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Apr 12 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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The chair & chief legal officer of Rep. Cory Mills' arms company—Joseph Schmitz—is a Pentagon IG who left amid a contract scandal in 2005 to become COO & general counsel of Erik Prince's Blackwater mercenary group. He was in that role during the Iraq massacre. But there's more...
In 2020 Prince tapped Schmitz as potential foreign agent to lobby for his $10B plan to put a private army in Ukraine. Schmitz was with Mills' company—PACEM—at the time. PACEM sold arms to Ukraine while Mills was in Congress, including a state-owned company Image
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Schmitz was a 2016 Trump campaign adviser, which resurfaced his Pentagon scandal—including alleged antisemitic boasts about firing Jews & Holocaust denial, like "Ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews." (Schmitz denies.) Mills hired him 2 years later. timesofisrael.com/trump-adviser-…Image
In 2021 Schmitz made another newsworthy contribution to US history when he sent Jim Jordan a legal presentation arguing that Mike Pence had the authority to reject certified election results. Jordan passed that to Mark Meadows on Jan. 5. (Again, Schmitz was working for Mills.) Image
Today, Schmitz also works for the Heritage Foundation, the group behind Project 2025. The New York Times reported Project 2025 was floating Schmitz as a potential Trump pick for Pentagon General Counsel, a position currently filled by an acting official nytimes.com/2023/11/01/us/…Image
With that in mind, here's more on the federal contracting scandal that forced Schmitz's 2005 resignation — featuring GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley. latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
newsweek.com/donald-trump-j… Image
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Here's a fun little grab bag on Schmitz, courtesy The New Republic ... newrepublic.com/article/136326…Image
Why'd Cory Mills hire an allegedly antisemitic disgraced DOD official & Erik Prince ally? Was Mills in on Prince's Ukraine army plan? Is he still tied to Prince? How'd Mills get millions in Ukraine arms contracts while in Congress? Here are Mills' committee assignments. Lunacy. Image
(Here's a neat timeline of Schmitz's employment history via the good folks at OpenSecrets) opensecrets.org/revolving-door…Image

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Apr 11
The still untold story about GOP Rep. Cory Mills is a massive sleeper scandal for an outlet with resources to take an eye off the Trump ball: Money, sex, international arms deals, stolen valor claims, wildly shady finances. Here’s the gist, most of it from public record. (1/X)
In 2021, Mills ran for Congress in Florida as a MAGAfied war hero & won, despite owning & living in a McLean VA mansion. But when he ran, his arms company was in money trouble. And Mills made some financial moves that happened to coincide with his campaign.
It’s probably easiest to center this story on Mills’ company. PACEM Defense (and related entities) is an int’l arms dealer. (For a sense of where we’re headed, PACEM has an unpaid federal tax lien of $600,000 from 2022, per Va. UCC filings. They paid a separate one last year.) Image
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Apr 9
Trump’s nominee for Director of Counterterrorism at DNI—Joe Kent—has a well-documented history of ties to white nationalists & far-right extremists. I’ve learned of a couple new ones.
In May 2023, Kent posted an anti-immigration VDARE image. Media Matters describes VDARE as a “racist, anti-immigration” site tied to “prominent white supremacists.” VDARE is run by Peter Brimelow. The next month, Kent was on Tim Pool’s podcast—guest host was Brimelow’s daughter Image
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At the time, Pool had just finished negotiating payments from Russia ($100,000 ann episode), per DOJ. It’s possible that Kent’s June 2023 appearance was one of the podcast’s first Russia-funded episodes Image
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Feb 28
NEW: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub, as of this week. The staffer, Jordan Wick, also created a repository for a Twitter DM-downloading tool just 3 days ago. He posted work on geospatial data in Jan—undersea cables, ports & “critical minerals.” Image
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Last May, Wick’s hyperlocal SanFran-based startup (AccelerateSF) expanded to sell AI efficiency systems to the federal govt, changing to “AccerateX.” They claimed 2 large “transit agency” clients. (DOGEr Anthony Jansco was also behind the group: ) wired.com/story/elon-mus…Image
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On Feb 18, Wick uploaded “org chart_viewer” to his GitHub (), with fields for employee union status, full-time status, location, & a “satisfaction” rating (out of 5). He also uploaded fields to filter searches for depts in the Small Business Adminstration. gist.github.com/JomanwImage
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Feb 20
If you've wondered who's behind the "Amuse" account that sluices misinformation into the MAGA bloodstream & gets boosted by Elon Musk et al as if it's a news source, it's a tech entrepreneur named Alexander Muse. He's listed on the Forbes Business Council. councils.forbes.com/profile/Alexan…Image
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Muse says he got his start raising $15 million from—guess who—George Soros, then sold for big bucks: archive.ph/4hQUy
He most recently co-founded ViewMarket.
Here are Twitter archives, but all you have to do is click the X link on that Forbes page: archive.ph/http://twitter… Image
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This post was less than two years ago. Kash Patel and Pam Bondi may like a word. Image
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Feb 15
NEW: Kash Patel hid his million-dollar Chinese payout from the Senate. Here’s how.
On Jan. 3, Patel filed his financial disclosure to the Office of Government Ethics. He signed it under penalty of perjury. This form reports Patel’s $1M-$5M stake in Elite Depot, Ltd — the Cayman Islands holding company for the $50 billion Chinese fast-fashion megacorp SHEIN. Image
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The OGE approved and signed the disclosure on Jan. 29. But the Senate Judiciary Committee didn’t see it until *after* Patel’s publicly televised confirmation hearing, which took place on Jan. 31. Instead, they had to base that inquiry on another document that Patel gave them... Image
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Feb 13
Kash Patel started two online payment companies with a veteran of offshore financial management. Late last month, they were both folded under a parent company. Patel only disclosed a relationship with one of these three corporations.
I’ve spent the last several days looking into Kash Patel’s mysterious Paytriots, Inc. TL;DR: his co-founder specializes in small offshore banks; his disclosure omits ties to related firms; & these companies mysteriously restructured the day before he signed his ethics agreement
On Jan 27, one day before Patel signed the agreement, a new LLC appeared in Delaware: “Paytriots LLC.” He lists a nearly identical Delaware firm in his agreement: “Paytriots, Inc.” This wasn’t coincidence. Tax records filed last week say they are related—and that raises questions Image
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