Seth Abramson's on FBI and NYPD leaks about "Clinton emails".

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2/ First, understand that *the* key issue in the investigation of Trump Jr. is his willingness—pre-election—to accumulate and distribute illegally gained intelligence about the Clinton investigation. Understand, too, that Trump Jr. does not have a reputation for deleting tweets.




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3/ That Trump Jr. tweeted a link to illegal NYPD and FBI leaks before the election—leaks the Inspector General has averred went to the Trump campaign—is certain. It's equally certain that he deleted one tweet in particular that could be critical to the Mueller investigation now.
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4/ I first wrote about this tweet in mid-2017, but with the renewed focus on Jr. because of a) the IG's report on leaks to Giuliani—with more info forthcoming, per the IG—and b) disclosure of a second clandestine summer 2016 meeting Jr. was at, the tweet has renewed significance.
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5/ Look closely at this picture, as it may well be key evidence in the Mueller investigation:
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6/ 5 days before the election, Donald Trump Jr. retweets a tweet from Michael Flynn that directs readers to illegal NYPD and FBI leaks. Those leaks had been published by the fake-news website "True Pundit." Trump Jr. later deletes that tweet. But 11 hours later, it is "replaced."
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7/ The replacement tweet, 4 days pre-election, removes any reference to Flynn and True Pundit by linking to the same content from a different provider: WikiLeaks. Now, the relevant citations in the tweet—rather than Flynn and True Pundit—are WikiLeaks, Erik Prince, and Breitbart.
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8/ In the new (November 5) tweet, Jr. is retweeting WikiLeaks' tweet of a Breitbart story. That Breitbart story is an interview with Erik Prince—though unbeknownst to Breitbart readers, Prince's "scoop" (a slough of fake Clinton news the result of NYPD leaks) is from True Pundit.
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9/ This *isn't* complicated, nor in any sense obscure: five days pre-election, Trump Jr. didn't want the True Pundit/Flynn connection to NYPD and FBI leaks on his Twitter. Likewise, Steve Bannon and Breitbart wanted Prince delivering the True Pundit story, *not* True Pundit. Why?
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10/ Why would Bannon need Prince to steal a True Pundit story and put it on Breitbart—without credit to True Pundit? Why did Trump Jr. need WikiLeaks and Breitbart to launder the NYPD/FBI leak he wanted on his Twitter feed, so True Pundit and Flynn wouldn't be associated with it?
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11/ When you click on the link to Donald Trump Jr.'s Michael Flynn/True Pundit tweet (the one from November 4, 2016, just four days before the election), this is what you see:
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12/ (A clarification on dates and times: Election Day 2016 was November 8, so Trump Jr.'s Michael Flynn/True Pundit tweet was at noon just four days before the election; his WikiLeaks/Prince/Breitbart tweet was three days pre-election, about 22 hours after his h9 hours ago

13/ I think I know what's going on here. And I think it will become relevant to the Inspector General's investigation. I'll explain.
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14/ True Pundit has conceded that active NYPD and FBI agents were leaking to it about the Clinton probe. McCabe and Comey discussed the leaks to True Pundit just before Comey reopened the Clinton probe (see Judicial Watch's FOIAed emails). The IG says leaks played a role in that.
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15/ So if *any* Trump campaign official was connected to True Pundit, it would suggest that the illegal FBI and NYPD leaks to Trump operatives Giuliani and Nunes in late September/early October 2016 were *fed* to True Pundit as part of a larger conspiracy to swing the election.


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16/ If you're a reader of this feed, you've seen my threads—and Huffington Post articles—on the leaks to Giuliani, the latter of which I wrote in December 2016. You've probably also seen my threads from months ago about diGenova assisting the leak effort:

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(THREAD) The Trump investigation no one is discussing is the one that could prove—via direct evidence—that Trump stole the presidency. Inspector General Horowitz needs to talk to Joseph DiGenova, a Trump supporter…
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17/ We know from diGenova's public statements he wanted to aid FBI agents in leaking info about the Clinton investigation, and given the timing of those statements it seems likely—if not yet proven—diGenova assisted the same rogue agents in illegally leaking to The Daily Caller.
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18/ The question is whether men *inside* the Trump campaign—like Mike Flynn—were doing the same work to pipeline illegal FBI leaks to right-wing media so that Trump could benefit from the "October surprise" Giuliani repeatedly touted and recently admitted *was* the Clinton leaks.
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19/ Robyn Gritz—a disgruntled former FBI employee who describes herself as a good friend of Flynn—has been cited by True Pundit, co-interviewed with "Thomas Paine" (True Pundit editor-in-chief) and says she's met "Thomas Paine" through a mutual acquaintance, George Webb Sweigert.


20/ Gritz worked alongside a former FBI employee believed to *be* "Thomas Paine." I won't say more on this—it's currently being investigated by multiple major media outlets. But keep in mind "Thome Paine" says he used to work for Jim Kallstrom, one of Giuliani's two FBI sources.


21/ The point here—lest we get lost in the associations between Gritz, Paine, Webb Sweigert, Kallstrom, Giuliani, and Flynn—is that while it's entirely possible Kallstrom was an FBI source for both Giuliani *and* his former employee "Paine," it's also possible Flynn was involved.

22/ Flynn has sufficient ties to True Pundit and True Pundit associates that his immediate retweet of True Pundit's illegal FBI and NYPD leaks isn't surprising—rather, it looks like Flynn amplifying an illegal-leak-peddling fake news source that he had an existing connection to.


23/ If Flynn was the Trump campaign's "other man" on getting illegal FBI and NYPD links to the media pre-election—the first being Prince, who lives outside the U.S. and was publicly falsely claiming (even *under oath*, to Congress) no affiliation to Trump's campaign—this is huge.


24/ It might also explain why Donald Trump Jr. would delete a Flynn/True Pundit tweet about illegal FBI and NYPD leaks just 96 hours before the '16 presidential election—as the tweet risked exposing that connection, whereas Prince was (allegedly) "not part of the Trump campaign."


25/ Mueller has Flynn in his pocket—which means *Inspector General Horowitz* has Flynn in his pocket. That means if Flynn was working with others (Kallstrom, Giuliani, Prince, and others) to spread illegal NYPD and FBI leaks to the media pre-election, Horowitz will find out. /end