Former Russian investor Sir William Browder joins Anthony Davis to discuss Trump’s failed ceasefire negotiations with Putin. And how Europe is preparing for an alliance without the U.S. in the protection of itself and Ukraine. Trump is “naive and simplistic” with no clue about how the world works”, says William Browder.
WASHINGTON MARCH 24: Former Russian investor Sir William Browder joins Anthony Davis to discuss Trump’s failed ceasefire negotiations with Putin, his human rights abuses and how Europe is preparing for an alliance without the U.S. in the protection of itself and Ukraine. “I don’t think he’s a strategist by any means. He’s a bulldozer”, Trump is “naive and simplistic” with no clue about how the world works, says William Browder.
Sir William Felix Browder is an American-born British financier and political activist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which was formerly the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia. Browder took on large Russian companies such as Gazprom, Surgutneftegaz, Unified Energy Systems, and Sidanco. On 13 November 2005, Browder was refused entry to Russia, deported to the UK, and declared a threat to Russian national security.
On 21 October 2017, the Russian government attempted to place Browder on Interpol’s arrest list of criminal fugitives, the fifth such request, which Interpol eventually rejected on 26 October 2017. The Economist wrote that the Russian government blacklisted Browder because he interfered with the flow of money to “corrupt bureaucrats and their businessmen accomplices”. Browder had earlier supported Russian president Vladimir Putin.
As reported in 2008 by The New York Times, “over the next two years (according to Browder) several of his associates and lawyers, as well as their relatives, became victims of crimes, including severe beatings and robberies during which documents were taken”.
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