Thread by @Wonkette

Just in case you missed this awesome piece @EvanHurst laid down for you, here is a recap of what he discovered for YOU.

Let's have a thread!

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Trumpy wingnuts, in their quest to prove that the FBI did DEEP STATE HILLARY-ING to TRUMP by FRAMING him for RUSSIA STUFF, may have just opened (or helped re-open) a new line of inquiry in the question of the connections between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, in Russia's...

active measures op to steal the 2016 election.

The usual suspects -- known mental pube John Solomon over at The Hill, Hannity's favorite "journalist" Sara Carter -- are crowing about the fruits of a FOIA request from David Bossie's Citizens United...

" saying it's the smoking gun that proves British spy Christopher Steele wanted his research to get out there before the election, which just proves he is SHILLARY for HILLARY, and so forth, you know the rest."

What exactly do they think THAT proves? Trumpty is innocent? 🤣😂

And it's true, according to a memo from then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec, that Steele briefed US officials on October 11, 2016, & said the group that hired him... hacked by the Russians, was "keen to see this information come to light before November 8."

Ok, So far, none of this makes Hillary Clinton and The Deep State look...bad. Kinda looks like they were the only ones taking the Russia threat seriously.

Continued:
"Is this new information? Nope. Glenn Simpson, the head of Fusion GPS, testified to Congress that...

Steele was near apoplectic trying to get the FBI to fucking listen to him about the ongoing attack on the American election. & if you were the people who got hacked wouldn't you want the American people to know the election was under attack? Jesus fuck, this is not complicated.

"Of course, because Solomon appears to have fleas in his cranial cavity, this just proves his conspiracy theory true, because 10 days later, the FBI got a FISA warrant on Carter Page, and that means ... we don't know what the fuck he thinks it means." thehill.com/opinion/white-…

"We have read every word he wrote, and the only thing we can really glean is that if John Solomon was our dad, we would kindly trick him into seeing a neurologist by promising him ice cream and a field trip to the petting zoo."

Just popped over and read that piece. 😒🤪🤐

What does it even mean? Maybe it means someone has too much time to speak to Nunes and other idiots of the Congress, and they got the idea that not wanting Trump to win is TREASON. Or not. They seem to believe opposing Trump politically means NO COLLUSION. IDK.

"The thing is, if Solomon is reading from the same FOIA-ed document Wonkette is reading from, he either missed a big section, or he's lying by omission to his readers. He claims the whole document from Kavalec's memo is redacted, and maybe it was when he saw it."🤨

IMPORTANT: But the document Citizens United uploaded to the interweb, while indeed heavily redacted, features what amounts to a brand new mini-dossier of information from Christopher Steele, one that stopped us in our FUCKING tracks, now that we have read the full Mueller Report.

"It comes on page 17 of the Kavalec memo.. about Paul Manafort, and whether he might have been the biological operator of that weird Trump Organization server that only communicated with two Alfa Bank servers in Russia and one associated with the DeVos family's Spectrum Health."

"Adam Schiff was just telling us that the FBI has been stonewalling them for months now, refusing to give them counter-intel briefings, which includes all the counter-intel Robert Mueller found in his investigation, none of which found its way into his report." SUSPICIOUS!!!🧐

OK, wow! We have questions! Let's review the claims made in that screengrab from Steele's October 2016 briefing with Kavalec and others.

1. Steele still believed, at least as of October 2016, that the pee tape was real.

2. Steele claimed the Russian operation to use stolen hacked materials to sway the election was overseen, at the very top, by Vladimir Putin and his deputies Sergey Ivanov and Dmitry Peskov. Manafort was the go-between with the Trump campaign.

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3. Steele claimed Manafort used Peter Aven of Alfa Bank to communicate with the Kremlin, and that those communications were "encrypted via TOR software and run between a hidden server managed by Alfa Bank."

OK HOLD UP, HIT PAUSE!

"Here's something we know to be a fact, according to the Mueller Report: Manafort used encrypted communications a lot, and he deleted his communications a lot, and he lied A LOT."

Indeed, one of the reasons Mueller was unable to prove a criminal conspiracy beyond a shadow of a doubt is that Manafort lied and hid and deleted his communications. And what did Manafort lie about specifically?

"While Paul Manafort remained a free man, we asked many times what the fuck was so secret he was willing to die in prison in order to keep a secret."

We can stop right here, and you can finish it, it's good: :wonkette.com/did-paul-manaf…

LAST ONE, SWEAR: "Once more, for emphasis before we move on: Franklin Foer had "Trump organization server + Alfa Bank + Spectrum Health," while Chris Steele had "Manafort + Alfa Bank," independent of each other, and that's quite frankly kinda stunning." YES IT IS!