Thread by @Matt_Fleming321

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.

tabletmag.com/sections/israe…

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."

eurasianet.org/episode-4-exam…

4/ The Trump/Kremlin connections are now pretty extensively known. Lesser known are the ways his casinos and charities are used to launder money.

https://twitter.com/kelly2277/status/1472712912728907785?t=3FFVdAS-LqRbpZbMOMlH-g

5/ More on that:

https://twitter.com/kelly2277/status/947616079156862976?t=teWSSj2vq_LdKIDKeyMjwQ

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."

nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

7/ "Rubin was registered as a lobbyist representing Halkbank, as was Brian Ballard, who has worked with President Donald Trump‘s campaign."

floridapolitics.com/archives/30871…

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."

tampabay.com/florida-politi…

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."

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/d…

10/ More on Halkbank/Ballard Partners:

https://twitter.com/ninaandtito/status/1380375822993870848?t=NpZ8NtTImntKvBGqe67jZQ

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.

politico.com/news/2022/02/2…

12/ Pam Bondi, former Florida Atty General, is also of #BallardPartners. She defended Trump's indefensible actions at that impeachment trial in the Senate:

nytimes.com/2016/09/15/us/…

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. 👀

orlandosentinel.com/news/os-prem-n…

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.

politico.com/newsletters/pl…

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.

https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1461274879672655875?t=Mz3pcWfHwCtvs5mY9lmqyA

16/ More on that:

https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1420265868571910152?t=QePZfnDY8reeERxs2Sc8SQ

17/ Yes it's ALL connected.

#OperationAvalanche
#OperationOrangeJuice

https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1420249729947029505?t=mZRiT4gza2Mc3RYpVQ-pIQ

18/ In 2021 Sheldon Adelson passed away, and almost immediately Florida held a SPECIAL legislative session to open the state to casino/online gambling.

https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1400688074049392642?t=ZONKeFGfDdcReaQLsO6Z8g

19/ The top donors in statewide politics this year are BY FAR the gambling/casino interests.

https://twitter.com/Matt_Fleming321/status/1526235396581036032?t=F_e1PARmpij8WWQPfJ6NSw

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:

https://twitter.com/Matt_Fleming321/status/1472404600921550851?t=F_e1PARmpij8WWQPfJ6NSw

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.

propublica.org/article/inside…

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...

https://twitter.com/Matt_Fleming321/status/1494029247916220417?t=O7Knp_kFQm-TpKdeauNJmw

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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https://twitter.com/Matt_Fleming321/status/1517915469042364417?t=bj8s8Z4zymCmS7Qc6eeZhg

24/ Trump wanted to build a casino in Florida...but like everything else he does, it failed.

newsweek.com/trump-casino-d…

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:

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https://twitter.com/Matt_Fleming321/status/1454212532231720967?t=MznW6fvL1HcJwSp2Pb96Fg

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.

https://twitter.com/Matt_Fleming321/status/1480877454562672648?t=SEUxEx3lh0eQ2dDzNwhhNQ

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.