(1 of 2) Paul Manafort—a longtime associate of Howard Liebengood Sr.—is an exec at Event Strategies, which planned the 1/6 rally that ended with a breach of security at the Capitol, where Howard Liebengood Jr. worked security (USCP). 2 days later Liebengood Jr. committed suicide.
(2 of 2) I believe this is a coincidence. That said, because I don't think Manafort aiding and abetting a rally that ended in insurrection is coincidence, I have to assume that—out of an abundance of caution—law enforcement will investigate any possible Manafort-Liebengood link.
(PS) It is vital that no one presume connections where there may be none. My point is that as a criminal investigative matter, Manafort will be investigated for any role he had in the Save America March, and Liebengood's suicide would naturally be investigated due to its context.
(PS2) I'm sure there'll be those who say that a Donald Trump event giving tons of money to a company that enriches Paul Manafort at a time when Trump continues to need Manafort to stay quiet and Manafort is having money problems is a mere coincidence.
*That* I do not agree with.
(PS3) By the same token, as a federal criminal investigative matter, when you are about to have numerous investigations into whether security at a government building had been pre-compromised and someone who worked security at that building commits suicide, it gets investigated.
(PS4) So it's only natural to say that if there's a potential association between two necessary investigations, it's something that might be briefly looked at. And all the more so due to the Manafort-January 6, Manafort-Stone, Stone-Proud Boy, and Proud Boy-January 6 connections.
(PS5) I think it's certainly a bridge too far to note that Manafort's former boss, Putin, is known for killing people and making it look like a suicide. But it's Trump and Manafort's fault that all Americans have this awareness of suspicious suicides that we didn't have pre-2015.
(PS6) Do I think there was a conspiracy behind January 6? Absolutely—that's what Ali Alexander has already said, and what many members of Congress have said publicly they believe. But I have no reason whatsoever to think Liebengood was involved. I won't say the same for Manafort.
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(DOCUMENT4) For what it's worth—likely nothing, beyond being a curiosity—this is the most famous suspected assassination that Putin made look like a suicide.
It happened in Washington, D.C. while Trump was a presidential candidate.
(DOCUMENT5) Far more relevant is that Stone and Manafort are longtime business partners and Trump associates, and that Stone invented "Stop the Steal" even as Manafort's company produced the most significant event ever held under the "Stop the Steal" mantra—the January 6 "rally."
(NOTE) Those who've read the Proof trilogy—Proof of Collusion (2018), Proof of Conspiracy (2019), and Proof of Corruption (2020)—will already know this, but in 2005-2006 Paul Manafort signed a contract to advance Putin's interests in the US. It's unknown if the contract persists.
Okay, I found the video. Here is Elon Musk unambiguously flashing the White Power sign on SNL to see if he could get away with it, exactly like he did with his Nazi salute this January.
You can see Musk delivers a line not on the prompter—"Call me the DOGE-father"—which generates laughs from those in his audience part of his 4chan fanbase, and it’s then he 1) flashes the OK symbol—a 4chan game—after which he 2) _reverses his hands_ to flash the White Power sign.
This is 100% a PoS who thinks he can get away with anything using a national stage to send neo-Nazi code to fans under circumstances in which he planned in advance to deny the obvious. Just like in January, he’s such an arrogant bigot he does his gesture _twice_ to make it clear.
As Donald Trump leads America down the path to becoming a failed state, we have lost 24/7 weather services in parts of the country. Along with massive deterioration in Social Security services caused by Musk, American decline at the hands of billionaires couldn't be more stark.
Some of us have understood a long time that billionaires are weird, venal, antisocial, detached, often sociopathic creatures who can't be trusted to care about the nations that made them, let alone average citizens.
And some of us blindly worship these creatures.
Which are you?
Even in an ardently capitalistic market, no one becomes a billionaire without gaming the system in ways anyone with a conscience deems disgusting.
It's not a sign of a healthy free market when billionaires are created, it's a sign of a broken system.
I wonder how many Americans realize that Bribery is one of just two impeachable offenses specifically enumerated in the U.S. Constitution and the case that Donald Trump has now committed that crime dozens of times in his second term is a legal slam dunk.
So shall we get started?
To be very clear, I'm not saying that there is a single federal elected official within the Republican Party who believes in this country or cares about this country or honors our rule of law and would vote to impeach.
I am saying that fact must be the national conversation now.
The case for impeachment is not academic, hypothetical, partisan, opaque, obscure, confusing, highly technical, or any other adjective denoting a distance from the lived reality of every American.
President Donald Trump has openly committed Bribery, and we all watched him do it.
(📢) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump and Elon Musk Friend/Ally Vladimir Putin Has Eyes, Brain, and Larynx Ripped Out of Captured and Tortured Ukrainian Journalist; MAGA Hero Putin Returns Journalist's Body in Condition Almost Impossible to Identify As Female theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…
Journalists must stop playing games with American fascism.
The Trump Administration is a congregation of monsters, and it seeks to appeal to a voting base that is either already wholly monstrous or getting there.
If you cannot see what's happening in America, *quit journalism*.
Putin is the closest thing Earth has to a demon. The fact that Donald Trump and all of his aides, allies, agents, associates, attorneys and advisors, including and perhaps most especially Elon Musk, have tried to suck up to him despite knowing what he is tells us what *they* are.
(📢) COMMUNITY NOTE: The human population is growing—rapidly. It's projected to keep growing for many decades, until at least 2100. Then it will decline slightly, per experts, but to a level still far beyond now. What Musk MEANS but refuses to SAY is WHITE fertility is declining.
Let me be much clearer: anyone who says they are worried about the human population declining is a white supremacist.
The only basis anyone could have for being worried about birth rates would be a bigoted fear of non-white persons significantly outnumbering whites.
Full stop.
But even if we just look at the population of Europe, it's absolutely *exploded* since 1950—despite the fact that at two points in the last 75 years it declined.
This suggests that even if or as it declines significantly between now and 2100, it's just returning to those levels.