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Author, The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History; former editor, The Foreign Policy Bulletin. GMU Professor. Substack:

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Trump first registered as a Republican just three days before his first trip to Russia on July 4, 1987. Donald Trump's Origin Story, Part 3: Trump Lands in Red Square In my new Substack post I share all the original, public source material describing

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@joncoopertweets In September I heard President Biden deliver remarks to a small group. He spoke articulately and powerfully for 15 minutes without notes--and certainly without a teleprompter. After his remarks he spoke one-on-one with attendees. He listened to everyone. He responded

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@AccountableGOP “I really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States. And anyone who asks someone else to put themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.” - @Mike_Pence @Telegraph via

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@RpsAgainstTrump Furthermore, he is an active Russian asset, and has been since 1987.

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Trump’s NATO hostility and Russia relations trace back to 1987

When it comes to his efforts to undermine the NATO alliance, Trump’s message has been consistent for more than 36 years, ever since his first (but not his last) visit to Moscow.

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@ericgarland There is no way that Donald Trump referred to Schumpeter, spelled correctly, in any context. Not even the faintest glimmer of a chance.

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@bennyjohnson Gotta love those flags.

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@alexbruesewitz Unemployment is now as low as it’s been since World War II.

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@JerryDCroweII @morgfair The Most Effective President in Half a Century: Joseph Biden Jr.

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@RpsAgainstTrump It's no longer subtle.

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@luckydogguy @PhillipsPOBrien Literally 👇 If you read this Substack post and you're not persuaded that Donald Trump is a decades-long Russian asset, I'll Venmo you $10.

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@RonFilipkowski . @RogerJStoneJr meant this

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@MarkJacob16 @politico @calder_mchugh . @calder_mchugh The answer is no. Whether this statement is due to intellectual laziness, sheer naiveté, or a combination of the two, you owe it to yourself, the publication you represent, and the nation of which you are a citizen to make a greater effort. You can start here:

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+ one with @nntaleb in the photo. Great to see you both! @tylercowen

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@SenRonJohnson Russian asset since 1987

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Billions in losses don’t imply that Donald Trump is a bad businessman. They just mean he’s not in the business you think he’s in.

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Bono: "I’m late to realizing that it’s commerce that’s going to take the majority of people out of extreme poverty."

The private sector has a seat at the table, now it's time to step up

This past week in New York has clearly demonstrated that the era of greater private sector participation in development has arrived. But when you ask for a seat at the table, it also means you have...

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@RpsAgainstTrump “I really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States. And anyone who asks someone else to put themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.” @Mike_Pence @Telegraph /

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@highbrow_nobrow @HeartlandSignal Yeah, but there will also be no Republican nominee for the presidency, so ...

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@RpsAgainstTrump “I understood that both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew that I was 13 years old,” Complaint filed in US District Court in California in 2016. Case dropped due to threats. Speaks for itself.

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@GuntherEagleman David Freeman, a.k.a. "Gunther Eagleman™". Fired after 3 years as a cop in Harker Heights,TX. … Same name as appellant, attempted murder and aggravated assault, adjacent county over, 1993.

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@MacFarlaneNews The Art of the Squeal.

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@RpsAgainstTrump The United States of America is a constitutional republic founded on democratic principles. MAGA is a marketing slogan / memetic weapon whose aim is to weaken the republic and attack those principles. To be a patriot is to defend the republic and the principles upon which it

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@calder_mchugh @MarkJacob16 @politico Yes, but the potential good faith that is the premise of your question has already--long ago--been thoroughly and completely obliterated by events. It is not, in fact, possible. Furthermore, here is the headline under which your piece was published

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Undermining Democracy Is the Entire Point

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@ruthbenghiat I love the USA, but we are the most naive people on the planet.

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The point isn't that Trump acts as if he were a Russian asset. The point is that he is a Russian asset. High-level timeline, 1984-2016 (links follow) 1984-1985: Encouraged by his mentor Roy Cohn, Trump publicizes his interest in negotiating a nuclear

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@Gerashchenko_en Russia’s human influence operations have a decades-long history. Assets are cultivated and then, only when truly required, they are deployed. They were just deployed, in full force. They failed. In so doing, they have revealed themselves. That is the truth of the situation.

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@SteveLovesAmmo Like I said, maybe some anger management is in order.

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@highbrow_nobrow . @Victoria_Spartz 👇

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@AccountableGOP “I really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States. And anyone who asks someone else to put themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.” - @Mike_Pence @Telegraph via

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@cmclymer . @RogerJStoneJr , August 2016: "I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly … He needs to say for example, today would be a perfect example: 'I am leading in Florida. The polls all show it. If I lose

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@RepAdamSchiff Also, they did not want a decades-long, active agent of a malevolent foreign power.

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“The point of such efforts is not really to mobilize support for bad regimes but to numb the brains and neutralize the agency of citizens everywhere.” -- @RadioFreeTom Below: From @anneapplebaum , via @RadioFreeTom .

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@ChrisWillx @EricRWeinstein @nntaleb 25/n The prior year (2015), @peterpomeranzev wrote an excellent piece for @politico in which he described the evolution of information warfare from Cold War “Active Measures" to the present:

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@RpsAgainstTrump Trump first registered as a Republican three days before his first trip to Russia. A so-far-unreported fact that I discovered on Monday evening. His origin story👇

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@RepAdamSchiff The Founders did not specify “do not elect foreign agents.” Presumably, they didn’t expect that to happen.

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1) Travelled to Moscow in 1987 at Russian invitation/expense 2) Did spend $250K (today’s terms) of his own money on ad assailing US alliance partners 3) Didn’t build hotel in Moscow 4) Still assailing US alliance partners 5) Still hasn’t built hotel The purpose of the trip?

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@RonFilipkowski Stone has mastered the art of playing the fool. Once you buy the act, his work is half done. Don’t be suckered. @realDonaldTrump is a @RogerJStoneJr production, going back nearly forty years (and their shared mentor Roy Cohn before that).

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@RonFilipkowski “We will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government.” -- @RogerJStoneJr

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@Scaramucci He is their best agent.

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@ChrisVanHollen Powerful remarks @ChrisVanHollen . Thank you for your principled leadership on vital issues of national security and human rights requiring immediate action by Congress and the White House.

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@igorsushko Alternately, your mothers will receive sacks of potatoes.

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"I am your son's commander. He was a good guy, he was killed" The commander ceremoniously presented the family of the fallen Russian soldier with a bag of potatoes

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@BidensWins Furthermore, he is an active Russian asset, and has been since 1987. @RepRaskin

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@natalie_allison How about words like "decades-long Russian intelligence asset"? Because those are the only words that matter.

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@RpsAgainstTrump Trump first registered as a Republican three days before his first trip to Russia. A so-far-unreported fact that I discovered on Monday evening. His origin story👇

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@JDVance1 Actually, yes. The only question is whether we, as a nation, stand in opposition to unprovoked aggression, or whether we capitulate.

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"Despite the propaganda and confusion of recent months, it is now obvious that England is losing the war. I have been forced to the conclusion that we can not win this war for England regardless of how much assistance we send.” -- Charles Lindbergh

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One person could say for sure whether or not Donald Trump became an active Russian intelligence asset in 1987, and that is Ivana Trump. Unfortunately she died of "blunt impact injuries" to the torso in 2022.

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1) Travelled to Moscow in 1987 at Russian invitation/expense 2) Did spend $250K (today’s terms) of his own money on ad assailing US alliance partners 3) Didn’t build hotel in Moscow 4) Still assailing US alliance partners 5) Still hasn’t built hotel The purpose of the trip?

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@highbrow_nobrow @Acyn Were it not for @Mike_Pence 👇

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@AccountableGOP “I really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States. And anyone who asks someone else to put themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.” - @Mike_Pence @Telegraph via

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@SteveLovesAmmo Who is an active agent of the Russian Federation, and has been since 1987? (New York Daily News, July 8, 1987)

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@JayinKyiv Something for something (a.k.a. quid pro quo) 36 years and running.

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@BidenHQ “Forget about our enemies—Russia, we don’t deal with them that much—these countries, our friends, our making billions and billions of dollars and stripping us of our economic dignity . . . ” --Donald Trump, commencement address at Lehigh University, 1988

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@RadioFreeTom . @RadioFreeTom is 100% correct. Need to think bigger. Understand the adversary. Not one or a few people. Team effort. Long-term strategy. Very long.

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@RudyGiuliani . @RogerJStoneJr , August 2016: "I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly … He needs to say for example, today would be a perfect example: 'I am leading in Florida. The polls all show it. If I lose

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@GenFlynn In the past, former presidents were not decades-long active agents of malevolent foreign powers. Same goes for former national security advisors and former campaign chairmen, among others. @PaulManafort @GenFlynn

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@SohrabAhmari @JDVance1 @Kasparov63 Would you prefer “asset”? “Useful idiot”? “employee"?

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@RpsAgainstTrump Birtherism 1.0 was most likely Trump's reentry in to FSB service in 2011. Sharp turn was repeat of previous pattern of evident influence in 1987. Race also the focus of his 1989 Central Park 5 ad. @moscow_project @amprog

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The point isn't that Trump acts as if he were a Russian asset. The point is that he is a Russian asset. High-level timeline, 1984-2016 (links follow) 1984-1985: Encouraged by his mentor Roy Cohn, Trump publicizes his interest in negotiating a nuclear

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@JDVance1 Fourth-generation, apprentice, FSB propaganda artist, please meet facts.

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@allinwithchris @mccaffreyr3 The analogy is valid.

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"History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” - Mark Twain

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@John01693381459 Ya, they did.

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@Acyn "Did you see the deal we made." Emphasis on the "we". Decades-long Russian asset. Donald Trump's Origin Story, Part 3: Trump Lands in Red Square

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@RpsAgainstTrump Putin's useful fool is getting less useful by the minute. (But no less foolish.) That is why he's mad. He got sidelined. His bosses did the deal without him. Donald Trump's Political Origin Story, Part 1: Cause and Effect

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@janninereid1 The Most Effective President in Half a Century: Joseph Biden Jr.

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The Most Effective President in Half a Century: Joseph Biden Jr.

In what ways has President Biden been effective?

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@crampell Cartoon depicting Jewish refugees as rats, thrown out of Germany and Nazi occupied territories, denied entry to Europe, published in an Austrian newspaper Das Kleine Blatt in 1939.

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"History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” - Mark Twain

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@RonFilipkowski Tree <=> apple👇

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If we're talking weird*, then Roy Cohn and @RogerJStoneJr are the OGs. Weird begat weird. * "Weird" in this context means amoral, traitorous, depraved, deceitful, narcissistic con artist.

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The point isn't that Trump acts as if he were a Russian asset. The point is that he is a Russian asset. High-level timeline, 1984-2016 (links follow) 1984-1985: Encouraged by his mentor Roy Cohn, Trump publicizes his interest in negotiating a nuclear

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Why do I claim that human influence operations have been “by far" the most effective of the three tactics that comprise Soviet/Russian active measures? There is no question--as this @washingtonpost article describes --that the old tactic of strategically

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@RogerJStoneJr Alinsky 101-always accuse your enemies of exactly what you yourself are doing.

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@anneapplebaum Would you invest in a house you didn't own? No. Not the first instance, ofc. It turns out that Trump first registered as a Republican just three days before his first trip to Russia on July 4, 1987. (I discovered this on Monday. Not previously reported.) Origin story 👇

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@Acyn And yet this is very, very far from Donald Trump’s greatest moral transgression or offense to the nation.

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One person could say for sure whether or not Donald Trump became an active Russian intelligence asset in 1987, and that is Ivana Trump. Unfortunately she died of "blunt impact injuries" to the torso in 2022.

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@RudyGiuliani . @RogerJStoneJr , August 2016: "I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly … He needs to say for example, today would be a perfect example: 'I am leading in Florida. The polls all show it. If I lose

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@EmmanuelTouhey Putting the sick back into sycophant.

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@mattyglesias I'm trying to understand the risk part of Biden stepping down at this point. Everyone who would vote for Biden would vote for an alternate Dem candidate. Not everyone who would vote for an alternate Dem candidate would vote for Biden. More Dem votes with an alternate. QED

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@jkbjournalist “I understood that both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew that I was 13 years old,” Complaint filed in US District Court in California in 2016. Case dropped due to threats. Speaks for itsef.

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Not presidential. Full document

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@JoJoFromJerz Polls are not prophecy. Employ agency.

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@MonicaCrowley Russian asset since 1987

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Billions in losses don’t imply that Donald Trump is a bad businessman. They just mean he’s not in the business you think he’s in.

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@RpsAgainstTrump Dominance hierarchy.

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@Texas_jeep__guy Yeah, stadiums full of loyal people.

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"History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” - Mark Twain

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Pearl Harbor. 9/11.

Making Russia Great Again

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Wow. @Facebook essentially backs US intel community's view of Russia influence ops during US election. @propornot

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@highbrow_nobrow Evil, if disregarded by some, becomes destiny for all.

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. @WSJ Donald Trump is a decades-long Russian asset. As President, he violated his oath of office to subvert the Constitution of the United States. If you endorse Donald Trump, you will continue to act as a de facto extension of the Russia-China-Iran axis that you claim to

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@RpsAgainstTrump . @SpeakerRyan knew in 2016 that @realDonaldTrump was a Russian asset, as did @SpeakerMcCarthy . @SpeakerRyan has, very belatedly, displayed the minimum of integrity. @SpeakerMcCarthy continues to double down on his cravenness and cowardice in an almost inconceivable manner.

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@RonFilipkowski “I believe strongly in getting even.” - Donald Trump (1998)

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Donald Trump, 1998 - BBC HARDtalk

One from the HARDtalk archives: Tim Sebastian interviews Donald Trump on location at the Trump Tower, of course, in 1998.

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This was Ivana Trump's grave in August 2023, a year after her death.

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@StephenM Yes, by unconditional surrender. (The use for which he was trained.) (New York Daily News, July 8, 1987)

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@RpsAgainstTrump Not @catturd2 ? I was sort of expecting @catturd2 .

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@JDVance1 The place in history you could have had. You have chosen a different, decidedly less honorable path. 👇

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The essence of integrity is doing what is right when it is difficult to do so, not when it is easy. @SpeakerJohnson

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@RpsAgainstTrump 🔵The patriot 🔴The KGB asset (Hint: It wasn’t about a hotel)

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Just read: The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow ( @lukeharding1968 @politico 2017) Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler? ( @jonathanchait @NYMag 2018) ‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy ( @craigunger

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@Acyn Plan B ("rigged election') has always been Plan A. Starting in the Spring of 2016.

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@cmclymer . @RogerJStoneJr , August 2016: "I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly … He needs to say for example, today would be a perfect example: 'I am leading in Florida. The polls all show it. If I lose

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@RpsAgainstTrump Whoa! I did not know they have port-a-potties in Suburbans! Game changer, for sure.

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@McFaul Yes. It came from upstairs.

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@sbg1 It will be the most craven and servile to Kremlin interests, so @JDVance1 .

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@Jules31415 @bennyjohnson Gotta love those flags

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@JDVance1 What happened to you? It’s like The Last of Us. Horrifying.

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@ValentinaForSOS @billmaher Both of your claims are patently and provable false.

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1) Travelled to Moscow in 1987 at Russian invitation/expense 2) Did spend $250K (today’s terms) of his own money on ad assailing US alliance partners 3) Didn’t build hotel in Moscow 4) Still assailing US alliance partners 5) Still hasn’t built hotel The purpose of the trip?

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A quick note of thanks: I have struggled to grasp Trump's origin story on-and-off for almost eight years now (see links below). As posed by two formed CIA directors in the fall of 2016, the question from the outset was not whether he was an asset, but * if he was witting or

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@RpsAgainstTrump In my case, no question.

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@Mediaite “I understood that both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew that I was 13 years old,” Complaint filed in US District Court in California in 2016. Case dropped due to threats made against the plaintiff. Speaks for itself. Full document:

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@PU28453638 Trump has been serving, ably, for decades.

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@RadioFreeTom . @RadioFreeTom If that were the correct read, he would not have gotten as far as he has. In fact, Trump is an intuitively skilled con artist, decades-long Soviet/Russian asset, and @RogerJStoneJr production from the outset.

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@PU28453638 Nope. Paid. New York Daily News, July 8, 1987 (Not about a hotel.)

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@BillKristol Biden referred to Trump as a “convicted felon” because that is, quite simply, what he is.

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@RpsAgainstTrump . @RepMTG They were giving you the benefit of the doubt 👇

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@SohrabAhmari @JDVance1 @Kasparov63 Would you prefer “asset”? “Useful idiot”? “employee"?

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@BasedMikeLee That’s what she said.

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One person could say for sure whether or not Donald Trump became an active Russian intelligence asset in 1987, and that is Ivana Trump. Unfortunately she died of "blunt impact injuries" to the torso in 2022.

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@RonFilipkowski As I understand it, once deposed, kings have often been held liable for their official acts. So, really, not fair to the kings to make the comparison.

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What would be the most surprising thing you could learn about Donald Trump? That he's a serial sexual predator? No. A liar? No. A dishonest businessman? No. The most surprising would be that he's a loyal company man and has been for decades. That is the truth.

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@ZaleskiLuke Glasnost.

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The photo is from a May 10, 2017 meeting involving President Trump, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, in the Oval Office, at the White House. U.S. reporters were not permitted in the room. Photo credit: Russian Foreign

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@denisedwheeler “I understood that both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew that I was 13 years old,” Complaint filed in US District Court in California in 2016. Case dropped due to threats. Speaks for itself.

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Not presidential. Full document

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@SherrieHil47406 @cmclymer @RogerJStoneJr I apologize. My post was unclear. The point I’m making is that Trump's original and oldest advisor (in other words, his co-puppeteer, along w/ unnamed KGB/FSB handlers), @RogerJStoneJr , was planning to deploy #StopTheSteal six month before the election happened in 2016. The

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@GenFlynn This group seriously concerns me.

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"Sometimes when I describe all the methods, students ask me a question: Are you sure this is the result of Russian influence? Not necessarily. You see the tactic of subversion is similar to the martial art of judo. "If an enemy is bigger and heavier than yourself, it would be

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@joshrogin Ummm ... Not luck (ofc).

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@JoshEakle "Did you see the deal we made." Emphasis on the "we". Decades-long Russian asset. Donald Trump's Origin Story, Part 3: Trump Lands in Red Square More: Donald Trump's Political Origin Story, Part 1: Cause and Effect Donald

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@bennyjohnson More flags = more freedom #AmericaFirst RT and share

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@RpsAgainstTrump @Scaramucci Hard Truths for Republicans

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Hard Truths for Republicans

1) The “Republican Party” was, in 2016, the subject of an unfriendly takeover. That takeover was almost inadvertently architected by Roger…

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