0A/50 Let us recall how Mr. Trump and his campaign, including Mr. Flynn, benefited from Russian support and cooperated with Russian citizens and institutions. Here are 50 ways.
0B/50 The facts in this thread are a matter of public record, and the sources can be found in my book "The Road to Unfreedom." #RoadToUnfreedom #Obamagate
1/50 In 1984, Russian gangsters began to launder money by buying and selling apartment units in Trump Tower (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 220).
2/50 In 1986, Mr. Trump was courted by Soviet diplomats, who suggested that a bright future awaited him in Moscow (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 220).
3/50 In 1987, the Soviet state paid for Mr. Trump to visit Moscow, putting him up in a suite that was certainly bugged (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 220).
4/50 In 2006, Russians and other citizens of the former Soviet Union financed Trump SoHo, granting Mr. Trump 18% of the profits -- although he put up no money himself (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 221).
5/50 In 2008, the Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev in effect gave Mr. Trump $55 million in an unusual real estate deal. In 2016, Mr. Rybolovlev appeared in places where Mr. Trump campaigned (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 221).
6/50 In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. explained that the Trump Organization was dependent upon Russia. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 221).
7/50 In 2010, the Russian propaganda server RT helped American white supremacists to spread the lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. In 2011, Mr. Trump became the most prominent backer of this lie. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 223).
8/50 Mr. Trump was endorsed by the Russian political technologist Konstantin Rykov in 2012 (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 102).
9/50 In April 2013, the FBI busted two gambling rings inside Trump Tower, which according to authorities were run by a Russian citizen. The US attorney who ordered the raid was later fired by Mr. Trump (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 103).
10/50 Mr. Trump expressed the wish, on 18 June 2013, to be Mr. Putin's "best friend." (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 102).
11/50 Mr. Trump was paid $20 million by Russians to spectate at a beauty pageant in summer 2013. The man who did the work, Aras Agalarov, would later help to arrange a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russians. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 102).
12/50 In summer 2014, a Russian advance team was sent to the United States to plan the cyber war of 2016 (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 194).
13/50 In 2014 Mr. Putin's advisor Sergey Glazyev anticipated the "termination" of the American elite (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 226).
14/50 In 2014 a Russian think tank, the Izborsk Club, outlined the principles of a new information war to be fought against the United States (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 226).
15/50 Steve Bannon met with Russian energy executives in 2014 and 2015, and tested messages about Putin on American voters. He would later run Mr. Trump's campaign (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 194).
16/50 In late 2014 Russia penetrated the email networks of the White House, the Department of State, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 194).
17/50 When Mr. Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, Russia's Internet Research Agency created and staffed a new American Department. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 227).
18/50 In October 2015, while running for president, Mr. Trump signed a letter of intent to have Russians build a tower in Moscow and put his name on it. The Trump Organization planned to give its penthouse to Mr. Putin as a present (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 222).
19/50 In October 2015, Mr. Trump tweeted that "Putin loves Donald Trump" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 222).
20/50 Felix Sater, who had brokered deals between the Trump Organization and Russian investors, wrote in November 2015 that "Our boy can become president of the United States and we can engineer it" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 222).
21/50 Mr. Trump was endorsed in late 2015 by the think tank of the pro-Kremlin oligarch Konstantin Malofeev (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 150).
22/50 In early 2016, the chair of the foreign relations committee of the Russian parliament said that Mr. Trump could "drive the Western locomotive right off the rails" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 218).
23/50 In February 2016, Mr. Putin's cyber advisor boasted: "We are on the verge of having something in the information arena that will allow us to talk to the Americans as equals" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 227).
