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28 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
On @narativ_live right now: former KGB officer Yuri Shvetz says that the KGB began recruiting Trump in earnest in 1983, three years after identifying him as a potential asset.
@craigunger @LincolnsBible
"If you had told anyone at the KGB that Donald Trump [back then] would one day be president, they would not even laugh, because it was too ridiculous."
Shvetz says he believes the FSB didn't think Trump could be president until Feb/March of 2016. That's when the various meetings were set up w/Dimitri Simes, he says.
"The whole Trump Organization was turned into a money laundering front for the Russian intelligence community."
Shvetz is a key source for Unger's new book:
amazon.com/American-Kompr…
Correction: Shvets with an "s" not a "z" at the end.

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12 Jan
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1/ I wrote that in DIRTY RUBLES the spring of 2018. This—right here, right now—is what I was worried about—although I will confess that things have gotten scarier and uglier than I could ever have imagined.
2/ On 1/6, we came within a hair’s breadth of a full-on overthrow of our federal government. This is not hyperbole. Trump & his disciples organized, instigated, and carried out a coordinated attack on the Capitol, for the purpose of subverting democracy. People died.
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My friend’s father went to the Virginia Military Institute, which is as hardcore as the name implies. He tells a story that has always stuck with me:

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1/ The school had a rivalry with another school, I can’t remember which. My friend’s father was one of three cadets guarding the school’s canon during the big football game. The rival school thought it would be a funny prank to steal and/or deface the canon.
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7 Jan
Every smirking cosplay insurrectionist who set foot in the Capitol yesterday needs to spend a minimum of 10 years in prison, per Trump's own "protecting monuments" EO.

And every politician who egged them on should face sedition charges.

Demand justice.

I hope that what happened on January 6 convinces anyone still on the fence that Trump & his odious accomplices must pay for their crimes.

Fullest extent of the law.

gregolear.substack.com/p/trump-and-pu…
As a practical matter, the insurrectionists have to be arrested in the next 13 days. It is a threat to the security of the President-Elect and the VP-Elect to have any of these goons not behind bars during inauguration.
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4 Jan
As we now have an hour-long recording of Donald John Trump going full mobster on a Georgia state official, I thought I'd do a thread highlighting some of my work on the criminality of Trump & his associates.

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1/ We begin with the three-part series written with mob expert @LincolnsBible. Part One discusses how Trump, a second-generation mob money launderer, became a Confidential Informant, thus avoiding indictment:
gregolear.substack.com/p/tinker-tailo…
2/ Part Two details how a guy owned by La Cosa Nostra came to be owned by the Russian mafiya. The 80s were boon times for hostile takeovers.

gregolear.substack.com/p/from-trump-t…
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2 Jan
1/ When I was in high school, I worked at McDonald’s. It was a really good experience for me, and I met a lot of interesting people there (including, improbably, the best chess player I ever played against).

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2/ The lunch rush at McDonald’s was something else. For 2 solid hours, it was all hands on deck, super busy. There was one guy whose job was to run the grill & make sure everything ran smoothly. He would tell us what to make—cheeseburgers or Big Macs, the occasional Filet O’Fish.
3/ Our guy was named Joe Brown. He was a legend. He’d come in at 10 AM and take an entire pot of coffee to the break room, where he would smoke cigarettes and drink the entire pot to prepare himself for the lunch shift.
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24 Dec 20
Let's talk about Paul Manafort, so we can see recall just how much of a despicable traitor the guy Trump just pardoned is.

Everything below is a direct quote from Volume 5 of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report, unless it's in italics.

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gregolear.substack.com/p/this-is-what…
1/ The Committee’s bipartisan Report unambiguously shows that members of the Trump Campaign cooperated with Russian efforts to get Trump elected.....
2/ And it presents, for the first time, concerning evidence that the head of the Trump Campaign [Manafort] was directly connected to the Russian meddling through his communications with an individual found to be a Russian intelligence officer [Kilimnik].
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