Anastasia Vashukevich who has claimed to have information on the ties between Russians and the Donald Trump election campaign says that she has turned it over to Russian billionaire businessman Oleg Deripaska. Deripaska denied the allegations and even went to court to seek to remove the video Vashukevich posted in which he discusses U.S.-Russia ties with a senior Russian government official. The Democratic National Committee last year sued Trump’s campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks, saying they conspired to cheat Democrats in the 2016 election. “I don’t want to have to have to compare the Russian prison to the Thai prison. ___This version corrects the headline to show that Vashukevich is Belarusian, not Russian.

Source: Washington Post February 01, 2019 16:26 UTC