1/ 🧵 Ron #DeSantis' twitter trolling press secretary #ChristinaPushaw is forced to register as a Foreign Agent after a visit from @TheJusticeDept, but there is sooo much more to this story than meets the eye, Florida. 👀
A saga of casinos, idiots, fraud, and money laundering.
2/ Mikhail Saakashvili is the fmr President of Georgia, a breakaway Soviet Republic, and it sits at an ancient geopolitical crossroads for Iran, Russia, Turkey, the Middle East and Europe. Money laundering for every kind of criminal enterprise is rampant.
3/ "In 2011, Donald Trump and Georgia’s then-president, Mikheil Saakashvili, signed an agreement to build a Trump Tower in the Georgian port city, Batumi."
6/ "At Washington’s Watergate Hotel, Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, sat down with Brian Ballard, a well-connected [Florida] lobbyist serving as vice chairman of Trump’s inaugural committee."
8/ "Ballard Partners paid #LevParnas a total of $45,000 for the referral of an international client, which Taylor now identifies as the Turkish government."
9/ #ArrestMikeFlynn
"Reza Zarrab, a dual Turkish-Iranian national, faces charges in fed court in NY for skirting sanctions on Iran by allegedly moving hundreds of millions of dollars for the Iranian govt/companies via offshore entities and bank accounts."
11/ Trump tried to extort Ukrainian president Zelensky in 2019 by threatening to withold military aid if Zelensky didn't help Trump's campaign fabricate political dirt against Biden's son, and got impeached for it.
12/ Pam Bondi, former Florida Atty General, is also of #BallardPartners. She defended Trump's indefensible actions at that impeachment trial in the Senate:
13/ Former Seminole County Tax collector Joel Greenberg's friend, Chris Dorworth, is also a former Ballard Partner and former college roommate of Matt Gaetz. 👀
14/ Susie Wiles, who I call the Florida sugar cane lady, was Trump's Florida campaign director in 2016, and DeSantis' campaign mgr in 2018 after he won the primary. She's still very busy, taking over the remnants of "Trump World" in March 2021.
15/ So it's ALL tied to Florida and The #BallardPartners. Russians have a TON of money here in LLC's and real estate, but they have carrying costs like property taxes, and many Russians are sanctioned under the #MagnitskyAct. They need illicit cash flow.
18/ In 2021 Sheldon Adelson passed away, and almost immediately Florida held a SPECIAL legislative session to open the state to casino/online gambling.
20/ Normally, you'd expect the temperance/evangelist movement to step in and righteously stand up against expanding casinos-which are proven to be linked to underage sex trafficking-but they are distracted with this Moms For Liberty crap:
21/ Sheldon Adelson(top individual donor to gop politics for almost a decade) and a couple others had built a casino wonderland in Macao, China on some islands. Needless to say, theres investigations into money laundering and Chinese influence out there.
22/ They are looking to do the exact same thing 90 miles from Cuba in the Florida Keys...which explains all of the local drama taking place down there. You can imagine what that will look like...
23/ That effort to open FL wide open to casinos failed due to legal challenges and a 2018 initiative to give voters the right to approve any gambling expansions by referendum. Disney spent ~$20 million in support of Amendment 3. Kinda explains a lot.
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25/ Point man for the casinos trying to get into Florida, REPUBLICAN State Rep Randy Fine is best known for his bigoted insults, elaborate frauds, threats, and terrorizing a local school board member. This long thread details most of that:
26/ But State Rep Fine has 'something else' in common with DeSantis! His legislative aide(Russian agent?) has an odd passion for gambling...🤔
27/ Small wonder Ron DeSantis doesn't want the 'feds' coming into Florida, which is tough sh*t for him and the pathetic remnants of the confederacy who are his cronies. He can't even make it through his statement here without saying 'gorilla'.
28/ Also small wonder that REPUBLICANS put so much effort into rigging elections and committing literal election fraud here. It's a swing state, but you wouldn't know that by looking at our representation.
29/ And to finish it off, here's a video of what it looks like when these criminal mafia traitorous ASSHOLES declare war on #Democracy in the United States of America. They are not sorry, and they will do it again if they are allowed to.
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The ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee calling a public congressional hearing investigating a deadly attack on our nation's capitol that was part of a coup attempt... "garbage"?
The DeSantis admin/GOP wanted to spread COVID on purpose.
"State auditors reviewed a sample of 2,600 tests taken at three state-run testing facilities and found that state-contracted laboratories failed to return results for nearly 60% of tests."
When Trump supporters started burning their shoes and throwing their razors away, I thought 🤔 "they're gonna be barefoot with neck beards? Sounds like the Taliban."