THREAD: A REMINDER: RUDY WAS A RUSSIAN TARGET AND REPUBLICANS KNEW IT: This is a reminder of a report that came out in October, 2020. Right around the time Bill Barr asked David Weiss to take a second look at the Smirnov 1023 form, which he KNEW was Russian trash. 1/
According to The Post, when Rudy was in Ukraine in 2019, US Intel was monitoring communications Russian assets in the region, and picked up conversations with Rudy about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Burisma. 2/
The multiple warnings from US Intel agencies led trump's own National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien to tell trump that "any information Giuliani brought back from Ukraine should be considered contaminated by Russia." 3/
“Do what you want to do, but your friend Rudy has been worked by Russian assets in Ukraine." It's important to note that the information matched that which turned up in the New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story. 4/
"...everybody [in the intelligence community who knew about it] was talking about how hard it was going to be to try to [Rudy] to stop, to take seriously the idea that he was being used as a conduit for misinformation.” And that wasn't the only warning. 5/
Earlier in 2019, U.S. intelligence had warned the white house IN WRITING that Giuliani, in his drive for information about the Bidens, was communicating with Russian assets. 6/
FURTHER, Barr, Wray AND Cipollone all had knowledge way back then that Rudy was being targeted by the Russians. So why was Barr giving David Weiss the 1023 if he KNEW it was Russian disinformation? 7/
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE: CONGRESS was warned by the FBI in 2020 that Rudy was a Russian target, including SPECIFIC warnings to Ron Johnson, who was going to release rudy's info in senate hearings. 8/
Here is a quote from Ron Johnson: “Regarding reports that I received an FBI briefing warning me that I was a target of Russian disinformation, I can confirm I received such a briefing in August of 2020." August 2020 was when Barr's DoJ told Weiss the Smirnov 1023 was closed. 9/
So there is NO WAY that @RepJamesComer and @Jim_Jordan didn't know that their KEY EVIDENCE in the Biden impeachment inquiry was RUSSIAN GARBAGE. Below are my sources. END/
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