Thread by @SethAbramson

(THREAD) I hope you'll RETWEET this thread on Roger Stone and Trump-Israel collusion, which is inspired by the just-released excerpt from Proof of Corruption—preorderable now, out September 8—found at the link below. This is a story you haven't heard yet. read.macmillan.com/lp/proof-of-co…

1/ The Roger Stone chapter in Proof of Corruption (preorder link below) explores misconceptions about the Trump-Stone relationship in 2016 and—even more significant—investigative reports regarding Trump-Israel collusion that will astonish most Americans. amazon.com/dp/1250272998?…

2/ The simple truth is that Trump's recent pardon of Stone was only a small part of a comprehensive, many-months-long cover-up scheme intended to hide from Americans and law enforcement the president's pre-election collusion with an entity he knew was a cut-out for the Kremlin.

3/ As detailed in the excerpt, one of the two GOP politicians (with Trump) believed by GOP brass to be paid by Putin—Dana Rohrabacher—coordinated with the White House to try to get Assange to say Russia didn't hack the DNC (thus exculpating Putin, Trump, and Assange all at once).

4/ Meanwhile, Roger Stone spent 2017 assuring Assange he had access to "the highest level" of government—Trump—in his effort to get Assange pardoned. Thus, Trump was working to get Assange where he could control him; trying to change his story; and planning a pardon if he could.

5/ And Trump's efforts to extradite, tamper with, and pardon Assange (detailed in Proof of Corruption) really were as much about exculpating the president and Stone as about clearing Putin and Assange—in large part because this sphere of the Trump-Russia scandal is about Israel.

6/ As I detail in Proof of Collusion (2018) and Proof of Conspiracy (2019)—the the first two books in the Proof series that Proof of Corruption (2020) concludes in a matter of weeks—Trump spent 2015-6 selling US foreign policy in a sequence of bribes aimed at aiding his campaign.

7/ Israel mades its pre-election demands known to Trump both directly and indirectly. Netanyahu met with Trump personally—as did Netanyahu's friend Sheldon Adelson. Netanyahu family friend Jared Kushner worked directly with Netanyahu's ambassador (Ron Dermer). And that's not all.

8/ Other Netanyahu aides—Eli Groner and George Birnbaum—worked with men from the campaign, notably (as to those 2 aides) George Papadopoulos and Rick Gates. Meanwhile Michael Flynn corresponded with Israeli officials and Ekim Alptekin, a businessman with significant Israeli ties.

9/ The Israelis wanted America out of the Iran nuclear deal. And they wanted the US embassy moved to Jerusalem. And in an overarching way, because of his friendship with both the late Fred Trump and with the Kushner family, Netanyahu wanted—needed—the Trump family to be in power.

10/ But what no books before the Proof series did was detail *what Israel offered Trump in return*—namely, what was the *other* side of the illegal, impeachable, quid pro quo bribery scheme Trump participated in with the Israelis pre-election in 2016? Here's where Stone comes in.

11/ As detailed in the Proof of Corruption excerpt atop this thread, Stone directly engaged with Netanyahu's agents to coordinate receiving Turkish intelligence aimed at harming Clinton in October 2016—an event Stone and his Israeli contacts described as an "October Surprise."

12/ Israel would launder the Turkish intelligence for Erdogan, acting as its conduit presumably because Israel's ties to Trump's campaign were already so extensive, intimate, and overlooked by media—treated as invisible—that it'd be easy to solicit illegal election aid that way.

13/ The reference to "the Lieutenant General" in Stone's contacts with Netanyahu's agent—and the Israeli-Turkish nexus in the Trump-Israel meeting Stone set up with Trump's knowledge (per Stone), which Trump himself *planned to attend*—suggests Turkish agent Flynn's involvement.

14/ But that's not the full story. That's not even an appetizer to the full story.

15/ The bribery elements I've referenced so far in this thread—Israel, cyberintelligence, Stone, Flynn, WikiLeaks, Russia, and Turkey—are not coincidental, as they do not only appear in this quadrant of Trump-Israel collusion. They appear *everywhere* in that course of collusion.

16/ Netanyahu aide George Birnbaum sent a shady Israeli cyberintelligence firm to aid Trump's campaign in spring 2016—a firm partially controlled by Russians, and with connections to both Flynn and Flynn associate Ekim Alptekin (a Turkish businessman well-connected in Israel).

17/ The firm, Psy-Group, conducted a cyberwarfare campaign on Trump's behalf that Trump's son Don *personally approved at Trump Tower in early August 2016* (as reported by the NEW YORK TIMES).

That campaign *mirrored* the Russian campaign being run by Psy-Group's Kremlin owners.

18/ Psy-Group owner Joel Zamel—who shares a lawyer with the Trumps (process that for a moment)—received funding for his project from the Saudis (MBS) and Emiratis (MBZ), and later confirmed to Trump adviser George Nader (also an MBS/MBZ agent) that the campaign had been executed.

19/ I urge you to read the last few tweets multiple times, as what they describe comes only from *major media sources*.

These events are detailed—and exhaustively footnoted—in my book Proof of Conspiracy (2019), the immediate predecessor to the book whose excerpt you just read.

20/ So even as Stone was colluding with Netanyahu's agents on how to provide Trump's campaign with valuable cyberintelligence, Netanyahu's agents—possibly the same ones—were setting Trump up with an Israeli cyberintelligence structure for (indeed effectively within) his campaign.

21/ Stone's emails confirm Trump knew about all of this—something we could have intuited even before we had those emails from the fact that former Netanyahu chief of staff George Birnbaum was dealing directly with the top two men in Trump's campaign: Gates and his boss, Manafort.

22/ So now we better understand why Trump lied to Mueller about his contacts with Stone. Why he lied about his knowledge of WikiLeaks. Why the Trump White House lied about Rohrabacher's mission in London. Why Psy-Group suddenly disbanded and disappeared after the 2016 election.

23/ The fact of the matter is—as we've seen in this thread—Trump's collusion with Russia dovetailed with his collusion with Israel, which collusion was partly funded by the Saudis and Emiratis and made use of Turkish intelligence. In other words, Trump's top allies *bribed* him.

24/ To unravel Roger Stone's pre-election actions is to reveal the connections between Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, MBS, MBZ, and Erdogan: the core group of criminals—in the US and abroad—who helped Trump steal the 2016 election through a massive cyber campaign that was 100% illegal.

25/ So when Stone told NBC's Howard Fineman that he could flip on Trump if Trump didn't commute his sentence, you see now how serious the threat was and how necessary it was Trump commute Stone's sentence—i.e. to save himself—over the objections of DOJ and his own chief of staff.

CONCLUSION/ Everything here is from major media, which means it's also in the unreleased FBI Counterintelligence Division report on the Trump-Russia scandal—which Mueller said he couldn't make any reference to in his Report. The Proof series is the only place you find this story.

PS/ I'll be adding the Trump-Israel excerpt from Proof of Corruption to the index of excerpts available on my website. If you click on the link below and look right under the book's title, you'll find links to the COVID-19, China, and Turkey book excerpts: sethabramson.net