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💰Banks, Farage, Bannon & Trump

Banks’s affairs have also fallen under scrutiny outside the U.K. Banks, Wigmore, and Farage came to public attention in the U.S. shortly after the 2016 elections.
#Brexit #2016Election
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🔑In London, few days after they were photographed with Trump outside of Trump Tower Banks and Wigmore again met with Yakovenko the Russian Ambassador, detailing their meeting with Trump & passing on contact info for members of Trump’s transition team.
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🔑Yakovenko was expelled from the US as a Soviet spy in 1986.

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🔑As early as October, 2015, Banks asked Steve Bannon, who later became the head of Trump’s campaign, for help in exploring possible sources of American funding for Leave. EU.

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Echoes of Bannon/QAnon’s populist’ projection:

“The Leave campaign Banks led was an ‘insurgent protest movement against the smug globalism of the ruling class—against the “big politics” that Farage decried in his victory speech.’”

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🔑Hint: the ‘Globalists/TOC/RUmob funded Brexit/2016Elex

📌They simply flipped the script!

If you pay close attention to the narratives spun, just about every accusation they hurl & spin reveals their wrongdoing/complicity.

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Leave/Trump blew dog whistles.

📌Within two days of the mass shooting at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida, Leave. EU had tweeted a photograph of isis fighters alongside this message:

“The free movement of Kalashnikovs in Europe helps terrorists.
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📌How they exploit acts of terrorism to sow fear:

“Vote for greater security on June 23. Vote #Leave.” Accompanying text—“Act now before we see an Orlando-style atrocity here before too long”—made the exploitation of the Florida tragedy explicit.”
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Fact: HRC, Obama rescheduled first 2016 appearance first set in June in Wisconsin, but was rescheduled in the wake of the Orlando/Pulse Nightclub Shooting/terrorist attack.

Trump, BernieBros, YoungTurks & TV Pundits endlessly bashed HRC re WI—get it?

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“Vote Leave for greater security on June 23. Vote #Leave.” Accompanying text—“Act now before we see an Orlando-style atrocity here before too long”—made the exploitation of the FL tragedy explicit.”

#Terrorism = Handy tool to distract, sow fear & disinfo.
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2/19, Leave.EU and Eldon Insurance, which is owned by Banks, were collectively fined £120,000 by the U.K. iC, a regulator who monitors breaches of data privacy, b/c Leave. EU had sent 100s of 1000s of political adverts to Eldon customers
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A whistleblower made it clear that he didn’t want to work on the political stuff. He wasn’t comfortable with it & didn’t want to be complicit in it.” Another said, “Some of these images were really horrible especially the immigrants & refugee stuff. 8Chan?
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Common Narrative Themes

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👹Bannon’s Strategy👹

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🔑E-mails leaked to the Observer revealed that Leave. EU had misrepresented to British investigators the extent of its ties to Cambridge Analytica, the now disgraced and insolvent British data firm funded by American Robert Mercer to microtarget voters.
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🌀Cambridge Analytica🌀

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🔑In “The Bad Boys of Brexit,” Banks flatly states that Leave. EU had “hired Cambridge Analytica.” Now Banks denies his assertion. 🙄
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Leaked e-mails show that discussions extended into 2016—beyond what Banks had previously admitted. Bannon is copied on some of these e-mails; in one of them, Banks writes that he “would like to get CA on the team, maybe look at the first cut of the data.”
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🔑When news of the e-mails broke, Collins called them evidence of “direct links between the political movements behind Brexit and Trump,” and redoubled his campaign to establish a broad-ranging inquiry.
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🔑Adam Schiff: There were “parallels and interconnections in abundance” between the apparent Russian efforts to influence Brexit and the well-documented, and possibly decisive, Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. election.
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🔑Shiff described Putin’s ambassadors in D.C. and in London as conduits of “malign influence.” Banks & Farage have become persons of interest in Robert Mueller’s investigation into links between the Trump campaign & Russia

Barr then shut down Mueller
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#Banks
#Farage
#Bannon
#Mercer
#CambridgeAnalytica
#Trump
#Brexit
#2016Election
#VoteLeave
#PulseShooting
#Immigration
#Yakovenko
#Putin