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Seth Abramson

Feb 27 • 14 tweets • 4 min read

(BOOK EXCERPT) Trump is lying about supporting sending Javelin missiles to Ukraine in 2018. I can’t abide this, as I wrote the most comprehensive account of that sale in print. I’m releasing the uncorrected proof of that part of PROOF OF CORRUPTION in this thread. Please RETWEET.

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PS/ This isn’t the only text on the Javelins in the 576 pages of PROOF OF CORRUPTION, but it’s the primary one.

(Note: I don’t get money from sales of the book, as my advance far exceeded earnings. I link to it here only because I want people to read it.) amazon.com/Proof-Corrupti…

PS2/ For those counting at home, the 2018 episode marks the *third* time Trump screwed with military aid to Ukraine for personal gain: 2016, 2018, and 2019.

In *each* case he fought doing *anything at all* for Ukraine—and relented only when he saw a clandestine personal benefit.

PS3/ As noted, I am releasing uncorrected proofs here—something I would never do outside the current global emergency—so that’s what the yellow flags are (i.e., copy editor’s notes).

Needless to say, the final version in the book is fully corrected and has no yellow notations(!)

PS4/ I also want to note that the Javelin scandal Trump was at the heart of stretched from 2017 to 2018—so in fact Trump was engaged in *withholding key aid* to Ukraine in *every single year* from 2016 through 2019, with him relenting in 2020 only after he was *impeached* for it.

PS5/ Never—*ever*—believe that Trump aided Ukraine in *any way* during his presidency. On those few occasions he allowed military aid to flow, it was (a) following a clandestine shakedown that benefited him personally, and (b) included strings attached intended to *please Putin*.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1497691010062819329

MORE/ In the event you missed it yesterday, I published a thread (see below) that includes much of PROOF OF CORRUPTION for free: the Introduction; half the Epilogue; the first 4 chapters; and links to key excerpts from 12 other chapters (the book has 44).

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1497691010062819329

MORE/ As a reader notes, Trump also did nothing in 2018 to ensure the INF remained in place. Indeed one of the reasons Trump hired Bolton—whose view of Iraq Trump detested—was Bolton’s views on *Europe*. Here’s an excerpt from what an expert told Stanford: news.stanford.edu/2019/02/01/u-s…

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The biggest news of today—without question—is three European countries that had planned to send jets to Ukraine backtracking and now refusing to do so.

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I don’t think anyone in the world can explain why European nations will send small arms to Ukraine but not planes. If the line of giving offensive military weapons to Ukraine has already been crossed—and apparently it has—why not send the weapons that are most desperately needed?

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Seth Abramson

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(FREE AUDIOBOOK CONTENT) It’s been so long since I posted it that I *forgot* I made a big chunk of PROOF OF CORRUPTION—my Russia-Ukraine book on how Trump helped fuel what’s happening now—free on YouTube. So this thread will contain a swath of the audiobook FREE.

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