Federal bureau of investigation ( FBI ) raided the home of Dimitri Simes, who advised US former President Donald Trump’s 2016 political campaign, which is in Virginia. He is now working as a host to a programme on Russia’s state-run Channel One.
The attack started on August 13, but as of that day, Dimitri Simes claimed that he had never been informed about the warrant and was traveling abroad, according to The Guardian.
He said” I’m puzzled and anxious. I have not seen a permit. I was never contacted by any law enforcement or anyone else at all.
Simes ‘ name was included over 100 days in the 2019 Mueller record on Russian meddling in the US 2016 election. The Trump Campaign” showed involvement in WikiLeaks’s produces of documents and welcomed their possible harm to prospect Clinton,” according to the report, which “found many links between the Russian state and the Trump Campaign.”
Simes described the attack as” obviously an attempt to intimidate, not merely someone from Russia, but really everyone who goes against established policies, especially the deep state,” in a dialogue with Russian state-owned Sputnik News. He added that, contrary to what he had previously said,” My suspicion is that their true purpose is to make sure that I would never come back” rather than to try to get me to come to the United States and to examine me or even to assault me.
His brother, Dimitri Simes Jr., reported to Sputnik News that his parents had never visited the US since October 2022. He later added that” Aspects of the Trump government are trying to destroy any potential de-escalation with Russia and fall America into World War III.”” The Biden plan is terrified of being called out over Ukraine and Israel,” he tweeted.
Simes immigrated to the US from Moscow in 1973. He served as President Richard Nixon’s informal advisor on foreign policy and spent almost 30 years running the Center for the National Interest. His involvement with the Trump campaign was facilitated by his meeting with Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at a luncheon held in honor of Henry Kissinger in March 2016. In addition to providing informal counsel on foreign policy, Simmons also provided guidance on a speech Trump delivered that advocated closer ties with Russia.
Simes and the Center for the National Interest were prominent in the Mueller report, but they were eventually found not guilty. Simes was also subject to an investigation by the Senate Finance Committee about his contacts with Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin, both of whom were later given 18-month prison sentences for trying to infiltrate US conservative groups before the 2016 election.
In recent years, Simes has maintained a public profile in Russia. He moderated a conversation with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, last year at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, and he also participated in a closed-door meeting with Putin, according to a report from the Russian news agency Tass.
