#SeditionHunters have heard a lot about PA & AZ; now it’s time for NV! You may know that Proud Boys just tried to take over the GOP in NV’s largest county. On Jan 6, a suspicious meet-up is tied to Joey Gilbert, potential NV gov, & to Vets for Trump. Hang on for tangled thread 1/
On Jan 6, a group incl. Joey Gilbert (#PurpleMeathead) pushed through police barricades on the E. Plaza, then gathered on the E. steps just before the arrival of Alex Jones & Ali Alexander. We called these 3 #GnarleyParley, #WoodlandNorris, and #KleenKutKen. All are from NV. 2/
#GnarleyParley is Warren Gilbert of Reno, NV, Lt. Col. Marines (ret.), Joey’s dad. Served on NV Homeland Security Commission 2011-2019, advising on “potential acts of terrorism”. Maybe he’s now trying out domestic terrorism from the other side? (At R is III%er Rocky Pastorino) 3/
At the Capitol on Jan 6, Warren Gilbert was photographed on the E. Plaza with a group including anti-vaxxer #IamTyBollinger, Bikers for Trump, and Vets for Trump officials #IamTeddyDaniels of PA & #IamAnthonyLamotta (out on bail on federal weapons charges). 4/
#WoodlandNorris is Boone Cutler of Reno, NV, U.S. Army veteran (infantry and “Tactical PsyOp in Iraq”, per his site), former podcaster and radio host (Fox News) on veteran’s affairs. #KleenKutKen is Wade Cutler, an intern in Joey Gilbert’s law firm. 5/
Boone Cutler is involved with Vets for Trump - here he is with co-founders Joshua Macias and Vlad Lemets at the 2019 DC “Faith and Freedom Coalition” conference (selfie from Lemets’ FB with Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA). Next pic is them at the conference dinner. 6/
Macias was also at the Capitol on Jan 6, with LaMotta; both went to Philly with guns in Nov. to disrupt the vote count. Cutler’s website: “America has become disgusted with the political climate of today so the only place to turn to and trust for leadership is the Warfighter.” 7/
Cutler & Lemets appear in a Vets for Trump promo film with a theme: U.S. should stop fighting wars abroad, come home to fight leftists. Rear Adm. Kubic: “America was spread too thin.” Narrator: “We never imagined that the wars could come to our shores.” 8/ vimeo.com/boonecutler
Cutler: “We’re standing for the only candidate..that protects the sovereignty of America” Lemets: U.S. must “..fight an emerged asymmetrical threat on our shores - this requires that we strengthen America’s core.” Lemets himself was born & raised in Russia, enlisted in 2005...9/
..began Vets for Trump 2015. In 2019, the Vietnam Vets of America found the group’s FB page “was run entirely by foreign entities”, “infamous Macedonian trolls” who also ran disinformation campaigns in 2016. Lemets & Macias say they were naive & duped. 10/ washingtonpost.com/technology/201…
VVA began researching disinformation when their identity was stolen and used to post fake news. Read their report to the House Committee on Veteran’s Affairs, “Hijacking our Heroes”. VVA warned of disinformation in 2020 too... 11/ vva.org/wp-content/upl… washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
..and tried to reach out to veterans in their #Protect2020 campaign. “This is psychological warfare taken to an extreme, and it impacts our national security.” washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
So NV perps lead us to the radicalization of vets…
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..but NV also warns us about radicalization of local politics. This month NV saw “open warfare..between state & local [GOP] officials over a pro-Trump insurgency involving far-right activists w/ ties to the Proud Boys” (Politico)13/ politico.com/news/2021/05/2… reviewjournal.com/news/politics-…
NV might be a roadmap of the future: Jan 6 perps are seeking office in 4 swing states where they would have authority over elections..
NV: Gilbert (Gov, pot.)
PA: Mastriano (Gov), Daniels (U.S. Congress)
AZ: Finchem (Sec. of State)
MI: Kelley (Gov) 14/
Finally, doxxing people is never done lightly. Naming a Capitol #SeditionVIP happens only after screening by a team to verify identity, location, and importance, & vetting the resulting thread. But when perps touch on national politics, it’s important to tell their stories. 17/
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Sean Casten just learned that Mike Johnson was Dean of a planned law school named after pedophile Southern Baptist leader Judge Paul Pressler, who preyed on young boys. Wait til he learns that Ted Cruz was on its board. Pressler also gave Cruz one of his first endorsements. 1/
Johnson's failed Paul Pressler School of Law was a major play by the religious right. Its board, formed in 2010, was full of the biggest luminaries in the fundamentalist Evangelical universe. Then in 2011, the obscure Ted Cruz was added. Ask him why. 2/ web.archive.org/web/2012012200…
The Paul Pressler School of Law was an intensely political project, meant to train lawyers to overturn US law, build a Christian-focused government. That's why its board were key names - and then Cruz. Many of these people have Jan 6 connections. They're still power players. 3/
As Fox revisits Hilary's email server, let's do a comparative politics test. Question: why did the Jan 6 Committee have to subpoena phone records of Trump officials? Answer: because they were ALL using private emails and phones for government business. Yet no media covered it. 1/
Do you want to learn how Trump aide Vince Haley managed the 1776 Commission, worked on the Jan 6 speech, or negotiated Mike Flynn's pardon? It was on his @ newt. org email from when he worked for Newt Gingrich. Not submitted to the National Archives. 2/ govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GP…
Just look at the J6C's material: only a tiny portion is from the National Archives. Most of it is personal devices and personal emails, used by Trump officials for government business. Wildly insecure and also illegal. But sure, talk about Hillary. 3/ govinfo.gov/collection/jan…
People missed the likely explanation for Trump's bizarre ramble yesterday, when he falsely said his uncle taught the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Trump is under huge stress right now about the Jeffrey Epstein files. And it's Epstein who claimed that he studied with the Unabomber. 1/
That detail came out in 2019. After Epstein's address book got released, reporter Leland Nally called the numbers in it, and got a wild interview with Stuart Pivar, who said he was a close friend of Epstein's: "Jeffrey once told me that he studied math with the Unambomber." 2/
Epstein's story is a lie: Kaczynski quit teaching in 1969, when Epstein was in high school. But the interview reminds us again how odd it is that in 1974, after Epstein dropped out of college, he was immediately hired to teach math & physics at Dalton, a prep school. How? 3/
A part of the Epstein nothing-to-see-here fiasco no one's talking about: what happened to the "army of FBI agents" pulled off their cases in March to work on the Epstein files? Pam Bondi made people move to DC, pull all-nighters redacting the files. Did they just.. go home? 1/
Bloomberg: Pam Bondi demanded all the FBI's Epstein files, then ordered "hundreds" of agents to work on them (bizarrely via their personal phones). They were "holed up in offices at the bureau’s sprawling Central Records Complex". Are they still there? 2/ bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
The public should know what happened to Bondi's redaction effort, when and why (and if) the decision was made to send FBI agents home. And if she won't answer maybe one of those hundreds of agents is mad enough to leak. Keep your eye on who is next laid off at the FBI, too. 3/
As Hungary's Viktor Orban sucks up to Putin and accuses Ukraine of "choos[ing] war", a reminder, again, that Orban, Netanyahu, and Trump all owe their careers to the same US political operative - Arthur Finkelstein. Arguably the man most responsible for our dystopian times. 1/
Arthur Finkelstein was the dark master of the negative campaign, orchestrating facts-free and values-free assaults on political opponents. A gay, Jewish man who specialized in electing anti-gay homophobes. 2/
No one's explained yet if Finkelstein had a direct tie to Russia, but Finkelstein created Putin's bootlicker Orban, and Finkelstein is the one who brought Paul Manafort to Trump out of Ukraine where he was busy installing pro-Russia politicians. 3/
Yes, the NYT is shameful for sourcing an anti-Mamdani article from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker. But it's worse. Lasker, who they call an "academic", is a student whose only paper of note is INFAMOUS for unethical data use that got his tenured co-author fired. 1/
Who is the NYT's "academic" source? Lasker is or was a PhD student at Texas Tech, but his only paper of note is earlier, from 2019: "Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability", whose misuse of data triggered a major investigation and got Cleveland State Prof. Bryan Pesta fired. 2/
The Chronicle of Higher Ed wrote about the scandal. It wasn't just that the article was "racist pseudoscience". It was that the authors misused data from the NIH and lied on their data application - filed by Bryan Pesta. A flagrant ethics violation. 3/ archive.is/KwbGy