1/The analysis presented in this thread is based on publicly known facts gleaned from searchable, credible sources; it is not based on conjecture or opinion. If you dispute this analysis or these facts you should respond with searchable, credible facts or don’t respond at all
2/By repeatedly denying that Russia attacked us in 2016 and by discussing sanction relief with Russians on the cusp of the midterms, Trump and Congressional Republicans are asking Russia to attack us again and help them win again. This is nothing less than an act of treason.
3/Campaign finance reform was enacted after Watergate and slowly eroded over time, setting the stage for dark money to flood our elections. In 2010, the Supreme Court further opened those floodgates with its 5-4 decision in Citizens United.
4/In Citizen’s United the court ruled, that for purposes of campaign contributions, corporations were ‘persons’. This paved the way for dark money super pacs to flood our elections - giving big money donors and their lobbyists unprecedented power and influence over Congress.
5/And because super pacs are not required to reveal their donor lists, this has allowed foreign money to infiltrate our campaigns. Money from Russian oligarchs and the UAE funnel money through shell corporations whose only purpose is to buy influence in American elections.
6/Congress is beholden to big money donors who set the agenda and determine public policy. I would argue that the Republican Congress is now virtually owned by donors, oligarchs, and corporate interests and that their ONLY agenda is to further the interests of their donors.
7/Donors use their influence to ‘make’ appts to agencies that oversee the airwaves, internet, and press,gutting regulations that prohibit monopolies and censorship. Donors are now free to flood our media with a right wing agenda meant to divide and confuse an ever wider audience
8/In 2016, Russia took advantage of these dark money super pacs and the social media to attack our country with the express purpose of helping Trump and members of the GOP get elected. This is now a fact unanimously agreed upon and reported on by our intel community.
9/Russia attacked our elections and is still attacking us. Russia describes these attacks as part of a campaign to elect friendly, pro-Russian Republicans to Congress and to destabilize democracies worldwide.They describe their attacks as a war against the United States and NATO
10/Congressional Republicans went to Russia - a country that is waging war against us -to promote friendship! Trump dismisses the Mueller investigation as a democratic ‘witch hunt’ and denies Putin even attacked us. Trump plans to meet Putin in the WH behind closed doors
11/Republicans who met in Russia are now talking about lifting sanctions on a country that it is still attacking us. Talk of sanction relief is nothing less than a blatant call for Putin to help the GOP again in the upcoming elections. And this is nothing less than treasonous.
12/Trump and the GOP have benefitted and will benefit from future attacks on our elections. These men are a threat to our national security. These men are traitors. The democratic leadership must not be silent in the face of this treachery. They must call them out as traitors!
