Once again, it's becoming difficult to keep all the pieces of Trump/Russia straight in my head. Let's have a go at it.
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1/ The key players in Trump/Russia were the ones who had the most direct dealings with the Russians. They are: Paul Manafort, Mike Flynn, Michael Cohen, Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions, and Donald Trump pere et fils.
2/
Flynn had already pleaded guilty.
Manafort is indicted on a comical number of charges.
Junior could be busted for the Trump Tower meeting alone.
Sessions is safe for now, but only for now.
Kushner may be the guiltiest of the lot.
3/ Trump has few people in his inner circle. One of them is Michael Cohen, his longtime fixer.
All of Cohen's files, communications, audio recordings, financial transactions, travel records, etc., are now in the hands of the FBI. What we already know is damning.
4/ Yesterday we found out Cohen did indeed go to Prague, as the Steele dossier suggests. Cohen is a MAJOR figure in the dossier, as is Carter Page. It sure looks like the dossier is mostly true. And what it charges is COORDINATION between Trump org and Russia. Highly illegal.
5/ [My laptop just told me it MUST restart in three minutes, so I may have to take a short break...gotta get my Kaspersky updates...j/k]
6/ Sorry, I'm back.
That group of miscreants, the ones who NEGOTIATED the quid pro quo with Russia, have been well known for a long time. This is from almost a year ago:
7/ Next we learned about the tech operation, the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica (#CamAnal) stuff...the weird connection between servers at Trump Tower and Russia's Alfa Bank suddenly made sense.
This was the WEAPONIZATION of data, by Russia, with help from Trump's people.
8/ The WEAPONIZATION includes such characters as: Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, the Mercers (who owned part of #CamAnal), Brad Parscale, Julian Assange, and others.
These folks were charged with USING DATA in dirty-trickster ways.
9/ Now, more stuff is coming out.
The bumbling Kushner and Cohen were not the only ones in contact with the Russians. Erik Prince, who is LITERALLY a mercenary, was also a key intermediary. He is smarter than the others, so it took longer for us to find him out.
10/ Erik Prince is critical, because he connects a lot of things together. He was involved with the Weiner/laptop op in October, 2016. He installed his sister in the cabinet. He's met with various shady shieks, and established a backchannel to Putin.
11/ The meeting in the Seychelles is important. Despite Erik Prince's testimony to Congress (perjury), he knew in advance whom he was to meet. And that meeting was facilitated by Elliott Briody.
12/ Broidy is not just a big Trump donor...he was, like Cohen, deputy finance chair of the RNC.
That means he was 1) directly involved in illegal meetings with Russia, and 2) directly involved with fundraising FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
13/ Broidy is the nexus. He connects TRUMP Russia collusion with RNC Russia collusion.
And these GOP fuckers all know it, which is why Paul Ryan is retiring to spend more time with his dirty rubl....er, his family.
And why Devin Nunes obstructs justice like other men run laps.
14/ Michael Cohen is also, or was, deputy finance chair of the RNC. He has been exposed as a mob lawyer.
The three RNC bagmen, this means, are a mob lawyer, a serial sexual assailant, and a secret Putin coddler (who paid his gf to abort their lovechild).
15/ This potentially implicates EVERYONE. Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Trey Gowdy, Kevin McCarthy, Dana Russia-backer, Reince Preibus, Ronna Romney-no-more...the whole dirty rubles lot.
16/ So dirty Congressional Republicans will either resign and hope it goes away (hi, Jason Chaffetz!), or else throw water on the investigation and impugn Robert Mueller and @Comey. They have no other choice. To come clean is to confess guilt.
17/ A few missiles launched half a world away may cause us to glance toward Damascus for a few minutes, but it will not save Trump and the party he brought down.
18/ The NRA is also bankrolled with dirty rubles. National Russia Association, it might as well be called. Which explains that organization's odious behavior. They are trying to save their skin by sending an "attractive" woman to lie. Won't work.
19/ I'm sure I'm missing other stuff, but one more thing:
Mike Pence was hand-picked by Manafort and the Mercers. He was the head of the treason-infused transition team. He was joined at the hip with Rick Gates. He lawyered up early. He's guilty af too.
Keep your eye on the ball, guys. We're in the ninth inning now, with the heart of our order coming up and short-fingered Trump on the mound.
And we WILL prevail.
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Let’s talk about the House of Kavanaugh—specifically, the hefty mortgage on said house.
[THREAD]
1/ In 2006, Brett & Ashley Kavanaugh bought a house for $1.22m. They put $245k down, a number that does not appear on his financial disclosures of 2005, which show net worth of $91k.
2/ The mortgage payments ($4600/mo.) alone were more than what Brett Kavanaugh took home in 2006 after taxes. His wife did not add enough to the mix to make up the difference.
In light of the epic (in every sense of the word) NYT story on Trump's tax fraud, let's have a quick review of all the legal troubles these traitors are now in:
[THREAD]
1/ PAUL MANAFORT, Trump’s campaign chair (May-Aug 2016): found guilty on eight counts, pleaded guilty on a bunch more as part of a plea deal in which he must cooperate with Mueller. Met w/Mueller this week, in fact.
2/ MIKE FLYNN, deputy chair of Trump Transition Team, natsec adviser: pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Awaiting sentencing. Will one day get out of prison. Will always be an ugly, ugly man.
Pleased to announce a slate of #DirtyRubles Trump/Russia events, on three of the next five Sundays:
The event in Madison, my hometown, is taking place at an undisclosed secret location [insert Dick Cheney joke here]. If you'd like to come, you need to RSVP: facebook.com/events/6757800…
Let's talk about the Putin/Alt-Right/GOP propaganda machine—the REAL Devil's Triangle—as it relates to Brett #Kavanaugh:
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1/ This cozy little messaging arrangement, which operates happily in the dark most of the time, is now being exposed because of the fatally flawed candidate Donald Trump has nominated to the Supreme Court.
2/ The problem with Kavanaugh is manifold: first, that he had six-figure credit card debts paid off by creditors whose identity we still don’t know; second, that he lied during his initial testimony...
Things might feel a bit bleak. Kavanaugh might be in, Rosenstein might be out, and both would be horrible outcomes for democracy.
So let’s put things into perspective.
[THREAD]
1/ The Kavanaugh fight is not over. Even if he gets CONFIRMED, the fight is not over. He stands credibly accused of sexual assault, and he owes lots and lots of money to…we don’t know who.
There’s also this business of HIS (maybe) stolen emails:
2/ Dr. Ford will likely appear before Congress…and the GOP may bring in outside counsel (note spelling) because THERE ARE NO WOMEN REPUBLICANS ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. This is HORRIBLE optics. It will cost them in November. Bigly.
Let’s talk about #Kavanaugh. This is why he should not be confirmed. And it has nothing to do with his political beliefs.
[THREAD]
1/ #Kavanaugh was not on the list of judges given to Trump by Judicial Watch, but he was tapped anyway. This was after Trump said he’d “study” (hahaha) judicial positions on various things—namely whether or not a POTUS can be indicted.
2/ When @ChuckGrassley says he didn't know about Christine Blasey Ford, he may well be telling the truth. The letter from those 65 women was likely produced ahead of time to defend #Kavanaugh against a DIFFERENT accuser(s) we don't yet know about.