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23 Apr, 10 tweets, 3 min read
Robert Stryk’s Stryk Global Diplomacy (formerly known as Sonoran Policy Group) brought in a consulting firm called ZAMZAM on behalf of George Nader and dropped 4 M in a failed bid to have his sentence commuted by Trump. politico.com/politicoinflue…
Robert Stryk’s Sonoran Policy Group, (lobbyist) is notorious for its work for repressive regimes has ties to the Trump administration, represents Isabel dos Santos

qz.com/africa/1790195…
Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s former president who is accused of embezzling millions of dollars from a state oil company she once headed.

nytimes.com/2020/07/05/us/…
And Mr. Stryk (Sonoran Policy Group) had represented the government of the former Congolese president Joseph Kabila, which had faced American sanctions for human rights abuses and corruption.

nytimes.com/2020/07/05/us/…
Since 2017, Sonoran Policy Group has earned $10.5 million from foreign governments, according to OpenSecrets.

qz.com/africa/1790195…
Sonoran Policy Group has represented the Democratic Republic of Congo, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain. Its founder, Robert Stryk, was an unpaid West Coast adviser for Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign.

qz.com/africa/1790195…
Mer also agreed to pay $1.25 million to the firm of Robert Stryk, who had worked with Trump campaign officials, to organize the Hay-Adams event and meetings around it for Mr. Kabila’s (DRC) special envoy to the United States.

nytimes.com/2018/12/10/us/…
Mr. Stryk’s firm, Sonoran Policy Group, also signed a $100,000-a-month contract in August to represent Somalia in its bid for increased military aid from the Trump administration and removal from its travel ban list.

nytimes.com/2018/12/10/us/…
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14 Apr
‼️PSA‼️

A toxic/abusive person will try to control you, demand loyalty & limit w/whom you interact.

Ex: Such an abuser will order their unfortunate followers to block or shun another.

When an abusive person no longer controls you they will try to control how others see you.
A friend pointed out, the narcissist abuser uses a carrot & a stick tactic to keep her followers obedient, demanding “loyalty.”

If a follower is “disobedient” the abuser instigates a brutal smear campaign, not only to emotionally abuse that disobedient person, ...
The narcissistic abuser will not only hope to emotionally decompensate its victim, but also use that abuse to serve as a terror tactic to keep its other followers silent as they observe the abuse.

The abuser will even encourage others to join abuse of the abuser’s victim.
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2 Apr
🧵Blocklists

A tool in the information warfare toolkit with the intent of siloing/dividing subscribers into limited info bubbles ripe for disinfo amplification & further division.

📌A Timeline

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On 3/22/17 & 4/8,9/17 LM encouraged her followers to subscribe to Jester’s blocklist to block “Putinbots.”

Putinbots sounds scary, don’t they? Twitter newbies want to be safe from “Russian trolls” so they naively subscribe, IPs likely scraped. Image
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16 Mar
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to interfere in the American presidential election to denigrate the candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr., including intelligence operations to influence people close to Trump. nytimes.com/live/2021/03/1…
The report did not name those people but seemed to be a reference to the work of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, who relentlessly pushed allegations of corruption about Mr. Biden and his family involving Ukraine.

nytimes.com/live/2021/03/1…
📌White House was warned Giuliani was target of Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation to Trump

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17 Jan
"Our investigation linked this network to Roger Stone and his associates," he added. Several of those pages had links to Proud Boys, he said. cnn.com/2020/07/08/tec…
There's been a Proud Boy at the White House for 4 years and everyone's shocked about the pic from today," the extremist group wrote.

washingtonian.com/2020/12/14/pro…
The Trump adm was forced to deny that Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio had been officially invited to the WH ahead of a large MAGA rally taking place at the capitol in December.

On Parler, Tarrio uploaded a photograph of himself inside the WH gates.

washingtonian.com/2020/12/14/pro…
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17 Jan
Roger Stone’s Proud Boys, Seizing Trump’s Call to Washington, Helped Lead Capitol Attack

The WSJ reviewed thousands of posts across social media to reconstruct how the Proud Boys invoked Trump’s rhetoric ahead of the Capitol attack
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13 Jan
📌How the horrific insurrection of Jan 6th started & who was involved.

Nov 6, 2020: Trump-linked figures have boosted #/StopTheSteal Insurrection

Associates of Steve Bannon and top Trump allies have taken leadership roles and stoked violence.

politico.com/amp/news/2020/…
Also on November 5, Bannon started his own "Stop the Steal" Facebook group; he changed the name to "Own Your Vote" the following day. It was not removed by Facebook, but they did later remove several other pages affiliated with Bannon.

cnn.com/2020/11/13/bus…
Roger Stone and Steve Bannon have been in full disinformation mode. Stone has appeared on the show of far-right radio commentator Alex Jones to trumpet groundless claims that Biden is trying to steal the election.
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