On April 4, 2014, Trump smeared CNN with a handful of tweets and retweets. Around this time, Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica were using bots to test Trump slogans "drain the swamp" and "build the wall" on social media. The company collaborated with Russian intelligence.
From 2015 - 2017, April 4th was a pretty calm day on Trump's Twitter. But in 2018, one day after Trump and Jeff Sessions ordered the family separation policy...
1. In January 2017, Trump offered to lift sanctions on Russia if they reduced their nuclear stockpile, which has little to no impact on the nuclear danger. A Russian political scientist thinks the idea was Putin's. trumpfile.org/trump-ill-lift…
2. In 2017, Andrey Piontkovsky said he thinks Donald Trump's Russian handler is Dimitri Simes, an informal foreign policy adviser to the campaign.
A year later, we learned that Simes set up meetings between US officials and undercover Kremlin agents.
The name Dimitri Simes, who Piontkovsky pointed to as Trump's then-handler in January 2017, appears 134 times in the redacted version of the Mueller report.
1. In September, fundraising forms for the Trump Campaign were edited to auto-select weekly recurring donations. Over the next two months, more edits automatically doubled donations and made it harder to opt out. trumpfile.org/trump-campaign…
The Trump campaign had to refund more than $122 million in 2020. The refunds explain why Donald Trump’s fundraising efforts for his post-election “legal defense fund” included a disclaimer that 60% of donations “help the campaign retire debt.”
The debt from this Trump campaign scheme also explains why emails like this went out in November.
“You’ve even ignored the President of the United States. TENS OF THOUSANDS of Patriots have stepped up for the VERY FIRST TIME in the last 48 hours – why haven’t you?“
Today in 2013, Trump tweeted that he was the best baseball player in the state of New York, because he has no secrets, "unlike our President."
Today in 2014, Trump retweeted: "please buy @buffalobills Upstate NY would love to have you be the owner of our Franchise."
Trump tried to buy the team. He had Kremlin agent Michael Caputo form a shell company & hired an amputee to pretend to be the CEO. trumpfile.org/donald-trump-m…
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Chaos. Distrust. Scientific disinformation. Intentionally harming our mental health. These are traits that could be attributed to Trump, the GOP, and QAnon.
They are also part of "psychopolitics," Russia's longtime strategy for weakening its enemies.
Lavrentiy Beria, 1933
For nearly 100 years, our enemies have seen our mental health as a flaw in the US, something that can be manipulated to make us unable to function as a society over time.
But now, many of our own officials know this, too.
The speech I'm sharing in this thread was read aloud in Congress by Rep. Usher Burdick in 1957. That's how long the federal government has known that mental health services are necessary to prevent us from being taken down by foreign influence. From "Chaos. Distrust. Etc."
2. On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that Trump can't enforce a nondisclosure agreement signed by a 2016 campaign staffer. Other staffers who signed the same NDA may join the lawsuit. trumpfile.org/judge-trump-ca…
3. In July 1987, a political intelligence magazine available to anyone who could afford it ($400/year) reported a story they had no idea would be relevant 30 years later: