THREAD: Mueller is asking about flows of money into the #Cyprus bank account of PSY Group, an Israeli company specializing in social-media manipulation. Founder Joel Zamel met w/Trump Jr in Aug'16‼️
More specifically, Mueller is probing #Treason Meeting #2 at Trump Tower, arranged by Erik Prince👉🏼George Nader (assoc w/#SaudiArabia & UAE) & Zamel (Israeli social media expert) offered to help **THROW THE ELECTION*‼️ 2/
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PSY Group (Israeli social-media firm) pitched its services to super PAC s & other entities👉🏼infiltrating target audiences w/elaborately crafted social-media FAKE personas & spreading DISINFORMATION via websites meant to mimic news portals.🤨 3/
Friendly reminder: It's ILLEGAL for foreign entities to contribute ANYTHING of value (money, services, or otherwise) or to play decision-making roles in US political campaigns.🧐
Mueller is FOLLOWING the MONEY👉🏼suggests that PSY Group may have worked on Trump's election.🤔 4/
After all, PSY Group’s founder (Zamel) & Nader (tied w/#SaudiArabia & UAE) met in Aug'16 at TT w/Trump Jr & offered PSY Group's help to THROW the ELECTION to Trump‼️
Jr was OPEN to this, so we have EVERY reason to think that PSY Group **did** help.🤔5/
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Of course, Jr's story (via his lawyer) is that he recalls a meeting where he was pitched “on a social media platform or marketing strategy...but was not interested & that was the end of it.”🙄
Just like #Treason meeting #1 when Jr met w/the #Russian🇷🇺lawyer on adoptions.🤣 6/
Following the election, PSY Group formed an (UNHOLY) alliance with #CambridgeAnalytica to try to win US government work.🤨
Because it wasn't enough that they helped THROW the ELECTION to Trump⁉️🤬 7/
FBI agents working w/Mueller interviewed people tied w/PSY Group’s US operations in Feb'18. Mueller subpoenaed BANK RECORDS for payments made to the firm’s #Cyprus bank accounts. PSY Group is based in #Israel, it’s headquartered in Cyprus👉🏼notorious for #MoneyLaundering‼️🤨8/
PSY Group developed elaborate information operations for commercial clients & political candidates around the world.🤔
Basically, they WEOPANIZED INFORMATION to manipulate people.🤬 9/
Shortly after Mueller's interviews, on Feb 25, PSY Group CEO Royi Burstien **a former commander of an Israeli psychological warfare unit** informed employees in Tel Aviv that the company was closing down.🤨
#SHOCKER: PSY Group's tactics in foreign elections included:
👉🏼inflaming divisions in opposition groups
👉🏼playing on deep-seated cultural and ethnic conflicts
PSY Group called this “poisoning the well.”
We've seen this movie before‼️🤬 11/
In a contract proposal for US State Dep't by PSY Group, #CambridgeAnalytica & SCL👉🏼“conducted messaging/influence op's in well over a dozen languages & dialects” & employs “an elite group of high-ranking former officers from some of the world’s most renowned intel units.”🤨 10/
PSY Group's & #CambridgeAnalytica's joint proposal for the State Dept’s Global Engagement Center👉🏼project to interrupt the recruitment & radicalization of #ISIS members, using of very elaborate FAKE social-media personas.🧐 11/
State Department’s Global Engagement Center entered into a contract with SCL Group last year, but it didn’t include provisions for work to be performed by any subcontractors & supposedly didn’t involve social media, but was focused on in-person interviews.🤨 12/
What a "coincidence."🙄
PSY Group’s decision to shut down appears to have come the **same week** that Nader testified before Mueller's grand jury‼️😎 13/
After the election, Nader paid ~$2 million to WhiteKnight (Caribbean firm), a "high-end business consulting firm" owned in part by Zamel that specializes in open-source social media research.🙄 14/
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WhiteKnight allegedly did a post-election analysis for Nader that examined the role that social media played in the 2016 election.🤨
Or was this a REPORT of their own work (at PSY Group) so that Nader would PAY them⁉️
Mueller knows b/c Nader is COOPERATING‼️😎 15/
🔥A person familiar w/PSY Group’s operations said that **months ago**, there was discussion about REBRANDING the firm under a different name.
LOL...of course they did.🤣
The name being discussed internally, according to the person, was **WhiteKnight**.🔥 16/
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.🤔