THREAD: While in the WH, Jared Kushner received *massive* loans for KushCo of $184 million from private equity firm Apollo + $325 million from Citigroup‼️ 1/
The founder of Apollo, Joshua Harris, was “advising” the Trump team on infrastructure & met MULTIPLE times w/Kush. Harris & Kush discussed a possible WH job for Harris.🤨 2/
Kush’s loan was YUGE for Apollo, even as one of the world’s LARGEST private equity firms👉🏼previously UNREPORTED transaction w/KushCo was TRIPLE the size of the average property loan made by Apollo’s real estate lending arm‼️ 4/
Friends, this is TOTAL #corruption. Public service is supposed to be serving the PUBLIC‼️
Instead, it’s pretty clear that Kushner viewed his “job” as SELF-SERVICE.🤬 5/
“There is little precedent for a top White House official meeting with executives of companies as they contemplate sizable loans to his business.”
That’s because there is ZERO precedent for a regime as CORRUPT as Trump’s‼️ 6/
Mueller is probing Kush’s interactions w/potential FOREIGN investors. As we know, KushCo BEGGED for investments from #China insurer Anbang & from the former prime minister of Qatar.🤨 7/
Soon after Kush’s potential deal with investors in China & Qatar FELL THROUGH, the Trump regime backed a VERY aggressive move by Saudi Arabia *against* Qatar‼️
Kush also met at the WH w/Stephen Schwarzman, of Blackstone, which has lent money to KushCo for several projects before the election. Until August, Schwarzman was the head of a White House business advisory council.🤔 9/
Apollo makes loans indirectly via Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
One of the largest investors in Apollo’s REIT is the Qatari gov’t’s investment fund, the Qatar Investment Authority👉🏼SAME group that bought ROSNEFT shares AFTER the election‼️ 10/
🔥WHOA🔥
Friends, just reflect for a moment. Kush got SHADY loans for his failing KushCo from the *same* group that help #Russia🇷🇺 “privatize” shares of #Rosneft.😳
NOT coincidence‼️ 11/
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Shortly after KushCo got its SHADY loan from Apollo, Apollo benefited Trump’s tax cut package.🙄 12/
Recall Kush’s *secret* trips to the Middle East *during* his PERSONAL business negotiations to bail out KushCo⁉️
Why did the US suddenly back Saudi Arabia’s anti-Qatari scheme, just after the Qataris backed out of their deal to BAIL OUT KushCo⁉️
NOT coincidence‼️ 13/
The evidence strongly supports that Kush used his “senior WH staffer” role to influence US foreign policy — including MAJOR Middle East policy — FOR PROFIT‼️🤬 14/
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.🤔