Thread by @BasedBasterd

1.) Tuesday @Judgenap said on @FoxNews with @marthamaccallum that #PaulManafort was investigated by the @FBI 8 years ago for these same crimes & a young Prosecutor by the name of #RodRosenstein exonerated him & said that they are threatening to call RR as their 1st witness!

2.) I was very curious about these claims because Judge Napolitano never went into detail on the story. So I went digging .........
@Techno_Fog had made a post on something that related to what I had also found and I started tying up loose ends. 👇🏼

https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1025043796843585536?s=19

3.) @hotairblog did a piece that not only implicated Gregory Craig & Clifford Sloan which were part of #Obama's WH Counsel but also stated the @FBI let @PaulManafort walk in 2014!!
hotair.com/archives/2018/…

4.) Interesting thing about Clifford Sloan & Gregory Craig is they worked for #Skadden and were paid by Manafort to write a report on the prosecution of political opponent Yulia Tymoshenko who was defeated by Viktor Yanukovych.
kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…

5.) Skadden got paid to the tune of
$4 million for this
report on the prosecution of former Ukraine prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
unian.info/politics/amp-1…

6.) The Party of Regions "Black Ledger" from Viktor Yanukovych is what started the investigation against #PaulManafort in 2016 shortly after he secured all of the delegates for @realDonaldTrump
Interesting timing........
sovereignukraine.net/2016/06/01/the…

7.) Manafort was named in the Black Ledger 22 times and the 1st U.S. source I could naming Manafort was the New York Times.
nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/…

8.) @CNN reported in September of 2017, that #PaulManafort was wiretapped before and after the election via a #FISA warrant
cnn.com/2017/09/18/pol…

9.) According to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the FBI opened their Counterintelligence Investigation on July 31st, 2016 based off of info obtained in April of 2016.
docs.house.gov/meetings/ig/ig…

10.) During the Manafort trial, Judge Ellis caught #Mueller using a pre-existing #FISA Title-1 warrant that was originally applied to U.S. person #CarterPage and the #Trump campaign Counterintelligence Investigation. 👇🏼
Via @TheLastRefuge2
theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/04/fed…

11.) Interestingly enough finally on Aug 1st, 2018, #Mueller refers foreign agent inquiries to New York prosecutors.
Gregory Craig who was part of the Obama WH Counsel and Skadden is one of them along with #TonyPodesta!!
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/31…

12.) In closing, Manafort was no angel by any means. He has some issues for certain with his case, but @Judgenap is right here. Manafort was allowed to walk when the @FBI was investigating him for the same crimes in 2014 but did nothing because it implicated Obama Admin staffers.