Kash Patel, who was assigned to the Pentagon after last month's election, has recast policy descriptions to include content that reflects favorably on Trump's policies before the information is shared with the Biden transition, two of the officials said.
“If Trump’s goal is to hollow out, politicize, and undermine the Pentagon the way he has the DOS and IC, then mission accomplished. This is an offensive, destabilizing move and General Tata should not be appointed to a Senate-confirmed position.”
📌Reminder: Joe diGenova represents the interests of indicted Oligarch Dymtro Firtash, who largely bankrolled the smear campaign against the Biden’s, to help Trump defeat Joe Biden
Parnas’ wife received wire transfers from a bank account in Russia.
The sum was $1M.
Firtash provided key documents that Giuliani used to further his discredited claim that former Vice President Joe Biden engaged in wrongdoing in Ukraine.
Firtash hired two Trump-allied lawyers Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova who were already working with Giuliani on his dirt-digging mission, which has led to intense speculation that Firtash is helping to finance Giuliani’s Biden smear campaign
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It appears the Russians searched for potentially embarrassing material on the Bidens — the same kind of information that Trump wanted from Ukraine when he pressed for an inv’n of the Bidens and Burisma. nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/…
The Russian tactics are strikingly similar to what American intelligence agencies say was Russia’s hacking of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Then, as now, the Russian hackers from a military intelligence unit known formerly as the G.R.U., and to private researchers by the alias “Fancy Bear,” used so-called phishing emails that appear designed to steal usernames and passwords. nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/…
Times reporters have obtained decades of tax information the president has hidden from public view. Here are some of the key findings. nytimes.com/2020/09/27/us/…
📌Trump paid no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years. In 2017, after he became president, his tax bill was only $750.
📌He has reduced his tax bill with questionable measures, including a $72.9 million tax refund that is the subject of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service.
Many of his signature biz’s, including his golf courses, report losing large amounts of money — losses that have helped him to lower his taxes.
The financial pressure on him is increasing as hundreds of millions of dollars in loans he personally guaranteed are soon coming due.