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1/ Sep 2, 2018:
"Ms Butina’s efforts to deal in Russian🇷🇺 jet fuel...involved: David Keene" [former NRA president] and "Mr Keene’s wife, Donna...
nytimes.com/2018/09/02/us/…

@kelly2277 @loonyberg @dianesbaker1 @EuphorbiaZ @itssuzann @carrybeyond @Loveon999 @Kendred11 @lovetogive2 @D2onTop @MarlaMHughes @DonnaSteffy @modernhomesla @Presidunce1 @j2dumfounded @WendyBugliari @Tentoads4truth @TheAngelOrsini @mizzunky @barbetta1 @KamalaMueller @markmetz @Cre8NoH8 @rigel2020 @ellyn_gesell @ThomasS4217 @SaysDana @PeteButtigieg @JerryFalwellJr 2/ ...a well-connected Washington lobbyist, and Ms Butina’s boyfriend, Paul Erickson, who ran Patrick J. Buchanan’s 1992 presidential campaign and who moved in rarefied conservative circles despite 👉allegations of fraud in three states👈." ◀️This is what the GOP is today. (more)

@kelly2277 @loonyberg @dianesbaker1 @EuphorbiaZ @itssuzann @carrybeyond @Loveon999 @Kendred11 @lovetogive2 @D2onTop @MarlaMHughes @DonnaSteffy @modernhomesla @Presidunce1 @j2dumfounded @WendyBugliari @Tentoads4truth @TheAngelOrsini @mizzunky @barbetta1 @KamalaMueller @markmetz @Cre8NoH8 @rigel2020 @ellyn_gesell @ThomasS4217 @SaysDana @PeteButtigieg @JerryFalwellJr 3/ "In March 2017, emails show, the couple [Erickson and Butina] 👉met a man in Virginia👈 who said he was seeking 👉5 million barrels of jet fuel👈. He offered to pay a finder’s fee of $1 million if they connected him with a Russian🇷🇺 refinery."
#LibertyUisInVirginia (more...)

@kelly2277 @loonyberg @dianesbaker1 @EuphorbiaZ @itssuzann @carrybeyond @Loveon999 @Kendred11 @lovetogive2 @D2onTop @MarlaMHughes @DonnaSteffy @modernhomesla @Presidunce1 @j2dumfounded @WendyBugliari @Tentoads4truth @TheAngelOrsini @mizzunky @barbetta1 @KamalaMueller @markmetz @Cre8NoH8 @rigel2020 @ellyn_gesell @ThomasS4217 @SaysDana @PeteButtigieg @JerryFalwellJr 4/ So that was in March 2017.
"In May 2017, the 🚩Defense Logistics Agency's🚩 energy arm finalized a contract worth approximately $900,000 with Freedom Aviation, a company owned by Jerry Falwell..."⤵️ h/t @loonyberg (more...)
[🚩We need a deep probe on DLA's contracts.]

@kelly2277 @loonyberg @dianesbaker1 @EuphorbiaZ @itssuzann @carrybeyond @Loveon999 @Kendred11 @lovetogive2 @D2onTop @MarlaMHughes @DonnaSteffy @modernhomesla @Presidunce1 @j2dumfounded @WendyBugliari @Tentoads4truth @TheAngelOrsini @mizzunky @barbetta1 @KamalaMueller @markmetz @Cre8NoH8 @rigel2020 @ellyn_gesell @ThomasS4217 @SaysDana @PeteButtigieg @JerryFalwellJr 5/ I have no idea how much jet fuel a gov't contract for $900K buys, but the "man in Virginia... was seeking 5 million barrels of jet fuel," which is apparently "nearly double what all of Russia’s🇷🇺 refineries export in a month." (more...)

@kelly2277 @loonyberg @dianesbaker1 @EuphorbiaZ @itssuzann @carrybeyond @Loveon999 @Kendred11 @lovetogive2 @D2onTop @MarlaMHughes @DonnaSteffy @modernhomesla @Presidunce1 @j2dumfounded @WendyBugliari @Tentoads4truth @TheAngelOrsini @mizzunky @barbetta1 @KamalaMueller @markmetz @Cre8NoH8 @rigel2020 @ellyn_gesell @ThomasS4217 @SaysDana @PeteButtigieg @JerryFalwellJr 6/ "On April 15, 2017, she [Donna Keene] pressed the young Russian [Maria Butina] to secure a 'soft corporate offer' from Gazprom for the fuel. 'I will NOT reveal the source [buyer?] at this point,' Ms. Keene wrote." (more...)

@kelly2277 @loonyberg @dianesbaker1 @EuphorbiaZ @itssuzann @carrybeyond @Loveon999 @Kendred11 @lovetogive2 @D2onTop @MarlaMHughes @DonnaSteffy @modernhomesla @Presidunce1 @j2dumfounded @WendyBugliari @Tentoads4truth @TheAngelOrsini @mizzunky @barbetta1 @KamalaMueller @markmetz @Cre8NoH8 @rigel2020 @ellyn_gesell @ThomasS4217 @SaysDana @PeteButtigieg @JerryFalwellJr 7/ Link to Apr 3, 2019 letter from American Oversight to Defense Logistics Agency in tweet #4. /end

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