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Roger Sollenberger
@SollenbergerRC
Politics reporter. Former @thedailybeast. Tips: roger.sollenberger@protonmail.com
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Apr 22 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
NEW: In 2014, Mohamed Al-Hanooti—Hamas fundraiser & unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing—was back at Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, as the DC-area mufti, or top Islamic cleric.

That year, he presided over Rep Cory Mills’ marriage in a religious ceremony. 1/X Here’s the marriage certificate. Fairfax County confirmed to me the info on this document matches their official records. For officiant address, Hanooti, who died in 2015, listed Dar al-Hijrah mosque, where he also previously served as imam. Anwar Al-Awlaki was also a DAH imam. Image
Apr 21 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
NEW: Rep Cory Mills said on his Bronze Star papers he saved this man's life. Troops in the battle told me it's a lie. Yet here he is months after his star—after taking $2000 from the man's dad. If the claims I have are true, Mills lied about his war heroics. Did he have help? 1/X Image
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Image The Daytona News-Journal investigated Mills' Bronze Star last year. It led to this headline, seemingly confirming it was settled & Mills' claims checked out. But his claims *don't* check out. He got re-elected & currently sits on Armed Services. news-journalonline.com/story/news/loc…Image
Apr 20 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Rep. Cory Mills went to Syria with another Congressman. But only Mills met with Syria's foreign minister & president about lifting sanctions. Mills runs an arms company, whose current & longtime general counsel, Joe Schmitz, has been working for the pro-Assad Libyan Parliament Image
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Image Schmitz is working as a subcontractor for the Vogel group, which landed the Libya contract in Oct. 2023, per DOJ foreign agent filings. It seems a great deal of the payments have been going to Schmitz. Image
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Apr 14 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
In response to Cory Mills blocking me, let’s talk about his nonprofit.

If you didn’t know Mills had a nonprofit, I don’t blame you—the House Ethics Committee didn’t, either. While he’s never disclosed it as required, that sure did not stop him & his office from promoting it! On 9/8/2021, Mills created the group—Never Forgotten, Inc—in VA, home to his weapons company (the group’s reg agent) and until 2023, to Mills himself. But Never Forgotten doesn’t appear in the VA charity registry, nor Florida’s (pictured), where they opened a branch last December Image
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Apr 12 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
The chair & chief legal officer of Rep. Cory Mills' arms company—Joseph Schmitz—is a Pentagon IG who left amid a contract scandal in 2005 to become COO & general counsel of Erik Prince's Blackwater mercenary group. He was in that role during the Iraq massacre. But there's more... In 2020 Prince tapped Schmitz as potential foreign agent to lobby for his $10B plan to put a private army in Ukraine. Schmitz was with Mills' company—PACEM—at the time. PACEM sold arms to Ukraine while Mills was in Congress, including a state-owned company Image
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Apr 11 • 23 tweets • 13 min read
The still untold story about GOP Rep. Cory Mills is a massive sleeper scandal for an outlet with resources to take an eye off the Trump ball: Money, sex, international arms deals, stolen valor claims, wildly shady finances. Here’s the gist, most of it from public record. (1/X) In 2021, Mills ran for Congress in Florida as a MAGAfied war hero & won, despite owning & living in a McLean VA mansion. But when he ran, his arms company was in money trouble. And Mills made some financial moves that happened to coincide with his campaign.
Apr 9 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Trump’s nominee for Director of Counterterrorism at DNI—Joe Kent—has a well-documented history of ties to white nationalists & far-right extremists. I’ve learned of a couple new ones. In May 2023, Kent posted an anti-immigration VDARE image. Media Matters describes VDARE as a “racist, anti-immigration” site tied to “prominent white supremacists.” VDARE is run by Peter Brimelow. The next month, Kent was on Tim Pool’s podcast—guest host was Brimelow’s daughter Image
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Feb 28 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
NEW: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub, as of this week. The staffer, Jordan Wick, also created a repository for a Twitter DM-downloading tool just 3 days ago. He posted work on geospatial data in Jan—undersea cables, ports & “critical minerals.” Image
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Image Last May, Wick’s hyperlocal SanFran-based startup (AccelerateSF) expanded to sell AI efficiency systems to the federal govt, changing to “AccerateX.” They claimed 2 large “transit agency” clients. (DOGEr Anthony Jansco was also behind the group: ) wired.com/story/elon-mus…Image
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Feb 20 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
If you've wondered who's behind the "Amuse" account that sluices misinformation into the MAGA bloodstream & gets boosted by Elon Musk et al as if it's a news source, it's a tech entrepreneur named Alexander Muse. He's listed on the Forbes Business Council. councils.forbes.com/profile/Alexan…Image
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Image Muse says he got his start raising $15 million from—guess who—George Soros, then sold for big bucks: archive.ph/4hQUy
He most recently co-founded ViewMarket.
Here are Twitter archives, but all you have to do is click the X link on that Forbes page: archive.ph/http://twitter… Image
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Feb 15 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
NEW: Kash Patel hid his million-dollar Chinese payout from the Senate. Here’s how. On Jan. 3, Patel filed his financial disclosure to the Office of Government Ethics. He signed it under penalty of perjury. This form reports Patel’s $1M-$5M stake in Elite Depot, Ltd — the Cayman Islands holding company for the $50 billion Chinese fast-fashion megacorp SHEIN. Image
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Feb 13 • 24 tweets • 11 min read
Kash Patel started two online payment companies with a veteran of offshore financial management. Late last month, they were both folded under a parent company. Patel only disclosed a relationship with one of these three corporations. I’ve spent the last several days looking into Kash Patel’s mysterious Paytriots, Inc. TL;DR: his co-founder specializes in small offshore banks; his disclosure omits ties to related firms; & these companies mysteriously restructured the day before he signed his ethics agreement
Feb 7 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Been wild seeing people over the last 6 months get confronted with objectively irrefutable contradicting facts, then resolve it by shutting off a major part of their brain. It's not new, but it's a more widespread & far more demented strain—something like a dehumanization reflex. The Spinal Tap Theory of Polarization: Where can you go when you're already cranked to 10? You turn to an illogical, delusional answer and believe or pretend it's real, or like my boy Nigel here, part of your brain just starts shorting out
Feb 7 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Patel got millions in equity from this company as payment for being a “consultant,” according to his financial disclosure. Not salary, and apparently no retainer. For doing just 8 months of work. We have no idea what he did. Again, he is nominated to run the FBI. But that’s still hard to understand. Patel’s disclosure says he struck this payment agreement in November—six months *after* he started working for the company. Did he not get it in writing for millions of dollars worth of work? Image
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Feb 7 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Patel was actually asked about this company in his confirmation. But he evaded the question. Here’s how that went. First, the actual question Patel is asked — keep that in mind — is whether Elite Depot Ltd is a foreign investment. Patel, however — in a written reply — never answers it Image
Feb 7 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
NEW: Trump nominee Kash Patel disclosed he’s receiving $1 million-$5 million in shares of a Cayman Islands holding company directly tied to a Chinese corporation the Senate & a pro-Trump nonprofit accuse of “slave labor.” Patel says he won’t divest. (cont’d) Patel’s disclosure says that his shares in the company—Elite Depot Ltd—would begin vesting Feb. 1, two days after his Senate confirmation hearing, will continue to vest through November, and that he won't back out. Image
Feb 1 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
NEW: Krysten Sinema—who wasn't running for re-election—used her *campaign committee* to pay hotel charges in Saudi Arabia totaling more than $21,000 just before the election. One payment was $20,295 to Le Meridien Riyadh, on Oct. 17. Nine total payments docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/… Sinema also used campaign funds to pay about $2800 for private car service in Paris before the election and $1900 for private car service in London after the election
Jan 23 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is filing new versions of reports from her failed 2022 campaign, so far revealing close to $200,000 in debt for *donor refunds* that she owed supporters, but had never reported — and never reported refunding. Seems like she kept it Here are the debts her campaign listed on the most recently updated version of the 2022 pre-general election report — which they already corrected 6 times: docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/…

Here's the debt the campaign listed on that report today:
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Dec 24, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I've been obsessed with a Gaetz campaign parking payment for years—$382 from his personal funds to a Pensacola airport parking garage, which the campaign reimbursed. In four years of records, the campaign had never paid for parking anywhere else, ever. We might have an answer now Image Gaetz's car would've been parked for about a month at the Pensacola airport. The date of his payment to the airport garage was Sept. 13, the same day Gaetz flew commercial to the Bahamas. Except Gaetz didn't fly out of Florida—he flew out of DC. So how'd he make that payment? Image
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Oct 25, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Nine days ago, a former Trump legal adviser created a super PAC—just in time to not be required to disclose its donors before the election. The PAC just reported TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS in spending, but we won't know who funded it until after votes are cast docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/… The full $20 million—for pro-Trump digital media, texts, & direct mail—was paid to a Wyoming company created in April, called Western Creative Group: Never been paid by a federal committee before; principals hidden behind a corporate agent; no online footprint whatsoever
Oct 10, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The Trump campaign has also “skipped the opportunity to receive national security briefings,” per NYT — that’s while Trump is trying to convince voters he’s better equipped to handle foreign policy, terrorism, the military, and crime, and claiming we’re on the brink of WWIII This is apparently how Trump previously explained it to the Daily Mail — even if you take him at face value here, he’s saying he’s more concerned about media leaks/personal image than national threat assessments during what he characterizes as an epochally precarious moment Image
Jul 20, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Odd new filing for June fundraising shows Trump’s “Save America” PAC—his longtime legal slush fund—had just $3M on hand, owed $1.6M in debt, and reported just $3,100 in receipts... docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/…
Image Save America is part of the Trump 47 joint fundraising committee that includes the campaign, the RNC, and dozens GOP state parties. That committee has raised more than $140M, and Save America is high in the fundraising waterfall—third priority, ahead of the RNC Image