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A message to every MAGA Patriot on X: Donald Trump lied to you.
Donald Trump told you that Republicans would steal the 2016 primary for Ted Cruz. He wanted you to call it fraud if Ted Cruz won, so he lied to you.
He told you Democrats would steal the 2016 general election for
Where was Donald Trump today in 1987?
He wasn't celebrating Indepence Day with his family. He wasn’t even in the United States.
He was in Moscow, meeting with Soviet intelligence agents.
This is the story of the KGB’s recruitment of Donald Trump. 🧵
Last December, Donald Trump admitted he is the enemy of democracy. Now he’s promising a “fixed” election in 2028 if he wins this year.
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Today in 1992, the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs identified a Trump Taj Mahal executive and other men connected to Trump’s casinos as members of a Hong Kong-based transnational organized crime ring.
25 years ago this month, Donald Trump affiliate Semion Mogilevich was found to be the mastermind of the largest money-laundering operation in history, funneling BILLIONS into the U.S. from Russia.
Today in 2010, former employees at Donald Trump’s real estate development company blew the whistle on the entire operation. The company, they said, was owned and operated by the Russian mafia...
During his first term, Donald Trump withheld around $3.2 MILLION from a program that covers the medical costs for first responders suffering from long-term conditions and injuries as a result of their work on 9/11.
Donald Trump has told supporters not to vote this year, and that the election won’t matter until it's over. Now the GOP is ramping up attacks on voting rights and election laws.
Let’s be clear: Donald Trump never planned on winning in November.
Here's a story involving Samuel Alito that is *much* more important than the flag story.
Without Alito, former Republican presidents might not have laid the groundwork for Project 2025. 🧵
Today in 2020, Homeland Security’s intelligence division submitted a report that Russia’s propaganda network was behind a campaign to smear Joe Biden as having cognitive decline.
The intelligence report was blocked by Chad Wolf.
Here's Trump alluding to the fact that Project 2025 will end free and fair elections.
"In four years you don't have to vote, ok. In four years don't vote, I don't care... We'll have it all straightened out so it'll be much different."
Our story begins in March 1986, when Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin and his daughter Natalia walked into Trump Tower and requested a meeting with Donald. Natalia later told
@politico
that they needed to “hook” the assumed billionaire. He "melted at once.”
We’ve been saving this one for Independence Day for a reason! If you don’t have time to dive in now, then save it for later.
Posting now and updating every minute or so. Here we go!
Donald Trump was already a target for KGB recruitment. The KGB worked with allies’ intelligence agencies to identify targets, and their Czech counterpart had been compiling kompromat on the Trumps for a decade.
It’s worth noting that Donald Trump said something similar about his views on the U.S. in 2014, that the only way to control our government is through creating riots.
On 2/3/2014, Donald Trump called Fox News for a 6-minute interview in which he praises Russia and says making America great again means crashing the economy and sparking riots.
The interview has been pulled from the Fox News site. But I've had this clip on my phone for years.
On the Fourth of July, 1987, Donald and Ivanka Trump were staying at the Intourist hotel in Moscow, a facility allegedly operated and surveilled by the KGB, across the street from the Kremlin.
Most importantly, KGB officers were told to focus on targets of value – especially those in the U.S. like Donald Trump – who may be able to “actively influence” foreign policy in favor of the Soviet Union.
In the mid-1980s, as sympathy for the Soviet Union was waning, KGB head Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov began exploring new strategies for the intelligence agency to recruit assets abroad.
“You start off as nicely as possible… If that doesn’t work, you then start cutting off aid... You do whatever is necessary so these people will have riots in the street, so they can’t get water… food... That’s the only thing that’s going to do it… riots.” – Donald Trump, 1987
When Yuri and Natalia met Trump in March 1986, Natalia was in a top position at the Dag Hammerskjold Library at the UN in New York.
A year earlier, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence identified her position as an active cover for KGB agents.
“FUN” FACT FOUR: In 2018, GOP lawmakers took a trip to Moscow to meet with the Russian government. One of them was later accused by members of Congress of helping Russia interfere in the 2020 election…
The day of their trip? The Fourth of July.
In THE ART OF THE DEAL, Trump writes that he sat next to Yuri Dubinin at a luncheon in 1986 (some time after the Trump Tower meeting). There, Dubinin completed the first stage in KGB recruitment, offering Trump a “material incentive” he couldn’t refuse.
The KGB knew from their intel that flattery was Trump's weak spot.
They used this to their advantage and pretended to be “immensely impressed” by him, according to one former agent. They told him only people like him "could change the world.”
The KGB incentive, according to Trump’s own book: “a large luxury hotel, across the street from the Kremlin, in partnership with the Soviet government.”
But first, Dubinin would need Trump to meet with some of his associates in Moscow, the second stage of KGB recruitment.
Meanwhile, an elite intelligence magazine called Executive Intelligence Review published a story on 7/24/87 confirming the Soviet Union had hopes for a Trump presidency.
Note: EIR has its own controversial backstory and may have been a source of conspiracy-minded propaganda.
Back home in New York, Trump told now-defunct Manhattan, inc. magazine that if he were president, the U.S. and the Soviet Union would join forces, combine their nuclear stockpiles, and “dominate” Third World countries.
During their conversation with Trump, these Soviet agents even went as far as to suggest that he could become president someday.
Donald Trump returned to the U.S. with a plan for our foreign policy (just as the KGB had intended), which he happily shared with reporters.
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As far as Trump probably knew, the purpose of this trip – which was paid for by the Soviet government – was to meet with officials from the country’s tourist agency.
But the agents he met with weren’t interested in tourism.
The conversation between Trump and Soviet officials centered on deals with the Politburo, the highest committee within the Kremlin, and how Trump might be of assistance to the KGB. They fed Trump KGB talking points and went to great lengths in their efforts to flatter him.
The KGB celebrated Trump's Manhattan, inc. interview. They celebrated again in September when Trump spent $94,000 on newspaper ads attacking NATO and accusing U.S. allies of exploiting us.
Their efforts to recruit a valuable U.S. asset to influence foreign policy paid off.
PSA: Newly elected lawmakers enter Congress three days before the electoral college certification. If Kamala wins but doesn’t have a majority of the electoral votes, the House elects the president.
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One month after Trump was inaugurated, Churkin died suddenly, and he took the details of his relationship with the KGB's asset-turned-president with him.
It’s believed that Churkin might have been murdered, but Trump’s State Department blocked his autopsy.
This week in 2020, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA was caught paying teenagers to spread right-wing conspiracy theories on social media.
Turning Point paid teens for at least 4,500 posts with lies about COVID-19, mail-in voting, Joe Biden, and more.
You've seen the tweets and texts where JD Vance calls Trump “an idiot” and “America’s Hitler.”
JD Vance was once a fierce “Never Trump” Republican. He was also an ally to Muslims and immigrants, until he ran for office.
Why did he change his tune? It’s NOT just money. 🧵
“FUN” FACT TWO: Churkin was the fifth Russian diplomat to die unexpectedly after Trump won the 2016 election.
THREE: At the time of Donald Trump’s recruitment, 34-year-old Vladimir Putin was an officer of the KGB.
THREAD: Hi, this is the creator of Trump File. When I started this project during my quarantine in 2020, I never imagined I would be writing this. I hope you will read it in full.
Today in 1987, Reagan’s FCC repealed the Fairness Doctrine, our only defense from televised “news" programs becoming outlets for propaganda and outright lies.
The move helped Reagan ally Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, which launched the year before.
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.
The story as it’s told here is composed of interviews with Soviet / Russian nationals, former KGB agents, reports by reputable sources, and Donald Trump’s own book.
All sources are linked at the end of this page on Trump File.
But we’re not done.
Here's Trump alluding to the fact that Project 2025 will end free and fair elections.
"In four years you don't have to vote, ok. In four years don't vote, I don't care... We'll have it all straightened out so it'll be much different."
The KGB also celebrated because Trump had started teasing his first presidential campaign.
His campaign hopes simmered by November. He’d waited too long to enter the race. But his Soviet ties remained. He even met with Mikhail Gorbachev in December.
Let’s wrap up with some “fun” facts.
ONE: Also involved in planning Trump’s July 4th trip to Moscow was Vitaly Churkin. He stayed in touch with Trump, and in 2006 he became Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations...
Ten years later, Churkin shocked governments around the world by randomly defending Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign at the U.N. despite no one there having criticized the Republican candidate...
On 2/3/2014, Donald Trump called Fox News for a 6-minute interview in which he praises Russia and says making America great again means crashing the economy and sparking riots.
The interview has been pulled from the Fox News site. But I've had this clip on my phone for years.
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Today in 2016, former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell endorsed Hillary Clinton, warning Americans that Donald Trump is “an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.”
70 years ago today, Fred Trump confessed to federal investigators that New York mob member Willie Tomasello helped finance his properties.
The money was more likely provided by Tomasello’s associates in the Gambino and Genovese crime families.
JUST ADDED: In February 2017, J.D. Vance moved home to Columbus to launch a scam charity tied to the American Enterprise Institute.
Our research connects AEI to Betsy DeVos, the Council for National Policy, and Harlan Crow.
@SollenbergerRC
Do not let this reporter's editorializing become the story. There's no reason to believe Project 2025 would "shut down," and this is not the first, second, or third time that people who work for The Daily Beast have spun PR to help Trump.
Before James Comey was fired by Trump, he launched a FBI counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s financial ties to Russia and the national security threat posed by those ties.
Today in 2017, Mueller was secretly forced to drop that investigation.
P.S. Before you start asking who we are and what the hell we’re doing or who pays us (all the usual questions we get from Trump supporters), just read the About page on our website.
Today in 2016, less than 3 months before the election, Ivanka Trump posted this photo while on vacation in Croatia.
The woman is Wendi Deng, who was rumored to be dating Vladimir Putin.
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are building a luxury resort in Albania that will be managed by Aman Resorts, owned by Russian businessman Vladislav Doronin, Reminder that Doronin among other things is also Blavatnik’s partner (front man for Kremlin)
Of course, Ivanka and Kushner
P.S.(2) We found the official YouTube upload of this interview. Fox cut Trump saying there will be lawyers at the polls off the end of the segment. Imagine how much we'd never see without folks like
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and
@Acyn
.
YouTube:
A message to every MAGA Patriot on X: Donald Trump lied to you.
Donald Trump told you that Republicans would steal the 2016 primary for Ted Cruz. He wanted you to call it fraud if Ted Cruz won, so he lied to you.
He told you Democrats would steal the 2016 general election for
All sources are included in this post on Trump File, linked in a tweet a few posts above, but want to give a shoutout for one of them.
@CraigUnger
’s research and interviews in American Kompromat are the foundation of this Trump story. Grab your copy here!
@harris_wins
This is the best response to this "news."
Dershowitz is a mafia attorney who has represented Epstein, Kushner, Trump, and many transnational criminals. The party doesn't need him, and him "leaving" is a desperate, pointless move by Israeli intelligence trying to help Trump.
Today in 2020, the Fox News commentator installed in Trump’s Health & Human Services (HHS) wrote an email to the Russian agent installed in Trump’s HHS.
The email celebrated their success in pressuring the CDC to downplay the true threat of COVID-19.
Today in 2020, leaked DHS reports revealed that white supremacists posed the “most persistent and lethal threat” to American safety — and that the Trump administration tried to cover it up.
"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.
About this time in 2012, Manhattan DA Cy Vance dropped fraud charges against Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. after receiving a $25,000 check from Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.
"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
In 2021, I investigated a crypto bro who'd been on RT. I connected him to Gaetz, Rohrabacher, Rand Paul & others. He uses crypto to launder foreign $ in the US. I never named him but I just came across him again, so... Keep 👀 on Dmitriy Chebotarev & Vosht Capitol. Cc:
@davetroy
Hey legal people, how much proof do I need to suggest someone -might- be trafficking Russian money to GOP lawmakers through crypto and a pro-Trump PAC, without getting sued? I've been sitting on this for awhile.
If this spin on the Constitution was legitimized by the Supreme Court, then the U.S. president would operate as a near-total dictator. Unfortunately, Barr wasn't the first U.S. official to come up with this.
Justice Samuel Alito was.
This week in 1990, dozens of U.S. and international banks joined forces to strike a deal with Donald Trump: he lives on an allowance and forfeits control of his companies, and they won’t tell the world that he’s BROKE.
Everyone, including us, has told you that the plot to make Donald Trump this country’s first all-powerful leader depends on replacing 54,000 government employees with MAGA diehards.
As it turns out, that’s Step Two.
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)
Bringing Project 2025 to life starts with a reinterpretation of the U.S. Constitution that started nearly 40 years ago. Worse: Republican presidents have already pulled it off.
PAY ATTENTION! There are many examples of Trump attempting
#PROJECT2025
items while in office. This is one of them.
Today in 2019, WH Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney confessed to having found a loophhole to get rid of left-leaning federal employees.
Now Alito is among the justices deciding whether or not Donald Trump has “presidential immunity” for crimes he committed in office.
The reality is there are ZERO safeguards to protect us from Trump and Project 2025’s assault on our rights and our democracy if he wins this year.
In November 2019, while serving as Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr spoke at an event for the Federalist Society.
In his speech, Barr argued that neither the legislative branch nor the judicial branch should have enough power to override the president.
If you doubt for even a second that turning the United States into a dictatorship is possible, this thread’s for you.
If you think this isn’t Trump’s plan, think again. The below scoop on Trump’s agenda for a second term was out MONTHS before we heard the words “Project 2025."
If you doubt for even a second that turning the United States into a dictatorship is possible, this thread’s for you.
If you think this isn’t Trump’s plan, think again. The below scoop on Trump’s agenda for a second term was out MONTHS before we heard the words “Project 2025."
Today in 2020, the Trump administration caved to pressure and revealed that companies connected to the Trump and Kushner families received up to $21 MILLION in PPP loans.
In 1986, Samuel Alito, then a 35-year-old attorney at the Justice Department, proposed the idea of overriding Congress’s power to write laws by giving the president authority over how to interpret them. His idea hinged on “signing statements.”
Today in 2020, Lawrence Wilkerson — former State Dept. official under GWB — publicly implored Congress to impeach Trump AG William “Bill" Barr.
"He’s no attorney general. He’s not even a good lawyer. He’s a dangerous threat to this country.”
Barr’s argument is known as the theory of the “unitary executive.” It’s an alternative interpretation of the Constitution in which any checks and balances on the president is seen as unconstitutional since our three branches of government are “equal.”
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:
The only way to prevent this authoritarian takeover is through the democratic process that Trump tried to “reinterpret” in 2020 and plans to destroy if he gets a second chance.
This may be the last U.S. election, and we don't have time to care how Alito hangs his American flag.
In the weeks that followed, Donald Trump told Fox News and the crowd at one of his rallies that he sent the U.S. Marshals in to kill Michael Reinoehl – and that we need MORE extrajudicial killings.
Fox News deleted that interview from their YouTube account.
Today in 2006, Supreme Court justice, Federalist Society plant, and alleged rapist Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
During his confirmation hearings, he lied under oath at least six times.
Reagan was the first, but he wasn’t the last.
In 2004, when Congress outlawed a new U.S. torture program, President George W. Bush issued a signing statement rejecting any limitation on “the unitary executive branch.”
And then there’s Trump.
A year later, Reagan added a signing statement to a bill, stating that only he could decide how to interpret it.
He added that the president does not take orders from"a subordinate,” and that doing so would infringe on the constitutional rights of “a unitary executive branch.”
There is no law or court ruling asserting that a president has the authority to ignore Congress or the courts...
But the Supreme Court has NEVER challenged a president’s right to declare unitary executive privilege.
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When a president signs a bill into law, he can attach a signing statement, basically a comment. Since Alito believed Congress should have no power over the executive, he suggested a president could use signing statements to declare his right to interpret any law as he pleases.