Thread by @gregolear

Let’s take a closer look at the Trump Transition Team. As per usual, Trump has surrounded himself with grifters, scumbags, con-men, and traitors.

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1/ The chair of the TTT? Mike Pence. The @VP has lived in the shadows for most of the last two years, emerging only to protest at NFL games or to promote zany space stuff. But make no mistake: Manafort’s Chosen One (and thus Putin’s) was IN CHARGE OF THE TRANSITION.

2/ Let me reiterate: Putin chose Manafort, who chose Pence, who chose EVERYONE, in theory, as the head of the Trump Transition Team.

ANYTHING criminal that happened at that time lands right in his lap.

The buck stops with Pence.

3/ The TTT originally had six vice-chairs: Chris Christie (after Kushner had him sacked as head of TTT), Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Jeff Sessions, Mike Flynn, and presumably to add “diversity,” Ben Carson. Note: no women (Rudy in drag doesn’t count).

4/ Christie was supposedly sacked because he was the prosecutor who put away Kushner’s old man, Charles Kushner, whose crime is the sort of thing you usually find only on shows like Billions. But “Bridgegate” was also happening around that time.

5/ In other words, Trump jettisoned Christie because he, Christie, was seen as too corrupt. Hahahahahahahahahaha!

6/ Gingrich is basically a fame-whore. Trump wanted him because, as former Speaker, he actually understood how the government works. Gingrich wanted in to prevent his decades-long decline into fatuous irrelevance.

7/ Giuliani was supposed to be AG, then wanted State—and then, just like that, you didn’t hear about him for YEARS. Almost like he was under investigation, or feared that vetting for those jobs might reveal something bad. He made odd trips overseas.

8/ Rudy Giuliani was intimately involved in the “True Pundit Hoax” (per @sethabramson), an op run by rogue elements at the FBI’s NY field office to coerce James Comey into writing his letter to Congress that gave Trump the election. Rudy WILL pay for that.

9/ Ben Carson should really head the Space Force, because he’s been living on another planet for some time. He’s a common grifter, but he’s absolutely a grifter.

10/ Jeff Sessions was the first Senator to endorse Trump. He’s an inveterate racist who perjured himself before Congress re: contacts with Russia. He is intimately involved with Trump/Russia and if he has not already flipped, will likely die in prison.

11/ That Sessions could serve life in the sort of for-profit prison he’s so deeply invested in is, of course, a delicious irony.

12/ Mike Flynn already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. He is awaiting sentencing.

Everyone knew the guy was dirty, even at the time, but Trump ignored the warnings and gave him eyes-only secrets.

THAT ALONE WARRANTS IMPEACHMENT.

13/ So: of the six vice-chairs and the chair, one is awaiting sentencing, three are involved in Trump/Russia and will absolutely be indicted, and the others are shady characters who won’t go to prison but are failed human beings. #winning

14/ The six original vice chairs were expanded to 13—QAnon would find numerological meaning there, something to do with the Last Summer maybe. Probably someone convinced them that having some women around would be a good idea (which, with Pence, must have been a hard sell).

15/ One of the seven additional vice chairs is KT McFarland. She was basically the Rick Gates to Mike Flynn’s Paul Manafort. She’s also complicit in Trump/Russia, although we’re not yet sure how much.

16/ Most of the names here have not yet made the news in Trump/Russia: Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin, and Reps. Tim Scott, Tom Reed, Cynthia Lummis, Martha Blackburn (running for Senate in TN, with Trump’s eager endorsement).

17/ The seventh is—mirabile dictu—Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Now where have we heard that name of late? Oh yes—she was the one Devin Nunes was confessing his sins to on that tape @Maddow played. So when Nunes said those things, it wasn’t to some rando.

18/ The Executive Committee of the Trump Transition Team is basically the League of Stupid Villains.

Junior, Ivanka, Eric, and Kushner, natch.

Nunes and @Reince.

Those six will be indicted for sure.

19/
Chris Collins, the inside trader scumbag Congressman from Western NY.

Florida AG Pam “If You Donate to My Campaign I Won’t Press Charges” Bondi.

20/

Steve Mnuchin.

Kellyanne Conway, who replaced Steve Bannon.

Tom Marino, scummy Rep. from Pennsylvania, best known for crafted a bill that prevented the DEA to go after opioid manufacturers, thus exacerbating the opioid crisis.

21/
Peter Thiel, “libertarian” founder of PayPal.

Rebekkah Mercer, of Mercer fame. Her people are wrapped up in Cambridge Analytica (#CamAnal).

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Oh, and @Scaramucci managed to stick around for more than one full scaramucci. His presence on the TTT likely explains his willingness to go on any show and defend his whoremaster Trump.

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The only non-name on the Executive Committee is Lou Barletta. If I were Lou, I’d be sweating bullets.

Bottom line: the Trump Transition Team features a cast of characters who factor prominently in Trump/Russia and/or corruption. They were all early adopters, and will likely all go down with the ship.

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