"In the month leading up to the riot, Mr. Trump was devising his own plan: He and a Justice Department official plotted to oust the acting attorney general to try to advance baseless election claims, interviews showed...
2) "...and only backed down after top department officials threatened to resign."
Now you know, I don't believe for one second those claims were baseless. But, the information about the DOJ supporter is critical! So, where did this tidbit come from?
3) I get a daily email from the New York Times. The quote is from the email. Here is the article itself:
4) The first 3 paragraphs tell us a critical component of the story we've been missing. I quote them in full, now:
"WASHINGTON — When Representative Scott Perry joined his colleagues in a monthslong campaign to undermine the results of the presidential election...
5) "...promoting “Stop the Steal” events and supporting an attempt to overturn millions of legally cast votes, he often took a back seat to higher-profile loyalists in President Donald J. Trump’s orbit.
6) "But Mr. Perry, an outspoken Pennsylvania Republican, played a significant role in the crisis that played out at the top of the Justice Department this month, when Mr. Trump considered firing the acting attorney general...
7) "...and backed down only after top department officials threatened to resign en masse.
"It was Mr. Perry, a member of the hard-line Freedom Caucus, who first made Mr. Trump aware that a relatively obscure Justice Department official, Jeffrey Clark...
8) "...the acting chief of the civil division, was sympathetic to Mr. Trump’s view that the election had been stolen, according to former administration officials who spoke with Mr. Clark and Mr. Trump."
9) I have frequently stated that President Trump was surprised on January 6, not having realized the true extend to Deep State penetration into his inner circle, even yet, after 4 years of their constant sabotage.
Who is Jeffrey Clark?
10) Ayn Rand gave us the famous question:
Who is John Galt?
Today, fellow patriots, the question who is Jeffrey Clark should rise, also.
Life often gives us signs and signals, and no matter how wrongly we may interpret them - and we truly do often misinterpret - we must still listen anyway.
2) By nature I am the most disobedient man you'll ever meet. When given a command my true nature is to do the opposite. When asked, politely, I behave very differently. My inclination is to say yes, wherever I possibly may. Commands, different story.
3) But this newly born day - it's just after midnight by not quite an hour yet - I received a crystal clear command from the Big Tech overlords and I have obeyed. One of the signals is that I am down about 1,400 followers over the past 6 hours or so. How about that?
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
Yeah. I watched the original Star Wars movie in the theaters when it came out, and I can't tell you how many times I went.
2) I had no idea back then that I'd ever become a swordsman. Watching that scene today, I'm both impressed with the quality of the fighting, as well as cynical about filmed swordsmanship vs the real thing. Still, it's an awesome scene to be sure!
3) It was my greatest criticism of the film that they let Darth Vader strike a kill shot when Obi Wan simply holds up his saber in seeming surrender. But that line, “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” That blew my mind.
2) "Trump has a number of goals over the next couple of years … winning back the House and the Senate for Republicans in 2022 to make sure that we can stop the Democratic craziness,” said Miller."
3) "He also said that Trump will “emerge as the nation’s leader on ballot and voter integrity.”
So, you're telling me 155,000,000 legal voters voted in 2020, are you? You really believe this, and it's the lawful truth? Uh huh. Tell you what, throw in a bridge to Manhattan and you've got a deal. I'm buying. Oh yeah.
I mean that hashtag very literally. I believe that the election was won by a landslide and then stolen. And I believe this speech was the beginning of his second term.
2) Under my new commitment to 30 tweets or less in a thread, I approach this speech in a new way. First, as there is so much to quote, I will not be commenting on the points as I roll, and as I have done consistently, previously.
3) Second, I am breaking his speech down into tweet-sized points and numbering them. I will select exactly 25 of them to tweet within my thread. I don't know how far down the same path you want to go, but I want you to know about it! Why?
I've made it from 4:50 to about 14:30. This part is Trump at his best, his most Trumpian. He lists a string of accomplishments that makes the liar of my own memory.
2) It sounds exactly like an acceptance speech which would have ended up with the best is yet to come. Emotional idiot that I am, I'm riddled with pride and heartbreak listening to this list. I'm proud of him, and of us, and mind is dazed and confused. Too much to handle.
3) Had I been asked I would have fought the courtesies at the beginning and had him dive into this section to begin. At this point, no introductions were required. And courtesy? This is not a courteous moment in my book. Oh well. I'll go finish up now and come back.