65/ The Kremlin groomed Trump beginning in the 1980’s. This thread details those efforts:
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66/ One important factor to consider in reading Mueller’s indictment of the Russians is how their efforts to destabilize our election mirrored that of Manafort’s work in Ukraine. Manafort was paid $600k p month to destabilize Ukraine for Putin. usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
67/ Manafort used identical tactics in Ukraine—ground protestors who instigated chaos on the ground, mass fake news campaigns, and political narrative which attacked the foundations of Ukraine’s institutions. rferl.org/a/manafort-ind…
68/ Manafort knows no other way of influencing change. Indeed, after his indictment, Manafort attempted those same tactics, but was caught by Mueller. cbsnews.com/amp/news/paul-…
69/ Manafort (like Trump) was in debt to pro-Russia interests. nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/…
71/ Recall, Manafort was at the June 9 Trump Tower meeting with Kaveladze.
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72/ But here’s the thing: U.S. investigators wiretapped Paul Manafort under FISA orders **before and after the 2016 election** reuters.com/article/us-usa…
73/ On July 26, 2017,
investigators raided Manafort’s home, office and storage facility. washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-c…
investigators raided Manafort’s home, office and storage facility. washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-c…
74/ Manafort was under investigation by federal investigators **BEFORE** his May 2016 appointment to lead Trump’s campaign team, for money laundering and FARA violations. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 
75/ Anticipate more Russians being indicted. Mueller’s indictment does not cover the activities of other Russian groups, like the Fancy Bear hackers who broke into the DNC’s emails, or Russia's probing US election infrastructure.
76/ The Russian troll factory actions are just one piece of Russia's extensive playbook for hacking elections in the US and abroad wired.com/story/russia-e…
77/ “The IRA are not amateurs, they're clearly familiarizing themselves w content that resonates w target audiences,” says Renee DiResta, researcher with Data for Democracy, a nonprofit group that has been digging into the data on Russian-linked accounts. medium.com/data-for-democ…
78/ Russia’s playbook is about spreading disinformation, propaganda, counterfeit official documents to increase confusion. The goal is broader than the election & includes the long-term objective of weakening the US & undermining America’s reputation in the eyes of the world.
79/ Mueller’s indictment CLEARLY indicates the Kremlin was trying to influence the election against Clinton, and in favor of Trump and Bernie Sanders, which they began working on as early as 2014.
80/ Ru operatives were instructed to “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them).” (indictment). The Russians running FB group “Secured Borders” were criticized for not having enough posts dedicated to disparaging Clinton.
81/ The Russians encouraged African Americans to stay away from the polls. In October 2016, an Instagram account called “Woke Blacks” published a message saying voting for Hillary was “the lesser of the two devils...we’d surely be better of without voting AT ALL.” (indictment).
82/ The Kremlin propaganda was gradual and insidious over a 2-yr period. One ad innocuously instructed people to follow a FB page if they were a follower of Jesus, but later spread a meme of Hillary with devil horns.
83/ Facebook estimates that 10 million people saw paid ads. Up to 150 million people saw other content from fake accounts. Posts on six of the IRA’s most popular FB pages received 340 million shares & nearly 20 million interactions, according to Albright’s analysis (supra).
84/ The Russians were also busy on Instagram: A single Russia-linked account received nearly 10 million interactions from January 2016 to August 2017.
86/ Not completely certain yet, but I think this entity is where the Kremlin conspirators obtained server space in the US. I am still researching.
87/ Something no one seems to talk about is that Trump’s @facebook partnership literally funded almost his ENTIRE presidential campaign. We discuss his donors, but those donors contributed nothing compared to his Facebook revenue:
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88/ If Trump netted $245 million from his @facebook campaign, Facebook directly made over a $billion (at least) from Trump. facebook.com/facebookmedia/…
89/ Beginning in February 2013, Trump started using the hashtag #Trump2016 — in 2013 he used or retweeted it 33x. In 2014 he used or retweeted it 109x. In 2015, he used or retweeted it 190x **BEFORE** his June 2016 announcement of candidacy.
90/ * correction to paragraph 89. Should read “**BEFORE** his June 2015 announcement of candidacy”
91/ On February 9, 2015, Trump tweeted a quote-tweet from the Russian entity “KremlinLife”, along with a Russian journal article about himself, with the hashtag #Trump2016
92/ According to Mueller’s indictment of the Russians, Prigozhin’s St Petersburg trolls were amplifying the hashtag #Trump2016 from 2014 through the election.
93/ Fascinating piece by the @splcenter , exploring the history & people behind Prigozhin’s IRA—a “web of far-right paramilitary groups, think tanks and institutes directed by a trans-national, far right network of oligarchs, politicians and media figures” splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018…
94/ Prigozhin on Feb 16, 2018: “Americans are very impressionable people, they see what they want to see. I have a lot of respect for them. I'm not at all upset that I'm on this list. If they want to see the devil, let them.” ria.ru/world/20180216…
95/ Meet the Russian husband & wife troll team indicted by Mueller. Maria was the 'head' of the translator project, the designated branch of the wider pro-Putin effort which focused on US audiences. Robert worked as his wife's deputy. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5…
96/ Gleb Vasilchenko, indicted by Mueller for leading two subgroups focused on suppressing minority votes and manipulating voters toward 3rd parties, ran Instagram account 'Woke Blacks' and FB/Twitter accts called 'Blacktivist', urging voters to support Jill Stein or to not vote.
97/ Prigozhin was convicted twice of burglary and fraud before becoming a hotdog vendor. A chance encounter as Putin’s waiter ingratiated him to Putin. Prigozhin became Putin’s chef.
97/ Within 5 yrs, Prigozhin was being funneled multi-billion dollar state contracts. He supplies all food to the military and schools. He then established the IRA St Petersburg troll factory. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5…
98/ This is ASTOUNDING. US intelligence has intercepts from January 2018 of Prigozhin communicating w Kremlin before and after (getting permission) Prigozhin’s Russian missionaries attacked US forces in Syria. washingtonpost.com/world/national…
99/ Here is how that matter was resolved npr.org/sections/thetw…
100/ Here are the recordings of the communications of Prigozhin’s mercenaries communicating after getting beaten down by US forces. newsweek.com/total-f-russia…
101/ By Trump’s own admission, he used Twitter and Facebook as his primary means to communicate to voters. Thus, the efforts of the Kremlin conspirators had the effect of amplifying his primary means of communication.
102/ Putin increases his bot attacks on Western democracies:
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103/ #LockThemUp
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104/ This phone number promoting Trump for US president was registered on 12/11/2013, the day after Trump returned from the Miss Universe Moscow trip. @FBIWFO
105/ Interestingly, Trump began campaigning in 2011, exactly when (the now indicted) Prigozhin was mobilizing his propaganda army on behalf of Putin for Russia’s 2012 election. Thread:
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106/ From a cell in Moscow, Konstantin Kozlovsky reveals more about the software he claims disrupted the 2016 election. fastcompany.com/40538571/jaile…
107/ In December, Kozlovsky claimed his role in hacking the DNC in the 2016 U.S. primary season, saying he was acting on the orders of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
108/ In a recent post, Kozlovsky confirmed his involvement in the attacks on the U.S. Democratic Party, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Olympics Committee, and FIFA on the orders of FSB Major Dmitry Dokuchaev, who worked at the agency’s Center for Information Security.
109/ FBI: Dokuchaev is responsible for a range of cybercrimes, including “gaining unauthorized access to computer networks of and user accounts hosted at major companies providing worldwide webmail and internet-related services in the NDCA and elsewhere.”
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110/ Dokuchaev/FBI: Consp Computer Fraud/Abuse; Accessing Computer W/o Auth Commercial Advantage/Private Financial Gain; Damaging Computer Through Transmission of Code/Commands; Economic Espionage; Theft of Trade Secrets; Access Device Fraud; Aggravated Identity Theft; Wire Fraud
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