@JaapTitulaer @SidneyPowell1 @drawandstrike Start here: The Downer Tip, did it include George's source for his info. I say it did not, just the statement taken to be foreknowledge of WikiLeaks (which it wasn't). So then FBI has to figure out: where'd he lean this, ie was it really foreknowledge. This is 2016
@JaapTitulaer @SidneyPowell1 @drawandstrike They don't want to interview George, because they don't want to tip off the campaign that they are investigating. But then how do they assess his statement? When they finally do interview him in 2017 they asked him if any "Russian" told him about the emails beforehand.
@JaapTitulaer @SidneyPowell1 @drawandstrike They don't bring up the statement to Downer. If they had started in their 2017 interview by reminding him what he told Downer, he might have cleared this up right then and there, ie that it was just gossip.
@JaapTitulaer @SidneyPowell1 @drawandstrike Instead they asked him about "Russians", giving him no clue why they would ask that, because they haven't mentioned the Downer statement. His mind connects Russians to Mifsud because Mifsud was his connection to Russians.
@JaapTitulaer @SidneyPowell1 @drawandstrike So now he's thinking about mifsud and possible for knowledge of the emails, at this point I believe he remembers his reckless gossiping throughout 2016, in a split second he panics, and decides to throw Mifsud under the bus rather than cop to running his mouth.
@JaapTitulaer @SidneyPowell1 @drawandstrike It is the split-second decision, captured in the footnote I screenshotted, that he has been going with ever since, as a way to deflect from his own reckless gossiping having initiated the investigation, to it being all about the mysterious professor.
@JaapTitulaer @SidneyPowell1 @drawandstrike The real scandal here is that the FBI did nothing to ever validate that George's statement was anything beyond gossip. That's what our side needs to be screaming about. END
A very self serving request to unroll, please @threadreaderapp
