"Let's get back to work." - Mike Pence
"They tried to disrupt our democracy. They failed." - Mitch McConnell
Jul 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The New York Times has also obtained a copy of the forthcoming memoir by Trump’s niece. nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/…
As a high school student in Queens, Ms. Trump write, Donald Trump paid someone to take a precollege test, the SAT, on his behalf. The high score the proxy earned for him helped Trump to later gain admittance as an undergraduate to Penn's Wharton School.
Remember that Dutch historian who went viral after he suggested in Davos that wealthy people should pay more tax? Tucker Carlson apparently invited him on his show yesterday. That went well! 😂
Apparently Corsi was paid $15K/month by the father of Alex Jones of InfoWars. (!) A Washington Post reporter asked him about this. "the very next day Plaintiff Corsi learned from Dr. David Jones that he was being terminated and would no longer be receiving $15,000 per month." 😂
Jan 20, 2019 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
“What if the sources are just wrong?” Brian Stelter asks Buzzfeed's Anthony Cormier. “They’re not. They’re not. I’m confident.” Cormier was reluctant to discuss sourcing in any detail, but here's why I think he's so justifiably confident. (1/3)
Cormier and Leopold have been covering the story for a long time. In May 2018, they published 'The Crazy True Story of Trump Moscow'. That story revealed many details that were subsequently supported by Cohen’s guilty plea in Nov, 2018. Now look at the sourcing: two FBI agents(!)
Jan 17, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Wow. How is this real...
The video they’re talking about..
A former business partner of Michael Flynn has been charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy for his efforts to get Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen extradited from the United States. washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
According to the indictment, Bijan Kian conspired with a Turkish businessman to illegally influence government officials and public opinion against Gulen. Flynn was secretly working to advance the interests of his Turkish clients while publicly serving as a key surrogate to Trump
Dec 14, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Paul Manafort provided advice to Trump and senior White House officials on how to undermine and discredit the FBI’s investigation into whether Trump, his campaign aides, and family members conspired with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. vox.com/2018/12/14/181…
Manafort and Trump were working together to discredit the investigators as well as potential witnesses.
Dec 8, 2018 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
A transcript of former FBI Director James Comey's closed-door hearing with the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees has been released: oversight.house.gov/wp-content/upl…
Certainly looks like Comey's a witness in the special counsel's investigation into obstruction.
Dec 8, 2018 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Since the early months of the Trump administration Jared Kushner has been having private conversations with Mohammed bin Salman. The exchanges continued even after the Oct. 2 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. nyti.ms/2zLH8xu
As the killing set off a firestorm around the world and American intelligence agencies concluded that it was ordered by Prince Mohammed, Kushner became the prince’s most important defender inside the White House, people familiar with its internal deliberations say.
Dec 5, 2018 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Special counsel Robert Mueller's sentencing memo for Michael Flynn, the former national security advisor to Donald Trump. (1/2)
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Nov 30, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Meanwhile at the #G20
"Yep, he offered me a $50M penthouse.. In Moscow!"
Nov 29, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
‘We will be in Moscow’: The story of Trump’s 30-year quest to expand his brand to Russia wapo.st/2FJYVKO?tid=ss…
Behind Cohen plea: Trump’s longtime dream of a Moscow tower. apnews.com/d80b3f2ba0c546…
Nov 27, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign, the Guardian has been told. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure in Trump’s push for the White House.
Nov 13, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
'The position of the First Lady is not an elected one and carries only ceremonial duties.'
The only thing we know for sure is that Jamal Khashoggi has disappeared.
But I keep thinking about this; Turkey has been the world’s most prolific jailer of journalists for several years running, and this year several journalists have been hit with life sentences without parole. turkeypurge.com
Sep 28, 2018 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
A Russian-American businessman who donated a substantial sum to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election effort boasted to a senior figure in Moscow that he was “actively involved” in the Republican candidate’s campaign. 🚨 theguardian.com/us-news/2018/s…
Simon Kukes told Vyacheslav Pavlovsky, a career Kremlin official, he was helping Trump with “strategy development” and shared photos of his 29-year-old Russian girlfriend posing with the future president.
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