(THREAD) This thread summarizes the major-media investigative reporting on the TRUMP-CHINA SCANDAL, a bribery scandal involving Trump's hunt for dirt on Joe Biden in China, his debts to the Chinese government, and his decision to ignore life-saving COVID-19 intel. Please RETWEET. pic.twitter.com/lAe1oxRenV— Seth Abramson (@🏠) (@SethAbramson) April 24, 2020
It's a long thread, but well worth reading. Abramson has written two books on Trump - Proof of Collusion and Proof of Conspiracy. He wrote both by stitching together thousands of news reports, pulling together details into a coherent story about Trump's corruption.
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I guess Trump is trying to demonstrate the maxim that if you commit big enough crimes you don't get caught.
Basically, Abramson outlines when Trump learned of the Coronavirus (in November while working on a trade deal with China), that Trump (or his companies) owes China tens of millions in loans that are coming due tsoon, and how all of this adds up to a conflict of interest and using the office of the presidency for personal gain of such a magnitude that it boggles the mind.
And all his antics at the so-called press conferences are simply diversions to not only shore up his base, but also to divert attention from the most serious, but more complicated abuse of office that's going on.
Abramson's background is in law and journalism. The story is so stupefyingly huge that Trump might just get away with it, because people aren't ready to take the time to put the pieces together. That's why we need people like Abramson. Like everything else he does, it's so outrageous that it seems like has to be made up.
I'll give you some of the tweets in this long thread - here's where you can just read it straight through yourself.
16/ You can read all about Trump's conflicts of interest in China here—mind you, just a *few* of the ones we know about, as most are hidden within Trump's tax returns. The most obvious piece is scores of valuable trademarks timed to Trump policy decisions. https://t.co/LksWGDDTjb— Seth Abramson (@🏠) (@SethAbramson) April 24, 2020
36/ But here's the rub: Trump receives intelligence on the novel coronavirus *as he's in the middle of trade negotiations* with the Chinese. And weeks after Trump learns of the virus, he makes the most stunning decision imaginable with respect to those negotiations—and the virus.— Seth Abramson (@🏠) (@SethAbramson) April 24, 2020
38/ So at a time the Trump administration had received *and rejected* urgent U.S. intelligence on the coronavirus, it received from *China* a request for an exceptional, entirely unexplained "out" clause that would cover a pandemic. And what did Trump do? Nothing—he permitted it.— Seth Abramson (@🏠) (@SethAbramson) April 24, 2020
42/ But it's more than this: Trump was being told by a cadre of Americans at the World Health Organization in December that there was a virus in China that could come to the U.S. and be devastating—further confirming the intel reports from 2 U.S. agencies. https://t.co/c2pupquEmM— Seth Abramson (@🏠) (@SethAbramson) April 24, 2020
Seth is the Ur-journalist I’ve followed for years. His research is impeccable and trustworthy.
ReplyDeleteThis is just more evidence of balls-to-the-wall corruption by Trump, and his selfish and corrupt way of being. It's what predators do, without mercy.
But will this amount to anything? Trump is worse than a virus for I fear we'll never get rid of him no matter how many times we wash our hands of him.
However, he's the tip of a destructive iceberg of men and women as deeply involved as he is who are using him, a pathetically predictable & manipulable little man.
Gee, Barbara, what's not to like?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thought I'd say hello from a fellow post-American!
Ha!
DeleteWhen did you leave and are you still a U.S. citizen? I was told I had denounced it back in 1971, when I became a Canadian citizen... then the U.S. IRA rules changed. Seven years of filing tax forms to catch up later...I keep my citizenship , if only to have one little progressive vote on behalf of my poor birth country.
I also follow the arc of impending authoritarian rule. Born during a war to fight Fascism, now seeing if it can be defeated once again. The outcome is on a knife edge.