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Black Cube operatives hired by Trump aides contacted the wives of both @ColinKahl & @brhodes, former Obama aides who worked on the Iran deal. The only way Trump can "win" is by "getting dirt" on his opponents & either smearing or blackmailing them.
#Maddow newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
Rhodes: This represents a troubling situation, in which public servants are being targeted for their work in govt. "This eviscerates any norm of how govts should operate or treat their predecessors & their families. It crosses a dangerous line."
#Maddow
In May 2017, "Trump officials" reached out to private Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube, which also ran dirty ops for Cambridge Analytica, whose co-founder is then-WH chief STRATEGIST, Steve Bannon, a "Trump official."
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The original @guardian story by @TownsendMark, @julianborger referenced in @RonanFarrow's piece here 👇
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Reporters from the @guardian contacted @ColinKahl last week, telling him that during their research of CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA, they came across the info that Trump aides hired an Israeli intel firm [Black Cube] to dig up dirt on former Obama aides.
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MORE Dirty Tricks: In Nov 2017, a prominent pro-JCPOA [Iran deal] advocacy group's offices were burgled. The entire building’s closed-circuit TV & alarms were disabled but the thieves only took only 2 computers used by senior officials. #BlackCube #Maddow gu.com/p/8hne3/stw
Black Cube [reportedly hired by Trump aides to "dig up dirt" on former Obama officials] had pictures of @brhodes apartment in Washington and contact info [phone numbers & email addresses] of his family members. This is appalling.
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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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What I remember about President Obama:

- Turning his back on #Iran's 2009 uprising
- Allowing Assad gas innocent civilians in #Syria
- Selling off America's Middle East allies
- Bending over backwards to reach a highly flawed #IranDeal with Tehran's mullahs

Need I say more?
(2)
 What I remember about President Obama:

"the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah"

politico.com/interactives/2…
(3)
 What I remember about President Obama:

"Two high-level Iranian government backers, including a former Islamic Republic official and another accused of lobbying on Tehran's behalf, were hosted at the Obama White House for more than 30 meetings..."
freebeacon.com/national-secur…
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(1)
 @ishaantharoor writes a @WashingtonPost piece on returning US sanctions on #Iran.
No explanation of reasoning behind sanctions to depict an innocent image of Iran’s regime & a negative image of the Trump administration in the reader’s mind.
washingtonpost.com/news/worldview…
(2)
 @ishaantharoor uses the phrase “renege on American commitments under the nuclear accord.”
Of course, no mentioning of #Iran’s long slate of #IranDeal violations.
(3)
 Here’s just one example:
“Iran has ‘violated the deal on many occasions,’ according to Albright, who outlined efforts to avoid verification requirements and exceed the limits of heavy water, another nuclear byproduct.”
freebeacon.com/national-secur…
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Next up: Black Cube — the Israeli private security firm that made headlines for targeting accusers of #HarveyWeinstein — is back in the news. Last yr it tried to dig up dirt on former Obama officials who had worked on the #Iran nuclear — in an effort to discredit the deal itself.
One of those former Obama officials was @ColinKahl. Black Cube tried to get to him through his wife, @RebeccaKahl, a stay-at-home mom. An operative emailed her a year ago about donating to their daughter’s DC public school. nbcnews.com/news/world/bla…
.@RebeccaKahl says the outreach felt strange, and after a brief exchange, she stopped responding. #OnAssignment
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🔥Trump asked #Russia🇷🇺to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton and hired an Israeli spy firm to slime Obama aides who worked on the #Iran deal.🤨

It is ILLEGAL for campaigns to get donations (including free “in kind” services) or to pay FOREIGN entities‼️

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
⬛️BLACK CUBE⬛️

I wonder if the “Israeli spy firm” that Trump’s campaign allegedly hired (ILLEGALLY) was Black Cube, the same shady outfit hired by Robert Mercer and Harvey Weinstein to INTIMIDATE people‼️

Regardless of WHO paid — Trump himself (unlikely), his campaign (ILLEGAL), or the US government (#corruption) — if Trump really did attempt to hire FOREIGN intel-related operatives to **spy on US citizens**, this would be BEYOND Nixonian‼️

#ImpeachTrump
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This is the result of #Iran's role in #Syria.
These three beautiful children on the right are now dead after being bombed in #EastGhouta.
This is #EastGhouta, under siege for 5 years by #Assad in #Syria, held in power by #Iran's regime.
These innocent people are being ruthlessly bombed. Hundreds dead in the past few days alone.
Be the voice of #Ghouta.
Innocent children, like this little angel, are paying the price of #Iran's belligerence in #Syria to maintain #Assad in power for their own interests, and unfortunately, the world's silence in the face of such atrocities of defenseless civilians being viciously bombed.
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#Iran / #Syria Thread: Key to understanding this topic is to appreciate how perceptions matter just as much reality. Similarly, the political angle of this topic also matters just as much, if not more, than the empirical & Intel-based facts related to this subject matter =>
2-As early as Dec 2016, some of us warned here (see thread below) that @realDonaldTrump Admin was likely to take an anti-Iran tilt & make it a pillar of its regional strategy. The Admin was also expected to be more Pro-Israel than its predecessors. Both turned out to be right =>
3-In order to understand what the U.S. is currently doing in #Syria , one needs to understand what the U.S. couldn't possibly do politically once the mission of ISIS's "annihilation" was complete. So, why didn't @realDonaldTrump do his own "mission accomplished" and leave? =>
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