One man alone cannot destroy the US Republic. He’s had an astounding amount of help from elected GOP.
Sep 29, 2019 • 29 tweets • 10 min read
2008 | The 2007 Shake up of McCain’s campaign. nytimes.com/2008/07/03/us/… via @NYTimes
Infighting and financial hemorrhage plague McCains 2006 campaign run by Rick Davis of ‘Manafort + Davis’. Five high level persons leave the campaign allegedly for conflicts of interest. The person w/the largest CoI (Rick Davis) did not depart at that time.
Report: Pence family's failed gas stations cost taxpayers $20 million - CBS News
A complicated tale of misdeeds, conflicts of interest, corruption and the use of government power for the benefit of one’s own family. cbsnews.com/news/pence-fam…
Pence’s owned a chain of gas stations in the 90’s, 200 strong across 3 states. But it fell on hard times when gas prices plummeted and environmental laws required cleanup. Kiel Bros Oil Company w/Greg Pence at the helm filed for bankruptcy in 2004 leaving 85 sites for clean up.
Dec 14, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Mike Huckabee Praised Qatar Without Revealing He Was Paid $50,000 by Qatar through lobbyist Joseph Allaham– Mother Jones motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Huckabee traveled to Doha, Qatar’s capital, at the same time as both Alan Dershowitz and Mort Klein, the longtime president of the Zionist Organization of America. Qatar had paid $1.45M to US lobbyists, Allaham and Muzin for ‘community engagement’ in the US and w/Trump Admin.
Nov 9, 2018 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
In most jobs, if you don’t fulfill the requirements for which you were hired, your employment can be terminated. If you steal from your company, siphon funds, miss-allocate resources, or hide revenues —you could be in much bigger trouble.
Let’s talk Secretaries of State.
Most SoS websites list this as a primary responsibility of a SoS:
“Secretary of State, are charged with conducting secure, accessible, and fair elections.”
Super straight forward, right.
Jun 21, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
‘Denaturalization, much like the process of stripping a natural-born American of citizenship, has been an extraordinary procedure reserved for very serious cases, mostly those of war criminals.’
But under the Trump Admin, it’s likely to be weaponized. newyorker.com/news/our-colum…
‘The new task force will produce many more such cases. Indeed, the creation of the task force itself is undoing the naturalization of the more than twenty million naturalized citizens in the American population by taking away their assumption of permanence.’
Mar 6, 2018 • 37 tweets • 13 min read
A mysterious, Russian-linked shell company. An ex-Trump aide. A plot to stir up trouble in the Balkans? The plot thickens again. @DavidCornDCmotherjones.com/politics/2018/… via @MotherJones1. ALBANIA- 2017: Parliamentary election is underway and incumbent Edi Rama (Socialist Party) is warning of RU influence in Balkans.
Former Trump aide, Nick Muzin goes to work for the opposition - Democratic Party of Albania (DPA) a right-wing faction favoring RU agendas.
