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‼️WTF Is Trump’s Former AG Matt Whitaker Doing Meddling in Kosovo’s Election?

Trump’s former appearing Attorney General appears to be celebrating his freedom from the searing highlight of the Trump adm by involving himself in… Kosovo’s election.
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Whitaker, maybe extra well-known for his previous position with a “scam” firm that promoted time journey tech & the hunt for Bigfoot than for something he did throughout his quick stint on the DOJ, hit the Kosovo marketing campaign path w/ gusto this week.
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The short-lived AG stumped for Kadri Veseli, a Trump-supporting candidate Tuesday in an look that was rapidly met with a assertion from the U.S. embassy in Kosovo stressing Washington’s neutrality in the nation’s Oct. 6 elex.

#SureJan

@RepAdamSchiff ^^
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U.S. Embassy Stmt regarding the upcoming elections, Oct 1, 2019:

The US gov’t does not endorse or support any political party or candidates in this week’s elex. We respect the right & responsibility of the voters of Kosovo to choose their future. #SureJan
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📌With remarks that echoed the rhetoric Trump used in his now notorious name with Ukraine’s president, Whitaker urged the tiny nation to enhance ties with the U.S. by electing his “friend,” conservative politician Kadri Veseli, to “fight corruption.”
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🔑Note: “Fight Corruption” is TeamTrump’s latest attempt to flip the script & weaponize the key words “#FightCorruption” as a cudgel with which to attack their political opponents.

After leaving the Trump adm, Whitaker was employed by political consultancy Axiom Strategies as managing director of its Clout Public Affairs division (efile.fara.gov/docs/6700-Exhi…) though he didn’t plan to register as a lobbyist.
#FARAfuqqed.

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📌Whitaker was successful with the gang in Kosovo.

📌He was hailed with cheers of “USA!” and “Donald Trump!” by a crowd of a whole bunch, in an look Veseli’s staff edited down into a brief clip with a wailing guitar soundtrack.
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📌But Whitaker is hardly the poster boy spokesman for the battle to fight corruption, considering his scam Co & the many controversies throughout his brief tenure operating Trump’s DOJ.

📌Note: rumor has it Whitaker is the GOP criminal network wrangler.
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📌Whitaker’s firm, World Patent Marketing, was shut down by a federal decide after it was accused by the Federal Trade Commission of operating “a scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars.”
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🔑Whitaker has defended Trump’s push for Ukraine to “look into” Democratic rival Joe Biden as nothing greater than an try and “end corruption worldwide,”
#SureJan #PureProjection

What is Whitaker’s role in UKR?🤔
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Matthew G. Whitaker, Trump’s former AAG, said on Fox News Channel, “This is a clear example of someone that’s part of the deep state in the intel community taking advantage of this whistleblower procedure and then trying to create this firestorm.”🙄
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🔑Kadri Veseli, Whitaker’s host appeared to revel in the obvious endorsement from an in depth Trump ally, even posting images of their journey to Burger King collectively, a spot Veseli known as “a little piece of America.”
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📌Veseli faces a raft of different candidates on Sunday together with Vjosa Osmani, who’s hoping to be elected as Kosovo’s first prime minister and has additionally taken a tricky stance in the marketing campaign towards “corruption.”
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📌Voters in Kosovo will pick a new parliament on Sunday in a snap election dominated by rampant corruption, sky-high unemployment and poor relations with neighboring Serbia that it must try to mend if it is to move closer towards eventual EU membership.
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Of course #TeamTrump will pull out all the stops to prevent Serbia & Kosovo from making peace & joining the EU inorder to keep corruption rampant & Putin/TOC pleased.

#ShadowForeignPolicy

🔑Why TeamTrump likes Veseli:

📌Veseli is the founder of the controversial KLA & a key figure in SHIK.

📌SHIK was an underground intelligence organization credited with post-war murders of political figures in Kosovo.
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🔑The SHIK emerged from the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, following the end of the war with Serbia in 1999, and then became the intelligence arm of the now ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK.
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SHIK claimed in June 2008 that it had officially disbanded.

🔑In 2010 a report was released about the agency, claiming that the supposedly defunct body was still receiving $200M a year from bribery, extortion, racketeering, & protection services. #TOC
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Get it? Is Whitaker in Kosovo to set up a new criminal network facilitated by their favored candidate Kadri Veseli as Prome Minister? 🤔🤔🤔

@threadreaderapp unroll please and thank you.

#Whitaker #Kosovo

Robert Wexler’s 3/17/18 e-mail to the Trump Administration re Kosovo

H/T @MariaKChica
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Robert Wexler
Ballard Partners FARA

H/T @MariaKChica
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Nunberg Kosovo FARA filing

H/T @ultralite001
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