Thread by @windthin

1/4 Well, look at that. Wikileaks worked for Russia. Roger Stone worked with Russia. Paul Manafort worked with Russia.

#TrumpColluded. Period. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

2/4 G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel Details Ties Between 2016 Trump Campaign and Russian Interference

A nearly 1,000-page report confirmed the special counsel’s findings at a moment when President Trump’s allies have sought to undermine that inquiry. nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/…

3/4 Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Final Report From Russia Investigation

Committee made DOJ referrals about some witnesses it says may have misled Congress; Manafort was ‘grave counterintelligence threat’ wsj.com/articles/senat…

4/4 Read the final chapter of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the Russia investigation: intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…

Giuliani consulted on Ukraine with imprisoned Paul Manafort via a lawyer washingtonpost.com/world/national…

Manafort was ‘grave counterintelligence threat’ due to Russian contacts, Senate panel says

The Senate panel report says Manafort worked with a Russian intelligence officer who may have been involved in the DNC hack.

politi.co/3hbz5xM

https://twitter.com/RepSpeier/status/1295744758674071556?s=20

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1295720689043939333?s=20

Final Senate Report on ‘Aggressive’ Russian Interference: Manafort Was a ‘Grave Counterintelligence Threat’

The Senate Intelligence Committee describes Russia’s activity in 2016 as an “aggressive, multifaceted effort” to disrupt U.S. democracy.
thedailybeast.com/us-senate-rele…

Statement of Senate Intel Vice Chair Warner on the Release of Volume 5 of Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan Russia report

warner.senate.gov/public/index.c…

Peter Strzok with a strong argument that the FBI didn't dig deep ENOUGH, in part because of Barr's outright, blatant obstruction.

https://twitter.com/petestrzok/status/1295878590928695296?s=20

Revelations from the final Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russia show how Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Sam Clovis, Erik Prince, and others colluded with Russia in an effort to gain dirt on Hillary Clinton, then lied about it.

https://twitter.com/windthin/status/1296062617639890951

So Russia tricked dupes like Don Jr. & Ted Cruz into spreading #misinformation and #propaganda about the Portland protesters, including tales that they "brought a stack of bibles to burn." businessinsider.com/top-conservati…

1/3 Here's Marco Rubio cementing his legacy as a Trump stooge by doing the same thing to the final Senate Intel Committee report on Russian election interference that Bill Barr did to the Mueller report.

PS: The report says the exact opposite.

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1295711197300428801?s=19

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https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1295842708809015298?s=20

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https://twitter.com/TomJChicago/status/1295772506784137219?s=20

Senate report finds Paul Manafort passed campaign data to Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik; the committee was unable to determine why or what Kilimnik did with that information, in part due to the pair's use of encrypted messaging apps. axios.com/senate-intelli…

Miles Taylor on CNN: "Do not bring up Russia with the President."

Remember: this is how Putin has frequently deals with his rivals & others who stand against him.

This is the man Trump bows to.

Spokeswoman says Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny poisoned, unconscious in intensive care

#AllRoadsLeadToPutin

apnews.com/f1d8517bf9490e…

1/6 The Alexei Navalny story is taking a strange turn.

Doctors are claiming he was not poisoned by is suffering from a metabolism disease and refused to release him to a German rescue plane. washingtonpost.com/world/navalny-…

2/6 Aleksey Navalny’s team had earlier said doctors treating the opposition leader wore protective clothing because the toxin poisoning him is so dangerous, contradicting that assessment and calling to mind radioactive poisoning Putin often employs.

thedailybeast.com/navalny-poison…

3/6 Navalny diagnosed with metabolic disease: Siberian hospital

Traces of industrial chemicals were found on the Russian politician's clothes and fingers, the head doctor says. aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/r…

4/6 As Alexei Navalny Remains in a Coma, Doctors Refuse to Transfer Him to Germany

Despite suspicions that the Russian dissident was poisoned, doctors say lab tests hadn’t turned up traces of poisons or toxins wsj.com/articles/as-al…

5/6 Navalny aide says doctors are blocking transfer to cover up poisoning

washingtonpost.com/world/navalny-…

6/6 The German doctors have finally recently been given access to Navalny; we do not yet know if he'll be transferred to Berlin, or if the story of low blood sugar and a metabolic issue are true or not.

reuters.com/article/us-rus…

More than a dozen Trump regime officials, current and former, described a clandestine relationship between Jared Kushner and the CEO of a Kremlin sovereign wealth fund.

Revealed: Jared Kushner’s Private Channel With Putin’s Money Man
thedailybeast.com/jared-kushners…

We have forgotten the great lesson of WWII.

Dictators cannot be appeased.

They must be stopped.

From .@Renew_Democracy -

1/2 Unsurprisingly, Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was poisoned, according to the Berlin hospital treating him.

cnn.com/2020/08/24/eur…

2/2 Only now that there is indisputable evidence (meaning he can no longer deny or ignore it) has Mike Pompeo finally condemned it.
cnn.com/2020/08/25/pol…

I think the reason this is being ignored is it just confirms what we all knew or suspected already, and with the pandemic on and election so close, well.

The bombshell report on Trump and Russia is flying under the radar — here are 5 reasons it shouldn’t rawstory.com/2020/08/the-bo…

U.S. Troops Injured in Syria After Collision With Russian Vehicles

The altercation is the latest clash between Russian and American ground patrols in northeastern Syria after the United States withdrew from much of that area last fall. nytimes.com/2020/08/26/wor…

The Russian navy conducted major war games near Alaska involving dozens of ships and aircraft, the military said Friday, the biggest such drills in the area since Soviet times. apnews.com/1f6c6dceba65e8…

1/2 Is anybody, and I mean ANYBODY, surprised to learn that the Trump regime is both-sidesing election interference by Russia and trying to make it look like China and Iran are doing the same thing for the other side?

thehill.com/homenews/house…

2/2 The aims and actions of Russia, China & Iran are not the same. Only one country – Russia – is actively undertaking a range of measures to undermine the presidential election & to secure the outcome that the Kremlin sees as best serving its interests. speaker.gov/newsroom/82920

1/3 This cements Rod Rosenstein's legacy as a traitor and a coward.

Justice Dept. Never Fully Examined Trump’s Ties to Russia, Officials Say

nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/…

2/3 Former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein maneuvered to keep FBI investigators from completing an inquiry into whether the president’s personal & financial links to Russia posed a national security threat.

mediaite.com/news/rod-rosen…

3/3 The GOP-MAGA claim of "No Collusion" just went up in smoke, as we now know that Trump has been protected from the start from investigation.

You don't block investigations if there's nothing to find. axios.com/rod-rosenstein…

Could this suicide have been driven by the Trump undermining of our intelligence agencies?

Top US intelligence official died by suicide, medical report reveals

Anthony Schinella died when his expertise may have been needed most independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

Thanks to .@AliAdair22 for pointing me to this thread that Rod Rosenstein's move to the private sector, where he now represents an Israeli tech firm that the Senate Intelligence Committee identified as a foreign interference actor for the Trump Campaign.

https://twitter.com/robertjdenault/status/1300126510620258306

Another Kremlin critic is attacked, as opposition leader Navalny recovers in German hospital.

Prominent Russian blogger Yegor Zhukov was beaten near his Moscow home late Sunday in the latest attack on a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin. washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a…

Trump loves dictators like Vladimir Putin.

Give #DictatorTrump four more years, and he may well decide to follow in their footsteps the way he's always wanted.

From .@ReallyAmerican1 -

1/6 CNN and Buzzfeed received the final Mueller investigation interviews, the 10th release since they won a 2019 lawsuit against the DoJ.

cnn.com/2020/09/01/pol…

2/6 The documents contain the first extended view into what Paul Manafort told Mueller’s office about the political operative Roger Stone and what Trump knew about what Stone was up to.

3/6 An hour before Trump officially fired James Comey as FBI director on May 9, 2017, the WH asked for Comey’s contact info. When the FBI inquired if they needed classified or unclassified email, a WH representative replied, “it doesn’t matter, just give us his email address.”

4/6 “Russian President Vladimir Putin has ‘bit off more than he can chew’ in his government’s efforts to interfere in the U.S. election,” a witness, whose name is redacted, stated.

5/6 One witness said the Trump campaign had almost no fundraising structure & as late as May 2016 was “dormant or non-existent.” The campaign seemed to have few controls & it was unclear whether anyone was checking to ensure that non-US citizens weren’t donating to the campaign.

6/6 Redactions to the interview with Timothy Barrett, the former spokesperson for the Office of Director of National Intelligence, indicate that one investigation is still ongoing. buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…

People associated with the infamous St. Petersburg troll group that was part of Russia's attempt to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election are trying to target Americans again, Facebook announced Tuesday after receiving a tip from the FBI. cnn.com/2020/09/01/tec…

1/3 Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was poisoned with chemical nerve agent, German government says
Navalny is being treated at a German hospital after falling ill. abcnews.go.com/International/…

2/3 Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group, the German government said Wednesday.
cnn.com/2020/09/02/eur…

3/3 Novichok refers to a class of nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union.

1/2 I disagree that we don't know why; Trump is a wannabe dictator, he owes a lot of money to shadowy places, and he will do ANYTHING if it benefits him. He has no boundaries.

https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1301171684582608902?s=20

2/2 More evidence of Trump’s subservience to Putin — and we still don’t know why

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

Some day we might found out what the heck is going on with this; the final Senate Intelligence Committee report proved entirely too vague, and we now know Rod Rosenstein blocked the FBI investigations.

The Trump-Alfa Bank Server Mystery Resurfaces
justsecurity.org/72262/the-trum…

Where is the outrage? Where is the U.S. leading as the bastion of freedom and right? Who are we now?

This is why we must vote AGAINST #TrumpChaos to restore REAL law and order!

https://twitter.com/biannagolodryga/status/1301322070702383104?s=20

As election nears, Trump builds the very 'deep state' he railed against

White House manipulation of US intelligence on Russian and Chinese interference may rival WMD fiasco that led to Iraq war, say experts theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s…

1/2 A Homeland Security intelligence bulletin warned that Russia is trying to undermine the integrity of the election by “amplifying” false claims that mail-in voting will result in widespread fraud. abcnews.go.com/Politics/russi…

2/2 Intelligence bulletin warns Russia amplifying false claims mail-in voting will lead to widespread fraud cnn.com/2020/09/03/pol…

1/3 Democratic senators called on the Trump administration to impose sanctions on Russia for seeking to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election. politico.com/news/2020/09/0…

2/3 In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, 11 senators cited the nation’s top counterintelligence official publicly stating that Russia is using several measures “to denigrate former Vice President Biden” & other Democrats before the election. washingtonpost.com/politics/democ…

3/3 While the Treasury Department declined to comment, Attorney General William Barr claimed that he viewed China as more of a threat than Russia. “I’ve seen intelligence. That’s what I’ve concluded,” he said, with no elaboration.

Pence and Trump seek ways to turn things around before the election...

A parody inspired by the Silent movies of the 1920s.

From .@TheProtestFilms -

1/4 In new book, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen describes alleged episodes of racism and says president likes how Putin runs Russia. washingtonpost.com/politics/cohen…

2/4 Cohen sheds light on Trump’s admiration of Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he admired him most because he “had the balls to take over an entire nation and run it like it was his personal company.”

apnews.com/2b171cabf18015…

3/4 Cohen's book gives a window into Trump's thoughts, and the way he idolizes dictators, though it claims that his campaign was too disorganized and incompetent to have conspired with Putin.

4/4 It should be noted that while Cohen's book reveals a lot, it's clear that there are attempts in it to rehabilitate his own image and, strangely, still protect Trump on some level, whom he still says he admires to a degree. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/05…

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was brought out of an induced coma after poisoning by a nerve agent.

The Charité clinic in Berlin says he was responding to voices, but it's too early to know the long-term impact of the poisoning.
washingtonpost.com/world/russian-…

Masha Gessen, author of ‘Surviving Autocracy,’ tells María Teresa Kumar about Trump and Putin's similarities: ‘Anxiety is the autocrat's friend. I think Trump got elected by speaking in large part to the anxieties of the American people.’ msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/t…

1/2 Can we even call it intelligence once Trump's people get through with it?

Whistleblower alleges top Trump appointees abused authority by telling officials to alter intelligence to match Trump claims amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/09…

2/2 Senior DHS official alleges in whistleblower complaint that he was told to stop providing intelligence analysis on threat of Russian interference
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

House Intelligence Committee Releases Whistleblower Reprisal Complaint Alleging Serious Misconduct By Senior Trump Administration Officials to Politicize, Manipulate and Censor Intelligence to Benefit Trump intelligence.house.gov/news/documents…

Race for Coronavirus Vaccine Pits Spy Against Spy

The intelligence wars over vaccine research have intensified as China and Russia expand their efforts to steal American work at both research institutes and companies. nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/…

1/3 D.H.S. Downplayed Threats From Russia and White Supremacists, Whistle-Blower Says

The former head of the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence division accused senior leaders of warping the agency around President Trump’s political interests. nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/…

2/3 Whistleblower says top Trump appointees tried to censor reports on Russian influence

An administration official accused Homeland Security leaders of intervening because the reports made “the president look bad.” politico.com/news/2020/09/0…

3/3 Whistleblower details alleged politicization of intelligence at DHS

Complaint filed with watchdog includes claims of interference in intelligence. abcnews.go.com/Politics/whist…

1/3 A detail from the Woodward book some have missed; Trump has kicked off another nuclear arms race by telling Woodward things he really should not have.

Trump bragged to a reporter that he built a secret new nuclear weapon, according to bombshell book businessinsider.com/trump-told-rep…

2/3 Trump reportedly claimed that the US built a secret nuke. Here's what he's probably talking about taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/…

3/3 I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before. We have stuff that you haven’t even seen or heard about. We have stuff that Putin & Xi have never heard about before. There’s nobody — what we have is incredible. thehill.com/policy/defense…

1/3 While he never had definite proof, Trump's first DNI Dan Coats has been revealed to have firmly believed Putin had kompromat of some sort on Donald Trump, a belief that only grew more firm with time. thehill.com/homenews/admin…

2/3 Trump's former spy chief has 'deep suspicions' that Putin has blackmail on Trump, according to Bob Woodward's new book.

Dan Coats was the president's top intelligence official from March 2017 until August 2019. businessinsider.com/bob-woodward-b…

3/3 Woodward reports that Coats and his staff examined the intelligence regarding Trump's ties to Russia "as carefully as possible" and that he "still questions the relationship" between Trump and Putin despite the apparent absence of intelligence proof. axios.com/bob-woodward-b…

Microsoft alerted Joe Biden's campaign that over the past 2 months, Russian state-backedhackers targeted staff at the Washington-based campaign strategy & communications firm, SKDKnickerbocker, which is working with Biden & other prominent Democrats. reuters.com/article/us-usa…

1/5 Treasury Dept has designated pro-Russia Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach for sanctions related to election interference. Derkach has met with Rudy Giuliani as part of his pursuit of dirt on Hunter Biden.

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1304108527468900353?s=20

2/5 Treasury sanctions anti-Biden Ukrainian lawmaker for election interference

Andriy Derkach, a pro-Russian Ukrainian, has promoted discredited allegations against the Democratic presidential nominee. politico.com/news/2020/09/1…

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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1304098583109566464?s=20

4/5 The U.S. Treasury added Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach to its "Specially Designated Nationals" list for alleged efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, including by promoting "false & unsubstantiated" allegations targeting Joe Biden. axios.com/andrii-derkach…

5/5 Derkach told POLITICO last month that he had sent Biden-related materials to US lawmakers: politico.com/news/2020/07/2…

Russian hackers who disrupted 2016 election targeting political parties again, Microsoft says washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

1/2 Russian Intelligence Hackers Are Back, Microsoft Warns, Aiming at Officials of Both Parties

Beijing is mostly targeting Biden officials, where Trump has claimed China would move to aid Biden.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1304135067858620416?s=20

2/2 China is also growing more adept at targeting campaign workers. But contrary to Trump administration warnings, Beijing is mostly targeting Biden campaign officials. nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/…