems, with folks who play nothing but hardball! He, and his buddies, are nothing but mobsters parading as politicians.
Despicable. They may keep trying to hide all of the filth that this idiot and his cronies has done, but when it comes to the day of justice they all will pay royally.
That poor girl thought she had enough backup material to keep her out of trouble if she spilled the beans on a Russian Oligarch. In itself that was really smart, but Anastasia didn’t know enough about American politics to understand that the democratic and integrity-based America she believed existed, doesn’t do so at this point in time and never realized she was appealing for help to a government which is in cahoots with Putin’s. So instead of helping her, Americans lifted sanctions on the Oligarch, with the understanding that the material which could incriminate Drumpf and his cronies would disappear as she inaccessibly rotted in jail.
What those Republicans, who didn’t cross the isle to vote against lifting sanctions, in reality have done is condemned her to death. They are just as culpable as the Russians. And they couldn’t care less.
This is very scary. I fear for her life too. Her being released from jail means nothing in Russia and she also has travel restrictions which means she can’t leave Russia.
Anastasia Vashukevich is correct to fear for her life. One need only think back over the past few years in Britain where people have either been perilously close to death or have died as a result of nerve agents administered by Russian agents. A competitor of Putin’s was murdered on a bridge near the Kremlin. This seems to be a political reality in Russia. Why would it be any different for Anastasia Vashukevich?
Released from the Russian prison . . . is there a quid pro quo?
Thanks and hugs to all.