Hope our best and bravest firefighters don’t trip all over themselves in their mad rush to condemn Newsweek’s Nina Burleigh over this.
“Writer and scholar” Sarah Kendzior got the ball rolling:
I'm making a thread of articles that I think are seminal to understanding the crisis we're in, but have largely been played down.
They describe massive and horrific crimes that have been carried out with impunity by people in Trump's camp, often for years or decades.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 14, 2019
1. The US Treasury was infiltrated by Russia in 2015 with the active aid of US Treasury officials. The Obama admin knew and did not stop it. The Trump admin is complicit, and treason in the treasury continues under Mnuchin's watch.
Buzzfeed: https://t.co/cyzj0lqTXE
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 14, 2019
2. Black Cube, a brutal private group of Israeli operatives drawn largely from Mossad, has been working with the Trump camp to target former US officials involved in the Iran deal (when not working for predators like Harvey Weinstein)
New Yorker: https://t.co/sFCUPPbi9e
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 14, 2019
The Black Cube story is enormous and carries over into the MeToo movement, into the surveillance and intimidation of journalists, and into dirty deals the Trump team made made. Why was it dropped?
Here's a thread of articles from when it was covered: https://t.co/BE4ofsLAWO
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 14, 2019
3) Jeffrey Epstein case. Epstein is a sex trafficker of underage girls who avoided real punishment. He is tied to Trump, was aided by Trump's labor secretary and by Dershowitz, and was likely procuring blackmail on and for elite criminals
Miami Herald: https://t.co/KYXvwp2WzS
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 14, 2019
The Epstein case is not new, which makes it all the more horrifying. It's an extremely significant case both on a human rights and on a national security level. On @gaslitnation we discussed Epstein and his connections in detail: https://t.co/HVk89DOP6G
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 14, 2019
4) Trump was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl procured by Epstein. In November 2016, lawyer Lisa Bloom attempted to represent the victim. After they both got death threats, the press conference and then suit were dropped.
Bloom in 2016: https://t.co/F5Re2uf9RB
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 14, 2019
5) US infrastructure has been hacked, most notably the grid. WIRED list some of the worst cybersecurity breaches in 2018: https://t.co/g98nOGfPWA
I wrote that infrastructure hacks, not personal blackmail, may be the ultimate leverage enabling Trump: https://t.co/bY0CdE1vUN
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 14, 2019
6) How Chabad is used as a cover for criminal activity by international mafias and key players in the Trump team including Sater, Cohen, Kushner, Ivanka, etc. Briefly explored by Politico, then dropped: https://t.co/9uVkhbFxna
Picked up by Mueller: https://t.co/GUJeb37rC8
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 14, 2019
There are many more undercovered stories, but the press seems particularly reluctant to pursue these. Which is not surprising since those who do write about them are threatened.
Why officials also seem reluctant to investigate or prosecute obvious crimes – now there's a story…
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 14, 2019
Burleigh ate that sh*t up:
Interesting thread. To answer your final question, Israel, mossad, Chabad and black cube… you’re hitting the third rail of American journalism, Sarah.
— Nina Burleigh (@ninaburleigh) January 14, 2019
Real subtle, Nina.
What the hell?
— Jonathan M. Katz✍? (@KatzOnEarth) January 14, 2019
— Tzvi (@kilovh) January 15, 2019
How are you even a real person
— Kebeh Nayyeh (@KNayyeh) January 15, 2019
She’s not just a real person; she’s a Real Journalist™. And she just blamed the Jews for Donald Trump.
JOOOOOOOOOSSS
— Hawkish Liberty (@HawkishLiberty) January 15, 2019
Protocols of the Elders of Trump?
— Ben Maxwell Freeman (@benmfreeman) January 15, 2019
Chabad?? Really?
— …((…..))… (@LernerMark) January 15, 2019
Chabad, lol Watch out Texas, the mitzvah tanks are coming for your guns.
— Rootless [But Very Stable] Cosmopolitan (@BrianBuchbinder) January 15, 2019
Thank you for making me laugh as I sit here disgusted and horrified by this thread.
— Arielle Calvo (@ArielleCalvo) January 15, 2019
Sometimes you have to laugh so you don’t cry.
A person who works for Newsweek just said the Jews are behind Trump. That is all. https://t.co/ejGZHKD6LD
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) January 15, 2019
Gross.
— peterinroslyn (@peterinroslyn) January 15, 2019
Wait, the JEWS are behind Trump?! No. 79% of us voted against him. And we support Israel’s existence, though the vast majority enormously abhor its government. Shocking that an American journalist would resort to this (very) thinly-veiled language.
— (((Joe Goldman))) (@JGoldCA) January 15, 2019
A @Newsweek employee is openly engaging in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Unreal.
— bill (@angrycommuter85) January 15, 2019
The American press, @Newsweek , @nytimes , @washingtonpost , @CNN, @MSNBC, continue to demonstrate their antisemitism and anti-Israel biases. It is so “in” to be a Jew hater in the MSM these days. @AG_Conservative @ggreenwald
— Eric Lieber (@EricLieber) January 15, 2019
Ah yes, it's the Jews.
She will face no penalty for this. The MSM will have her on their shows. https://t.co/e0M5u6hWLI
— Nathan, son of Robert (@NathanWurtzel) January 15, 2019
They’ll shower her with praise.
Found the next Democratic congresswoman.
— Rick Daniels (@RDaniel233) January 15, 2019
She’d fit right in.
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional text and tweets.