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/
Don't let the Trump spin fool you! The MOST important conclusion of the #IGReport was NOT what was found, but instead, what was NOT found.🤨
Namely, NOTHING was found to support Trump's BOGUS claims that the election was “rigged” in favor of Clinton.🙄 4/
🔥Not only did the #IGReport found NO evidence of bias in the decision NOT to prosecute Clinton, the report found that that former FBI director, Jim @Comey, was “insubordinate” for some of his actions that HURT then-candidate Clinton‼️ 5/
Specifically, the #IGReport found “no evidence that the conclusions by department prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations." FBI & DOJ were appropriate w/the decision not to prosecute Clinton, based on “facts, the law, and past department practice.”😎 6/
#IGReport faulted Comey for his “insubordinate” behavior that seriously DAMAGED Clinton’s campaign, including withholding plans from his superiors for his Jul'16 news conference, as well as his infamous Oct'16 letter revealing the reopening of the Clinton investigation.🤨 7/
#IGReport criticized FBI’s slow handling of the emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop👉🏼faulted FBI’s NY field office & former FBI counterintel chief, Peter Strzok, for delaying the investigation nearly the ENTIRE month of October.🤬 8/
We now know that FBI’s NY field office already had LEAKED the info of Weiner’s laptop to a far-right website by the time of Comey’s letter. Comey justified his letter b/c he feared that the website's story would damage the FBI’s credibility, plus he assumed Clinton would win.🤨9/
#IGReport cited Stzrok & Lisa Page for sharing anti-Trump messages in Aug16:
Page: Trump's “not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
Stzrok: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”
The #IGReport found NO evidence that their views affected any investigative decisions‼️10/
What if Stzrok & Page knew of damning evidence showing a #conspiracy btwn Team🇷🇺Trump & #Russia when they wrote their messages in Aug16? What if they both believed then that Trump was an agent of Russia and/or #China, as he has demonstrated repeatedly while in the WH⁉️ 11/
I still don't believe that this excuses their messages, given their then-active role on the #TrumpRussia🇷🇺probe. 12/
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Despite the spin by Trump & cronies in an attempt to discredit anyone/anything related to the #TrumpRussia🇷🇺probe, the #IGReport actually blows up Team Trump’s seditious #conspiracy theory that the “deep state” “rigged” the election for Trump‼️
PS: the “far-right website” to which **FBI’s NY field office leaked** info about the Clinton emails on Weiner’s laptop was Gateway Pundit, tying in Erik Prince and Rudy Guiliani, who also knew in advance‼️
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.🤔