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21 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
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"Even before he reaches into his trousers, Giuliani does not appear to acquit himself especially impressively during the encounter. Flattered and flirtatious, he drinks scotch, coughs" & "agrees–in theory at least–to eat a bat with his interviewer"

theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/…
The personal lawyer for the president of the United States🤦‍♀️

Thx @BoratSagdiyev

Like, say, Treasury designated active Russian agent Andrii Derkach who is waging a "covert influence campaign" aimed at the 2020 election and met with Giuliani in Dec & Feb and leaked Poroshenko tapes to him to smear Biden



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21 Oct
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) sanctioned since 2013 has 3 websites w/videos hosted in US by Webzilla part of XBT - the first foreign co allowed to operate servers in Russia & reported to host porn sites & Methbot adv scams, by @KevinGHall

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21 Oct
As Trump and senate republicans cry foul over Hunter Biden - who never worked in the WH - and his business deals in China, taxes reveal China is one of 3 foreign countries where Trump has a bank account and paid taxes @mmcintire @susannecraig @russbuettner
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The foreign accts don't appear on Trump’s public financial disclosures which lists personal assets because they're held under corporate names

The Chinese acct controlled by Trump International Hotels Management LLC paid $188,561 taxes in China 2015-2016

nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/…
Trump Org lawyer Alan Garten would not identify the bank in China where the Trump bank account is held.

Until last year, China’s biggest state-controlled bank, the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd, rented three floors in Trump Tower

nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/…
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20 Oct
Ex-Trump fundraiser & RNC finance co-chair Elliott Broidy agrees to forfeit $6.6 million as part of guilty plea

This plea deal relates to Malaysia and China - but Broidy earned hundreds of millions in other deals worldwide while leveraging WH ties, this is a drop in the bucket
Elliott Broidy's private security company Circinus LLC (listed under global vendor name Threat Deterrence Capital LLC) secured at least $800 million in foreign defense contracts since Trump took office

In 2009 Elliott Broidy pleaded guilty in pay-to-play scheme - & paid $1mil in gifts to NY pension fund officials in exchange for $250mil for his Markstone fund to manage

Broidy was to forfeit $18 million

A felony charge was later reduced to misdemeanor

reuters.com/article/newyor…
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18 Oct
Braidy Industries - KY company that accepted $15 million investment from the state and Oleg Deripaska's Rusal had pledged a $200 million investment - has changed their name to Unity Aluminum and have new leadership in place (after another turnover in Jan)

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In January 2020 there was some drama at Braidy Industries when the board removed Chairman and CEO Craig Bouchard (who declined to step down) and finally the new CEO Tom Modrowski took over

Now there are several new acting senior execs

Deripaska's Rusal invested $65 million in KY mill in 2019

Per Aug story Rusal, 40% owner of Braidy Atlas Mill & chief raw product supplier, contributed $75mil in 4-months before pausing late 2019 until Braidy put in $300mil, Rusal then took back $10 mil

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18 Oct
Trump rally VIP among 6 Chinese nationals charged with drug money laundering. Tao Liu has instagram photos at Sept 2018 Trump rally

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18 Oct
In March @JustinElliott revealed Bannon partner Guo Wengui's jet tail # was T7-GQM

@MacFinn44 found T7-GQM remarks (that may list company that owns or leases plane) list Hong Kong based Genetchma Finance Ltd

Similarly named Genetechma Finance Ltd is owned by Russian bank VEB
Guo Wengui's plane T7-GQM remarks list Genetchma Finance Limited in Hong Kong

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.@MacFinn44 also found that Genetechma Finance Limited is associated with one other plane M-HAWK.

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