[Red State] Yesterday, The Hill correspondent, John Solomon, posted an extensive story on the long-standing ties between special counsel Robert Mueller and a man who should be a target in his probe, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.Deripaska appears over and over in this saga. Deripaska was a business partner of Paul Manafort. Deripaska, or his organization, are suspected of being some of the sources for the Trump dossier compiled by Christopher Steele. Deripaska is the guy Democrat Senator Mark Warner tried to meet with in Russia. And, unlike Manafort, Deripaska was not indicted by Robert Mueller at the time when Manafort was indicted for all manner of fraudulent business practices. How, one might wonder, has Deripaska managed to be near the center of the entire Russia probe and not be touched, especially when Mueller seems more than willing to indict random Russian businesses and, I think, persons, for "meddling" in the 2016 election.
It starts with Iran.
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