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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

@KimWexlerMAJD

Aug 7

Remember the time Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly paid “conservative” political operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman $25,000 to smear alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein and to get the U.S. Attorney prosecuting Ghislaine removed from the case?

You don’t?

Well, read on.👇🏼🧵

In 2020, Maryland paralegal and model Kristin Spealman told Daily Mail the two men had been hired “to dig up dirt on Maxwell’s alleged sex trafficking victims” and to get U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman fired “using Burkman’s supposed influence with Attorney General William Barr.”

Berman refused to resign, and the standoff led President Trump to formally fire and replace him. The House Judiciary Committee interviewed Berman. “The Attorney General said that if I did not resign from my position I would be fired,” he told them. abcnews.go.com/Politics/fired…

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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

@KimWexlerMAJD

Jul 23

🔥BIDEN OFFICIAL FUNDED HAMAS WITH U.S. TAX DOLLARS

Julieta Valls Noyes served as head of the State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) and simultaneously chaired the Advisory Commission (AdCom) for UNRWA, the UN Refugee Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

In recent years the U.S. has been the largest single donor to UNRWA, with funding flowing directly from PRM. The Framework of Cooperation (functionally a Memorandum of Understanding) specifies terms and conditions, including ensuring funds are not used to support terrorism, consistent with Section 301(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act.

Noyes was welcomed to her first AdCom meeting on November 14, 2022 and served as chair until October 4, 2024. She signed, together with UN Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini, the Framework of Cooperation between UNRWA and the U.S. on May 30, 2023.

In August 2023, the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research released an eight-minute film titled “Askar-UNRWA: Cradle of Killers” documenting how UNRWA-operated schools were indoctrinating children and young people to hate Jews and to wage Jihad against Israel. David Bedein has worked to expose radicalization in Palestine for more than 20 years.

Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups launched a rocket attack and incursion on Israel on October 7, 2023, initiating the ongoing Gaza war.

On January 29, 2024, the Wall Street Journal reported on an Israeli intelligence dossier that estimated about ten percent of UNRWA’s 12,000 staff in Gaza were affiliated or have membership in Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and nearly half of UNRWA employees had a close relative with “official ties to the militant groups, especially Hamas.”

In a follow-on report in February 2024, WSJ reported that weapons caches had been found in UNRWA schools “for years,” that Hamas had built a network of tunnels linking UNRWA facilities, and that UNRWA-provided fuel and aid was going to Hamas.

In an April 15, 2024 report for the Center for Immigration Studies, Nayla Rush asked: “What is the exact role and engagement of Noyes, a high-ranking U.S. State Department official, within UNRWA? […] Moreover, if the chair was here to assist UNRWA implement its work, does this mean the U.S. government is partly to blame for UNRWA’s failures and biases?”

In August 2024 the UN Office of Oversight Services determined that at least nine UNRWA staff members “may have been involved in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel.” UNRWA reportedly terminated the staff members’ contracts.

In October 2024 The Jerusalem Post reported Hamas members take UNRWA vehicles to move around the Gaza strip, “as a form of defense, so they can move around easily…. [W]hen they get into a UNRWA vehicle and drive in it, and get things with it, the supplies, of course, then they are protected … because it’s an agency vehicle.”

Middle East Monitor reported on November 20, 2024 how three attempts to dismantle UNRWA — efforts led by the U.S., Canada, Italy, Sweden and Denmark — had been successfully thwarted by the UNRWA Advisory Commission. Beirut-based Association 302 to Defend Refugees’ Rights “emphasized that the failure of the proposals aimed at dissolving UNRWA can be attributed to the unity of the countries hosting Palestinian refugees: Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Palestine.”

In January 2025 Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, demanded that UNRWA cease operations in Jerusalem and close its office due to “widespread infiltration of UNRWA’s ranks by Hamas and other terrorist organizations.”

In March 2025, the Trump administration said UNRWA funding would be cut for one year.

Will Trump’s DOJ investigate Julieta Valls Noyes and other U.S. State Department officials for radicalizing and funding terrorists?

Was the State Department’s role in funding UNRWA a chronic, tragic failure of oversight? Or was it something more sinister?

U.S. taxpayers and the Israeli people deserve the truth. 🕊️

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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

@KimWexlerMAJD

Jun 6

🧵/1 How did the 🌐 UNITED NATIONS organize the INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES?

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, in recent years the U.S. has “devoted significant taxpayer funds to facilitating illegal immigration” through a network of NGOs coordinated by the UN.

https://twitter.com/DOGECommittee/status/1930344435906425133

🧵/2 At the June 4, 2025 DOGE Subcommittee hearing, “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild,” Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian testified about a vast UN-NGO network formed in 2019 to establish way stations for illegal migration.

https://twitter.com/DOGECommittee/status/1930344435906425133

https://twitter.com/BensmanTodd/status/1482032529330814977

🧵/3 “What the Center has examined is what happened before the migrants got to the Rio Grande. In other words, how NGOs and UN agencies were paid by U.S. taxpayers to facilitate the illegal movement of migrants through South and Central America and Mexico.”

https://twitter.com/BensmanTodd/status/1482032529330814977

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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

@KimWexlerMAJD

Jun 4

🔥“THE MAIN LINK IS IN CARACAS”: Tren de Aragua is an aspect of 🇻🇪 Venezuela’s unrestricted warfare against the U.S., expert says

Jose Gustavo @ArochaJG, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Venezuelan military and national security expert at @SecureFreeSoc, responded for Fox News Digital on the recently released intelligence assessment on Tren de Aragua (TDA). Arocha says the memo, prepared by the National Intelligence Council on April 7, failed to comprehend the Maduro regime’s relationship with Tren de Aragua.

“I feel that the missing point, here, is that the intelligence report is just a narrow lens about TDA. It’s about crime and immigration, but they’re missing the warfare dimension,” Arocha said.

“They’re missing that, for the Maduro regime, the United States is the enemy — has been the enemy for years, since Hugo Chavez came to power.”

Arocha points out that the Tocorón prison, from which TDA’s leader Hector “El Niño” Guerrero Flores and others reportedly escaped during a military operation to retain control of the prison from the inmates, is not a real prison but a “palace” serving as “the epicenter of crime in Venezuela.” When Tocorón was raided in September 2023, news reports revealed Tocorón’s swimming pool, nightclub, and even a zoo — as well as tunnels allowing inmates to pass in and out of the compound.

Arocha believes the raid was staged to convince the public that Maduro’s government was attempting to regain control of the prison.

“On the contrary, the TDA has safe haven in Venezuela,” he said.

“The TDA is not a gang. It’s a [military] arm of the Venezuelan regime in the hybrid warfare strategy. That’s the missing point. And that is the point that explains how a local gang [is] now in more than 10 countries, including the United States. That’s incredible. That is not possible without a state sponsor behind them.”

Arocha says the Venezuelan regime acts as a proxy of Russia, China and Iran — “especially China right now” — to create chaos in Latin America. He said the regime exploits Russian and Chinese expertise in propaganda, spinning a narrative that “the United States is against Latin America, is racist.”

According to Arocha, the U.S. intelligence community is failing to see the full picture.

“Unrestricted warfare,” Arocha said, “means using criminals, using disinformation, using every single tool they have” short of a direct military confrontation with the United States.

“We not only have to chase criminals, but start targeting command structures, which means nodes. That is very important right now,” Arocha said.

Arocha praised U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for pursuing a suspected high-ranking TDA leader in custody in Colombia. The Justice Department intends to prosecute Jose “Chuqui” Enrique Martinez Flores, 24, in Texas for drug offenses and for providing material support to a terrorist organization. The State Department designated TDA a foreign terrorist organization on Feb. 20.

Arocha also encourages U.S. agencies to collaborate with law enforcement in Chile, Argentina, Peru and other countries with experience of TDA, to understand what they have learned.

“We have to continue targeting command structures to totally dismantle TDA,” Arocha said. “And not only see them as criminals. Of course, we have to chase criminals outside from the street. But we also have to look for the command structures.

“And we have to put all the pieces together to have the big picture instead of the local one. And then I’m very sure that we are going to realize the missing and the main link is in Caracas.”

BBC reported Tocorón prison, when Maduro ordered it raided in 2023, was more like a well-fortified gated community than a prison compound.
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The controversial NIC memo 🧵👇🏼

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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

@KimWexlerMAJD

May 29

🔥🧵/1 TREN DE ARAGUA’S TIES TO THE MADURO REGIME

An FBI Intelligence Assessment titled “Venezuelan Government Officials Use Tren de Aragua to Undermine Public Safety” has been unsealed.

The New York Times reports this memo pits the FBI “against other intelligence agencies in a heated dispute” over evidence connecting TdA to Venezuela’s government.

The 13-page FBI memo, dated January 23, was submitted by the Trump administration to a federal court in Texas considering a challenge to the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act.

🧵/2 President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans swiftly as “alien enemies” hinges on evidence that Venezuela’s government controls TdA.

The Alien Enemies Act provides, “whenever there shall be any invasion or predatory incursion perpetrated … against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, all natives, citizens, denizens or subjects of the hostile nation … shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.”

🧵/3 Other U.S. intelligence agencies have rejected the FBI’s conclusions, dismissing evidence of collusion between Tren de Aragua (TdA) and the Maduro regime. A controversial assessment by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) dated April 7, 2025 released earlier this month expressed skepticism, concluding that “the Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TdA and is not directing TdA movement to and operations in the United States.”

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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD

@KimWexlerMAJD

May 8

🧵/1 House Intel Committee Democrats Jim Himes of Connecticut and Joaquin Castro of Texas accuse Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard of “misrepresenting intelligence in public” concerning Tren de Aragua’s links to the Maduro regime.

🧵/2 The National Intelligence Council on April 7 put out a “sense of the community memorandum” titled

Venezuela: Examining Regime Ties to Tren de Aragua.

A redacted version of the memo discusses TDA’s origin in a prison in Aragua State, Venezuela. “In 2023,” the memo reads, “the Venezuelan regime cleared TDA from Tocoron Prison, although the group’s leaders were able to escape in the operation, possibly assisted by low-level Venezuelan military and political leaders, judging from DHS reporting.”

The memo notes that TDA “and other Venezuelan organized crime groups” have spread to other countries using the larger body of Venezuelan migrants as cover.

TDA has a presence in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.

“From 2021 to 2024 there was a spike in Venezuelan encounters at the US-Mexico border, in which some TDA members could have been present as they have generally moved with Venezuelan migrant communities and profit from human trafficking and migrant smuggling.”

(Photo credit: @Michael_Yon)

🧵/3 The NIC memo speculates that the Maduro regime “probably maintains ad hoc links to some criminal groups in Venezuela,” citing evidence of prior instances of regime officials’ cooperation with armed criminal groups reportedly motivated by “desire for help controlling territory or deterring a perceived threat of invasion, or for individual financial gain.”

The memo describes a harmonious coexistence of the Venezuelan regime with “illegal armed and criminal groups.” The relationship is characterized as “cooperating with armed groups for insight and control” over territory, reasoning that the regime might prefer to cooperate rather than contest armed groups because “combatting such groups often results in personnel losses.”

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