Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. Collusion in plain sight.

I have stayed largely quiet about the Mueller investigation, annoyed as hell with the endless chatttering of “this is going to happen, that is going to happen.”

Time for a dose of reality. While I have no doubt that a deep dive into Trump....

2....would uncover an array of financial crimes, I know trump - he would never do anything like collude with the Russians without multiple cutouts or...doing it where everyone can see.

Trump colluded with Russia. There is no doubt. We saw him. Not the “find her emails” rant...

3...a lot more than that.

Trump was involved in trump tower Moscow even as he was saying he had no financial interest in Moscow. The key to this is August 3, 2016. On that day, trump received the intelligence briefing that laid out the details of the Russian hacking attack...

4...he knew everything about it. Our intelligence agencies knew he knew, because they told him. HRC knew he knew because she received the same briefing. Our allies knew he knew. And...our allies caught wind that Trump .Org was negotiating for TT Moscow....

5...so who knew what? Putin knee Trump was negotiating on TT Moscow and lying about it. Trump knew Putin knew. Allies knew and knew trump was lying. And I have no doubt our own intel agencies knew trump was lying....

So, everyone is playing a different game than we could see...

6....the key to ALL of this is understanding how profitable TT Moscow would be. It has been considered a major project since 2004. If Trump lost, he would be right back to needing to wrap up that deal.

So, he is asked publicly about Russian hacking. And says “not them.”...

7...despite the certainty of the intelligence briefing he received on August 3, he says “could be China, could be some fat guy, could be a teenager.” Our allies were dumbstruck. But the collusion was clear: trump signaled to Putin in that moment that, no matter what US intel...

8...said, he would absolve Russia. Trump had too much money at risk.

In August, Russia had backed off on pushing trump in the hacking because his attacking the gold star family made them think he was insane and would be replaced. After he survived and send his signal to Putin..

9...the hacking resumed.

And the crime committed? None. Lawmakers have never accounted for the possibility that a presidential candidate would sell out the country right in front of everyone. I was speaking to foreign intel services that month, and to a one they believed that..

10...trump was going to sabotage NATO (which I wrote at the time) and ally himself with Russia. Lo and behold.

So no, there will be no impeachment on collusion. We saw the act take place in front of our eyes and didn’t recognize what was happening...

11....the damage done by trump for his family’s financial interest in Russia is astonishing. It will take long to repair. If he wins again it will likely be irreparable.

But all you have to do is scream “brown people! Immigrants!” And people will sell out their own country...

12...while cheering.

America is at a turning point. We will survive in our alliances, or the alliances that kept us safe will die.

Which is why dems need to STOP the purity tests. Purity makes you LOSE. to save this country, vote for anyone who care about America, and not $.