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Private Mossad for Hire - Inside a plot to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race - a deep look at Psy-Group started by Joel Zamel (shut down Feb '18 after Mueller started questioning employees), by @adamentous @RonanFarrow newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
Psy-Group owner Joel Zamel met with George Nader in Russia in June 2016 at the international economic forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, where Zamel sought money for a campaign to aid Trump - after the election Nader paid Zamel $2 million
Felix Sater was in discussions with Michael Cohen encouraging him to attend the June 2016 St. Petersburg forum - neither attended, but along with Joel Zamel and George Nader, Oleg Deripaska and Sergei Millian were also there
If you can't keep up with the social media companies associated with Trump here's a chart from June '18

In addition to news on Psy Group, status report is due soon on Sam Patten, contractor for Cambridge Analytica who set-up a co w/Konstantin Kilimnik
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Wendy Siegelman
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💥 Mueller has subpoenaed Cambridge Analytica’s former business development director Brittany Kaiser - her spokesman said she has turned over documents & data, the summons came after The Guardian revealed she had visited Julian Assange by @carolecadwalla
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Wendy Siegelman
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Government recommends Manafort be sentenced to 19-24 years in prison
Government recommends sentencing of 19 to 24 years in prison for Manafort and a fine ranging from $50,000 to over $24 million, restitution in the amount of $24,815,108.74 and forfeiture of $4,412,500
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BOOM! 💣 Rick Gates Tells Mueller About Trump Team’s Dealings With Israeli Intelligence Firm cc ⁦@ZevShalev⁩ 1) thedailybeast.com/rick-gates-tel…
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Karol 🌿
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💣B O O M💣

Rick Gates, the former campaign aide to Trump, is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into whether individuals from the Middle East (Israeli Intelligence - Psy Group) worked with the Trump campaign to influence the election thedailybeast.com/rick-gates-tel…
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📌But it's the first time anyone has reported the SCO looking into it.
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📌October 2018 NYT story:

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Karol 🌿
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💣Espionage💣

The servers at TT & Alfa Bank, Spectrum Health & Heartland PS, were communicating via DNS look ups, sharing packet data.

‘GOP, Trump & Rick Gates are reportedly directly implicated in espionage against the US 2016 primary/Pres elex via help from a foreign power.’
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Rick Gates, the indicted Trump campaign official and Manafort aide & GOP Operative sought proposals from Psy Group an Israeli intelligence firm to run a coordinated disinfo campaign against US voters to help Trump win the primary & general elections.

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Initially Psy-Group offered a social media manipulation campaign which included fake social media profiles that would attack Ted Cruz and discredit him the eyes of GOP Party delegates, who was at the time Trump’s main competitor for the GOP nomination.
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Seth Abramson
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(1 of 2) When I saw the buried lede in this NYT breaking news article, I thought, having not yet checked who the authors were, that there's *no way* Maggie Haberman could once again be caught burying a Russia lede. But there she is on the byline and... nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
(2 of 2) *this* is the lede: there *is* evidence Trump's campaign took further steps on these proposals, *per the NYT*: "Psy-Group’s owner, Joel Zamel, did meet in August 2016 with Donald Trump Jr...."

Yes, AND Erik Prince.

AND George Nader.

AND Don said he was "interested."
PS/ So in the FIFTH GRAF—following, too, a large graphic—readers are informed that AFTER Gates discussed proposals with Psy-Group the HEAD of Psy-Group got access to Trump's son AT TRUMP TOWER. Stories on the meeting say Jr. said he was "interested" in a disinformation campaign.
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Polly Sigh
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Trump's deputy campaign chair Rick Gates solicited proposals from Israeli company Psy-Group to create fake online identities and use social media manipulation to help Trump defeat Republican primary opponents & Hillary Clinton.
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Psy-Group, which is owned by Joel Zamel [who met with Don Jr in AUG 2016] and staffed by former Israeli intelligence operatives, proposed using social media to amplify division among rival campaigns and factions to help Trump defeat Cruz & Clinton.
#Maddow
Aug 3, 2016: Joel Zamel pitched Don Jr a plan to get Trump elected in a meeting arranged by Erik Prince. Zamel's firm, Psy-Group, offers services like "honey traps" & social media manipulation to influence campaigns [just like Cambridge Analytica].
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