@Angry_Staffer This is 🥜 "The impact of McGonigal indictments is still rippling out thru law-enforcement 🌎. The chrgs accuse an official at the ♥️ of the Trump 🇷🇺 investigation of secretly selling his own access, accepting bundles of💰in surreptitious mtgs w some1 who had ties to 🇦🇱 intel"
@Angry_Staffer 2/"McGonigal, a top-tier member of the city's law-enforcement community, a man who had fully integrated himself into a powerful circle of trust where favors get swapped & sensitive intel gets circulated, is accused of himself being on the take.
@Angry_Staffer 3/"If the indictments are correct, McGonigal was leading a dangerous double life, right under the noses of some of the sharpest cops in 🇺🇸 [and apparently didnt care]
But what might be most striking abt the case against McGonigal is how cheaply he is alleged to have rented out…
@Angry_Staffer 4/"his law-enforcement powers. 1 indictment suggests for $225,000, McGonigal's assocs got him to lobby 🇦🇱 PM abt awarding of oil-field drilling licenses & then open an FBI investigation connected to a US citizen who had lobbied for 1 of the prime minister's political opponents!!!
"Arranging a meeting for an executive from a Bosnian pharmaceutical company with a US official at the United Nations was said to be a pricier item — $500,000, one indictment claims. It is unclear whether that money ever materialized."
@Angry_Staffer NOTE: this is the guy who said there was no connection betw TFG campaign #MuellerReport & 🇷🇺 & this guy was 1 of the reasons Comey announced the 2nd investigation into HRC right before 2016 election bec McGonigal threatened to leak it if Comey didn’t! No excuse tho for Comey
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Trump’s alleged attempt at a quid pro quo with oil execs could violate federal bribery laws. apple.news/ABbqN_aVSReGYd…
Trump already has a track record of gutting environmental regulations, championing fossil fuels & pulling the U.S. out of climate agrmts. If he’d said he believes regulations are bad & renewable energy is overhyped & that he hoped those who agreed would donate to his campaign, …
then he’d be operating within the normal parameters of courting donors.
But the Post’s report suggests Trump flipped around the ask, proposing instead that a specific amount of💰could ensure that he would take specific action.
Jeff Yass just bought TFG. Here’s what he stands to gain.
The right-wing billionaire & TikTok investor is abt to help TFG add billions of 💵 to his net worth. This is what oligarchy looks like. #DeadlineWH #TheBeat #Maddow
Yass’ name recently started popping up in news reports after Trump denounced legislation in Congress that could ban TikTok unless the social media outlet is sold from its 🇨🇳-based parent company
This was a major reversal of Trump’s previous opposition to TikTok & came after Yass met with Trump in FL, with the backdrop of the former president’s mounting legal fees only adding to suspicion that Yass essentially could be purchasing a presidential candidate. #maddow @maddow
There’s a sucker born everyday but will this reporting like everything get swept under the rug bec MSM is chasing the latest shiny object? #TheMoreYouKnow
2/An independent report showing no widespread election fraud in 2020 would have gotten in the way of the Trump campaign's fundraising. TFG is a man who has been sued dozens of times for allegedly refusing to pay his bills in full.
3/So he must have really hated that his campaign spent over $600,000 to be told he was wrong.
According to The WP, the Trump campaign commissioned an outside firm to try to substantiate the claims of widespread fraud Trump was peddling.
2/Gaetz is an election denier who backed TFG’s plot to overturn the 2020 election. He 🗳️ to overturn those results after pro-Trump rioters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. And he's a peddler of the racist "replacement theory"…
3/that alleges nonwhite ppl are being brought into the 🇺🇸 to replace white ppl. Which is to say, he’s in no position to lecture anyone on patriotism.
2/AS RACIAL JUSTICE PROTESTS broke out nationwide in summer of 2020, a man driving a silver hearse became a reg at the demonstrations in Denver.He was a paunchy 5’7" w a ruddy complexion & wore military fatigues w patches on the sleeves. By activist standards, he was an old-timer
3/pushing 50 as he swaggered thru crowds of teens &20-smthing protesters, a cigar clamped in his lips. “I didn’t know much abt him, but he drove a hearse,” said Zebbodios “Zebb” Hall, a Black activist in Denver. “Inside this hearse was a lot of guns: AR-15s & all other kinds of💩
Convenient they left out Republican-run gov demands to remove twitter content in the so-called “twitter files“ eh? Irony is truly 💀 & hypocrisy reigns w #Rethuglicans
2/Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” focus on Democrats, but former administration officials and Twitter employees say Trump’s team and other Republicans routinely demanded posts be taken down.
3/When the WH called up Twitter in the early am hours of Sept 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report: Famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called TFG “a pussy ass bitch” on Twitter — & the WH wanted the tweet to come down. #HypocrisyHasNoLimits