Steve Schmidt spills the tea on McCain being hooked up with Manafort and Deripaska

[YorkRd]

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[YorkRd]

1. The story of American corruption in Ukraine starts here. It starts in John McCain's operation

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[JI7]

2. Can you give a short summary on what this is about ?

Is he referring to Lindsey Graham as the man she calls "uncle" ?

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Schmidt is connecting Russian influence into McCain's Campaighn.....in hindsight.

[niyad]

20. rick davis

[DURHAM D]

4. Delete

[Scrivener7]

5. Man, he stopped at the cliffhanger!

[FakeNoose]

6. It's 15 tweets in all, in which Steve Schmidt alleges corruption in McCain's campaign staff

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Steve Schmidt is linking to this 2020 article in the Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mccains-kremlin-ties/

The story is about John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign and certain members of his campaign staff were corrupted by Putin, Deripaska and other Russian oligarchs for the purpose of invading Ukraine without US intervention.

[YorkRd]

12. Does anything good ever happen on a yacht?

“ In mid-September The Nation’s website published a photo of McCain celebrating his seventieth birthday in Montenegro in August 2006 at a yacht party hosted by convicted Italian felon Raffaello Follieri and his movie-star girlfriend Anne Hathaway. On the same day one of the largest mega-yachts in the world, the Queen K, was moored in the same bay of Kotor. This was where the real party was. The owner of the Queen K was known as “Putin’s oligarch”: Oleg Deripaska, controlling shareholder of the Russian aluminum giant RusAl, currently listed as the ninth-richest man in the world, with a rap sheet as abundant as his wealth.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mccains-kremlin-ties/

[littlemissmartypants]

35. My lips are sealed. ❤

[niyad]

21. That Nation article is depressing and appalling. mccain and dole both

with dirty hands, and corruption without end in the qcp.

[mcar]

7. Schmidt is dishing all this now because

Meghan McCain called him a pedophile enabler. Crazy stuff.

[DURHAM D]

8. Missed that.

Who is/was the pedophile?

[mcar]

13. Steve Schmidt, according to McCain

this is seriously nutso stuff.

[chowder66]

34. She was accusing Schmidt of being a pedophile enabler because of John Weaver who was

one of the Lincoln Project co-founders.

Sexual harassment allegations[edit]
In January 2021, responding to a magazine article accusing him of sexual misconduct spanning a period of years, Weaver acknowledged having sent inappropriate sexual messages to multiple men, for which he apologized.[21] According to The New York Times, Weaver offered young men professional support in exchange for sex; that report also accused him of cultivating a non-sexual online relationship with a 14-year-old boy and then engaging in "sexual banter" with him after his 18th birthday.[22] Speaking to Axios, Weaver said, "The truth is that I'm gay and that I have a wife and two kids who I love. My inability to reconcile those two truths has led to this agonizing place."[7] Following the revelations, The Lincoln Project said "John's statement speaks for itself".[1] It later issued a follow-up describing him as "a predator, a liar, and an abuser", and denouncing his "deplorable and predatory behavior".[21] In February 2021, The Lincoln Project announced plans for an external investigation to review Weaver's conduct during his tenure with the group.[23]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Weaver_(political_consultant)#Sexual_harassment_allegations

[babylonsister]

9. What??? I missed all this drama.

But hey, Steve, why haven't you spilled this before now?

[mcar]

14. And then there's that question, too

[JI7]

19. I don't think he is saying much that is new. Everyone knows

who was on McCain's campaign.

[yardwork]

58. It's news to me that the Russians tried to run McCain's 2008 campaign and may have picked Palin.

[malaise]

56. Didn't said Steve push the Palin agenda? n/t

[Sympthsical]

62. He can make money off Democrats now

The Republican well dried up, so here we are.

From the man who worked hard to put Alito on the bench.

Also, I think McCain hit close to home with that Weaver stuff (which he still hasn't satisfactorily explained), so he had to go nuclear to distract from it.

That the material is useful to us is nice (if it's true. He does have massive motives here). But this is the guy who personally fought for Alito, covered up for his buddy who was trying to groom young men, and then never accounted for the tens of millions of dollars he solicited to make YouTube videos a fourteen year old could've managed for free.

I'm sorry. Letting this fox into our spaces remains a terrible idea. Why we happily send money his way is truly baffling.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

10. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa!

[Arazi]

11. The deep Russian rot at the heart of the GOP comes spewing out

Putrid pus of disgusting traitors.

That thread is laying it wide open. Calling Rachel Maddow!

Nicole Wallace also has some fessing up to do

[tishaLA]

15. I see that Greenwald has chimed in to criticize Mr Schmidt

(of course) because--get this--he was weaponizing private conversations. LOL. Glenn Greenwald doesn't want the dirty laundry of the DC establishment aired in public. Fancy that.

[mcar]

16. And then there's this

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Wait. Did she really stage a photo op to promote her book at her father’s grave?

[niyad]

18. I knew that she is totally without class, but, geeeez.

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Ultimate disrespect. Despicable. She's a garbage human. nt

[gratuitous]

38. Well, how else is the casual book buyer going to know who Meghan's dad is?

[czarjak]

44. BAD REPUBLICAN? Profound!

[hatrack]

59. Redundant . . . like Charlie Chaplin's "My Autobiography"

[betsuni]

55. Of course!

[Cha]

17. Maybe Meghan wishes she hadn't opened her big Gaslit

Mouth now?

[uponit7771]

47. +1,

[niyad]

22. KNR and bookmarking. The linked Nation story is an absolute must-read!

[Grasswire2]

23. CONGRATS, YorkRd on nabbing huge story!

And welcome to DU.

Everything breaks in real time on Twitter these days.

[2 Meow Momma]

25. This is a very long thread. If one isn't a member of Twitter, one gets

locked out. Is it possible that someone could post the thread?

[littlemissmartypants]

26. There might be an unroll. I'll check. ❤

[2 Meow Momma]

27. Thanks for checking ♥️

[littlemissmartypants]

31. You're welcome. ❤

[Grasswire2]

28. there are many, many, many unrolls. LOL nt

[littlemissmartypants]

32. Probably a few of those rolls happening at the cemetery. ❤

[littlemissmartypants]

30. Here you go...

You can read the entire thread here...

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Courtesy of the @ThreadReaderApp from the Thread Reader bot.

You can learn more about the bot here...

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[2 Meow Momma]

43. You're a dear! It's a fascinating story he's telling. nt

[littlemissmartypants]

63. Awwe, thanks for your kind words. It really is an intriguing tale.

The vitriol is palpable. She deserves a call out of her despicable behavior. She's no better than Margi Greed to me. She's Marg only with the constant "my father" references in what seems like every two minutes.

Thank you for the reply! ❤

[Grasswire2]

29. here's a link to unrolled thread

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[Kid Berwyn]

57. This will sink KGOP.

Or else the Kremlin already works for Wall Street-on-the-Potomac.

[rickford66]

33. And how does Hunter Biden fit into all this ?

[uponit7771]

48. MAGA Q claims Hunter Biden's laptop had 3 drinks with JFK and Manfart

[chowder66]

36. 14 non stop years of abuse from @MeghanMcCain , the singularly most rotten person I have ever met

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[Grasswire2]

40. yep

We don't often see that kind of open dialogue.
Ha.

[Gore1FL]

37. Is anyone surprised the Russians were involved with vetting Sarah Palin? nt

[littlemissmartypants]

39. They could see her from their houses...

[BComplex]

60. Hahahaha!

[chowder66]

41. Unrolled Twitter Thread Link

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[PatSeg]

61. Thank you

[Grasswire2]

42. Now do Tulsi, someone. nt

[Sogo]

46. Amen.

[UTUSN]

45. K&R

[JCMach1]

49. Eye opening...

[Grins]

50. What fucking year is this????

2008 to 2022 = 14 YEARS!

Don’t anyone complain about journalists sitting in stories so they can put them in their next book.

[scipan]

52. And Bob Dole in 1996, according to the Nation article

[Baked Potato]

51. Moscow Mitch, Lil Moscow Marco, and Leningrad Lindsey

are floating around that toilet bowl too.

[scipan]

53. Seizing Russian oligarchs' assets just became a lot more important

at least to me. Do they have most of the republicans in their pocket?

And if it's so widespread, I wouldn't be surprised if a few Dems have had their backs scratched by them as well.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

54. Don't Manchin it.

Of course they always have to have a corrupt Dem in on it too, for insurance, and to be able to say
Dems do it too.

[YorkRd]

64. Tad Devine! Remember him? What about this Phil Griffin?

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[Deep State Witch]

65. No Wonder He Chose Sarah Palin!

I wonder how much of Russia she actually did see from her house?