Michael Cohen, under oath, just admitted to lying to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about how many times he talked to Trump about projects in Russia. His statement to the committee was written with help from Ivanka, Jared, and others.
"Who put bombs around the Capitol? Who took the panic buttons out of
@AyannaPressley
's office? Who gave tours to insurrectionists in Congress. Those just seem like absolutely essential questions we need answered now." -
@sarahkendzior
It's been FOUR months. Holy crap.
"In all of my studies of authoritarian regimes, I have never seen a case where a country attempted to memory hole a coup, but that's what's been happening... The refusal to rigorously investigate the coup mirrors the refusal to stop it in the first place." -
@sarahkendzior
Trump File is a new website documenting the life and crimes of Donald J. Trump, his family, his administration, and his co-conspirators. Unlike a news site, I'm "filing" these events by the date they happened, not the date they were reported. (1/9)
This “informant" Alexander Smirnov worked with Michael Caputo, the Putin crony who starred in Russian propaganda on One America News and who Trump installed in Health & Human Services to interfere with COVID-19 policy in 2020.
Smirnov is on Trump File:
"That's the thing that Trump supporters and Republicans in general need to learn. The pandemic should have proven it to you. They will let you die. They want you to die because you're in the way, unless you are one of their donors." -
@sarahkendzior
Topic is GOP policy & Texas.
In early 1988, U.S. Attorney RUDY GIULIANI was investigating Donald Trump for multiple instances of laundering organized crime money through Trump Tower. Giuliani dropped the investigation when Trump announced a large donation to his mayoral campaign.
What's happened to the US was a preventable tragedy brought on by blind faith and failure of the imagination: to recognize authoritarianism, to call traitors out, to realize that institutions are only as good as those upholding them.
We are days away from being six months into the Biden presidency, and I have less hope that we'll escape the destruction of a fascist GOP future than I did before the 2020 election.
1998: Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko reveals that his government is owned by the mafia.
1999: Former FBI agent Bob Levinson goes on TV to warn that the Russian mafia is operating globally.
2006: Litvinenko is poisoned in London.
2007: Levinson is captured in Iran.
Ezra Cohen-Watnick helped Devin Nunes shift blame from Russia to the FBI in 2017 and was believed to be a national security risk, like his former boss Michael Flynn. He was placed in the Pentagon in early 2020.
"Poverty gets inherited generation after generation... We live in a growing, corporate, oligarch-driven power structure... We shouldn't have an economy and democracy that is dependent on oligarchs being benevolent. That's the danger here." -
@AndreaChalupa
"Biden has said he wants America back on the global stage, to be a global leader again. Biden will not achieve this by propping up and legitimizing Netanyahu." -
@AndreaChalupa
YES 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Putin was "aware of and probably directed Russia's influence operations" in 2019 & 2020. The report names Andriy Derkach specifically.
Rudy Giuliani, Devin Nunes, and Kash Patel were all working together with Andriy Derkach. Giuliani even went on TV with him.
I wanted to start this website so more people would know about Donald Trump and the Trump Crime Cult, yet I'm always shocked that people don't already know about the things I post.
Is this what it's like to be
@SarahKendzior
? 😆
I upset some people yesterday by saying the FBI protects transnational organized criminals. But it's true, and the new Mueller docs are the most recent example. The FBI tried to redact all mentions of Dimitri Simes, who helped Russian spies get inside the US Treasury in 2015.
"When Trump was in power, it was a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government. The same is true of Russia. The same is true of Israel. The same is true of Saudi Arabia, and Kushner is involved in all of the countries." -
@sarahkendzior
If you thought it was strange the media didn't do more coverage of Fred Trump's arrest with the KKK, how does it make you feel that the media didn't cover Trump bragging about killing a U.S. citizen?
"If Cy Vance had just done his job and focused on accountability, the Trump family might not even [have been] in the White House. If Ivanka and Don Jr. were indicted for fraud all those years ago, we could have had a very different outcome in the 2016 election." -
@AndreaChalupa
"We need to have congressional hearings and very transparent, very open investigations into all of this corruption, into all of these networks." Ex: Deutsche Bank, Trump, Epstein, Russian Mafia, Kushner, Plutocrats
-
@sarahkendzior
@gaslitnation
👏👏👏👏
.
@SarahKendzior
reads from an article she wrote in 2016. It's STILL relevant!
"This was coming so far in advance that you literally cannot tell the difference between an article that I published before he was even president and one that comes out now."
Thread: Listening to the new episode of
@GaslitNation
, "The Breitbart Senate."
"What we've seen so far is the Trump administration attempting a coup and failing... There is still plenty left in the Trump Crime Cult playbook... Murphy has conceded, but Trump still hasn't."
I've been offline since I posted this, and now it's my most shared tweet ever! Isn't it a holiday weekend? Aren't expensive cars driving around a track somewhere in the Midwest? 😂 Thank you so much to whoever boosted this. Here's more about Trump File.
Trump File is a new website documenting the life and crimes of Donald J. Trump, his family, his administration, and his co-conspirators. Unlike a news site, I'm "filing" these events by the date they happened, not the date they were reported. (1/9)
Sarah is right. A SHOCKING amount of the criminal (and Russia) events in Trump's life before his 2016 campaign were reported as they happened. Democrats had decades of DOCUMENTED criminal and foreign ties they could have dragged out in 2016.
@tonykwame
@TrumpFile
Abetting the criminal elite. The articles
@TrumpFile
posts were written in real time. Anyone had access to them. IC and law enforcement absolutely knew this was a mafia operation; they feign shock now to avoid accountability.
"The way that the Democrats in positions of power are behaving, it's as though they are in some hostage situation... They're making decisions that are against national security, against our own national interest, that simply do not make sense." -
@AndreaChalupa
Why would Alexander Smirnov offer to lie to the FBI to help Trump?
I’ll remind you that Smirnov associate Michael Caputo was mentored by ROGER STONE and has known Donald Trump since at least 1988, around the same time of Trump’s first trip to Russia.
Remember Jared Kushner blaming Palestinians for Israel cutting off their resources, blowing up their communities, and killing their sons and daughters? We have a new administration, and it needs to do better.
"Everyone has the right to representation. They don't have the right to representation by traitors and criminals who want to 1) overthrow our government and 2) cheer on or help the assassination of their colleagues. When you do that, you've got to go." -
@sarahkendzior
"Is [Trump] incompetent at governing, navigating bureaucracy, and strengthening America's position in the world? Yeah, he probably would be, if he ever tried to do those things. That's not why he's there."
A+ interview w/
@AnandWrites
&
@sarahkendzior
"We live in the era of the masses versus the mob: but people do not recognize the mob as the mob. In the twenty-first century, the mob both wears suits and files them. The mob is tasteful, and presidential, and - worst of all - legal."
-
@SarahKendzior
, Hiding In Plain Sight
"What we have is a multi-decade criminal plot that a bankruptcy is not going to deter at this point, because Trump is now operating with special status as a malevolent, post-presidential demagogue who has basically been declared above the law by Merrick Garland." -
@sarahkendzior
Alexander Smirnov’s appearance on Trump File is near the end of an article about Michael Caputo secretly funneling $15 million in FDA funds to Den Tolmor, who both Caputo and Smirnov worked for previosuly.
"We need to get real justice here, and you're not going to give it to the American people until you bring down the heart and soul of the operation, which was Trump, Jared, and Ivanka: The Unholy Trinity." -
@AndreaChalupa
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@sarahkendzior
"The reason this crime cohort united is because there is money to be made in breaking up the US and selling it for parts. They want to recreate the fall of the Soviet Union here, with plutocrats profiting off the ashes." -
@AndreaChalupa
, September 2020
Never Forget: The Trump administration withheld over $3 million from a federal program that helps cover medical bills for emergency responders injured on 9/11.
Today in 2020, Paul Alexander emailed his boss at Health & Human Services — Trump-Russia figure Michael Caputo — to confirm that he had successfully pressured the CDC to withhold information from
#COVID19
reports. "yippee!!!"
@JennaEllisEsq
Honey, you acknowledging
@MeidasTouch
is proof that you feel intimidated.
Actually, there's more evidence that you're intimidated than there's evidence of widespread election fraud.
This was never more clear to me than when I read
@sarahkendzior
's book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. Sarah's work is not only necessary reading to understand the "Trump Crime Cult" but to understand how trusted institutions and power structures made the Trump presidency possible.
We’ve suffered as a country because the dominant political media treated Trump as a politician rather than a criminal. No wonder he’s still roaming free.
"They are going to try to leave all of these institutions, these departments, as bereft of oversight and actual people in there [doing] something to serve the American public as possible. Because that is how they maintain their power." -
@sarahkendzior
@gaslitnation
@sarahkendzior
@AndreaChalupa
The DOJ "is a revolving door of corruption, and the FBI works the same way. You had two FBI directors -- William Sessions and Louis Freeh -- go from being directors of the FBI to serving as lawyers to the Russian mafia." -
@AndreaChalupa
"There has been no accountability for the Trump administration's handling of COVID, which included profiteering off death, purposefully letting the virus spread, withholding PPE... and lying constantly about how Americans could protect themselves." -
@sarahkendzior
These stories always leave out that Leon Black also knows Trump, Kushner, Bannon, Putin, and Oleg Deripaska (a colleague of Paul Manafort, Kevin McCarthy & RNC donor Len Blavatnik, and of course Putin).
Left: The Daily Beast
Right: Senate Intelligence Report
Another person who worked with Alexander Smirnov and Michael Caputo at Den Tolmor’s company?
Marc Morgovsky, whose parents pled guilty in 2018 to illegally exporting U.S. military equipment to Russia and working for the FSB.
Today in 1964, Ghislaine Maxwell's father and future Trump associate Robert Maxwell was elected to Parliament. The public was unaware that he worked for Israel and Russia.
“How can you say you love us? You don’t love us! You don’t even love yourself. You just love your money.” - 12yo Donald Trump Jr to his father (Vanity Fair, September 1990)
"If all Democrats decided they wanted to reform the filibuster, either outright or start an incremental series of reforms, they could do so tomorrow." -
@AJentleson
And we haven't?!
I found out about this the first time I read HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT by
@SarahKendzior
, but I didn't realize how much news coverage the negotiations received until I went digging in the NYT archives today. I can't believe more people don't know about this.
Still true a year after she wrote it. "Trump's removal from Twitter is the most lasting repercussion he faced for helping launch the worst attack on the Capitol since 1812... But the erasure of his account was not a punishment. It was a gift." -
@SarahKendzior
, THEY KNEW
What do three members of Congress have in common with Tucker Carlson, Rudy Giuliani, Ali Alexander, and One America News?
Russian interference in the 2020 election. (Thread)
"When times are this dark, remember to take a deep breath and to stay grounded in what matters. What matters is empathy. If you're up against a monster, the way you defeat that monster is refusing to become one." -
@AndreaChalupa
This made me emotional. Well said, Andrea.
Around this week in 1990, Vanity Fair published a feature on the Trump family. Friends of Donald and Ivana shared a story in which
@DonaldJTrumpJr
told his father "You don’t love us! You don’t even love yourself. You just love your money."
Every detail of
@sarahkendzior
's book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a shock if you were as unaware of Trump's criminal past as I used to be. But the overwhelming sensation from the book is anger that all of the information was so accessible and yet never unburied during his campaign.
There are more Republicans in Congress who have worked on behalf of Putin than Republicans in Congress who are willing to tell the truth about Donald Trump. Let that sink in.
Investigate:
- 01/06
- GOP lawmakers implicated in US Intel report on Russian election interference
- Michael Caputo's work at HHS
- Barr blocking Chauvin's 2020 plea deal to lengthen protests
- Comey removing Trump mafia associate Mogilevich from FBI list
What would you add?
@petestrzok
BREAKING: Trump business kept afloat the same way most Trump businesses have been kept afloat. Not the first time Trump's laundered Kremlin coins were connected to Putin, either.
The day he left office, Trump Admin gave a large chunk of the world's unused internet capability to a mysterious, unknown company operating out of a shared office space in Florida. Does anyone know if the Biden admin did anything or if this was ever reported on again?
Emphasis on the fact that the DOD department that did this takes orders from the Sec. of Defense, which was Christopher Miller at the time.
The Pentagon had a large chunk of the world's internet in storage. Trump took it to Florida the day he left office.
Added & Updated Today, So Far
1. On October 5, 1993, Donald Trump spoke before a group of lawmakers and blatantly lied about Native Americans and reservations. Rep. George Miller noted the racism in Trump's comments.
No book this year will deserve your time or money as much as
@sarahkendzior
's upcoming release, THEY KNEW. And if you haven't read 2020's HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, you should do that immediately.
"Under Biden, the United States became the first country to face an attempted coup and not only fail to punish the coup plotters but allow them to hold office and make laws. There is no parallel in world history." -
@sarahkendzior
@DavidKlion
@kenklippenstein
Hey remember how cool it was when liberals were mad at leftists for sounding the alarm that Pete Buttigieg worked for McKinsey? "That's not a big deal, McKinsey is fine!"
McKinsey literally offering life insurance to drug makers as an incentive to accidentally kill people.
(THREAD) Live tweeting "Indicted Criminal Netanyahu Starts a War to Cling to Power," this week's episode of the
@GaslitNation
with
@sarahkendzior
and
@AndreaChalupa
.
"Never conflate a corrupt and brutal regime with the people who have to live under it."
The mafia boss Levinson was most worried about was Putin friend Semion Mogilevich, whose crimes have been aided by two FBI directors and whose associates lived in Trump Tower. Another associate was Trump friend Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell's father.
Direct Ties: Rudy Giuliani, Roger Stone, Michael Caputo, Kash Patel, Sen. Ron Johnson, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Rep. Devin Nunes, Ali Alexander, Jack Posobiec, Stop The Steal, and One America News Network.
Indirect: Paul Manafort, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, and Jill Stein.
"We know that we're dealing with a ruthless party that's seeking permanent minority rule, electoral autocracy, yet the [Democrats'] response has been very tepid... They themselves will not be able to win an election as a Democrat in these conditions." -
@sarahkendzior
Gaetz says two men told his dad they would save him from a sex crimes investigation if he paid for Levinson's release.
If true, these men likely knew more about Matt's alleged history than we've heard so far. You don't need saved from an investigation unless you're guilty.
"At what point did treason not count?!... Philosophers and politicians of history say countries can withstand attacks from abroad. Counties can withstand trauma from within. They cannot withstand treason." -
@sarahkendzior
This is what they're really promoting when Republicans go on FOX to talk about splitting red states and blue states into separate countries. Breaking us down for parts has been a wet dream for a long time. Someone to follow if you think MTG came up with the idea herself ⬇️
"They want the country to collapse. A depopulated, partitioned US is easier to exploit and control. To them, the state is just something to sell. They do not care if the buyers are foreign or domestic."
4. Thanks to his father, Donald Trump's financial ties to organized crime began when he was only 3 years old. Fred essentially made his children the landlords of a complex he built with an associate of New York's crime families. (Updated)
"Of course [Trump] uses fascist tactics, but he's something bigger. He's something far bigger. It's very important to call out this aspect of it. Fascists were interested in territorial expansion, and Trump is interested in internal collapse." -
@ruthbenghiat
This week's most-read post is Robert Mueller's 2011 speech warning that the Semion Mogilevich crime organization is the greatest threat to the nation.
Mogilevich has ties to Trump, Epstein, Maxwell, Giuliani, Caputo, Sater, and even members of Congress.
@politvidchannel
@Ty___Webb
This isn't breaking news at all. There are books based on this information the first handful of times the former KGB officer spoke out.
"We need accountability, not only for Trump but for his corrupt backers, for mafia syndicates that have surrounded him throughout his entire 40-year career & which helped get him in office, for his complicity with hostile foreign actors... The list is very long." -
@sarahkendzior
"I went away last week. I wrote in my book Hiding In Plain Sight that whenever I go on a road trip, the flag that I pass on every highway is always at half staff because there's always been a mass shooting. There were two just in the four days that I was gone." -
@sarahkendzior
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If you’re unfamiliar with Trump’s first trip to Russia on July 4, 1987, you can read all about it here.
Since 2020, I have documented over 1,000 notable events, crimes, and coverups by Donald Trump, his administration, his family, and his associates. This work has been done by just one person, working a full-time job and juggling life's ups and downs.
This. This was Putin's goal in 2016. We've known it for years, we know it now, and we're doing nothing to fix it. Biden officials can talk about working for all Americans as much as they want, but that won't actually de-radicalize anyone.
My research on the Council for National Policy & other propaganda / criminal networks has attracted some excitement from people with good intentions. But that excitement can lead to assumptions and trying to find connections where there aren't any. Trust me, I've done it, too. /1
THREAD: Listening to "Texas Republican Massacre," the new episode of
@GaslitNation
podcast with
@AndreaChalupa
&
@sarahkendzior
.
"An important reminder that everything's awful. We're staring into a dark abyss, and the abyss just keeps screaming back."
I believe it's important to have a timeline of events related to Trump and his crimes. For journalists, investigators, and future deprogrammed Trump supporters who missed out on reality these past four years. (Plus it's like a "Trump crimes" search engine, so that's cool!) (2/9)
(THREAD) Live tweeting "If You Listen to Fools, The Mob Rules," the brand new episode of the
@GaslitNation
podcast with
@sarahkendzior
and
@AndreaChalupa
.
"It has now been over four months since the violent attempted coup on the Capitol."
Smirnov wasn't on our radar outside of Michael Caputo, but it looks like he should have been. We’ll be sending out an email to our list next week with a deep dive on Smirnov, and adding more about him to the site.
(THREAD) Live tweeting as I listen to "Joe Manchin Gaslights America," the brand new episode of the
@GaslitNation
podcast with
@sarahkendzior
and
@AndreaChalupa
.
"Getting rid of Trump did not get rid of the core problems... His win did not create them."
You know what's surprising about Bill Barr conspiring to discredit the Mueller investigation before the investigation was finished?
Nothing. There's nothing surprising about that.
"I have a book called Hiding In Plain Sight that traces Trump's path of criminality alongside the deterioration of the United States... My 10-year-old son refers to this book as 'Mommy's Book About Criminal Boomers.'"
@SarahKendzior
. I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@briantylercohen
Madison Cawthorn is nothing more than a mascot for the GOP. Like Matt Gaetz, his only job is to rally supporters on TV and social media.
They knew about Epstein.
They knew about covid.
They knew about climate change.
They knew about the coup.
They knew about the mafia.
They knew about the theft.
They knew...and they lied.
Get the full story:
“The way dictators work is they gaslight you and they try to say that none of this ever happened, so it’s always important to take notes… You are a witness. You are bearing witness to history, and that alone is extremely powerful.” -
@AndreaChalupa
@sunny
This is veteran and son of an oil tycoon Dan Crenshaw masquerading as a secret GOP agent. On Twitter, TV, and at events, Crenshaw masquerades as a working class war hero. In private, he helps strategize smear campaigns against women who were sexually assaulted in the military.