Thread by @AliAdair22

⚡️In case you missed it (like me)...

⁉️Has Trump Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?

nymag.com/daily/intellig…

💣One of the bombshells from this article: Trump never commented on politics much until 1⃣9⃣8⃣7⃣.

❓What else happened in 1⃣9⃣8⃣7⃣❓

💥Trump visited Moscow.

💣Trump visited Moscow in July 1987. Two months later, he took out full-page ads with his "politcal manifesto."

#TrumpRussiaCollusion

💣Has Trump been working for Russia since 1⃣9⃣8⃣7⃣ to split the United States from our European allies❓

From the @NYMag article posted above:
1987: Donald and Ivana Trump visiting Palace Square in St. Petersburg after their trip to Moscow. Photo: Maxim Blokhim/TASS via Getty Images.

💥Trump: the ideal blackmail target.

💰💰💰From 2003-2017, people from the former USSR made CASH purchases of Trump properties totaling $109 million.

💥And then there's this from @maddow: The Russian oligarch "Fertilizer King" purchased a Palm Beach estate from Trump—which Trump bought for $41 million—for estimates $90-100 million.

https://twitter.com/AliAdair22/status/955516617655488512

💥Then there's the "pee tape" from the Christopher Steele dossier. Steele is a former MI6 spy who owns his own private research firm.

❗️Reporters have proved it COULD have happened.

💥Russia worked with wealthy extreme right wing political allies in the U.K. to advance their decades-long goal of splitting the European Union, helping Brexit to pass.

🤥Trump claimed he barely knew Manafort—who worked on his campaign for 5 mos and secured his nomination: “I haven’t spoken to him in a long time, but I know him. He was with the campaign, as you know, for a very short period of time, relatively short period of time.”

#LieGate

🐦How to explain why Manafort is not singing like a canary?

⚡️Jonathan Chait's @NYMag article:

💥"One way to make sense of his behavior is the possibility that Manafort is keeping his mouth shut because he’s afraid of being killed."

💥Then there is the Instagram video of Belarusian escort named Anastasia Vashukevich, who was spending time with Oleg Deripaska on his yacht. Vashukevich said she heard Deripaska describe a plot to interfere in the election and that she has 16 hours’ worth of audio recordings.

🔗Link to article with one of Vashukevich's videos exposed by Putin's nemesis, Alexei Anatolievich Navalny, a Russian lawyer and political activist. Navalny is known to frequently criticize Putin's corruption: "the man Vladimir Putin fears most."

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5…

Navalny has run for political office many times and been arrested many times on "fabricated" charges. The most recent time was May of 2018. On April 27, 2017, Navalny was attacked by unknown assailants outside his office in the Anti-Corruption Foundation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Na…

They sprayed a mixture of brilliant green, possibly with other components into his face. He reportedly lost 80 percent of the sight in his right eye. Navalny accused the Kremlin of orchestrating the attack. A Russian TV network REN-TV showed the video.

nytimes.com/2017/03/20/wor…

⚡️Belarusian escort named Anastasia Vashukevich, who reportedly had evidence about Russia's "involvement" in the 2016 U.S. election, disappeared from the media. Is she still alive?

🦇🌎NINE RUSSIAN OFFICIALS were murdered or died mysteriously after the 2016 election.

⁉️And remember this?

😨Republican activist Peter W. Smith reportedly ventured out on his own to obtain Hillary Clinton's hacked emails.

😱Yup, he's dead.

🕣10 days after talking to a Wall Street Journal reporter.

🕵️‍♀️Suspicious.

⁉️Also, remember how just about every member of the GOP used to be anti-Putin, anti-Russia!? Not that long ago.

⁉️& remember when House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) "joked" that Trump and Rep. Dana Rohrbacher were on Putin's payroll? Followed up by "swear to God."

🍬Now Kevin McCarthy is Trump's "candy man."

washingtonpost.com/politics/kevin…

💥And just when our country needs oodles more Cybersecurity, in May 2018, the White House eliminated the Cybersecurity Coordinator position, the "top" one.

nytimes.com/2018/05/15/tec…

And after Israeli intelligence officers are warned by CIA officials that Trump might leak secrets to the Russians...what does Trump do?

He revealed a highly sensitive intelligence secret Israel had captured from a valuable source inside ISIS to Sergei Lavrov, & Sergey Kislyak.

⚡️Conclusion: Joanathan Chait's @jonathanchait's @NYMag article "Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?
A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion."

📰Please read!!

❗️Buzzfeed printed one of the ads that Trump took out in the @nytimes in 1987:

buzzfeed.com/ilanbenmeir/th…