SCOOP: In Jan 2017, Saudi spy chief Al-Assiri [who's taking the fall for Khashoggi's murder] met in NY with Mike Flynn, other Trump officials, George Nader, and Psy Group CEO Joel Zamel, who met with Don Jr in Aug 2016.
by @ErinBanco@woodruffbets#Maddowthebea.st/2PjaGLW?source…
MBS spy chief Al-Assiri's Jan 2017 NY meetings appear to be part of Saudi & Emirati efforts to lobby the incoming Trump admin against Qatar & Iran. Around the same time, Emirati Crown Prince MBZ also met with Bannon, Flynn, & Jared Kushner in NY. #Maddow
Recall in Dec 15, 2016: In an unusual breach of protocol, Emirati crown prince MBZ made an undisclosed trip to New York [without notifying the Obama admin] and met with Trump transition team members Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, and Steve Bannon. #Maddow
ICYMI: Jared Kushner friend/envoy Rick Gerson met with Nader in NY [weeks before the he attended the Jan 2017 Seychelles summit] when Trump officials, Kushner, Flynn, & Bannon had a secret meeting with MBZ & UAE Amb Otaiba at a Four Seasons in NY. #Maddow
Dec 2016: Joel Zamel's Psy-Group [met with Don Jr in Aug 2016] signed a memorandum of understanding with Cambridge Analytica, whose co-owner Steve Bannon was involved with Zamel's Jan 2017 meeting with Flynn, other Trump aides, & Saudi Spy Chief Al-Assiri.
MAR 2017 [2 months after Saudi Crown Prince MBS' spy chief Gen Assiri met w Flynn, other Trump transition officials, Psy Group's Joel Zamel, & George Nader]: Assiri met w businessmen including Zamel & Nader to discuss assassinating enemies of MBS. #Maddow
During the MAR 2017 meeting [which included Zamel & Nader, who are cooperating with Mueller], the Saudis asked the businessmen if they also “conducted kinetics” – lethal operations – saying they were interested in killing senior Iranian officials. #Maddownyti.ms/2Df8kqR
Dec 2016: Zamel's Psy-Group [met with Don Jr in Aug 2016] signed a memo of understanding with Cambridge Analytica [whose co-owner, Steve Bannon, was involved with Zamel's Jan 2017 meeting with Flynn, other Trump aides, & Saudi Spy Chief Al-Assiri]. #Maddow
AUG 2016: In a Trump Tower meeting arranged by Erik Prince, Don Jr, Stephen Miller, & other Trump aides met with George Nader [emissary to Crown Princes MBS & MBZ] and Psy Group's Joel Zamel, who pitched Don Jr a plan to get Trump elected. #Maddow
Trump's former NSA accused him of treasonous conduct –– “aiding and abetting” Russia's attack on the 2020 election –– and the story was blown away by the never-ending firehose of craziness and disinformation generated by Trump and his crew.
by @DavidCornDC motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
Also see this thread by @ChrisMurphyCT about "the massive coverup campaign underway to disguise the octopus-like Russian election interference operation being run on Trump's behalf."
Senior Pentagon leadership are quarantining after exposure to Vice Commandant of the US Coast Guard, Adm. Charles Ray, who tested COVID+ Monday:
-Gen. Mark Milley
-CoS of the USAF, Charles Brown
-Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gilday
-Chief of Space Operations, Gen. Raymond.
Last Sunday, General Milley and many of the Pentagon’s senior leadership attended a White House reception for “Gold Star” families of fallen troops. Trump and Melania were at that event.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/0…
Feds are seizing masks and other #COVID19 supplies from hospitals without a word.
“Federal officials sweep in without warning to expropriate our supplies... Are they stockpiling it? Distributing it? Will we get any of it back? We can’t get any answers.”latimes.com/politics/story…
“Trump and other White House officials, including Jared Kushner, claim that the federal government is using a 'data-driven approach' to procure [STEAL] medical supplies from hospitals and direct them where they are most needed [TO HELP TRUMP'S REELECTION].”
!! Chairs of two key House panels are demanding answers about Jared Kushner's role “in the acquisition, distribution of, or federally directed sale of any form of PPE or medical supplies and equipment to be used for the diagnosis or treatment of COVID-19.”nbcnews.com/politics/white…
It took 70 days from the initial notification on Jan 3 for Trump to treat coronavirus not as a hoax, but as a lethal force poised to kill thousands. But by then, critical time had been squandered and opportunities to mitigate the pandemic were lost.washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Because of Trump and his admin's failures over the first 70 days of the coronavirus crisis, the US will likely go down as the country that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up sustaining heavier casualties than any other nation.
For 70 days, Trump lied to the public about coronavirus.
By the time he proclaimed himself a wartime president and coronavirus the enemy, the US was on track to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined. washingtonpost.com/video/politics…
BREAKING: Trump has fired inspector general for the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, who opposed then-DNI Maguire’s decision to withhold the whistleblower complaint from Congress, which sparked the impeachment inquiry.
NEW: Trump has fired intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who was first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he’d received from an intelligence official re Trump’s communications with Ukraine.politico.com/news/2020/04/0…
Schiff: Trump’s dead of night decision to fire ICIG Michael Atkinson is another blatant attempt to gut the independence of the Intelligence Community and retaliate against those who dare to expose presidential wrongdoing.