Thread 2 Johnson alleges Hunter Biden had a bank account opened with a guy named Gongwen Dong. He owns 432 Park Ave, a building with financing ties to CMZ Ventures.
The building Dong owns is 432 Park Ave. The ‘M’ in CMZ stands for Manafort👀. Looking even slightly deeper, financing included Deutsche Bank (hi #FinCenFiles 👋🏻) and Dimitry Firtash a Ukrainian agent tied to Lev Parnas who gave💰 to Kevin McCarthy and has ties to Rudy Giuliani.
If I recall correctly, and I do, Manafort was convicted of crimes, and was trump’s campaign manager, and did that for free, and used to work for Yanukovych in Ukraine before the Revolution of Dignity, but please do go on about Hunter Biden.
Pg 13 George Kent said we need to prepare for what aboutism in relation to Biden’s presence on the board of Burisma. You said it brother! This entire report is finger pointing what aboutism. Johnson’s own witness didn’t think Biden needed to leave the board.
Pg 14 How can the central thesis be it was difficult for US officials to do their job because of Hunter Biden, then in the same report the witness the investigation turns upon says the following?👇🏻
Imagine the irony of George Kent being worried the Ukrainian’s would use Hunter Biden as an excuse for what aboutism when in fact it is now American Senators doing that very thing. SMDH.
Pg 30 ‘Likely occurred’ is different than what was previously stated. The report is now contradicting itself.
Andreii Telizhenko was an official within Ukrainian Embassy. Johnson says Obama administration met with him. It has now been reported that he is working as a Russian agent spreading disinformation. Now Ron Johnson is using what aboutism to defend his usage of Telizhnko’s info.
If Johnson is so concerned about what aboutism, see George Kent, then, why now that Telizhenko has been outed as a foreign agent, is ok for Johnson to cozy up to him and blame Obama for doing the same? This report collapses on itself under the weight of its own mumpsimus.
Pg 53 ‘Almost all’, is not all.
Pg 55 I’m rubber, you’re glue... the good news is the #FinCenFiles being released may tell us if there were any suspicious activity reports related directly to Hunter Biden.
Pg 60 If Johnson is so hell bent on misdeeds of the Biden’s, why not investigate the claims made by the media? Like, what is all this about then? If you’re not investigating, but this is an investigation that was admittedly stymied by investigations, what’s this report for? 🤔
Pg 64 You didn’t think we wouldn’t see the name Hillary Clinton in this report did you? How about the Steele Dossier? Here again, Johnson is hoping you aren’t paying attention. He fails to say the Dossier was first a product of republicans. See page of 870 #volume5.
Pg 77 Johnson accuses James Biden and wife Sara of purchasing ‘extravagant items’. Those extravagant items include airplane tickets and Apple products. All cards on the table, this sentence was typed on (and mostly read on) an ‘extravagant’ purchase.
You may also noticed a gap between pages 64 and 77 in this running commentary. I have made the decision, I will not willingly participate in the dissemination of Russian propaganda. Should you wish to read allegations without evidence of proof, the link is in the first tweet.
Well troops, we learned nothing from what has been touted as an October surprise. Read this for yourself and you’ll note nothing new. This report will serve its purpose of providing media figures with a few nights of anti-Biden talking points but there is no investigation here.
There are not complete deposition transcripts so there is no context. This document is an own goal. A bless his heart moment for Sen Johnson. In the long run, this will do more to discredit himself than Joe Biden. It gave me half a day of something to do and nothing more.
Thank you for reading along, for reading the document itself, and for formulating your own opinions. As ever, wear a mask, wash your hands, social distance, register to vote and vote.
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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.
A wee thread🧵👇🏻
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.
WARNING STRONG LANGUAGE
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.
A wee 🧵👇🏻
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/…