Thread by @stranahan

In this THREAD, I'm going to lay out…

1) Why it's clear the REAL target of #Russiagate isn't @realDonaldTrump -- it's Putin.

2) Who the Russian billionaire targeting Putin is.

3) How it all connects to everything from Steele dossier to Trump Tower Meeting…and even Facebook!

Let's jump straight to my 2nd question, because it helps explain everything.

The Russian billionaire who's been a key figure in what we know call #Russiagate for years -- about a decade, it will be shown -- is r Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Quick bio on Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Became one of Russia's biggest Oligarchs after the fall of the USSR, in part by owning Russia's biggest oil company Yukos.

Was richest man in Russia at one point then arrested by Putin in 2003, charged fraud.

Putin pardoned him in 2013.

Those basic facts and more are laid out in this 2013 profile of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

I want to highlight one other passage from it, too.

bbc.com/news/world-eur…

The article points out Mikhail Khodorkovsky isn't popular with Russians because he's associated with "a chaotic move to a market economy in the 1990s, when tens of millions were left impoverished."

The TRUTH about Russia in the 1990s has been hidden from Americans.

Why?

Because the truth is that American policy and players helped impoverish millions of Russians in the 1990s.

The fleecing of Russia happened under Clinton...and with the help of Harvard.

This 1998 article gives you a DEEP dive.

thenation.com/article/harvar…