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Chris Murphy 🟧 Profile picture
@ChrisMurphyCT
Oct 1, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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This hasn't gotten enough attention, but you need to know. Everybody needs to know.

1/ It's about the massive coverup campaign underway to disguise the octopus-like Russian election interference operation being run on Trump's behalf.

Please read this whole thing.
2/ Earlier this year, reports start coming into Congress about a giant, multi-layer Russian effort to help Trump in 2020. Bigger than what they did in 2016. Looks like Russians are trying to get U.S. persons - especially those close to Trump - to help.
3/ On July 13, Dem leadership writes a letter to FBI Director Wray, asking for an all-Congress briefing, especially because the reports we're reading suggest Russian agents are trying to find Members of Congress to assist their interference operation.
speaker.gov/newsroom/72020…
4/ On 7/24, Bill Evanina, Trump's counter-intel chief, releases a super vague statement. 72 words on Chinese/Iranian interference, and 54 words on Russia.

Very puzzling. Congress has never been briefed on any meaningful Chinese/Iranian interference plans.
dni.gov/index.php/news…
5/ On 8/7, an update. This one has 219 words on China/Iran, 105 on Russia.

But read it closely - though China gets the lead and the most attention, Evanina just says they are "weigh[ing] the risks" of election interference - NOT that they are doing it.
dni.gov/index.php/news…
6/ Then, on 9/9, a bombshell that few noticed. The head of intelligence at DHS (the top guy!) files a whistleblower complaint.

He says the White House instructed him to bury info on Russian interference because it "made the President look bad."

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
7/ A day later (coincidence!), the Treasury Dept. sanctions Andriy Derkach, a Ukrainian politician in charge of spreading Biden conspiracy theories, and notes, offhand, that Derkach is indeed a Russian agent.
politico.com/news/2020/09/1…
8/ No press conference from Intel or the FBI or DHS that they've caught a Russian agent who has been in regular contact with the President's inner circle.

Nope. Just buried in a sanctions announcement. Likely because so many people knew the intel, they knew it would come out.
9/ What's happening is clear. American intel agencies, that are supposed to be totally apolitical, have been folded into Trump's campaign.

They are keeping info about Russian interference hidden, and overhyping info about China and Iran helping Biden.
10/ It's why Trump's former National Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster, said something today that is as shocking as it unsurprising.

He said Trump is "aiding and abetting" Putin's interference campaign.

Wow.

But of course he is. And now you know the details.

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Apr 7
Trump's Iran War has been a disaster in the U.S., as gas prices eclipse $4.

But in the developing world, the shock of spiralling energy prices has been cataclysmic.

1/ A short thread the scope of the damage Trump has caused. There are crises everywhere and you need to know.
2/ Here's just a sample of the disasters that are spiraling out of control, all over the world:

The Philippines had declared a national state of emergency. Their fuel reserves are so low they can only last for 30 more days of normal economic activity.
abcnews.com/Business/phili…
3/ Protests broke out in India over shortages of cooking gas. The entire nation has had to give up cooking hot food. reuters.com/business/energ…
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Apr 5
Trump is calling reporters today to tell them he is going to commit mass war crimes next week. GOP leaders need to stop him.

Never mind that blowing up bridges and power plants and killing innocent Iranians won't reopen the Strait.

It's also a clear war crime. 1/ A 🧵on why:
2/ Trump isn't even pretending to choose military targets. He is promising to bomb all of Iran's power plants and bridges. This is military.com making it clear that hitting civilian infrastructure, like power plants, is a war crime.
military.com/feature/2026/0…
3/ Trump's advisors are telling him to hit civilian sites because it will cause unrest and potentially topple the regime.

But just think about the insanity of this plan: kill tens of thousands of civilians in order to cause a national panic.
wsj.com/world/middle-e…
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Mar 30
Here's the problem. These are all "tactical" objectives. They are not strategy. Because there IS NO strategy.

1/ Let me take these "objectives" 1-4 to explain - based upon what I've learned in briefings - why we are badly and embarrassingly losing this war.
2/ Rubio objective 1: destroy their air force.

Air power is how a nation projects extra-territorial power. And how you protect your own airspace.

But drones are replacing airplanes. And we CANNOT destroy all their drones. Their drone attacks continue.
jpost.com/middle-east/ir…
3/ Rubio Objective 2: Destroy their navy.

Ok, but for what? Their "navy" isn't what closes the Strait of Hormuz. It's thousands of speed boats and suicide boats. And like their drones, we can't destroy them all.

The Strait stays closed, navy or no navy.
foxnews.com/world/iran-dep…
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Mar 17
Trump's illegal attack on Iran has set off regional war. The latest - Israel's ground invasion of Lebanon. 800 are already dead.

1/ Tonight, I want to walk you thru a🧵on how devastating this new war could be, and how Trump's blunder set it in motion.
theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…
2/ Iran's terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, operates out of Lebanon. Fierce fighting between Israel and Hezbollah broke out after the October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel. It lasted for a year until a ceasefire in November 2024. Trump inherited this ceasefire. washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
3/ But Trump inherited something else good: a new Lebanese government - the most competent in decades - that was open to confronting Hezbollah. And this was the only real, long term solution - the Lebanese government taking full control of the country. nytimes.com/2026/03/06/wor…
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Mar 14
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.

1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
2/ CRISIS ONE: Trump believed Iran would not close the Strait of Hormuz. He was wrong. And now oil prices are spiking.

If the Strait stays closed, a global recession will result. It actually may already be too late. Gas prices are the first to spike, but food prices are next. Image
2/ Right now, Trump has no plan to reopen the Strait. And a plan may not exist.

The assets Iran uses to harass and attack tankers - thousands of small drones, speed boats and mines - cannot be eliminated. They are too numerous, too spread out and hidden. foxnews.com/world/iran-dep…
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Mar 11
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:
2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal.

But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.
3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.
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