I get that the House Judiciary Committee is trying to get folks to pay attention to the allegations in Vol. 2 of the Mueller Report by implying they're new revelations we just got from McGahn, but the truth is that we knew basically all of this years ago and *no one did anything*
My feeling—seeing people post tidbits from McGahn's testimony—is that some of them either a) didn't read the Mueller Report, b) are with the best of intentions but not entirely transparently pretending old news is new news to try to get traction we should've gotten the first time
When the Report came out, many of us said all America needs to read this, as it details many federal crimes; media wrongly treated the Report as a bust—leaving those of us who read it in the cold—so this re-reporting of things not properly reported the first time feels cynical
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad it's being reported again, and glad people are becoming upset about it again, I just feel like Lucy (the media and DOJ and Congress) pulled the football away from those of us who love rule of law several years ago and I don't want that to happen again
I'll never understand how anyone could read the Mueller Report and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report and not think that Trump should be in a federal prison for the rest of his natural life
Many of us felt really burned by how the truth was swept aside by so many
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(🆚) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump Spoke Directly to Stop the Steal Leader Alex Jones on Insurrection Day
This is the closest anyone has put Trump to the January 6 insurrectionists so far. Emerging evidence suggests that we'll get closer still. *RT widely*. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
1/ There's so much more to say about this, but here's the main thing: major media made a big mistake by not watching every single second of film from Alex Jones, Roger Stone and Ali Alexander *after* the insurrection. I've done a deep dive into that archive and it's *incredible*.
2/ Jones, Stone, and Alexander had no idea how much investigators would learn about their activities when they started regularly filming themselves making statements about the insurrection literally the day after it happened. So they made countless "statements against interest."
I'm working on a story for PROOF and it's vital that we know conclusively who the man in the white shirt is. Does anyone reading this know for certain who this is? Just looking for a name and a photo comparison, not more.
(PS) I have been going off the belief that the man in white above is the same man as the man in the picture below (taken the same day):
(PS2) This is a very serious question. This matters. A *lot*. So I'm hoping to get some serious answers from this crowdsourcing.
(IMPORTANT) If you credulously bought into the recent Inspector General report about the Lafayette Square scandal in the summer of 2020, you need to read this article. The reality is much more nuanced than what you're now hearing. Please share this widely. theweek.com/donald-trump/1…
As most of you reading this know, I published a book with Macmillan in 2020—Proof of Corruption—that had a long chapter on Lafayette Square. From the moment I saw this IG report, I knew something was off.
The key, as ever, is the opacity of the conduct of Trump's Secret Service.
The Secret Service under Trump was politicized to a degree we've never seen before—indeed the head of Trump's detail was seamlessly moved to the head of his political ops in an unprecedented move. The Secret Service launched the Lafayette Square attack...and was never questioned.
1/ "As DOJ investigated who was behind leaks of classified info early in the Trump administration, it took a highly unusual step: Prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Dems on the House Intel Committee, aides and family members. One was a minor."
2/ "The records of at least 12 people tied to HPSCI were seized in 2017 and early 2018, including those of Representative Adam Schiff of California, then the panel's top Democrat and now its chairman, according to committee officials and two other people briefed on the inquiry."
(🆚) NEW: Trumpist Insurrectionists Have Created a Systematized Mechanism for "Cancelling" People and Groups—and It's the Most Comprehensive Cancel Culture America Has Ever Seen
1/ I never imagined I'd find what I found when I finally went inside Patriot[.]Win, which was spawned by the now defunct TheDonald[.]Win. It truly is the most organized effort to create a "cancel culture" we've ever seen—by people who say "cancel culture" is *destroying America*.
2/ Hypocrisy is, of course, not new for the Trumpists. But this is something else. The 137 "badged" companies, media outlets, and sites identified by the insurrectionists' digital HQ are so central to American life that if you actually cancel them it makes living here impossible.
My takeaway from the Wray hearing is that a January 6-style attack will happen again. The FBI has no interest in determining how its actions let it happen the first time. That Wray can identify *no emergency followup* the FBI did after passing on dire intel on 1/5 is terrifying.
Over and over a Democratic representative said to Wray, in paraphrase, "OK, you had intel that the Capitol was a matter of hours away from being under armed attack; you passed on the intel; what did you do *next*?" And Wray had...no response. Because the FBI did *nothing* "next."
The takeaway here is that the FBI has *no* role in preventing incipient national violence that is only discovered—if we take the farcical claim of the FBI at face value—hours before it's going to happen. The FBI *emails* people. *That's all*. It...emails people.