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nytimes.com/interactive/20…

This is a roadmap of some of the ways Trump is compromised. In the hands of a hostile intel service, these millions of dollars represent coercive leverage over @realDonaldTrump as a result of undisclosed foreign financial deals while he was President.
“[I]n his first two years in the White House, his revenue from abroad totaled $73 million…some came from licensing deals in countries with authoritarian-leaning leaders or thorny geopolitics…$3 million from the Philippines, $2.3 million from India and $1 million from Turkey.”
“[T]he most profitable Miss Universe during Mr. Trump’s time as co-owner…generated…$2.3 million — made possible, at least in part, by the Agalarov family, who would later help set up the infamous 2016 meeting between Trump campaign officials seeking “dirt” on Mrs. Clinton…”
“Between 2010 and 2018, Mr. Trump wrote off some $26 million in unexplained “consulting fees”…In Azerbaijan, Mr. Trump collected $5 million on a hotel deal and reported $1.1 million in consulting fees, while in Dubai it was $3 million with a $630,000 fee…”
“The president’s conflicts have been most evident with Turkey, where the business community and the authoritarian government of…Erdogan have not hesitated to leverage various Trump enterprises to their advantage.”

Our country and its national security can’t afford Trump’s greed

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Dec 29, 2023
ICYMI-the arrest of Michael Lee Tomasi for making online threats against FBI agents.

You might have missed it because neither DOJ's press release-nor the statements of senior DOJ/FBI personnel-detail the website & specific threats.

So let's do that.

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justice.gov/opa/pr/arizona…
Tomasi's indictment notes the threats appeared on patriots[.]win. Neither DOJ's press release, nor the statements of senior DOJ/FBI personnel, mention the nature of patriots[.]win, let alone its progenitor website, thedonald[.]win, and its role in the run-up to Jan 6.

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Neither DOJ's press release, nor the statements of senior DOJ/FBI personnel, include any specific threats from the indictment. It doesn't even include a link to the indictment!

And no reporting I've seen bothered to read it.

Turns out Tomasi isn't an especially nice person.

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Dec 4, 2023
I read through the complaint, and it's bad - very bad. 🧵

It's a 3 count complaint:
- 18 USC 371 (conspiracy to act as foreign agent/defraud the US)
- 18 USC 951 (acting as illegal agent of foreign govt
- 18 USC 1542 (use of passport obtained via false statement)

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Cuba has several intelligence and counterintelligence entities; the complaint identifies the Directorate of Intelligence/Dirección General de Inteligencia (commonly known as the DGI) as the entity Rocha allegedly worked for.

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Rocha worked for Dept of State from 1981-2002 - the entire time also allegedly working for the DGI.

He was the NSC Director of Inter-American Affairs (the FBI even traveled down to Santo Domingo to update his clearance), later at the US Interests Section in Havana.

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Jul 28, 2023
Looking at some of the detail in the indictment, one thing which stood out was the effort Nauta appears to have taken to hide his presence - beyond the text 🤫 emojis - at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend of at least June 25-27, 2022.

Including de Oliveira's bush-jumping Monday.

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On Mon, June 27th, Nauta went to Mar-a-Lago but doesn't appear to have entered the property, meeting De Oliveira instead on an adjacent property on the north end of Mar-a-Lago.

Note the very specific times - quite possibly derived from CCTV coverage in the govt's possession.

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Why didn't Nauta go in? Presumably not be seen. Also possibly to avoid badging in, though there's little detail about badging/access procedures at MAL.

This is the north edge of the MAL property line. The south side of Woodbridge Rd matches the description in the indictment.

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Jul 22, 2023
Another campaign event, another photo of Trump surrounded by LE next to his airplane.

I get the authoritarian goals of this for his campaign.

But disappointed so many LE officers choose to do so with a man – facing multiple criminal indictments – that a judge declared a rapist.


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Particularly when Trump places them all over his social media feed next to things like this.

Are you going to “do things to [us] that have never been done before”?
It’s a tough issue I think Trump deliberately takes advantage of.

Many good police don’t follow politics closely and just want a photo with a former president by his airplane. Then, peer pressure kicks in with others.

But it’s time LE understands they’re being used as a prop.
Read 4 tweets
Jul 5, 2023
Newly unredacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit information: before the search, the FBI and DOJ knew more than half (between 34 and 39 of approximately 64) of the boxes that were removed from the storage area had not been returned.
More newly unredacted info: the FBI and DOJ also knew, prior to the search warrant, that “classified information was possessed in other areas of” Mar-a-Lago. How? Witness testimony?
Secret Service enters the scene:

“FPOTUS COUNSEL 1 is escorted through the ANTEROOM entrance by an unidentified individual wearing a jacket with ‘USSS POLICE’ printed on the back. The unidentified individual and FPOTUS COUNSEL 1 exit the ANTEROOM entrance moments later.”
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Jun 29, 2023
Interesting find re Susie Wiles.

Something not mentioned in news reporting: I really hope the FBI has sent all of the original classified docs from Mar-a-Lago to the lab for fingerprint analysis.

All clearance holders are fingerprinted, meaning a couple of things:
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Investigators should be able to get an idea of:
1) who with a clearance handled the docs and
2) ID fingerprints not matching any clearance holder

IDing who is associated with the latter can be hard because most people have never been fingerprinted.

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le.fbi.gov/science-and-la…
Beyond identification, prints can be investigatively helpful in a number of ways:
- showing the same print(s) across a variety of documents
- the volume of prints, eg, was there one Trump print on a particular doc, or hundreds? The latter would imply heavy handling

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