(THREAD) It's time to tell the biggest untold story of the 2016 election: how a cadre of pro-Trump FBI agents and intel officers—some active, some retired—conspired to swing the election to Trump. The story involves Flynn, Prince, Giuliani, and others. Hope you'll read and share. pic.twitter.com/vcGhDTHX00— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
1/ True Pundit is a pro-Trump fake news site that began publishing on June 9, 2016—the day that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with Kremlin agents in Trump Tower to discuss the Kremlin's provision to the Trump campaign of incriminating material on Clinton.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
2/ True Pundit would quickly reveal itself as having the same agenda Trump Jr. had when he met with Kremlin agents on the day True Pundit launched: its mission would be to destroy Clinton's candidacy by uncovering incriminating material about her—particularly via her emails.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
3/ All articles on True Pundit are published anonymously. The only person publicly associated with the website operates under a pseudonym—"Thomas Paine." (Thomas Paine, a Founding Father of the United States, was instrumental in convincing the colonies to rebel against Britain.)— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
4/ From June 9, 2016 to June 12, 2016, it seemed clear True Pundit had been started up in a hurry—it published dozens of stories but no original reporting. More than 95% of stories were simply links to other sources, while True Pundit "originals" were two-sentence news summaries.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
5/ Many of True Pundit's early news sources were predictable: Breitbart, The Daily Caller, InfoWars, The New York Post, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Free Beacon, Fox News, and The Daily Beast. Breitbart was far and away the most commonly linked-to website at the time.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
6/ But True Pundit also, in its first three days, occasionally linked to mainstream news sources like The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, NBC, ESPN, Reuters, The Guardian (UK), The Telegraph (UK), and The Independent (UK).— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
7/ That said, in its first 72 hours True Pundit also linked to two Russian news sources—RT and Sputnik—an intelligence-oriented site called "Intel News," and several fringe-right publications. A typical link assured readers Clinton would destroy America: https://t.co/zVAsOuZd8T— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
8/ Then, on June 12th, 2016, the Orlando nightclub shooting occurred—and it seemed a switch had been turned on. True Pundit had its story. The site meticulously covered Omar Mateen, the 29 year-old from a moderate Muslim family who killed 49 people at an LGBT club called "Pulse."— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
9/ It's important to know that of the site's first several dozen stories pre-June 12, only one was both a) not a link to another source, and b) more than two sentences. This story—about the July DNC—claimed True Pundit (just 3 days old) had "police" and "security expert" sources. pic.twitter.com/earxI8NRLp— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
10/ It must've seemed odd to any readers of True Pundit in those first 72 hours of operation to read that the Philly publication already had *multiple* sources in the Philadelphia Police Department and *multiple* Philly-based "recognized security expert" sources—but so they said.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
11/ But Mateen changed everything. Suddenly True Pundit was publishing what it said were original ("exclusive") stories, all of which relied—or claimed to—on FBI sources. Not just one source, but multiple—and not just random sources, but sources close to the Pulse investigation. pic.twitter.com/VnUtO9xEH5— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
12/ The mystery of this was dispelled almost immediately, when True Pundit wrote the following in an "exclusive" on Mateen after the shooting: "True Pundit has folks who worked for the FBI and other agencies on staff." It then claimed to have "unique insight" into FBI operations. pic.twitter.com/EeRzCwOQJi— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
Almost half way there, keep reading.13/ Whether or not True Pundit really had ex-FBI staff, no reader could possibly know. But what was clear was that True Pundit was obsessed with the FBI, had—at a minimum—some basic knowledge of criminal investigation, and was very, very, angry at the current state of the Bureau: pic.twitter.com/18ySp1EWN2— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
14/ Two things must be noted here: first, that the complaint True Pundit has about the FBI—that it radically underestimates the threat of Islamist terrorism and values HUMINT too little in fighting terrorism—are exactly the anti-terror complaints Mike Flynn has widely publicized.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
15/ Second, if True Pundit had told the truth about itself, it meant (a) the very purpose of the website was to give ex-FBI agents an opportunity to complain about the Bureau, and (b) the site's M.O. in doing so would be to use as sources current FBI agents upset with the Bureau.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
16/ Keep in mind that, by June 2016, the FBI had already been investigating Hillary Clinton's emails for eleven months—since July of 2015. Indeed, the FBI's investigation into Clinton's emails had begun at almost exactly the same time Donald Trump announced his presidential run.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
17/ Keep in mind, too, that True Pundit was launched less than a month before then-FBI Director James Comey announced—on July 5, 2016—that the Bureau was not going to bring charges against Clinton. By mid-June, current FBI agents would've just learned no charges were forthcoming.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
18/ Rudy Giuliani would later describe the anti-Clinton elements at the FBI as being, during Summer/Fall 2016, not just "angry" but "boiling," and not just "boiling" but on the brink of "revolution."— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
True Pundit appears to have been an outgrowth of that. https://t.co/ajAmHr31Ft
19/ So this is where I point out that there was one *other* story—besides the Omar Mateen story—that True Pundit was positively obsessed with (and doing "exclusive" reporting on, using FBI sources) during its first week: Hillary Clinton's emails and the FBI investigation thereof.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
20/ Just 96 hours into its existence, True Pundit was running a *multi-part* "exclusive" on an FBI probe the site's authors' friends in the Bureau were conducting. The reports cited "intelligence sources" with extensive knowledge of the FBI investigation. https://t.co/yUNLFcmfMQ— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
21/ In "Part 2" of its "exclusive" reporting on the FBI investigation of Clinton's emails, the self-professed ex-FBI agents behind True Pundit quoted sources within the FBI investigation clearly angry at Mrs. Clinton for (they said) withholding her emails. https://t.co/bq2ZxgUhqF— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
22/ You have to understand the level of access to current FBI agents True Pundit was then claiming to have: the site, which had started up *less than 100 hours prior*, was claiming to have *exclusive* knowledge of *prior FBI contacts* with the nation's then-most infamous killer. pic.twitter.com/m1PbEKFoWl— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
23/ By June 13, 2016, it was clear that True Pundit was a political outfit: it had quoted from and linked to a Trump press release, and had mercilessly attacked the Democratic candidate for president. Any active FBI agent speaking to True Pundit was—already—a Hatch Act violation.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
24/ Here's all the info you need on the Hatch Act.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
It applies to the FBI and—while not a criminal statute—a violation of the Hatch Act is a violation of federal law and would get you fired from federal employment immediately (assuming a serious breach). https://t.co/KxH68GTvSo
Almost to the end, I swear.25/ So here's where things get complicated. Beginning in mid-June 2016, True Pundit switches to all original "reporting" and begins publishing longer stories. It is relentlessly right-wing: anti-immigration, pro-Second Amendment, pro-Trump, virulently anti-Clinton and anti-Obama.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
26/ It also takes a hard turn into anti-Clinton fake news within its first week—as the story below demonstrates. https://t.co/UNS6OOZv6R— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
27/ But here's what you *really* need to understand: the FBI quickly became aware of this website—at the highest levels—and *acknowledged*, internally, that the people behind True Pundit had access to intel from *current* FBI agents.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
Even *James Comey* was aware of True Pundit.
28/ And it *matters* that James Comey was (a) aware of True Pundit, and (b) believed they had sources within the FBI.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
Moreover, it *matters* that he knew—and he did—that True Pundit was angling for sources *inside* the Clinton probe, and that Comey's deputy thought he had them.
29/ Documents acquired via FOIA requests by (of all organizations) Judicial Watch reveal that Andrew McCabe, Comey's deputy, believed that True Pundit had "heavyweight" sources within the FBI. While Comey was skeptical, he *acknowledged* the sources were *definitely* FBI sources.— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
How's that for a mind fuck?30/ When McCabe forwarded a True Pundit story to Comey on October 24, 2016, calling its source on Clinton "heavyweight," Comey demurred, saying "This still reads to me like someone not involved in the investigation at all, maybe somebody who heard rumors." https://t.co/qTfZ8oKoep— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 9, 2017
And do you want to know the kicker?
Now the FBI is all pissed off with how Trump is treating them.
Courtesy of Business Insider:
Frank Montoya, Jr., a former FBI special agent who served as the Director of the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, was blunt.
"There is a lot of anger in the FBI (the entire intelligence community, for that matter) over how this president will say nary a negative word about the Russians, but will insult us every chance he gets," he said.
You reap what you sow, you reap what you sow.
Good read! Thanks.
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if you like wasting your time perhaps, and polluting your minds with nonsense.
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Slate
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/12/sharing-seth-abramson-not-once-not-ever.html
I think he is entitled to his opinion and everyone can reach their own conclusions, who is this author of the Slate article to tell democrats what they shouldn't read?
DeleteI saw a tweet a few hours ago from Holly O'Reilly that shows the video of Roy Moore praising Putin. At the end the interviewer asks Moore what he would say to Putin and Moire replies something in fluent Russian! It is insane and this needs to be spread far and wide. Sorry that I don't have the link but it is out there.
ReplyDeleteI saw the same video and its outrageous that this is not being played more. I want to know where and how that mutherfucker pedophile learned fluent Russian.
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/09/roy-moore-praise-putin-russia-alabama
DeleteParroting Putin & dRUMPf verbatim!
Get it/Got it
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! Sarah Palin is their baton girl ahead. Donald their music man.
DeleteMoore claims he learned Russian at West Point!
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Pro Putin FBI agents. Nice.
ReplyDeleteWatch out Bob Mueller!
I hope that the FBI goes after Trump with everything they've got, while the Russians hold the pee-pee tape over Trump's head. Either way, that idiot in the White House is toast.
ReplyDeleteSeriously you think he is worried about some sex tape.
DeleteOMG with all the crimes he has committed the last thing the Russians are going to blackmail him with is a sex tape.
Especially since Trump was not participating in the pee incident, he merely hired the whores to do the deed and watched.
DeleteA coup without the guns!
ReplyDeleteAnd now those FBI agents are angry that trump doesn't respect them,if they were any good at their job,they would know that is his MO.
Indeed, remember old dotard rudy, flynn, and the rest during the campaign. Guilt written on their ugly nasty lying faces. Disgusting traitors. All involved and that enabled this crime deserve nothing but life in public prison.
ReplyDeleteAbramson posted Part 2 earlier today.
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Delete"1/ In Part 1 of this thread (see below), I discussed how a former FBI agent calling himself "Thomas Paine" launched the fake-news website True Pundit on the same day in June 2016 Don Jr., Kushner, and Manafort met with Kremlin agents at Trump Tower Moscow."
Delete"48/ Sean Hannity secretly acted as an advisor to Trump during the 2016 election, so we have no idea what he knows about what Trump is now under investigation for. The same is true with Pirro. And Giuliani, a regular Fox News guest. So the motives of these people are still murky."
43/ Unfortunately, the GOP's cynical false equivalence—pretending all bias is per se evidence of corruption, when it doesn't work that way—can make valid accusations of corruption at the FBI look like tit-for-tat. But the facts in this thread are major news, not a political ploy."
30/ What this generates is an ever-widening cabal of related individuals in the orbit of the Trump campaign and/or the New York field office of the FBI ("Trumpland"): Flynn, Prince, Bannon, Giuliani, Kallstrom, and Paine ("True Pundit"). Most of these claim NYPD connections, tOO.
15/ In the interview, Paine discusses how his "scoop" (fake news about NYPD having seen emails proving Clinton crimes) was stolen from him by Steve Bannon's Breitbart, which conducted an interview on the subject with Bannon pal and top Trump national security advisor Erik Prince.
6/ Paine's March 2017 threat against the FBI was far worse than his October/November 2016 threat, as it directly aimed to Obstruct Justice by promising to release fraudulent "Clinton emails" if the FBI didn't slow or stop the Trump-Russia probe by firing FBI Director James Comey."
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheimmoralminority.blogspot.com%2F2017%2F12%2Fi-think-today-seems-like-appropriate.html
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First item on the Revolution To-Do list - destroy all those who helped overthrow the last administration. It's SOP. How did the heavyweights at the FBI miss that? I thought they had to read history.
ReplyDeleteHowever, 12:28 PM The last administration was not overthrown. President Obama was in place as POTUS for two outstanding terms!
ReplyDeleteI suspect Trump will be the one overthrown - -
I don't think its just the pp tape that has Trump scared. He would just call it fake, like everything else. It's more than that. All about the money and collusion.
ReplyDeleteMoney laundering,from Taj Mahal to Trump Tower.
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When we used to have a smart, well read, measured, mature man who was a legitimate president.
That is a nice pic of Hillary and Barrack. Interesting read. Thks.
ReplyDeleteThis twitter threasd is now much longer.
ReplyDeleteThe numbering goes up to #80 and then continues with PS1 to PS20 AND THEN Note1 to Note5 and then conclusion and documents...
ARREST THEM!
Rudy9-11Gooliani and the whole effing bunch!
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