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1/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

Have you ever wondered if former DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone was a J6 hero or J6 villain? I certainly have. I'll share my thoughts about the officer in this thread. Love your feedback in the comments.

2/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

It is important to note that Officer Fanone wasn't assigned to the Capitol - instead after hearing about the protests he decided to head to the Capitol without permission. Reportedly telling a colleague he was ready to give a 'beatdown' to #MAGA thugs.

3/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

Fanone, a registered Democrat and avid hunter, had been working a plainclothes desk job at Police HQ for a 10yrs - hearing about the protests he and his partner Jimmy Albright 'suited up' in riot gear and rushed to the Capitol looking for a fight.

4/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

Fanone jumped into the melee and began giving the 'MAGA thugs' the beatdown of their lives but before long the tables turned and he became the victim instead of the aggressor. Their attack on Fanone wasn't justified but it was foreseeable.

5/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

To be VERY clear there is NO justification for protestors' attack on Fanone and EVERYONE that participated in the attack on him should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law - and if Fanone engaged in police brutality he too should be prosecuted.

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In fact, the rioter who dragged Fanone into the crowd, Albuquerque Head, 43, of Tennessee, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison - one of the longest sentences to date in the Capitol riot cases - I suspect he deserves it.
nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

6.5/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

Soon after, Fanone began a daily media tour arranged by the Democrat Party to transform a four-hour protest/riot at the Capitol into a seditious conspiracy and insurrection almost resulting in a bloody coup d'é·tat. Fanone was complicit in their lie.

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Between his TV appearances, Fanone would return to his tiny cubicle at police HQ but couldn't help but think that he could be doing more for the country working full-time as an activist against Trump and the GOP. His talent agent told him to retire.

7.1/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

His fellow officers began ostracizing him for exaggerating the four-hour protests and many of his colleagues believed he was 'asking for it'. In their eyes, the desk jockey had no business at the Capitol that day.
politico.com/news/magazine/…

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When lawmakers invited him to their offices to discuss his experience at the Capitol the DC officer wore a police-issued wiretap device to illicitly record the lawmakers - tapes he leaked to the press.
politico.com/news/magazine/…

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Fanone told Rolling Stone, “I was like, I’ve got nothing better to do today. I’m going to go annoy some people on Capitol Hill”. Rolling Stone reviewed the wiretaps and talked to Fanone about his visit. His statements are chilling.

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Speaking of those visits, fuck the “fucking fat fuck” chief of staff who had the gall to ask to see Dunn’s badge that day “I was like, ‘Here’s my badge number: One,’” says Fanone, holding up his middle finger. “I eat that shit for breakfast”

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Fuck Marjorie Taylor Greene (“Put her in the tinfoil-hat brigade”) and Andrew Clyde (“When confronted in person, he fucking folded like a fucking deck of cards”)

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Matt Gaetz (“I mean, dude, there’s a constituency out there somewhere in America that elected Matt Gaetz and decided that guy somehow embodied what it is to be a real red-blooded American. A fucking pedo. I don’t get it”).

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Fuck Josh Hawley. “He comes down there, flashes the sign of solidarity, riles up this fucking crowd,” Fanone says of Hawley’s actions during the insurrection. “I would’ve had more respect for him if he said, ‘Charge!'

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Definitely fuck Kevin McCarthy, who, as Fanone describes in the first chapter of his memoir, Hold the Line (out Oct. 11), lied and deflected his way through a meeting with Fanone and Jan. 6 casualty Brian Sicknick’s mother — the dead man’s mother...

7.9/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

Rolling Stone's love letter to Fanone: "Michael Fanone Is Not Your Fucking Hero"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

8/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

With stars in his eyes, Fanone signed a book deal, secured a job with CNN making more than he made as a cop - explaining that it leaves him plenty of time for his useless, lazy coonhound named Buddy and drinking beer.
minnpost.com/eric-black-ink…

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After Fanone announced his retirement from the DC police CNN announced that they had hired him as their 'law enforcement analyst' - a position that pays him more than the DC police did - with a lot less work.
thehill.com/homenews/media…

10/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

So where did Fanone grow up? The J6 Star's father was a powerful DC lawyer and his mother was a successful social worker. They sent Fanone to the most prestigious school in the United States - Georgetown Prep - alma mata of two Supreme Court justices.

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According to Rolling Stone Fanone wasn't a big rule follower as a cop. Once he pulled up behind his friend’s stolen Chevy and instead of reporting it he got into a high-speed chase with the thief who eventually totaled his friend's car.

12/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

Fanone gets calls from @SpeakerPelosi to check in, he regularly will spend a week at a time at Sean Penn's Malibu estate, he was Joan Baez's date to the Kennedy Center, he exchanges texts with Sturgill Simpson, & regularly meets @RepSwalwell for beers.

13/ Michael Fanone #J6 🧵

With a taste of the good life, despite his lucrative book deal and cushy CNN gig, Fanone claims he needs more money to support the life he's become accustomed to. To that end he's asking for your support on GoFundMe:
gofundme.com/f/michael-fano…

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So what do you think? Is Fanone a hero?

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