In Honor of Our Late Friend Keith Pickering, A Seth Abramson Thread Refuting Trump's BS.

Mr. Trump, you told the Russians you'd be running for president in Moscow in November 2013—and indeed it was that declaration that led to the anti-U.S. campaign in early 2014. Cohen had made clear by mid-2013 you were running; you confirmed it to the Agalarovs and Yulya Alferova. https://t.co/UyjT9QMqbE

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 16, 2018

Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 16, 2018

3/ Immediately thereafter—mere weeks—Russia suddenly put in a bid for the 2013 Miss Universe pageant by wooing you face-to-face at the Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas in June. The Russian delegation needed mere hours to convince you Russia should leapfrog 19 nations for the honor.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 16, 2018

5/ Your own tweets reveal you were also promised a meeting with Putin, which you'd been seeking for years. Yet by the time you arrived in Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in November, Putin had backed out—because your presidential ambitions were by then clear to the Russians.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 16, 2018

7/ Yulya Alferova tweeted to you shortly after you left Moscow that she knew you'd make a great president. It was a topic you'd discussed with the Russians in November 2013 in Moscow as they were developing for you—with Putin's blessing—a wildly lucrative Trump Tower Moscow deal.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 16, 2018

He’s been to Moscow 30 times in as many years. He owns no property there. It’s hardly a golf destination. So why has he gone there so often?He’s been talking openly about running for president for a decade. Notice the date on this tweet…pic.twitter.com/xSa8s75PGw

— Cat Specter (@catspecter) February 18, 2018

9/ The result, according to Emin Agalarov in a Forbes interview, was you signed a letter-of-intent in Moscow in November 2013 for Trump Tower Moscow—using funding from Putin's banker (announced 10 days later), land from Putin's developer, and permit approval from his permits man.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 16, 2018

11/ Within a matter of *weeks* the Russian operation had started up.

You, Don and Ivanka remained in regular telephonic and in-person contact with your new business partners—the Agalarovs, Putin's developers—during early 2014, as the Russian machine began its attack on America.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 16, 2018

13/ Indeed, Aras Agalarov publicly announced in February of *2017* (not a typo)—via a major Russian construction website—that the letter-of-intent you signed with him in November 2013 became inactive only *after* you ascended to the presidency, as you now "couldn't do any deals."

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 16, 2018

15/ Fortunately, there's no evidence Rykov and Klyushin worked together to help elect you.

Actually, let's scratch that—as before the Buzzfeed dossier ever came into the public sphere, Rykov bragged publicly, on social media, that he and Klyushin worked together to elect you.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 16, 2018

17/ All this is just the "Cliffs Notes" version of a mountain of documentary evidence suggesting the Russians knew you were running for president well before Americans formally did—and that they began their operations in 2014 fully aware that by mid-2015 you would announce a run.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 16, 2018

19/ Neither Bob Mueller nor major-media journalists like Luke Harding are tracing your involvement with the Russians as beginning in 2015—when you announced your presidential run. They are seeing evidence that in 2013—and even before—you had let Russia know your political plans.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 16, 2018

CONCLUSION/ *No one* in the intel community confirms your claim—or Pence's—that the election results weren't affected by Russia. And we already *know* from macroanalysis that your hijinks with Giuliani to coerce Comey into re-opening Clinton's case *did* affect the results. {end}

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 16, 2018

Trumps Trademark from 2012 pic.twitter.com/w4h4c1LHa4

— Magnus Broman (@magnus_broman) February 16, 2018