Last Updated on August 19, 2024
It’s 2024, so the F.B.I. Raids Are BACK!
Last week, FBI agents raided and searched the Virginia home of Dimitri Simes.
Simes is an author and policy analyst who advised Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign.
Simes currently hosts a news show on Channel One, a Russian television outlet.
The raid began on the 13th of August, according to the Rappahannock News, who first reported the story after corresponding with the FBI.
Fleeing Soviets looking for freedom is a suspicious activity, according to Politico and Robert Mueller.
Simes’s name appeared more than 100 times in the 2019 Mueller report into the now-disproven Russia Collusion Hoax, which mainstream media outlets referred to as “Russian interference” in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election.
Simes told media members he was out of the country and was not notified about the raid or the search warrant ahead of time by the FBI.
“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.”
He was not aware he was the focus of any current law enforcement investigation, he said.
In an interview with Russian government-owned Sputnik News, Simes said on Friday that the raid “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”.
“My suspicion is that instead of trying to get me to come to the United States and to interrogate me or even to arrest me, their real purpose is to make sure that I would not come back,” Simes continued.
Dimitri Simes Jr, the elder Simes’s son, conveyed to Sputnik News that his father has not been in the United States since October 2022.
“The Biden regime is terrified of being called out over Ukraine and Israel,” he tweeted on Friday.
The Biden regime is terrified of being called out over Ukraine and Israel.
That’s why they’re moving full-press to intimidate any American citizens who dare to speak out.
Unfortunately for them, their scare tactics aren’t impressing anyone. https://t.co/YS1Mdwrbdu
— Dimitri Simes Jr. (@DimitriASimes) August 16, 2024
In another tweet, he added: “Elements of Biden regime are trying to disrupt any possibility for deescalation with Russia and plunge America into World War III.”
Important message.
Elements of Biden regime are trying to disrupt any possibility for deescalation with Russia and plunge America into World War III.
This is the main reason they decided to go after my father.
Our family is unbowed and in fighting spirits. https://t.co/E8bfvfHYdZ
— Dimitri Simes Jr. (@DimitriASimes) August 16, 2024
The elder Simes was born in Moscow, emigrated to the United States in 1973, fleeing Soviet style crackdowns on free thought.
Simes served as an informal foreign policy adviser to President Richard Nixon before leading the Center for the National Interest for nearly three decades.
After meeting Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at a luncheon in honor of Henry Kissinger in March 2016, Simes began providing the Trump campaign with informal counsel on foreign policy, including advising on a speech Trump gave envisioning greater cooperation with Russia.
No record of Simes being paid exists as of publication.
The much vaunted Mueller report, in which Simes featured prominently, cleared Simes and the Center for the National Interest of any wrongdoing.
Around the same time, Simes underwent a Senate finance committee investigation into his contacts with Russian Central Bank official Alexander Torshin and Maria Butina.
Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison for trying to infiltrate US conservative groups before the 2016 election.
Simes’s Russian connections are widely known.
Simes moderated a conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg international economic forum.
Simes even participated in a closed-door meeting with Putin, the state-owned Russian news agency Tass reported.
