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Percentage true Rudy's statement will turn out to be: 0.0%

This isn't how this works; you don't give Manafort a sweet cooperation deal and talk to him for 54 hours so you can get "nothing" incriminating on the only guy above him in the campaign hierarchy google.com/amp/s/mobile.r…
2/ Trump is playing the same game now he's been playing a year and a half: craft a reality in which no one could possibly say anything bad about you so when someone finally does you can act surprised and say it must be some sort of partisan trick

Meanwhile you know you're guilty
3/ Rudy's lies here are about the upcoming midterm elections: Trump is terrified by the idea that if people spend any time thinking about what his former campaign manager may have said to the FBI for 54 hours it will dishearten them from voting Republican on November 6

Pathetic
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*MEDIA'S AMAZING MANEUVER*

1) falsely requiring a single Hollywood-style "smoking gun" on collusion
2) reporting breathlessly on a revelation anyone in Hollywood would call a smoking gun (Manafort's delivery of data to the Kremlin)
3) pretending we're still looking for collusion
2/ I mean wow, it's almost like Donald Trump calls media his greatest enemy when it's in fact a stalwart ally, and media claims to be looking as hard as it can for collusion when in fact it just wants to keep us *watching* its "search" for collusion as America goes down the drain
3/ And somehow it's now been a *year* I've been trying to call media's attention to a January '18 NBC report saying Trump thinks Manafort could sink him, which any attorney or journalist would consider key evidence Trump in fact *did* know what Manafort was up to with the Kremlin
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NOTE: Today's "failed" Manafort redactions (including revelations that Manafort secretly negotiated on Ukraine with a Kremlin spy) put the thread below in an *entirely* new light. If you didn't read it when I posted it a few days ago, I'd strongly suggest taking a look at it now.
2/ Those who follow my feed regularly know my name-spelling game is usually pretty tight; I'm good at avoiding typos. In this case, I want to note the obvious: that having correctly spelled Konstantin Kilimnik's name a million times in my book and elsewhere, I misspelled it here.
PS/ I put "failed" in quotes here not to suggest that Manafort's attorneys were deliberately incompetent, but just as a way of explaining to those who don't know the whole story that there were redactions that were done improperly and therefore failed to redact critical material.
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(THREAD) A couple days ago, MSNBC's @maddow presented compelling preliminary evidence that Trump gets intelligence and propaganda from Kremlin sources. Tonight I'll add to her report in a significant way by discussing the meeting pictured below. I hope you'll read on and retweet.
1/ VANITY FAIR has credited this feed with being the first to recognize the significance of the March 31, 2016 meeting Trump convened—at the Trump International Hotel DC—of his "National Security Advisory Committee." I can tell you @NatashaBertrand deserves a lot of credit, too.
2/ It was a single line from an article (below) Bertrand published on March 3, 2017 that caused me to spend hundreds of tweets dissecting all aspects of a meeting media had previously thought unimportant.

It turns out it could be more key than I realized. businessinsider.com/jd-gordon-trum…
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Wtf is this? A movie poster “Santions Are Coming” w/ date of midterms could only be targeted to a Russian audience. How was it used?? Bc days later Trump & 30+ GOP went to Paris to negotiate a secret deal that ended the next round of sanctions - which WH pool covered up.
People need to understand the significance of what went down in Paris in Nov & how WH pool covered it up. The 2-year negotiation b/t Trump & Putin re: "global security cooperation" reached a deal. GOP sold out our country on the 100th anniversary of WWI.
Think back on what really happened in 2018. The timeline of events & the consequences. We are so inundated w/ minutia & distraction we lose track of the sequences & correlations.

This is what I saw happen in 2018 tracking Rudy Giuliani around the globe:
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I think partly Flynn’s team badly misread Sullivan, but also: Flynn has racked up massive legal bills. As of six months ago he was trying to sell his house to cover them. And he’s been relying on Trump supporters to subsidize his legal defense fund.
While it backfired pretty badly today, it’s easy to see why Flynn is trying to play both sides. Given his serious criminal exposure—for far more than telling porkies to Peter Strzok, as gov’t attorneys today acknowledged—he badly needed that extremely sweet cooperation deal.
But he’s racking up millions he doesn’t have in legal fees. He’ll be free-but-dead-broke unless he can convince Trumpworld to keep the stream of donations coming, which doesn’t seem likely if he goes full Michael Cohen in public. So he needs to keep playing martyr too.
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A friend asked me how I knew this in 2016, during the campaign, before the election, how did I know to raise red flags about #TrumpRussia #TrumpLies #TrumpCrimeSyndicate #PenceKnew #Manafort 1/
She went on: you’re busy, you’re just a normal civilian person, you run a small business, you’re focused on working, your family, how did you figure out and know what was wrong with Trump, Russia, the GOP, why the election was different? 2/
First, let’s acknowledge lots of people knew, too. I don’t just mean the intelligence community, or the co-conspirators and accomplices to treason and illegal activities, I mean lots of other regular people like me. There are some common qualities and habits we share 3/
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Manafort flipped. This is the "statement of the offenses" in which Manafort confesses to doing the crimes...

assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4883…
This first count #Manafort admits to is violation of 18 USC § 371, "Conspiracy Against the United States."

What does that mean? He conspired to commit a crime against the US or to defraud the US:
A conspiracy, definitionally, requires more than one conspirator. Who did Manafort conspire with? The first paragraph dealing with Count 1 names Richard Gates and Konstantin Kilimnik "and others"
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#Manafort charging document for today's guilty plea includes details of his planting disinformation in US press to smear political rivals of his pro-Russia clients in Ukraine. Eg "Plant some stink on Tymo"—painting a female rival as a criminal who paid for murder. Sound familiar?
Manafort had used the same propaganda smear tactics in Ukraine that Trump rolled out in his campaign for president in 2016. Manafort not only had Tymo soliciting murder. He pushed tribal divisions, using "Obama Jews" & anti-Semitism to tarnish her. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4883…
#Manafort manipulated the media with disinformation and then used those planted news stories to manipulate US govt: "I have someone pushing it on the NY Post. Bada bing bada boom…The Jewish community will take this out on Obama on election day if he does nothing.”
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So this is the Merino fleece I've been working on, from a sheep named Thor (sadly, I don't have a pic of Thor, even though I met him). Last night I decided to try a new (to me) method of washing Merino fleece -- Margaret Stove's method. I learned about it recently.
Now, check this method out: you pull out individual locks from the fleece. You dip the lock into very, very hot water. You rub it on a bar of soap. You dip it again until the water runs clean, and you press the water out and lay it on a towel to dry.
Even to other handspinners -- who, by nature, do time-intensive things -- this method sounds insane when I describe what I'm doing. "That has to take FOREVER!" They cry. But I tried it last night, and now I will NEVER WASH MERINO ANOTHER WAY AGAIN. This is GLORIOUS.
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