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Who Is Behind Trump’s Links to Arab Princes? A Billionaire Friend Tom Barrack - now Mueller's inquiry is examining whether the Emiratis and Saudis helped sway the election in Trump’s favor—potentially in coordination with the Russians
nyti.ms/2JCXmMe
"Barrack’s company, known as Colony NorthStar since a merger last year, has raised more than $7 billion in investments since Mr. Trump won the nomination, and 24 percent of that money has come from the Persian Gulf—all from either the UAE or Saudi Arabia"
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
In 2010 Barrack acquired $70 million of the debt owed by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner on his troubled $1.8 billion purchase of a skyscraper at 666 Fifth Avenue
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
Barrack met Trump in the 1980s and got the better of the encounters, he negotiated Trump into overpaying for a 1/5 stake in NY department store chain Alexander’s in 1985 and the Plaza Hotel in 1988 - Trump later lost both properties to creditors
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
Barrack introduced Kushner to UAE Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba in May 2016, then Barrack & Ambassador Otaiba tried to arrange a secret meeting between Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager at the time, & Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
"'I would like to align in Donald’s mind the connection between the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia which we have already started with Jared,' Mr. Barrack wrote to Ambassador Otaiba on June 21, 2016"
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
"Until recently, Mr. Barrack’s most prominent Gulf customers were neither the Emiratis nor the Saudis — but their bitter rivals the Qataris, who bought the film studio Miramax and a Paris soccer team from him"
nytimes.com/2018/06/13/wor…
NYT story👆🏼reveals emails between Tom Barrack & UAE Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba, who is very close to Kushner - this Intercept story👇🏼 is a must-read on Otaiba - The Sordid Double Life of Washington’s Most Powerful Ambassador
theintercept.com/2017/08/30/uae…
Crazy story @maddow @BeschlossDC described on link from Nixon admin to Trump admin - Nixon's personal attorney Herbert Kalmbach went to jail for his role in Watergate - and Tom Barrack started his career as an attorney working for Kalmbach
latimes.com/politics/la-na…
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Two stories today about UAE selling off two huge NYC real estate investments

One story is about Abu Dhabi government fund & Tishman Speyer putting the Chrysler Building on the market - Abu Dhabi Investment Council had paid $800 million for a 90% stake
therealdeal.com/2019/01/09/abu…
And a majority stake in 330 Madison Ave owned by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is heading to the sales market at pricing expected to reach nearly $1 billion
nypost.com/2019/01/08/mos…
I don't know that these two sales have any significance, but the size of the deals seems notable and worth keeping an eye on.
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Manafort intended for polling data to go to Ukrainian oligarchs Serhiy Lyovochkin & Rinat Akhmetov - Manafort wrote in an August '16 email he expected $2.4 million payment in Nov 2016 for work done in Ukraine - from backers including Lyovochkin & Akhmetov
cnn.com/2019/01/09/pol…
In addition to hiring Paul Manafort in Ukraine and working together for over a decade, Rinat Akhmetov has several business ties with Alex Shnaider who was Donald Trump's partner in developing the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Toronto
In '09 Alex Shnaider & Eduard Shyfrin's company Midland Resources sold Ukrainian Zaporizhstal steel mill for $850 mil in '09 financed by VEB, $40mil from sale was earmarked for Trump Toronto & @tomburgis reported $50 mil penalty was owed to Rinat Akhmetov
ft.com/trumptoronto
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Both Paul Manafort & Rick Gates gave data to Konstantin Kilimnik in the spring 2016 - some data was developed by a private polling firm working for the campaign - Manafort asked Gates to tell Kilimnik to pass the data to Oleg Deripaska, HT @painter_nancy nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/…
Manafort and Gates passed polling data to Kilimnik to be sent to Putin ally Oleg Deripaska

Kilimnik also worked with Sam Patten who consulted for Cambridge Analytica

One of the services provided by Cambridge Analytica was polling
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#Trump's last campaign rally of the 2018 mid-term election season is scheduled to start in about ten minutes. It's his THIRD rally of the day. Dude is likely exhausted and I doubt this rally will be less "speech" and more "incoherent tirade".
At any rate, here's the thread for it! Follow/mute at will!
Current Pre-show music is the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil." I couldn't make this up if I tried.

#Trump #Truprally
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👿Projection Much?👿

NYS vs Donald J. Trump Foundation. Trump, DonJr, Ivanka, Eric re “persistent illegal conduct...”

Trump directed his Foundation funds to be used to settle a lawsuit related to Mar-A-Lago.

Trump used the foundation funds to bolster his 2016 presidential bid
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The Trump Foundation was one big ‘persistently illegal’ scam, What a shock!

Instead of sending 💰 collected on behalf of “Veterans Orgs” Trump & Lewandowski directed the funds sent to a retired Army vet who was Trump’s campaign’s SE Regional Dir. 🙄
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Remember how @GOP baselessly attacked Clinton Foundation? PROJECTION!

OIG Rpt confirms Comey broke from FBI Procedures in Clinton Probe, but not politically motivated (helped Trump, harmed HRC) & confirmed FBI is acting appropriately in the investigations
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MEGA THREAD

#Trump #Russia #Putin #RussianMob #Mogilevich
1. It all started not surprisingly with #RogerStone, #Stone worked with Arthur #Finkelstein and Lee #Atwater in the 1970´s

#Trump #Russia #Putin #RussianMob #Mogilevich

nytimes.com/1989/04/30/mag…
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MEMBERS OF TEAM #MUELLER
1.Zainab Ahmed
Ahmed is an expert in prosecuting terrorism and organized crime, Zainab Ahmad previously served as an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She joined #TeamMueller in the summer of 2017.
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
Two errors in the 2nd graf of Breitbart's Trump Hotel DC article:
-holdings aren't out of @realDonaldTrump's hands: trust isn't blind & he can profit from it
-Trump Org told Congress it was estimating foreign receipts—not auto donating in full
bit.ly/2CpL7z2
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🔥Mueller probing #Russia🇷🇺linked Cyprus bank FBME👉🏼FinCEN says it’s a “primary money laundering concern,” facilitating terrorist financing, transnational organized crime, fraud, #sanctions evasion, weapons trading & political corruption. 1/

theguardian.com/us-news/2017/d…
Cyprus bank FBME allegedly helped #Russians launder money in support of terrorism & other crimes.🤨

Now, #Mueller is investigating FBME’s financial records as part of his ongoing #TrumpRussia🇷🇺probe. 2/

*DEUTSCHE BANK* allegedly helped Cyprus bank FBME launder money for #Russians🇷🇺. And Mueller is investigating BOTH banks‼️

It’s not just Mueller who’s coming. It’s a WHOLE ARMY of civil servants in FinCEN, IRS, the USIC & other agencies‼️🤗

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