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BREAKING NEWS: Among many other things, this "man of mystery" news means that Erik Prince lied repeatedly to Congress and can likely be charged with a felony. He said his trip had nothing to do with Trump and left George Nader entirely out of his testimony, clearly deliberately.
2/ Three months ago, I did a lengthy thread on Erik Prince's testimony in which I said that it was clear from both the testimony and the background we already had on the events Prince was testifying about that Prince was lying.

Now that's been confirmed.
3/ Also three months ago, I did *this* thread in which I said Prince's UAE ties—beyond meeting with them about bauxite, he also lives there—suggested there was more funny business between the Trumps and the UAE than we know. That's also now proven correct.
4/ Days ago I did *this* thread on how U.S. media must investigate whether there are ties between Trump's sudden aluminum tariff announcement and Prince, Deripaska, and the UAE. And considering the UAE was one of four nations plotting to exploit Kushner...
5/ We're getting very close to having to say—on social media, CNN, everywhere—that there's a *Trump-UAE scandal* as well as a Trump-Russia scandal. The former may not have anything to do with the election, but we can't know yet—given UAE was brokering secret Trump-Russia meetups.
6/ What *does* seem clear is that there's a Trump-UAE scandal involving public corruption and whether Trump was selling U.S. policy for money—which is *exactly* what's at issue in the Trump-Russia scandal.

So the two are connected thematically, whether or not they are topically.
7/ Mueller's likely target/witness map (higher level = higher value target; lower level = flip):

4: Trump, Kushner, Prince, Manafort
3: Gates, Don, Ivanka, Flynn, Sessions
2: Clovis, Page, Papadopoulos, Cohen, Sater, Hicks, Bannon
1: Nunberg, Gordon, Spicer, Priebus, Lewandowski
8/ At the lowest level listed in Tweet #7—LVL1—it's possible there was no criminal wrongdoing, or weak evidence of wrongdoing, or strong evidence of a lesser crime (a single false statement and nothing else, for instance). But as with Nunberg, "immunity" offers may still be made.
9/ If I were hedging my bets on the map* I offered in Tweet #7 (which is based on present public reporting):

Prince: LVL4 --> LVL3
Gates: LVL3 --> LVL2
Sessions: LVL3 --> LVL2
Cohen: LVL2 --> LVL3
Bannon: LVL2 --> LVL3
Lewandowski: LVL1 --> LVL2

* Oh, and Stone is LVL2 or LVL3.
10/ Don't be surprised if we discover the UAE sought the same nuclear tech from Trump's administration Saudi Arabia did—which would add a host of Trump-Russia figures like Flynn and McFarlane into the Trump-UAE scandal. See my thread from three months ago:
11/ The simple version: Russia wanted Trump to drop sanctions so it could build nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia (and maybe UAE). A gaggle of Trump aides/allies seem to have been working *both* ends of that equation: Russian sanctions and cutting energy deals in the Middle East.
12/ My point: be *very* careful about media reports saying that Mueller looking at Trump-UAE ties means he's "moving beyond" Trump-Russia ties—that may be false.

In other words, it's equally likely that Trump-UAE dealings were *part of* of the Trump-Russia scandal. Fair warning.
13/ Two *stunning* facts:

1. The Trump aide now cooperating with Mueller was close enough to Trump that he was *on his way to Mar-a-Lago* when the FBI picked him up.

2. *Jared and Ivanka* have been seen hanging around with RDIF people, so Mueller will look beyond Dmitriev here.
14/ What else connects Trump, Prince, Deripaska, Russia, and the UAE? Aluminum. Prince's business is aluminum, as was Deripaska's (through 2017). The UAE/Russia are 2 of America's 3 biggest aluminum importers. Trump suddenly announced aluminum tariffs (much lower than for steel).
15/ Remember: Erik Prince was central to the "Trumplandia" plot as well as the Trump-Russia scandal. So if you want to know what motivated Prince to spread psyops pre-election via Bannon's Breitbart (with RTs from Flynn and Don Jr.), don't sleep on Russia. huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-dome…
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I'll say it as simply as possible: the Patten news is *big*—the Papadopoulos news is *huge*. Papadopoulos being willing to say in a sentencing memo that Trump and Sessions approved a Russian backchannel means he knows Mueller believes him—and the three other witnesses who concur.
2/ If Trump, Sessions, Gordon, and two other members of the National Security Advisory Committee (the Trump-Russia scandal's CREEP-equivalent unit) were willing to lie about what happened at that meeting, it's to cover their involvement in things that came *after* that meeting.
3/ Simply put (and we need to be *clear*, as this is shattering information): Mueller believes Trump and Sessions approved a Russian backchannel in March 2016; he believes both of them have lied about their actions since then (Sessions under oath), and he has a case against both.
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(THREAD) BREAKING: Trump national security adviser George Papadopoulos' sentencing memo has been released, and it has some startling elements in it. I go through all of them in this thread. I hope you'll read on and share. documentcloud.org/documents/4807…
2/ The memo confirms that working for Trump was Papadopoulos' dream job; he was hired in "early" March 2016; and within a week he was "traveling in Italy." I think we are very close to confirming here that the *campaign* sent him to Italy, where Mifsud "happened" to find him.
3/ No one gets their dream job, then immediately goes on vacation. And Simona Mangiante has said Papadopoulos' position is that everything he did was campaign-sanctioned. So who sent Papadopoulos to Italy to be "found" by Mifsud? I don't think it was Clovis. I think it was Flynn.
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(THREAD) PLEASE RETWEET this Trump-Russia news: Simon & Schuster has just listed for pre-order PROOF OF COLLUSION—the book that finally gathers into *one* narrative the *hundreds* of reliable major-media reports on Trump-Russia collusion. Read on for more. amazon.com/Proof-Collusio…
1/ Yesterday we saw Trump tweet angrily about "fake books"—this may be the book he was angry about. PROOF OF COLLUSION contains no tweets or polemics, though—just *every reliable major-media report* on Trump-Russia collusion in a single shocking narrative. barnesandnoble.com/w/proof-of-col…
2/ PROOF OF COLLUSION benefits from a whole team of fact-checkers and 1,500+ endnotes. It is the public record of the public investigation of Trump-Russia collusion: a compendium, in narrative form, of everything we have learned so far. And that's a *lot*. itunes.apple.com/us/book/proof-…
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I always have to chuckle when some edgelord teen comes and accuses me of supporting terrorist groups/violence/bloody revolution.

Nah mate, I just remember when fascists and the Far Right were shunned in public political discourse, and hammered if they tried to organize.
That the Far Right should be met with force and driven back to their holes is not a revolutionary idea & I'm not that unique in expressing that view.

What we have is a generation that (mistakenly) believe that every view deserves an airing & equal time. This is abjectly false.
The biggest & most damaging conflict of the previous century was fought over, - among many other things - the cancer of Far Right nationalism. The conflict that preceded it, even more so.

We decided that bullshit just isn't worth it.

If you try it on, expect to be confronted.
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This morning I wrote a blog post on Elad Gil who is, among many other things, the author of a new book entitled: “High Growth Handbook.” The post on Gil will appear next weekend. Today's blog post was on Jim O’Shaughnessy, who was and is a pioneer in quantitative investing.
I've been waiting to do a post on Gil since I try to support any author who writes an investing or business book. “To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”
I plan to write something on Michael Batnick's new book as well as books from Scott Belsky and Howard Marks. Author's of these books should stick together and be mutually supportive. If you have never published a book it is unlikely you know how much work is involved in doing so.
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Among many other things, this last week was a validation of independent, committed, professional journalism, done by many outlets in many media. Eg: how did we know @SecNielsen was lying when she said there wasn't a policy of family separation as deterrence?
Because of (among other things) this interview, by John Burnett of @NPR, in which CoS Kelly said there was one: npr.org/2018/05/11/610…
Why did Kelly grant that interview? Because he knew and trusted Burnett from Burnett's years of professional, informed reporting during Kelly's military service. This is why real journalists follow rules. Why they work to both earn the trust of the audience and their subjects.
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65/ This thread may end up being at the core of Mueller’s next round of indictment #UAE #Prince
66/ 💥Mueller has questioned Erik Prince💥 thedailybeast.com/special-counse…
67/ #UAE update:
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A roadmap for understanding Mueller's strategy: analysis of the 270 people connected to the #TrumpRussia investigation, including
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