Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in Maryland and New York

[Jacque67 7,328]

The Trump administration is moving toward handing back to Russia two diplomatic compounds, near New York City and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, from which its officials were ejected in late December as punishment for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Then-President Barack Obama said Dec. 29 that the compounds were being “used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes,” and gave Russia 24 hours to vacate them. Separately, Obama expelled from the United States what he said were 35 Russian “intelligence operatives.”

Early last month, the Trump administration told the Russians it would consider turning the properties back over to them if Moscow would lift its freeze, imposed in 2014 in retaliation for U.S. sanctions related to Ukraine, on construction of a new U.S. consulate on a certain parcel of land in St. Petersburg.

Two days later, the U.S. position changed. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a meeting in Washington, that the United States had dropped any linkage between the compounds and the consulate, according to several people with knowledge of the exchanges.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-moves-to-return-russian-compounds-in-maryland-and-new-york/2017/05/31/3c4778d2-4616-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html

 

kushner will be setting up communication lines for them

Donnie will provide curtains 

 

meanwhile Donnie attempts distraction by starting tweeting...his latest is about "Crooked Hillary..."- sure has the hots for her!! bend over Donnie !!! Brb

Edited June 1, 2017 by Jacque67

[CaliCat 3,957]

3 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

The Trump administration is moving toward handing back to Russia two diplomatic compounds, near New York City and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, from which its officials were ejected in late December as punishment for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Then-President Barack Obama said Dec. 29 that the compounds were being “used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes,” and gave Russia 24 hours to vacate them. Separately, Obama expelled from the United States what he said were 35 Russian “intelligence operatives.”

Early last month, the Trump administration told the Russians it would consider turning the properties back over to them if Moscow would lift its freeze, imposed in 2014 in retaliation for U.S. sanctions related to Ukraine, on construction of a new U.S. consulate on a certain parcel of land in St. Petersburg.

Two days later, the U.S. position changed. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a meeting in Washington, that the United States had dropped any linkage between the compounds and the consulate, according to several people with knowledge of the exchanges.

 

 

What a great negotiator this guy is! He can't even cut a deal in real estate! LOL. 

[Jacque67 7,328]

This threat reposted by Russia in the US embassy got him a shivering...May 23 2017

 

Moscow has called on Washington to settle the issue of the "illegal" seizure of Russian diplomatic property in the United States in the latter days of the Obama administration in a constructive way, adding that if the problem isn't resolved, the countermeasures by Russia will follow.

 

https://sputniknews.com/politics/201705231053875227-moscow-us-diplomatic-property/

Edited June 1, 2017 by Jacque67

[Jacque67 7,328]

Meanwhile..

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/politics/congress-investigating-jeff-sessions-russian-ambassador-meeting/

 

The Mayflower Hotel contains many dark secrets.

Russia must have lots of kompromat on old Donnie...he doesn't even care about optics any longer. The true meaning of Covfefe has been discovered ..

 

hahaha

[Jacque67 7,328]

Schiff says we shouldn't return properties to the Russians used for espionage that were shuttered down after they interned with our election. Why reward them?

 

Answered your own question, Adam!!!

[yuna628 9,873]

I say raze the compounds and build something useful that will provide jobs and stuff for the community and state. No more fancy oligarch palaces on foreign soil. MAGA-covfefe at it's finest.

[Jacque67 7,328]

3 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

I say raze the compounds and build something useful that will provide jobs and stuff for the community and state. No more fancy oligarch palaces on foreign soil. MAGA-covfefe at it's finest.

Nah...has Donnie ever built anything of use? Not in the Tisch league..."moving on up"

covfefe means bending over for Vlad and doing whatever he wants. Might as well hand over the keys to the White House. making Putin great again!!!!

[Jacque67 7,328]

Remember this.. The mayflower hotel...

 

The White House is downplaying reports that then-candidate Donald Trump met the Russian ambassador to the United States at a 2016 campaign event, just before Trump delivered a speech that called for “an easing of tensions” with Russia.

The reports of Trump’s April 2016 encounter with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak comes just days after two of Trump's top advisers -- former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- became embroiled in controversy following the revelation that they each spoke with the ambassador prior to the Inauguration.

Kislyak was seated in the front row as Trump delivered a 45-minute foreign policy address at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel, ABC News reported Sunday.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-calls-reported-trump-meeting-russian-ambassador/story?id=45980652

Edited June 1, 2017 by Jacque67

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Now saying Sessions had another meeting with Kislyak which he didn't disclose as well. Surely it's time he resigns.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Yeah, kinda hard to join the dots here...

trump gives Russia it's spy houses in exchange for nothing....in response to threat from Sputnik news and the Russian embassy in USA...

hmmm..

 

 

[CaliCat 3,957]

5 minutes ago, JimandChristy said:

Now saying Sessions had another meeting with Kislyak which he didn't disclose as well. Surely it's time he resigns.

 

I'm sure it was a perfectly explainable oversight. It happens. 

[CaliCat 3,957]

2 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

Yeah, kinda hard to join the dots here...

trump gives Russia it's spy houses in exchange for nothing....in response to threat from Sputnik news and the Russian embassy in USA...

hmmm..

 

 

 

 

It's kinda hard to understand what Sessions is mumbling too. Can't he just speak English?

[Jacque67 7,328]

1 minute ago, CaliCat said:

 

 

It's kinda hard to understand what Sessions is mumbling too. Can't he just speak English?

Covfefexctly!!!

[Jacque67 7,328]

2 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

This threat reposted by Russia in the US embassy got him a shivering...May 23 2017

 

Moscow has called on Washington to settle the issue of the "illegal" seizure of Russian diplomatic property in the United States in the latter days of the Obama administration in a constructive way, adding that if the problem isn't resolved, the countermeasures by Russia will follow.

 

https://sputniknews.com/politics/201705231053875227-moscow-us-diplomatic-property/

One hell of counter measures!!

#leverage!!!

[CaliCat 3,957]

9 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

One hell of counter measures!!

#leverage!!!

 

 

I think Putin called the so-called president and put him in his place.