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NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 09:35 PM Nov 2017

Seth Abramson summarizes Carter Page's huge bombshells

Great thread on Twitter.







(THREAD) This thread lists EVERY bombshell in Carter Page's Congressional testimony—each summarized in ONE sentence. Hope you'll pass it on.

BOMBSHELL: The White House lied repeatedly about how active Trump's secretive NatSec Advisory Committee was—it met MANY times, not "once."

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Seth Abramson summarizes Carter Page's huge bombshells (Original Post) NewJeffCT Nov 2017 OP
Any chance of a transcription or list of the "bombshells"? Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #1
There are 28 bombshells emulatorloo Nov 2017 #3
Ah. So. I should have just tried the link anyway. I see 'em too. Thanks! . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #4
Oh great! emulatorloo Nov 2017 #6
Here is my transcription Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #7
Wow. #13 and 14 (and more) point to collusion (quid pro quo). . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #8
Kick and Rec, must read for all DU'ers emulatorloo Nov 2017 #2
Unrolled thread: tblue37 Nov 2017 #5
I am just asking..Is the most important conclusion that Stuart G Nov 2017 #9
I'm guessing NewJeffCT Nov 2017 #10
Thank You for your opinion.. Stuart G Nov 2017 #11

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,073 posts)
1. Any chance of a transcription or list of the "bombshells"?
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 09:45 PM
Nov 2017

I can see a tweet on Twitter (w maybe 20 replies) but not traverse threads due to the configuration I browse with (by choice).

emulatorloo

(44,270 posts)
3. There are 28 bombshells
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 09:52 PM
Nov 2017

A lot for someone to transcribe. Not a twitter member but able to see them all in my browser. Hopefully Abrasom will put them up on website.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,073 posts)
7. Here is my transcription
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 10:02 PM
Nov 2017

I did a quick cut-cut and here it is. Now I can go back and read it!


1.
BOMBSHELL: The White House lied repeatedly about how active Trump's secretive NatSec Advisory Committee was—it met MANY times, not "once."

2.
BOMBSHELL: Kremlin agents lured Page to Russia to meet Kremlin officials and Rosneft execs AFTER he joined the campaign; it wasn't his idea.

3.
BOMBSHELL: MANY Trump campaign aides AND NatSec team members knew Page was going to Russia post-hacking revelations—none tried to stop him.

4.
BOMBSHELL: Page bypassed top policy aides and NatSec peers in telling HOPE HICKS he was going to Russia—suggesting he wanted TRUMP to know.

5.
BOMBSHELL: Given Page and JD Gordon's words, Hicks LIED to the media in saying the campaign had no Russia contacts; she's a key witness now.

6.
BOMBSHELL: Page spoke to the FBI 5-6 times in 2016-7; if he told them what he told Congress, he can be charged with Making False Statements.

7.
BOMBSHELL: Page deliberately withheld deeply inculpatory documents from Congress using a false and legally fraudulent Fifth Amendment claim.

8.
BOMBSHELL: Page met the same Kremlin official and Rosneft exec in BOTH July and December 2016 and lied about BOTH interactions to Congress.

9.
BOMBSHELL: On July 7, 2016, the Kremlin asked Page to carry a message to Trump: we strongly support you and want to work with you on policy.

10.
BOMBSHELL: Page admits discussing sanctions policy with both the Kremlin and Rosneft in July; after, he briefed the campaign on these talks.

11.
BOMBSHELL: As Page briefed the NatSec team and the campaign on his secret Russia meetings, every Trump aide who denied Russia contacts lied.

12.
BOMBSHELL: Page was certain to keep Trump's daily assistant, Hope Hicks, in the loop—Sessions, too—so Trump and Sessions knew what Page did.

13.
BOMBSHELL: As of mid-July, Trump's campaign was *on notice* Russia supported it, wanted to help it, and was offering "outreach"—cooperation.

14.
BOMBSHELL: When Trump said "Russia, if you're listening..." and asked it to release Clinton emails, he was *responding* to Russian outreach.

15.
BOMBSHELL: Page *directly* revealed his Moscow plans to Sessions at an event Sessions set up—didn't disclose—and sat beside Papadopoulos at.

16.
BOMBSHELL: Page admits "the whole [NatSec] group" got Papadopoulos' March 2016 email on the Kremlin wanting to meet—that'd include Sessions.

17.
BOMBSHELL: Page proposed the campaign tell him what to say in Moscow—thus, *to Kremlin agents*—and/or have Trump take the trip in his place.

18.
BOMBSHELL: Everything the Steele Dossier said about Page appears to be either exactly accurate or so close to it as to be indistinguishable.

19.
BOMBSHELL: During his July '16 trip Page discussed the upcoming sale of Rosneft with Rosneft's Investor Relations chief—a key dossier claim.

20.
BOMBSHELL: AFTER we knew of Russia hacking—but BEFORE Trump changed the GOP platform to benefit Putin—Page told Clovis Russia favored Trump.

21.
BOMBSHELL: The NatSec team talked lifting sanctions on Russia—maybe unilaterally—from its earliest days, *right after* the Mayflower Speech.

22.
BOMBSHELL: The NatSec team knew Page was headed to Moscow as a "private citizen" concurrent to discussing sending a "private citizen" there.

23.
BOMBSHELL: Multiple NatSec team members (at least 3) went to Budapest, the European HQ for Russian intelligence; Page met "a Russian" there.

24.
BOMBSHELL: At least 7 of the NatSec team's 14 members were on an email about the GOP platform change—and at least TEN campaign members knew.

25.
BOMBSHELL: None of the NINE campaign members who *knew* Manafort was lying about Trump's role in the GOP platform change revealed the truth.

26.
BOMBSHELL: AT LEAST ten members of the campaign and the NatSec team knew they were helping Putin at a time the Kremlin was supporting Trump.

27.
BOMBSHELL: Page met Kremlin/Rosneft officials in Moscow in December '16—including contact with the MANAGER of Putin's election interference.

28.
CONCLUSION: These 28 bombshells are what we learned simply from DECEITFUL Congressional testimony. So just IMAGINE what MUELLER knows. {end}

emulatorloo

(44,270 posts)
2. Kick and Rec, must read for all DU'ers
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 09:46 PM
Nov 2017

Lots of genuine bombshells. Hope Hicks stuff very interesting, pretty much means Trump knew what was going on.

tblue37

(65,547 posts)
5. Unrolled thread:
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 09:55 PM
Nov 2017
https://tttthreads.com/thread/927999713714081799

BOMBSHELL: The White House lied repeatedly about how active Trump's secretive NatSec Advisory Committee was—it met MANY times, not "once."

BOMBSHELL: Kremlin agents lured Page to Russia to meet Kremlin officials and Rosneft execs AFTER he joined the campaign; it wasn't his idea.

BOMBSHELL: MANY Trump campaign aides AND NatSec team members knew Page was going to Russia post-hacking revelations—none tried to stop him.

BOMBSHELL: Page bypassed top policy aides and NatSec peers in telling HOPE HICKS he was going to Russia—suggesting he wanted TRUMP to know.

More at link: https://tttthreads.com/thread/927999713714081799

Stuart G

(38,458 posts)
9. I am just asking..Is the most important conclusion that
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 10:19 PM
Nov 2017

in the end, Trump knew about the Russian deal, and lied to Congress and the rest of us about it?
In fact, Trump was ...behind the "deal"

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