Thread by @HKrassenstein

Here it is! The EXCLUSIVE 50-page report by the Krassenstein's unraveling an attempted plot to destroy
@IlhanMN via a court case in Florida.

I will be tweeting the key findings from this incredibly dangerous plot in this thread throughout the day

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@IlhanMN Alan Bender, a witness in a Florida court case, who provided a deposition implying that Ilhan Omar is a foreign agent, said that those close to the case and allegedly coordinating with the plaintiff’s attorney, Rebecca Castaneda, were working to 'FORGE DOCUMENTS' related to Omar

@IlhanMN As seen below, @Alanbender1965 told the Krassensteins in July that @ImamofPeace (Imam Tawhidi) was working w/ @AdelleNaz (Adelle Nazarian) to pay her for "doctoring up" documents related to Ilhan Omar.

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz There is also a source who provided text messages to the Krassensteins showing alleged text messages from Tawhidi to attorney Rebecca Castaneda, where Tawhidi directs Castaneda to provide specific people access to yet-to-be-released documents related to the Pittard case.

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz The Pittard case is a Florida case where Matthew Pittard is suing the Emir of Qatar's brother for trying to force him to murder two Americans. Bender was a key witness in the case, and his deposition is what claimed Ilhan Omar is an agent of Qatar. tampabay.com/news/pasco/201…

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz In July Alan Bender, who would work alongside @imamofpeace as well as Castaneda to push his seemingly false deposition to the right win media, initially told the Krassensteins that Tawhidi was actually an agent of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, prior to suddenly taking Tawhidi's side.

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz Before this sudden shift in Bender's rhetoric towards Qatar and Imam Tawhidi, he made dozens of claims regarding Tawhidi's plot to destroy Ilhan Omar and @lsarsour (Linda Sarsour) "by Christmas" Here are just a handful of those claims:

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour Bender said: "Imam Tawhidi, who “works with Kushner and MBZ, flew to Toronto to meet with me for over 5 hours to convince me to join them” (Bender sent Brian Krassenstein a photo of him and Tawhidi shaking hands, allegedly in May) See photo below:

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour Bender also told Krassenstein that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner & UAE Crown Prince MBZ are coordinating with Tawhidi to attack Ilhan Omar, and that the “team” wants to “defeat Omar and Linda Sarsour by Christmas”

See texts from July below between Bender & Brian Krassenstein

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour Bender told the Krassensteins in July that @Imamofpeace was working with a "team" which included multiple GOP donors and Reps. Names mentioned were @AdamMilstein @AdelleNaz @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten Robert Shillman and Nina Rosenwald. See Texts:

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten According to texts Bender provided Krassenstein, allegedly between Tawhidi and himself, the goal of this "team" was to:

1) Make Ilhan Omar the Face of the Dem Party
2) Have Trump Attack her
3) Tarnish the entire Dem Party by destroying Ilhan Omar before 2020

See text:

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten Within 3 wks of Bender sharing this message with the Krassensteins, Trump shifted from calling people like Pelosi and Maxine Waters “The Face of the Democratic Party” to suddenly using the phrase on Ilhan Omar.

See below:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1162040855328436225

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1162495014037049346

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten Bender: “Tawhidi told me ‘Our strategy will reveal itself as we get closer to re-electing Trump’… he always uses the word ‘re-electing’ Trump as if it’s a done deal. He says his boss MBZ, & Putin, with the help of their friends in D.C. decide who becomes president in 2020.”

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten Additionally, in July, Bender told the Krassensteins:

“Tawhidi and his team have big government names involved with them, and the team intends to link Qatar to Ilhan soon."

In Oct they did just that, but oddly enough Bender's own deposition is what 'linked' her to Qatar.

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten Before Bender became the star witness in the Pittard case, he told the Krassensteins that:

"Tawhidi admitted to me that the original application form will be manipulated to discredit Ilhan”

and said:

“I got [Tawhidi] by the balls and I keep squeezing him for more info”

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten You may be thinking, 'who cares what Bender says about @Imamofpeace [Tawhidi]".

Tawhidi is the one who admittedly worked with Castaneda to come up w/ the questions to ask Bender in the Pittard case deposition, enabling him to "out' Omar as a Qatari Agent

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@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten As you can see Tawhidi tells @JackPosobiec that he used the Castaneda-led case to add a "legal coating" to Bender's upcoming claims. Oddly enough, Tawhidi also claims that Castaneda represents him as well. (seems like a major conflict of interest to me on Castaneda's part).

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec Switching directions, on July 22 Castaneda files suit against the Emir of Qatar's brother on behalf of Pittard and another client: courtlistener.com/docket/1595453…

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec Within hours, on July 23, The Baghdad Post reports on the Castaneda case & claims that the court document of the case was “leaked by Imam Tawhidi in retaliation to Qatari media targeting him.”

thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/43691…

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec While this is all happening, as Tawhidi finds out through another man, Abdullah Al-Saleh, that the Krassensteins have information on him, Tawhidi begins to claim that Brian and Ed are "Qatari Agents". His site soon published the following LIE about them:

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@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec On July 24, Bender calls Brian Krassenstein, this time claiming that Saudi Arabia had offered him $20 Million to turn on Qatar and offer the Saudi's their secrets. He also claims that Tawhidi was paid by the Saudis through accounts in London, via Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec Oddly enough, over 3 months later, Castaneda's client Matthew Pittard, who followed just 170 people on Twitter at the time began following none other than Reema Bandar Al-Saud. (He has deleted his account)

See evidence below:
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@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec On Aug 8th Tawhidi makes an odd tweet to Omar saying that Kushner will “corner Qatar” and “make a deal with them.”

“If Trump wins 2020 and Kushner corners Qatar again, they will make a deal with him. Qatar will sell you out just to satisfy Kushner. "

https://twitter.com/imamofpeace/status/1159701556268158978

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec Around this time, (Aug 8-15) Alan Bender began to shift his position significantly. Although he still communicated with the Krassensteins regularly, instead of claiming that Tawhidi was forging docs to smear Omar, he began claiming that Tawhidi's claims are all legitimate.

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec August 15 also happens to be when Alan Bender found out that the Krassensteins were suing Tawhidi for defamation stemming from multiple tweets & an article which claimed they worked for Qatar. Bender even claimed that Tawhidi had evidence that the Krassensteins were Qatari agents

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec On Aug 19, Castaneda sent a letter to the Qatari embassy asking about Benders trip to Doha in June. (This is the trip Bender later claims he was told about Omar). This is the first time Bender's name came up in regards to this case & like clockwork, Tawhidi leaks it:

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec Throughout the weeks to follow, Tawhidi tweets multiple messages claiming the Krassensteins are paid by Qatar, working with Omar, as Alan Bender's rhetoric towards Omar turns negative and his claims about Tawhidi turn positive:

https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1168516412463206401

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec Over the course of 2 months Brian and Ed Krassenstein tried to reach out to Rebecca Castaneda repeatedly, telling her that they had crucial information related to the Pittard case and one of the witnesses, but she refused to return any calls.

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec Then on Sept 17 Tawhidi tweets out a thread explaining how he specifically targeted the Pittard case to shed light on Qatar's crimes. This echoes his claims with @JackPosobiec later.

https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1174060419591196672

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec On Sept 20 Castaneda (tweet removed), teases Vicky Ward with a Twitter reply, suggesting that her ties to money will reveal who Ward is. Tawhidi also has consistently attacked @VickyPJWard as an agent of Qatar. Archive:

https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1193667559360516096

https://web.archive.org/web/20190920231208/https://twitter.com/RCastanedaUSA/status/1175180628410503168

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec @VickyPJWard Note that on November 11th Donald Trump Jr.(who Bender claimed was working with Tawhidi) retweeted Tawhidi. The tweet was attacking CNN’s Vicky Ward for being paid off by Qatar. The original tweet by Tawhidi CC’ed Don Jr.

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec @VickyPJWard On October 23, Bender provided his deposition to Castaneda. The deposition was 200+ pages and claimed that Ilhan Omar was working for Qatar and that she funneled state secrets to Iran. The deposition was based on what Bender claimed he was told by Qatari officials in June

@IlhanMN @alanbender1965 @Imamofpeace @AdelleNaz @lsarsour @AdamMilstein @RepLeeZeldin @SteveDraz @bhweingarten @JackPosobiec @VickyPJWard Finally on Nov 25 the attack on Ilhan Omar, which had seemingly been planned for months officially began.

Literally hours prior to the first article being published on Saudi State-run Al Arabiya, Alan Bender contacted Brian Krassenstein threatening to sue him over sharing his...

ID with an individual who was familiar with his work. He also attacked them for “using his wife’s Twitter account,” to ‘lie’ about him.

Shortly after Bender's deposition went public Castaneda and Pittard deactivated their Twitter accounts, leaving no history of what they were liking, commenting on and retweeting. (We have archived it all, however). They were both anti-Omar

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The next day @abdullahalsaleh (Abdullah Al-Saleh) comes forward and claims that he can back up everything that Bender stated regarding Omar and Qatar. (This is odd given the fact that Bender's deposition was 200+ pages long.)

@abdullahalsaleh Recall that I told you all that Al-Saleh, like Bender, told the Krassensteins in July that Tawhidi was a UAE agent working for MBZ.

See texts below from Al-Saleh to Brian Krassenstein in July:

@abdullahalsaleh As most of the media (even the right-wing) seem to ignore Bender's claims, refusing to cover the story, On Nov 30, Tawhidi makes an odd Tweet, which I assume is in an effort to get ahead of what material he assumes the Krassensteins have on him. In the Tweet, he once again says..

that the Krassensteins are working with Qatar, and then uploads an audio recording of him apparently talking to someone, bragging about how he fooled everyone into believing that he is an agent of the UAE.

Throughout the ordeal, both Brian and Ed were repeatedly threatened and intimidated by both Bender and Tawhidi. Bender went as far as to claim that he would testify under oath that he was told that both Krassensteins were agents of Qatar, claiming he had proof.

He also tried intimidating both Krassensteins by bringing up an old civil suit against them saying that they don't want this information to begin to circulate.

It's not my job to understand all of this, but this w/out a doubt delegitimizes Bender's claims (Omar/Qatar) as he himself admitted Tawhidi was working with forged documents to defame Omar. Tawhidi was then apparently working directly with Castaneda who deposed Bender.

Summary:

-Bender Initially claimed Tawhidi was a UAE/Saudi Agent, working with Kushner & Don Jr to help Trump in 2020, by defaming Omar

-Bender then becomes the key witness and defames Omar in the Pittard case

-Tawhidi pushes the case & allegedly coordinated with the attorney

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