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⚠️YEARBOOKS OF CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD HAVE BEEN RECOVERED... ⚠️

Holten-Arms girls school, was filled with wild booze fests, male exotic dancers, late night run ins with police at 2AM-3AM, and oh yes, #BeachWeek... 7 straight days / nights of pure intoxication.
Let's have the hearings now @SenFeinstein ... I think we're ready now. Shall I publish all of it? Or will these 4 images suffice? These are from the "Scribe" yearbook (1982-1984). No wonder they were scrubbed! The mean-girls of Holten Arms were anything but innocent! #Busted
Att: @SenateMajLdr @ChuckGrassley @WhiteHouse @PressSec @AP @FoxNews @TuckerCarlson @seanhannity @MSNBC @maddow @CNN

We now have #ReasonableDoubt ... there is ample circumstantial evidence that Holton-Arms in the years 1982-1984 was a free-for-all...
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💣BOOM💣

David Pecker (chair of National Enquirer publisher #AMI) & AMI's chief content officer, Dylan Howard, granted #immunity‼️

The *only* reason they got immunity is to BURY @realDonaldTrump for his role in Cohen’s hush-money payments to women.😎1/
vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/d…
“Holy s**t, I thought #Pecker would be the last one to turn,” ~Trump friend (Trump & Pecker have been close for years).

The Enquirer operated as a de-facto (= ILLEGAL) arm of the campaign, giving invaluable media support to Trump by attacking @GOP rivals & Hillary Clinton.🤬 2/
🔥WHOA🔥

Per a source close w/Cohen👉🏼Cohen wants to tell Mueller that Trump discussed the release of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta e-mails – stolen by #Russia🇷🇺 – during the weekend when the Access Hollywood "grab ’em by the p***y” tape dominated the news. 3/

#Busted
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🔥WHOA🔥

THREAD: Michael Cohen made a previously unreported $50,000 payment to an unknown tech company to help Trump's 2016 campaign.🤨

Was this $50,000 used to make "deniable cash payments" to hackers, as reported in the #SteeleDossier⁉️ 1/

cnbc.com/2018/08/22/mic…
Buried in Cohen's legal documents, prosecutors say Cohen paid $50,000 for work "solicited from a technology company during and in connection with the campaign."🔥

The campaign *never reported* the $50,000 expense, and Cohen was reimbursed by Trump Org.🤨

Both = ILLEGAL‼️2/
WHO the tech company is & WHAT they did are not provided.🤔

Cohen had bank records for other expenses, but only provided a HANDWRITTEN sum for the $50,000, suggesting that the money may not have been paid out via "traditional" financial channels (meaning: CASH pay-offs).🙄 3/
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💣BOOM💣

WH counsel Don McGahn has "cooperated extensively" w/Mueller, sharing "detailed accounts" of episodes at the heart of the #ObstructionOfJustice inquiry into @realDonaldTrump, including info that investigators would not have known otherwise.🔥 1/

nytimes.com/2018/08/18/us/…
🔥WHOA🔥

In **at least 3 voluntary interviews that totaled 30 hours** over the past 9 months, McGahn described Trump's furor about the #TrumpRussia probe & how Trump urged him to respond, providing a clear view of Trump's most intimate moments with his lawyer.😎 2/

#Busted
McGahn shared details on @Comey's firing & Trump’s obsession w/putting a "loyalist" in charge of the #TrumpRussia probe (e.g., Sessions). McGahn was also centrally involved in Trump’s attempts to fire Mueller, which investigators might not have discovered w/o McGahn.🔥 3/
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🛑BREAKING🛑

#FISA warrant application from Oct'16 for Carter Page released.

👉🏼calls Page a #Russian🇷🇺agent
👉🏼discloses Simpson/Steele ties w/"Candidate #2" (HRC)
👉🏼says #Russia coordinated w/Page & "perhaps others" to influence the election

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int.nyt.com/data/documenth…
🔥This is the *first* time that a #FISA application has EVER been released.🧐

The #FBI didn't mince words, initially identifying the target of the FISA application as, "Carter W. Page, a US person, and an agent of a foreign power, described in detail below." 2/

#TrumpRussia
🔥WHOA🔥

#FISA app alleges Page did "knowingly engage in clandestine intelligence activities"...involving "a violation of the CRIMINAL statutes of the US."

Page was "the subject of targeted recruitment by #Russia🇷🇺...undermine & influence the outcome" of the election. 3/
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🛑BREAKING🛑

Maria Butina, who helped #Russia🇷🇺 penetrate the #NRA, has been ARRESTED and charged with being a #Russian agent.

#Busted
#TrumpRussia
#MuellerTime
Here is the application for the criminal complaint against #Russian🇷🇺 agent, Maria Butina.

h/t @ScottMStedman

cc @SpicyFiles @lauferlaw
justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
ICYMI: here are details on the #NRA's nefarious activities with the #Russians🇷🇺.

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🔥Buyers connected to #Russia🇷🇺or former Soviet republics made 86 all-cash buys — totaling nearly $109 million — at 10 Trump properties in #Florida & NYC. Many purchasers used shell companies to hide their identities.🤨 1/

#MoneyLaundering
#TrumpRussia

mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-…
.@RepAdamSchiff: “The size & scope of these cash purchases are deeply troubling as they can often signal #MoneyLaundering...”🔥 2/

#Busted

🔥@RepAdamSchiff: “There have long been credible allegations of #MoneyLaundering by Trump Org which, if true, would pose a real threat to the US (if) #Russia🇷🇺were able to leverage evidence of illicit financial transactions against the president."🤬/end

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THREAD: Far from supporting Trump’s claim that election was “rigged” in favor of Clinton, DOJ's #IGReport found:

👉🏼No bias in the decision not to prosecute Clinton for using private email
👉🏼Comey was "insubordinate" w/his acts that HURT Clinton

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denagrayson.com/2018/06/14/ins…
The DOJ IG did also cite then-head of FBI counterintelligence, Peter Stzrok, and FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, for exchanging anti-Trump texts and other messages, but found NO evidence that their political views impacted the investigation.🤔 2/
Although the FBI and DOJ were in the unprecedented situation of investigating BOTH candidates **during** the election cycle (which no surprise, appears to have affected some actions by individuals), importantly, the outcome of the Clinton email probe was NOT affected.🤓 3/
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💣BOOM💣

THREAD: Remember the claims by @realDonaldTrump & cronies that he'd sit for an interview w/Mueller⁉️

Trump LIED.🙄

Trump’s lawyers have **for months** tried to prevent Mueller from trying to force Trump to answer questions = #subpoena‼️ 1/

nytimes.com/2018/06/02/us/…
In a letter to Mueller, Trump's lawyers claim that Trump "cannot be compelled" to testify.🙄

WRONG! Mueller can #subpoena Trump to FORCE him to testify **in front of the grand jury**.😎

Trump's lawyers CAN be w/him for an interview, but NOT for grand jury testimony.😉 2/
Trump's lawyers also claim Trump "could not possibly have committed obstruction b/c he has unfettered authority over all federal investigations."🤨

Yeah, just ask Nixon about that‼️3/

#ObstructionOfJustice
#AbuseOfPower
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🔥WHOA🔥

THREAD: Mueller is asking about flows of money into the #Cyprus bank account of PSY Group, an Israeli company specializing in social-media manipulation. Founder Joel Zamel met w/Trump Jr in Aug'16‼️

Cyprus specializes in #MoneyLaundering.🤨1/

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
More specifically, Mueller is probing #Treason Meeting #2 at Trump Tower, arranged by Erik Prince👉🏼George Nader (assoc w/#SaudiArabia & UAE) & Zamel (Israeli social media expert) offered to help **THROW THE ELECTION*‼️ 2/

PSY Group (Israeli social-media firm) pitched its services to super PAC s & other entities👉🏼infiltrating target audiences w/elaborately crafted social-media FAKE personas & spreading DISINFORMATION via websites meant to mimic news portals.🤨 3/
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🔥CORRUPTION🔥

THREAD: Elliott Broidy flooded the @GOP Congress & WH w/political cash to **buy access & influence** that he & George Nader allegedly **sold ILLEGALLY** to the crown princes of #SaudiArabia & UAE‼️🤬1/

#Corruption
#ComplicitGOP
#FARA

apnews.com/amp/a3521859cf…
Broidy & Nader pitched themselves to the crown princes as being able to pass the princes' MESSAGING straight to Trump’s ears.🤨

With NO lobbyist or #FARA registration‼️2/

#Corruption
#MuellerIsComing
Of course, convicted FELONS Broidy & Nader expected a BIGLY payoff for their treachery👉🏼>$1 billion in shady “consulting” contracts from #SaudiArabia & UAE in return for pushing anti-#Qatar policies to Trump & @GOP leaders in Congress.🤬 3/

#Corruption
#ComplicitGOP
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💣BOOM💣

THREAD: In summer 2016, George Nader (representing Saudi Arabia & UAE) and an Israeli specialist in "social media manipulation" offered to help **THROW THE ELECTION** in a meeting w/Trump Jr arranged by Erik Prince‼️ 1/

nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/…
At the Aug'16 #treason meet, Nader told Jr the crown princes of #SaudiArabia & #UAE were "eager to help his father win." The Israeli social media expert's (Joel Zamel) firm had already drawn up a multimillion $ proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help Trump.🤨 2/
Zamel's social media company #Wikistrat, which employed several Israeli former intelligence officers, specialized in "collecting information & shaping opinion through social media."🤨

Gee, that sounds familiar‼️🤬 3/

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🔥WHOA🔥

The USG official leaked Cohen’s financial records b/c the official became “alarmed” after being unable to find 2 suspicious-activity reports on Cohen in a government database & worried the info was being withheld from law enforcement‼️ 1/

newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
Two previous suspicious-activity reports (SARS) documented **even larger flows of questionable money** into Cohen’s account👉🏼>$3 million‼️ Which individuals or corporations remains a mystery.🤨 2/

#Coverup
#Bribery
#Corruption
The 2 SARS were *absent* from #FinCEN’s database: “I have never seen something pulled off the system. That system is a safeguard for the bank. It’s a stockpile of info. When something’s not there that should be, I immediately became concerned. That’s why I came forward.”😳 3/
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💣BOOM💣

THREAD: Mueller has **at least FOUR DOZEN questions** on an huge array of subjects he wants to ask Trump to probe his ties w/#Russia🇷🇺 & whether he committed #ObstructionOfJustice‼️ 1/

#MuellerIsComing

nytimes.com/2018/04/30/us/…
The NYTimes **obtained the list of Qs that Mueller wants to ask Trump during an interview.🤨

It's VERY hard to imagine that details of the ACTUAL questions would leak, unless the negotiations btwn Mueller & Trump's lawyers have BROKEN DOWN (as I was told a few months ago).🤔 2/
Overall, Mueller's open-ended Q's attempt to penetrate Trump's thinking (good luck!), to understand Trump's motivation for his crazed Twitter posts & to examine Trump's relationships w/his family and his closest advisers.🤨 3/
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🛑BREAKING🛑

Michael Cohen negotiated a deal in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by ELLIOTT BROIDY, a top @GOP fundraiser close to Trump who is the former **Deputy Finance Chair of the #RNC‼️

wsj.com/articles/trump…
🔥Broidy: “I had a consensual relationship w/a Playboy Playmate. At the end of our relationship, this woman shared w/me that she was PREGNANT. She alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy & I offered to help her financially during this difficult period.”
Meaning: Broidy paid for her to have an ABORTION‼️🙄

#Busted
#Hypocrite

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🔥ZUCKERBERG IS IN THE BARREL‼️

Live tweeting the #ZuckerRoast right now.😎

#Zuckerberg
#ZuckerbergTestimony
#Zuckerberg literally looks like he's going to PUKE‼️🤢🤮

#ZuckerbergTestimony
GOP Sen Thune is reading a prepared statement👉🏼basically says that #Facebook's proposed changes are TOTAL BUNKUM. They will only serve to INCREASE PROFITS for Facebook.

Says that social media companies CANNOT self-regulate. DUH!🙄
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🛑BREAKING🛑

THREAD: the FBI agents who raided Michael Cohen’s office searched for records about *payments to TWO women* who claim they had affairs w/Trump, plus info on the role The National Enquirer’s publisher’s role in SILENCING one of the women‼️1/
nytimes.com/2018/04/10/us/…
The public #corruption unit (of the Manhattan federal attorney) sought info on Karen McDougal, an ex-Playboy model who had an affair w/Trump. American Media Inc (the Enquirer’s parent company), whose CEO Pecker is Trump’s pal, paid her $150,000.🤨 2/
FBI agents also searched Cohen’s office for info on Stormy Daniels. Cohen paid Stormy $130,000 in HUSH MONEY *just days before the 2016 election*.🤔 3/
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🛑BREAKING🛑

THREAD: Mueller is investigating a Ukrainian’s $150,000 payment to Trump Org *during the campaign* for a Trump appearance, as part of a BROADER probe of streams of foreign money to Trump & associates in the years before the election‼️ 1/

nyti.ms/2HmF0ic
In response to a #subpoena *this year* for an array of records of business w/FOREIGN nationals, Trump Org handed over documents about the donation, SOLICITED BY MICHAEL COHEN.🤨 2/
The $150k donation from Ukrainian billionaire, Victor Pinchuk, who has sought closer ties for Ukraine to the West, was the LARGEST Trump's foundation received in 2015 from anyone, besides Trump himself.🙄 3/

#Corruption
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💣BOOM💣

THREAD: Trump officially is in the barrel‼️

Mueller informed Trump’s attorneys last month that **TRUMP IS UNDER INVESTIGATION**, but is not considered as a criminal target “at this point” = yet.🤔

Meaning: this is NO “witch hunt”.😉 1/

washingtonpost.com/politics/muell…
In negotiations in early March about an interview, Mueller described Trump as a SUBJECT of the #TrumpRussia🇷🇺investigation.🤗

SUBJECT👉🏼that person has engaged in conduct that is **under investigation** but there is not sufficient evidence to bring charges.🤔 2/

#MuellerTime
Mueller is treating the #TrumpRussia🇷🇺 investigation like a MOB CASE‼️

Mueller is working his way up from the bottom-dwelling scum suckers, all the way to the top.😎

The fact that *Mueller told Trump that he’s a SUBJECT* is a very big deal‼️3/

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🛑BREAKING🛑

THREAD: Mueller is probing #Wikistrat (a consulting firm founded by Joel Zamel & Daniel Green in Israel) for their work for the #UAE, as Mueller continues to investigate FOREIGN influence in DC.🤨

UAE means George NADER is involved.🤔 1/

wsj.com/articles/muell…
Wikistrats' Zamel "informally met" w/Team🇺🇸Mueller👉🏼asked about his business relationship w/Nader, who's a top adviser to UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed & also was close w/Team🇷🇺Trump.

Zamel’s relationship w/Nader is “arms’ length.”🙄2/

Team🇺🇸Mueller also asked Zamel about his work, including for "certain clients," but the ultimate target of this line of inquiry is "unknown."🤔

If it involves the UAE, then you can bet that Secretary of Everything, Jared KUSHNER, likely is part of this inquiry.😉 3/
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🔥WHOA🔥

THREAD: Team🇺🇸Mueller has been questioning witnesses about the 2016 Republican National Convention, including an event attended by both Jeff Sessions & then-#Russian🇷🇺ambassador Kislyak‼️ 1/

mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id…
Team🇺🇸Mueller also has been asking about is how/why #GOP platform language that was “hostile” to #Russia🇷🇺 was DELETED in the section on Ukraine.🤨

Republicans typically have been HAWKS on Russia, NOT doves, so when this happened, it was a 🚩RED FLAG🚩 2/
Given recent news about Gates👉🏼his testimony is NOT needed to nail Manafort, but instead wanted to nail the rest of Team🇷🇺Trump, plus the sweetheart deals given to PapaD & Flynn, Mueller *clearly* is aiming to nail the BIG FISH‼️🤗 3/
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THREAD: here’s a breakdown of the JUICY details in the sentencing memo filed by lawyers for Alex van der Zwaan (“v.d.Swamp”), the son-in-law of #Russian🇷🇺oligarch, German Khan (AlfaGroup/AlfaBank co-founder)‼️1/

#TrumpRussia

Link to court document👉🏼courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
In this thread, we will focus on what v.d.Swamp said about his case, specifically what info he tried to COVER UP.🤨

For details on the CRIMES that convicted felon v.d.Swamp committed, see👇🏼this thread👇🏼on Mueller’s sentencing memo.😎 2/

Of course, van der Zwaan’s attorneys try to spin a sob story about how v.d.Swamp’s “world has collapsed” and “his career has been destroyed.”🙄

Well, yeah. That’s what happens when you LIE to the Feds and DESTROY EVIDENCE‼️3/
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THREAD: breakdown of the juicy bits in Mueller’s “Sentencing Memorandum” of convicted felon attorney, Alex van der Zwaan‼️ 1/

#TrumpRussia
#MuellerTime
Reminder: the disgraced former Skadden lawyer, Alex van der Zwaan pleaded GUILTY to lying to the Feds (a felony) and he also DESTROYED & failed to produce requested documents.🤨

And van der Zwaan is a LAWYER, so he *knew* his actus were ILLEGAL‼️ 2/

#Busted
van der Zwaan LIED & tried to cover up CRIMINAL acts by Manafort & Gates (money laundering, #FARA violations, etc) relating to their unreported work as foreign agents for Ukraine, specifically regarding Yulia Tymoshenko.🤔 3/
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💣BOOM💣

THREAD: FBI says an associate of Trump’s campaign chair Paul Manafort had *ongoing* Russian🇷🇺intelligence ties *during the campaign* when Manafort & deputy campaign chair, Rick Gates, were in contact w/the associate‼️1/

#TrumpRussia

washingtonpost.com/politics/manaf…
This BOMBSHELL — that not only were Trump’s *top* campaign staff (Manafort and Gates) in contact with #Russian🇷🇺intelligence, but THEY KNEW this person was “former” GRU — came from a court filing for indicted lawyer, Alex van der Zwaan‼️2/

#Collusion

Team🇺🇸Mueller filed a “Sentencing Memorandum” in the van der Zwaan case👉🏼states that Gates had said he knew “Person A” was a “former” officer w/#Russian🇷🇺military intelligence (GRU).🤨

As Putin said: “there are no FORMER chekists.”🙄 3/
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