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"I have no one watching my back," Cohen has reportedly told friends. "I just did what I was told."

NOPE NOPE NOPE, @MichaelCohen212. You did what TRUMP told you knowing it was illegal – and you were two-bit criminal long before you met Trump – so don't cry about it now.
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Before he became Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen worked for Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Topolov, who's twice been investigated for money laundering & embezzlement and whose associates the FBI say are “well known” members of the Russian mafia.
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THREAD: In light of the Trump admin lifting sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's companies, recall that Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, conspired with Deripaska during the 2016 campaign with help from Russian intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik.
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JUL 7, 2016: Manafort offers Deripaska private campaign briefings then meets with Kilimnik re the same on Aug 2.

AUG 11, 2016 email from Manafort's CPA: "Paul has indicated $2.4M in fees earned, but not yet received. Expected to be deposited Nov 2016 [post election?]."
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JUL 29, 2016 email from Russian intelligence operative Kilimnik to Manafort [days after Trump accepts GOP nomination]: "I met today with [Deripaska]. I have important messages from him to you. He asked me to go & brief you on our conversation."
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JUN 15, 2016
McCARTHY: There’s two people, I think, Putin pays – Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God.

RYAN: This is an off the record [laughter] NO LEAKS...alright?! This is how we know we’re a real family.

SCALISE: That’s how you know that we’re tight.
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JUN 15, 2016, @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy to Paul Ryan, @SteveScalise, and other GOP: "There’s...there’s two people, I think, Putin pays. Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God."

@Evan_McMullin was there and confirmed it was not a joke.
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Per @Evan_McMullin: One senior GOP leader [that's you, @GOPLeader!] dolefully informed his peers that he thought Trump was on the Kremlin’s payroll and had been compromised by Russian intelligence. Other GOP leaders were surprised but did not dispute him.
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CORRECTION: Manafort told Kilimnik to pass TRUMP polling data not to Deripaska but to Ukrainian oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov & Serhiy Lyovochkin, who funneled $50K to Trump's inaugural & is business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss Mogilevich].
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FYI: Rick Gates testified that between 2010-2013, former Yanukovych CoS Serhiy Lyovochkin funneled $42M to Paul Manafort. At the time, Lyovochkin was business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss, Semion Mogilevich].
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In his plea deal, Sam Patten, US business partner of Konstantin Kilimnik [Russian GRU associate of Manafort & Gates] who worked for Cambridge Analytica in 2014, said a Ukranian oligarch [Serhiy Lyovochkin] funneled $50K into Trump's inaugural fund.
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(THREAD) Lanny Davis to Axios: "Michael is going to tell the truth to the powers that be, and let the chips fall where they may." IOW: Michael is going to tell the truth--even truths that might be deemed damaging to *him* (i.e., MIchael Cohen). tinyurl.com/y85rje82
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The “national hero” stuff is what this Vanity Fair article emphasizes, but the money quote is at the end: “I have no one watching my back,” he has told friends. “I just did what I was told.” tinyurl.com/y9jz6ehw #mueller #michaelcohen
1/ This is also what Cohen’s friend Donny Deutsch said in an interview on June 21 with Ari Melber (see 4:30 min +). tinyurl.com/ycbps3v5
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