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SCOOP: @nytmike tells @maddow Trump attys are very unnerved by the Cohen case because neither Trump nor Cohen will tell their attys what's in the documents seized by the FBI.

!! Trump won't tell HIS OWN lawyers what's in the docs seized in the Cohen raid. What?! @MichaelAvenatti
Another SCOOP: Rudy Giuliani says Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for $130,000 hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels over several months. "Sorry, I'm giving you a fact now you don't know. They funneled it through a law firm, then TRUMP REPAID IT"
#Maddow cnb.cx/2rh2COF
"If you're using the word 'funneled' when referring POTUS, we have real problems with the integrity of the office. If he was willing to 'funnel' money to silence someone from his past, what else was he willing to do?" -@RepSwalwell on @TheLastWord
#Maddow
Giuliani to @chrisgeidner: In addition to repaying the $130K Stormy Daniels hush money, Trump gave Cohen “enough left over for him to profit in 2017” by paying $35K a month over a year-long period from Q1 2017 & into 2018, for a total of $420K.
#Maddow buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/r…
Trump, who had denied knowing about the $130K hush payment to Stormy Daniels, now – after Giuliani said Trump paid Cohen to "make it go away" – admits to repaying Cohen but says it did not violate campaign laws.
Read: "Stay strong, Michael"
#Maddow nyti.ms/2FBhSdr
This subtweet from Kellyanne Conway's husband, George, is immensely helpful:
Personal gifts & loans to the candidate “for the purpose of influencing any election for federal office,” aren't considered the candidates personal funds & subject to $2700 per-election limit. 👏👏😁
Giuliani: Some Trump Org execs knew about the fact that Cohen believes money was owed to him. "OWED to him" means it was a loan to then-candidate Trump making it subject to campaign finance laws – which were obviously violated.
Thanks Rudy!
#Maddow nyti.ms/2KxJXpP
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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.
#Maddow
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?]."
#Maddow
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."
#Maddow
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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].
#Maddow
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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#ClintonEmails #PeterSmith #Wikileaks #Putin #Trump
1. Today @WSJ reports that #PeterSmith, solicited and raised at least $100,000 from donors as part of an effort to obtain #emails stolen from #HillaryClinton, #Mueller is investigating.

#ClintonEmails #PeterSmith #Wikileaks #Putin #Trump

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New Report >> Trump the "self-made billionaire" is a fraud. He inherited a fortune, founded on fraudulent tax schemes. He received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
How much you wanna bet Trump will go all Stalin tonight on the bombshell story of his family’s financial fraud (on which his own con rests) to say Dear Old Dad is being smeared just like Kavanaugh? Failing New York Times, Democrat conspiracy, enemy of the people, etc etc #maddow
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#BREAKING Trump revokes ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. Sarah Huckabee Sanders reads statement calling him a liar and says he’s sowing division and chaos. Reads off more names of top Trump critics.
Reporter to Sarah HS: The List of people whose security clearances TRump is considering revoking besides John Brennan’s are only Democrats. Why should Americans have confidence you’re taking this seriously if not a single Republican—not even Flynn who lied to FBI—is on that list?
The White House truly was Kremlin annex today. Petty vindictive Trump abuses power to blacklist ppl who happen to know about Russia, smearing & intimidating them for exercising their First Amendment right to criticize a dangerously unfit POTUS. Send gratitude, follow @JohnBrennan
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#Maddow Scoop: GOP congressman Devin Nunes (Top Trump propagandist on House Intel Cmte undermining Russia probe) was overheard at a GOP fundraiser criticizing Trump tweets as “cringe” worthy. He also acknowledges using stolen emails in a campaign is “criminal.” #TrumpRussia
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#Maddow's scoop is damning for Nunes, showing his corruption & abuse of power for Trump. But Paul Ryan is House speaker, and he's known about all of it. He's been on board since at least his "don't leak"; keep it in the "family." GOP family is more mob-like than we ever imagined.
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SCOOP: It appears KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK set up a lobbying firm in Washington, DC, Incorporation Date: Feb 19, 2015, using Legalinc Corporate Services. (legalinc.com)

No apparent active/inactive FARA filing for Kilimnik or Begemot Ventures International.
(Mini-Thread) /1
Konstantin Kilimnik's Begemot Ventures International: A strategic & political advisory firm that helps its clients win elections, strengthen political parties, build the right arguments before domestic & international audiences & achieve better results. begemotventures.com /2
Begemot Ventures International, LLC.

Directors & Officers:
- Carri Brown (cc: Journalists & @FBI)
- Konstantin Kilimnik

The company's registered address is apparently a residential multifamily home.

1225 Constitution Ave NE,
Washington, DC, 20002
(opencorporates.com/companies/us_d…) /3
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(THREAD) This is Part 2 of a thread on "True Pundit," the fake-news website—launched by a former FBI agent—that helped swing the 2016 election to Trump by blackmailing James Comey into reopening the Clinton email investigation just before Election Day. Hope you'll read and share.
1/ In Part 1 of this thread (see below), I discussed how a former FBI agent calling himself "Thomas Paine" launched the fake-news website True Pundit on the same day in June 2016 Don Jr., Kushner, and Manafort met with Kremlin agents at Trump Tower Moscow.
2/ There is ample evidence—beyond his law enforcement past—confirming Paine knew the active (pro-Trump) FBI agents who leaked to True Pundit were violating the federal Hatch Act. Paine on several occasions claimed "Deep State" government agents were coming to arrest or kill him.
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