EXCLUSIVE: LIVE AT 9 PM ET. Zelensky's 'Victory Plan' revealed. Fmr US Amb. Kurt Volker dissects the 4-point strategy to defeat Russia by year's end. Biden's legacy, long-range strikes, and flipping the script on Putin - it's all here.
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Dear NBC. The White House is not adrift, it’s dealing with the most ferocious multilateral attack on America in US history. Joe Biden is keeping America from becoming Germany in 1933 which your reporting conveniently omits.
30-year TV exec producer here. I've run Biden's debate audio through multiple digital enhancers and correctors and can't repair it. Frequencies unnaturally boosted/cut, words clipped. He sounds breathy and hissy, and his mid-range vocal frequencies are de-emphasized. This level
The Secret Service knew, some of the U.S. Capitol police knew, and the Pentagon top brass likely knew. If it walks like a coup and talks like s coup - it may well have been an attempted coup.
The odd group of Trump backers - Gen. Flynn, the Moonies and Matt Gaetz have each called for an armed uprising or coup in the last week. Any member of congress who supports a coup should be expelled for a conspiracy to incite a rebellion.
This is no time to panic. That is what they want. They are paper tigers and they will eventually fold. Now is the time to steel yourself against their attacks. Dig deeper into your fortitude, and get America voting. Plan your vote, vote early and vote with grace.
My name is
@ZevShalev
, I am a journalist and TV executive producer. In Dec, 2016 I began blogging about the ties between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. I soon realized these men were working with co-conspirators using money, influence and data to...
Biden’s diplomatic jiu jitsu this fortnight was masterful. He gathered G7 allies, reclaimed NATO leadership, neutralized Netanyahu, boxed-in China and shrunk Russia down to size. All in person. Not since Truman (maybe Reagan) has a POTUS been as effective on world stage.
Some of the millions of dollars newly deposited into Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin's campaign coffers are being steered there by Jeff Miller, Kevin McCarthy's chief bankroller, and formerly Rick Perry's top political aide.
McConnell didn’t just catch religion, nor did he find a conscience. Mitch has been struck by a very clear idea of how complicit his own Senators and GOP house member were in Trump’s seditious conspiracy.
Biden won the backing of the G7 and NATO; tied Beijing to Moscow; committed to arming Ukraine and declared: "Article 5 is sacred". Biden heads into Geneva with an impressive power play. Oh, and Bibi's gone. It must be getting lonely in the Kremlin.
1. Donald Trump, his key backer Peter Thiel, and Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Covid coordinator are directly linked to nationwide under-reporting of Covid-19 cases and deaths. We learned this morning the data was flawed.
Washington sends Beijing free medical supplies while China runs price-gouging scam on U.S. states. China donates free medical supplies to Russia. The U.S. buys medical supplies from Russia and denies it was humanitarian aid. Did we just buy back our own supply?
As
#Russia
sees its virus infections rise to 2,777 now,
#China
is rushing 25.6 tons of emergency medical supplies -- including masks, gowns, gloves and ventilators -- to Moscow to help it contain the epidemic.
NEW: In 2018, The Trump administration assured Qatar that if the emirate consented to an Israeli request to secretly fund Hamas with as much as $30 M per month, the treasury would not label the arrangement as "funding a terror org". The assurance was authorized by former
NEW: Trump admin's China expert Peter Navarro delayed the delivery of 10,000 ventilators which would have arrived in time for the pandemic and overpaid approx $5,000 per ventilator.
@Philips
should return the cash and Navarro fired.
@narativ_live
Breaking: There was nothing routine about Donald Trump's visit to Walter Reed Hospital last November. NY Time Michael Schmidt reports Mike Pence was put on standby when Trump was taken to Walter Reed suddenly on suspicion of having a stroke.
Surely just a coincidence that a certain Russian oligarch had his yacht moored just off shore from Ghislaine Maxwell hideaway just hours before she was arrested.
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Trump's fired the person in charge of the nuclear stockpile, the defense secretary and says he intends to fire CIA and FBI directors. Hard to say exactly what, but it looks suspiciously like Trump is executing a final maneuver for Putin/Netanyahu. House should confine his powers.
60 Minutes: Dozens of CIA and FBI personnel have suffered traumatic brain injuries caused by an ultrasound weapon that causes the Havana Syndrome. These attacks occurred on US soil and are now unofficially being linked to Russia's GRU.
"This happened to our top 5%, 10%
It is what it is. Have a great RNC, Eric. N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James sues Eric Trump, Trump Organization in connection with tax fraud investigation
Of course it was a tense meeting, the Speaker of the House is a Russian asset determining national security policy. Flips notes. Last time something like this happened Mike Flynn was fired bc he was a blackmail risk. Shouldn’t the FBI be questioning Johnson about his high
Netanyahu has turned Israel into an unrecognizable state. Far from being the unshakeable ally of America, he conspired with Putin to elect Trump. This 'strongman' alliance set the world back decades as they trampled over basic human rights, rule of law and global norms.
If every question to Donald Trump today is not about Volume 5, the press corps should go home. It is a damning indictment of Trump's campaign manager and deputy directly reporting strategy, polling and policy to a Russian intelligence officer who played a role in the DNC hack.
BREAKING: NBC New reports Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested by the FBI in New Hampshire. No specific charges have been released. She will appear virtually in court today.
There’s a giant chasm between truth and how the media is reporting on events of Jan 6. For starters this was no riot, it was a military coup attempt involving a significant number of the military top brass, an unknown number of serving personnel and thousands of veterans.
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner's personal banker is under investigation by Deutsche Bank for buying a property from a real estate company which generates $1-5 M a year for Jared and Ivanka which they just disclosed on Friday.
Exclusive:
@DeutscheBank
is launching an internal investigation into Rosemary Vrablic, the personal banker to the Trump and Kushner families.
The review relates to a 2013 personal transaction between Vrablic and a company tied to Kushner. w/
@JesseDrucker
Tonight in prime time, the US TV networks will voluntarily allow an agent of a foreign nation - an enemy nation - take over all their signals simultaneously in order to broadcast a speech largely based on lies and designed to create fear and racial division among its people.
This really is shocking. Why is a Russian oligarch making what sounds like a veiled threat about a Supreme Court justice and tagging his Putin’s man in the WH.
@911CORLEBRA777
What is happening on the news networks? why all this handwringing about the most successful airlift in history? Why aren't we celebrating a president who finally had the guts to do this? Yes some people are yet to get out, but over 115k have. Get some perspective.
This is a massive boycott of Facebook by advertisers and the list keeps growing. Zuckerberg is down $7 B and you can bet we have not seen the bottom of this valuation as more advertisers pile on.
If there were sexual crimes claims among the 4500 calls on the FBI's Kavanaugh tip-line, and the FBI handed those complaints to the WH counsel's office without further investigation, then Kavanaugh was the beneficiary of a conspiracy to obstruct justice.
#catchandkill
Who did Alex Jones talk to in the White House three days before the March? Did the Secret Service know the plan too? Seems evident Trump knew exactly what was planned for Jan 6.
The entire Gaza operation is designed to destabilize the Biden administration and is likely being set up as an October surprise to prompt a Donald Trump victory. Biden's entreaties to Netanyahu won't work because Netanyahu doesn't want them to work. The Saudis are talking to
Trump’s 10% tariff increase on Canadian aluminum (among other metal tariffs on US allies) comes weeks after he saved Russia’s aluminum giant, Rusal, from disaster by granting a sanctions reprieve to its oligarch owner, Oleg Deripaska.
The numbers make no sense. Trump’s base did not grow since 2016 but turnout is much higher in 2020 than 2016. For Trump to be within striking distance, he’d have to have attracted many new voters. He hasn’t. The votes are rigged, SCOTUS is rigged. Not hard to see how it ends.
60,000 people braved Putin’s iron fist by marching through the streets of Moscow demanding the release of Alexei Navalny. More than 400 people have been arrested nationwide. The world has the power to act by sanctioning . Putin and his cronies today.
Lebanon is failing because Syria is failing. Syria is failing because of Russia and Turkey's aggressive intervention enabled by Trump's impulsive decision to forsake our allies and withdraw the U.S. from Syria. It's Putin's plan and Trump is Putin's man.
A former crew member of The Celebrity Apprentice who worked alongside Donald Trump for six seasons of the reality show says Trump is a drug addict. "The guy I know would drop a bomb to save face,"
@CaslerNoel
tells me on
@Narativ_Live
with
@LincolnsBible
and
@GregOlear
.
The coup plotters were taking calls from Don Jr's girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle the night before the insurrection. “The president's mood is he's in fighter mode"
You do not get to come into America, rape young girls on an industrial scale, blackmail politicians with an intent to steal state secrets while subverting the will of the people and claim these things are private. Who sent you here and why?
@NarativLive
There is a force that is capable of defeating the rise of fascism. It's the most powerful one we have. It's called the people. Use your voice, don't waste a vote and know that a united USA is unstoppable.
Pelosi is talking about invoking the 25th amendment which is not something you would do when you're winning an election, it's what you'd do when you're actually concerned for the Republic.
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Donald Trump may escape prosecution in the Stormy Daniels case as the first deadline in the statute of limitations in that case approaches on Thursday.
A blockbuster moment for Mueller. Russian hacker Pyotr Levashov pleads guilty in what appear to be a plea deal. This means Mueller has deep visibility into how Russia infiltrated the elections. Our story from May 2017.
@traciemac_Bmore
Remember when Trump asked China for help with the elections and then a laptop suddenly appeared? Now there's a diary tied to Project Veritas. Erik Prince, who like Steve Bannon is a a regular on Beijing's payroll, hired Project Veritas to target liberal groups and Trump enemies.
And I thought the heiress of Publix was acting on her own when she donated $300,000 to fund the attempted coup of Jan 6. Publix is looking a little fascist. Maybe Matt Gaetz meet and greets are next?
Campaign finance reports obtained by 60 Minutes show that weeks before Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a partnership with Publix grocery stores to distribute the vaccine in its pharmacies, Publix donated $100,000 to his PAC.
Time's up for Benjamin Netanyahu. Time's up for Donald Trump. Time's up for Erdogan and Putin and time's up for their data regimes. Humanity has faltered along the way, but our long walk to freedom eventually leads us to triumph over tyranny, every time.
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Thousands of demonstrators have thronged the streets near the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, in a renewed show of strength as weeks of protests against the Israeli leader show no signs of slowing.
To defeat Russia, you have to understand their game.
My piece from 2017 breaks it down for you.
They are attempting to provoke civil war. They won’t succeed if we keep calling it out and if we stay united in the face of these antics.
Read:
6. In summary, the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths are being under-reported after a decision by Dr. Deborah Birx to privatize COVID-19 data collection from the CDC to a Pittsburgh company that uses a platform built by Peter Thiel's Palantir.
I found out today almost 600,000 Americans live in Canada (or elsewhere) and can still vote while in Canada. The Embassy normally does outreach for this but they haven’t yet this year so I’m sharing info here.
Lifetime member of the NRA now works for tips on Russian mafia state TV harassing jailed democracy activists. Great work GOP. Makes you proud to be American.
Ivanka Trump is Trump's true second in command of the crime family, and she's implicated in a series of possible crimes related to her husband's White House tenure as Grifter in Chief. Internationally, she's tied to the 1MDB scandal in Malaysia and money laundering for Iran.
Breaking: Ivanka Trump sat for a deposition Tuesday with investigators from the D.C. attorney general's office as part of its lawsuit alleging the misuse of inaugural funds, according to a court filing.
New! The Trump campaign has squandered $310 million to opaque LLCs. The Trump campaign is cratering despite being flush with cash a few months ago where’s the money, Donald?
By allowing Trump to return in 18-months, Zuckerberg not only 'saves face', he gives Trump enough of a fundraising runway into Nov '24. This may well have been a negotiated deal between the two men. The entire PR stunt signals Trump intends a run in '24. Take note Dems.
NEW: Transportation Sec Elaine Chao's brother-in-law's hedge fund Electron Capital bought $26M worth of stock in XPO Logistics, SEC filings reveal. Postmaster Gen Louis DeJoy is the ex-CEO of XPO and his wife retains a significant stake in it. Chao is Mitch McConnell's wife.
@JaneMayerNYer
Elaine Chao’s brother in law’s hedge fund, Electron Capital Partners, just dropped $26.8 million into XPO logistics—it’s first XPO purchase. I wonder if he knew that his brother in law would be complicit in former XPO CEO DeJoy’s attempt to tank the USPS?
Want a solution? Here's one: Shut down the disinformation pipelines. Unplug Fox News, OAN, Newsmax and Sinclair and enforce a zero tolerance policy on illegal speech in social media or congress. It's a war measure. Let them argue in court for their right to manipulate Americans.
BOMBSHELL:
#China
owns
#Trump
and they are closing in on America. How did we not know about the Bank of China loan for this long? So much for the “tough on China" trade war.
Erik Prince 'resigning' from the company he founded Frontier Services Group is a BFD. Prince is in heaps of trouble incl facing sanctions for violating the UN arms embargo to Libya which would have made hit difficult to do his job for his Beijing bosses.
BOMBSHELL:
#China
owns
#Trump
and they are closing in on America. How did we not know about the Bank of China loan for this long? So much for the “tough on China" trade war.
I've spent way too long down this trippy rabbit hole (thank you
@caslernoel
) and I can't put my finger on it but something about this story doesn't add up.
NEW! Sen Sheldon Whitehouse asks AG Garland for independent debrief in the
#McGonigal
Affair, raising concern the FBI could obscure misconduct within its ranks. Whitehouse says ex-FBI agent 'may have knowledge' of efforts to 'damage' Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Is Chris Wylie a hero for revealing the truth, or has he discovered his conscience too late? As he surveys the destruction of global liberal democracies caused by his work, should he be glorified or vilified? More to come...
First day on the job for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and he's not wasting time - replacing Trump loyalists installed on Pentagon boards. Anyone believe Miller or Tata were not supportive of a coup? Stacking positions with Trump lackeys may be a clue.
Some listeners are upset our pod will no longer be on
#Spotify
. I know it's inconvenient to switch but you can still listen to Narativ on other players like
#Apple
,
#Google
+
#Amazon
and on
#YouTube
. We'll be back when Spotify stops enabling the spread of lies that kill people.
I called it! Parler is back live on Russian-hosted servers according
@VickerySec
. The entire Trump presidency - election to insurrection - is a Russian hybrid war operation. And the word to emphasize in that sentence is war.
This story focuses mostly on the sex part of the Gaetz saga but the headline hints at the real story we've touched on at Narativ - the "political establishment is in Central Florida is under investigation".
Breaking: Donald Trump tells reporters Russia did invest in his campaign "as an insurance policy" against a Hillary Clinton loss.
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@traciemac_Bmore
Putin knows the war in Ukraine will leave millions starving around the world as wheat supplies dry up - just like Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis know their border actions will disrupt fresh produce supply chains and increase inflation. Is hunger the new anti-democracy strategy?
The For The People act is really about Dark Money in politics. Manchin is a straw man taking down the only bill that will save democracy. We should demand an up and down vote so voters can see which Senators are killing democracy.
NEW! Ginni Thomas' BFF Cleta Mitchell is in business with Steve Bannon's sister and Robert Mercer's bag man. Their company is called "Citizens of the American Republic".
Mitchell also appears to be in bed with Venezuela's 'Karl Rove' JJ Rendon and his flak Richard Griffiths.