This is a story about things you can’t see, about puppet masters and puppets—dark forces infecting our world.
“Since they can’t win the game by the rules, what the American radical-right has done is to change the rules and fire the referees.”-@anelsona 1/ bylinetimes.com/2021/07/02/end…
So says Anne Nelson, author of “Shadow Network: Media Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right”. Her book examines the role of the Council of National Policy (CNP) in US politics. 2/
This highly secretive organisation brings together religious and radical-right groups, their funders, business leaders, and Republican politicians and staffers – including those linked to Trump’s Presidency. 3/
🚨“I suspect that the FBI will find that what happened on January 6th was a well-financed conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States, led, if not entirely directed, by the president of the United States.”-@Folly_and_Glory to @ruthbenghiat lucid.substack.com/p/lucid-interv…
“The Trump era won't end unless he is indicted, tried, and convicted on..counts of criminal conduct. There's the whole Trump organization, which is run along the lines of a crime family or racketeering organization. We won't be rid of him until he's doing time.”-@Folly_and_Glory
“War is being waged on the collective mind of America, not just by Russia and China, but by the infotainment complex..Fox News, right-wing outlets and an army of trolls, which convinced 30-40% of the American electorate that Trump is..president.”-@Folly_and_Glory to @ruthbenghiat
🚨“Giuliani has been asked questions about whether he was acting for Trump when he pushed the administration in 2017 to drop money laundering charges against Reza Zarrab, who later implicated Turkish Pres Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a sanctions-evasion plot.” thedailybeast.com/justice-depart…
“Unlike the probe into his lobbying activities in both Ukraine and Romania, the Turkish inquiry is not criminal. However, like the other probes, it centers on whether Giuliani influenced the Trump administration on behalf of foreign interests, which he has denied.”-@thedailybeast