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Jun 1, 2022, 9 tweets

#Exclusive from @RawStory:

1. Here's the as-yet untold story of how Robert Caron of JTG MAGA connected the "ShadowGate" conspiracy theorists to journalist Lara Logan, and how they wound up in DC to assist in the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
rawstory.com/lara-logan-cap…

2. "They knew Nov. 3 was going to happen, let alone Jan. 6. They were setting all these scams up. It sure seems like they were putting these things in place at least three months ahead of time to be able to prepare for Trump's loss." — Patrick Bergy, "ShadowGate" whistleblower

3. As Bergy points out, the useful kernel in "ShadowGate," which was released in mid-August 2020, was a false claim about election tech company Scytl that was promoted by writer-producer Millie Weaver.

4. Following the release of "ShadowGate," Weaver was fired by InfoWars host Alex Jones. But she found a new sponsor in Patrick Byrne, who confirmed to Raw Story that he paid for hotel rooms in DC for Weaver, Bergy, Weaver's partner Gavin Wince & pro-Trump podcaster Tore Maras.

5. After Jan. 6, Weaver assisted Rudy Giuliani by collecting and analyzing video to try to frame "antifa" for the attack on the Capitol.

6. Robert Caron, the JTF MAGA spokesman, was in an out of DC from Nov. 2020 through Jan. 2021. His name was all over a doc called "Invincible Argument" that called on Trump to deploy the National Guard to disband Congress.

7. On 1/5/21, the same day conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi published "Invincible Argument" on his website, Lara Logan tweeted out a link to the PowerPoint Phil Waldron used to brief members of Congress, which called on Trump to use the National Guard to seize voting machines.

Addendum: Thanks to @visionsurreal for the reminder that Caron has been interviewed by the FBI. Per @CNN, Caron said the agents told him they were investigating events that led up to the violence on Jan. 6, & Caron said he spoke w/ the agents about "key people."

I've mentioned that Millie Weaver promoted the bogus claim about Scytl tabulating votes on overseas servers in August 2020. That claim was also promoted by Tore Maras 9 mos. earlier. Read this piece by @TheOddPost about how Maras mangled legit research. theoddpost.com/2022/05/19/how…

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