8/ That’s why his top natsec adviser, Flynn, kept meeting with Putin and Putin agents like Kislyak; that’s why Kushner and Trump’s National Security Advisory Committee held so many pre-election meetings with Kremlin agents.

Trump believed he’d lose, but wanted a lucrative loss.

6/ That’s why Trump hired Paul Manafort, a man he well understood had been working for the Kremlin since 2006, as his campaign manager: he was led to understand that it’d please the Kremlin, and Tom Barrack helped him understand it would please Russian allies like the Emiratis.

5/ That’s also why, as the NYT reports, the Trump family responded approvingly to an offer by the Saudi and Emirati governments—made at Trump Tower in August 2016—to illegally aid Trump’s campaign with the aid of Israeli intel experts.

Those were nations Trump did business with.

3/ This is why it is not at all surprising—for all that his supporters are so scandalized by it that they cannot accept that it has been *robustly* proven—that Trump colluded with the Russians in 2016. Just *not in the way that most people think* (or MAGAs choose to engage with).

2/ There were many articles just before the 2016 election and just after it confirming that Trump ran in 2016 to elevate the only thing he really cares about—his brand. Of course he was *trying* to win and *sort of* even wanted to win, but mainly the run was to raise his profile.

1/ I’ve been covering Donald Trump more or less full-time since the day he announced his presidential candidacy in 2015, so there are things I remember as part of my job that many who follow politics more casually don’t and wouldn’t.

One is that Trump believed he’d lose in 2016.

(THREAD) This is a brief thread from a NYT-bestselling Trump biographer on what everyone—literally everyone—is missing about the 34 felonies Donald Trump committed to win the 2016 presidential election. This will change how you understand the 2016 election cycle.

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Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! Margie 🌊🌊🌊 Vote Blue Everyone 🇺🇲💙🇺🇲💙🇺🇲💙🇺🇲

Badd Company 🇺🇸🇺🇦🟦🌈Daniel, Votes BLUE for “The Many” I don‘t believe he had that many followers on twitter either. I think he bought followers.

Badd Company 🇺🇸🇺🇦🟦🌈Daniel, Votes BLUE for “The Many” Because why would we expect he’d bother with anything original, unique or additive?

Crooked is as crooked does.

Thievin’, griftin’, lyin’ …

Fer freedom 🙄.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🟦🌈Daniel, Votes BLUE for “The Many” A twitter knockoff.

Janice Claire 🟧 🏳️‍🌈💙🌻🇺🇦 Badd Company Knowledge is power I really cannot wait to say to some people I know…”looks like you got trumped biggly”,

Badd Company Knowledge is power I'm someone who has always lived & worked in the NYC area. Trump always strived for media attention. He always was (& still is) first & foremost a carnie--a performer, huckster & con artist. He distracts you while your pocket gets picked.

Badd Company His entire presence is overrated and fabricated from whole cloth. The hype, the ridiculous claims, his wealth, his hair, the polls, all fabricated - all by his 'team' and social media buys and bots. His impact is about as real as Trump University... 🙄

Badd Company The truth about “dishonesty social” is the company is valued on an illusion. They thought 81 million on Twitter would be 81 million on his crap app.

#VonSchitzenpants needs to unload before reality sets in. It will sink the whole deal.

I just gotta point out the obvious!

If Truth Social is the Bastion of Maga then why is it a Ghost Town?

If Trump is so popular, then why are there only 113,000 users?

If Donald Trump is larger than life, then why is his 'footprint' so small?

Devin Nunes said there would be…

debbie156-MeidasMighty Ⓜ️Ⓜ️☮️ Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! I fly the stars and bars most days now for this reason! They will not define me. MAGA will not win

Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! We must take our flag back. Stay strong. Stick together. Vote for Biden.

America let its guard down and billionaires picked a reality show host to be president and people fell for it.

Trump loves chaos and disruption, always has. He was the perfect choice for the fascist billionaires.

Trump is out of office and has been for almost four years. Yet,…

WELKER: Will you commit to accepting the 2024 election results?

TIM SCOTT: At the end of the day, the 47th president will be Donald Trump

WELKER: Wait -- yes or no, will you accept the results?

TIM SCOTT: That is my statement