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Aug 24, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
NEW exclu: Inside Jared’s relationship with Dmitriev, the CEO of one of Russia's sov wealth funds (Seychelles Prince meeting). The two have talked privately on everything from that ventilator delivery to NYC, to OPEC deals, to the ME Peace Deal.
thedailybeast.com/jared-kushners…
NEW scoop: More than a dozen Trump officials spoke to us for this story. They described Jared’s relationship with Dmitriev, a close confidant of Putin, as a byproduct of four years of Trump distrusting his nat sec and intel officials

thedailybeast.com/jared-kushners…
NEW: Officials described years of frustration—of trying to push ahead on a Russia strategy only to get sidelined from conversations in the White House and from those between Jared and Dmitriev.
thedailybeast.com/jared-kushners…
NEW: Officials described all the ways the admin tried to implement a coordinated Russia policy. We have deets of how those efforts largely failed. Read about what happened with Rusal, Deripaska and Ukraine’s javelins.
thedailybeast.com/jared-kushners…

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Feb 18, 2023
I've been quiet on here recently. Here's why:

We obtained U.S. cables and internal documents from inside Prigozhin's network. They reveal exclusive new details about how Wagner+co has expanded across the world and why Western officials are so concerned.

politico.com/news/2023/02/1…
We've spent the past several months pouring over thousands of documents and verifying their authenticity.

We've put together an investigation that looks at how Prigozhin and Wagner have been able to expand so rapidly, including in Africa.

politico.com/news/2023/02/1…
Some of what we found was stunning:
-Prigozhin's network tried to open offices in Mexico in 2020
-It led a disinfo campaign in Estonia to stir anti-NATO sentiment
-US officials have drafted a roadmap to rout Wagner out of the Central African Republic

politico.com/news/2023/02/1…
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Sep 15, 2022
***OK, now for how we followed the money and found that these four orgs (Gates, CEPI, Wellcome, Gavi) spent $10 billion on Covid-- the same amount as the leading US agency fighting the virus abroad

All thanks to @annette_choi

politico.com/news/2022/09/1…
Here's what we found when we followed the money on the global Covid response:

Gavi spent more than any of the other three organizations operating COVAX, the initiative to help low- and middle-income countries secure Covid vaccine doses.
These organizations’ lobbying resources allowed them to access some of the leading officials in the U.S. and Europe with ease. Over the last two years, they have spent $8.3 million lobbying lawmakers and officials in the U.S. and EU
politico.com/news/2022/09/1…
Read 9 tweets
Sep 15, 2022
NEW: 🚨Our 7-month investigation charts the journey through which much of the international response to Covid passed from governments to a privately overseen global constituency of NGO experts connected to the Gates Foundation. In partnership with @WELT
politico.com/news/2022/09/1…
We examined meeting minutes, financial + lobbying disclosures and tax documents, which revealed the groups’ spending during the pandemic. It is the first comprehensive accounting of expenditures by global health orgs on the fight against Covid.
politico.com/news/2022/09/1…
When Covid emerged, governments were unprepared. These NGOs were ready. The investigation details the significant financial and political connections that enabled the four global health orgs (Gates, CEPI, Gavi, Wellcome) to shape the world's response
politico.com/news/2022/09/1…
Read 14 tweets
Jun 3, 2022
SCOOP: The CDC has found more than 120 instances over the past two years in which people may have died from long Covid.

The analysis is the first of its kind and is the beginning of the agency's look at the relationship between long Covid and mortality.

politico.com/news/2022/06/0…
NCHS is set to publish these numbers in the coming days. It reviewed death certificates that listed long Covid or similar terminology.

More on what the office is looking for/at:

politico.com/news/2022/06/0…
"I have heard that people have developed heart or lung or brain complications after having had Covid. And eventually they have died,” said Jerry Krishnan, a pulmonary physician at the University of Illinois Chicago

politico.com/news/2022/06/0…
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Feb 25, 2022
This is a really big deal. RDIF is really important to Putin personally and is run by one of his closest supporters, Dmitriev
I tweeted about this the other night, but I will lay it out again. RDIF has an interesting history. It's technically one of Russia's four sovereign wealth funds. But it operates differently than the rest.
RDIF acts as a co-investment vehicle. It works with other sovereign wealth funds to attract investment to Russia/benefits the Russian economy directly. It even invested in a U.S.-backed venture (Hyperloop)
Read 11 tweets
Feb 24, 2022
Biden says "let's see in another *month* or so if [sanctions] are working""
A lot can happen in a month, obviously, but there are already concerns in the aid/health world about what this means for people on the ground in Ukraine. A month more of shelling? More incursions? That can have huge humanitarian consequences.
Having covered several mil. conflicts, I can tell you some of the first concerns in the aid/health world for those in war zones
-physical security
-access to ATMs/cash
-food stocks
-medical care
-sanitation

Living in metro stations isn't a sustainable housing situation
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