THREAD: About a month after Trump launched his campaign, Rob Goldstone emailed that his #Russian🇷🇺pop-star client Emin Agalarov could arrange for a Trump-#Putin meet‼️
Goldstone also arranged the #RussianLawyer meet about a year later.🤨 1/
In Jul'15, Goldstone’s emailed Trump's assistant, Rhona Graff (who handled ALL of Trump's emails)👉🏼urged Trump to travel to Moscow to attend a birthday party for Aras Agalarov (Emin's dad & #Putin pal).
“Maybe he would welcome a meeting w/ Putin,” Goldstone wrote.🤨 2
Goldstone's email is among thousands of pages of internal #Trump documents that have been turned over to investigators👉🏼the WaPo has *THIS* email showing *yet another* attempt to get a Trump-#Putin meeting‼️ 3/
REMINDER: Trump goes way back w/Emin & his dad, Aras Agalarov. Aras paid for Miss Universe Moscow. Following the pageant, Aras proposed Trump Tower Moscow, which Trump & his lawyer Cohen were negotiating *during* the campaign‼️ 4/
Goldstone made MULTIPLE attempts to connect Team🇷🇺Trump to #Russia.
👉🏼this *new* email proposing Trump-#Putin email
👉🏼email to Jr to set up a page for Trump’s campaign on VK (Russian "Facebook"
👉🏼brokered Jun-16 #RussianLawyer meeting at Trump Tower
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REMINDER: the #RussianLawyer🇷🇺meeting including *top* Trump campaign brass, Jr, Manafort & Kush, who met w/a Kremlin-linked lawyer, a “former” Russian spy w/expertise in acquiring hacked emails & an alleged #Russian money launderer‼️🙄 6/
Goldstone was interviewed today by Congressional investigators (at least DEMOCRATS are investigating!).🤔
Trump assistant, Rhona Graff will be questioned by House Intel staff in NY next week.🙄
@RepAdamSchiff is NOT happy that Rhona won't be interviewed by MEMBERS in DC‼️ 7/
Despite *multiple* attempts to link Team🇷🇺Trump with #Russia and his *own* email stating that Russia had an ongoing effort to help Trump's candidacy, Goldstone DENIES being part of any Russian effort to throw the election to Trump.🙄 8/
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Aras Agalarov (dad of Emin, Goldstone's client) previously promised a meeting w/#Putin during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Putin canceled bu later "sent Trump a warm note & a traditional #Russian wooden box" (what a guy!). 🤔 9/
To sum up, *despite* Trump's MULTIPLE denials of *any* dealings w/#Russia, today we learn of YET ANOTHER attempt to arrange a Trump-#Putin meeting. This time, via an email to Rhona = an email to TRUMP himself‼️
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.🤔