Trials, Trump Russia

PIMPOTUS – Trump Models and Russia’s Human Traffickers

Sources with links to the intelligence community report that Donald Trump is being investigated for trafficking underage girls into the United States for sexual abuse, under the guise of his shell modeling company, Trump Models.

These sources report that Trump is linked to a Russian-based human trafficking enterprise, where girls and women were kidnapped into sexual slavery. This includes underage girls and minors.

The human trafficking arrests made recently in Europe, and several human trafficking cases in the United States, are linked to the same paedophile ring, these sources say.

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Furthermore, the sex trafficking of girls and underage children is linked to the Russian government via the same internet data that links Hostkey, the Russian hackers of the American election, with Mir Telemakti. They all share a registrant address in the British Virgin Islands.

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Sources report that this nominal internet services provider, Dragonara Alliance, is in fact a mere intranet, over which Russian organized crime sponsored by Vladimir Putin discusses the kidnap and rape of girls. Dragonara Alliance was traced back to various IP addresses shared by Hostkey and Mir Telemakti. An intranet needs publicly to exist, these sources say, as an IP provider, in order that its existence not cause questions. But the NSA is deep inside Dragonara Alliance’s servers, and can read their packet data. It provided material assistance to Europol and Interpol in making recent arrests, these sources say.

Mr. Trump’s company, Trump Models, recently locked its account on Twitter. It has been listed as paying women slave wages, and Trump has been accused of bringing in girls illegally,  making them work without visas for nothing and housing them 11 to a room. DF9WhGHXoAMEWMR.jpg

Trump Model Management recruited models as young as 14

Despite the scrutiny, Trump Models has deleted its Instagram account. Sources report Trump cannot provide accounts showing Trump Models was ever a legitimate business. There are multiple public reports that the agency forced girls to work for slave wages. The Daily Beast’s Michael Gross also reported that Donald Trump personally pimped out underage girls from parties at his own hotels. For this, Trump, and his children Don Jr, Eric and Ivanka Trump, all part of Trump International Hotels management, may be held liable, sources say.

Further, sources report that Smart jet Aviation LTD, which uses SmartJet.ru and Jetorama.com, is an aviation company used to ferry trafficked females around. Smart Jet purchased a lot of fuel and acts as a broker for private flights. Again, sloppy opsec had the company registered to the same PO Box as Hostkey in the British Virgin Islands. Jetrama2The Smart Jet Aviation registrants use a type of trolling familiar to the student of the Trump-Russia “PO Box 3469” address, the use of a Russian scientist as a pseudonym for the registrant. However, they were dumb enough to use an email address connected with “bizarrebrain.com” where they forgot to take the real name of the registrant, one Damir Valiullin, off the site. Damir links in the Panama Papers to Dennis Kolyago, who is a senior executive with a regional Russian fuel company.  This may explain all Smart Jet Aviation’s purchases of airline fuel for human trafficking.

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JetSmarter, a company linked to Donald Trump and the Russian mob, used to be called Smart Jets Inc in the United States, but it is not known if it is the same company as “Smart Jet Aviation.”

JetSmarter maintains it is a legitimate business. Sources say it is under counterintelligence investigation for Russian mob activity. Its former CEO , Edward Barsky, was a mobster who has invested in Sunny Isles, Florida.

Barsky was also executive chairman of local real-estate development company Verzasca Group, according to a 2015 press release issued by the company.

And it is directly linked to Donald Trump through both Barsky and Mike Flynn and Ron Torossian. Researcher Louise Neu showed on Twitter that Torossian was a spokesman for Michael Cohen’s partner, and also wrote the pro-Turkey op-ed attributed to Mike Flynn. Torossian was forced to amend his FARA earlier this year.

Dmitry Sorokin, the current COO of Smart Jet Aviation, is also listed on LinkedIn as the head of Red Square Holding. Red Square Realty is linked to Donald Trump’s own Miami properties and to the Russian mob, as we have previously reported.

Mr. Trump’s PACs also accepted funding from companies linked directly to the Smart Jet Aviation and Hostkey P.O. Box. 

Is it a coincidence that Smart Jet Aviation, registered to the same PO Box as Hostkey, hackers of the Russian election, and Jet Smarter, BOTH share investors with Donald Trump’s properties in Miami, Florida? Is it also a coincidence that JetSmarter used to be called “Smart Jets” in America?

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Possibly so. The company declined to comment. But what is definite is that Smart Jet Aviation is being investigated for human trafficking with Dragonara Alliance used for the communications; and Donald Trump is being investigated for human trafficking with Trump Models. JetSmarter is under investigation for Russian mob ties, and Smart Jet for trafficking girls into misery, rape and death. Industrialized child abuse has been carried out on behalf of Vladimir Putin. And for Donald Trump himself, a locked Twitter and deleted Instagram are not going to save him.

 

Comey, Comey Day, Hacking, Impeachment, National Security, President Hatch, Russia, Supreme Court, Trump Russia

EXCLUSIVE: Sealed Indictment granted against Donald Trump

By Louise Mensch and Claude Taylor

Separate sources with links to the intelligence and justice communities have stated that a sealed indictment has been granted against Donald Trump.

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While it is understood that the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution means that, until Mr. Trump is impeached, he cannot be prosecuted, sources say that the indictment is intended by the FBI and prosecutors in the Justice Department to form the basis of Mr. Trump’s impeachment. The indictment is, perhaps uniquely, not intended or expected to be used for prosecution, sources say, because of the constitutional position of the President.

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Comey Day, President Hatch, Trials, Trump Russia

Rex Tillerson Under Criminal Investigation for ‘Wayne Tracker’ Fraud

Sources with links to the justice system in the state of New York report that Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State, is the subject of a major criminal investigation by Eric Schneiderman, the Attorney General of New York.

Tillerson is being investigated for financial fraud during his time at Exxon Mobile, these sources say, because he used a fake name, ‘Wayne Tracker’ to attack climate change scientists that were holding Exxon to account. Exxon then said they ‘lost the emails’ in a court filing to New York State.

Eric Schneiderman is now far advanced in a criminal case against Tillerson that would involve financial fraud charges related to Exxon’s stock price. Sources specified that personal criminal charges against Tillerson himself, as well as corporate action against Exxon, are actively being pursued.

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In Nov 2015 Mr. Schneiderman first subpoenaed Exxon; in March 2017, a state judge ordered the company to cooperate.

Tillerson used the alias account to send and receive information about climate change and other matters, Schneiderman said in a March 13 letter to the court.

Schneiderman said Exxon failed to disclose the “Wayne Tracker” account, and that it had been uncovered during the review of other materials.

The letter also said Exxon had produced 60 documents bearing the “Wayne Tracker” email, but had not said the account was Tillerson’s.

Mr. Tillerson, as Secretary of State, precedes Defense Secretary Mattis in the line of Presidential succession. If tried and convicted, he would not be eligible to serve as President. The same applies to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, who attended the “Scot 24” meeting currently under UK and US investigation for Russian money laundering and collusion.

Sources indicated there is a wish to bring any appropriate criminal charges against Tillerson in a timely fashion, should he not agree to a plea, in order that he get nowhere near the Presidency.

As reported elsewhere on Patribotics, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah is first in line to the Presidency after Trump, Pence and Ryan, all of whom are under criminal counterintelligence investigation for collusion with Russia. Should Senator Hatch feel that, in a time of crisis, James Mattis would be the best man for the Oval Office, he may choose to step aside. Both Mnuchin and Tillerson would face criminal charges promptly, sources linked to the intelligence community have said, were they not to to be amenable to deals offered them by prosecutors to step aside and allow the smooth transition of power.

Criminal charges at the state level against Tillerson would not be pardonable by Donald Trump at the federal level. This is particularly important in the case of Tillerson, as the criminal case against him does not relate to Russia. Trump is indicted at Federal level on a RICO case involving Russia, and may not pardon any co-conspirators as it would amount to self-pardon.

His powers of pardon are otherwise untouched, however, and he would have the ability to pardon Mr. Tillerson on financial crimes, not related to Russia, at the Federal level. Mr. Schneiderman has jurisdiction because Exxon does business in New York; the location of many banks in Wall Street, for example, gives Schneiderman power of money laundering that uses accounts in those banks.

Mike Flynn, Money Laundering, Trump Russia

Scot Sedition: June 24, Treasonmeeting 2?

On June 9th at Trump Tower, Russian intelligence and the Trump team met to receive intelligence from the Russian government detrimental to Hillary Clinton. This was arranged by Donald Trump Jr, who, in publishing his emails with Russian intelligence, has admitted to conspiracy to collude in the election; as has Jared Kushner, whose statement, while openly admitting to breaking the Logan Act, does not mention the email subject.

As I exclusively reported for Patribotics, GCHQ has complete recordings of the meeting from the hot-miced phones of several Russians, whose phones were hacked before they landed in the United States. It is safe to assume the USIC (United States Intelligence Community) also has these recordings.

However, we can extrapolate that complex negotiations over how Trump and Russia should collude to hack the election were not finalized at this meeting, as it was simply not long enough.

June 24th In Scotland – Trump’s Art of the Steal?

I believe there was a second meeting, at which the deal was done. June 24th, in Scotland, the day after the Brexit vote, Donald Trump, members of his family and various press barons and Russian actors met in Scotland at Trump’s golf course.

After this meeting, Trump’s fortunes changed rapidly. He arrived in Scotland broke, with his campaign deep in debt, and his polling numbers an embarrassment. Just days after he departed, the Trump campaign was flooded with money – and Russian bots, previously dedicated to Brexit, began to retarget themselves to Trump.

Trump and his co-conspirators can rest assured – although this may be the wrong way to put it – that GCHQ will have had this entire weekend on tape.

If hacking for money and sanctions, and other deals favoring press barons, were washed at this meeting, conspirators – such as Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary – need to be aware that GCHQ will have them on tape and will have passed those tapes to the USIC and Special Counsel Mueller.

Sources with links to British intelligence have confirmed there is plenty of SIGINT on this meeting in Scotland.

 

Mr. Brexit? Mr. Treason – Mnuchin’s Moscow Money

When Trump went to Scotland, he had, in terms of votes, clinched, the nomination, but but the GOP convention was some time away. What Trump didn’t have was organization and money.

Immediately after the June 24 effort, two things started to happen even to the casual observer. Trump became flush with money, and the bot accounts that had pushed Brexit repurposed to target Trump and Putin’s other secondary allies across Europe, in activity that was coordinated by Mike Flynn.

Steve Mnuchin came to the campaign (officially) in May. It was reported to have just $1.3m at the start of June but $51m by the end of the month.

The fundraising team has built a top-tier operation in a short period of time led by Campaign Finance Chairman Steven Mnuchin and his RNC counterpart Lew Eisenberg

the fact is though Mnuchin had been doing a lousy job until mid-June, although his friend Geoff Palmer had given Trump a couple of million that month.

Trump fundraising was widely reported disaster in mid-June, but Mnuchin joins in trip to open a golf course??

Mr. Mnuchin sent Trump fundraising emails to UK members of Parliament – it is illegal to raise election money off foreign nationals.

His first list was a widely reported disaster, with 60% of the emails going to spam inboxes, and then all of a sudden Mnuchin is breaking campaign finance records? – @barcadad

On June 30th, Mnuchin gave $425,000 to the Trump Victory PAC.  Let’s look at the PACs for a minute. Were they ways to launder money to Trump? The record suggests that the PACs were set up in advance of Treasonmeetings 1 and 2, June 9th and June 24th, so that bad actors from China and Russia could promise Trump money funneled through these PACs. Mnuchin would have criminal responsibility if this indeed occurred.

From researcher and former trader Louise Neu comes news of two PACs that appear to have funneled illegal money to Trump:

Great America PAC, a donor to Trey Gowdy SC

Rebuilding America Now PAC, with Tom Barrack and Geoff Palmer.

Great America PAC was caught on tape by the UK Telegraph newspaper agreeing to funnel Chinese money to Trump and to trade Presidential influence for it when Trump won.

Senior figures involved with the Great America PAC, one of the leading “independent” groups organising television advertisements and grassroots support for the Republican nominee, sought to channel $2 million from a Chinese donor into the campaign to elect the billionaire despite laws prohibiting donations from foreigners.

In return, undercover reporters purporting to represent the fictitious donor were assured that he would obtain “influence” if Mr Trump made it to the White House.

Rebuilding America Now PAC links to Barrack and Palmer, who had Chinese money ties and fines for improper use of PACs respectively. Weird, non-round amounts in the donations and refunds from these PACs suggested money laundering.

Geoff Palmer, a principal in Rebuilding America Now PAC, had previously been fined for money laundering. The method? Fake donations that were then refunded, according to Politico:

an anonymous tip hinted that Palmer had encouraged employees of his company to donate to a PAC [to further his real estate] and had reimbursed those employees with both company and personal funds.

Now who is this LA developer’s partner? Tom Barrack, who is bringing Chinese money into real estate in LA. It is also run by two Paul Manafort and Rick Gates loyalists, who have worked directly with the campaign. Now we have Russian, through Manafort, and Chinese money that appears to be laundered. Tom Barrack headed the Inaugural Committee, many donations to which appear to be money-laundering shell donations.

But let us recall that Mr. Palmer had laundered money through reimbursements before. Ms. Neu found that donations made to Rebuilding America Now PAC were in odd amounts, and that refunds were given in the amounts these odd numbers added up to.

Baby Got PAC

Therefore, Trump Victory, Rebuilding America Now and Great America PAC, under this theory, laundered foreign money into Donald Trump’s campaign on a wholesale level. $107m in the Inaugural Committee’s money laundering and of course more beforehand.

So why did the Treasonmeetings matter? Well, did Mnuchin promise Trump he’d bring on Geoff  ‘The Laundromat’ Palmer?

Of course, apart from small $$, Mnuchin’s buddies with Geoff Palmer (#2 contributor as of Jun16). Real cast of characters, that list

Mnuchin Loves Madoff – And Did He File a Fake Trump Lawsuit?

Mnuchin was accused of taking $3m in Madoff money, but won the case. He also was sued by Trump in 2008 over Trump Tower Chicago for Dune Capital. The case was “settled on unknown terms”. Fake lawsuits have often proved to be simple money laundering devices.

What were the terms?

Trump sued Mnuchin’s hedge fund Dune Capital Management in 2008, accusing it and other investors of allegedly pushing off multimillion-dollar loans while building the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago. The case settled on unknown terms.

Also, Trump “loaned himself” money and then forgave the loans, the public record suggested. But did he really give that money to his own campaign?

6) In Feb ’16, Trump “loaned” himself $6.85M. March ’16 loan total = ~$11.5M. April = ~$7.51M. May = ~$2.2M. June = ~$1.8M.

Again, Mr. Mnuchin will have legal criminal liability for any foreign money laundering into Trump’s campaign. He should know that if he discussed anything illegal, he is on tape.

Bitcoin Money Laundering to Trump After June 24

Barcadad also points me to Bitcoin, the official Trump-Russia money laundering currency, SOARING in unrepeatable donations to Trump. After June 24th, the Treasonmeeting, Bitcoin donations to Trump that were unreportable – under $100 – soared.

4) Bitcoin donations were authorized in 2014, but capped at $100, Trump’s “sweet spot” from mid-June onward

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Cambridge Analytica Brings Russian TrumpBots And Propaganda

I reported exclusively in April that Mike Flynn had coordinated Russian propaganda across Europe on behalf of Vladimir Putin. This propaganda was not only to benefit Donald Trump but also the Nazi rabble supported by Putin across Europe, including Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orban and others.

It was recently confirmed in the mainstream media that Mike Flynn had amended his disclosures to show he took money from SCL, the propaganda arm of Cambridge Analytica.

Cambridge Analytica had worked with Arron Banks and Nigel Farage on Brexit. Flynn’s propaganda derived from Russia – we now know that SCL was creating the content. This ties Cambridge Analytica and SCL inexorably to Donald Trump.

Dan Scavino, Trump’s social media manager, was there. He relentlessly co-ordinated with Russia. I will report separately upon his part in Trump-Russia. The SCL propaganda floated by Cambridge Analytica and pushed by Flynn for Russia was coordinated through Scavino. This evidence found by researcher Kelly @Kelly2277.

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Russian Lawyer Nataliya Flew to the UK for June 24 – And So Did The Treasonmeeting 1 Principals

Treasonmeeting 1 anti-Browder, anti-sanctions lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was in the UK June 24th, posting from the Hard Rock cafe at 3:30 pm. And so were her Treasonmeeting 1 co-conspirators Rob Goldstone and Emin Agalarov. I’m indebted to researcher Brett @BBTRX for the find.

Here’s Natalia Veselnitskaya posting from 24 June 2016 at 3:31 p.m. (last post of day).

Team Patriot Thanks

I am indebted to Team Patriot for the research in this story. They selflessly answered the call. Links to more individual accounts will be added here later tonight; I am publishing the story first the hopes of getting it out.

 

Espionage, Hacking, Russia, Trump Russia

Fox News Under FBI Counterintelligence Investigation

Sources with links to the justice department report that Fox News is under an FBI counterintelligence investigation for co-ordinating with the Kremlin in broadcasting propaganda.

While the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and journalistic freedom, sources say that signals intelligence gathered from so-called ‘incidental collection,’ such as NSA collection on Sputnik and Russia Today,  which is ongoing.

Specifically, Sean Hannity is on signals intelligence co-ordinating his pro-Trump message with organs of the Russian state, such as RT, Sputnik, Wikileaks and Julian Assange. However, emails co-ordinating messaging with registered agents of the Russian state are said to exist from more shows than that of Sean Hannity.

Furthermore, sources familiar with the matter say that the FBI is actively considering a referral to the FCC, in addition to any criminal prosecutions that may result for individuals not registering under FARA for coordinating with official agents of the Russian state.

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A great many of Fox News’ employees, anchors and executives have reported fearlessly on Trump and Russia, including Shep Smith. The problems appear to be executive based and systemic, these sources say, and a referral to the FCC is being considered. The First Amendment protects journalistic freedom, but systemic and repeated coordination with official organs of the Russian state is regarded as knowing collaboration with an enemy attack on America. Referral to the FCC is an option under consideration at a corporate level, sources report, and prosecutions for chief malicious actors, in particular Sean Hannity, are probable, these sources say.

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Espionage, Hacking, Trials, Trump Russia

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Schneiderman Had Donald Trump Under State Surveillance

FISA is not the only fruit.

Sources with links to New York State justice and law enforcement report that Eric Schneiderman, the Attorney General of New York State, had Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump, under legal direct surveillance for some time at state level on an Enterprise Corruption case against Russian mobsters.

‘People are only looking at FISA. They forgot state law,’ one source said, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matters discussed.

The RICO case – specifically, ‘Enterprise Corruption’, the name given in New York state law, formed the basis of the existing sealed indictment against Donald Trump presently at the Eastern District Court of Virginia. FISC retains some jurisdiction, but what precisely, sources did not specify.

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The way in which Attorney General Schneiderman’s state case became a Federal indictment was reported exclusively by me at Patribotics. RICO and Enterprise Corruption cases are typically principally on financial and other crimes such as money laundering, corruption and so forth. However, in this case, there were also national security implications, which is why FISC took jurisdiction of the case from Schneiderman once it was determined that it touched upon Federal issues. Mr. Schneiderman dismissed his case at state level in order that his evidence should form the basis of a federal case. As a state Attorney General, Schneiderman did not need a judge’s permission to do this.

The existence of the sealed indictment against Donald Trump was reported by Claude Taylor and me exclusively for Patribotics.

There will be more on this breaking story later today.

 

Comey Day, Espionage, Hacking, Impeachment, Russia, Trials, Trump Russia

Exclusive: GCHQ Has Recordings of Donald Trump Jr and Kushner’s Russia Meeting

Sources with links to the Five Eyes intelligence communities report that the entire meeting that Donald J Trump Jr and Jared Kushner took with Russian intelligence over Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails is on tape. Multiple recordings and transcripts exist. At least one set of these is in the hands of British intelligence at GCHQ.

It is presumed but not known for certain, therefore, that US intelligence would already have these recordings.

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The Five Eyes agreement prohibits the United Kingdom both from surveilling Americans without judicial permission from the US and from conducting surveillance operations on American soil. However, exploits allowing the phones of every Russian national at the meeting to be used as a “hot mike”, in other words, to record what those around them are saying, had already been placed on the phones of the Russian intelligence agents and assets present. This excludes Boris Epshteyn, who although he is an FSB agent and a long-term Russian asset, these sources say, is also a U.S. citizen.  Mr. Epshteyn, through lawyers, has adamantly denied that he is an FSB agent and has demanded Patribotics remove reporting on him. Although I have updated my stories to reflect his denials, I stand by my reporting. Mr. Epshteyn’s lawyers declined, in writing, to say whether or not he had been advised by the FBI or law enforcement to register under FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, instead asking me who my sources were and when I received my information from them, questions to which I in turn have refused to respond.

The resulting recordings form a complete record of the meeting. If, as must be assumed, British intelligence has passed them to their American counterparts, the evidence would be fully legal as any Americans on tape would be “incidental collection” to the targeting of the Russian spies Kushner, Trump Jr and Epshteyn met with in order to commit espionage against the integrity of a US election with a foreign power.

Impeachment, Russia, Trials, Trump Russia

Exclusive: Donald Trump Called into a Trump Tower Russian Spy Meeting

Sources with links to the intelligence community and the justice department report that Donald Trump himself is on tape calling in to a meeting at Trump Tower, where collusion with Russians was discussed.

Sources could not confirm, however, that the meeting where collusion in the election was discussed was the one at which his son, Donald J Trump Jr, recently admitted to conspiring with Russians to hack the election.

They pointed out that there was more than one meeting at Trump Tower where attacking the integrity of the US election was discussed by Trump campaign officials and representatives of the Russian government.

The source of the recording of Mr. Trump was his campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman. His phone had been legally hacked by the United States intelligence community under an SS7 exploit and turned into a ‘hot mike’ where he was, unbeknownst to him, recording all those with whom he was speaking.

Manafort officially left the Trump campaign in the summer. However, it is important to note that he lived in Trump Tower throughout. He was also working on the campaign throughout.

Sources drew attention to the possibility, even the probability,  that Mr. Trump was recorded at more than one meeting committing treason with Russian representatives. For reasons I will discuss in a second article, I believe that Trump called in to a different meeting later in the year in Trump Tower, whether or not he called into, or was present at, the Don Jr meeting.

Authority for the FBI to hot-mike Paul Manafort’s phone was granted by the Foreign Intelligence Services Court, which provided two warrants to Director Comey on October 15 for  ‘any US person’ in relation to money laundering and other offenses related to national security granted against Alfa Bank and SVB Bank.

Mr. Trump appeared to confirm his knowledge of the bad news of a huge amount of SIGINT, or Signals Intelligence, existing against him on March 3rd. He sent out a string of tweets which themselves were crimes of obstruction of justice, revealing evidence in an ongoing top secret and criminal investigation against the Attorney General Jeff Sessions and members of the Trump campaign as a whole.

On that day, Trump tweeted two tweets about Jeff Sessions’ meetings with Ambassador Kislyak and several more alleging that President Obama ‘had my phones tapped’. The media at the time concentrated wholly on Trump’s fallacious accusations against President Obama. This was a reporting failure. The tweets should be read as a whole, relating to what was in Trump’s mind at the time.

I found my work on Trump Russia dragged into an enormous spotlight following Mr. Trump’s tweets. Knowing that Mr. Trump had revealed absolutely top-secret evidence and committed a serious crime, obstruction of justice, live on Twitter, the White House sent out my own reporting on the FISA warrant against Alfa Bank and SVB Bank of Nov 7th. I had the bizarre experience of hearing that paragraphs of my report were being read live by Sean Spicer from the White House podium; however, my report at no time made any mention of ‘phones being tapped’ in Trump Tower, still less, that President Obama had ordered this. I was forced to make the rounds of the media to point out that at no time had I suggested Mr. Trump’s phones were tapped. I reported a warrant (below corrected to two warrants) and not what the FBI did with that warrant; nor did I have knowledge of what Director Comey did with his warrant. If Mr. Trump could rely on ‘previous reporting’ for the evidence his tweets revealed, he could avoid an obstruction of justice charge. I was keen to deny that my reporting had ever suggested surveillance on Trump, or on Trump Tower; or that President Obama had ordered it.

For reasons I will discuss in a second article, I believe that Donald Trump called in to a different meeting, later in the year, in Trump Tower, whether or not he called into, or was present at, the Don Jr meeting.

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