Why does anyone find this confusing?
Trump's efforts to manufacture dirt on his presidential-campaign opponent Joe Biden were bankrolled by Putin agent Dmitry Firtash, who sought Trump's aid in taking over Naftogaz. Trump provided the aid—completing the federal crime of bribery.
Trump's efforts to manufacture dirt on his presidential-campaign opponent Joe Biden were bankrolled by Putin agent Dmitry Firtash, who sought Trump's aid in taking over Naftogaz. Trump provided the aid—completing the federal crime of bribery.
PS/ We have all the proof on this. Trump made Parnas his Biden-dirt envoy in Ukraine—by directly tasking him—as Parnas was being paid by Putin agent Firtash. Firtash wanted Trump—in return—to get the CEO of Naftogaz fired to clear Firtash's *massive* debts. Trump worked to do so.
PS2/ Parnas *bought* himself the role as Trump-Firtash middleman by donating *lavishly* to Trump's re-election effort—money that couldn't have come from him (he was bankrupt) and clearly came, instead, from Firtash, who also wanted Trump's DOJ to stop his extradition to the U.S.
PS3/ In fighting his extradition to the U.S., Firtash hired—this will blow your mind—*Trump's own lawyers*, so that *all three* of Parnas, DiGenova and Toensing could claim to be working on the legal teams of *both* Trump and Firtash and therefore couldn't disclose their efforts.
PS4/ Russia was a bribery case. Ukraine was a bribery case. Trump's collusion with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Israel? Bribery, bribery, bribery. It's *always* been about bribery.
And guess who *publicly says* U.S. businessmen *should be able to bribe* foreign officials?
Trump.
And guess who *publicly says* U.S. businessmen *should be able to bribe* foreign officials?
Trump.
PS5/ None of this is theory. These are bare facts taken from major-media investigative reports. I said on HBO in 2019—with Bill Maher—that *the* struggle in exposing Trump isn't that we don't know the facts...but that the facts are *so public* folks assume they must be innocuous.
PS6/ *The* summary of the Trump era—you're welcome in advance, future historians—is that if you commit the most audacious crimes in American history *in public*, you can (or could, at the beginning of the digital age) convince many Americans that you must have done nothing wrong.
PS7/ Years of TV and movies and silly cable punditry led America to believe criminal investigation isn't a careful marshaling of facts—many obvious, many public—but a *super-secret tape* in which Trump cackles evilly and says "Those stupid Americans—I fooled them!"
Well, he did.
Well, he did.
PS8/ I'm going to have much more to say on all this tomorrow.
