Thread by @jonallendc

Here’s what we’re being asked to believe:

• A nation so powerless in the face of Russia that it lost major chunks of its territory and needed billions in foreign aid to forestall collapse devised and executed an undetected plan to frame Russia for hacking U.S. election 1/x

• This plan was executed with the help of a conspiracy of Deep State actors throughout the intelligence community who falsely accused Russia of crimes while aiding Kyiv.

• This was also done in a way that led IC leaders in Obama & Trump admins to conclude Russia did it. 3/x

• The conspiracy involved actors in other national governments that still say it was Russia.

• The Trump DOJ indicted Russians despite knowing it was actually the Ukrainians framing Russia.

• Trump has sometimes said Russia did it even though he knew it was Ukraine.

4/x

• The top anti-corruption priority in cleaning up the Washington swamp is a foreign prosecution of a former Vice President who doesn’t hold office.

• That has nothing to do with that Vice President running for president against the current president.

5/x

• It is not only appropriate, but required, that the current president use both the force of the federal government, his personal attorney and his leverage with foreign governments to open investigations into one of his opponents that couldn’t be done by his own DOJ.

6/x

• Somehow, Hunter Biden was not only not qualified or competent to sit on the board of a Ukrainian gas co. but was also — inexplicably — involved in a Ukrainian effort to influence the 2016 election.

• It’s corrupt for Biden’s kid to profit from his name but not for Trump 7/x

• The president withheld money for Ukraine and asked Ukraine to open the investigation as one of two favors on the same call; there are text messages showing a broader scheme for same; and POTUS has blamed Portman and Perry ex post facto; but he did nothing wrong.

8/x

• Rudy Giuliani is the super-sleuth who has figured it all out.

• The Ukraine theory isn’t just some fever swamp hybrid of propaganda and conspiracy theory created to distract, protect POTUS and help his re-elect.

9/9