Thread by @WeirwoodRaven

So the long anticipated and much hyped Senate Intel Cmte Volume 5 is out.

I am starting with the recommendations.

intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…

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This part is interesting:

One of the ways foreign actors influenced the election was through “a private entity intertwined with the structures of democracy.”

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This has to do with Flynn, who lied to the FBI about subverting the acting President’s foreign policy, which he also did not take notes about because he knew what he was doing was problematic.

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#MikeFlynnIsGuilty

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This looks like they are tossing a bone to Flynn, Lindsey Graham’s damages feelings and Trump.

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There is a lot to unpack in here. They are calling about US companies, non profits and individuals for becoming involved in Russian plots to influence the 2016 election.

Like the #NRA.

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Trump Organization.

#TrumpCrimeFamily
#NRA
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The Russian government treats...organized crime...as [a tool] of the state, rather than independent, private entities. The Kremlin uses these entities to pursue- Kremlin priorities, including money laundering, sanctions evasion, and influence, operations.”

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The FBI has undoubtedly offered “defensive briefing to all presidential campaigns.”

What happens when they don’t listen? What if they welcome the foreign assistance like @realDonaldTrump did via Roger Stone?

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Jumping from the recommendations for a second, interesting bit here on @MarkWarner’s attempts to interview Christopher Steele. Appears those efforts may have attracted the attention of “Putin’s favorite industrialist,” Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

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Back to the Senate Intel Cmte's recommendation to protect campaigns from foreign influence efforts.

How does the Trump 2020 campaign shape up as far as addressing these concerns?

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It sure seems to me that the Trump campaign simply outsourced the "staff who have responsibilities that entail interacting with foreign governments" to willing co-conspirators like @RudyGiuliani and @SenRonJohnson.

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#TrumpCollusion
#Traitor

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"Campaigns should recognize that campaign staff are attractive targets for foreign intelligence services, and that staff who have not previously been sensitized to
counterintelligence threats are especially vulnerable to targeting."

What about US Senators like Ron Johnson?

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Who serves this role on the Trump campaign? They should be answering questions before a House committee.

"To facilitate these activities, campaigns should designate specific individuals to be responsible for counterintelligence and for cybersecurity issues."

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So I assume there is bipartisan outrage over @realdonaldtrump himself retweeting Russian propaganda?

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#TraitorTrump

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"The Russian Government has sought to understand, and potentially exploit, vulnerabilities in the U.S. campaign finance system in furtherance of Russia's election influence
activities."

#NRA
#TrumpOrganization
#TrumpCrimeFamily
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Yeah, so what's going on with the foreign interference in the 2020 election that Democrats keep hinting at?

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In other words, the Senate Intelligence Committee found that @realdonaldtrump abused his power of executive privilege to obstruct their investigation into foreign interference in the 2016 election.

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#TrumpCorruption

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Trump's allies added an attachment, attempting to use cleverly placed words to claim there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

This is false. Collusion was proved through Roger Stone's guilt. It is also why Trump commuted his sentence.

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This is pathetic:

"Volume 5...never explicitly states the critical fact: the Committee found no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government in its efforts to meddle in the election."

Never explicitly?!

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The Democrats refute the Republicans assertion of not explicitly saying collusion is by design: "The Committee has not sought to draw overarching conclusions about its investigation, opting instead to let the reader determine the significance of these events."

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The report states "The Committee's bipartisan Report unambiguously shows that members of the
Trump Campaign cooperated with Russian efforts to get Trump elected."

In other words, the Trump Campaign colluded with Russia.

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The @realDonaldTrump campaign colluded with Russia in 2016.

The report shows "concerning evidence that the head of the Trump Campaign was directly
connected to the Russian meddling through his communications with an individual found to be a
Russian intelligence officer."

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The Trump campaign colluded with Russia in 2016.

The report found that "Paul Manafort, while he was
Chairman of the Trump Campaign, was secretly communicating with a Russian intelligence
officer with whom he discussed Campaign strategy..."

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#TrumpCollusion

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Here's @DonaldJTrumpJr trying to collude with Russia. Nothing new, but always worth repeating.

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👀Wow. I think this is new.

After the @realDonaldTrump "campaign stated their desire to receive the promised derogatory Russian
information" then "expressed their displeasure that the Russian information that was presented was not sufficiently damaging."

#TrumpCollusion

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"...when self-interest is intertwined with
the goals of a malign Russian influence operation, and when self-interest promotes the known
Russian effort while also being promote...then self-interest and Russia's interest become one and the same."

@realdonaldtrump
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Differences between #MuellerReport and #Volume 5:

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Emphasis mine.

"Russia is actively interfering again in the 2020 U.S. election to assist Donald Trump, and SOME OF THE PRESIDENT'S ASSOCIATES are amplifying those efforts."

What will the Senate Intel do about Trump ignoring their suggestions? Nothing?

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.@RonWyden included this part on excessive redactions related to the Manafort-Kilimnik relationship and the ongoing 2020 Trump-Russia collusion:

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#TrumpCollusion

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Remember, Deripaska was suspected to be trying to influence the Committee's interview with Steele.

"The report also includes extensive information on Deripaska, a proxy for Russian intelligence and an associate of Manafort...much of that information is redacted as well."

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.@RonWyden: The public version of the report details how Kilimnik disseminated propaganda claiming Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election, beginning even before that election and continuing into late 2019."

These guys know about that: @RudyGiuliani @SenRonJohnson

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.@SenWyden: "From day one, I said that the Committee must follow the money - that is, scrutinize
Donald Trump's extensive financial entanglements with foreign adversaries."

#TrumpCrimeFamily
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.@RonWyden: #Volume5 has "new information about the Agalarovs, with whom Donald Trump had a long-standing financial relationship...Agalatov has significant ties to the Russian government, including to individuals involved in influence operations targeting the 2016 election."

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👀
.@RonWyden: @realDonaldTrump poses
a counterintelligence threat to the United States" and "has spent decades developing, maintaining, and relying on financial relationships with Russia."

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#TrumpCollusion

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Now to the beginning of #Volume5.

Findings:

“The Committee found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi- faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome ofthe 2016 presidential election.”

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Do you think Trump didn’t know EXACTLY what he was getting with Paul Manafort? A guy who had been involved with “Putin’s favorite industrialist” since 2004.

#TrumpCollusion
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Paul Manafort, who “from approximately 2004 to 2009...implemented these influence operations on behalf of” Russian Oligarch and Putin ally Deripaska.

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Paul Manafort, who worked with Russian intelligence.

You don’t think Trump knew about any of that? You don’t think they vetted him at all? Do you think the Russian business ties were A FEATURE of Paul Manafort? I do.

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Paul Manafort is proof of #TrumpCollusion.

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It is stunning corruption that Trump has continuously intervened to help or pardon the people who contributed to Putin’s plot. Stone, Manafort, Flynn etc.

#TrumpCollusion
#TrumpCorruption
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This provides background on the events leading to the #Mueller investigation.

It also gives insight into why the Democrats wrote off the GOP excuse that individuals were acting in their own self-interest.

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#MuellerReport

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This would seem concerning:

“Page met briefly with a figure about whom the Intelligence Community has counterintelligence concerns...Page did not explain...how he spent the bulk of several days.”

#CarterPage
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Is this one of those harm to an ongoing matter redactions?
@NewYorkStateAG

#NRA

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The public needs to be made aware of what propaganda Russia is circulating online now. It is a natsec concern.

“highly evolved tools used to shape popular sentiment were utilized in support of the Trump Campaign during the 2016 election season”

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This part is important. This is where the legitimate investigation into Flynn begins. It is also where Flynn subverted @BarackObama’s foreign policy, which Flynn knew was problematic.

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This is definitely referring at least partially to Flynn:

“Russia took advantage of members of the Transition Team's relative inexperience” and “Trump's desire to deepen ties with Russia to pursue unofficial channels through which Russia could conduct
diplomacy.“

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What's important here is that it has NOTHING to do with politicization at the FBI. Bipartisan.

"Regarding the Steele Dossier, FBI gave Steele's allegations unjustified credence, based on an incomplete understanding of Steele's past reporting record."

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In the recommendations section, the report discusses how Trump abused executive privilege to obstruct the report. Bipartisan statement.

Obama officials apparently didn't give them a hard time at all.

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#TrumpCorruption

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This is abuse of executive privilege. It is also a way in which Trump is continuing to attempt to bail out Flynn, who subverted the @barackobama's foreign policy, an act that Flynn knew was problematic.

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This section REJECTS @realDonaldTrump's legal argument that a letter between Don McGahn and @DevinNunes somehow provides legal cover for Trump's corrupt use of executive privilege to cover for Flynn, who colluded with Russia.

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The Republican led "Committee's position is that executive privilege for President Trump began
when he assumed Constitutional office, at noon on January 20, 2017.

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This destroys Trump's fantasies about going after Obama: "During the 2016-2017 Presidential Transition, President Obama was the person holding the Constitutional office of the President, & therefore the only person who could assert a Constitutional privilege for that period."
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The meeting that Trump and his supporters bring up to defend Flynn happened 15 days before Trump got executive privilege. When @barackobama had executive privilege, when the Russia investigation began.

https://twitter.com/WeirwoodRaven/status/1291025699193737216

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Why do you think Trump tried to exert phony executive privilege over these notes from Flynn where he lays out his plans for working with Russia?

#MikeFlynnIsGuilty
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More abuse of executive privilege and #TrumpObstruction.

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More evidence of obstruction and abuse of executive privilege.

It would be really great if @MichaelCohen212 could give us his take on the alleged "joint defense agreement."

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"Indeed, at least two witnesses [@DonaldJTrumpJr & Felix Sater] could have known that Cohen's statement falsely represented material facts about negotiations
over a deal for a Trump Tower Moscow."

Sater is still under subpoena by the Senate Intel Committee.

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Lots of convicted felons here, pleading the 5th. Manafort, Gates, Papadapolous, Flynn.

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GOP whipping boy Bruce Ohr was cooperative.

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I wonder if Roger Stone is mentioned with regards to wikileaks, or if Flynn's attempts to set up a back channel to undermine the sitting president's foreign policy was discussed, or maybe @DonaldJTrumpJr and @jaredkushner's attempt to set up a back channel?

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Remember, Manafort spent YEARS working with corrupt Russians on influence campaigns. While clearly not master criminals, they were able to cover their tracks enough to obstruct the Senate Intel Committee and #Mueller.

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Criminal behavior by convicted felons Paul Manafort and Rick Gates.

More damning evidence suggesting #TrumpCollusion.

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Manafort was up to his neck in connections to Russian Oligarchs and corrupt foreign governments, and Gates was there with him. While none of this is new, it is a refreshing reminder that some people are simply too guilty for Trump to pardon.

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Why do you think convicted felon Roger Stone wanted convicted felon Manafort so badly for @realDonaldTrump's campaign? Given that Stone was busy on his end colluding with Russians, do you think he needed help from someone experienced with collusion like Manafort?

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Why would Manafort, dare I say COLLUDE, with the Russians via Kilimnik? Kilimnik was charged with obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct and witness tampering by #Mueller.

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#TrumpCollusion

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Now why would he want to share Trump's polling data with Kilimnik?

We don't know because of obstruction of justice.

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I find it curious that the @realdonaldtrump campaign doesn't recognize the input of convicted felon, and according to Kilimnik, polling savant Paul Manafort.

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Back to the polling data that Manafort shared with Kilimnik for unknown purposes. Look at what @parscale says here:

"Here's where you need to fly tomorrow." They are targeting demographics for campaigning.

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I would imagine the Russians were using the data for the same purpose as @parscale- targeted voter influence campaigns.

You would have to imagine that Russia used the data to target Americans for online influence campaigns. We know they did this on Facebook.

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🚨 This is collusion.
Manafort is telling someone with GRU connections the specific demogrpahic based strategies that the @realDonaldTrump campaign was using in battleground states.

They are coaching the Russians on how to intervene on Trump's behalf.

#TrumpCollusion

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After supplying polling data to Kilimnik, Manafort directly tells the GRU asset which battleground states to focus on and the specific issues that resonate with the voters.

No doubt the information then made its way to the appropriate people to conduct online interference.

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Gee, do you think that strategy made its way into the toxic online propaganda that Russian trolls were spreading online in 2016?

This is more proof of #TrumpCollusion.

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This is convicted felon Roger Stone territory here. No doubt Stone could answer a lot of questions about Kilimnik's role in the distribution of the materials the GRU hacked from the DNC, released through wikileaks, and coordinated with Stone's own assistance.

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To be clear, Manafort's previous work includes contacts as far back as 2004 with Russian Oligarchs and years of experience with international influence campaigns and corrupt financial contacts.

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Looks like @seanhannity was in the loop with Manafort as well, or at least Manafort knew to target with him with disinformation that he would willingly disperse to the public.

Also, Manafort lays out the crimes here.

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Interference is still ongoing.

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Long time Manafort colleague, and "Putin's favorite industrialist" Deripaska is obviously connected to Putin and capable of relaying a message. These people are corrupt enough and smart enough to know how to make information switch hands once or twice to circumvent the law.

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Here's some information on how Deripasksa helped the @realDonaldTrump campaign undoubtedly collude with Russia.

#TrumpCollusion
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I remember this ridiculous story. Makes sense it was Russian disinformation.

A reminder that when you hear ridiculous claims on twitter that are completely unverifiable and backed by no facts, they are probably BS!

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Here's where Manafort 's firm was meddling in the election in Guinea, and was able to get "a Russian military ship to Guinea as a show of force to anyone who was trying to impede Deripaska."

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This line of Russian lies sounds familiar: Kilimnik claimed "that the Russia intervention "narrative" was "hugely, if not entirely, exaggerated."

I knew I heard it somewhere before. I wonder where this report originated?

the-sun.com/news/443569/ru…

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From a 1997 article on "exaggerated" Russian threats.

"Kulikov accused the United States of exaggerating its claims that Russian organized crime is a threat to U.S. national security and foreign businessmen and investors are at risk in Russia."

nti.org/analysis/artic…

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Here's an article on Russia's "exaggerated" domestic abuse issues:

themoscowtimes.com/2019/11/19/rus…

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Here's Glenn Greenwald, who is strongly anti #Mueller using the Russian disinformation strategy: "Note that all of these “errors” go only in one direction: namely, exaggerating the grave threat posed by Moscow and the Trump circle’s connection to it."

theintercept.com/2019/01/20/bey…
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Here's an article from the Nation which tries to downplay the seriousness of Russia's attempts to influecen the 2016 election, which we now know were EXTENSIVE and ongoing.

thenation.com/article/archiv…

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Are these writer's useful idiots for Putin? Do they realize they are regurgitating Kremlin talking points?

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Why don't they mention convicted felon Roger Stone's role in the timing and distribution of the stolen DNC materials? We know who knew about it, lied about it, caused Trump to perjure himself to Mueller about it, and communicated with Guccifer 2.0 about it.

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Further evidence of #TrumpCollusion as orchestrated by convicted felon Roger Stone. Nothing new, just always worth repeating and placing into print.

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How would it be legal for the @realDonaldTrump campaign to obtain @HillaryClinton's emails?

Why did they turn to Russian intelligence to try and get the emails?

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Another example of the @realDonaldTrump campaign KNOWINGLY SHARING RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION WITH THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

#Mueller told us that Trump expected to benefit from Russian efforts.

#TrumpCollusion
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This part is called #TrumpCollusion:

"Some of the individuals the GRU targeted for outreach with the Guccifer 2.0 persona were closely associated with the Trump Campaign, such as long-time Trump advisor [and convicted felon] Roger Stone."

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PROOF OF #TRUMPCOLLUSION!

Stone requested that Guccifer 2.0 retweet a column Stone had written about how the 2016 election could be "rigged against Donald Trump"; the GRU replied "done."'

Guccifer delivered.

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One out of place note:

On Trump's legal argument for executive privilege during the transition: "This argument contorts the PTA and-common understandings of executive privilege, and the Committee could identify no additional basis to support it."

Womp womp.

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I really wish John Podesta hadn’t clicked that link.

If you ever see this, don’t click that link!

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“While it was disseminating the fruits of its hacking publicly, the GRU also used its personas to contact individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and journalists interested in publicizing the materials.”

This trickles down to social media. Be smart.

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Looks like WikiLeaks is a source for Russian disinformation operations.

#Volume5
#WikiLeaks features Russian propaganda.

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GRU uses WikiLeaks to publish stolen DNC emails, Trump campaign (who expected to benefit) IMMEDIATELY use documents to their advantage.

#TrumpCollusion
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Confirmation of #TrumpCollusion.

After the DNC release, @realDonaldTrump told @MichaelCohen212 "I guess Roger was right, and "he guessed Stone knew what he was talking about.”

Trump knew what Stone was doing. Trump perjured himself to #Mueller.

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The GRU is using narratives that attempt to use Bernie Sanders to divide the left.

Remember that. It helps Trump.

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WikiLeaks is an outlet for GRU disinformation.

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Here’s the GRU laundering information, and if Guccifer 2.0 was involved, it calls into question if convicted felon Roger Stone was involved as well.

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#TrumpCollusion

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Further confirmation that the point of the #TrumpCollusion plot with Russia was to influence the election.

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Wow. So the Seth Rich conspiracy theory is also a Russian disinformation campaign, one which Fox News amplified, issued an apology over and is currently being sued over damages related to their reporting.

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“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.”
@GOPLeader.

Here’s @DanaRohrabacher pushing Russian disinformation.

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🚨🚨🚨This is the evidence of Trump’s perjury in his written answers to #Mueller.

Here are his responses on WikiLeaks to Mueller and what Michael Cohen said @realDonaldTrump had to say.

This means Rick Gates AND Cohen have confirmed #TrumpPerjury.

Wow.

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”Stone claimed to Corsi that he spoke with Trump "every day" and could "get a message" to Trump "at anytime."

Trump knew.

#TrumpPerjury
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Here's the President writing about Putin, and sounding like an 8 year old trying to make friends:

6/18/13 "Donald Trump wrote on Twitter, "Do you think Putin will be going to the Miss Universe pageant in November in Moscow? If so, will he become my new
best friend?"

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I wonder what is going on in this section about the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Why does it need to be so heavily redacted?

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"The night before the pageant, Trump was scheduled to attend Aras Agalarov's birthday party..."

What are these items?

"Several items on the hotel room bill may indicate additional social activity following the birthday party."

This isn't potty stuff is it?

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"Trump was initially booked in the Presidential Suite, but that reservation was later canceled, and Trump was moved to a different room, a Carlton Suite."

Why is this significant? Why was he room moved? Did the GRU move his room for better camera angles?

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Whoa!

"On the way to Trump's room, possibly on the evening of November 8, Schiller recalled telling Trump that Schiller had been approached at a meeting earlier in the day by a man who offered to send five women to Trump and Schiller's rooms."

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I would remember! I mean I don't recall!

"Schiller said, "I would remember if that happened. I don't recall. I know that didn't happen."

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Trump is pathetic.

"While we were there at the pageant, he [Trump] had
told me...that if anyone asked, for me to allude to the fact that Putin had been there; and that he said that no one
would know because he could have come in when the lights went down for the show."

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Here's @DonaldJTrumpJr acting excited because a Russian autocrat gave his psychopathic father,@realDonaldTrump, a "Fedoskino-style lacquer box."

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Here's Putin stooge @DanaRohrabacher accepting sheepishly presented Russian disinformation.

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Here's @DanaRohrabacher again willingly receiving what you have to assume he knows is Russian disinformation.

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Manafort told the Senate Intel Committee that he "wouldn't have told him to do a meeting with a government, any government official, unless legal had vetted it."

Kushner out corrupted Manafort. Yuck.

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Further evidence of #TrumpCollusion.

"The meeting. It's all set." Cohen recalled that Trump replied, "Okay. Keep me posted." Cohen has also said that, "Trump Jr. said to Trump that he was setting up a meeting in order to get dirt on Hillary Clinton."

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That sucks @DonaldJTrumpJr, your Dad is a jerk.

"you don't call my dad to say 'Hey, what's up?' in the
midst of everything that's going on. That's just not what he's into."

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The @realDonaldTrump campaign expressed audible displeasure at the quality of the Russian propaganda they were given at the Trump Tower meeting.

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.@jaredkushner: "It wasn't because they were discussing anything that was inappropriate." However, what Kushner came to the meeting for was inappropriate.

In fact, Kushner was upset at how appropriate the meeting was. It bored him.

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This sure looks like an attempt at collusion with the Trump campaign.

#TrumpCollusion
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Looks like Artem Klyushin might be responsible for a lot of the bot activity we see on Twitter.

This is disturbing: "Klyushin has also publicly stated that he "makes corrections to reality" and "changes emotional
and logical perceptions of situations."

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I wonder what Rykov and @realDonaldTrump talked about? Rykov seems like someone who was deeply involved in laundering Russian disinformation.

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Why would Trump talk to this guy?

"Rykov maintains contact with a network and pro-Kremlin bloggers and trolls, many of whom responded to calls by
Rykov to participate in U.S. election-related efforts online in 2016."

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Oh.

Also, they tried this in France and failed.

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Guilty people try to mislead or minimize events. People who are trying to conceal the truth mislead and minimize. We know Cohen acted on Trump's unspoken and implied commands.

This is obstruction.

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#TrumpObstruction

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I sense the GOP behind these words, as they qualify low level coffee boy Papadopolous as simply freestyling. Regardless, it was part of the foundation of the #MuellerReport. Also worth noting, in the additional views, Democrats will refute this argument.

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Convicted felon George Papadopolous is a clown. No wonder he went to prison.

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Here's @GeorgePapa19 confirming, perhaps inadvertently, that Russia hacked @HillaryClinton's emails.

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Perhaps I am approaching delirium from having read through roughly 650 pages of this report, but this part amuses me.

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Narrator Voice: Unfortunately for @GeorgePapa19, Robert #Mueller would be the one to mitigate those legal issues.

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A little more insight on the foundations of the Russia investigation:

"When asked why Papadopoulos told Kotsias about the Russians having Clinton's emails, Papadopoulos [said he] had a nervous reaction and blurted the information out
to Kotsias."

#Mueller
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More @GOP qualifying of @GeorgePapa19 efforts to collude with foreign governments, or at the least mouth off about foreign electoral interference. The Democrats will refute this argument in the additional views.

#Mueller
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Context: Papadopolous is pushing hard for a trip to Moscow with Corey Lewandowski. This is at least the third time he has raised the issue. Interestingly, Carter Page also thought a trip to Moscow was a good idea.

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#Mueller

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It feels surreal to point out that, while these events laid the groundwork for the #MuellerReport, today, NOW, @SenRonJohnson is openly sharing Russian disinformation, and @realDonaldTrump has retweeted it.

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Even the Trump campaign realized what a dummy Papadopolous was.

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A reminder that George Papadopolous "substantially hindered" the #Mueller investigation.

Guilty people obstruct, people with things to hide. Like convicted felon George Papadopolous.

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Carter Page acknowledges that he HAD BEEN previously approached by Russian intelligence, he just does not acknowledge that it happened related to the 2016 campaign.

#Mueller
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When Carter Page joined @realDonaldTrump's campaign, he almost immediately got to work for Vladimir Putin.

"Almost immediately after the March 21, 2016, announcement of the advisory
committee, the media began to focus on Page's Russia-related interests."

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Whats with Putin making Americans come kiss the ring on the 4th of July?

"Page was in Moscow from July 4, 2016, through July 9, 2016."

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Here's Carter Page, seemingly lobbying on behalf of Russia, while working for the @realDonaldTrump campaign.

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'The Committee asked Page about the source of his ''incredible insights," however, "Page had difficulty recalling his allegedly high level engagements."

#Volume5Released

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Carter Page loves Russia so much he paid his own way there right after being dismissed from the Trump campaign.

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AFTER being fired by the Trump Campaign, Carter Page submitted, and lied on, an application to the Trump Transition team.

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As a Democrat in NJ, I am not a fan of Chris Christie. I am however grateful to find out that he is NOT a traitor.

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Strange hypothetical defense from @jeffsessions. Remember, he recused himself from overseeing the #Mueller investigation.

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Reminder that Maria Butina was a Russian agent sent to infiltrate the #NRA, which she did.

The NRA is undergoing a very serious criminal investigation. I anticipate some upcoming redactions.

@NewYorkStateAG

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I swear I did not read ahead.

#NRA
@NewYorkStateAG

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I did not know that @AmbJohnBolton was involved with Buttina and the #NRA.

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Weird how the #NRA and Russia had the same interests.

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.@NewYorkStateAG investigation into the #NRA is going to get ugly.

#Volume5Released

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Reminder that Buttina met @DonaldJTrumpJr in 2016.

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And here I thought we were done with Carter Page.

Also, I don't believe for a second that Buttina didn't know exactly who Carter Page was.

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Hey now @realDonaldTrump!

Emphasis: Geovanis [claimed] Trump engag[ed] "in personal relationships with Russian women."

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@realDonaldTrump Wow. Just because they can't corroborate it doesn't mean it isn't true. The fact that they point out that the hotel is likely a counterintelligence risk does not bode well for @realDonaldTrump.

Putin likely obtained blackmail on Trump during these trips.

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This report is a nightmare for Trump. I need to go to bed. I will finish reading this tomorrow.

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One more about kompromat.

Here’s where the Senate Intelligence Committee acknowledges that Russia does collect compromising information. They previously said that Trump stayed at a hotel that was a Russian counterintelligence risk.

Who knows what’s behind the redactions.

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Here's some more information on the Ritz-Carlton, likely location for GRU counterintelligence gathering, and also the location where Trump stayed on multiple trips to Russia.

There is a real possibility that Russia did gather compromising information on Trump.

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"The Committee found that the Ritz Carlton
in Moscow is a high counterintelligence risk environment. The Committee assesses that the hotel likely has...the regular presence of a large number of prostitutes, likely with at least the tacit approval of Russian authorities. "

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The entire section titled "Threat Posed by Russian Intelligence Services' Collection of Kompromat" is redacted.

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What about US Senators?

"...in Moscow it has been common for visiting businessmen to be taken to nightclubs or parties where prostitutes are
present. It is likely that Russian security or intelligence services capitalize on those opportunities to collect information."

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"Putin's favorite industrialist," Oleg Deripaska "amassed this huge conglomerate of aluminum companies, and related resource companies, did so in a manner that would be considered less elegant in the west."

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David Geovanis is one of the sources who has information on, and possibly possesses compromising information on @realDonaldTrump.

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Now when they say Trump began a brief relationship with a Russian women AT A PARTY, do you think that is just how prudish Senators say he had sex with a Russian women he had just met that night?

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#kompromat

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Just some more information in Trump's alleged affair with a Russian woman DURING his marriage to Marla Maples.

Do you think the Russians picked up some compromising information during the affair?

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Translation: Trump was in a strip club in Russia. Do you think they got some compromising information?

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Russian Businessman Peter O'Brien points out that that there was known risk going toclubs like the one Trump went to in 1996, then "spent the night" with two women.

Think they got compromising information?

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O'brien wrote: "I keep thinking that VVP [Putin] must have some great material on Donald."

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Looks like the "very good social skills" of Geovanis worked on Trump. Geovanis showed Trump around again in 2013, during the Miss America pageant in Moscow.

Think they got compromising information?

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"Mr. Geovanis said that he showed Mr. Trump around Moscow during the Miss Universe pageant in 2013. He did not get into specifics, but intimated that there was partying and that Mr. Trump should be nice to him in light of the information he had."

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The report attempts to qualify, saying the comment MAY HAVE been made in jest.

It also may NOT have been made in jest.

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Here is more on the allegations of tapes. It will be interesting to see is @MichaelCohen212's book will discuss the tapes, which Cohen said he was willing to pay for, but was never provided a copy.

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Apparently the topic of a compromising tape of @realDonaldTrump was the sort of thing you heard over dinner at a restaurant, if you were a Russian.

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Texts between Rtskhiladze and @MichaelCohen212 where Rtskhiladze claims to have "stopped flow of some tapes from Russia." He also makes plain that he is acting on behalf of Trump's electoral victory.

The tapes being called fake is a standard disinformation tactic.
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Remember when Russia hosted the Olympics in 2014 and was caught surveilling the hotel rooms of athletes?

This is standard practice.

nj.com/olympics/2014/…

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Any sexual escapades of Trump at the Ritz Carlton, where he stayed numerous times, and had numerous alleged affairs, with multiple women, are on camera.

Trump is compromised.

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Now we are at the social media influence campaigns.

Of course this is where the Russians applied the polling data that Manafort provided.

A reminder to fact check what you see on social media.

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Mike Flynn apparently has some knowledge on the issue of social influence campaigns. However, Flynn pled the 5th.

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A reminder that facebook intentionally manipulated users feeds to attempt to elicit certain emotions, as part of a study.

This is ridiculously unethical.

theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Apparently Lukoil is involved in gathering information for the GRU. I will avoid buying gas there at all costs.

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On Cambridge Analytica's social media campaigns and misuse of user data which "compris[ed] anybody in the United States over the age of 18 with a financial history."

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While @parscale claims to have rejected offers to utilize the psychological data from their unethical facebook study, evidence shows the Trump campaign may have utilized the information regardless.

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Here is Rick Gates approaching the Israeli Company Psy Group for help with electing @realDonaldTrump, you might even say an attempt at foreign collusion.

#TrumpCollusion
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Avatar armies? They are describing using armies of troll bots to influence social media. This is a foreign country discussing creating fake Americans to influence American voters on American issues.

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I have never heard of Jon Iadonisi before, but he was looking to work with "WHOMEVER" was running social media campaigns to help elect Trump.

He was apparently okay with the idea of working with foreign governments or businesses to influence OUR election.

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There is a section that is completely redacted on "_______ and Overseas Voters"

Sure would be interesting to see what's going on there.

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Just a reminder that when convicted felon Mike Flynn was asked about social influence campaigns, he pled the fifth.

Maybe @parscale has more to share.

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"We need to be the source and chef to prepare
the wiki info to eat! It just needs to be researched and then broke down into bites so that the public influencers can distribute!!" @db777

This is what Jim Jordan does at hearings.

This is toxic for democracy.

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On Russian meddling with the Trump transition, an issue that when compounded with their election interference, led to the #Mueller investigation. It is also a major reason why Mike Flynn is a convicted felon.

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How many countries tried to get in on undermining a sitting president?

"evidence indicates that the Transition Team engaged in similar communications with other foreign countries."

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"Counterintelligence vulnerabilities" which the Russians happily exploited and convicted felons like Mike Flynn happily enabled. Important to note that Flynn did try to hide evidence that he was undermining Obama because HE KNEW it was problematic.

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Here's @jaredkushner attempting to set up a direct line back channel to Putin.

Reminder: This is BEFORE Trump got executive privilege. OBAMA was in charge then. Kushner was attempting to undermine the sitting president's foreign policy. Same thing Flynn did.

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I wonder, are Trump's unprecedented attempts to wipe the slate clean for Flynn related to the fact that his son in law possibly commit the same corrupt act/crime?

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Kushner took the meeting to attempt to set up a back channel to Putin, before Trump's executive privilege began and during @BarackObama's presidency.

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Kushner was trying to create a back channel to Putin. He accepts a meeting to get the back channel, takes the meeting, and discusses world finance with a direct link to Putin. Kushner previously said that he liked to avoid diplomats because and was looking for quick answers.
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Kushner would have us believe that after getting the meeting he was looking for, with a person who fit his desires, and discussing the topics of his interest that they never pursued anything further?

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Reminder, this section is about all of the ways that Russia was attempting to influence the Trump Transition Team, and about the Team's incompetence.

Criminal incompetence?

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Russian CEO Kirill Dmitriev specifcally targeted @DonaldJTrumpJr and @jaredkushner, when trying to influence the Trump transition team.

Reminder, incompetence.

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Dmitriev prepared a 5 point plan, which was delivered to Kushner's pal Rick Gerson, who is also involved in Erik Prince's Seychelles meeting.

Point 4 shows Russia seeking American approval for the Crimea invasion.

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Kushner claims that he just passed the 5 point plan along to Rex Tillerson and Steve Bannon.

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Important to note: 1/20/16 was when Trump's executive privilege legally began.

Any efforts up until then by the Trump team to undermine President Obama's foreign policy, were fair game for investigation.

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Here we have international Lord of War Erik Prince, Kushner's friend and business associate Gerson, and Russian businessman Dmitriev having a secret meeting.

Nothing suspicious at all.

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Interesting that Dmitriev was unhappy with meeting a warlord and a friend of the President's son in law.

What does @BetsyDeVosED know?

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It is unbelievable how heavily Russia tried to influence the Trump transition team. It almost feels like they knew they could impose their will on him. The Russians are greedy over the level of their contacts, relentless and persistent with their goals.

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The report suggests that George W. Bush had some sort of back channel set up to speak with Putin also, although it doesn't appear to approach what Putin did with Trump.

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We know Flynn spent time in Russia with Putin.

Do you think they got compromising information on Flynn?

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You can imagine that the fact that Flynn briefed the GRU on leadership, caught the eye of the Obama administration. Yet another reason justifying Obama's mistrust of Flynn.

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It is strange that Trump had access to the CIA report on Kislyak, which no doubt laid out in detail WHY Obama would be concerned that Kislyak was communicating with Flynn to attempt to undermine Obama's foreign policy.

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This is the time period before Trump had executive privilege. It shows the efforts of Kislyak to communicate with Flynn.

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Flynn was wheeling and dealing not just with the Russians during the transition, but also in Egypt.

Here are Flynn and Kislyak seemingly attempting to delay, or intervene in an upcoming UN vote.

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*Correction: Meant to say 1/20/2017

After @BarackObama placed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 election, Flynn reached out to Kislyak to "neuter" the response of the sitting president, weeks BEFORE Trump had executive privilege.

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Why would Flynn continue to lie to Trump's WH? Why is Trump making #BillBarr take such unprecedented legal steps to protect someone who LIED to his administration and @Mike_Pence.

Unless Flynn was working for someone else...

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Why did @KellyannePolls say that Trump had confidence in someone who lied to his VP and his staff? Why did Trump have confidence in a known and admitted liar?

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"On December 1, 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to providing false statements to the FBI, and providing false information and omissions on his registration with the Justice Department as an agent of a foreign government in March 2017."

#FlynnIsLying
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.@GOP operative Peter Smith made efforts on behalf of the Trump Campaign to find Hillary Clinton's "missing emails."

Unsurprisingly, Smith reached out to Russians for help.

The Trump campaign REPEATEDLY attempted to collude with Russia.

#TrumpCollusion
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Cybersecurity Expert Matt Tait warned Smith that information received from Russians was dangerous and would benefit Russia. Glad to see some people have sense.

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Still suspicious:

"In July 2016, a group of "prominent computer scientists" identified unusual internet activity connecting two servers registered to Alfa Bank, a Russian financial institution, with an email domain associated with the Trump Organization."

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The Senate Intel Committee wasn't able to figure out the nature or meaning of the bizarre internet activity connecting the corrupt Trump Organization and Russian Alfa Bank.

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Worth remembering that in the recommendations section, the report discusses the need for non-profits, such as the corrupt Trump Organization, to better protect themselves against efforts by foreign countries to infiltrate and influence American politics.

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The Monroe Doctrine was brought up in reference to possible military intervention in Venzuela, where Iran and Russia were supposedly also meddling.

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A reminder that Russia uses the Green Party to divide the left. It was previously stated that they also used Bernie Sanders for the same purpose. They are trying to drive a wedge.

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A reminder that Russia, a country without any serious opposition party, pushes the narrative that our system of government is broken.

It is a Russian disinformation talking point.

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Ignorance is bliss for @DrJillStein.

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Given that because of opening sea lanes in the Arctic, Russia stands to economically benefit from global warming, it is alarming that the Green Party candidate would cozy up to an autocrat who acts with total disregard for the environment.

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Important to note here that Carter Page warrants DID NOT RELY SOLELY on the Steele report, a fact many Republicans seem to forget in their questioning of witnesses and understanding of the #Mueller investigation.

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The report finds that criminal prosecutions aren't an effective deterrent of foreign interference.

I would add that having a President who pardons the conspirators who the US actually can punish, is not helpful.

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The report criticizes the FBIs handling of the DNC hack.

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Interesting that the report suggests that the FBI could have eradicated the cyber attack.

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There is a very detailed timeline on the events related to the hack of the DNC, and the FBIs attempts to communicate back and forth with the DNC to mitigate the problem.

The Committee was clearly concerned over the threat to the security of their personal emails.

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The report states that the FBI could have stopped the hack, but that poor efforts/communication/policies from the FBI enabled the Russian DNC hack to continue.

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Interestingly, the Senate Intel Cmte did not attempt to verify Steele's claims, instead they looked at his methods. Feels like an attempt to delegitimize the results by finding process errors. Same thing the GOP does with the entire Russia investigation.

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These must have been interesting meetings. "Varying views of Steele's obligations to the FBI" is interesting.

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Steele was concerned that the FBI was ignoring his information, and gave some of the information to the press, leading to the end of his relationship with the FBI. Steele clearly did not feel that the Dossier was the property of the FBI or that he could no longer discuss it.
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In other words, they were able to corroborate parts of the Steele Dossier.

I wonder which ones?

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Important to note that Steele had earned a reputation as being a dependable source on Russian intelligence issues.

He wasn't some tinfoil dingbat off of the street. He was an established FBI source.

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Here's frequent GOP target, and one time head of transnational organized crime for the FBI Bruce Ohr again, establishing that Steele was a solid source of information.

Also another example of GOP attacking methods or process over findings.

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Steele's subsources were tapped into Russian organized crime.

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Steele was confident in his subsources. Also important to note that Steele thought giving up his indetity could orove fatal.

This is the source that was recently unmasked by Bill Barr's DOJ.

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I would imagine there is a lot of this in intelligence gathering, sources are usually secrets.

"Most recipients of Steele's memos had very little information on the quality of the subsource network and took Steele at his word that they were credible."

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David Kramer verified to the Committee that Steele's sources were reliable.

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It is clear from the report that Steele did not trust the Senate Intelligence Committee, there was uncertainty about his exact role and obligations TO share information, and Steele chose not to.

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I would say that seeing the claims in the Dossier being largely dismissed and ridiculed left a bad taste in Steele's mouth.

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On the committees attempts to discern Steele's sources:

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'Steele wrote to the Committee that he saw "no reason to believe" that his subsources or sub-subsources were
seeking to "influence rather than inform."'

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Worth pointing out what the report is forgetting to remind the reader of, which is that the GRU intentionally plants lies amongst the truth to discredit everything.

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It has been reported that Steele was trying to flip Deripaska. Not sure why that isn't referenced here.

link: nytimes.com/2018/09/01/us/…

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The report suggests that Steele had grown frustrated over what he determined was the FBI ignoring his Dossier. When Comey announced the reopening of the investigation into Clinton's emails, Steele spoke with Mother Jones about his Dossier.

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Imagine having a trusted network of sources he told you damning information on Trump, sharing the information then seeing it get ignored, and then the FBI releases information damaging to Clinton. Imagine the election is days away and nothing has happened.

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This part is very important:

"The DOJ OIG report also made clear, however, that Steele did not provide testimony in any court proceeding and his information was not used to obtain any compulsory
process."

The dossier was not the basis for the #Mueller investigation.

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On the FBIs attempts under James Baker and Andrew McCabe to try and verify Steele's reporting:

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Despite being in possession of damning information on Trump from a trusted FBI Russia source, the FBI did not start formally investigating the claims until after the election.

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Steele continued to be concerned about the FBIs actions regarding the dossier, and of the information he had uncovered. This led Steele to give the information to John McCain.

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After that @BuzzFeed published the dossier, which "shocked" Steele, and the @WSJ published his name.

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The End.

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