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🐀Engel🐀
📌On June 8th, Steve Engel head of the OLC at the DOJ, invited Barr to lunch after he rec’d Barr’s unsolicited memo criticizing the Mueller probe.
📌Did the WH decision to hire Barr influenced by private chats he had about his legal views on Mueller’s investigation?
📌On June 8th, Steve Engel head of the OLC at the DOJ, invited Barr to lunch after he rec’d Barr’s unsolicited memo criticizing the Mueller probe.
📌Did the WH decision to hire Barr influenced by private chats he had about his legal views on Mueller’s investigation?
🐀Engel2🐀.
📌Steve Engel served on the Trump campaign transition team and is a Kav pal.
📌McCain was the sole GOP senator to vote against confirming Engel to lead the DOJ’s OLC citing his role in the controversial torture memos under the GWB adm.
📌Steve Engel served on the Trump campaign transition team and is a Kav pal.
📌McCain was the sole GOP senator to vote against confirming Engel to lead the DOJ’s OLC citing his role in the controversial torture memos under the GWB adm.
🐀Engel3🐀
“I cannot ... vote for any nominee who in any way has supported the use of enhanced interrogation."
“Mr. Engel reviewed & commented on this memo, which attempted to justify interrogation techniques that violate the Geneva Conventions and stain our nat’l honor,”
“I cannot ... vote for any nominee who in any way has supported the use of enhanced interrogation."
“Mr. Engel reviewed & commented on this memo, which attempted to justify interrogation techniques that violate the Geneva Conventions and stain our nat’l honor,”
🐀Engel4🐀
It was Steve Engel who advised Trump that he could lawfully designate Matthew Whitaker, to perform the functions & duties of the Office of AG post Sessions exit.
Next in line after Rosenstein is SG Noel Francisco.
Next in line after Francisco would be Steven Engel.
It was Steve Engel who advised Trump that he could lawfully designate Matthew Whitaker, to perform the functions & duties of the Office of AG post Sessions exit.
Next in line after Rosenstein is SG Noel Francisco.
Next in line after Francisco would be Steven Engel.
🕵️♂️Spies5🕵️♂️
📌My oh my! Not one Chinese spy but three found at Mar-a-Lago!
📌Mystery Man in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago/China Scandal Prompts Counterintelligence Concerns
📌Charles Lee, possibly linked to the intruder at Trump’s club, has ties to Chinese gov’t & Communist Party outfits.
📌My oh my! Not one Chinese spy but three found at Mar-a-Lago!
📌Mystery Man in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago/China Scandal Prompts Counterintelligence Concerns
📌Charles Lee, possibly linked to the intruder at Trump’s club, has ties to Chinese gov’t & Communist Party outfits.
🕵️♂️Spies6🕵️♂️
📌Lee recruited “clients for…events advertised by Yang as opportunities to pay for face time with Donald Trump.”
📌And Lee also ran a group called the United Nations Chinese Friendship Association—a name similar to the one cited by Zhang, the Mar-a-Lago intruder.
📌Lee recruited “clients for…events advertised by Yang as opportunities to pay for face time with Donald Trump.”
📌And Lee also ran a group called the United Nations Chinese Friendship Association—a name similar to the one cited by Zhang, the Mar-a-Lago intruder.
🕵️♂️Spies7🕵️♂️
📌Earlier this week Secret Service had arrested Yujing Zhang, who had allegedly tried to enter Mar-a-Lago.
📌Carrying four cell phones, one laptop, an external hard drive, and a thumb drive allegedly containing malware, while Trump & family were there.
📌Earlier this week Secret Service had arrested Yujing Zhang, who had allegedly tried to enter Mar-a-Lago.
📌Carrying four cell phones, one laptop, an external hard drive, and a thumb drive allegedly containing malware, while Trump & family were there.
🕵️♂️Spies8🕵️♂️
📌Don’t forget Cindy Yang (fmr owner of massage parlor involved in sex trafficking) selling access to Trump.
📌Yang was an officer of two groups with ties to China’s Communist Party & gov’t: CPPRC & CAST.
📌The CPPRC calls for the absorption of Taiwan into China.
📌Don’t forget Cindy Yang (fmr owner of massage parlor involved in sex trafficking) selling access to Trump.
📌Yang was an officer of two groups with ties to China’s Communist Party & gov’t: CPPRC & CAST.
📌The CPPRC calls for the absorption of Taiwan into China.
🕵️♂️Spies9🕵️♂️
📌The CPPRC is a vehicle for projecting Chinese influence in the West that is closely tied to the Communist Party’s UFWD, which aims to use Chinese people abroad to promote the party’s positions throughout the world.
📌The CPPRC is a vehicle for projecting Chinese influence in the West that is closely tied to the Communist Party’s UFWD, which aims to use Chinese people abroad to promote the party’s positions throughout the world.
🕵️♂️Spies10🕵️♂️
📌Allegations related to Yang raised “serious counterintelligence concerns.”
📌Yang’s activities “could permit adversary gov’t or their agents access to…politicians to acquire potential material for blackmail or other even more nefarious purposes.”
#ButHerEmails
📌Allegations related to Yang raised “serious counterintelligence concerns.”
📌Yang’s activities “could permit adversary gov’t or their agents access to…politicians to acquire potential material for blackmail or other even more nefarious purposes.”
#ButHerEmails
🔥Kush11🔥
Kushner Had “Significant” Disqualifying Factors For Receiving Clearance
New Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump Financial Disclosure Revisions Show ‘Pattern of Trouble With Their Filings
U.S. Ethics Office Declines to Certify Mnuchin’s Financial Disclosure
Kushner Had “Significant” Disqualifying Factors For Receiving Clearance
New Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump Financial Disclosure Revisions Show ‘Pattern of Trouble With Their Filings
U.S. Ethics Office Declines to Certify Mnuchin’s Financial Disclosure
🔥TGIF12🔥
In a 12-page memo sent to House DEMs, Cohen’s atty’s said Trump “encouraged Cohen to lie and say all Moscow Tower contacts ended 1/31/16, using ‘code’ language — there was ‘no collusion, no RU contacts, nothing about RU’ after the start of the campaign.’”
In a 12-page memo sent to House DEMs, Cohen’s atty’s said Trump “encouraged Cohen to lie and say all Moscow Tower contacts ended 1/31/16, using ‘code’ language — there was ‘no collusion, no RU contacts, nothing about RU’ after the start of the campaign.’”
💦💰GOP13💰💦
Ex-Congressman's RU Bank Loses License for Money Laundering
Charles Taylor (R) owns 80% stake in Bank Ivanovo
Bank of RU said lender regularly broke 💰💦 rules & misrepresented the size of its provisions and used “schemes” to artificially inflate its capital,.
Ex-Congressman's RU Bank Loses License for Money Laundering
Charles Taylor (R) owns 80% stake in Bank Ivanovo
Bank of RU said lender regularly broke 💰💦 rules & misrepresented the size of its provisions and used “schemes” to artificially inflate its capital,.
💦💰GOP14💰💦
📌📌GOP Op: Taylor represented NC 11th district from 1991 to 2007. Taylor & Newt Gingrich, aka the Gang of Seven that ‘investigated’ a House banking scandal that fueled the PERCEPTION of CORRUPTION in the lower chamber & helped usher in a Republican majority.
📌📌GOP Op: Taylor represented NC 11th district from 1991 to 2007. Taylor & Newt Gingrich, aka the Gang of Seven that ‘investigated’ a House banking scandal that fueled the PERCEPTION of CORRUPTION in the lower chamber & helped usher in a Republican majority.
💦💰GOP15💰💦
📌Taylor also created exchange programs & internships for Russian students during Russia’s transition from Communism.
📌Russia Is Tricking GPS to Protect Putin
📌The Kremlin’s manipulation of global navigation systems is more extensive than previously understood
📌Taylor also created exchange programs & internships for Russian students during Russia’s transition from Communism.
📌Russia Is Tricking GPS to Protect Putin
📌The Kremlin’s manipulation of global navigation systems is more extensive than previously understood
💦💰$230B💰💦
📌Suspect Russian cash has caught up several lenders in northern Europe.
📌Swedbank AB’s head of operations in Estonia, Lithuania & Latvia, Birgitte Bonnesen lost her job over allegations her bank was involved in a $230 billion Danske Bank A/S laundering scandal.
📌Suspect Russian cash has caught up several lenders in northern Europe.
📌Swedbank AB’s head of operations in Estonia, Lithuania & Latvia, Birgitte Bonnesen lost her job over allegations her bank was involved in a $230 billion Danske Bank A/S laundering scandal.
💦💰$230B💰💦
📌And this week Swedbank’s Chairman Lars Idermark Quit
📌The Investigation into Trump & Deutsche Bank is now the focus of a Federal Reserve probe into the Danske affair. #Estonia #DanskeBank #DeutscheBank #Magnitsky
📌📌It’s all connected folks.
📌And this week Swedbank’s Chairman Lars Idermark Quit
📌The Investigation into Trump & Deutsche Bank is now the focus of a Federal Reserve probe into the Danske affair. #Estonia #DanskeBank #DeutscheBank #Magnitsky
📌📌It’s all connected folks.
💃🏼TGIF18💃🏼
S FL bizman convicted in $1B Medicare fraud, largest ever charged by DOJ
Ecuador denies decision made to expel J-Ass from embassy
Though president accuses JulianJ-Ass of hacking his personal phone, top official says Quito not planning to oust him from London emb.
S FL bizman convicted in $1B Medicare fraud, largest ever charged by DOJ
Ecuador denies decision made to expel J-Ass from embassy
Though president accuses JulianJ-Ass of hacking his personal phone, top official says Quito not planning to oust him from London emb.
💃🏼TGIF19💃🏼
FBI Dir Chris Wray has described white supremacist extremism as 'a persistent, pervasive threat' during a House committee appropriations hearing.
Chinese investment and ties become downright toxic and is becoming an election issue in Asia.
FBI Dir Chris Wray has described white supremacist extremism as 'a persistent, pervasive threat' during a House committee appropriations hearing.
Chinese investment and ties become downright toxic and is becoming an election issue in Asia.
💃🏼TGIF20💃🏼
Christchurch attacks: NZ suspect ordered to undergo mental health tests
Warren calls for investigation of White House role in admitting guests at Mar-a-Lago
U.S. to designate elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard as terrorist organization
#TTBakuIRG💰💦
Christchurch attacks: NZ suspect ordered to undergo mental health tests
Warren calls for investigation of White House role in admitting guests at Mar-a-Lago
U.S. to designate elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard as terrorist organization
#TTBakuIRG💰💦
💃🏼TGIF21💃🏼
Saudi Arabia is threatening to sell its oil in currencies other than the dollar if Washington passes a bill exposing OPEC members to US antitrust lawsuits.
FBI: Thirty-five years ago, in early April 1984, the FBI closed in on a real-life Mafia godfather.
#PizzaGate
Saudi Arabia is threatening to sell its oil in currencies other than the dollar if Washington passes a bill exposing OPEC members to US antitrust lawsuits.
FBI: Thirty-five years ago, in early April 1984, the FBI closed in on a real-life Mafia godfather.
#PizzaGate
💃🏼TGIF22💃🏼
📌Drab London office block was GCHQ spy base
📌US revokes ICC prosecutor's visa over Afghanistan inquiry
Fatou Bensouda wants to open investigation into alleged war crimes, including by US troops
📌Putin, Netanyahu, meet in Moscow ahead of Israeli elections
📌Drab London office block was GCHQ spy base
📌US revokes ICC prosecutor's visa over Afghanistan inquiry
Fatou Bensouda wants to open investigation into alleged war crimes, including by US troops
📌Putin, Netanyahu, meet in Moscow ahead of Israeli elections
💃🏼TGIF23💃🏼
South Florida Health Care Facility Owner Convicted for Role in Largest Health Care Fraud Scheme Ever Charged by The Department of Justice, Involving $1.3 Billion in Fraudulent Claims
Russian pharmaceutical companies told to stockpile drugs to prepare for war
South Florida Health Care Facility Owner Convicted for Role in Largest Health Care Fraud Scheme Ever Charged by The Department of Justice, Involving $1.3 Billion in Fraudulent Claims
Russian pharmaceutical companies told to stockpile drugs to prepare for war
💃🏼TGIF24💃🏼
📌Kremlin Critic Khodorkovsky Says Putin's Circle Wants Him To Remain In Power Beyond 2024
📌Mnuchin losing two senior Treasury aides
📌Trump Lawyer Urges Feds Not to Hand Over Tax Returns
📌Bernie Sanders declines to say when he will release tax returns
📌Kremlin Critic Khodorkovsky Says Putin's Circle Wants Him To Remain In Power Beyond 2024
📌Mnuchin losing two senior Treasury aides
📌Trump Lawyer Urges Feds Not to Hand Over Tax Returns
📌Bernie Sanders declines to say when he will release tax returns
💃🏼TGIF25💃🏼
Trump adm wants to add to a citizenship question to the #2020Census, but U.S. District Judge in Maryland rules adding question violates the Constitution and administrative law
Two US citizens among women's rights activists detained in Saudi Arabia
Trump adm wants to add to a citizenship question to the #2020Census, but U.S. District Judge in Maryland rules adding question violates the Constitution and administrative law
Two US citizens among women's rights activists detained in Saudi Arabia
💃🏼TGIF26💃🏼
📌Investor rips Ocasio-Cortez as ‘financially illiterate’ at Sharpton conference
📌Radio Talk Show Host Craig Carton Sentenced To 42 Months In Prison For Securities And Wire Fraud
📌Ruling on grand jury records could affect release of Mueller report details😱
📌Investor rips Ocasio-Cortez as ‘financially illiterate’ at Sharpton conference
📌Radio Talk Show Host Craig Carton Sentenced To 42 Months In Prison For Securities And Wire Fraud
📌Ruling on grand jury records could affect release of Mueller report details😱
📌Trump’s financial statements from 2011, 2012 and 2013 show “he engaged in vast inflation of his net worth.”
DoJ officials told of Barr meeting on day he submitted memo critical of Mueller
Revealed: the attorney general, then a private lawyer, called the special counsel’s obstruction of justice inquiry into Trump ‘fatally misconceived
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/a…
Revealed: the attorney general, then a private lawyer, called the special counsel’s obstruction of justice inquiry into Trump ‘fatally misconceived
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/a…
📌Initial Reactions to OLC’s (Steve Engel) Opinion on the Whitaker Designation as “Acting” Attorney General.
justsecurity.org/61483/initial-…
justsecurity.org/61483/initial-…
McCain was the sole GOP senator to vote against confirming Steven Engel to lead the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel earlier this week, citing his role in the controversial torture memos under the George W. Bush administration.
politico.com/story/2017/11/…
politico.com/story/2017/11/…
Groups Express Concern over US Office of Legal Counsel Nominee Steve Engel
hrw.org/news/2017/06/0…
hrw.org/news/2017/06/0…
U.S. Ethics Office Declines to Certify Mnuchin’s Financial Disclosure
nytimes.com/2019/04/04/us/…
nytimes.com/2019/04/04/us/…
New Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump Financial Disclosure Revisions Show ‘Pattern of Trouble With Their Filings
newsweek.com/jared-kushner-…
newsweek.com/jared-kushner-…
Oh the shade...
The Pizza Connection
Painstaking Work Leads to Landmark 1980s Heroin Bust
Thirty-five years ago, in early April 1984, the FBI closed in on a real-life Mafia godfather.
#PizzaGate
fbi.gov/news/stories/t…
The Pizza Connection
Painstaking Work Leads to Landmark 1980s Heroin Bust
Thirty-five years ago, in early April 1984, the FBI closed in on a real-life Mafia godfather.
#PizzaGate
fbi.gov/news/stories/t…
Drab London office block was GCHQ spy base
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
Mystery Man in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago/China Scandal Prompts Counterintelligence Concerns
Charles Lee, possibly linked to the intruder at Trump’s club, has ties to Chinese government and Communist Party outfits.
motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Charles Lee, possibly linked to the intruder at Trump’s club, has ties to Chinese government and Communist Party outfits.
motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Kushner Had “Significant” Disqualifying Factors For Receiving Clearance
mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
mavenroundtable.io/theintellectua…
Bernie Sanders declines to say when he will release tax returns
cnn.com/2019/04/04/pol…
cnn.com/2019/04/04/pol…
Kremlin Critic Khodorkovsky Says Putin's Circle Wants Him To Remain In Power Beyond 2024
rferl.org/a/kremlin-crit…
rferl.org/a/kremlin-crit…
📌Ex-Congressman's Russian Bank Loses License for Money Laundering
📌Republican Charles Taylor owns 80% stake in Bank Ivanovo
Bank of Russia said lender broke money-laundering rules
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
📌Republican Charles Taylor owns 80% stake in Bank Ivanovo
Bank of Russia said lender broke money-laundering rules
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
‼️Trump’s alleged involvement in the Danske Bank scandal is under investigation.
💰Shady Deutsche Bank💰
Deutsche Bank's U.S. Unit Kept Danske's Shady Billions Flowing
Deutsche Bank's U.S. Unit Kept Danske's Shady Billions Flowing
📌Swedbank’s Chairman Quits Amid Money-Laundering Scandal
📌This came less than a week after the bank fired its CEO Birgitte Bonnesen, who had previously supervised Swedbank’s operations in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
nytimes.com/2019/04/05/bus…
📌This came less than a week after the bank fired its CEO Birgitte Bonnesen, who had previously supervised Swedbank’s operations in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
nytimes.com/2019/04/05/bus…
The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, sided with grand jury secrecy on Friday, ruling that federal district judges don't have the power to make the grand jury's records public, even in historically significant cases.
cnn.com/2019/04/05/pol…
cnn.com/2019/04/05/pol…
🏵Excellent Thread🏵
✈️Epstein Flight Logs✈️
In a 12-page memo sent to House DEMs, Cohen’s atty’s said Trump “encouraged Cohen to lie and say all Moscow Tower contacts ended 1/31/16, using ‘code’ language — there was ‘no collusion, no RU contacts, nothing about RU’ after the start of the campaign.’”
buzzfeednews.com/article/emmalo…
buzzfeednews.com/article/emmalo…
♥️Joe Biden - Empathy♥️
FBI Director Chris Wray has described white supremacist extremism as 'a persistent, pervasive threat' during a House committee appropriations hearing.
theguardian.com/us-news/video/…
theguardian.com/us-news/video/…
💣NC GOP = Ground 0 = Corruption
William Barr was invited to meet with three officials from the Department of Justice the same day he sent an unsolicited memo to President Donald Trump criticizing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
rawstory.com/2019/04/newly-…
rawstory.com/2019/04/newly-…
📌Russia Is Tricking GPS to Protect Putin
📌The Kremlin’s manipulation of global navigation systems is more extensive than previously understood.
foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/03/rus…
📌The Kremlin’s manipulation of global navigation systems is more extensive than previously understood.
foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/03/rus…
🏵Excellent Thread🏵
"Evidence presented by Michael Cohen on Trump crimes presented to congressional committees [re] conspiracy to collude w/Russian government...[and] other felony crimes committed by Trump before/after he became president."
"Evidence presented by Michael Cohen on Trump crimes presented to congressional committees [re] conspiracy to collude w/Russian government...[and] other felony crimes committed by Trump before/after he became president."
Re Petition for the Release of the Watergate "Road Map": Notice of Supplemental Authority
South Florida businessman convicted in $1B Medicare fraud, largest ever charged by Justice department
sun-sentinel.com/news/crime/fl-…
sun-sentinel.com/news/crime/fl-…
US revokes ICC prosecutor's visa over Afghanistan inquiry
Fatou Bensouda wants to open investigation into alleged war crimes, including by US troops
theguardian.com/law/2019/apr/0…
Fatou Bensouda wants to open investigation into alleged war crimes, including by US troops
theguardian.com/law/2019/apr/0…
Saudi Arabia is threatening to sell its oil in currencies other than the dollar if Washington passes a bill exposing OPEC members to U.S. antitrust lawsuits.
reuters.com/article/us-sau…
reuters.com/article/us-sau…
Ecuador denies decision made to expel Wikileaks founder from embassy
Though president accuses Julian Assange of hacking his personal phone, top official says Quito not planning to oust him from its London mission
timesofisrael.com/ecuador-denies…
Though president accuses Julian Assange of hacking his personal phone, top official says Quito not planning to oust him from its London mission
timesofisrael.com/ecuador-denies…
Investor rips Ocasio-Cortez as ‘financially illiterate’ at Sharpton conference
nypost.com/2019/04/05/inv…
nypost.com/2019/04/05/inv…
🌶SpicyMaddog🌶
👉🏼Sounds the alarm!
👉🏼Sounds the alarm!
China is becoming an election issue in Asia. And that's bad news for Beijing as Chinese investment and ties become an awkward -- if not downright toxic -- election issue.
cnn.com/2019/04/04/asi…
cnn.com/2019/04/04/asi…
Russian pharmaceutical companies told to stockpile drugs to prepare for war
uawire.org/russian-pharma…
uawire.org/russian-pharma…
South Florida Health Care Facility Owner Convicted for Role in Largest Health Care Fraud Scheme Ever Charged by The Department of Justice, Involving $1.3 Billion in Fraudulent Claims
justice.gov/opa/pr/south-f…
justice.gov/opa/pr/south-f…
The man accused of killing 50 people in last month's attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, has been ordered to undergo mental health tests.
bbc.com/news/world-asi…
bbc.com/news/world-asi…
Putin, Netanyahu, meet in Moscow ahead of Israeli elections
The two leaders reportedly discussed events in Syria just days before Netanyahu runs for re-election.
aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/p…
The two leaders reportedly discussed events in Syria just days before Netanyahu runs for re-election.
aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/p…
The United States is expected to designate Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps a foreign terrorist organization, three U.S. officials told Reuters, marking the first time Washington has formally labeled another country's military a terrorist group.
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Warren calls for investigation of White House role in admitting guests at Mar-a-Lago
washingtonpost.com/politics/warre…
washingtonpost.com/politics/warre…
🌳Breathe🌳
Wow, Whatta roller coaster week!
Lotsa fuqqery & some nuggets in tonight’s thread foreshadowing incoming scandals that reach back decades.
Have fun this weekend, get some rest as next week will be just as cray cray.
Sleep well!
#TeamPatriot
Wow, Whatta roller coaster week!
Lotsa fuqqery & some nuggets in tonight’s thread foreshadowing incoming scandals that reach back decades.
Have fun this weekend, get some rest as next week will be just as cray cray.
Sleep well!
#TeamPatriot
@threadreaderapp unroll please and TY!
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#ThePatriotTimes
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