Thread by @bmainzer

THREAD:
Wiener laptop controversy was a dirty trick hatched by the Trump campaign with the NY FBI field office, Giuliani, Stone, Erik Prince, Jason Chaffetz and NYPD. This thread is an examination of the timeline of events for the Wiener laptop emails and how Comey got played.

1. Starts way back in July of 2015. Trump states that Wiener has seen the contents of the classified emails that go through the Clinton home server via emails because Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin is married to Wiener.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…

2. In June of 2016, Trump brings up the issue of Huma and Wiener access to classified info out of the blue in his campaign speeches.
cnn.com/2016/06/03/pol…

3. On July 5th, 2016 Roger stone speculates on Bannon’s radio show about Huma being a security risk because she is Muslim:

4. The Breitbart article and full radio interview of Stone by Bannon is here. breitbart.com/2016-president…

5. On August 18th, 2016 Stone appears again on Breitbart radio expanding his charges against Huma and now saying marriage to a Jew (Wiener) provides good cover for Huma’s work for a funder of a Muslim organization that funded the attack on 9/11 breitbart.com/radio/2016/08/…

6. On August 29, on a radio interview on KIRO (Seattle) Trump said "But in the case of Anthony Weiner, she’s married to a guy that is uncontrolled and uncontrollable. He’s a sick person. And she has access to classified information."

7. DJT continues: "Huma Abedin has access to classified information. How Hillary got away with that one, nobody will ever know. But to think that it’s very likely that much of this information Anthony Weiner would know about. And I think it’s something that was terrible."

8. On August 31 2016, DJT tweets:

9. On October 3, 2016 Wiener laptop seized. screenshot from thompsontimeline.com/tag/anthony-wi…

10. NYFBI says they found 650,000 emails but Comey is notified 2 weeks after the laptop was seized by McCabe. Were emails placed on laptop by NYFBI agents (who were known to be anti Hillary… more on that later) in this period before Comey found out about the laptop?

11. On 10/24, Lara Trump, wife of Eric Trump hints at an October surprise at 2:14 of this interview with @foxandfriends

12. During the two weeks that the NYFBI is holding the Wiener laptop, Giuliani is informed by anti Hillary FBI agents of what they are holding. Starting on Oct. 24th, Giuliani is all over Fox News talking about an October surprise for HRC. huffingtonpost.com/entry/was-rudy…

13. On October 26, Giuliani tells Fox News that a big surprise is coming that will turn the election for trump video.foxnews.com/v/518591403400…

14. On Oct 28th at high noon, Rep. Jason Chaffetz sends his infamous tweet about the Wiener laptop and forces Comey's hand to reopen the investigation. thinkprogress.org/trump-chaffetz…

15. Within minutes on same day (10/29/16), Trumpists on twitter celebrate DJT's prescience on Wiener and Huma.

16. On November 4th, while the investigation has been reopened - Erik Prince takes credit for forcing investigation in an interview with Breitbart. breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/…

17. After being dormant for two years, an FBI twitter account tweets praise of Trump’s father on Oct 30th. The official and verified Twitter account had been inactive since October of 2015. Below is screenshot

18. Months later on May 4, 2017, Comey is questioned by Senate Judiciary committee The number of emails themselves were never explained rationally, which leads to questions as to how they got on the laptop. Comey gave different figures for how many emails were on the laptop.

19. Reports were the emails were in a file called “Insurance” on Wiener’s laptop. Other times, there was a statement that these were just meta files, not the emails themselves.

20. In the hearing, Comey said that Huma forwarded the emails to Wiener’s laptop to print them off as needed. Really? 650,000 emails? Here is his testimony to Senate (before he was fired).