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1. Here's the NYT this morning puzzling over Trump's deference to Saudi Arabia and his willingness to let its rulers dictate US foreign policy

Not mentioned, even in passing: Trump's extensive financial relationship with the Saudis

FOLLOW. THE. MONEY.

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2. The NYT doesn't mention how the Saudi government is propping up Trump's struggling hotels in New York and Chicago

Or how the Saudis are spending vast sums at his hotel in DC

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3. The NYT doesn't mention how the Saudi government bought an entire floor of one of Trump's condo buildings in NYC

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4. The NYT doesn't mention this 2015 quote from Trump: "Saudi Arabia, I get along great with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much"

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5. The NYT doesn't mention Trump's demonstrated interest in doing business in Saudi Arabia, including registering eight business entities during the 2016 campaign.

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6. The NYT doesn't mention that one of Trump's closest friends and largest political contributors, hedge fund billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, recently secured a $20 BILLION investment from the Saudi government popular.info/p/the-saudi-mo…
7. Is this just a wild conspiracy theory?

Here is Trump YESTERDAY describing why he's so eager to help Saudi Arabia

"Saudi Arabia pays cash. They've helped us out from the standpoint of jobs and all the other things."

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UPDATE: 8 hours after popular.info's report, Facebook has taken down the Ukrainian "I Love America" page & every other page identified in the piece

This was a huge network pushing pro-Trump propaganda with greater reach than the NYT & WashPost popular.info/p/massive-i-lo…
Facebook is a $500 billion company. But they are not holding themselves accountable.

But there is too much at stake. That's why I'm dedicating myself to accountability journalism.

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Just heard back from Facebook: "We are removing these Pages for violating our policies against spam and fake accounts, and are continuing to investigate for any further violations."
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🚨 TRUMP JUST ADMITTED TO THE QUID PRO QUO 🚨
I'll add that the quid pro quo isn't even necessary for this to constitute an impeachable offense. Asking a foreign government to investigate one of your political leaders is bad enough. But he's admitted to the quid pro quo aspect as well.
The inaction by political leaders of both parties in the face of brazen lawlessness will not be judged kindly by history
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1. A massive Facebook Page called "I Love America" — which has 1.1 million followers — is actually run by Ukrainians

Recently, the page has started pushing caustic pro-Trump propaganda

It's the tip of the iceberg

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2. The Ukrainian "I Love America" page is repurposing memes used by the Internet Research Agency, the Russian group highlighted in the Mueller report that interfered in the 2016 election

The big difference is this operation is MUCH BIGGER

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3. "I Love America" is part of a complex network of Ukrainian-run Facebook pages that seek to amass large audiences and then funnel them to rabidly pro-Trump pages.

These include pages featuring cute dogs and Jesus

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