THREAD: Tom Barrack was interviewed by Team🇺🇸Mueller as "part of the federal investigation of possible #collusion between the Trump campaign and #Russia🇷🇺in the 2016 election."🔥 1/
Mueller's questioning focused entirely on two officials from Team🇷🇺Trump who were indicted👉🏼Paul Manafort and Rick Gates.😎
Gates pleaded GUILTY to federal #conspiracy and false-statement charges and is SQUEALING to Mueller.🤗 2/
🔥A 2nd person "w/knowledge" of Barrack's interview said questioning was BROADER, including "financial matters" about the **campaign, transition & inauguration**.
As we keep saying, Mueller is FOLLOWING THE MONEY (ex: last night's Vekselberg story). 3/
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Barrack & Trump & have been tight for DECADES👉🏼both develop real estate.🙄
Barrack was a top fundraiser for Trump (when most #GOP shunned him) and oversaw Trump’s inauguration.🤨
Meaning: Barrack was a MAJOR conduit for money to flow into Team🇷🇺Trump. 4/
Barrack has close ties to several Mideast leaders, and his own publicist says Barrack & Trump have “solidified a lifelong friendship between themselves and their families.”🤔
Barrack also has close ties with several Mideast leaders.🤨 5/
Barrack is tight w/Manafort & advised Trump to hire Manafort (as did Stone).🤨
Barrack hired Gates – who is SQUEALING – to wrap up Trump's Inaugural Cmte before Gates was indicted. (Suggests that Gates was the "bag man" and helped collect cash.)🤔 6/
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This is BIGLY bad news for Tom Barrack, Trump and the rest of Team🇷🇺Treason. Barrack links **directly** to Trump (as does Cohen). Mueller increasingly is going after people closer & closer to Trump.😎 7/
Mueller is FOLLOWING THE MONEY.😎
Barrack (plus other big fundraisers, like Elliott Broidy) brought donors. Trump's team helped collect/process contributions. Normal stuff in a presidential campaign.
But it's *not* normal (or legal!) to take foreign cash‼️ 8/
Gates was Manafort's sidekick for MANY years & has deep insight into Team🇷🇺Trump's fundraising. And he is COOPERATING w/Mueller.😎
Mueller is probing alleged crimes involving potential ILLEGAL foreign cash & other "contributions."
Gates would know any DETAILS‼️😉 9/
Flynn & Gates are cooperating👉🏼TERRIBLE news for Kushner, Manafort & Jr
Mueller likely will get most of Cohen's files👉🏼BAD for Ivanka, Eric & Jr
Mueller has Viktor Vekselberg's communications👉🏼bad for Wilbur Ross.
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.🤔