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16 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Weeks before the New York Post published its dubious Hunter Biden story, a YouTube channel linked to Chinese billionaire and Steve Bannon-backer Guo Wengui broadcast conspiracies about “hard disks” full of Biden family dirt
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While Guo's ties to Bannon have been long known, his association with the president's personal attorney seems to be heating up. Days ago, Guo-friendly Twitter accounts posted pictures of the billionaire and Giuliani smoking cigars together.
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Guo is also launching a strange fashion line that Giuliani mentions in a racist video he accidentally uploaded to YouTube
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The fashion line supports Guo and Bannon's self-declared "government in exile." Bannon, Guo, and a young woman linked to Giuliani have been modeling the merch on social media.
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Guo's network has also been avidly pushing out disinformation on COVID-19, including a discredited study by Steve Bannon-linked foundations that claims the coronavirus was a lab-made bioweapon
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16 Oct
EXCLUSIVE: John Bolton repeatedly told his staff to remove themselves from conversations and meetings with Rudy Giuliani after Bolton received warnings from intelligence officials that Giuliani was propagating conspiracy theories to undermine the election trib.al/Rvoqg7x
One former senior WH official recalled discussions in early 2019 about a Russian scheme to leak “forged” or “fake” emails through intermediaries in the weeks leading up to the election. Officials viewed Giuliani as a possible target for such a leak. trib.al/Rvoqg7x
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16 Oct
Trump’s wild town hall performance was so ridiculous, it basically served as a pro-Biden ad

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Trump seemed to be doing his best to show viewers he was not fit to be president last night, says @therickwilson. “You had Trump...glaring at Savannah Guthrie like he was a mad man….And you had Biden sitting in the chair...talking smoothly and calmly.”
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At least Trump managed to directly criticize white supremacy, which just confused @mollyjongfast:

“Wouldn't it be more of a no brainer to disavow QAnon—the Democrats eat children—than white supremacy? His supporters are already racist.”
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16 Oct
EXCLUSIVE: Video footage paints a disturbing picture of Proud Boys’ “extra friendly” relationship with Philly cops
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On September 26, members of the far-right group the Proud Boys marched through Philadelphia wearing body armor and helmets. They called their leftist opponents “terrorists.” They yelled at onlookers.
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Then the Proud Boys and a large police caravan went back to a Walmart parking lot, where Proud Boys shook an officer’s hand
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15 Oct
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump's influential supporter, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is telling close associates he believes Joe Biden will win the election in a landslide
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15 Oct
NEW: Rudy Giuliani’s latest effort to push more dirt on the Bidens weeks before the 2020 presidential election had some important backers—chief among them, the president of the United States trib.al/BSmZmSE
“Have you heard about this [hard drive]?” one source recalled the president asking recently.

The president made clear this latest salvo against the Bidens had his approval. trib.al/BSmZmSE
Multiple senior-level officials in Trumpworld, including some on the reelection effort, were aware of a secret dossier or a hard drive regarding salacious and potentially damaging information on Hunter Biden several weeks before the story broke trib.al/BSmZmSE
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