Here's that Twitter thread linked by Pain above mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/854064635326201856
(THREAD) Erik Prince, a top Trump adviser, used Russian active measures on U.S. voters before Election Day. Read on.
Weinergate - NYPD Forces FBI Comey to Open Clinton Investigation - Breitbart Eric Prince Interview
9:10 pm · 17 Apr 2017
(1) The "new" Clinton emails the FBI found on Anthony Weiner's computer in early October 2016 were all duplicates. They held no new info.
(2) In the first week of October, Comey asked the FBI field office in New York, full of Trump allies, to confirm the emails were duplicates.
(3) Instead, the Trump allies in the New York field office did nothing but collect useless "meta-data" on the emails for almost all October.
(4) They could have issued subpoenas to see the full emails. They didn't. They could have asked Huma or Weiner for permission. They didn't.
(5) The result was that, when Trump's allies in the New York field office briefed Comey on the emails in late October, they had no updates.
(6) What did start happening around that time is that Rudy Giuliani started going on TV teasing an October Surprise that would sink Clinton.
(7) Giuliani made clear he was getting information from active FBI agents in the New York field office incensed with both Comey and Clinton.
(8) On October 27, Comey realized he'd been had: Team Trump was going to leak disinformation about the content of the "new" Clinton emails.
(9) He saw that his field office's foot-dragging on confirming the emails as duplicates was designed to preserve them as a campaign issue.
(10) The NYT reports Comey felt forced to write Congress because disinformation about the emails was "sure to leak."
Justice Dept. Strongly Discouraged Comey on Move in Clinton Email Case
www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/us/politics/comey-clinton-email-justice.html?_r=2&utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_article
(11) Comey was right. On November 4, Erik Prince began feeding Russian disinfo about the emails to U.S. media (see audio atop this thread).
(12) That disinfo, initiated/echoed by Russian bots on social media, claimed the emails revealed hard evidence of numerous serious crimes.
(13) Prince, who did have sources in the NYPD feeding him info, pretended that those sources were the origin of his Russia "deza" (disinfo).
(14) Prince and Giuliani assumed Trump allies' foot-dragging at the FBI meant Comey couldn't confirm the emails as duplicates pre-election.
(15) But Comey managed to conduct in under 10 days the investigation into the emails he thought his New York agents were doing in October.
(16) So Comey wrote Congress on October 28 to block Trump's domestic disinfo campaign, then proved the emails were duplicates by November 5.
(17) Unfortunately, in the well over a week Comey was doing an investigation that should have happened in October, millions voted early.
(18) Prince and Giuliani were both rewarded by Trump post-election—directly as well as indirectly—suggesting Trump approved the conspiracy.
(19) Numerous post-election analyses found that the "Comey Letter"—forced by a Trump campaign disinfo conspiracy—won the election for Trump.
(20) Media must investigate the extent to which Prince repeated on Bannon's Breitbart Radio accusations that had emanated from Russian bots.
(21) They must also investigate NYPD leaks to Prince, FBI leaks to Giuliani, Trump's authorization of Prince disinfo, Giuliani's "surprise."
(22) The investigation into Trump, Bannon, Prince, and Giualiani "disinfo" activities pre-election is part of the #Russiagate investigation.
(23) Giuliani's remarks on Fox News and on radio are public record; so are the activities of suspected Russian bots; so is Prince's disinfo.
(24) Trump declared Giuliani would not be in his administration at the same time an FBI investigation into pre-election leaks was announced.
(25) Trump gave Prince's sister, Betsy DeVos, the most controversial Cabinet nomination of his presidency. He made Prince a shadow adviser.
(26) Giuliani was ultimately given a strange, ill-defined "cybersecurity" position with the government despite a minimal background in this.
(27) All of the above is public record. It suggests Trump was part of a conspiracy to steal the U.S. election with Russian "deza" (disinfo).
(28) Whatever you think of Clinton's private email server, after the FBI declined to prosecute, any lying about Weiner's PC was corrupt.
(29) There are many reasons HRC did poorly in the Electoral College. But the data reveal that without the "Comey Letter" she would have won.
(29) Before the election, a Politico poll showed that the letter made 33% of voters less likely to vote for Clinton.
Bigger Than Watergate? Legitimate Concerns That Anti-Clinton Faction Within FBI May Have Conspired To Hand Election To Trump
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bigger-than-watergate-concerns-grow-that-anti-clinton_us_5850bb12e4b0b662c2fddebc
(30) So while it's true Clinton ran a poor campaign, it's also true Giuliani and Prince won the election for Trump.
Was Rudy Giuliani At The Center Of An FBI-Trump Campaign Conspiracy To Steal The Election?
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/was-rudy-giuliani-at-the-center-of-an-fbi-trump-campaign_us_585ad14ce4b014e7c72ed993
(31) Giuliani would be easy to roll; he admitted live on TV that he was receiving regular, coordinated, illegal leaks via active FBI agents.
(32) Meanwhile, Erik Prince is a walking indictment last seen trying to build a clandestine Trump-Putin backchannel.
Blackwater Founder Repped Trump at Secret Meeting Overseas: Sources
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/blackwater-founder-repped-trump-secret-meeting-overseas-sources-n742266
(33) Anybody who doesn't want to get Giuliani under oath about this clip doesn't care about free and fair elections.
Rudy Giuliani On FoxNews 2 Days Before The FBI Bombshell
(34) Please note all the links needed to substantiate this story are in this thread (as some links here are link aggregations themselves).
(35) Don't let people tell you #Russiagate is just a post-election scandal irrelevant to Election Day. It determined the election results.