1. In 2016, Ernest Champell was hired to write for One America News. On his first day, a staffer told him the network is pro-Russia. The 2020 election interference report revealed OAN is a conduit for the Kremlin. trumpfile.org/the-daily-beas…
2. In 2006, Russia passed a law giving Vladimir Putin the authority to send death squads to take out any foreign citizen he considers a disturbance. The law came up in my research on Russia's response to Biden's "killer" comment. trumpfile.org/russia-passes-…
3. In January, Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows joined the Conservative Partnership Institute. That makes him the eighth Trump official to join a Council for National Policy organization since Trump left office. trumpfile.org/mark-meadows-j…
4. Earlier this month, CREW filed a lawsuit against Mike Pompeo for using a taxpayer-funded State Dept. emergency fund for lavish parties and self-promotion. trumpfile.org/mike-pompeo-su…
5. During his December 21st trip to Israel, Jared Kushner spent over $24,000 in taxpayer dollars, just on hotel services. trumpfile.org/jared-kushner-…
6. The November #Parler deep dive has been updated. We now know that Rebekah Mercer is the owner of NDMASCENDENT LLC, Parler's mystery partner that was set up by the Trump-Kushner-Giuliani law firm. trumpfile.org/parler/
7. In May 2018, Donald Trump ordered Steve Mnuchin to "go after Bitcoin." Knowing there'd be backlash, Trump's demands were basically ignored until he lost the 2020 election. trumpfile.org/donald-trump-t…
8. Jason Miller told Fox News today that Trump is returning to social media on his own platform. The platform is expected to be ready in two-to-three months. trumpfile.org/jason-miller-t…
I took a break yesterday, but here's everything added & updated on Friday ⬇️
Ron DeSantis has actively covered up Florida’s COVID-19 numbers and sent law enforcement after someone who didn't. Most recently, he banned critical race theory from public schools, opting for a whitewashed education curriculum.
Ted Cruz recently fled the country to escape a crisis in Texas, the state he represents, and then he blamed his daughter. He is a favorite of the Parler dark money donor family, the Mercers. Seems super fit to be president someday.
Sidney Powell, now infamously associated with the slogan “release the Kraken,” admits in court filings that there never was any evidence for the GOP’s Dominion election fraud conspiracy (and no Kraken to release).
Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against Powell in January. Today, she argues that the case should be dropped because no one *really* believed her claims.
Powell’s Dominion conspiracy was broadcast on national television. It was supported by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley–the list of Republicans who backed her claims is longer than the list of Republicans who didn’t.
1. On October 18, 2016, Russia's military intelligence agents acting as Guccifer 2.0 reached out to Alex Jones. Another InfoWars "reporter" responded. trumpfile.org/russias-gru-gu…
2. On October 15, 2020, Donald Trump told his town hall audience that he knows nothing about QAnon. Then he started to describe QAnon. trumpfile.org/donald-trump-r…
3. On October 30, 2020, Trump supporters could have killed Biden campaign staffers when they ganged up on a Texas highway. The next day, Trump praised them. trumpfile.org/trump-tweets-p…
2. Mar-a-Lago has been partially shut down due to a COVID outbreak among the staff -- which isn't surprising considering all of the maskless political fundraisers hosted there. trumpfile.org/trumps-mar-a-l…
3. Just months before his alleged suicide, Jeffrey Epstein called a journalist who'd recently interviewed him and ask him to write his official biography. The journalist turned him down. trumpfile.org/jeffrey-epstei…
Political and media figures in Moscow appear angrier than ever after President Biden agreed that Vladimir Putin is “a killer” on U.S. television on Wednesday. No one is denying that Biden’s assessment is correct, but no one’s supposed to state the obvious like he did.
Some commentary in Russia has been arguably harmless, with Putin offering to debate Biden and others pushing a narrative that Biden’s "dementia" makes it hard for him to control himself. But those comments are just the tip of the iceberg.
In some cases, Russians have called on Putin to “release the kompromat,” a word referring to damning material that can be used as blackmail — like Epstein’s tapes of Donald Trump or information that the StB may have obtained from Ivana Trump’s phone calls in the late '70s.
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