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Alexander Torshin is, of course, the mob-connected Russian Senator who was invited by @VoteMarsha re-elect org chair Kline Preston to observe TN elections in Nashville in 2012. #TNSen
Here's Torshin with Preston and @BillHaslam - at the @TNGOP victory party here in Nashville on Nov 6, 2012, same event where @VoteMarsha spoke. Yet we're to believe she didn't meet with Torshin.
What kind of access did Torshin get?

What kind of help is @VoteMarsha getting from Russia right now, while @SecTreHargett refuses to spend TN's Help America Vote funds - $29 million - to secure our election?

#Resist #RussianHacking #RussianConspiracy #TNSen
More in our pinned thread:

More on Torshin. This isn't some benign presence in @VoteMarsha's world.

newsweek.com/alexander-tors…
businessinsider.com/fbi-obtains-al…
vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/i…
Again - Another of Torshin's close associates besides @VoteMarsha's longtime operative Kline Preston: Vladimir #Putin.

(We know - it's hard to believe that Russian operatives have tentacles into a Tennessee political party. This is real, and in our opinion scary as hell.)
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.@VoteMarsha ginning up the 'fake outrage' machine again. Last time she did this she violated @Twitter TOS against distributing hacked material. The first time she contributed to the deaths of a police officer and a decorated veteran. [THREAD] #TNSen

dailycaller.com/2018/10/30/goo…
We've actually been writing threads about this for weeks now. In early October @Votemarsha resurrected her "#StopTheBias" hashtag which she shares with such fine upstanding orgs as Alex Jones' Prison Planet.

The gist of her argument is, hacked internal @Google emails reveal unflattering things its engineers believe about @VoteMarsha. (Many other people believe unflattering things about her for good reason, we might add.)

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❗What @VoteMarsha's not telling you about "mobs."

In 2001, as a state Senator, she played a lead role in instigating a group of 1000+ who broke windows & shut down the Legislature over a vote on a potential state income tax. @Tennessean coverage tells the tale. #TNSen [THREAD]
The July 13, 2001 issue of @Tennessean was more or less full of the story. (You can purchase it yourself at Tennessean.com archives or on sites like Newspapers.com.)

Unfortunately it's in a format that's difficult to represent here, but we've done our best
to provide a few screenshots which provide the gist of the story.
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#Butina #Torshin #NRA #Russia #Trump
1. In 2009 G. Kline Preston IV was invited to #Moscow by #Torshin to brief a group of Russian legislators on the American legal practice of immunity or “plea bargaining”

#Butina #Torshin #NRA #Russia #Trump
2. Since 2009 #Torshin has climbed the #Kremlin ranks and come 2016 he was the Deputy Governor of Russia’s Central Bank and the “godfather” of the mob involved murdering several people in #Spain

#Butina #Torshin #NRA #Russia #Trump

elpais.com/elpais/2017/03…
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Federal prosecutors indict a #Russian🇷🇺woman alleged to be the chief accountant of an *ONGOING* Kremlin campaign to influence 2018 ELECTIONS in the US & EU (including troll farm Internet Research Agency) financed by "Putin's Chef," Yevgeniy Prigozhin.🤬

cnn.com/2018/10/19/pol…
One major #Russian🇷🇺social-media theme was to exploit white supremacy👉🏼trolling NFL protests against #racist policing, #immigration, the Confederate flag & “the #Charlottesville ‘Unite The Right’ rally” that killed Heather Heyer in Aug'17.

Goal: INFLAME and DIVIDE US.🤬
Pivoting off a piece by "right-wing blowhard" Michael Savage, the #Russians🇷🇺 sought to “forcefully support” Savage’s message that “any attempt to remove Trump is a direct path to **civil war** in the US."😳
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The allegations of Alexander Torshin’s links with organized crime and money laundering in Spain first sounded in 2014 after authorities of Spain detained ten people in Mallorca on suspicion of swindling, among whom there were Romanov along with his wife.

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On August 21, 2013 Torshin narrowly escaped arrest when he was tipped off to a raid that nabbed his fellow thug Alexandre Romanov. #MOB

elpais.com/internacional/…
Some interesting tweets from Torshin on Nov 2016

FTR if you see people posting these tweets of his saying they are from the 2016 election they are wrong. He was an election observer for the 2012 election which was Kline Preston's idea.
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💣BOOM💣

THREAD: Michael Cohen met w/#Russian🇷🇺oligarch Viktor Vekselberg & Andrew Intrater (head of Vekselberg’s US subsidiary, Columbus Nova) at Trump Tower JUST DAYS before the inauguration to discuss US-#Russian🇷🇺relations‼️ 1/

#TrumpRussia

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Intrater, who attended the meeting, says that they discussed a “mutual desire to strengthen #Russia’s🇷🇺relations w/the US under Trump.🤨

The men also arranged to see one another at the inauguration, the second of their THREE meetings‼️ 2/

#TrumpRussia
Days after the inauguration, Intrater’s firm, Columbus Nova (invests Vekselberg’s💰in the US), gave Cohen a $1 million consulting contract & has paid him at least $500,000.🤨

Intrater claims Vekselberg—his cousin & BIGGEST client—had “no role” in hiring Cohen.🙄 3/
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💣BOOM💣

FBI probing the NRA for using *illegal* #Russian🇷🇺money to help Trump win‼️

The NRA reported it spent a *record $55 million* on 2016 elections, including $30 million for Trump – TRIPLE what it spent for Mitt Romney in 2012.🤨 1/

amp.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-wo…
Even WORSE:

👉🏼Most of the $55 million was spent by an arm of the NRA that is *not required to disclose its donors*
👉🏼Two people w/close connections to the NRA said its total election spending actually was *$70 million*

2/
The gap btwn the $55 million (reported) and $70 million (actual) may be b/c independent groups are *not required to report how much they spend on Internet ads or field operations*, including get-out-the-vote efforts‼️🤬 3/
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Carter Page testified to House Intel👉🏼he met #Russian🇷🇺govt officials during a July 2016 trip to Moscow‼️1/

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Page emailed Trump campaign aide(s)👉🏼insights of his conversations w/#Russian🇷🇺govt officials, legislators & business executives🤔2/

#Busted
🤣OMG🤣

Village Idiot Carter Page’s email was read aloud during his closed-door testimony to House Intel‼️ 3/

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