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Jun 16, 2021 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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#SeditionHunters - turns out Rohrabacher wasn’t the only ex-Congressman at the Capitol on Jan 6! 1-term Michigan Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R MI-11) admits to being INSIDE, said he was visited by FBI. Former Army, seems a nutcase but one with special access 1/
m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…
h/t @MichiganTea for flagging it.

Posted today (6/16) after FBI visit: “I went to DC on Jan 4. On the 5th I visited several members of Congress. As a former member I do not go through the same security protocols as regular folks...” 2/
"On the 6th I went [in]l to watch the historic vote. I have a right, as a former member, to be on the floor...” FB pics suggest he was inside the Capitol & on the E. Plaza very early, before action began. During the attack he's on the W. side but selfie is on legal grounds. 3/
His Jan 6 post does have odd tone changes: “Everyone I met was smiling and happy… If they rioted as the lying left wing communists and main stream propaganda communist news networks want you to believe DC would be burning and bodies would fill the morgue…” 4/
Bentivolio’s bitter, resentful: lost his seat in the 2014 primary & has been running unsuccessfully ever since. In 2019 planned a doc to "detail the...lengths of corruption made by the Washington establishment to destroy the man’s life and career." 5/
detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…
Resentment shows up in his social media (below is 2020). Tangled backstory: 40 years in Army / National Guard, varied employment, public spat w/ brother in 2012 where both accused each other of being mentally ill (MLive). Just glad that FBI is on it. 6/
mlive.com/news/detroit/2…
All credit here to @MichiganTea for keeping a sharp eye on MI events and @BetoAngelMommas and @OSINTyeti for fast research. 7/
And flagging a note by @capitolfaces that Bentivolio picked an interesting set of photo angles to post on 1/6 AM. Note that he won't get an "Iam" hashtag immediately since he may technically be legal but given FBI's interest that may be resolved soon. 8/
Clarifying that Bentivolio's Jan 6 FB photos of the E Capitol were posted between 10:35-11:09 AM Eastern. That's around the time that Proud Boys & others are at the E. Capitol signing a "Declaration of Authority" justifying insurrection. Will post update with more exact time. 9/

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Dec 18
To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/ Image
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The Edge founder John Brockman was lauded for his "discerning taste in the choice of participants." Funny how the photos he posted - the same as in the Epstein files - highlight so many luminaries but leave out convicted felon & registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 2/ Image
The NYT imperiously dismissed the issue, declaring Brooks must of course dine with "noted and important business leaders". But details aren't hard to find. The Silicon Valley pantheon was there: Musk, Bezos, Brin, Mayer, Wojcicki, Mundie, Myhrvold... 3/
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Nov 25
Chaos: two rival factions - one tied the president and one to the VP - are trying to set US policy on Ukraine, cutting out the State Dept. Each pushes Ukraine to surrender, then leaks to press to claim they are official. FT now reports Vance's faction is holding its own talks. 1/ Image
In Oct. the Trump faction - son-in-law Jared Kushner & business pal Steve Witkoff - met secretly with a Russian rep in Miami. Now the Vance faction - his Yale friend Dan Driscoll - is meeting in Abu Dhabi with Russians and a Ukrainian. Rival efforts. 2/
ft.com/content/55a9f8…
FT's source is clearly part of the Vance camp and tries to portray SecArmy Dan Driscoll, a 39-year-old former 1st lieutenant whose only qualification his friendship with Vance, as a new important conduit to Russia. FT had to ask if Ukrainians were involved at all. 3/ Image
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Nov 15
Tony Perkins frets about "political disaster" from Trump's involvement with Epstein. Back in 2016, when Ted Cruz floundered at the polls, Perkins pushed religious-right leaders to switch to Trump, calling it a "calculated risk". How does that calculation look now, Tony? 1/ Image
Tony Perkins was the mentor of a young Mike Johnson, an unmarried law student who had oddly taken in a young boy. Perkins knew what Johnson was, but pushed him into politics anyway. @tperkins: all this will be in the history books, as your legacy. 2/
@tperkins Before Mike Johnson ran for office, he was Dean of a new law school named for notorious pedophile Judge Paul Pressler, who preyed on young boys. Tony Perkins sat on its board. And also on the board was a relatively unknown Ted Cruz - who'd known Pressler since he was a teen. 3/ Image
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Nov 13
Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment case by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/ Image
Epstein's elite world was VERY elite: Yale Law prof Jed Rubenfeld's wife Amy Chua, also a Yale Law prof, was the mentor of Yale Law student JD Vance. Ken Starr was the mentor of Yale Law grad Brett Kavanaugh, also accused of sexual assault but now seated on the Supreme Court. 2/ Image
Ken Starr, despite his long trail of sexual grossness, cosplayed as a warrior for an also-gross sexual prudishness. He and Brett Kavanaugh went after Bill Clinton (a visitor to Epstein's island) for oral sex with an intern. Kavanaugh came up with the graphic sexual questions. 3/ Image
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Nov 13
One fascinating thing in the Epstein email drop is an exchange around Trump's election in 2016. It suggests a tense, ongoing relationship, and Epstein's power.

Part 1, Sept 23: Linda Stone jokes that Epstein will get a cabinet position if Trump wins. Like Trump owes him. 1/ Image
Backing up: the exchange is with Linda Stone, a tech exec who'd known Epstein since the 1990s: she brokered his entrance into academia, linked him with scientists. In 2016 they were close enough to be chatty, far enough to go months between emails. 2/
politico.com/news/magazine/…
Part 2, Sept. 26: three days after Stone asked Epstein if Trump could win, he answers: "too soon to tell, we will know more come oct 15". He doesn't explain: what would he learn then? Meanwhile Stone isn't even sure if Epstein supports Trump: "Which team you pulling for?" 3/ Image
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Nov 12
This week in Trump-Epstein: first @JSweetLI IDs the 14-year-old girl Epstein brought to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump in 1994. Then the House Dems release an email where Epstein says Trump hung out at his house with underaged girls: "[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him" 1/ Image
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in short: Trump spent so much time with Epstein and underaged girls that even Epstein couldn't figure out how it wasn't news!

And a recurring theme: the underaged "Jane" was then entered in Trump's beauty pageant - like Erika Kirk and Lindsay Halligan. 2/
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"Jane", who testified she'd been abused by Epstein, was entered in Trump's pageants in the 1990s, long before Kirk and Halligan in 2009. Still, it's odd how so many women in Trump's circle had walked the stage in front of him as barely-clad teenagers. 3/
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