Thread by @karolcummins

Kosovo & TeamTrump

Trump’s comment stating the US meddles in foreign nations elections takes on new meaning when we discover Grenell, Whitaker & Nuneberg doing just that in Kosovo, promoting their favored candidate Kadri Veseli.

Kosovo is holding an early gen election Sunday.

📌The vote comes after the outgoing prime minister resigned following a request from a Hague-based court to question him over war crimes against ethnic Serbs during and after the country's 1998-99 war.
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The outgoing prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, having been questioned in The Hague but not charged, is standing for re-election with his Alliance for Kosovo Future. He faces Vjosa Osmani, Kadri Veseli of the Democratic Party of Kosovo; & others.
nytimes.com/aponline/2019/…

All candidates except Osmani are former fighters of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which triggered the 1998-1999 war that ended when NATO intervened on behalf of the Albanian majority.
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Background

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, is recognized as a sovereign state by more than 100 UN members including the U.S. but has been BLOCKED from entering the EU, as well as the U.N. thus far due to lobbying from Serbian officials.

thehill.com/policy/interna…

Other issues in the election include bringing down the unemployment rate which stands at more than 25%, organized crime and corruption.

🔑Of course corruption and Organized Crime is rampant in Kosovo.
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📌Tensions between the both sides escalated late last year when Kosovo's government implemented a 100 percent tariff on goods imported from Serbia, up from a 10 percent tariff announced earlier in the year #Tariffs sound familiar?
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Leaders from the two governments met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron in April, at which time Kosovo's president expressed optimism about reaching a deal
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7/19/19: Kosovo's prime minister said he was resigning because he had been called to a war crimes court in The Hague to answer prosecutors' questions related to Kosovo's violent independence struggle two decades ago.
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‼️Kosovo Election

Kadri Veseli once met Trump is now trying to parlay the photo op into an election victory for himself.

“Unlike my rivals, I am the only candidate running on promoting a strong and public partnership with the USA & the Trump WH.”🙄
nypost.com/2019/09/30/kos…

🔑Veseli met Trump at the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. At the event, Trump “immediately recognized … concern for Kosovo and our region as a whole,” Veseli said.

The National Prayer Breakfast favored by Butina, you don’t say....
nypost.com/2019/09/30/kos…

📌Veseli, who is Kosovo’s parliamentary speaker and the leader of his party, has been branding himself as Trump’s biggest fan on the campaign trail.
nypost.com/2019/09/30/kos…

🔑Enter Trump’s shadow foreign policy Dirty Tricksters in support of Veseli as Prime Minister of Kosovo.

Grenell

https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1180180428591747072?s=21

Matthew Whitaker

https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1180188225777750016?s=21

Sam Nuneberg

https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1180204642333941760?s=21

🔑Veseli is one of the founders and leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army and chief of the Kosovo Intelligence Service.

nypost.com/2019/09/30/kos…

🔑Thaci and parliament speaker Kadri Veseli are also ex-KLA commanders and local media say they could also be summoned to The Hague for questioning for war crimes.

Now you know why Trump wants to install him as PM....

reuters.com/article/us-kos…

SHIK reported disbandment in 2008.

Key figures in SHIK were current Speaker of Parliament, Kadri Veseli, and MPs Elmi Reçica, Fadil Demaku, Bekim Haxhiu and former MPs Fatmir Xhelili and Latif Gashi, Trepça CEO Ferat
Shala and Ilmi Ramadani.
botasot.info/lajme/173547/k…

🔑The LDK has accused SHIK in the past of being behind the assassinations of its members, but these claims were rejected by SHIK’s former boss, Kadri Veseli.
balkaninsight.com/2012/08/06/kra…

🔑A report released in 2010 about SHIK, quoting an anonymous source claimed that the supposedly defunct body was still receiving $200 million a year from bribery, extortion, racketeering, and protection services.

Get it?
balkaninsight.com/2012/08/06/kra…

I suspect this election interference by TeamTrump is about 1) wrangling Transnational Organized Criminal networks, 2) prevent Serbia & Kosovo from joining the EU & NATO & 3) control legislation of The Hague.

Anyone else have any insight?

@threadreaderapp unroll P & TY.

📌The chamber in The Hague is governed by Kosovo law, but staffed by international judges and prosecutors. It is funded by the European Union, which both Kosovo and Serbia hope to join

Convenient if Veseli were to be elected, if Kisovo governs The Hague.
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Note the list of GOP Senators

H/T @MariaKChica
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