Thread by @AlexandraChalup

While this document released by a “leak” in the Kremlin confirms Vladimir Putin held a meeting January 22, 2016 and ordered multiple Russian intelligence agencies to attack the U.S. to install an “unstable” Donald Trump as President, the plan was in place years before. 🧵 1/

https://twitter.com/lukeharding1968/status/1415612838882721794

1980s: Trump takes KGB trip to Moscow, returns, says he’ll run for POTUS, pushes Kremlin agenda

1990s: Trump-Russia mafia deals/Epstein compromised. Test run for POTUS

2000s: Russian mafia deals, Kremlin agenda promoted

2010s: Attacks Obama, executes Kremlin’s POTUS plan

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First, it’s important to understand that in the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union knew it was finished and the KGB increased it’s focus on targeting and forming alliances with westerners who could be manipulated for its short and long term purposes. 3/
politico.com/magazine/story…

In the mid-1980s, the KGB’s western targets included Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, who both visited Moscow and came back promoting talking points aligned with the Soviet agenda. Both ran in 2016 with top advisors Manafort and Devine who worked for Putin’s team in Ukraine. 4/

Trump returned from Moscow bashing NATO, even placed a $100K ad. It would be a regular theme for the next decades. We learned this week, Trump told the Secretary of Defense he planned to withdraw the US from NATO in a second term and destroy other alliances, aligning w/ Putin. 5/

https://twitter.com/alexandrachalup/status/1415504231440732173

Manafort and Trump worked together since 1980s and he’s Putin’s most trusted American operative. Devine worked for Bernie Sanders for decades and helped Manafort advance the Kremlin’s agenda in Ukraine. Both campaigns used “rigged” narrative to attack their own parties. 6/

The “rigged” narrative that dominated the political discourse of both the GOP and Dem primaries was important to Putin’s intelligence operation: hack Committees, select and release emails that could be spun to support narrative, rely on media/pundits to fuel narrative. Worked. 7/

DNC’s emails were only ones released because the GOP’s nominee was Putin’s top pick: someone Russian intelligence KGB/FSB had profiled for years, was an important partner for the Russian mafia, compromised, proved successful at hurting Obama years earlier, & severely damaged. 8/

In 2011, while working for the Kremlin’s interests, helping the Russian mafia money launder and on secret deals with Moscow, Donald Trump used his platform to undermine President Obama’s presidency with the “birther” conspiracy that sparked a movement and large following. 9/

2011 was also the year Jack Hannick, who was instrumental in launching Fox News and produced Sean Hannity, moved to Moscow to help the Kremlin set up a religious propaganda network. His financier Malofeev is instrumental in Putin’s war on Ukraine & US. 10/
salon.com/2018/04/19/a-f…

In November 2013, while Manafort’s Kremlin client dictator in Ukraine faced mass protests, Trump held Miss Universe in Moscow; he announced the move in June, days after Russia announced draconian anti-LGBT laws, which U.S. evangelicals helped write, who later supported Trump. 11/

On Jan. 22, 2014, a couple months after Moscow Miss Universe and strategy meetings with Russians, Trump’s Russian handler announced how excited she was that he was running for President and that he had “full support of Russia.” Trump announced summer of 2015. 12/

By 2014, it was clear Russia had a well-oiled propaganda machine in the U.S., top cable news networks promoted Kremlin propagandists like Stephen F. Cohen and Ron Paul as pundits to discuss developments in Ukraine. Journalist incorrectly reported Putin’s war as “civil war.” 13/

By 2015, Kremlin ran multi-year constituency engagement programs…

Faith Outreach: U.S. evangelicals held meetings in Moscow with top Russian Orthodox leaders/Putin. Supported Trump

Gun Owner Outreach: NRA leaders held meetings in Moscow with top officials.
Supported Trump

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Dec. 2015, Kremlin flaunted Putin’s grip on U.S.’s political system as it launched a hybrid warfare attack on the U.S.; a U.S. presidential candidate and ret. Lt. General Flynn attended Moscow gala honoring Russia’s top disinfo network that called U.S. soldiers terrorists. 15/

In 2015, Manafort was fully operational in Ukraine again and in communication with Devine, as he rebranded the Kremlin’s team there while also executing a strategy to launch his longtime business partner, Trump, into Oval Office. Dem Committees we’re hacked then too. 16/

In addition, Steve Bannon had been testing Cambridge Analytica political warfare on US elections, first in 2013, then 2014, and fully executed operations in 2016 with Facebook data. Did he use it to also help Bernie secure Michigan in primary, a vital win? Polls suggest yes. 17/

By 2014, Bannon was expanding Breitbart News into Texas, London, Cairo, Jerusalem; it was a major news source for Neo-Nazis and especially important to Donald Trump’s campaign, which Bannon would run after Manafort left to run covert operations and try to steal election. 18/

Thanks to Obama’s negligent “reset” with Moscow, Facebook, Twitter, Google, were all well financed by Russia’s proxies and instrumental in helping Putin wage war on democracies. Ukraine tried to desperately warn of danger in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg laughed it off. 19/

Few Americans have done more damage to democracy than Mark Zuckerberg. He should be prosecuted for helping America’s enemy wage war on the United States and our allies. Jack Dorsey and Eric Schmidt should be held accountable for their roles. 20/
washingtonpost.com/business/econo…

Putin’s team attacked U.S. to elect Trump and other American politicians, but there was a geopolitical strategy using same methods, messaging, operatives, including pumping fear and hate toward immigrants, fueled by a heartbreaking Syrian refugee crisis Putin helped create. 21/

In 2016, Vladimir Putin, with the help of the same network of western operatives, waged WWIII hybrid warfare against the UK (Brexit) and US election, which hit like political nukes that shook the world. They tried to hit France & Germany but were blocked. 22/

The geopolitical acts of war that Putin wages on the west, with global consequences that endanger humanity and the planet, were years in the making.

The Kremlin’s January 22, 2016 strategy meeting may have been one of many, but not the first and not the last. 23/

Also, the Kremlin and Manafort had a plan in place well before the 2016 election to defend from being accused of their attack on U.S. and blamed Ukraine and those of us who went head to head with Manafort since 2013 and were earliest to warn Putin was attacking the election. 24/

Why is the Kremlin releasing docs now? To gaslight and defend from what the U.S. intel community has and what public will soon know. It’s being painted as “self defense” to justify the unjustifiable: Putin’s attempt to build a global mafia empire and the criminals who helped. 25/