Seth Abramson: today's new bombshell story about Giuliani's interview with the FBI

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1009149094693167106.html

(THREAD) Today's news on Rudy Giuliani being interviewed by the FBI is a *bombshell*. It reveals that Giuliani has been *lying* about the #OctoberConspiracy that gave Trump the election for over a year and a half. I hope you'll read on for more details and share this with others.


1/ Back in October 2016, Giuliani said Trump had a surprise "up his sleeve" that would turn the tide of the election. He also said he was getting information from "current" FBI agents. But he wouldn't reveal what the surprise was and wouldn't reveal which agents he had spoken to.

2/ After the media began accusing Giuliani of having advance knowledge of Comey's decision to reopen the Clinton case, he did two things that investigators have clearly taken note of: the first is that he *lied* about the nature of the October "surprise" he had earlier spoken of.

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PS4/ So there's documentary *and* testimonial evidence that illegal FBI leaks men in Trump's orbit were encouraging, orchestrating, and disseminating pre-election *were* a key part of Comey's calculus in bucking FBI regs and making a decision data analyses say swung the election.

PS5/ I said in 2016 and will say again that the #OctoberConspiracy is as big a scandal as the Russia probe, as it handed Trump the presidency (whereas the Russia probe is revealing federal crimes—including impeachable ones—but is less clear about direct effects on the election).

NOTE/ Trump gave Kallstrom—not a typo: Trump gave *Kallstrom*—$1.3 million during the 2016 presidential campaign, leaving open the possibility Trump was stupid enough to actually *pay* Kallstrom for the active-FBI-agent access that gave him the election.

NOTE2/ A note to investigators: don't forget that, on October 28, 2016, Giuliani told Lars Larsen he'd been told of the Weiner emails "three or four weeks" earlier—which means (a) he heard of them *days* (at *most*) after the FBI found them and (b) it's possible *Nunes* told him.