“But then, last winter, Robert Mueller described Kostya [Kilimnik] as a ‘long-time Russian colleague of Manafort’s’ with ‘ties to a Russian intelligence service.’” 6/6/18 by @FranklinFoer 1/ theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
“The reference came in a casual aside, buried in a brief arguing that Manafort should be subjected to stringent bail conditions. It was a strange way to inject such a crucial fact. But Mueller repeated the allegation a few months later, as if to remove ambiguity.” 2/
“These ties weren’t vestiges of a distant past, but were said to be active through 2016. In a footnote, Mueller asked for permission to submit evidence substantiating the charge in a sealed filing.” 3/
JC Note: The good stuff is often hidden in the footnotes... A fascinating article. 4/
Trump won Wisconsin and thus the presidency in 2016 by about 22k votes, largely due to Milwaukee, which refused to conduct the 2016 recount by hand. HRC underperformed Milwaukee by > 55k votes compared to Obama 2012. 1/
Ironically, Trump demanded & received a hand recount of Milwaukee in 2020, which served only to increase Biden’s margin of victory. 2/ politico.com/news/2020/11/2…
Just me and Kilimnik (through his Twitter alias, which the SIC revealed to be @PBaranenko) chatting in 2019 about the polling data he got from Manafort. Seems I struck a nerve. 1/
I did not realize he was Kilimnik until someone pointed it out to me. 2/
Thread by @carolecadwalla about the content of that polling data. 3/
In Shelby County, TN, the GOP-led election commission is at war with the Dem-led funding commission over whether to move to #PenAndPaper (exception 4 voters w/ disabilities) or to buy new ES&S touchscreens to mark voters’ “paper ballots” for them. 1/ memphisflyer.com/commission-vs-…
The Republican-led election commission is determined to buy ES&S touchscreens, ignoring that the current ES&S/Diebold touchscreens were shown to have deleted votes from predominantly black precincts in 2015, as reported in Bloomberg. 2/ bloomberg.com/features/2016-…
It was @benniejsmith who discovered the vanishing black votes from ES&S/Diebold touchscreens in Shelby County, TN. He figured it out by comparing the precinct totals to the reported totals. I interviewed Bennie, who is now an election commissioner, last year. 3/
2/ “This is the consequence of white evangelicals wedding the future of their faith to the GOP since the 1970s, culminating in them not being the Bride of Christ but becoming the Bride of Trump.”
3/ “This is the consequence of steady white evangelical support for President Trump, to whom they gave infinite mulligans, no matter what he did.
The country and the world watched. Their congregants watched. Many left.”
“Trump & the Pennsylvania Republican Party have asked a court to dismiss the Green Party-backed request 4 a recount of the state’s presidential election vote.” (And she did.) - 2016
2/ The #SAFEAct wld have banned internet connectivity to voting systems & required robust manual audits for all federal races starting in 2020. The GOP blocked it. axios.com/gop-senator-el…
Dear @chuckwoolery: Where the F#CK have u been?!!! Since long b4 the election, I & others have been SCREAMING about the modems that ES&S installed in precinct ballot scanners. The #SAFEAct wld have banned them, but Rs blocked the bill. Now u care only to scapegoat TFG’s loss. 1/
2/ I made this video with @KateRosenberg4. It received over 700k views, but the GOP didn’t care.
3/ The #SAFEAct wld have required robust manual audits for ALL federal races. Unless u plan to acknowledge that the GOP specifically declined to address this vulnerability b4 the election, u shld shut ur mouth. This election was conducted under the rules the GOP insisted upon.