Thread by @MsMariaT

"Prince knew a host of Trump campaign officials and went on hunting trips with the president’s sons, according to a memo of the FBI’s interview with Steve Bannon,"

The "hunting trips" are a ruse.

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

https://twitter.com/MsMariaT/status/1076197480650334208

https://twitter.com/Agenthades1/status/1019762190377631744

4/18: (4/7/18-4/11/18) "Donald Trump Jr, the eldest son of the US president, left the Spanish province of Teruel early Tuesday morning after spending three days there on a hunting trip."

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4/18: (4/10/18): "On 10 April 2018, Bannon declared: “it is very important that in Spain there is a party based on the sovereignty and identity of the Spanish people, and that is ready to defend its borders”.

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Bannon's "statement came after a meeting with Rafael Bardají, an erstwhile adviser to former Spanish president José María Aznar who now works as a strategist for far-right party Vox."

BANNON AND TRUMP JR. IN SPAIN AT THE SAME TIME IN 2018.

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"Vox’s main msg is that there is a need to defend the Spanish nation, which it sees as threatened by Catalan and Basque nationalists, immigrants, and the EU...Its proposals and msg fall w/in the orbit of Le Pen and Salvini, especially migration & the EU."

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"Making use of his contacts with Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom, Marine Le Pen in France, and Matteo Salvini in Italy, Bannon is setting up The Movement, a Brussels-based group that aims to unify far-right anti-European forces."

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Dana Rohrabacher's wife's family, hails from the Basque region.

Erik Prince's first job in D.C. was interning fro Rohrabacher. Just an interesting connection here, that they're playing around in Basque region of Spain.

https://twitter.com/MsMariaT/status/1114174952939245569

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4/18: "Vox asked [Bannon] for advice on what he is best at: political communication through alternative media and social networks – that is, electoral engineering based both on big data and micro-targeting."

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10/20: "Spain’s conservative People’s party (PP) has turned on its sometime allies in the far-right Vox party, accusing them of practising a politics based on “fear, anger, resentment and revenge”.

Vox party is who Bannon met with.

theguardian.com/world/2020/oct…

The PP leader, Pablo Casado, "said Vox’s leader, Santiago Abascal, had brought a “fraudulent motion” before parliament at a desperate time for the Spanish people...."

“You’re making us waste time right in the middle of a pandemic that has infected a million people,” said Casado, adding that Abascal’s angry and rambling speech on Wednesday had verged on the unhinged."

“The nonsense we’re witnessing isn’t a motion of no confidence against Sánchez, but against China, [George] Soros … the EU, regional governments and even how politicians dress,” said the PP leader. “You even talked about Hitler and the Soviet Union.”

Sounds like Bannon.

“You brag about being populists w/ your demagoguery that offers easy – and usually fake – solutions to complex problems,” he said...."

"The People’s party doesn’t want to be another party of fear, of rage, of resentment and revenge, of insults and skirmishes, nor of manipulation, lies and backwards opposition.”

theguardian.com/world/2020/oct…

4/19: "In 2017, Steve Bannon...began communicating with Vox. Bannon has met with one of its founders, former conservative Prime Minister Jose María Aznar’s international affairs advisor Rafael Bardají. "

foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/27/vox…

"Vox exploded onto the Spanish political scene in the wake of the crisis triggered by the Catalan government’s decision to proclaim independence from Madrid in 10/17."

Hacer España Grande Otra Vez—Make Spain Great Again

foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/27/vox…

"Rohrabacher with Carles Puigdemont in DC and Barcelona. Thumbs up signaling to Russian paymaster. Julian Assange backed Catalonian independence. Russia destablising EU."

https://twitter.com/mopeng/status/933817550995038208

4/8/17: "Delegation of US congressmen will meet Catalan president Puigdemont in Barcelona to discuss independence process"

cataloniavotes.eu/en/delegation-…

Puigdemont escaped to Belgium....

https://twitter.com/MsMariaT/status/1183733030269046784

Now Politico trust washing for Puigdemont

"Carles Puigdemont is a member of the European Parliament and former president of Catalonia (January 2016 — October 2017)"

politico.eu/article/why-th…