Jon Woods sentenced to 18 years and four months in prison
Woods, a Republican, was convicted in May of 15 counts of fraud for a bribery scheme ... he and another state legislator worked to steer state money to a private Christian college.
Oren Paris and Milton “Rusty” Cranford have been released from federal prison to home confinement or a halfway house despite having significant time left on their sentences.
Oren Paris was a member of the Council for National Policy - the CNP - when he was indicted for bribing public officials to funnel $400,000 in state funds to his Christian school, Ecclesia College.
Townhall published an op-ed by Rachel Alexander, calling for Trump to pardon Jon Woods, claiming that he is “a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn.”
She says that money laundering, wire fraud, and mail fraud are “no real crime.”
Why did the FBI reportedly help Proud Boys schedule their rallies, and use Proud Boys as informants against ‘Antifa,’ while simultaneously ignoring the clear threat that the Proud Boys represented leading up to Jan. 6th?
Joe Biggs of the Proud Boys says he started meeting with the FBI in July, 2020.
Did the FBI source information from the Proud Boys as part of Trump & Barr’s efforts to generate a false threat equivalency around Antifa through the last half of 2020?
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee chair is pressing the [FBI] to explain how it failed to anticipate the violence of Jan. 6, despite having contact with several members of the far right Proud Boys in the months before the insurrection.
Josh Duggar has been charged with downloading and possessing child porn - some of which depicts the sexual abuse of children under the age of 12, in May 2019.
“The federal investigation [into the plot against Governor Whitmer] dates to early [2020] when the FBI learned through social media that individuals were discussing the violent overthrow of several state governments and law enforcement.”
TBF, it was probably an editor who chose the headline, but the point still stands.
On Dems’ messaging weakness, and “Faculty lounge” politics - he is absolutely, 100% right about this.
Much of the language Dems use has an underlying assumption built into it - that voters already get the way our understanding has evolved and led to these terms.
To those who want to promote the idea that democracy doesn’t work, every issue is a potential culture war wedge to be leveraged, to pit Americans against each other, and to heighten/trigger the fears of those with authoritarian tendencies.
And the actions that these folks engage in are so offensive that they are essentially designed to go viral, amplifying the “culture war,” and essentially speaking it into existence.
Lots of accounts here on social media are happy to help.