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Senior reporter @CNN. 10+yrs covering legal DC. Prev: @americanlawyer @theNLJ @roanoketimes @newshour You can take the girl out of the Rust Belt but ... #H2P

Sep 30, 2020, 6 tweets

Proud Boys isn’t just some random white nationalist group.

Facebook head of security policy in July: "We first started looking into this network as part of our investigation into the Proud Boys...Our investigation linked this network to Roger Stone”

cnn.com/2020/07/08/tec…

Members of the Proud Boys attended court hearings last year for Roger Stone in DC, forming a core support group for Stone and his family members during the trial

Also this:
Proud Boys chair sat behind Trump at a Florida rally wearing a “Roger Stone did nothing wrong” tshirt

washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02…

There’s this @ZoeTillman story about Proud Boys supporting Roger Stone, which includes this Instagram shot from Stone’s now-shut down account. Via @BuzzFeedNews

buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…

To sum up: Proud Boys and Roger Stone are closely linked.
Socially, and in efforts to spread pro-Trump political propaganda.
It’s undeniable, well-documented, publicly observable.

thedailybeast.com/how-the-proud-…

Ps, in case you’ve forgotten:

cnn.com/2020/07/10/pol…

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