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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsreal news - TPM - Marshall - "Trump's Tweets May Be His Undoing"
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-tweets-may-be-his-undoingBy JOSH MARSHALL Published NOVEMBER 14, 2017 6:24 PM
Many Americans have feelings of shock, embarrassment or just serial cringing watching Donald Trumps presidential tweets. But intelligence professionals have noted for months that it also provides a priceless channel of information for foreign intelligence services trying to understand the Presidents state of mind. All countries diplomatic personnel and intelligence analysts devote immense time and resources to understanding the views, motivations, weaknesses and agendas of key foreign leaders. Trumps often erratic and impulsive tweeting patterns reveals sleeping patterns, moods, what makes Trump angry, what hes focused on, who hes hating or cuddling up to at a given moment. In some cases, his tweets actually having geolocations turned on. So they know precisely where he was. But theres yet another dimension to Trumps tweeting and generally impulsive nature and it bears on the Russia investigation.
When I first started writing this post last night, this had only been caught by the Journals Byron Tau. Julia Ioffe later incorporated it into a revised version of her Don Jr/Wikileaks exclusive in The Atlantic. Others have noted it over the course of the day.
Heres the gist.
On October 12, 2016, Wikileaks (apparently Julian Assange himself) Twitter DMd Don Jr: Hey Donald, great to see you and your dad talking about our publications. Strongly suggest your dad tweets this link if he mentions us. Theres many great stories the press are missing and were sure some of your follows [sic] will find it. Btw we just released Podesta Emails Part 4.
Two days later Don Jr tweeted the link Assange suggested. But only 15 minutes after Assange sent his message, Donald Trump himself tweeted this.
Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2016
Could this be a coincidence? Theoretically, yes. In practice, it is almost certain that Don Jr told his dad and his dad wrote up this tweet. This came after Don Jr had asked Assange earlier in the month for information on what turned out to be the Podesta emails. Assange was not only in on-going contact with Don Jr but able to get both father and son to do things with his DMs, specifically he got them to broadcast the documents Russian intelligence operatives had stolen and given to Assange.
snip - more to read at the above link.
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real news - TPM - Marshall - "Trump's Tweets May Be His Undoing" (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2017
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global1
(25,270 posts)1. He Who Lives By The Tweet - Dies By The Tweet.....
His tweets will bring him down!!!!!
renate
(13,776 posts)2. there's so much going on I can't keep track, but
... is there a reason that Trump couldn't also have been getting tweets from Assange/Wikileaks and also following instructions?
The article says "In practice, it is almost certain that Don Jr told his dad and his dad wrote up this tweet." Fifteen minutes seems pretty quick for that to happen unless they were in the same room.