THREAD 3 pages 201-300 of the 966 page Senate Intelligence Committee’s #Volume5 counterintelligence report into Russian interference. We meet some interesting characters in these pages. I hope you will read them for yourself and arrive at your own conclusions.
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Pg 204 Remember when Republicans screamed about how it was CrowdStrike who had hacked info on Ukraine server and not the Russians? Were they knowingly using Russian propaganda to distract us during Impeachment? Were they unwitting? Perhaps the Ethics Committee could ask.
Pg 208 ‘If this were a war, this is like knowing where the troops are deployed’. Think about what this means. trump campaign could flood the market with ads against HRC based on where she thought she could reach voters.
Page 66 of Jared Kushner’s testimony to the House, he was running an efficient, precisely targeted campaign. If you know where to spend the dollars, there’s more value. What if the data he had to pull this off was from the hacked material referenced above?
Pg 209 I can’t help but recall Roger Stone was charged with lying to Congress. He has not been charged with any potential underlying crimes he may have committed that required the lies.
Pg 235 former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s mumpsimus caused immeasurable harm. His intransigence would never allow him to be convinced of Russian nefarious behavior. Interesting to note current House minority leader McCarthy once said he thought Rohrabacher was paid by Russia.
Pg 236 Know collusion.
Pg 237 this really requires seeing everything together and in context. May 2016, Stone tells Manafort about Wikileaks releasing Clinton’s emails. June 2016, jr., Manafort, Kushner have the trump tower Mtg with Russians for a Wikileaks update, but instead get Magnitsky info. C🧵2
Pg 242 Just a daily reminder this a Republican led Committee. We should all be asking them what they are doing as a result of now being aware of this. Weird how some still don’t seem to care.
Pg 258 Know collusion, Part Deux.
Pg 259. President Clinton was impeached because he lied in a deposition. trump should be impeached for lying to Special Counsel Bob Mueller. trump and his lawyers were so afraid of a ‘perjury trap’, they wouldn’t let him speak to Mueller. Were written questions a trap too?
Pg 275. The trump tower meeting. These folks seem nice. There are [REDACTED] pages in relation to this meeting for some reason. 🤔
Pg 288. It looks like the Senate Intel Committee got the jump on what Michael Cohen is teasing for his upcoming book. Also, always read the footnotes.
Pg 296. Sperbank dinner with trump as the guest of honor during the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013. It might be important to see trumps taxes. Just sayin’
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It’s been a while since we’ve used the wayback machine. Let’s see how it holds up on a short trip. We’re going to go on a journey back to a time before trump was president.
Don’t get too excited. It’s to do with aid to Ukraine.
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On July 28, 2016, in Cleveland at the Republican National Committee, the GOP removed a single issue from their party platform. Essentially, it became trump policy to no longer provide aid to Ukraine.
A delegate said it was taken out by trump’s people.
But that’s a bit awkward because the newly minted GOP Nominee eventually ended up telling Robert Mueller he didn’t recall. Strange because trump, has like a great memory. And his uncle was like, a physicist or something.🤷🏼♂️
There will no doubt be a lot said by smarter people than I about this ruling in the GA v trump et al. case, but I would like to offer two important thoughts I hope they don’t miss.
Firstly, please understand the danger. Look at what just happened. The whole country has been on edge awaiting this ruling because it determined whether or not a former president accused of some gangster shit, might get away with it because of some more gangster shit.
This dude is so dangerous to prosecute, a former GOVERNOR declined to be the special prosecutor because of safety concerns. This dude is so dangerous because he has a dangerous crew. I don’t how to lay this out clearly for people to understand so please bear with me as I try.
Have you heard of Project 2025? It’s a ‘Playbook’. You can read the whole “Mandate” for yourself at this link and I encourage you to do so. *Please* know who you’re voting for in November.
First thing to know: There is a Project 2025. This is important to know. It exists. It’s a plan. It’s coming day one of the next conservative presidency. I am not being hyperbolic. If you are seeing this, it will have some impact on your life. It’s designed to.
This is a Heritage Foundation joint. There are roughly 386 ‘contributors’ to Project 2025 and at least 48 of them are Heritage Foundation. That’s 12% of all contributors give or take some bad eyesight, counting, and maths and unknown crossover organizational alignments.
I was thinking about my dad the other day. He’s still here, he’s fine. I was just thinking about him.
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My dad would tell me stories about guys like his dad. Guys like his dad fought in WWII. Guys like my dad, revered those guys.
A wee thread🧵👇🏻
The only reason the tv set growing up didn’t have the History Channel logo burned into it was because occasionally, I’d watch sports. The history channel had documentary after documentary of WWII. My dad likes the air battles. He would talk about “Those Guys”.
“Those Guys,” he’d say, “Those Guys sat in a bubble OUTSIDE the airplane, Joey!’ “Can you believe that? Imagine how cold it must have been!”
He was referring to the tail gunners on the screen.
You guys…I think I’m going to call it a year. I will begin my final thread of 2024 as I mean to end it, and that is conversationally and with gratitude. Thank you for all your continued dedication to self-determination and democracy.
I’m tired.
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This year was more difficult than last year. Things are getting harder. My balance is getting worse and my body is getting stiffer. I’ve had more falls this year than last. Speaking of falls, it seems more leaves fell in the yard this year than last.
The time change this year and its underreported havoc it wreaks on my medication is worse this year than last. I’ve torn my Achilles and my hamstring this year as opposed to no injuries last.
This is a wee thread. I tell you that now because there is no clever preamble, no fun intro to pique your interest. Just a simple request that you know I lack understand on this topic and make no judgments. I share it so those who can make sense of it hopefully do so.
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On December 23rd of 2016, the United Nations adopted UN resolution number 2334. It is here for you to read. Please do so. If you don’t, know the gist is that this UN Security Council resolution stated that Israel’s settlements have no legal validity.
The history of this resolution is one that helps put into context some of what we may be seeing today. At the time, Barack Obama was President and Bibi Netanyahu was Prime Minister of Israel. vox.com/world/2016/12/…