Thread by @DempseyTwo

This Oleg Deripaska news is a BFD. Take a huge step back and realize what it means when the FBI performs a ‘law enforcement activity’ at 2 separate locations owned by the same individual. A wee thread for perspective 🧵👇🏻 nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

Deripaska was sanctioned by Treasury. home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…

Todays FBI ‘activity’ had to have been a coordinated effort. The field offices would have been in communication, planning, sharing information. They would have had to have some probable cause for this to have occurred. They would have also needed permission, perhaps warrants.

Those warrants would have had to be signed off on. Merrick Garland himself, would more than likely have been in the loop on something like this especially for someone like Deripaska who has been sanctioned by the Treasury Dept.

But why now? After all this time, why now? Is this because there was always cause but now we have an AG willing to enforce our laws? Remains to be seen. But it could be because someone is cooperating and they now have new information that gave them that cause?

Pure speculation time. To answer the why now question, could it be that Deripaska made donations to the Inauguration Fund chaired by Tom Barrack?
abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclu…

You may remember Tom Barrack from such indictments as 👇🏻

https://twitter.com/DempseyTwo/status/1417596208630034441

The article above mentioned foreign donations to trump’s inaugural fund coming from Russia, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Tom Barrack was indicted for acting as a foreign agent of UAE. This article includes the name of one his co-defendants in that case.
arkansasonline.com/news/2018/dec/…

Here is more information on the Presidential Inauguration Committee.

https://twitter.com/DempseyTwo/status/1365318550580310019

But Joe, you’re kind of all over the place here, how does any of this tie to Deripaska? In the below article, it mentions Barrack’s UAE connections and a reminder that 🗣it was BARRACK WHO RECOMMENDED PAUL MANAFORT TO BE TRUMPS CAMPAIGN MANAGER.

vox.com/2018/7/5/17505…

Why is that important? Oh I don’t know, maybe because

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1295843518989115396

As I said, this is all sheer speculation on my part. I don’t know if the FBI acted on information obtained from Tom Barrack. I do know that Tom Barrack put up $250,000,000.00 to stay out of jail. cnn.com/2021/07/23/pol…

As I said, this was about perspective. We are all clamoring for justice, for Merrick Garland to do something. This is a something. And if it came from Barrack, it is a big effing something.
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