FBI Raids VA Home Of Russia-Born Trump Advisor

August 17, 2024 Russia, Trump cultists

The Guardian reports:

FBI agents have raided and searched the Virginia home of Dimitri Simes, an author and policy analyst, who advised Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign and who currently hosts a current affairs program on Russia’s state-run Channel One.

Simes, whose name was included more than 100 times in the 2019 Mueller report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, told the paper he was out of the country and had not been notified about the search ahead of time.

He was not aware he was the focus of any current law enforcement investigation, he said. “I’m puzzled and concerned,” he said. “I have not seen a warrant. I was not contacted by any law enforcement or anyone else whatsoever.”

The Rappahannack News reports:

Simes spoke out Friday, calling the FBI raid of his Huntly property a U.S. government attempt to intimate him and others trying to promote a Russian-American dialogue. “It clearly is an attempt to intimidate, not only somebody from Russia, but just anyone who goes against official policies and particularly against the deep state,” Simes was quoted in an interview published by Sputnik News, a Russian government-owned news outlet.

Simes compared the raid of his property to law enforcement actions involving former U.S. President Donald Trump and figures connected to him, namely Rudy Giuliani and Paul Manafort. Simes also questioned whether all of the people at his property were actually federal officers. Based on reports from his neighbors, Simes told Sputnik many arrived in “private cars, which obviously is against the rules.”

Simes goes on to claim that the FBI agents who raided his property are actually “anti-Russia Ukrainian activists.” Yeah.



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