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Sep 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
New: When asked to directly disavow white supremacists, Trump—yet again—did not do so.

Instead, his dodging provoked online celebration by far-right extremists who saw it as implicit approval and pledged their allegiance to him.

With @LissandraVilla time.com/5894497/donald…
Trump's comments were "a huge win for the Proud Boys, which we should remember is a group who views its mission as literally ‘fighting Antifa’ as part of its ’defense of the West,'" @MeganSquire0, who tracks data on the group, tells TIME. time.com/5894497/donald…
Members of the far-right group "are even debating whether to go ‘back to Portland,’ and how to proceed."

“They’ve now been blessed by the President on the world stage and the data shows they are extremely excited by this." time.com/5894497/donald…
Scott, the lone Black Republican in the Senate, says Trump "misspoke" when he told far-right extremist group to "stand back and stand by"

"I think the president misspoke, and he needs to correct it. If he doesn’t correct it, I guess he didn’t misspeak.” postandcourier.com/news/tim-scott…

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Jun 27, 2023
New: How Prigozhin used Telegram to build an online platform that in just seven months allowed him to morph from an unofficial extension of the Kremlin to a prominent figure with his own online audience & direct channel to the Russian public time.com/6290378/yevgen…
Prigozhin built Wagner in the shadows for almost a decade and was rarely seen in public, denying his connection to the group and even suing news outlets for correctly linking him to Wagner. That all changed abruptly last September. time.com/6290378/yevgen…
Prigozhin used Telegram to circumvent the Kremlin’s state media apparatus, meeting Russians on the platform where they sought uncensored news from the war in Ukraine. https://t.co/7nWs5ojYyytime.com/6290378/yevgen…
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May 16, 2023
The CIA launched a new Telegram channel today to recruit Russians who might be willing to provide state info, complete with a cinematic video in the gray tones of a Cold War thriller.

Analysts say there's a glaring flaw: "they're not offering anything." time.com/6280190/cia-re…
The video “goes from grainy sad life in Russia to what–grainy, sad life on the CIA side? Most Russians are suspicious of America & CIA in particular. So associating this with the CIA is only likely to reinforce the belief they’re the ones doing the lying.” time.com/6280190/cia-re…
“Are you a military officer? Do you work in intelligence, diplomacy, science, high technology or deal with people who do?” reads a message in the new CIA video, which ends with both Russian characters deciding to contact the agency on their phones. time.com/6280190/cia-re…
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May 15, 2023
NEW: Right-wing doctors who made millions off conspiracies & fake Covid drugs are thriving, setting up new telemedicine schemes & buying $3M mansions.

Families who say they caused their loved ones deaths are still fighting for accountability.

My story on how they got away w/ it
In 2021, I investigated how America’s Frontline Doctors, which despite its name is actually a right-wing political org created to support the Trump admin's reopening push, was making $$ off bogus Covid cures & anti-vax conspiracies. It only got worse.
As the US officially closes the book on the pandemic, many families have remained silent about this aspect of their loved ones’ deaths. Some are embarrassed or reluctant to tarnish their relatives’ memories.

They're much more common than you may think. time.com/6278831/iverme… Image
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Apr 13, 2023
From traitor to hero in less than a day. ImageImageImageImage
FWIW, all the facts contradict the emerging whistleblower narrative.

- Teixeira didn’t actually do any whistleblowing - he didn’t expose docs to the public/the press
- He posted docs in group & told them not to share
- His friends in group vehemently deny he’s a whistleblower Image
More here, with @wjhenn time.com/6271787/jack-t…
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Apr 13, 2023
"Two U.S. officials confirmed that investigators want to talk to Airman Teixeira about the leak of the government documents to the private online group. One official said Airman Teixeira might have information relevant to the investigation." nytimes.com/2023/04/13/wor…
"Members of Thug Shaker Central who spoke to The Times...who came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games" is both an incredible and completely predictable line re: a classified intel leak in 2023 nytimes.com/2023/04/13/wor…
"When asked if Airman Teixeira was there and willing to speak, the man said: “He needs to get an attorney if things are flowing the way they are going right now. The Feds will be around soon, I’m sure.” nytimes.com/2023/04/13/wor…
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Apr 11, 2023
When it comes to leaks of classified government documents, the way they are disseminated is often as telling as the actual information they contain.

And this one is baffling current and former officials and security analysts.

Latest ⬇️ time.com/6270306/leaked…
The classified docs sat on Discord chat servers for more than a month, only breaking through to the public—and, it appears, U.S. military officials—when they were posted on Telegram & 4chan

DefSec Austin was first briefed on the leaks on April 6
time.com/6270306/leaked…
“The way that it was disseminated, that it was put on some website and not quietly or secretly given to an agent…it was done in the full open, so anyone could see it. It was almost daring people to notice it.” time.com/6270306/leaked…
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