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1) If you want to watch a Coordinated Media Disinformation Campaign play out (just like the Trump-Russia Collision Hoax), there's one playing out right now in real

 2) @TWPundit Exclusively Reported 10/13

"expect to see multiple...stories related to Turkey which will...be tied together by a massive “bombshell” piece in the @nytimes ...near election day in a well-coordinated smear campaign"
Yep, the piece just dropped
https://t.co/ncqK9IrwEv
3) The Turkey Disinformation Campaign is following the exact same playbook as the 2016 Trump-Russia Collision Hoax, and with all the same players
https://t.co/W4qEDSHFAZ
4) In 2016, there were 3 separate stories related to Russia’s connection to @realDonaldTrump that dropped on Oct 31st.

Article #1 from Soros-funded @MotherJones by @DavidCornDC about @carterwpage alleging he was a secret Russian operative. Fake news!

https://t.co/7T9G1p4lzW
5) Article #2 from @FinancialTimes about @SergeiMillian and his connection to Trump Tower projects

https://t.co/OipMuPB8gh
6) Article #3 from @Slate by @franklinfoer about Alfa Bank and how the Trump Campaign was secretly communicating with the Russians through a secret server in Trump Tower ( more fake news)
https://t.co/BgdQEnp1Og
7) @nytimes coordinating w/ the others, + FBI, & FusionGPS, was supposed to tie it all together. Instead published this article stating investigation was dropped because the FBI found no links to Russia.

FBI panicked at the last moment & attempted to bail https://t.co/6tOtP3wPfU
8) I'll get in more debunking the of the
@nytimes articles, but I wanted to note that you can't even get out of the 1st full paragraph without realizing how laughably stupid it is
9) Turkey is a major geopolitical adversary & is currently fighting 3 proxy wars against Iran: Syria, Yemen, & Azerbaijan. Why would they be funneling billions of $$$ to them? It's moronic. So we can establish it's a smear piece, not a serious article https://t.co/UEgLbURJR8
10) The
@nytimes
article was designed to drop on the same day as articles in other publications. For example, this Vox Media-owned
@NYMag
article which references the
@nytimes
article. An obvious sign of coordination. https://t.co/tX2ZSO66qH
11) Go grab the URL of the
@NYMag
article and do a Twitter search and look at the Blue Checkmark Brigade that is pushing the article out in line step
https://t.co/MfMRze2ASE
12) Of course you've got writers for
@Slate
jumping in to help push out the story, too. https://t.co/DVE55mdVBJ
13)
@Slate
by the way, ran their own hit piece on Turkey the day before, helping to lay the groundwork for the disinformation campaign. They're not about to sit this hoax out! https://t.co/9aly1WSUvi
14) Vox reporter and committed Russia Collusion hoaxster
@atrupar
Also got into the game with an attempted "quid pro quo" redirect https://t.co/pH62FUSGuk
15) Because when you when you've been pushing a conspiracy theory this stupid for this long, you're kinda pot committed
https://t.co/c7IGI8zi3K
16) Of course we can't overlook the author of the
@NYMag
article himself,
@jonathanchait https://t.co/p4lIMPCgMT
17)
@jonathanchait
was vital in planting the seeds of the original Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax. Chait wrote one of the earliest FusionGPS-planted stories in Apr 2016 claiming Putin had somehow compromised Trump.
https://t.co/j2yMcv6C30
18) Chait was also the "useful idiot" for FusionGPS who planted the "Trump changed the RNC platform on Ukraine to help Putin" narrative.

These stories were cited in other stories later on and used by the FBI to obtain FISA warrants on the Trump Campaign. https://t.co/AYNbxxIRvK
19) The same pattern has been playing out for a while in 2020, this time in relation to Turkey

@TWPundit first discovered a disinformation campaign was underway to illicitly connect Trump to Turkey when articles like this began dropping earlier this year https://t.co/BKqS9wJzGi
20) The Soros-funded
@OCCRP was the same media outfit cited in the fake Ukraine "whistleblower" complaint used by @AdamSchiff to kick off his Ukraine Impeachment hoax.
The Sep 2020 @OCCRP
article still reports the Ukraine accusations as established fact
https://t.co/vHBTjOckCK
21)
@BuzzFeed
( who infamously released the Steele Dossier) then got in on the act along with
@ICIJorg
... another collection of Soros-funded stooges (there's that name again 🤨) https://t.co/oeKFa6BUWt
22)
@BuzzFeed
gaslit their followers into thinking they'd really found something. But as
@TWPundit
reported, it was just recycled, made up dirt. Fake new.

Classic #RussiaGate pattern of circular reasoning … plant the story and then cite the story. https://t.co/8EdnnCbSus
23) It wasn't just Soros-funded alphabet soup orgs and rags like @Buzzfeed
@NBCNews did their part to help lay the groundwork for the @nytimes (sadly transparent and predictable) smear piece yesterday. https://t.co/jlIFJBBcvU
24) This article too was transparently absurd because it made reference to possible violations of the "Emoluments Clause" of the US Constitution ... which would fall in the same category as the Logan Act

Even @NBCNews recognized the stupidity of the charge and quickly retracted
25) The 9/27 @nytimes article on Trump's illegally leaked tax return was itself part of the setup. There were numerous accusations related to Turkey in the original article which are again referenced in the article from yesterday. https://t.co/7bsEnoG5hu. Stay tuned for more...

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