Thread by @emptywheel

#mattydickpics LITERALLY described that he was a reverse chauvinist for Russia when he denied they'd invade Ukraine.

And he not only is not "reporting" anything, the talking points he parrots get several key details wrong.

The FUNNIEST thing about #MattyDickPics' latest faceplant, though, is the accused co-conspirator of one of those 12 people, who kept hacking US targets and even cheating Tesla!, goes on trial January 30.

#MattyDickPics is, as per usual, doubling down on things he knows nothing about.

Tl;dr: he's helping Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who CURRENTLY is butchering Ukrainians, dissociate his corporate person from his biological one.

Just more ass-kissing to oligarchs.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1614056512292265985

Back when #MattyDickPics was a journalist, he was OUTRAGED that oligarchs used shell companies to protect themselves. Here, he's the handmaiden for such a ploy.

Here's why they dropped the Concord prosecution.

emptywheel.net/2020/03/22/how…

Remember when #MattyDickPics was outraged that Goldman Sachs avoided being prosecuted bc of corporate shell games?

He's a big booster of the very same shell games if a Russian oligarch is involved.

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