Thread by @AliAdair22

💥Wow, I just found out about this news by accident.

😕Strange it hasn't gotten more attention.

🙏We need to give a lot of thank yous to Senators Ben Cardin & John McCain, Bill Browder & Kyle Parker (& more) for enabling the Magnitsky Act to be passed.

washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense…

💥In my opinion, without the Magnitsky Act (passed in 2012 & broadened in December 2016 with the Global Magnitsky Act) the Arty Dealmaker would have given away the store.

https://twitter.com/AliAdair22/status/1021972773357289472

💥We'd all be speaking Russian, eating caviar & washing it down with tea & vodka.

✂️Excerpt from the @dcexaminer which explains the new bill being proposed—which would strengthen the Magnitsky Act even further—and protect it from our "president" who is already trying to side-step it.🍊

💥In January 2018, the Trump administration granted 2 Russian top spies that were sanctioned—waivers, and hosted a third—so that they could enter the United States and go to meetings with Trump administration officials.

https://twitter.com/AliAdair22/status/1018252016047591424

💥Waivers, probably granted from the White House, were given to Sergey Naryshkin, head of the SVR, the foreign intelligence service that was once part of the KGB & Alexander Bortnikov, head of the Russian Federal Security Service.

😱The third, Igor Korobov, heads the GRU. Yes, that GRU. 🦇🌎

⚖️In mid-July, the Department of Justice announced 12 indictments for Russian GRU members for engaging in a "sustained effort" to hack Democrats' emails and computer networks.

cnn.com/2018/07/13/pol…

💥In May 2017, one day after Trump fired FBI DIrector James Comey, Trump invited Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak to the OVAL office. Russian media invited, U.S. media, not so much.

npr.org/sections/thetw…

🤮Both sickening incidents were hidden from U.S. media outlets.

🇷🇺The U.S. media only reported on them after discovering posts from Russian sources.

📜Trump suspiciously delayed sanctions against Russia. Congress passed sweeping bipartisan legislation (House 419-3 Senate 98-2) on July 27, 2017. He reluctantly signed it on August 2, 2017. The administration missed several deadlines to implement the sanctions.

💥Now 3 Senators are asking for an investigation into the Trump administration suspicious delay: Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Mark Warner (D-VA.), & Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

theweek.com/speedreads/774…

💥Then there was obviously the "summit" which was just an ass-kissing session where Putin practically moon-walked in he was so damned happy. Trump took Putin's side against our intelligence agencies & basically said Putin could "investigate" Bill Browder and Michael McFaul.

💥Trump called Putin's offer "an incredible deal" which it's not. In case you were wondering "investigate" probably means torturing & killing them. That's what Putin does with his enemies. & Browder is probably the worst enemy Putin has ever had because he's been very effective.

💥In April, Amabassador to the U.N.Nikki R. Haley announced that the administration would place sanctions on Russian companies found to be assisting Syria’s chemical weapons program.

💥Trump reversed her decision.

It's beyond asking why. Russia owns🍊.

nytimes.com/2018/04/16/us/…

📝*Correction to above statement: we wouldn't all be speaking Russian, eating caviar & washing it down with tea & vodka. Maybe some.

🌊People from the resistance? We would all be in jail, and we would be tortured by Putin's "investigators" until we acquiesced to his way of life.

🙏So I'm saying it, but I really hope all of us say it.

Thank you @Billbrowder @SenatorCardin @BenCardinforMD @kyleparkernet @McFaul @SenatorMenendez @BobMenendezNJ @MarkWarner @MarkWarnerVA @SenSherrodBrown @SherrodBrown

💥We will continue to protest and create #BlueWave2018