Yesterday's conspiracy theories are today's legacy media news reports...
A thread on some interesting stories that have emerged in just the past 9 days since the midterm elections have been held, surely no relation of course on the timing... 1/
NBC Bay Area reporter @BigadShaban reported on the Pelosi attack based on source who saw body cam footage. It was almost identical to what Miguel Almaguer said 11/4 that got him suspended.
DA says Pelosi will "need to explain...why he did what he did"
nbcbayarea.com/investigations… 2/
WashPost reports after all that "secret docs!" drama, Trump raid produced basically nothing of interest.
"Do not point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets..." more just about "ego" and keeping "mementos":
washingtonpost.com/national-secur… 3/
NBC reports the January 6 committee will ignore "law enforcement failures" in final report, instead making it all about Trump.
An entire team was working on that aspect, but was given a “pens down” order recently:
nbcnews.com/politics/justi… 4/
NYT reports the #2 man in the Oath Keepers, Greg McWhirter, was actually an FBI informant, talking to them for months ahead of the Capitol attack.
Oh the day he was supposed to testify in the Rhodes trial, McWhirter, 40, had a heart attack & couldn't.
nytimes.com/2022/11/08/us/… 5/
NYT also reports the FBI "had as many as eight informants inside" inside the Proud Boys, in the months before AND after the January 6 riot.
Despite this, NYT asserts "no evidence has surfaced suggesting that the FBI played any role in the attack." Yet!
nytimes.com/2022/11/14/us/… 6/
There's also the SBF FTX implosion - who now says "fuck regulators" and "ESG has been perverted beyond recognition" and describes the "dumb game...we woke westerners play where we say all the right" things... conveniently post midterms, of course.
vox.com/future-perfect… 7/
If you said any of this - about January 6 and the FBI, Paul Pelosi, the Trump raid, SBF's virtue signaling - you would have been accused of being a conspiracy theorist.
And now, in the post-midterms news cycle...they are all just true. Period. More in @FourthWatch tonight. 8/
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