THREAD: Michael Cohen met w/#Russian🇷🇺oligarch Viktor Vekselberg & Andrew Intrater (head of Vekselberg’s US subsidiary, Columbus Nova) at Trump Tower JUST DAYS before the inauguration to discuss US-#Russian🇷🇺relations‼️ 1/
Days after the inauguration, Intrater’s firm, Columbus Nova (invests Vekselberg’s💰in the US), gave Cohen a $1 million consulting contract & has paid him at least $500,000.🤨
Let’s be clear, Columbus Nova wasn’t paying Cohen for “consulting.” They paid for ACCESS to Trump‼️
But Cohen is NOT registered as a lobbyist or w/#FARA.🙄 4/
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Intrater claims that their Jan’17 meeting w/Cohen was “impromptu, and that Vekselberg had not originally planned to attend.🙄 5/
Intrater, who has been questioned by Mueller, gave more than $250,000 to Trump’s campaign & inauguration coffers, despite having little history of political donations.🤨
If he gave on behalf of Vekselberg👉🏼ILLEGAL‼️6/
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Mueller is probing whether foreign nationals ILLEGALLY funneled cash to Trump’s & @GOP’s coffers, whether directly or INDIRECTLY.😎
If Intrater was a “straw man” for Vekselberg (US citizen for a #Russian🇷🇺), that would be ILLEGAL‼️7/
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Team🇺🇸Mueller questioned Vekselberg & seized his electronics earlier this year.😎
So Mueller has RECEIPTS, including emails, texts, and very likely SIGINT (tapes!)‼️ 8/
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Intrater told the NYTimes that he & Vekselberg met **THREE times** w/Cohen:
1️⃣Jan’17 at TT before the inauguration
2️⃣Inauguration
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WHEN WAS THE 3rd MEETING⁉️ 9/
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Mueller has ALL of Vekselberg’s communications & Cohen has been under surveillance (albeit we don’t know how long).🤔
Meaning: Mueller likely KNOWS when Cohen met w/Vekselberg & Intrater for the 3rd time‼️😎 10/
Trump's deputy campaign chair Rick Gates solicited proposals (#felony) from Israeli firm Psy Group to create fake online personas, use social media manipulation & gather intel to help defeat @GOP primary opponents (@tedcruz) & @HillaryClinton🤨1/ nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
Gates wasn't interested in Psy Group b/c other Trump aides oversaw social media. George Nader & Joel Zamel (Psy Group owner) met w/Don Jr & offered to help *THROW THE ELECTION* at an Aug'16 meeting arranged by Erik Prince‼️
George Birnbaum (Arthur Finkelstein protégé/@GOP consultant who worked for Netanyahu & other Israeli officials) initially pitched Gates on using social media influence/manipulation to sway @GOP delegates toward Trump.🤨 3/
🔥@GOP operative Peter Smith raised >$100,000 to pay #Russian🇷🇺hackers to find Clinton’s emails. 10 days after telling his story to the @WSJ, he committed suicide, yet a friend spoke w/him about a new project hours before his death & says he was “excited.” wsj.com/articles/gop-o…
Smith continued his quest for HRC’s emails *after* the US warned of #Russian🇷🇺interference & went to extraordinary lengths to ensure secrecy, communicating via saved DRAFT (unsent) emails in a shared Gmail account.🤨
🔥One sent email said the >$100k in donations were to be sent to a DC-based scholarship fund for **Russian students**👉🏼“This $100k total with the $50k received from you (Smith) will allow us to fund the Washington Scholarship Fund for the Russian students for the promised $150K.”
We Democrats realize that you are in a tough re-election battle, but backing #Kavanaugh only brings you more scorn from the @GOP and erodes your much-needed support from @TheDemocrats base.
Connie Chung to Dr. Ford: “I, too, was sexually assaulted—not 36 years ago but ~50 years ago. I kept my dirty little secret to myself. Silence for 5 decades...The exact date & year are fuzzy. But details of the event are vivid—forever seared in my memory.” washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinio…
Connie Chung: “Christine, I, too, am terrified as I reveal this publicly. I can’t sleep. I can’t eat. Can you? If you can’t, I understand. I am frightened, I am scared, I can’t even cry.”😰
Chung: “I wish I could forget this truthful event, but I cannot because it is the truth. I am writing to you b/c I know that exact dates, exact years are insignificant. We remember exactly what happened to us & who did it to us. We remember the truth forever.”
Charles Ludington, a former varsity basketball player & friend of #Kavanaugh at @Yale plans to deliver a statement to the @FBI field office in Raleigh on Monday detailing **violent drunken behavior** by Kavanaugh in college. 1/
Ludington says #Kavanaugh initiated a fight that led to the ARREST of a friend: “When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent & aggressive...” 2/
“On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.”😳 3/
Rod Rosenstein suggested last year that he secretly record Trump to expose "chaos" consuming the administration & discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the #25thAmendment.
Will Trump use this as an excuse to fire Rosenstein⁉️
Rosenstein made his remarks about the #25thAmendment & secretly recording Trump in meetings & conversations w/other DOJ & FBI officials. Several people (briefed either on the events themselves or on memos written by FBI officials, including McCabe) described the episodes.🤨
Rosenstein reportedly told McCabe that he might be able to persuade Jeff Sessions & John Kelly to mount an effort to invoke the #25thAmendment.
All of these incidents allegedly occurred around the time that @Comey was fired. Rosenstein was very distressed & felt he was used.🤔