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Aside from the shocking substance of this story, what's amazing is how it was unearthed by Cole. The short version: The Russians were able to penetrate Jared Kushner's iPhone and extract screenshots and data. Then, a Russian intel official was captured by Dutch intelligence (!) and flipped. The Dutch believed Kushner may have been acting on behalf of Russia, so pursued him as an intel target and were able to get into his phone.
They did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, instead they watched him moving hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds created by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, one of them housed in Israel's central bank.
Incredible reporting, and if Democrats have any sense, they will pull on these threads and learn a lot more about this money.
Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews):
Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use.
Iran-Contra 2 here (except with Iran-Contra, at least the US got some hostages released. Not clear what we got out of this one.)
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This afternoon, we toured the infrastructure of occupation in the West Bank:
Settler outposts that uproot groves full of olive trees & steal Palestinian land.
Gates arbitrarily closed by Israeli forces, forcing Palestinian villages to transfer construction supplies and bulk goods by hand.
Separation barriers that divide communities, and sometimes fully surround a single house.
Segregated roads for Palestinians and Israelis.
Features of apartheid, as B’tselem, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Yesh Din and the ICJ rightly identify.
It’s long past time to stop the settlements and end the occupation. Great Britain recently announced a settlement trade ban & sanctions. Congress should pass @JoaquinCastrotx's bill to do the same.
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The Closetocracy came out this morning (link below). It's about Lindsey Graham's closeted life, hypocrisy and illegal acts, including having sex with a minor. It's also about national security, some of these sex acts were taped. Who else has the tapes? And yes, there are others.
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Bizarre post.
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"AIPAC announced on Wednesday that, after three cycles of direct political involvement through its political action committee AIPAC PAC, it will no longer issue endorsements or directly earmark contributions to candidates, but said it will remain involved in political organizing and fundraising in other ways, including with its influential super PAC."
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AIPAC has become such a political liability that it’s shifting to a more “nimble” (read: secretive) approach to buying politicians for Israel
Instead of high profile endorsements and PAC donations, it will quietly mobilize individual donors for direct contributions
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When Mike Rogers was in Congress, he voted to send your tax dollars to Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Egypt, and said he’d be willing to work with the Muslim Brotherhood’s moderate members.
Today, this same man accuses Abdul El-Sayed of being a terrorist and supporting the MB.
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For the first time in @metrotimes history, we’re no longer seeking comment from a candidate’s campaign because of repeated lies and bigoted attacks. That candidate is Mike Rogers, whose campaign keeps targeting Abdul El-Sayed’s Muslim faith. metrotimes.com/news/mike-rog…
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“He's gunna go up to the Upper Peninsula and get a pretty cold welcome.”
And the UP said…
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As @AbdulElSayed points out here, it’s the media obsessing over Israel and asking him about Israel in every single interview, he wants to actually talk about the price of gas and groceries.
Obviously @MikeRogersForMI does not want to talk about that and the media is helping him.
Michigan senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed) is noticing a disconnect between the questions voters are asking and the media's fixations. New pod tomorrow!
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NEW: It turns out, Democrats for Mike Rogers was financed by Republican donors. The group also paid a ex-Dem council member 30k. She went on Fox News to tout Rogers/trash El-Sayed and never disclosed the payment.
VIA @JoePerticone
thebulwark.com/p/these-michi…
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What are the specific ways that Israel is an ally of the United States? I understand that the U.S. is an ally of Israel: we fight many of their wars with them and now even without them, in the case of Iran.
And I understand that Israel provides the U.S. with intelligence, but according to our own intelligence community, that intel is often flawed and is shared to advance Israel's geopolitical interests. It's not them helping us.
Is Israel helping us in Ukraine? Helping us counter China or any of our other goals? In fact, they routinely share sensitive tech with China and Russia despite our pleas not to. Genuine question, how are they an ally?
He says Israel is NOT our ally. NOT our ally. Look, hate Netanyahu all you want, oppose the current Israeli government all you want, but if you don’t believe Israel is our ally, you don’t belong in the U.S. Senate. No Jew in Michigan who supports the state of Israel should vote for him. He just plain hates Israel. Fuck him.
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The leaked Israeli government memo that promoted to anti-Muslim sentiment as its strongest message to combat Israel’s falling approval in the US is really the skeleton key to understanding politics right now dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-is…
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At our debate, Harris blamed high diesel prices on “Democrats’ environmental regulations.” The room laughed, and he threw a tantrum.
Democrats, Republicans, and independents can all agree on this one: that answer was laughable. Even Republican commentator Clay Mitchell called it “just silly.”
I’m running to represent ALL of Maryland’s 1st district. That starts with being straight with you about costs and respecting you even when we disagree.
Mail-in voting is already underway, and early voting starts soon on October 22nd. We have a real shot at beating Andy Harris and giving MD-01 the chance to be represented by someone who wants to listen to them and respect their voices. Chip in today to help us win! secure.actblue.com/donate/ds…
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Hey @AIPAC - remember how you kept suggesting it was antisemitic to report that you were using shell PACs to hide how you were spending money (unsuccessfully) in these Illinois races? Care to apologize?
