A lot of terrible misinformation is being spread on Twitter by @JamesBradleyCA@JackPosobiec@CawthornforNC and others regarding FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, the Democrats and Ukraine. Most of it is completely fabricated. I will outline it in this thread. #FTXscam
The rumor being spread is that Joe Biden funded Ukraine, then Ukraine funded Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX and then #FTX Funded the Democrats as part of some evil money laundering operation. This simply is not true. I'll explain.
Yes, Joe Biden signed off on sending billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine, all in the form of useful military aid (not cash, not crypto, not any type of money). These were tanks, guns, armor, training and other useful military objects...
The other rumor is that Ukraine funded FTX, which simply isn't true. FXT partnered with Ukraine as a way for Ukraine to raise money worldwide via quick crypto transfer from private parties (not the US government). This began on March 22, 2022.
Now, as for FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried funding Democrats, yes this is true. He donated money to SuperPacs that donated money to both Democrats and Republicans (but mostly Democrats in tight House races). These donations were mostly made to the Protect Our Future super PAC...
SBF of FTX donated to the Protect Our Future Super PAC between Feb & June of 2022. His total donations were around $27 million. This was totally legal in nature, and none of the money went to Biden. The vast majority went to a Virginia media company called SCREEN STRATEGIES MEDIA
Screen Strategies Media specializes in creating Video ads for candidates. Yes SBF of FTX donated money to help Democrat & Republican candidates create media ads, but none was funneled through Ukraine, and is no connection to Ukraine funding or any wrongdoing.
If anyone has any evidence to the contrary (not just hearsay tweets or articles on obscure websites) feel free to post it here.
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(THREAD) There is a lot of misinformation concerning gas and oil prices in the US that I thought I'd try and clear up. US companies are the ones who decide where they buy oil from, not the US government. In capitalism, the government merely has the ability to do a few things.
They can sanction countries preventing Americans from buying oil from them, or tax imports of oil from certain countries, likely starting a trade war and pushing prices higher.
The president, nor the government, actually is buying oil from overseas or America unless they are replenishing the strategic oil reserves. Ultimately, however, U.S. refineries prefer "heavy sour" oil because it's cheaper to purchase and they are more equipped to process it.
(THREAD) The GOP wants you to believe that Biden is somehow responsible for gas and oil prices. They want you to believe he's importing oil from other nations and hurting Americans by doing so. I will explain why this is simply not true. It's actually the opposite. 👇
First of all, the US government is not importing an exporting oil. US companies are doing so. We are a capitalistic country where the government doesn't make decisions on where a company buys their oil from.(thread) 👇
Next, we must first understand that there are different types of oil. There is heavy sour, heavy sweet, light sour and light sweet. The majority of US mined oil is of the "light" variety" and the majority of foreign mined oil is of the heavy variety. This is important (thread) 👇
✅ Durham does not say that Joffe, who got the DNS data, was working for Clinton. In fact he wasn't.
✅ The Cybersecurity experts, who the filing NEVER says was working for Clinton, were investigating malware on WH servers. (THREAD)
✅ The filing doesn't even say that the white house DNS records were from the Trump era. in fact most of the data associated with the Yotaphone analysis came from the Obama Era.
✅ DNS data is not private.
✅ Joffe had lawful access under a contract to work with others to analyze DNS data — including from the White House to search for security breaches and/or threats.
✅ Joffe's information was shared with the CIA so he clearly wasn't sneaking around working for Clinton.
ANNOUNCEMENT (Thread): Farewell everyone. My mission here, as well as my husband's and brother-in-law's (Brian and Ed Krassenstein) was always to fact-check Trump and counter his use of social media to attack our democracy. On November 3rd, we won, America won and the world ...
won as the President lost in what he'd call a "landslide". I am taking a break from social media, perhaps forever, as I feel the onslaught of lies will gradually wain from here. With that said, social media could be this nation's downfall, if those in charge allow it to be ...
used to spread baseless conspiracy theories and centralize radical ideologies. Over the last 5 years we've had our lives threatened dozens of times, disgusting lies made up and propagated about our families, the FBI, DHS and local police at our homes numerous times because ...
(THREAD) The Real Hunter Biden Story (a theory based on discussions Brian Krassenstein had with a person somewhat involved):
Foreign interests hacked Hunter's iCloud account 2 years ago. They then began promoting the fact that they had emails and texts in Ukraine in 2019. (1)
Those in possession of the hacks had a buyer in mind, as stated in the story above, those close to Donald Trump. Bannon and or Giuliani approached the seller and funneled money to them via offshore accounts. (3)