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🔥“Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame #Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. #Republicans have used **similar talking points** to defend @realDonaldTrump in #impeachment proceedings.”

The @GOP is doing #Putin’s bidding.🤬

nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/…
“#Russian🇷🇺intelligence officers conveyed the information to prominent Russians and Ukrainians who then used a range of intermediaries (oligarchs, businessmen and associates) to pass the material to American political figures and even some journalists.”🔥

nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/…
US intelligence officials warn: “#Russia’s🇷🇺operation to blame #Ukraine has become more relevant as #Republicans have tried to focus public debate during the #impeachment inquiry on any Ukrainian role in the 2016 campaign.”

@thespybrief @GOP
nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/…
US officials say that the Kremlin relied on #Russian🇷🇺mobligarch Oleg Deripaska (Manafort’s boss) to spread disinformation about Ukrainian interference. After his ouster from the campaign, Manafort told Rick Gates in 2016 that #Ukraine—not #Russia🇷🇺—stole Democratic emails.🙄
Despite repeated warnings from US intel officials, the @GOP keeps pushing the FALSE Kremlin narrative that #Ukraine—not #Russia🇷🇺—interfered in the 2016 elections.

Putting party over country—by spinning a #Russian🇷🇺conspiracy theory—is how the @GOP chooses to defend Trump.🤬
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🚨OCTOBER: @KyivPost published this guide of @realDonaldTrump’s #Ukrainegate co-conspirators.

NOW: @RudyGiuliani is in #Ukraine conspiring with members of this “Shady Cast of Characters” as part of a corrupt effort to enlist a foreign country’s help to influence our election.🤬
Exhibit A: Rudy Giuliani met with KBG-trained, pro-#Russia🇷🇺Ukrainian, Andriy Derkach, as part of his corrupt scheme to manufacture dirt to discredit the #ImpeachmentInquiry and smear a political rival.🤬

#Ukrainegate #ImpeachTrump
Exhibit B: Rudy Giuliani met with Andrii Telizhenko, another member of the #Ukrainegate “Shady Cast of Characters.”

And they are brazenly tweeting about it.🤬

#Ukrainegate #ImpeachTrump
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🔥WHOA🔥

@RudyGiuliani just met in #Ukraine with Andriy Derkach, a pro-#Russia🇷🇺"shady Ukrainian lawmaker...who graduated from an academy run by the KGB (and) posted photographs on Facebook of the 2 men meeting at an undisclosed location."

@thespybrief
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@RudyGiuliani @thespybrief “Holy s***. I don’t believe in such coincidences,” Ukrainian anti-#corruption activist Daria Kaleniuk wrote of Giuliani’s arrival in #Ukraine **just days** ahead of peace talks between Zelensky and Putin in Paris on Monday.😳

#TrumpRussia
Rudy just met in #Ukraine with former pro-#Russia MP Andriy Derkach just days ahead of peace talks between #Ukraine’s President Zelensky and Putin🇷🇺.

#Ukraine’s president learned of Rudy’s arrival FROM THE MEDIA. “Equally shocked by his arrival was the US embassy.”😳
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🔥After a reporter asks, "do you hate @POTUS?" as she walks away from the podium, @SpeakerPelosi responds: "I don't hate anybody. This is about the Constitution, and the facts that lead to POTUS’ violation of his oath of office.

Don’t mess with me.”😎
The reporter who asked this incindiary question was James Rosen of Sinclair.🙄

These guys should know better than to mess with Pelosi.🤣

This is as forceful of a response that I’ve *ever* heard from @SpeakerPelosi (even in private).

After Pelosi's total mic drop, you can hear one of the reporters whistle (wow).🔥

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Karol Cummins
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Lisa Page: worked on the Snowden & Boston Bomber cases— is it any wonder she is a target of TrumpPutin’s wrath?

7/2016, the FBI & the IC were seeing increasing signs from a variety of intel sources that TeamTrumpers were tied to a variety of RU intel services.
💣LisaBites2💣

& that the Kremlin was in the midst of trying to manipulate the 2016 election with a sweeping info warfare & propaganda effort.

“U.S. intel services concluded Russia mounted a massive disinfo campaign to implicate Ukraine in 2016 meddling & hide its own role.”
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Charges of Ukrainian Meddling? A Russian Operation, U.S. Intelligence Says

Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/… via @NYTimes

cc @realDonaldTrump @PressSec @WhiteHouse @GOPLeader @senatemajldr
Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.

“Moscow’s goal is to cast doubt on established facts, said current and former officials.…
‘_“The strategy is simply to create the impression that it is not really possible to know who was really behind it,” said Laura Rosenberger, the director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, which tracks Russian disinformation efforts.’
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Here's the NYT pc that @maddow is talking about re the Intel briefing the Senate got about Russia/Ukraine. It's important, so I've threaded it. It's long, but everyone should read this. #FridayFeeling #SaturdayMorning
nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/…
2-"Republicans have sought for weeks amid the impeachment inquiry to shift attention to President Trump’s demands that Ukraine investigate any 2016 election meddling, defending it as a legitimate concern while Democrats accuse Mr. Trump of pursuing fringe theories for his benefit
3-"The Republican defense of Mr. Trump became central to the impeachment proceedings when Fiona Hill, a respected Russia scholar and former senior White House official, added a harsh critique during testimony on Thursday. She told some of Mr. Trump’s fiercest defenders in
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💣Aiding&Abetting💣:

The years long narrative ‘Ukraine rather than RU meddled in the 2016 elex’ is a RU Intel Op, US Intel says.

US Intel officials informed senators and their aides of the origin of this narrative & how it serves RU

Yet GOP continue to amplify the falsehoods
💣Aiding&Abetting💣

RU had engaged in a yearslong campaign to essentially frame Ukraine as responsible for Moscow’s own hacking of the 2016 election.

The briefing came as Republicans stepped up their defenses of Mr. Trump in the Ukraine affair.
💣Aiding&Abetting3💣

The revelations demonstrate Russia’s persistence in trying to sow discord among its adversaries — and show that the Kremlin apparently succeeded, as unfounded claims about Ukrainian interference seeped into Republican talking points
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✅Charges of Ukraine Meddling IS a Russian Operation. US Intel says Russia’s run a yearslong disinformation campaign to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans are using the same Russian propaganda to defend Trump from impeachment nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/…
Blaming Ukraine has been Russia's go-to propaganda to try to export blame for its own crimes. Putin's larger strategy is to divide & conquer the entire postwar US-led democratic order, as historian @TimothyDSnyder chillingly warned us all in 2015: eastwestblog.net/2015/03/18/tim… #Maddow
Republicans were BRIEFED y'all‼️ They are KNOWINGLY trafficking in Russia's disinformation—planted here by a network of agents—Russians, Ukrainians, oligarchs, businessmen—to blame Ukraine for their own crimes. Let's face it: Trump & the entire GOP—what's left of it—are traitors.
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As @RitaKonaev notes, "Mattis had no problem disagreeing w/Obama about transgender people in the military or women in combat but won’t criticize Trump for asking foreign powers for dirt about political opponents.

This isn’t about him being above politics. This is his politics."
Excellent point here, and makes you wonder why Mattis' deference to the commander-in-chief is selectively applied in this manner 🤔
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