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Oct 30, 2017 • 144 tweets • 15 min read • Read on X
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(THREAD) Paul Manafort and Rick Gates are now indicted. This thread analyzes legal and political aspects of their indictment and surrender.
1/ Draw no conclusion from the two being allowed to surrender rather than being arrested at home/work. It often happens in nonviolent cases.

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Mar 20
(1 of 2) This is inaccurate—and the truth is worse. She was already detained, and when Trump's pal heard that he contacted the White House to demanded she be deported so he'd get custody of their child. The White House complied.

I don't know what to call that, but it's criminal.
(2 of 2) But wait, it gets worse! The Trump pal demanding Trump execute a government action for his benefit has evidence on Trump's past sex crimes—which means that this situation reeks of both Bribery and Extortion.

The former is impeachable *and* criminal, the latter criminal.
MORE: Here's the full story. I know it means nothing to say this anymore, but just this one situation—as it apparently involves felonies, impeachable offenses, ripping a mother from her child, and the covering up of sex crimes—is a Watergate-level scandal.
nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/…
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Mar 18
It looks like we have to go over this YET AGAIN for all the corporate media journalists in the back: Markwayne Mullin was selected by Trump—as are ALL Trump peons—on the basis of him having no scruples and being willing to do as he's told.

EVERYTHING he's saying today is a lie.
America has gone through this dance too many times to go through it again. Stephen Miller and others craft narratives for nominees to deliver to Congress if they think those nominations are uncertain. The narratives have nothing to do with what the nominees are tasked with doing.
They can play this game because they know that corporate media in this era has decided to act as a stenographer for whatever any liars say rather than providing any context or counterweight whatsoever.

Everything Mullin is saying is contrary to everything we know his boss plans.
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Mar 16
I do think to myself, sometimes, as an agnostic, that if there weren't only a God but a highly engaged and attentive God as evangelicals believe, that God would have in some celestial way far beyond our understanding struck down this piece of shit harder than any human in history
There's a level of hypocrisy only humans notice, then there's a level of hypocrisy so galactically astounding I think the absence of celestial retribution in the face of it may be the strongest argument yet that God doesn't exist

I remain unsure, but this tries my doubt *sorely*
What people misunderstand about Donald Trump is that they think either he believed what he was saying in 2008 or that he believes what he is saying in 2026, when of course the reality is that he was lying both times and has never in his whole miserable life believed in *anything*
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Mar 11
(🧵) BREAKING NEWS THREAD: Those who've been reading PROOF OF DEVILRY—the largest exposé of the Trump-Epstein Scandal—are cheering today. Congressional questioning confirms my reporting that one way Epstein helped interfere in the 2016 election was illegal campaign contributions.
1/ As PROOF OF DEVILRY reported, these payments were part of an effort—involving everyone from Michael Cohen to MBS (of Saudi Arabia) and Marc Kasowitz to David Pecker of the National Enquirer—to pay off Trump women. mediaite.com/media/news/bom…
2/ These criminals believed—correctly—that Trump couldn't be elected otherwise. The effort was domestic and international and constituted a criminal conspiracy involving election fraud, illegal donations, tax fraud and illegal foreign election interference. Trump was aware of it.
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Mar 5
There's no reason for Iran to attack NATO nation Turkey—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.

There's no reason for Iran to attack a UK base in Cyprus—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.

Now Azerbaijan has been attacked. Iran denies involvement.

I think this is Israel.
I say this for a reason. Right after the illegal invasion, US media reported that America and Israel had reverse-engineered the Shahed drone and had essentially identical copies of it. Evidence suggests these suspicious strikes are coming from Lebanon—where the IDF is positioned.
The Iranian defense strategy isn't opaque—it's transparent. It's firing at Israel and nations that host *American* bases. What's wholly inconsistent with that is the idea that it would attempt to bring the full force of NATO against it by firing on Turkey and a UK base in Cyprus.
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Feb 28
You'll see a lot of bad analysis claiming Trump's third illegal attack on Iran is merely an attempt to distract from scandals at home.

PROOF will shortly publish a book-length report establishing that the current war with Iran is not disconnected from the Trump-Epstein Scandal.
Fully unpacking this will take the coming PROOF report, but as a preview I will say that planning for the current war—and a switch to focusing on destroying Iranian ballistic missiles and ending its government—began at the same time Trump and Kushner set their plan to *own* Gaza.
I published a bestseller in 2019 informing America that Trump and Kushner would be taking America to war with Iran. It's simply taken slightly longer than expected. But what the interim has enabled is an understanding of how Epstein is relevant to these plans Trump had all along.
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