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‼️Boris Johnson is Britain's Donald Trump

– Complete with Breitbart's Bannon and Russia Cover-Up

BORIS JOHNSON
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#Brexit #VoteLeave #BorisJohnson

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Boris Johnson is/was advised by Steve BANNON – Trump’s campaign manager & VP of the notorious, now-shuttered electioneering firm Cambridge Analytica, which he co-founded in 2014 w/ hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who also backed the Breitbart sites.
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📌Johnson and Bannon became friends when Johnson was still Foreign Secretary and Bannon was still in the White House in early 2017.

📌They have been in contact ever since and the fruits of this friendship have been evident for some time

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‼️Johnson’s first column after leaving Government deliberately targeted Muslim women who wear the Burka, with his infamous “letter-boxes” comparison.
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‼️This reflected the mold of Bannon’s ‘Alt Right’ site Breitbart, which has gone out of its way to solicit support from the Islamophobic far right.
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🧙🏻‍♂️”DEEP STATE” NARRATIVE🧙🏻‍♂️

Boris Johnson warned that a failure to withdraw from the EU would lead people to conclude “there is a plot by the DEEP STATE to frustrate Brexit”.

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📌This ‘DEEP STATE’ conspiracy theory rhetoric was one of Bannon’s favorite themes on his Breitbart websites, before and after Trump’s election. 

#DeepState = RU narrative
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The Russians employ the “DEEP STATE” conspiracy theory narrative: 👇🏼

Russian outlets blamed a leaked video that led to the fall of Austria’s government on “a European DEEP STATE” the report said.
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📌Putin suggests US ‘DEEP STATE’ working against Trump
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📌Johnson actually copied his Brexit version of the phrase from Breitbart London regular James Delingpole, who wrote a few days before:
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Breitbart’s Delingpole:

“The Remainer Establishment – or DEEP STATE, if you prefer – is… so arrogant, so complacent, so contemptuous of the public that it’s scarcely bothering even to hide its tracks.”
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📌So, if the rhetoric of Johnson – appealing to populist fears and phobias – is so reliant on Bannon’s publications, how much of Johnson’s campaign is also dependent on Bannon’s digital campaigning, embodied in Cambridge Analytica?
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‼️Mercer & Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Russian Collusion

📌It’s clear, even from the redacted Mueller Report, that Vladimir Putin planned and enacted a complicated and well-funded plan to interfere in the US elections in favour of Donald Trump.
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🔑Multiple reports have established that this US interference was preceded by a similar campaign to interfere in Britain’s EU Referendum in favour of the Leave campaigns.
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📌Cambridge Analytica claimed it was behind the unexpected triumphs of both the Leave campaign and Donald Trump.

📌In late 2016, The Spectator reported that Boris Johnson had an undeclared meeting with the electioneering company’s CEO, Alexander Nix.
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📌By early 2017, just as Boris Johnson was becoming friendly with its vice-president Steve Bannon, Johnson’s Foreign Office was inviting Cambridge Analytica executives to election briefings on its use of data in the Trump campaign.
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📌Before long, the extensive Russian connections with Bannon’s company would come out.

📌The Information Commissioner’s Office has evidence that Russian servers accessed Cambridge Analytica’s extensive targeting data.
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📌Boris and Nix met on the advice of Foreign Office officials, at a time when Britain was scrambling for routes into the Trump administration.

📌Nix had been deftly promoting himself as someone who had all sorts of connections in Trumpworld.
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/boris-…
Cambridge Analytica Donors

DUP
David Burnside
Vincent Tchenguiz
PR firm New Century Media
Alexander Nix
Robert Mercer
Conservatives
Julian Wheatland
Dmytro Firtash
Bell Pottinger
Paul Manafort
Sergey Nalobin
Vasily Shestakov
Andrei Kliamko
Alex Nekrassov

Is there a link between Cambridge Analytica and the DUP’s secret Brexit donors

H/T
@PaulHanley12
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Farage 👉🏼Johnson 👉🏼Bannon👉🏼Breitbart 👉🏼Mercer👉🏼Nix👉🏼Cambridge Analytica 👉🏼FaceBook👉🏼Twitter👉🏼NRA👉🏼RNC👉🏼GOP

NIGEL FARAGE compared Boris Johnson to Winston Churchill 🙄as he praised the Tory leadership frontrunner for his "incredible" quality after he analysed the former Foreign Secretary's leadership launch speech.🙄
express.co.uk/news/uk/113974…
‼️Nigel Farage’s funding secrets revealed

‼️TeamBrexitTrump Business opportunities
‼️Farage’s Aide: George Cotrell

💰💦 Conviction

Boris and Nix met on at a time when Britain was scrambling for routes into the Trump adm. Nix had been promoting himself as someone who had all sorts of connections in Trumpworld. The meeting lasted for twenty minutes – there were officials present.
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‼️Johnson & Mifsud

Boris Johnson met ‘London professor’ linked to FBI’s Russia investigation

Fresh questions as photograph emerges of Joseph Mifsud and foreign secretary at Brexit dinner

theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
‼️Sergey Nalobin & Boris Johnson

So who is Nalobin?

He is a key figure in the RU influence operation to deepen the "co-operation" between senior Conservative politicians & the Russian gov’t under the umbrella of the Conservative Friends of Russia group.
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2012: The Kremlin instructed its diplomats in London to deepen their "co-operation" w/ the Conservative party in an apparent attempt to mute criticism of Russia's abysmal human rights record & to rebuild ties following the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

theguardian.com/politics/2012/…
Poisoned by Polonium 210: The Litvinenko murder

When a Russian dissident was poisoned in London with a highly radioactive substance, the UK government accused the Kremlin of his murder.
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THE ASSASSINATION OF ALEXANDER LITVINENKO
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Russian diplomats were "instructed by Moscow" to explore how the Conservatives and United Russia could co-operate in the Council of Europe.
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The two parties belong to the same faction in the council's parliamentary assembly, with Tory members frequently voting with their Russian colleagues against motions condemning Moscow.
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📌Nalobin inquired if there were young Tories who might be interested in travelling to Moscow to attend a Kremlin-sponsored youth forum. He contacted Royal, the group's chairman, and with other activists who went on to form Conservative Friends of Russia.
theguardian.com/politics/2012/…
Russia has multiple reasons for seeking to influence the Conservatives. The increasingly Eurosceptic (anti-EU) Tory party has shunned its traditional centre-right allies in Europe in favour of a pact with Putin's party
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The two are pillars of the European Democrat Group (EDG), which can only function if they cooperate. Russia has forged ad hoc alliances with the Tories and others to see off motions it regards as hostile – over its 2008 war with Georgia, for example.
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🔑Moscow's priority is to prevent the UK and other EU countries from introducing the Magnitsky Act, named after the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was beaten to death in prison in Russia in 2009.
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‼️Russian interference in EU & US elections always circles back to the repeal of the Magnitsky Act

📌If there remains any pretense that justice and rule of law exist in Moscow today, that notion should now be counted as pure fantasy.

Kremlin = RUmob = TOC
📌Russia’s Crime of the Century
How crooked officials pulled off a massive scam, spent millions on Dubai real estate, and killed Magnitsky when he tried to expose them

foreignpolicy.com/2011/04/20/rus…
‼️RUSSIA, BREXIT & the UK Foreign Office 👉🏼VoteLeave

Boris Johnson was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016, and from 2016 to 2018 served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

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📌Johnson was at the head of the “official” VoteLeave campaign – the commission designated Vote Leave as the gov’t-approved campaign, an which meant it got to spend £7m, including £600,000 of taxpayers’ money.
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📌Johnson was Vote Leave’s show pony – the charismatic figurehead who led from the front, although at the time he was still Mayor of London.
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📌However, Matthew Elliott was the legal head of the campaign. He was the political strategist who had registered Vote Leave Ltd at Companies House and filed the legal documents with the commission.
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‼️Boris Johnson & Matthew Elliott & VoteLeave

🔑The investigation into foreign influence places Johnson in a web of relationships between a known Russian spy, Sergey Nalobin, expelled from Britain in 2015, and Matthew Elliott, the CEO of Vote Leave, the official Leave campaign headed by Johnson.
theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
📌Brexit, the ministers, the professor and the spy: how Russia pulls strings in UK

📌The charges filed against a Trump aide (PapaD) shocked the US – but also shed new light on the complex connections that link Russia to Brexit and the Foreign Office
theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
‼️Boris Johnson & Michael Gove

‘Boris Johnson and Michael Gove Must Have Known About Illegality’: Why the Two Vote Leave Leaders are a Threat to Democracy
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🔑Like Johnson, Michael Gove was a key figurehead of the illegal campaign.

📌Not only was Gove a spokesman for Vote Leave, he was also the co-convener of its campaign committee, responsible for overseeing the strategic decisions
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‼️Shahmir Sanni co-founded BeLeave, an offshoot of the Vote Leave campaign, during the EU Referendum. Now whistleblower.

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‼️BeLeave VoteLeave & CA & AIQ

BeLeave was an integral part of Vote Leave’s strategy to secure the Brexit vote, as was consulting firm Cambridge Analytica – specializing in using data in elections – and its Canadian offshoot Aggregate IQ (AIQ).
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Michael Gove had to be aware of how much money was going to AIQ, or of the single largest political donation made during the Brexit referendum – £625,000 paid by Vote Leave to AIQ, supposedly on behalf of BeLeave.
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‼️Tory (Conservative) links to Russia and Saudis run deep

The Conservative party is in the pocket of foreign powers that represent a threat to the national security of Britain. It is a grotesquely under-reported national scandal

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📌There are the links to other regimes that combine contempt for human rights with a threat to our national security.

📌Tory MPs received £99,396 from the Saudi regime in the form of gifts, travel expenses and consultancy fees.
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📌Saudi Arabia and other autocracies spent £700,000 on luxury trips for MPs, more than 80% of whom were Tories.

📌Just under £200,000 of that was money from Saudi Arabia to pay for the excursions of 41 MPs, 40 of whom were Conservatives.
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Rehman Chishti – the newly appointed vice-chair of the Conservative party for communities – received £2,000 a month from the Riyadh-based King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies between March 2016 and January 2018.
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📌The Qatari dictatorship owns three times more property in London than the Queen, and more than the mayoralty.
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📌The Qatar Investment Authority owns Canary Wharf, the Shard and Harrods.

📌Let’s be clear: the Qatari regime has backed extremist and terrorist organizations,
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🏵Excellent Thread🏵

Boris Johnson & Saudi Money
“Boris Johnson went to Saudi Arabia 2 weeks after Khashoggi's murder & accepted £14,000 in gifts. Also in this piece a roundup of the Chris Moran story.”
‼️More early RU influence ops:

It was 2014, and Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of Russia’s former deputy finance minister, paid the princely sum of £160,000 to play tennis with David Cameron and Boris Johnson.
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📌Johnson: £160k tennis match did take place
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📌Tories face calls to hand back £160k given by Russian for tennis match

📌Wife of deputy finance minister under Putin in 2000, won auction at fundraising event to play with Cameron and Johnson
theguardian.com/politics/2014/…
📌In total, since 2012 – when the Electoral Commission initially declared Lubov Chernukhin an “impermissible donor”, before subsequently allowing her to donate – she has handed the Tories £514,000.
thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-…
📌Gérard Lopez gave £400,000 to the Tories in April 2016, is chairman of the board of Rise Capital, which recently signed deals for a string of infrastructure projects across Russia worth billions.
theguardian.com/politics/2016/…
Rise Capital lists as partners three Russian banks that had sanctions imposed on them by the US and EU in 2014 in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. Sergei Romashov, the managing partner of Rise Capital, is understood to be close to Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
theguardian.com/politics/2016/…
📌Tory MPs had received four times more money from Russia’s state-run Russia Today TV channel than Labour MPs

📌But don’t forget RU influences “Both sides.” 🐴👠
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📌The Conservative party is facing pressure to return Russian donations after the attempted murder of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal on British soil.
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
📌Russians charged over UK Novichok nerve agent attack

edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/uk/…
📌Leaked the interim report of an Electoral Commission investigation which is still under way.
This found the campaign guilty of breaking electoral rules and law.

📌Laws which are the bedrock of our entire electoral system.
amp.theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
‼️Farage Banks

LeaveEU founder confirms he funded Nigel Farage in year after referendum
bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
‼️Banks & RU Gov’t Officials

📌Arron Banks has many connections to Russia.

📌Documents suggest he had at least 11 meetings with Russian government officials, seven more than he has previously admitted.
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6/17/19 Boris Johnson has been accused of giving MPs contradictory promises on Brexit to win their votes, as one of his highly Eurosceptic (anti-EU) backers warned that hardliners want to see him effectively tear up Theresa May’s deal with the EU. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
🔑France’s horror at the prospect of prime minister Boris
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/06/france…
📌Should Boris Johnson become Prime Minister it would be a calamity for his country and for Europe.
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/06/france…
‼️Ripples...

📌Johnson, Gove or Raab as PM is ‘horrific’ prospect, Sturgeon says

📌On visit to Brussels, first minister says Scotland wants to remain in 'European family of nations.'
politico.eu/article/boris-…
📌Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon attacked top Tory leadership candidates on Tuesday, saying they are to blame for “the mess that the U.K. is in” over Brexit and the idea of them becoming prime minister is “pretty horrific.”
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📌Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon branded the Tory leadership contest “a real horror show.”

📌She said she does not have a favorite among the candidates, adding: “I think they would all be pretty disastrous.”
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📌If the next prime minister is willing to take the U.K. out of the EU without a deal, Sturgeon said she would not rule out accelerating legislation in the Scottish Parliament to prepare for a second referendum on Scottish independence.
politico.eu/article/boris-…
‼️Massive hat tip to @paulhanley12 for inspiring me to take these dives into the many links between Brexit & 2016Election
Thank you!
Exclusive: Brexit Referendum ‘May Need to Be Redone’
patribotics.blog/2017/11/24/exc…
“It is now incumbent on the government to act.

We have heard minister after minister say the referendum is valid. This is proof it was not,” she said.

“Going ahead with Brexit in these circumstances would be the biggest betrayal of our democracy of all.”
theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/m…
6/22/19: Video confirms Bannon links to Boris Johnson

Far-right activist claimed he helped with Boris Johnson’s resignation speech as foreign secretary
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…
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