THREAD: The #FBI investigated Trump for his dealings for a “glitzy hotel & entertainment complex” in Latvia after Latvian government’s *anti-#corruption* bureau began probing & asked the US for help‼️ 1/
In 2010, a group of businessmen, including #Russian🇷🇺oligarch Igor Krutoy, began planning to build the “Las Vegas of the Baltics” in Latvia’s capital, Riga.🤔
An unnamed senior Trump executive visited Riga to scout for locations.🤨 2/
Krutoy is a #Russian🇷🇺composer & wrote music for Emin Agalarov. The Krutoys & Agalarovs were neighbors in NJ in the ‘90s, and now own condos in the same FL complex.🤨
Krutoy attended Miss Universe Moscow in 2013, where he was photographed with Trump.👇🏼4/
Talks w/Trump Org ceased after Krutoy & another businessman were questioned by Latvian authorities as part of a major criminal inquiry of #corruption in Latvia‼️
Birds of a feather, crime together!😉 5/
🔥Latvian officials ask the US for assistance in 2014 and received a response from the FBI the following year. Latvian investigators also examined SECRET RECORDINGS in which Trump was mentioned by a suspect.😎
Lordy, there are tapes‼️🤣 6/
The secret recordings were of meetings at a hotel in Riga. In leaked transcripts, fmr deputy PM of Latvia Ainārs Šlesers told a potential investor in Feb’11 that he had “an agreement w/Trump” after meeting him in NY, and that they were “ready to make the Trump Plaza Riga.”🤔 7/
🔥When Latvia made an official request for assistance from the US in Feb’14, they asked for **Trump himself** to be interviewed. At least one Trump Org executive was interviewed by FBI officials, and the company provided written answers to additional questions.🤨 8/
Alan Garten (chief legal officer of Trump Org) said he “could not recall” whether the company had received an FBI request for info about Latvia.🤨
Maybe Trump Org gets so many FBI inquiries that they can’t keep them straight⁉️🙄 9/
No surprise, Trump has been on the radar of the FBI/USIC *for years* for his SHADY dealings in former Soviet nations and elsewhere.
But I don’t think that he’s getting away with anything this time‼️😎
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.🤔