We're likely in for a long-haul threat from right wing extremists. First, Trump @WhiteHouse@HomelandKen et. al. crippled @DHSgov work on it, despite it being the largest threat we face. 2nd, these terrorist have been preparing for what they call the Racial Holy War (RAHOWA).../1
...for decades. The siege on the Capitol followed - although it wasn't successful - the approach of laid out in a novel they consider their Bible: The Turner Diaries. Reading the extremists online, they consider the riot Trump instigated to be the starting bell for RAHOWA.../2
...there are some of them, in fact, condemning Trump for his recent half-assed video calling for peace. Their argument now is "Screw Trump. We don't need him." DHS and the FBI unfortunately has limited informants because of Trump Admin crippling the intel gathering on these.../3
...groups. The next level of attacks, if they follow the strategy they have laid out for decades, will be very different than the Capitol siege and much harder to address..../4
... Bottom line: The deaths likely to occur soon are because Trump, @HawleyMO@tedcruz et al, through their lies born of poisonous ambition & stupidity, signaled to these people what they saw as the beginning of RAHOWA. The blood is and will be on their hands.
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ADDENDUM: People are responding to this as if I mean the inauguration or a repeat attack on the Capitol. I dont know the probability of that - terrorists tend not to repeat themselves. I have no doubt that they are planning other attacks, though.
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If they don't believe they committed federal felonies, the worst thing @IvankaTrump@DonaldJTrumpJr & the clan should do is accept a corrupt pardon. You cannot be pardoned for doing nothing. So, every state, every civil case, will ask "What crime did you commit?" If they say.../1
..."nothing" then there is no pardon. (You can't accept a pardon if you believe you have no committed a crime.) If they disclose what it is or take the fifth, the acceptance of the pardon (and refusal to disclose what it is) will be evidence they committed a crime which.../2
...can be used in y cross examination to undermine credibility. And if they say what it is, the confession can be used if there are state crimes implicated.
Second, Trump pardoning himself. Same thing. However, it also escalates probability of conviction in impeachment.../3
As Trump aides emerge from hiding, our worst suspicions of Trumps incompetence & the damage it inflicted on America are being confirmed. His 1st Secretary of State, Tillerson, gives a brutal interview this week to @ForeignPolicy. I’ll attach excerpts.../1
....Tillerson gives the quick summary. Trump screwed up almost everything internationally, because he is stupid, didn’t want to learn, and made arbitrary irrational decisions based on how he felt about other leaders....
...while idiots like @Franklin_Graham sing praises of Trumps foreign policy based on their mutual stupidity, Tillerson states that everything was squandered, nothing worked, because Trump understood nothing and was too stupid and lazy to learn.../2
The attack of 1/6 appears to have been very much like the attack on the Benghazi mission. There were protests across the Middle East because of the infamous video, including at Benghazi. The crowds were growing and enraged, and the terror group Ansar al-Sharia used that.../1
...strategically. The mission in Benghazi, just like the embassy in Cairo, was overrun by a bunch of people enraged by the video, but within the group at Benghazi were tactically trained terrorists from Ansar al-Sharia. They saw the opportunity and took it. This is why.../2
..intel in early days was so uncertain - our informants on ground were saying it was video protesters, but the terrorists used that group to hide in plain sight. There were also at least 2 separate groups on 1/6. Both had been instigated to raid the Capitol, one had prepared.../3
The threat this time is likely different. Too often governments prepare for the prior attack, so terrorists switch. A key to next attack @FBI@SecretService might come from the writings of neo-nazi William Pierce. The 1/6 attack strategy did. But Pierce writes of other plans.../1
...the 1/6 plan was closely based on The Turner Diaries. It depicts what white supremacists the Racial Holy War (what they call RAHOWA) where politicians/reporters are attacked in their building, arrested, dragged out and hung. (Remember the zip ties and gallows?) The other.../2
...part of RAHOWA in The Turner Diaries was bombing the @FBI headquarters, so Trump may have done a favor to the bureau by demanding that its planned move be canceled so that it stayed near his hotel. But there is a second book, called Hunter, which details the second attack.../3
.@RepBonnie@RepJayapal@RepSchneider have to sue the @HouseGOP who recklessly exposed them to COVID for assault. And, since there was an organized effort to ignore safety rules, civil conspiracy.
Good thing is, a case I brought against a MAGA who assaulted me shows the way.../1
...assault requires "unlawful touching" which inflicts damage on others; thugs who assault without traditional "touching" have argued no assault occurred. My case changed that. Now, *projection of a microscopic object* is unlawful touching... @RepBonnie@RepJayapal@RepSchneider
...the MAGA who assaulted me tweeted a strobe, knowing I have epilepsy & it likely would cause a seizure. It did. He argued - in criminal and civil court - that there was no unlawful touching. We argued PHOTONS touched my eyes. And we won.../3 @RepBonnie@RepJayapal@RepSchneider
Ive been speaking to friends who have been frightened by the events of 1/6. I will share here what I tell them.
This country had a cancer. Many of us were screaming about it. Not as many were willing to listen. On 1/6, the cancer was proven. We have begun chemotherapy.../1
...people in power werent willing to confront the problem out of discomfort in calling it what it is: Fascism. That word describes a political tactic & system. The GOP has become fascist. The 4 elements of fascism: 1. Organizing around a single strongman viewed as infallible.../2
...by his followers. 2. Hypernatiionalism. 3. Separation of those followers from reality through relentless use of propaganda that places them in a delusional world separated from fact. 4. Creation of "the other" - almost always liberals, immigrants, "socialists," minorities.../3