Sunday, March 24, 2019

Russian pranksters lured Rep. Adam Schiff in crank call claiming one was Chairman of Ukraine Parliament and had dirt on Trump. Schiff addresses his would-be colluder as “Chairman” and cautions him not to say too much in case “our Russian friends” are listening. Transcript and You Tube audio from 2017

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Above, posted April 12, 2017, “Prank with congressman Adam Schiff: Собчак и Бузова получили компромат на Трампа!” You Tube, screen shot from video. At :33, Rep. Schiff urges his would be colluders to be cautious about what they share in case our Russian friends may be listening.”…(Full English language transcript of conversation at end of this post) 

Version below posted in 2018 is without music:
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Above, Feb. 2018, “Russian comedians prank phone call US representative Adam Schiff FULL HD,” screen shot from video
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Added: Call took place in 2017 but wasn’t reported by an English language outlet, in this case, The Atlantic, until Jan-Feb 2018, “What Putin Really Wants,” “Russia’s strongman president has many Americans convinced of his manipulative genius. He’s really just a gambler who won big. by Julia Ioffe. (This is a very long article about Putin, I couldn’t get through the whole thing. I trust the Schiff incident is mentioned somewhere, but it would take more time than I have to find it. Susan)…”The comedians claimed they would transfer the documents to Schiff through the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. Valeriy Chaly….In a recording of the eight minute conversation, Schiff appeared to take the call seriously – or at least played along convincingly – and emails from the Democrat’s staff to the fake politician afterwards said he had found it ‘productive’.” 

2/6/2018,Audio: Russian Comedians Prank Called Rep. Adam Schiff, Promised Him Naked Photos Of Trump,” Real Clear Politics, Tim Hains 

“In this audio posted on YouTube by Russian pranksters, Rep. Adam Schiff can be heard discussing claims that the FSB has naked pictures of President Trump. Assume these Russians are involved with intelligence operations.

The Daily Mail reports that Schiff sent his staff to try and collect “classified materials for the FBI” after the prank callers told him Putin has naked blackmail pictures of President Trump. 

Schiff can be heard discussing the Russia investigation with a man who claimed to be Andriy Parubiy, the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament. 

The call, made a year ago [2017], was reportedly from two Russian comedians nicknamed ‘Vovan’ and ‘Lexus’ who have become notorious for their phony calls to high-ranking American officials and celebrities, including UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Elton John. The call was first reported in The Atlantic’s Jan/Feb 2018 issue, where a spokesman for Schiff said:

“Before agreeing to take the call, and immediately following it, the committee informed appropriate law-enforcement and security personnel of the conversation, and of our belief that it was probably bogus.” 

“There were pictures of naked Trump,” one of the pranksters told Schiff, explaining that they were obtained by Putin’s goddaughter. 

Schiff asks: “And the materials you can provide to the committee and to the FBI, would they corroborate this allegation?So you have recordings… where they’re discussing the compromising material?” 

“Obviously we would welcome the chance to get copies of those recordings,” Schiff tells them.So we will try to work with the FBI to try to figure out how we can take copies of those… I’ll be in touch with the FBI about this, and we’ll make arrangements with your staff. I think it would be best to provide these materials to both our committee and the FBI. We’ll make arrangements between my staff and yours on how to facilitate that.””

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Transcript of 2017 crank phone call to Rep. Adam Schiff by someone claiming to be “Chairman of the Ukraine Parliament” offering dirt on Trump, provided by Daily Mail: 

Adam Schiff: Hi, how are you? 

Caller: Hello Mr. Schiff, thank you for your time. 

Schiff: Thank you, Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you. 

Caller: I know that you work for investigation regarding Trump and Russian government. 

Schiff: Yes 

Caller: We have some important information about it.
 

Schiff: And that is documented as well in materials you want to provide to us? 

Caller: Yes. Could I explain you where we are? 

Schiff: Yes of course. But again, I would caution that our Russian friends may be listening to the conversation so I wouldn’t share anything over the phone that you wouldn’t want them to hear. 

Caller: No, I don’t think that will impact on our investigation. 

Schiff: Yes. Please, go ahead then. 

Caller: In November 2013, Mr. Trump visited Moscow, it was competition Miss Universe. There he met with Russian journalist and celebrity Ksenia Sobchak.  

Schiff: I’m sorry, can you explain that again? While he was in Moscow in November 2013 he met with a journalist? 

Caller: Well, she’s poor journalist. But anyway, she became famous because Putin is her godfather. 

Schiff: Okay. Putin godfather, okay. 

Caller: She also known as the person who provide support for oligarchs. She met with Trump and she brought him one of Russian girl celebrities, Olga Buzova, who’s also known as person who’s [unintelligible]. 

Schiff: Okay, and how do you spell her name? 

Caller: Olga Buzova. 

Schiff: So Olga Buzova is a friend of the reporter? 

Caller: Yes, she’s a friend of reporter and I think a special agent of Russia Secret Service Ksenia Sobchak. 

Schiff: That Sobchak is or Olga is? 

Caller: No, Sobchak is [unintelligible] 

Schiff: Okay. So Buzova met with Trump in New York at some point after the 2013 Miss Universe. 

Caller: Yes, absolutely. And she got compromising materials on Trump after their short relations. 

Schiff: Okay. And what’s the nature of the Kompromat? 

Caller: Well, there were pictures of naked Trump.   

Schiff: Okay. And so Putin was made aware of the availability of the comprising material? 

Caller: Yes, of course. Buzova shared those materials with Sobchak and Sobchak shared those materials with Putin, because she’s the goddaughter of Putin. And Putin decided to press Trump. 

Schiff: And the materials you could provide to the committee or to the FBI, would they corroborate this allegation? 

Caller: Sure, of course. When they were in Ukraine we got their conversation by the phone where they are discussing those compromising materials. We are ready to provide it. 

Schiff: So you have recordings of both Sobchak and Buzova where they are discussing the compromising material on Trump? 

Caller: Absolutely, and we also know who was a mediator between Trump and Russian government who met with ex-advisor of Trump, Mr. Flynn. It was Russian singer, very famous singer, Arkadiy Ukupnik, who met with Mr. Flynn on Brighton Beach in Brooklyn in special Russian café Langeron. 

Schiff: What’s that again? 

Caller: Langeron. 

Schiff: Langeron? 

Caller: Yes, it’s on Brighton Beach. It’s a Russian district in Brooklyn. 

Schiff: And do you know what was discussed? 

Caller: They discussed many things. But the most interesting thing is they used a special password for their meetings. When they met each other they said ‘The weather is good on Deribasivska.' 

Schiff: The weather is good in – where? 

Caller: ‘The weather is good on Deribasivska.’ That is the name of a street in Odessa. Did you hear? 

Schiff: Yes, I did. So it’s a street in Odessa? 

Caller: Yes. 

Schiff: And the code word is ‘Weather is good on ‘Zerabasta’?’ 

Caller: Deribasivskaya. Deribasivskaya. 

Schiff: Okay. And I’ll have my staff call up to get spellings and more details on this. 

Caller: The next part of their password was, ‘It rains again on Brighton Beach.’ 

Schiff: ‘It rains again on Brighton Beach.’ 

Caller: Yes. On that meeting, Ukupnik told Flynn that all those compromising materials will never be released if Trump will cancel all the Russian sanctions. 

Schiff: Okay. Well obviously we would welcome the chance to get copies of those recordings. So we will try to work with the FBI to figure out along with your staff how we can obtain copies of those. 

Caller: Of course we will provide you all our copies of all our materials. But I also would like to let you know that Sobchak and Buzova will pretty soon visit our country and we could arrest them and deliver them to your embassy and we also could extradite them to your country and you can put them to your special jail Guantanamo. 

Schiff: Well, I’ll be in touch with the FBI about this. And we’ll make arrangements with your staff. I think it probably would be best to provide these materials both to our committee and to the FBI. So we’ll make arrangements between my staff and yours on how to facilitate that. And we’ll also obviously let the FBI know about Buzova and Sobchak’s plans to travel to Ukraine. 

Caller: I also advise you to check all Sobchak’s visits in the West because she was in the West very often and suggest you check what she did there actually. And I also would like to look at Russian café on Brighton Beach Langeron and especially on head of Russian Mafia Uncle Mischa. 

Schiff: Uncle Mischa? In Brighton Beach? 

Caller: Yes, he’s the head of Russian mafia. And he’s located on that restaurant on Brighton Beach. 

Schiff: Okay. 

Caller: I just want to advise you just to look at them, please. 

Rep. Schiff: Alrighty. This was very helpful, I appreciate it. Anything else you wanted to add today? 

Caller: Well I hope that my information will be useful for you and your committee. And I also would like to advise you when you or your colleagues will meet with Mr Trump I advise you to tell him first part of the password, ‘The weather is good on Deribasivska,’ and look at how his face will change color. 

Schiff: And so those passwords were used with Mr. Trump? 

Caller: Yes, of course. 

Rep. Schiff: Okay. Well thank you very much. We will be back in touch with you through our staff to make arrangements to obtain these materials for our committee and the FBI. I appreciate you reaching out to us. 

Caller: Well let’s be in touch and wait for your response from FBI. 

Schiff: Excellent. I’ll have them follow up as soon as possible, and I thank you again. Goodbye.”



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