Thread by @ThyConsigliori

1) Let's talk about my great friend @annvandersteel. She may be the most relentless, dauntless researcher I know. Okay, there's also the @tracybeanz and my phenomenal wife @KateScopelliti, but they'll both forgive me for focusing on Ann right now.

2) In my experience so far, and, poor Ann, she's endured a ratio of something like 60 minutes of prep time for 15 minutes of filming with me, personally. I brag, I've learned to provide Ann an exhaustive analysis in advance of filming in hopes of reducing her work load.

3) This I can tell you. Ann will NEVER publish anything without vetting it by some incredible, not-to-be-understood Vandersteel, Steel Truth formula. Ann publishes NOTHING she doesn't feel 100% certain of, by her own standards, whatever those extraordinary standards are.

4) There's extraordinary nuance here. In the time we've shared, I have never once felt attacked or uncomfortable. Yet, I knew that in any given moment, by moment, if I'd offered her the slightest malarkey she'd be politely distancing herself from me in a nanosecond.

5) In my professional life, I'm pretty much always the guy asking the questions. Deeper and deeper I probe. It's one of the main elements of what I do. I am, however, not trained, in being the guy answering the questions. And be clear, the one asking is the one with the power.

6) So, to be completely frank, Ann scares living daylights out of me. She's so kind and considerate, so polite. Yet, I know I'm being judged, my every word and tiniest bit of logic is being judged in every moment we speak. No one else in the public sphere intimidates me quite so.

7) And yet, she remains one of the kindest, most considerate friends I have through it all. Can you say deadly? Steel Truth. It's kind of like the combined Wrath of God and a lovely Spring day. Can you say dangerous?

8) Shift in topic. Let's talk for just a moment - and I mean that! - about the incredible @JosephJFlynn1. Consider what it means to be @GenFlynn's brother, and the one with the most public face on topic. Joe isn't merely that. He is America's beloved brother.

9) I brag further. I know both @GenFlynn and @JosephJFlynn1 personally and, each in their way, employ me as their honored Consigliori. I don't know if I'll ever quite catch up to how that happened. It is the greatest honor of my professional and patriotic life.

10) So I can humbly state, you do not want to miss Ann's show, on Thursday, when Joe speaks to the situation and I make my case that we must move from #ClearFlynnNow to #PardonFlynnNow. Please find the time and join us here, at...

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