(TRUE STORY) In the weeks before the 2020 election, ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne was desperately trying to get to me through an intermediary to share info about the coming election he claimed was critical.
I ignored his overtures.
Donald Trump invited him to the Oval Office.
I had messages from Byrne's rep on every social media platform I'm reachable on. I decided that his public instability was such that I wanted nothing to do with him. Incredible to think that the President of the United States—the most powerful man alive—made a different decision.
NOTE/ What's telling about this—and what U.S. media might wonder about, now—is whether Byrne was contacting me to tell the same tale he told the president in the Oval. Seems unlikely, right? Seems like maybe Byrne is just peddling nonsense wherever he thinks he can get attention?
NOTE2/ Here's what I can tell everyone (and media): Byrne represented—via his rep—he'd been in touch with Roger Stone, and wanted to talk to journalists pre-election about the FBI/Comey. I'm sure I'm not the only one he contacted. After all, we know he contacted the White House.
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(THREAD) Putting the news below and the recent Dobbs-Flynn interview together, you get the following: at least one foreign intelligence service and at least one foreign cyberintelligence firm are trying to get manufactured election "evidence" to Trump. forbes.com/sites/jackbrew…
1/ Flynn is represented by Powell. Flynn just told Lou Dobbs that "we"—apparently, he and Powell—had just gotten "evidence" from "foreign nations and partners" who'd been "watching" our election for digital intereference. Such surveillance would require intelligence capabilities.
2/ Flynn indicated that his intention was to ensure that this "evidence" be given to Trump directly. Thereafter he went to the White House once and his lawyer Powell went three times. Once she was seen with an article about an alleged Iranian attack on the election under her arm.
Anyone else here watch comedian Marc Maron's live Instagram recordings on a semi-daily basis? I have complicated feelings, maybe because I "know" him now—of course not, but you know what I mean—largely through these, as I've only listened to maybe two episodes of his WTF podcast.
I just think he's an interesting figure—funny and smart as hell—and I also feel like the way he is processing grief and meeting his audience in the midst of their own (largely pandemic-enabled) grief is really fascinating in a way I hope one day someone writes about meaningfully.
I happen to be grieving a death myself, so I've been thinking about how grief sends us into an exploration of all our own extremes and subtleties. Maron presents as earnest, angry, arrogant, knowing, funny, obsessive, smart, impulsive, guarded. So many lovely self-contradictions.
I hope federal law enforcement was paying attention on Friday when Michael Flynn told Lou Dobbs that he and Sidney Powell are acting as intermediaries between at least one foreign intelligence service and Trump. Is it Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE? FBI CD better find out.
The idea that a hostile intelligence service—or elements of an allied intelligence service with interests hostile to the interests of the U.S.—would be working with a former U.S. soldier currently aiming to stage a coup, and that FBI CD might not be on top of this, is terrifying.
I should add that Flynn said he and Powell received this mysterious foreign intelligence Friday, and that it'd be getting to Trump immediately. This suggests Flynn was at the White House to transmit that foreign intelligence during the meeting the NYT/others have now reported on.
(PS) An element of Trump's corruption that I document using scores of reliable major media investigative reports in the Proof trilogy is that when he identifies a corrupt person useful to him, he'll often disassociate from them publicly—when in fact they're still working for him.
(PS2) This is one of the many ways in which Trump plays the media for suckers. He convinced the media, at various points, that Cohen, Dowd, diGenova, Toensing, Manafort, Stone, and many other corrupt figures—like Powell—had stopped working for him. Why does media *always* buy it?
I'm distraught that members of the Space Force are now "guardians" because at some point there'll be a Space Force Academy like West Point or Annapolis or the Air Force Academy which means eventually there'll be a Space Force football team and I so wanted them to be the Spacemen
(PS) I even had a logo picked out for the Space Academy Spacemen college football team's helmets, now just another pipe dream on the dustbin of history
(PS2) The annual Air Force-Space Force college football game is gonna be 🔥 when the series starts up in 2050