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20 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
NBC: "The jury is still out on whether this [Giuliani] operation is at all foreign influenced..."

Nope—jury not out. Bestselling book on the shelves proving it's a foreign intel operation. Called "Proof of Corruption." 5,000 citations. NBC should read it. msnbc.com/opinion/trump-…
(PS) Short version: the men Giuliani is working with—at Trump's direction—have Russian intelligence ties, and Giuliani knows it, and Trump knows it, and anyone who read Proof of Corruption knows it. It is *obscene* that anyone in media is saying maybe Rudy is just being "played."
(PS2) Giuliani, Trump, and Barr have literally had to *fight* to get these men into the United States *because* of their known ties to Russian intelligence. So why is NBC News saying that this doesn't appear to be a Russian intelligence operation? And that Giuliani is unwitting?
(PS3) 4 years ago, media mishandled the Clinton email story and Clinton lost. The disinformation media passed to voters turned out to be partly a Russian intelligence operation. Now media is mishandling the [Hunter] Biden email story—and risks Biden being hurt by that. For shame!

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22 Oct
My father passed away during the pandemic. We couldn't be with him when he died because of COVID-19 protocols in Massachusetts. He supported and encouraged me through the darkest days of my life. Trump attacking Biden for loving and supporting his troubled son makes me *see red*.
THE ATLANTIC 1/ "After 18 months of flogging the Hunter Biden story, what does President Donald Trump have to show for his efforts? His opposition research on former Vice President Joe Biden's son culminated in his own impeachment. Despite railing against the scion's alleged...
THE ATLANTIC 2/ "...swampiness at nearly every rally, Trump's convoluted narrative about Biden family corruption has taken root only on Fox News. At the very least, the accusation that Hunter leveraged his father's high office to enrich himself has failed to measurably move...
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22 Oct
(INTERVIEW) In these last days of my 25-year career in political journalism, I'm grateful I get to close out this time in my life with a lengthy chat with @rustyrockets on the past, present, and—most importantly—the future. The interview drops on Saturday. luminarypodcasts.com/listen/russell…
(PS) For those who aren't Luminary (@hearluminary) subscribers, the site offers a three-month free trial subscription that you can use to hear my chat with Russell and much else. I'll also post YouTube clips of our 70-minute conversation as or when I'm able to do so next week.
(PS2) I began my work in political journalism writing op-eds for The Daily Dartmouth, the nation's oldest college newspaper, in 1995. In the aughts I ran The Nashua Advocate, a political website nominated for a Koufax Award. It got very big (and very quickly) during "Gannongate."
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22 Oct
I'm not a fan of Dreyfuss, nor he of me, and his magazine has straight-up lied about me in its pages, but he's *certainly* no fan of Trump—so if he says the Giuliani-Bakalova scene is less sexual than the major-media outlets who saw it implied it was, I want readers here to know.
1/ Most of the reaction on Twitter came without the film having been seen by the authors—me included—though most of it *was* reacting to major-media reporters who'd seen the scene (or claimed to have done so). The scene is problematic whether or not Giuliani was touching himself.
2/ We're told Giuliani was flirting, drinking, asking for Bakalova's number/email, and—after agreeing to retire to a bedroom with her—touching her inappropriately (as Dreyfuss confirms). He believed her to be a foreign national from a former Soviet republic seeking info on Trump.
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22 Oct
(THREAD) Be wary of Saudi election interference masquerading as Iranian interference. The Saudis blamed Iran for hacking *both* Netanyahu's phone *and* the phone of his less-threatening-to-Iran rival.

Iran confessed to the former, and *denied* the latter. jpost.com/arab-israeli-c…
1/ Even as Israelis tried to figure out why Iran would hack Netanyahu's rival, accusations flew that Netanyahu—Trump's friend, and currently under indictment—had not only orchestrated the revelation of the hack but was intent on *spreading its fruits*. haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
2/ Moreover, instead of acting as you'd expect a prime minister to act if he thought a *sworn enemy* had hacked a top Israeli official, Netanyahu acted as though the hack—whoever had done it—was perfectly coordinated to aid his campaign. He called his rival weak on cybersecurity.
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22 Oct
BREAKING (1 of 2): Giuliani's "tuck" claim is already collapsing. Per Vanity Fair, "Giuliani [and Bakalova] retire to the bedroom with drinks in hand. She helps him remove his mic through his shirt. Giuliani asks for her phone number and e-mail address before patting her lower...
BREAKING (2 of 2): "...back as she bends down before him. But Bakalova never wavers, and just as Giuliani lays back on the bed—stuffing his hands down his pants—Cohen barges into the room and stops the interaction before it goes any further." google.com/amp/s/www.vani…
PS: Apparently Rudy Giuliani tried to get out of the bedroom he'd had his hands down his pants in super quick, suggesting some consciousness of guilt. Cohen (in character) had yelled at him, "She's 15!" Vanity Fair reports that, on hearing this, Giuliani "quickly tries to leave."
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22 Oct
This is why people are angry at media.

The Washington Post has now joined NBC in calling the Giuliani situation a mere "prank" that we can take *nothing whatsoever from* except that Rudy can be "duped."

It is amazing that journalists are being so obtuse. washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…
Biden being unwilling to indulge a hypothetical about what he might do with SCOTUS if he wins—the sort of hypothetical no pol would indulge—gets a week of coverage, but Giuliani being caught in an actual sex sting while acting as Trump's intermediary to Kremlin agents is a prank.
You can't help but worry that some in American media want this to be a close election in order to maximize ratings, and for that to happen Biden must be *beaten down with abject nonsense* even as legitimate national security scandals involving Trump's circle are just laughed off.
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