Why are Rudy Giuliani, Russian intelligence, Steve Bannon, Chinese energy company CEFC, Kremlin oil giant Rosneft and VTB Bank all connected to the “Hunter Biden emails” story? This is collusion on steroids and in broad daylight.
Details:

- Giuliani got story from GRU agent
- Bannon hyped it up
- story says Hunter tied to CEFC
- CEFC tried to buy Rosneft stake mentioned in Steele dossier
- VTB Bank financed purchase
- VTB in charge of Trump Tower Moscow
- Bannon ally Guo’s jet owned by VTB subsidiary
Crazy bunch of loose threads. But the story stinks to high heaven. Is it an attempt to put whatever shenanigans were going with Rosneft sale to the Bidens? Was CEFC corruptly involved with VTB Bank? Why was Bannon flying around on Guo’s jet, owned by VEB (VTB sub)?
Ultimately Qatar agreed to hold on to the stake even though it wanted to get out of the deal.
Lots to unravel. At the very least, all this should explain to everyone why Twitter and Facebook did not just let the story run rampant. Too many interests with a stake in hiding the truth of the CEFC-Rosneft-Russia connection were the primary proponents of the story.
Let me clarify: VEB is not a full-scale sub of VTB. VEB is wholly-owned by the Kremlin; VTB is majority-owned by the Kremlin. They do significant business together and share a mutual owner (the Kremlin).
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