Mueller has been asking witnesses about Trump's #Russian🇷🇺business activities *as he considered a run for president*, including the timing of Trump's decision to run, #kompromot the Russians may have on Trump, and why Trump Tower Moscow fell through.😎 2/
Mueller is probing *beyond the campaign* to explore how the #Russians🇷🇺 INFLUENCED Trump when he was pushing Trump Tower Moscow *simultaneously* while considering a presidential run.🤨 3/
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Mueller asked one witness when Trump became serious about running for president. Mueller was *very interested* in when Trump ACTUALLY decided to run and how that COINCIDED w/his #Russian🇷🇺business ventures.🤔
Mueller's questioning has centered on the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow & unsuccessful negotiations for Trump Tower Moscow👉🏼both partnered w/Aras Agalarov & his son Emin, who "just happened" to arrange the #RussianLawyer🇷🇺meeting w/Manafort, Jr & Kush in Jun'16.🙄 5/
Don Jr testified to Congress that "preliminary discussions" w/the Agalarovs (close Putin pals) on Trump Tower Moscow began after the Miss Universe pageant. Trump tweeted *in Nov'13*👉🏼"Trump Tower-Moscow is next."
Bad news for Donny: tweets ARE admissible as evidence.🤗 6/
One source said, based on the questions, Team🇺🇸Mueller was focused on the FINANCING of the Miss Universe Pageant👉🏼who paid for what & what money was paid to whom.🤨 7/
Trump Org never disclosed how much it was paid for Miss Universe in Moscow. Trump's lawyers said in a letter to the Senate Judiciary that Trump Org made $12.2 million from foreign sources in 2013👉🏼"substantial portion" came from the Moscow event.🤔 8/
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Mueller is also probing WHAT HAPPENED during Miss Universe Moscow. Questions focused on meetings Trump had w/#Russian🇷🇺business people or gov't officials, leading the source "to believe the investigators were probing the possibility of #kompromat on Trump.😎 9/
Specifically, investigators are probing *logistics surrounding TRUMP'S HOTEL ROOM in Moscow*👉🏼WHO was there? Who had ACCESS? Who was in charge of SECURITY (Schiller)? Who was moving around w/him during the trip (Aras Agalarov)⁉️ 10/
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Reminder: the #SteeleDossier reported about the alleged "pee-pee" tape (in actuality, sources tell me that real "tape" is MUCH worse). Indeed, Trump's "use of extensive sexual services" in St. Petersburg, as well as Moscow, is believed to be part of the REAL #kompromat.🤢🤮 11/
About 2 yrs after Miss Universe Moscow, TMichael Cohen began negotiating w/another #Russian🇷🇺company for Trump Tower Moscow & Trump signed a etter of intent in Oct'15 DURING THE CAMPAIGN.
Mueller's team is probing ALL of this.😎 12/
During the campaign Trump LIED and insisted that he had "nothing to do w/#Russia🇷🇺" even though the prospective Trump Tower Moscow deal fell through *just a few weeks* before the Iowa caucuses.🙄 13/
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Like nearly everything in Team🇺🇸Mueller's investigation, what is revealed publicly is just the TIP of the iceberg & occurred MUCH earlier.
Mueller is ALL OVER Trump's shady business deals in #Russia🇷🇺 and Trump can't bully, bluster, or bribe his way out this time‼️😎
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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.🤔