(THREAD) Erik Prince—former business partner of Joseph Schmitz—was peddling fake Clinton emails via Steve Bannon's Breitbart 96 hours before Election Day. We just learned an hour ago that Schmitz spent the summer of 2016 peddling fake Clinton emails, too. breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/…
1/ This thread incorporates information from my other Schmitz thread today:
2/ The question now is whether the fake Clinton emails Joseph Schmitz was peddling in the summer of 2016 had similar or the same content as the ones Erik Prince described for Breitbart in early November 2016. If so, the Trump campaign is now *formally* tied to all of this.
3/ Remember that one of Prince's many lies to Congress was about his ties to the Trump campaign—an important lie, as it kept any illegal activities he engaged in during the 2016 election clear of the Trump campaign. But Schmitz was a *part* of the campaign—he has no such defense.
4/ Did Schmitz transit his fake Clinton emails to his former business partner Prince so that—having been identified as fakes by the FBI, State Department, and others—they could be used as domestic disinformation right before the election? We need to see these Schmitz emails ASAP.
5/ Keep in mind that a clandestine campaign to leak *false* information about the content of Clinton's emails is what led Jim Comey to re-open the Clinton investigation. So if we now have proof that the Trump campaign was behind that clandestine campaign, this is *very* serious.
6/ Moreover, the question becomes, who *created* these fake emails—which presumably were intended to be believable enough fakes that they could perhaps fool the FBI and the State Department? Did Schmitz *know* the emails were fake? Who was his source? Who was he in contact with?
7/ Well, Schmitz was in contact with everyone on Trump's NatSec team, the Hungarian ambassador (whose boss, the Prime Minister of Hungary, is a key Putin ally), and, one presumes (and with good reason), Erik Prince. But who else? Steve Bannon (Breitbart)? Mueller *must* find out.
8/ I suspect it'll soon be clear that the Trump campaign hedged its bets: either they'd get real stolen Clinton materials from the Russians, which they clearly tried to do, or, failing that—perhaps due to of Russian caution on the issue—they would use fake emails to sink Clinton.
9/ Has Mueller questioned Giuliani? Prince tried to "launder" his fake Clinton emails by saying they came from the NYPD—who allegedly had back-ups of the Weiner-PC emails—but we can't know if that's true. We *do* know Giuliani was pumping an October surprise via the NYPD and FBI.
10/ My point: this Schmitz story is bigger than people think, and it's tied to the Peter Smith-Mike Flynn "dark web" plot, Trump NatSec members' suspicious trips to Hungary, and the Erik Prince/Rudy Giuliani shenanigans I began researching and writing about in December 2016. /end
NOTE/ Here's a "summary" article I wrote on the Prince conspiracy in January 2017, incorporating earlier articles from late 2016/early 2017. I think we're going to be returning to all of these topics very, very soon—hopefully with the help of IG Horowitz. huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-dome…?
SUMMARY/ We now know two men—longtime friends/business partners and, moreover, both Trump NatSec advisors—were peddling fake Clinton emails in the period after Donald Trump had publicly announced that he wanted Clinton's deleted emails found and released. It wasn't a coincidence.
PS/ Remember that by September/October 2016—per Steele's dossier—Putin was sure Trump would lose, which explains why Russia used WikiLeaks, not Trump's campaign, to dump "real" stolen docs (the Trump campaign was too great a risk).
It seems Team Trump's Plan B was *fake* emails.
It seems Team Trump's Plan B was *fake* emails.
