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<THREAD> Are we heading towards a major Middle East war? Here’s why you should pay attention. Saudi Arabia has suspended oil shipments through the Red Sea after one of its tankers was attacked. 1/5 express.co.uk/news/world/994…
As I mentioned in this thread earlier this week, @realDonaldTrump’s Iran tweet was more than bluster. The U.S. could easily be drawn into war, if tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia escalate. 2/5
Netanyahu, Trump and Putin have agreed to secure a zone around the Golan Heights without Hezbollah and Iran but it’s unclear if anyone told Tehran. 3/5
The Trump admin could trigger a humanitarian crisis after an 80% cut in funds for the UN refugee agency which provides food, education, health services and employment to Palestinians refugees in Gaza, E. Jerusalem, West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon & Syria. 4/5 nytimes.com/2018/07/25/wor…
And Russia has ordered the US military to comply with @realDonaldTrump’s agreement with Putin from #Helsinki to assist in returning refugees or the US must leave Syria. US policy is to oppose Bashar al-Assad. /End newsweek.com/russia-says-us…

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Oct 3, 2018
He would never see his son become President, that would have seemed impossible, but he gave his son some advice that may explain @realDonaldTrump's ambition: “Be a killer". Not your typical fatherly advice, but Fred was no ordinary father. 1/5
Fred Trump's fortune was estimated at $1B when he died. That wealth can be traced from meagre earnings from prostitution in Canada to a post-war middle class apartment boom in New York. It began at a brothel in Yukon, Canada. 2/5 cbc.ca/news/canada/tr…
Fred Trump was arrested during a violent Klu Klux Clan rally on Memorial Day, 1927 in New York. @realDonaldTrump denied this was true but the arrest record uncovered by the Washington Post proves him wrong. washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w… 3/5
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Oct 1, 2018
Live special coverage of a possible #NAFTA deal via @CBCNews.
.@CBCKatie Simpson: “Sources say they are close, very close”, “significant progress”, “optimistic”. @CBCNews #NAFTA
Any deal still needs to get approval from @realDonaldTrump and @JustinTrudeau but with the clock counting down to a fixed deadline tied to Mexican President-elect Obrador’s new term, significant pressure to get it done. #NAFTA
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Sep 25, 2018
<Thread> Here’s PR guy Rob Goldstone revealing details about two important Trump-Russia bookmarks. The Moscow Miss Universe in 2013 and the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting. 1/5
Goldstone worked for Azeri-born pop singer Emin Agalarov. Emin’s father is oligarch Aras Agalorov. They sponsored the Miss Universe in Moscow in 2013 with Trump. They are tied to Putin and Azerbaijan. 2/5
What a year 2013 was for Donald Trump. He was feted in Moscow by the biggest oligarchs and Kremlin insiders. For Trump it was a coronation in more ways than one. 3/5 @traciemac_Bmore narativ.org/2017/10/05/the…
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Sep 24, 2018
And unsealed indictment today for the man who arranged a trip to Baku, Azerbaijan for 10 members of Congress which was secretly funded by a state oil company. justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…
Story first reported in 2015. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
Baku was also meant to be home of a Trump Tower suspected of laundering Iranian Revolutionary Guard money.
Read 6 tweets
Sep 24, 2018
<Thread> Let’s talk about family values. Pence, Pompeo and Carson addressed the anti-LGBTQ Values Voter Summit this weekend. 1/10. nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-ou…
The Summit is hosted by Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council which styles itself as a religious liberty organization though it spends much of its time supporting anti-gay campaigns from Uganda to Russia. The FRC is a dues-paying member of the WCF. 2/10
Perkins’ Family Research Council is a member of the World Congress of Families - a US headquartered organization set up by the Kremlin to foster a global movement against lgbtq rights. @traciemac_Bmore 3/10 narativ.org/2017/09/27/div…
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Sep 12, 2018
<Thread> I’ve written about Trump-Russia in detail for 2 years. The finding that is hardest to share is Russia’s support for al-Qaida and ISIS. @LincolnsBible takes you through a body of evidence that links the Russian mob to terror groups. 1/6
It sounds conspiratorial, shakes our fundamental beliefs, recasts Russians as terrorists. Rival is one thing but funders of brutal terror groups responsible for the world’s worst tragedies? That was a lot to accept. I first wrote about it last June. 2/6 narativ.org/2017/06/07/an-…
I know it’s hard to fathom. Russia is supposed to be our “ally” in fighting terror but it fits in to Putin’s strategy. There is no better enemy, than an enemy you control. In June, I reported on Putin’s Frankenstein. 3/6 narativ.org/2017/06/23/a-m…
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