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    1. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

      1/ We begin with the context: Trump's history of viewing his endeavors as entwined and mutually reinforcing. For instance, despite contest-rigging being a felony, Trump has been accused of picking Miss Universe finalists based on where his businesses are.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/26/trumps-miss-universe-gambit …

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    2. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

      2/ Just so, the Trump-Russia scandal was at its heart a *bribery* scandal: Trump's pre-election establishment of a pro-Russia foreign policy in conjunction with secretly pursuing the most lucrative deal of his professional life: a Kremlin-blessed deal for a "Trump Tower Moscow."

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    3. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

      3/ The Trump-Ukraine scandal was another bribery scandal—Trump receiving illegal foreign donations and false statements on Biden from corrupt Ukrainians in exchange for military aid, a White House visit, and help toppling the anti-Kremlin CEO of Ukraine's state-owned energy firm.

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    4. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

      4/ Trump's hasty retreat from Syria—the Trump-Turkey scandal—was likewise underwritten by bribery: Trump's major business interests in Turkey interfering first in the federal prosecution of the Turkish Halkbank and then in his capitulation to an illegal Turkish invasion of Syria.

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    5. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

      5/ The Trump-Saudi, Trump-UAE, and Trump-Israel scandals—which all saw Trump receive illegal aid from these nations pre-election in exchange for favorable policy post-election (see PROOF OF CONSPIRACY)—were *likewise* accompanied by Trump pursuing business deals in these nations.

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    6. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

      6/ It's important to underscore that Trump has confessed to almost all of this. For instance, he confessed pre-election that if he ever had to set policy with respect to Turkey post-election—which of course he would—he would have a "conflict of interest."https://time.com/4746348/donald-trump-turkey-conflict-interest/ …

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    7. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

      7/ Trump has called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act—which prevents businessmen like him from participating in bribery schemes with foreign nations—a "horrible" and "unfair" law that he wants repealed by Congress. And he's made efforts to orchestrate it:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/business/economy/trump-bribery-law.html …

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    8. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

      8/ His own officials—even ones loyal to him—talk openly about his conflicts of interest, which see him commingling his business interests and U.S. policy and (with persistence and impunity) acting to advance his interests. Bolton and Barr both agree on it.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/john-bolton-trump-book-barr.html …

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    9. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

      9/ Trump no longer even pretends to deny that he was seeking a major tower deal in Moscow while running for president—commingling his business interests with foreign policy decisions he'd have to make as POTUS. It's key context for the Trump-China scandal.https://www.vox.com/world/2018/11/29/18117910/cohen-trump-tower-moscow-mueller-testimony …

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    10. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

      10/ Presented by ABC News with a hypothetical in which he participates in a bribery scheme—a foreign government offering him a personal political benefit even as he is setting U.S. foreign policy with respect to that country—Trump said he would go for it.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/id-exclusive-interview-trump-listen-foreigners-offered-dirt/story?id=63669304 …

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      Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

      11/ In the Ukraine scandal, Trump simply drew *no distinction* between official acts he'd taken to benefit himself personally and the idea that a president must work on the nation's behalf—a novel claim his trial attorney then explicitly and publicly made.https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/alan-dershowitz-for-the-defense-letat-cest-trump …

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        2. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          12/ COVID-19 has stopped none of this. During the pandemic, even as Europe—per reporting by the NYT—was the actual source of the new February infections in NYC, Trump issued a European travel "ban" in March that excluded any country he had golf courses in.https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/12/trump-coronavirus-travel-europe-resorts-126808 …

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        3. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          13/ No one disagrees that—per endless major-media reporting—in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, other nations like Egypt, his pageants and more, Trump cross-pollinates his operations so that everything works hand-in-glove with everything else to make him money.

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        4. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          14/ Trump told Cohen—per Cohen's congressional testimony, uncontradicted on this—that Trump's POTUS run was intended as an "infomercial" for his "brand" (i.e., domestic/foreign actors would later pay him based on what he included—like policy—in the brand).https://www.wsj.com/articles/mueller-report-reveals-extent-of-trumps-involvement-in-russia-tower-plans-11555614228 …

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        5. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          15/ The Steele dossier was not the first—or the *twentieth*—document to claim Trump's business dealings in *China* significantly *supersede* in size and scope his many failed dealings in Russia, his many failed dealings in Ukraine in the 2000s, or his Middle Eastern golf courses.

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        6. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          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://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2017/06/14/433915/trumps-conflicts-interest-china/ …

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        7. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          17/ That's right: Trump—and Ivanka—get valuable Chinese trademarks in a way that appears timed to coincide with Trump's decisions on issues in which the Chinese government is invested. In this we see the *same trend* as with his pro-Kremlin foreign policy.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/28/ivanka-trump-won-china-trademarks-donald-trump-zte-reversal …

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        8. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          18/ But it's more than just trademarks: Trump *owes the Chinese government hundreds of millions of dollars*. And the Trump-China scandal coincides with some of those debts coming due and some of Trump's income *from* China entering a period of uncertainty. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475 …

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        9. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          19/ It was in this context—in the middle of a trade war with China *Trump started*—that Trump spoke with Chinese president Xi Jinping in June 2019 and did something a U.S. president never does: discussed *both* U.S. policy and his political rival (Biden).https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/03/politics/trump-biden-call-xi-secure-server/index.html …

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        10. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          20/ Two notes about this CNN report: 1⃣ Trump's call with Xi came not long after his hand-picked AG "exculpated" him of wrongdoing in Russia—meaning he felt free to exchange in such conduct again. 2⃣ Trump's team *hid the transcript of the Trump-Xi call*.https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/24/18279887/trump-mueller-report-barr-letter-exonerated-cleared …

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        11. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          21/ If you track the calls we know Trump improperly used the NSC ("NICE") archive to hide from even his own administration—calls with Putin, MBS and Xi, plus the call with Zelensky that got him impeached—you can see that Trump *knows* when he's done wrong. https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/white-house-restricted-trump-calls-putin-saudi/index.html …

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        12. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          22/ So in June 2019, Trump had a call with Chinese president Xi Jinping in which he talked about a trade war he (Trump) had started—a war which gave him leverage over China—and Biden's political prospects. And then Trump's team worked feverishly to hide what Trump had said to Xi.

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        13. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          23/ We don't have to *wonder* what the connection is between Trump's trade war and Biden—Trump told us in October 2019. In that month, he discussed—in the same 30 seconds—his *leverage* with China and his request for Biden dirt from China. Watch the video: https://c-span.org/video/?464931-1/president-trump-ukraine-china-investigate-bidens …

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        14. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          24/ So the question is not whether Trump commingled the trade war and Biden; or whether he wanted to hide that fact; or whether what he wanted from his "leverage" with China was dirt on Biden. All that is clear—and public. The question is: did Trump get the deal that he demanded?

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        15. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          25/ The answer is *yes*. One of Trump's top men on trade negotiations in China, Michael Pillsbury, said he received *dirt on Biden* from *the Chinese government* the *very same week* Trump tied his "leverage" with the Chinese to his demand for Biden dirt.https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-pillsbury-trump-adviser-claims-china-handed-him-intelligence-on-hunter-biden?via=twitter_page …

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        16. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          26/ Pillsbury: "I got quite a bit of background on Hunter Biden from the Chinese." The FINANCIAL TIMES reports "[it] relate[ed] to a $1.5bn payment from the Bank of China"—which "matches the amount Trump last week claimed Hunter Biden received from China."https://www.ft.com/content/d4b9b0a8-eb14-11e9-a240-3b065ef5fc55 …

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        17. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          27/ In Trump's public statements, he has said that the money Hunter Biden received in China somehow implicates Joe Biden in corruption involving the Chinese government—an accusation that follows Trump's career-long pattern of accusing others of whatever he himself has been doing.

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        18. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          28/ As the summary of Trump's conflicts of interest by the Center for American Progress details, when Trump made his demand of the Chinese not only did he have "leverage" from the trade war he started to consider—a war which has hurt Americans—but also his rent at NYC properties.

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        19. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          29/ Trump makes tens of millions of dollars renting to the Chinese—and one of his biggest payments was up for renegotiation in October '19, the month he talked about leverage over the Chinese and demanded dirt on his top political rival. But there's some context to consider here.

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        20. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          30/ Remember that Trump and his family had long ago learned from major-media reporting that the Chinese were actively looking for clandestine ways to shift Trump's China policy using the business/personal interests of him and his family. All D.C. knew it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kushners-overseas-contacts-raise-concerns-as-foreign-officials-seek-leverage/2018/02/27/16bbc052-18c3-11e8-942d-16a950029788_story.html …

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        21. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          31/ Consider, then, that the $200+ million Trump owes the Chinese government is due "soon," per POLITICO, meaning Trump knows he has China's support for his re-election—as it has leverage over him it wants to keep—*and* that now is his time to cut a deal. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475 …

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        22. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          32/ It is in this context—(1) Trump owing the Chinese $200+ million; (2) having them as a major renter bringing him tens of millions; (3) he and his family knowing they want to cut a clandestine deal; (4) him having coupled personal and U.S. policy and tried to hide it... {cont.}

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        23. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          33/ ...(5) Pillsbury getting Biden dirt from the Chinese during the same 7-day period Trump demands it; and (6) Trump warning the Chinese that he has "leverage" to get what he wants because of the trade war *he* started—at the moment coronavirus appears in China in November 2019.

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        24. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          34/ In November 2019, just a few weeks after Trump gets the Biden dirt he demanded from China, U.S. intelligence tells Trump that there is a virus emerging in China that could be dangerous. The intelligence is urgent and comes from multiple U.S. agencies. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273 …

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        25. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          35/ Trump inexplicably rejects the intelligence. Indeed, his administration has so little interest in hearing the intelligence that *U.S. intelligence agencies* must focus on sharing the intelligence with NATO and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), instead. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-alerted-israel-nato-to-disease-outbreak-in-china-in-november-report/ …

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        26. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 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.

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        27. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          37/ At a time Trump knew of the virus, per the senior White House correspondent at HUFFPOST China inserted in its trade negotiation with him an exceedingly rare trade-deal clause that excused China from compliance in the event of—for instance—a pandemic.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-china-red-flag_n_5e976c52c5b65eae709e736a …

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        28. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 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.

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        29. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          39/ But he didn't just permit it—though he knew from the DHHS Crimson Contagion simulation, the NSC pandemic playbook, and papers submitted by White House economists that the virus he'd learned of in November could devastate the US, he sent China our PPEs.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/18/coronavirus-latest-news/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#link-2X7SRXBT45DVVG2RABFGJJ6TKQ …

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        30. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          40/ WP: "US manufacturers shipped millions of dollars of face masks and other PPEs to China in January and February with encouragement from the federal government—a move that underscores the Trump administration’s failure to recognize and prepare for the growing pandemic threat."

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        31. Seth Abramson‏Verified account @SethAbramson 24 Apr 2020

          41/ It was *after* that WASHINGTON POST report, of course, that we learned from ABC and THE TIMES OF ISRAEL that in fact Trump's team *did* recognize the growing pandemic threat—in November 2019—it's just that it did nothing about it (nor China's pandemic-oriented trade demands).

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