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^ FBI is investigating if Russian money went into the unprecedented $30M NRA spent to help Trump – focusing on Alexander Torshin [Russia’s central bank deputy chief/close Putin ally/RU mafia boss w/ties to NRA], who was contact with Trump campaign.
#Maddow mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-wo…
👆👇The @FBI has the goods on Trump and I'm So Here For It.
@3L3V3NTH @WendySiegelman @Lazertrade @PostimusMaximus @chrisbrad22 @sharmila819 @Kris_Sacrebleu @toshea66 @emzorbit @traciemac_Bmore @TrickFreee @bitburner @conspirator0 @TheRynheart @LtUhura2017 @MollyJongFast 😏
^ ICYMI: Torshin [close Putin ally & godfather of Russia's Taganskaya crime syndicate w/ ties to NRA] exchanged emails w/ Jared Kushner, met w/ Don Jr & was on Trump's guest list for the Feb 2, 2017 National Prayer Breakfast.
Nothing to see here...
#Maddow
^ There's a reason – so many reasons – Rep Dana Rohrabacher is Putin's favorite congressman. ["so valuable to the Kremlin, they gave him a code name" ]
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^ Torshin's 'Russian Backdoor Overture' & Dinner Invite to Kushner: "Russians have 'shared Christian values' w/Trump team"
Aug 2015 [1 month after Torshin protégé Maria Butina attended Trump's rally]: Torshin tweets about Trump's "Christian values"
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THREAD: In light of the Trump admin lifting sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's companies, recall that Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, conspired with Deripaska during the 2016 campaign with help from Russian intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik.
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JUL 7, 2016: Manafort offers Deripaska private campaign briefings then meets with Kilimnik re the same on Aug 2.

AUG 11, 2016 email from Manafort's CPA: "Paul has indicated $2.4M in fees earned, but not yet received. Expected to be deposited Nov 2016 [post election?]."
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JUL 29, 2016 email from Russian intelligence operative Kilimnik to Manafort [days after Trump accepts GOP nomination]: "I met today with [Deripaska]. I have important messages from him to you. He asked me to go & brief you on our conversation."
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JUN 15, 2016
McCARTHY: There’s two people, I think, Putin pays – Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God.

RYAN: This is an off the record [laughter] NO LEAKS...alright?! This is how we know we’re a real family.

SCALISE: That’s how you know that we’re tight.
-Never forget-
JUN 15, 2016, @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy to Paul Ryan, @SteveScalise, and other GOP: "There’s...there’s two people, I think, Putin pays. Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God."

@Evan_McMullin was there and confirmed it was not a joke.
wapo.st/2pY7eFF
Per @Evan_McMullin: One senior GOP leader [that's you, @GOPLeader!] dolefully informed his peers that he thought Trump was on the Kremlin’s payroll and had been compromised by Russian intelligence. Other GOP leaders were surprised but did not dispute him.
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CORRECTION: Manafort told Kilimnik to pass TRUMP polling data not to Deripaska but to Ukrainian oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov & Serhiy Lyovochkin, who funneled $50K to Trump's inaugural & is business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss Mogilevich].
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FYI: Rick Gates testified that between 2010-2013, former Yanukovych CoS Serhiy Lyovochkin funneled $42M to Paul Manafort. At the time, Lyovochkin was business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss, Semion Mogilevich].
#Maddow kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
In his plea deal, Sam Patten, US business partner of Konstantin Kilimnik [Russian GRU associate of Manafort & Gates] who worked for Cambridge Analytica in 2014, said a Ukranian oligarch [Serhiy Lyovochkin] funneled $50K into Trump's inaugural fund.
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The government is making it easier for “dark money” donors to go unnamed vox.com/policy-and-pol… This is bullshit, GOP are protecting their Russian Donors.
"The decision landed the same day as the Justice Depart announced the arrest of Maria Butina, a Russian national with NRA ties who is accused of trying to influence US politics. "
"Ethics experts say Treasury’s maneuver will make identifying activities like those Butina has been accused of even harder to track."
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THREAD: While we wait for the NRA to come clean about its connections to alleged Russian agent Maria Butina, let’s take a trip down memory lane and explore the twisted web of ties between Butina, the NRA, and prominent GOP operatives.
In 2011, then-NRA president David Keene befriended Russian banker & politician Alexander Torshin. Shortly thereafter, Torshin joined with Maria Butina to form a Russian gun rights group supposedly modeled after the NRA called the Right to Bear Arms. newrepublic.com/article/110223…
In 2013, Butina’s gun rights group hosted Keene and NRA-linked Republican operative Paul Erickson at the Right to Bear Arms’ annual convention in Moscow. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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💣BOOM💣

FBI probing the NRA for using *illegal* #Russian🇷🇺money to help Trump win‼️

The NRA reported it spent a *record $55 million* on 2016 elections, including $30 million for Trump – TRIPLE what it spent for Mitt Romney in 2012.🤨 1/

amp.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-wo…
Even WORSE:

👉🏼Most of the $55 million was spent by an arm of the NRA that is *not required to disclose its donors*
👉🏼Two people w/close connections to the NRA said its total election spending actually was *$70 million*

2/
The gap btwn the $55 million (reported) and $70 million (actual) may be b/c independent groups are *not required to report how much they spend on Internet ads or field operations*, including get-out-the-vote efforts‼️🤬 3/
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FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump - focusing on Alexander Torshin, deputy governor of Russia’s central bank, who has close ties to Putin and the NRA
mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-wo…
NRA spending on the 2016 election may have been as high as $70 million
Spanish authorities have implicated Torshim for money launder and describe him as a godfather in a major Russian criminal organization called Taganskaya
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💣BOOM💣

THREAD: Kushner failed to disclose a "#Russian🇷🇺backdoor overture & dinner invite" w/Aleksander Torshin👉🏼former senator & dep head of Russia's central bank who is close w/Putin‼️1/

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/k…
🔥WHOA🔥

Torshin allegedly has links to #Russian organized crime.🤨

Email chain described Torshin as wanting Trump to attend an event on the sidelines of a NRA convention in Louisville KY in May 2016‼️ 2/
Torshin wanted to meet w/a high-level Trump campaign official during the NRA convention & that he "may have had a message for Trump from Putin"‼️😳 3/

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