Thread by @TheRealHoarse

There was a reference in the Steele Dossier to Trump having secret dealings with China including efforts to use bribes to facilitate deals.

Now, news has broken of Trump having a bank account in China.

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https://twitter.com/john_sipher/status/1318729724881997826

For perspective, Trump apparently has known bank accounts in only two other countries: UK and Ireland.

It isn’t like the guy has foreign accounts all over the place. He generally uses Western banks.

So, we have a Steele Dossier item alleging Trump paid bribes in China.

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And we now have an undisclosed bank account in China.

And, lastly, we have reporting from earlier this year about Trump trying to have the law which makes it illegal for U.S. businesses to break U.S. bribery laws even in other countries.

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nytimes.com/2020/01/15/bus…

I mean, if I had a history of foreign corrupt practices, I suppose I’d want the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act struck down too.

And if I had illegally bribed Chinese officials, I’d probably be pretty susceptible to blackmail by those and other officials.

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The very last thing I would want is for people to find out about my secret, illegal efforts to build business in China.

So, I’d probably over-correct and try to sound like I was bashing China and was very tough on them.

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And I’d probably throw out projections bigger than an IMAX and call my opponent soft on China and say his son had dirty dealings there.

And then, if I was a wholly dysfunctional narcissist like Trump, when news broke about my secret account and people connected the dots...

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...back to the Steele Dossier, I would:

- Call it all hoax
- Admit to the secret account but call it normal business stuff
- Insist my businesses never bribed anyone
- Angrily insist bribery is actually good and fair and right
- Claim people against bribery are the bad guys

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Let’s see how many we check off within the next 24 hours.

Poor Donnie. There’s a new dent in his facade - or new major threat to it - every new day.

Humpty Trumpty never shoulda been so pro-wall.

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Separately, we should now pound the hell out of vulnerable Republicans who have been strongly anti-China in an effort to praise Trump.

Get them on record:

Do they approve of a President having secret financial affairs with the country they called a threat?

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Ask Lindsey. Ask Nunes. Ask Ernst. Ask Collins. Ask McSally. Ask Kevin McCarthy.

And most of all, ask Tucker Carlson.

He is an insufferable white supremacist fuckwit but I bet anyone a beer, he’ll rail on this. He has weird triggers. This is one.

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