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Scott MacFarlane Profile picture
@MacFarlaneNews
Jul 2, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Wow

Just read through Rep Mo Brooks (R-AL) legal filing today defending himself in lawsuit filed by Rep Eric Swalwell (D-CA) alleging Brooks helped incite the US Capitol insurrection with "start taking down names and kicking ass" speech

It's quite something

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Rep Brooks specifies he was called by the White House on Jan 5 and invited to give the speech at Ellipse on Jan 6. And only did so because the White House invited him

He also says, at last minute, organizers tried to reduce the time he was allotted for speech
Rep Brooks' court filing includes the vote tally in his District for Trump and Biden

Arguing he was "representing the will" of the Alabama 5th District that day
About those words we've heard in video clips so many times since Jan 6: "Start taking down names and kicking ass"...

Rep Brooks argues the words "as such" at the start of the sentence were important modifiers or softeners of the language
Rep Brooks added this nugget on info in his legal filing:

He believes the evidence is "overwhelming" that Nov 3 elections suffered from voter fraud, that Donald Trump won the electoral college and should be serving his 2nd term as President
Rep Brooks' court filing acknowledges he and other Members of Congress met at White House with Rudy Giuliani after the election for a briefing... but that he "did not use anything of substance" said by Giuliani

(Note: Giuliani is a co-defendant in civil suit)
Rep Brooks specifies on multiple occasions in his legal filings that he was working within the scope of his employment in challenging the electoral college submissions

Rep. Brooks asks judge to dismiss him as defendant in Rep Swalwell's civil suit

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Jun 7
NEW: Virginia political organizer and a military vet file federal suit, seeking court order to HALT the UFC fight at White House:

"This plan is deeply corrupt.. President is giving (Dana) White & his company what none have enjoyed before: unfettered access to the White House.. to stage a private, for-profit sports event"

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"The UFC is not being coy about the event’s pecuniary nature. One executive recently called it 'the greatest earned-marketing tool of all time.' He is far from the only one salivating at the business upside"
Suit challenging UFC fight at White House:

"The ostensible occasion for this spectacle is the semiquincentennial. Dana White says that the aim is to “to celebrate the 250th birthday of America.” Although June 14, 2026, will also be Trump’s 80th birthday, White has steadfastly maintained that the timing is just a coincidence"
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Jun 4
ALERT: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) files court brief urging judge to HALT Trump slush fund

Cassidy & Sen. Cory Booker argue the case "is a question of whether the machinery of democratic government may be turned, by design and with explicit intent, against the democratic foundations it exists to serve"

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In asking court to intervene and stop the Trump sklush fund, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) emphasize that Trump *again* refused to abandon during news conference yesterday
Sen. Cassidy & Booker's court filing:

"As sitting U.S. Senators, amici are duty-bound to protect the institutional authority of Congress and its duly-elected representatives. The Constitution of the United States directs the power of the purse to Congress alone"
Read 5 tweets
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Jun 1
Interesting order from judge in Alabama in Justice Dept's controversial criminal case vs Southern Poverty Law Center

SPLC wanted judge to order Justice Dept to correct the record & clean-up Todd Blanche's claim the SPLC doesn't share informant info w/ law enforcement

(MORE)
Judge reminds Justice Dept about unique role of prosecutors in the justice system:

"We must rediscover the old values of our profession. The integrity of our justice system depends on it"

"Like any officer of the court, the prosecutors are bound by their statements"

(MORE)
Judge (more) about Justice Dept's initial claim that Southern Poverty Law Center doesn't share its informant info w/ law enforcement:

"The integrity of the judicial process is rooted in the obligations of and trust in the attorneys participating in it"

(MORE)
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May 27
ALERT: 35 Former federal judges file motion in Florida asking court to *re-open* Trump's $10 billion lawsuit vs. his I.R.S.

Filing: "This court was deceived"

"The 'settlement' commandeers the contrived sum of $1.776 billion from the U.S. Treasury"

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Former federal judges in their filing asking court to re-open Trump's $10 billion lawsuit vs. I.R.S.

They argue Trump and his own I.R.S. and Justice Dept are plotting together

FILING: "The parties to this case are using this lawsuit as the legal justification for these actions. This is not speculation; the parties themselves have proclaimed it"

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Former federal judges on the slush fund

"This “settlement” is a product of collusion and is itself a fraud on the Court"
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May 18
FLASH: Justice Dept confirms it is establishing $1.776 billion fund "for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress"

Fund will have five members and "issue formal apologies and monetary relief owed to claimants"
Justice Dept defends $1.776 billion fund by saying, "There is legal precedent for such a Fund, most notably the Keepseagle case where the Obama Admin. created a $760 million fund to redress various claims alleging racism against the federal government over a period of decades"
And there it is:

About $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded pot of $$

Justice Dept says, "Fund will consist of a Commission of five members appointed by the Attorney General. One Member will be chosen in consultation with congressional leadership. The President can remove any member"
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May 18
FLASH: Trump seeks to voluntarily dismiss his $10 billion civil suit against his own IRS

No detail in the 3-page filing about the reported $1.776 billion settlement with Jan 6 rioters and convicted fraudsters

Here it is:

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MORE: 93 members of the US House are seeking to make a filing in the Trump $10 billion lawsuit against his I.R.S.

They've hired former Democratic Attorney General of New Jersey Matthew Platkin to represent them

Congress has been BLASTING this Trump lawsuit
MORE: A blistering court filing has just been submitted in Florida by 93 Democratic Members of Congress opposing Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S.

In part the filing says, "10 billion could fully fund almost the entire annual budget for federal child welfare spending or the National Cancer Institute for a year. Or it could be used to purchase childcare for a million young families. Instead of serving these worthy purposes, the President instead asks this Court to allow him to use collusive litigation to force the American people to put that money into his pockets, and the pockets of his family and friends"
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