Thread by @SethAbramson

Actually, more than a dozen nations were interested in hosting the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, but Trump put Moscow above *all* of them *immediately*. Perhaps he liked the fact that the funding for the event would be secret, private, and not his—the Kremlin's first payoff of him.

PS/ So *days* after Trump tells an adviser of his with Kremlin-agent contacts that he's running for POTUS, the wheels start turning in Moscow. Within about 120 days, Moscow has promised Trump a massively lucrative event that is a suspicious $10 million *loss* for a Kremlin agent.

PS2/ And the committee says that the Kremlin agent who took the loss is the one who looks to have had...

...advance knowledge that Trump was running for president.

Knowledge that only could have come from Trump, Stone, or another highly trusted Trump agent (like Michael Cohen).

PS3/ This is a massive amount of circumstantial evidence suggesting that one of the first things Trump did with his presidential candidacy—before telling America about it—was use it to get millions and millions in "free" payments from a known Kremlin agent and Russian "gangster."

PS4/ Trump told a Miss Universe official that these Russian gangsters were "the people he needed to be meeting"—and surprised everyone by having his bodyguard inform the Miss Universe crew that he'd be going to dinner with the gangsters on their first night in the United States.

PS5/ Trump then surprised everyone again by using his bodyguard to secure a place with the gangsters at an after-dinner meet-up. Schiller, the bodyguard, considered Trump's behavior unusual. And also unusual was the entertainment during the after-dinner event with the gangsters:

PS6/ Why did Trump act so strangely? On this, there's no doubt—he wanted to get to Putin. And he was going to use a man who (apparently) knew Trump was running for president to do it.

Remember, this was in *2013*.

Not 2014, or 2015, or 2016. *2013*. That's how planned this was.