@jackhutton

It's not Trump. It's Trump's billionaires.

They have the best domestic espionage operations, some of it composed of volunteer partisans.

Someone, for example, released sealed court records of Fanni Willis's co-worker's divorce to the GOP.

According to Ronan Farrow's reporting on Harvey Weinstein such domestic espionage operations are commonplace for the rich.

They can mount a targeted harassment campaign on social media that will trigger bomb threats at ...

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.... your grandchild's school within hours. Swatting. Private security. Pelosi's husband. Threats to family & friends.

The only way to get 147 members of Congress to deny an election on Jan 6 is the donors.

The only way to get 179 members of Congress to sign an amicus brief to the Supreme Court to keep Trump on the ballot in Colorado is the donors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/18/mcconnell-trump-supreme-court-colorado-ballot/

Forbes has identified over 133 domestic billionaires who funded Trump in 2020.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2021/02/19/here-are-the-billionaires-who-donated-to-donald-trumps-2020-presidential-campaign/

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No one knows how many foreign billionaires are funding Trump via a corporation, nonprofit like the NRA, DAF, PAC, think tank, or hedge fund.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/10/former-putin-adviser-has-secret-investment-in-us-energy-firm-praised-by-trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/us/politics/russia-election-interference.html

Alexander Voloshin, Oleg Deripaska, Konstantin Nikolaev, Mikhail Yuriev, and Andrey Kunatbaev all funded the GOP, & the Russians play rough, as Prigozhin's fate demonstrates.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/25/russia-ukraine-war-news-prigozhin-wagner/

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/21/russian-backed-ethane-company-hires-lobbying-firm-connected-to-trump.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar30-million-to-elect-trump-was-it-russian-money

https://www.newsweek.com/house-speaker-mike-johnson-donations-russia-butina-1838501

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/12/14/ex-fbi-agent-who-helped-russian-billionaire-deripaska-spy-on-rival-gets-50-months-in-prison/

@MHowell @spocko @Npars01
Focusing on the guilt-by-association /Russia factor plays into the conservatives hands. That was their go-to smear for decades. It's also a logical fallacy.

The real issue is political bribery/campaign donations.

@Jeramee @MHowell @spocko

This isn't a false "guilt by association" allegation, Republican operatives are going to jail for their collusion with Russian oligarchs.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/14/ex-fbi-counterintelligence-official-gets-over-4-years-in-prison-for-aiding-russian-oligarch-00131911

https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-gop-russian-problem

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/russian-oligarch-charged-making-illegal-political-contributions
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48070413

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erickson_(activist)