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.
Chris Wray, why did the FBI not push harder to obtain a search warrant for Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers, after Michael Sherwin reportedly blocked it?
Did you just decide to let sleeping dogs lie, and ‘move on?’
Wray, a member of the Federalist Society, also comes from a law firm that represents Rosneft and Gazprom, two of Russia’s largest state-controlled oil companies.
When Chris Wray defended Chris Christie during ‘Bridgegate,’ the cell phone that Christie used during the period when there were legislative hearings on the scandal appeared to be missing.
It later turned out to have been in Wray’s possession.
Chris Wray, why did the FBI decline to investigate these corrupt KY cops, who were buying and selling stolen weapons, when the police department itself asked you to?
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.
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.