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THREAD: BEANS: This one is called "Rudy's going down or Van Grack's coming out." There are a LOT of dots to connect here so grab your murder boards and let's get started. 1/
We learned today that the CIA believes Putin likely directed Andriy Derkach to attack our elections (help trump, hurt Biden) by spreading dezinformatsiya (deza) using OUR congress, lobbyists, and the media. *blink* *blink* 2/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/secret-cia-assessment-putin-probably-directing-influence-operation-denigrate-biden/
Boy, there sure does seem to be a LOT of trump's buddies willing to out Derkach. We know that 12 days ago, US Treasury Secretary STEVE slapped sanctions on Derkach for INTERFERING in the election AND they tied him directly to the Kremlin. 3/ https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/10/treasury-designates-anti-biden-ukrainian-lawmaker-for-sanctions-for-election-interference-411750#:~:text=The%20Treasury%20Department%20has%20designated,interference%20in%20the%20U.S.%20election.&text=On%20Thursday%2C%20the%20administration%20went,tying%20Derkach%20to%20the%20Kremlin.
And just 5 days ago, FBI director Chris Wray confirmed to the House Homeland Security Committee that Russia was interfering on behalf of trump to hurt Biden and that "certain persons" were boosting Trump on Russian state TV. 4/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/17/fbi-director-wray-russia-very-active-2020-election-disruption/3484222001/
And Wray's testimony tracks with trump's National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center's August 7th report that said Derkach publicized leaked phone calls to denigrate Biden and help Trump 5/ https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2139-statement-by-ncsc-director-william-evanina-election-threat-update-for-the-american-public
You'll notice that the NCSC director, Bill Evanina works for DNI Ratcliffe. You'll remember trump FIRED his old DNI Maguire for defending a subordinate that briefed congress saying the CIA, NSA & FBI all agree that Russia is helping Trump. 6/ https://time.com/5788479/trump-fires-maguire/
Now, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Cmte says he's not surprised by the news, but he's surprised that the administration is covering it up. But are they, Eliot? I mean, we have DNI Ratfuck, CIA Haspel, Treasury Secretary STEVE, FBI Wray, and NCSC Evanina ALL outing Derkach 7/
When have you EVER seen that many trump administration officials go after a Russian for interfering on behalf of TRUMP? Trump has FIRED people over this in the past and gutted inspectors general to prevent any oversight about it. I mean, even MIKE POMPEO admitted it. 8/
Well, guess who Derkach is besties with? That's right! Colludy Rudy Giuliani. Derkach gets his dirt from Firtash, who Rudy lobbied old Alfa Bank fucker Benczkowski to let off the hook for his extradition charges back when he was head of the criminal division at Main Justice. 9/
Derkach and Rudy hosted a podcast to release the Biden dirt and the fake phone call recordings on One America Network. And remember when Rudy sent the parchment envelope with calligraphy on the front that included trump hotel folders full of fabricated dirt on Biden? 10/
Or how about that one time Derkach got Biden dirt to Senator Ron Johnson as part of his "investigation" into Biden and Burisma, likely through the two DC lobbyist lawyers that QUIT working for Derkach and started cooperating with the feds? 11/
Or perhaps Ron Got the dirt straight from Rudy. He's easily dumb enough to make the hand-off himself. Isn't it also interesting that Firtash has popped up in the recent ICIJ FinCEN dump? 12/ https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/global-banks-defy-u-s-crackdowns-by-serving-oligarchs-criminals-and-terrorists/
Either way, we know that the Mueller investigation spawned the FARA Unit inside the DoJ and it's headed by former Mueller prosecutor Brandon Van Grack. Nor can we forget Audrey Strauss' superseding indictments on Giuliani's Fraud Guarantee pals Parnas & Fruman this past week 13/
So one of two things is happening here: either trump is throwing Rudy under the bus, which has allowed all the intel on Derkach, Rudy, and Firtash to come out - and Benczkowski stepped down recently so he's either helping or off the hook on a promised pardon 14/
OR, Barr is putting his thumb on the scale to prevent Rudy from being indicted despite the walls falling down around him. And since Barr can't wrangle the SDNY because Berman refused to leave without Audrey Strauss taking his place instead of a trump guy from New York... 15/
The other way Barr could be stalling is by putting pressure on the FARA unit in his own DoJ. So either SDNY/Strauss indicts Rudy (either because trump and Barr are cool with it or because she DGAF), OR Van Grack resigns in protest and blows the whistle. Those are my beans. END
