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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
Investor, prof, policy consultant, author, independent investigative journalist and father. Trying to make the world suck less.
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Sep 11 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
1/11

One thing that stands out to me about this shooting, was how odd it was to have a single-shot fired from a high-powered rifle.

Thinking back over history, that's not something we see commonly in assassinations, and I wanted to understand how rare it is. Image 2/11

So I compiled a quick list of major political and influencer assassination that happened in a public setting, since, 1865, breaking down:

-Role
-Weapon type
-Shots fired
-Outcome
-And if professional or amateur Image
Sep 9 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1/4
Oh, god…

The creepy picture of Epstein grooming girls to get massages is not Epstein’s house on the island…

It’s the ***Mar-a-Lago*** as seen from the beach.

Who ever drew this, was drawing Epstein getting massages by girls he groomed while on **Trump** property! Image
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-Maxwell chose to include this in the book.

-It was in 2003, and depicts Epstein at Mar-a-Lago with groomed girls

-It was 3 years *AFTER* Trump claimed to cut off Epstein for “stealing” employees.

So clearly everyone knew what was happening at Mar-a-Lago. Image
Sep 9 • 30 tweets • 11 min read
1/28

The Epstein "Birthday Book" is a disturbing read, filled with lots of crass 'jokes' related to the abuse of minors.

This is just 1 document of the 300,000 files still sealed about Epstein's trafficking ring.

Here are a few damning things I found in a quick skim: Image 2/28

The book contains entries from Bill Clinton, Jean Luc Brunel (rapist), Alan Dershowitz, Nick Leese (arms dealer who claimed not to know Epstein), Trump and others. Image
Sep 9 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
1/11

HOLY FUCK.

The Epstein “Birthday Book” confirms the claims of one of the victims!!!

Maxwell put it together and wrote first-person stories from many old contacts, this one frames as a “Who Am I?”

It matches a victims claims that Maxwell said didn’t happen.

It begins: Image 2/11

The page goes on to say this person:

-met Prince Andrew, President Clinton, Donald Trump
-Sat on the throne Image
Sep 8 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
1/17

The Epstein estate turned over “The Birthday Book” with the letter that Trump tried suing the press to hide!

Trump claimed it didn’t exist and now it’s released in full.

It gives us some HUGE and creepy clues about the Epstein files… 2/17

What was Trump’s “wonderful secret?”

What do they have in common?

Why are they being so creepy?

And can it reveal any more about what’s in the Epstein files that Trump is so desperate to hide?
Sep 8 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
1/16

Busted?!?!

Award winning photographer @andreskudacki catches Trump popping pills at the US Open.

The problem?

It doesn't match his prescribed medications.

That little blue chew, likely PROVES Trump's failing health ... or paints the horrifying image of an affair... 😬 Image 2/16

Officially the President takes two prescription medications.

Crestor (Pink) and Ezetimibe (White) - neither are a match.

Especially when held between the teeth. Image
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Sep 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1/4
According to Yonhap News, all 300 Koreans will be returned to of South Korea regardless of status, and the government is questioning US investment.

“The negotiations for the release of the 300 citizens has been completed” Image 2/4
Choi also noted:

“This may interfere with investment of South Korean companies in the United States”

Which is basically the polite Korean-style way of saying “you fucked up and we’re re-evaluating this” Image
Sep 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1/3
Trump once again not flying to Bedminster or Mar-A-Lago this weekend and instead “golfing” at his DC club without new pictures.

This marks the longest stretch he’s not been on a plane during his presidency.

And is inline with the 2 week post-stroke guidelines. Image 2/3
Looking at Wikipedia and his travel logs every other time period shows frequent flights, even regionally to Bedminster, or longer stretches to Doral, Mar-a-Lago, and state visits, Image
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Sep 5 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
1/12

More evidence of Trump's stroke - he *STRUGGLES* to hold things in his right hand!

A follower of mine who is a healthcare professional familiar with stroke assessment pointed out that Trump may be demonstrating motor weakness in his right hand - let's review: Image 2/12

Early on in Trump's first term, he used pens to sign executive orders, while using his infamous sharpie on informal documents.

But late term he switched to the larger easier to hold sharpie exclusively. Image
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Sep 4 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1/8
This news is genuinely so *INSANE* I didn’t believe it at first:

Acting Deputy Chief of the DoJ filmed on undercover video saying the DoJ is redacting Republican names from the Epstein list!

It was filmed by a right wing media group: 2/8
While the video came from a questionable source it was then confirmed by @axios

Schnitt thought he was on a date, but the woman was an undercover reporter.

He candidly told her about the cover-up and called Pam Bondi Trump’s “yes person” Image
Sep 3 • 29 tweets • 11 min read
1/28

I'm filing a FOIA request with the Department of Defense, over the White House pharmacy records.

Trump's own medical records suggest his doctors are lying about his medications and his stroke history, that likely began when he was rushed to Walter Reed in 2019: Image 2/28

In November of 2019, Trump made a sudden and unscheduled trip to Walter Reed.

At the time, the Press Secretary said it was for his "routine annual exam" despite it not being on any schedules. Image
Sep 2 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1/5
What’s frustrating is they’re going to:

-sit him at the Oval Office desk for their dod announcement.

-he’ll sound a bit off from post-stroke dysarthria, but it’ll be brushed off as a cold.

-Any sentence weaving or rambling will be chalked up to regular Trump. 2/5
They’ll keep his schedule light, and after this past week of recovery and staged photo ops, convince people juuust enough that Trump is fine, because journalists failed to ask hard questions for the last week.
Aug 24 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1/9
The number of traders posting “wtf just happened” is hilarious.

Go back and study the last bull market before you try and trade this one on leverage.

I’ll break down some of how I traded the last one, and what got me on PnL leaderboards: 2/9
As you get closer to highs, drawn down volatility increases.

Sundays are a time when hunters paint the tape up until about 2, squeezing off side, and then puke a large spot into the illiquid market to rinse longs.
Aug 22 • 23 tweets • 10 min read
1/23

Today the DoJ was supposed to send the full Epstein files to Congress.

They didn't.

Instead they released hundreds of redacted pages from Ghislaine Maxwell's filled with lies and more questions.

Here's just the first part as I slog through these documents: Image 2/23

Right off the bat we're told that there was existing conversation prior to going on the record.

While that's not uncommon, it's worth remembering that Todd Blanche is also Trump's former *personal* lawyer and DoJ Deputy, and its *very* odd to have him doing this interview Image
Aug 5 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
1/18

The New York Times released a great piece of pictures from Epstein’s home showing Trump, Musk and hidden cameras.

But they missed the most important picture that proves Epstein’s smuggling crimes and fills in a *HUGE* part of the puzzle: Image
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This picture right here shows Epstein being very friendly with Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, an Emirati businessman.

He holds three important positions:

-Chairman of the Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) in Dubai.
-Chairman & CEO of DP World.
-Chairman of Branson’s Hyperloop One. Image
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Aug 4 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
1/8
Wait...!

Did Trump mess up here?!

From March - May the DoJ and FBI were redacting Trump's name from the physical Epstein files **before** they briefed him on it.

But, once briefed in May, the TOP priority became to edit and rush out the Epstein video:

Why?

Well...Image 2/8
It's no surprise to anyone in this administration that Trump was associated with Epstein.

So they had no problem removing his name from those files preemptively.

But, none of his current DoJ or FBI senior leadership was the same from his first administration. Image
Aug 4 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
1/12

On Friday, Bloomberg did some great reporting that the DOJ & FBI seem to be *illegally* misusing FOIA exemptions to hide Trump's name in OVER **100,000** pages of the Epstein files.

It gives us new details on the cover-up:Image 2/12

In March, the FBI suddenly moved over 1000 agents from field offices in Washington, and New York field offices, to the Central Records Complex in Virginia for a "temporary assignment" Image
Jul 31 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
1/16

Insane that we’re here.

Where well intentioned laws get twisted, and turned into privacy nightmares.

But it’s seldom about censorship, and more often simply ignorance that gets us here.

Let’s breakdown why these weird regulations are happening: 2/16

Years ago I worked on helping lobby privacy protecting bills in the EU, Canada and California - and saw first hand what causes this insanity.

It’s not a purposeful ruse or about censorship, it’s about bad policy getting abused.

Most of the time bills that remove privacy are extremely well intentioned.

They are also written by people who are well intentioned, but who are technologically illiterate.

And then they are reshaped by social media lobbyists who are legal-nuance illiterate.
Jul 29 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
1/24

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so much wrong in one post.

So let’s have a history lesson and tell you all the things wrong with Ben’s post and Trumps claims about being “Scottish Nobility”: 2/24

1. Clan MacLeod is not “Scottish nobility”

They were a significant clan, of regional Galeo-Norse Scots, primarily in the Isle of Skye.

They descended from Leòd/Leòid/Ljótr who was a descendent of Norse royalty but not royal himself. Image
Jul 17 • 29 tweets • 8 min read
1/25

🔫The Smoking Gun: Proof the Epstein Footage was not just cut, but *ALTERED*

Beyond just the cut, the video contains duplicate frames and continuity skips, pointing to direct and purposeful tampering!Image
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After my previous thread on MCJOLE, myself and @StefanPatatu decided to more carefully analyze the video footage.

Stefan had noticed that the metadata listed the full set of edits, which I noted would allow us to identify each frame cut and check that section of footage. Image
Jul 17 • 26 tweets • 8 min read
1/23

The Epstein Video: Edits, Manipulation and the Hunt for MJCOLE~1

Over the last two weeks my research from myself and outlets like @WIRED has repeatedly shown the Epstein video was edited.Image 2/23

The first damning fact was that the video timestamps showed 11 full hours from 7:40pm to 6:40am, despite the video file being almost 8 minutes short. Image