(THREAD) BREAKING: The Mayflower now returns to prominence as the site of a meet between Flynn co-conspirator Bud McFarlane and Sergey Kislyak, then Russia's ambassador. It turns out Saudi Arabia is almost as key to the Trump-Russia probe as Russia is. Hope you'll read and share.
1/ Robert "Bud" McFarlane is an Iran-Contra villain turned Russian oil-and-gas advocate turned Saudi Arabian nuclear-reactor advocate. He's been investigated for covert communications with hostile governments more than once. Under Reagan, he was K.T. McFarland's boss and mentor.
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1/ First we must establish why the topic of this thread matters. Does the rank hypocrisy on immigration policy associated with the two biggest anti-illegal-immigrant crusaders in America—Elon Musk and Donald Trump—mean that they’re wrong to oppose illegal immigration? Not at all.
2/ The question under review here is not really about immigration at all. We already know that Democrats and Republicans in Congress were prepared to pass the most draconian anti-illegal-immigration bill in decades and it was (a) blocked backchannel by Trump, (b) opposed by Musk.
How *obsessive* is PROOF about getting the facts right? *This* obsessive (from the latest report at PROOF, on Elon Musk, and keep in mind that all of this is a mere *aside*):
(PS) When I became an Elon Musk biographer I found out that his life story has more holes than a fishing net. Anyone who claims to know anything about him is deceiving you—as you point to any fact of his pre-2000 life and I’ll show you *100 ways* it’s still in major contestation.
(PS2) He came to America first—or Canada first. Unclear. He arrived in North America at 16, 17, 18 or 19. Unclear. He was at college in Canada in 1989—or not. He was still at Queen’s in 1992—or not. He was done with his classes at Penn in 1993. Or 1994. Or 1995. Or 1996. Or 1997.
(MAGA Q&A) You MAGAs have questions for me—the same questions, over and over. They’re disingenuous, but I’ll answer them truthfully in a thread so I have something to post as I block you by the hundreds—a practice I address in this Q&A. Please RT for your MAGA friends, and enjoy!
Q: Communist?
A: I f*cking hate Communists. My family fled to America from Communists in Russia. Communists are just as dangerous to freedom as Nazis—which is why I can’t understand why MAGAs love two men wholly beholden to Russia and the Chinese Communist Party: Trump and Musk.
Q: Capitalist?
A: And how! I’ve been the CEO of a small business. I’ve founded a company. I’ve filed corporate tax returns. I’ve had contractors working for me. I’m a self-employed digital creator—about as much of a capitalist as you could ever be. I believe in the free market.
BREAKING: Research Shows Trump, Trump Family and Trump Surrogates Have Used Term “Bloodbath” for Years—Always to Mean Violence or Mass Electoral Defeat, Never Financial Crisis (Which Trump Says the US Is Already In, So He’d Never Posit It As a Hypothetical Future Outcome, Anyway)
(PS) Trump wasn’t discussing electoral defeat—as he said (twice) that harm to the auto industry would be “the least of” America’s worries if he lost, as it would be a “bloodbath” for the “whole country”—leaving us with only the possibility of a *regular* Trump topic: violence.
(PS2) In the full clip Trump explains his reference to a bloodbath by saying that if he’s not elected there will be no future elections—a reference to a far-right conspiracy theory that if Biden wins the left will use violence to erect a dictatorship (which *Trump* has promised).