Thread by @LivColemanFL

Now that #SteveBannon’s recent involvement with Trump is coming to light after the #USCapitol riots, it’s worth reviewing Bannon's local Sarasota connections & his background, along with some other Trump associates. THREAD /1
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#SteveBannon, former Trump campaign CEO & former Breitbart CEO, has been plotting for radical right for years, exploiting a canny media strategy to co-opt mainstream media while pursuing his own alt-right media projects, as @JoshuaGreen found. /2
bloomberg.com/politics/graph…

#SteveBannon has long been at heart of radical right politics, including in leadership at the secretive Council for National Policy, along with Kellyanne Conway & Mercer family members /3
thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/08…

Anne Nelson’s recent book “Shadow Network” investigates the Council for National Policy, a far-right hub organization that connects money, political operatives, & activists @anelsona /4
npr.org/2019/10/29/774…

Locally, #SteveBannon registered to vote in #Sarasota at a Casey Key address but actually voted in NYC, where he was also registered in 2016, as @ChrisA0213 discovered. /5
heraldtribune.com/news/20170124/…

#SteveBannon’s Casey Key residence is linked to a questionable associate whose ties should have made it difficult for Bannon to acquire a security clearance at the White House, as we understand from @ChrisA0213's @HeraldTribune investigation. /6
heraldtribune.com/story/news/loc…

At the White House, #SteveBannon was given informal, unprecedented access to the National Security Council, as Trump put him “on the same level as his friend, Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser” /7
nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/…

However, #SteveBannon departed the White House after #Charlottesville & fell out with #DonaldTrump after Bannon was quoted saying negative comments about the Trump family in a book /8
nytimes.com/2018/01/03/us/…

Steve Bannon fell out with Roger Stone after appearing as a government witness against Stone, saying Stone was the Trump campaign’s connection to Wikileaks & Julian Assange. /9
motherjones.com/politics/2019/…

Fast forward to 2021 & #SteveBannon in recent weeks has apparently rekindled his relationship with Trump, talking to him on the phone while hosting a podcast casting doubt on the legitimacy of Biden’s presidential win. /10
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Immediately after the 2020 election, #SteveBannon associates mobilized to discredit Biden’s election victory, with far-right elements mixing with groups like Tea Party Patriots & FreedomWorks. /11
politico.com/news/2020/11/0…

More recently, #SteveBannon associates appeared with the March for Trump barnstorming around the country to mobilize conservatives to descend on DC on Jan. 6 to disrupt the electoral college vote certification /12
reuters.com/article/us-usa…

Locally, in 2017 #SteveBannon associates & Breitbart alums with the America First Project filmed outside the Vern Buchanan town hall at the Van Wezel in Sarasota, as I wrote in the @bradentonherald /13
bradenton.com/opinion/articl…

Several years later, those same #SteveBannon associates were arrested for involvement with Bannon’s border wall group /14
tampabay.com/florida-politi…

Florida #PinellasCounty Congressional candidate Anna Paulina Luna was also involved with the #SteveBannon border wall group on an event panel /15
tampabay.com/florida-politi…

With his recent activity to support Trump, #SteveBannon may be angling for a pardon for the fraud charges related to his border wall group, after Roger Stone got one for his own guilty charges /16
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

Bannon has long had admirers in Sarasota. Florida GOP Chair & State Senator Joe Gruters wanted to host #SteveBannon for an event in Sarasota early in the Trump administration. /17
tampabay.com/news/politics/…

Florida GOP Vice Chair & Sarasota County Commissioner Christian Ziegler has publicly praised #SteveBannon as well. /18

Roger Stone has admirers in Sarasota, too. Women for Trump Florida (then Sarasota-Manatee), headed by a Council for National Policy member, hosted a legal fundraiser for Roger Stone in Lakewood Ranch in 2019. /19
heraldtribune.com/news/20190513/…

Recently, a Lakewood Ranch businessman interviewed Roger Stone in advance of a Florida movement to pressure US Senators Rick Scott & Marco Rubio to decertify the presidential election results. /20
floridapolitics.com/archives/39120…

Florida State Rep Fiona McFarland, who recently moved to the Sarasota area & immediately became involved in politics, is apparently a local contact of #SteveBannon’s daughter & they follow each other on Twitter. /21

Fiona McFarland is daughter of former Deputy National Security Adviser KT McFarland, who served under Mike Flynn, the NSA who was an unregistered foreign agent of the government of Turkey while on Trump campaign. /22
nytimes.com/2017/03/10/us/…

Mike Flynn, who a judge said betrayed his country, was pardoned by Donald Trump after Flynn pleaded guilty twice for lying to the FBI. /23
apnews.com/article/donald…

Flynn has been banned from Twitter for promoting the dangerous QAnon conspiracy, which is running amok in Sarasota-Manatee & which contributed to the #USCapitol siege /end
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

A Southwest Florida FL-19 GOP Congressional candidate from 2020, Christy McLaughlin, also has significant ties to Roger Stone, Ali Alexander, Mike Flynn, & the Proud Boys & spoke outside the US Supreme Court on January 5 with this crowd.

floridapolitics.com/archives/32338…

In a selfie video on FB, former GOP FL-19 Congressional candidate Christy McLaughlin consorts with "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander in Washington DC on January 5 and says that we will be marching tomorrow "thanks to this guy."

facebook.com/christy.mclaug…

On January 5, former GOP FL-19 Congressional candidate Christy McLaughlin spoke outside the US Supreme Court in an event organized by Virginia Women for Trump. She asserts they are "doing the work of God."

facebook.com/christy.mclaug…

On January 5 former GOP FL-19 Congressional candidate Christy McLaughlin took a selfie with Roger Stone at their event outside the US Supreme Court organized by Virginia Women for Trump.

facebook.com/christy.mclaug…

A few days earlier on January 3, former GOP FL-19 Congressional candidate Christy McLaughlin was photographed with Hurricane Coast Proud Boys members.

facebook.com/christy.mclaug…

.@daveelias from a Naples, FL news outlet reports former FL-19 GOP Congressional candidate Christy McLaughlin is hosting a fundraiser for Constitutional Warriors PAC featuring disgraced former Lt. General Mike Flynn, possibly with Proud Boys attending.

nbc-2.com/news/local/202…

Disgraced former Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn also gave an interview to Lakewood Ranch businessman Raj Doraisamy on the Defend Florida web site. defendflorida.org

Disgraced former general Mike Flynn, former convicted felon Roger Stone, Patrick Byrne, & CNP Board of Governors member Caroline Wetherington of Women for Trump Florida are hosting a rally at DeSoto Square mall parking lot in Manatee County on Saturday, April 24. cc: @anelsona

Disgraced former general Mike Flynn now owns a home in Sarasota County, in a gated Englewood subdivision, according to @zacjanderson in the @HeraldTribune.

amp.heraldtribune.com/amp/7307825002

Today former convicted felons Roger Stone & Mike Flynn got friendly audience from & gave exclusive interviews to @bradentonherald; story doesn't mention Flynn used stage to continue to lie about election outcome or mention presence of Proud Boys security.

bradenton.com/news/local/art…

.@zacjanderson at the @HeraldTribune noted in addition to Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, & far right Proud Boys, the presence of @GOP #CD16 primary candidate Martin Hyde at the Bradenton event today at DeSoto shopping mall parking lot.

heraldtribune.com/story/news/pol…