"This was intentional... We've seen their assault on democracy for the last five years." - Andrea
.@AndreaChalupa goes through a timeline of events before and during January 6th. A couple things in here that I didn't know already. (I'm curious why the Kremers want so much credit for the march. That whole thing between them and Ali is confusing, but maybe GN will go into it).
.@SarahKendzior reads from an article she wrote in 2016. It's STILL relevant!
"This was coming so far in advance that you literally cannot tell the difference between an article that I published before he was even president and one that comes out now." qz.com/807615/donald-…
I'm posting the above three tweets now then live-tweeting as I listen. This episode of @GaslitNation should be available wherever you get your podcasts soon, if it isn't already. I'm listening ad-free on Patreon. patreon.com/gaslit
Donald Trump pardoning war criminals and his mob buddies is a signal to his supporters that they can get away with violence. It's a recruitment tool. Police getting away with murder: recruitment tool. - Andrea, not a direct quote
"Ivanka stood to benefit should this coup have been successful... Ivanka is as craven in her ambition as Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz. She wanted to stay in power to continue her life of power and escaping consequences." - @AndreaChalupa (possibly reading from an article?)
(22:10) Andrea just called Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz delusional for thinking Trump would ever give them his blessing to follow in his footsteps while Ivanka exists, and I burst out laughing.
Sarah presents three possible futures:
1. Trump somehow stays in power (unlikely)
2. The collapse of the United States - breaking us into parts. You've gotta HEAR this part. (Also, Sarah goes OFF 👏)
2nd possible future cont'd: "It would consist of a bunch of corrupt mafiosos coming in and stripping off this country and selling it for parts, and that is WHY they put Donald Trump in office to begin with."
3rd possible future: THEY ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR CRIMES.
Trump remains defiant and a threat. He should be indicted and arrested and prevented from ever running for office again. - Andrea
"This is a prelude. There will very likely be more attacks to come. We've been talking about this on this show for months, and really for years." - Sarah
Sarah reminds listeners that there are other big attacks planned for January 17th and January 20th. But small attacks can do a lot of damage, too. trumpfile.org/twitter-warns-…
"If a 'blue' life is lost fighting a white supremacist mob, [the GOP] will choose the white supremacist mob over the police officers who try to work to protect elected officials... That's how serious this is." - Sarah
While listening to these two brave women @sarahkendzior and @AndreaChalupa, the Trump administration just ~executed~ a woman for the first time since 1953.
"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are assassination targets. Trump's backers have made that very clear. They did not go into the Capitol just to break things and take selfies." - @sarahkendzior
Andrea and Sarah didn't use this phrase, but I am also in favor of a "basement inauguration" (virtual event). It makes literally zero sense to have the ceremony in public with everything we know might happen.
"They announced it! They literally announced it! Like, they tweeted out 'Hi, I'm going to DC for the erection' -- ha! I'm sorry. 'I'm going to DC for the insurrection at the Capitol!'" - Sarah
"FBI agents visited the homes of some of these white supremacist terrorists to talk them in to not going." - Andrea
What? Are you kidding? I mean... Look at all the good that did.
Right now (about an hour in), Andrea is going through some more articles, clips, and investigation about the Capitol attack. Again, there's information in here I hadn't seen yet and I paid more attention to last Wednesday than anyone else I know IRL. Really a great episode.
People are going to forget that this was intentional. They're going to forget how it was executed. And one of the reasons they're going to forget [is because] despite the need to remove Trump immediately, people are not acting in response with that urgency.
"This belief that if [something's wrong] some official's gonna come in and let you know and react accordingly - THAT created the conditions of Trump's rise, his win, and his ability to take his version of reality and [force] it on the public." - Sarah. She's said this for years.
"There are no rules in dictatorship, only cult worship and terror." - Andrea
(1:20:00) Sarah is talking about the FBI's connections to Russia & Ukraine's Semion Mogilevich and Mueller's warning about Mogilevich. trumpfile.org/robert-mueller…
"Even when you look at something like the siege on the Capitol, which is a domestic problem... it has the backing of people abroad. And in some cases, we're seeing some direct ties to people abroad." - Sarah
"Comey doesn't want Donald Trump investigated because he does not want JAMES COMEY investigated." Enabling a crime cult, taking Mogilevich off the Most Wanted list, refusing to tell the public about intelligence in 2016...
"'Comey's gonna save us. Mueller's gonna save us. Pelosi's gonna save us. Cy Vance is gonna save us.' Look where we are now. We had a siege on the mother fucking Capitol. If any of these people gave a shit about this country, they would have been... relentless." - Sarah
"If Republicans and their Nazi stormtroopers want a vote audit, they can start with the 2016 election, which was widely targeted and hacked by the Kremlin's military operation of hackers." - Andrea (1:32:35)
Sarah says Mossad probably wanted us to know about the dinner with Mike Pompeo "because they usually don't broadcast things like this."
"We are in a situation where a very volatile Trump, who wants to declare a national emergency, to prolong his stay in office... He may do the unspeakable... starting a war with Iran." Israel wants to expand. - Sarah
If you want to diminish a movement like Q-Anon, you might have to expose terrible things the country has actually done, like the truth about Jeffrey Epstein. Did we cover for him, help him, embolden him? Truth and transparency can dull a lot of conspiracies.
(1:49:00) Andrea transitions to some of "the biggest traitors in our nation's history":
Roger Stone (Stop The Steal / Every Trump Campaign)
Paul Manafort (Jan. 6 Vendor / 2016 Trump Campaign)
Michael Flynn (QAnon / Trump / Russia)
Parenthesis are mine, not Andrea's.
Michael Flynn swore allegiance to QAnon, him and his son sat next to Putin at RT dinner.
Paul Manafort doing exactly what he did in Ukraine: turning the people against each other with disinformation. (He shouldn't have been allowed in the US, tbh)
Roger Stone being Roger Stone.
I am getting tired so kind of rushing these tweets / not quoting anything directly unless you see actual quotations. We're almost done, folks.
Paul Manafort is "still the same. He's paying off his debt."
As someone tweeted the other day, when you owe debt to Russia or have a contract with the Kremlin -- that's never really gonna be paid off. Right? Right.
"Manafort led a campaign... to tarnish people like my sister... and say it was Ukraine, not Russia, that attacked our democracy" in 2016. He was outed, but a lot of journalists fell for it. - Andrea
One of PM's Ukr sources is now outed by the Treasury as being a Kremlin agent.
Every Russian / Ukrainian mentioned by Andrea, the people identified by the Treasury as Kremlin Intelligence, show up somewhere on Trump File even though the site is still in its early stages. Here's Giuliani meeting with one of them in 2019. trumpfile.org/rudy-giuliani-…
"[The media likes] to frame it as ignorance, like 'gee, how could we have possibly known?' Well, for one, everyone in this administration kept announcing their crimes in advance, then committing the crimes, then confessing to the crimes. That really should have been a clue." - S
Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Caputin, "sorry, Michael Caputo -- I should call him Michael CaPutin -- Putin's image consultant, put on CNN as some sort of objective commentator about U.S. politics? This is nuts."
(2:00:00) COVID has entered the conversation. This is when the emotions will hit me.
"The rage we've been feeling since 2016, in November, we need to keep that going and channel it into protecting our very democracy over the next 10 years." - Andrea
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Amazon Web Services shut down hosting for the GOP’s Parler social media app late Sunday evening / Monday morning. Within hours, another app rose to the top of the App Store: Telegram. (Thread)
Members of MAGA websites believe the Trump campaign and right-wing media figures instructed their followers to join them on the app... However, we were unable to find a single person connected to Trump who has promoted Telegram. (Let me know if I'm wrong)
There are many “Donald Trump” accounts and no way to verify which is real. Is it the one with 273k followers that just shares his tweets? Is it the one with over 400k? Maybe it’s the one with less than 7k that tells supporters to “prepare.” Nobody knows.
Four days after Trump and the Kremers (Women for America First) announced the January 6 event in D.C., Trump pardoned Paul Manafort. The pardon came right on time for Manafort to help prepare the march to the Capitol. (Thread)
The primary vendor for the events of January 6 was Event Strategies, a company co-owned by Manafort, Tim Unes, and Bobby Peede. The company also worked on Donald Trump's campaign events and inauguration ceremony - which is under investigation for money laundering, right?
Event Strategies' history with political conflict dates back to Ukraine, where Manafort & the company were funded by Russia to help elect Putin's candidate, Yanukovych. The job included creating agitation among Yanukovych's supporters & organizing them to act on their agitation.
"They are going to try to leave all of these institutions, these departments, as bereft of oversight and actual people in there [doing] something to serve the American public as possible. Because that is how they maintain their power." - @sarahkendzior@gaslitnation
"Imagine that all of us today have returned from a time machine from the future, and we see what it's like if we do not get Georgia... I cannot tell you what a different future this country and the world will have if we can get Ossoff and Warnock." - @AndreaChalupa
60 Minutes is starting now on CBS with @C_C_Krebs, fired by Trump for not agreeing with election conspiracy claims
"We spent 3 and a half years gaming out every possible scenario for how a foreign actor could interfere in an election." - @C_C_Krebs#60minutes
"I don't know if I was necessarily surprised. It's not how I wanted to go out. The thing that upsets me the most about that is I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to my team, and I'd worked with them for 3 1/2 years." - @C_C_Krebs#60minutes
Thread: Listening to the new episode of @GaslitNation, "The Breitbart Senate."
"What we've seen so far is the Trump administration attempting a coup and failing... There is still plenty left in the Trump Crime Cult playbook... Murphy has conceded, but Trump still hasn't."
"There are a number of ways Trump and his crime cult could continue their attempted coup..." Litigation, SCOTUS, violence, bureaucratic obstruction, creating a national emergency as a pretext to the military. @sarahkendzior@gaslitnation
"What would actually unite the U.S. is an end to elite criminal impunity. For 4 decades, we have not only seen the same crimes carried out but the same criminals committing or enabling them. Manafort, Stone, Barr, the Trump & Kushner families" etc - @sarahkendzior@gaslitnation
#Parler is free for propaganda, but its “free speech” agenda is not extended to left-leaning users... Co-owner John Matze practically admitted that only conservatives have free speech privileges. #parlerhacktrumpfile.org/parler/
A company called CarePICS announced that John Matze joined the company as their new CTO. The company’s Facebook page wasn’t updated for two years after John was hired, and the company never sent out a press release again. #Parler#parlerhack#ParlerHacked trumpfile.org/parler/