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13 Jul, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Shocked — SHOCKED — that one of the most shamelessly partisan U.S. Attorneys in modern American history would seek to leverage his DOJ experience for political gain!
Subtlety is not his speciality!
Been at this DOJ beat for awhile now and I’m still just shocked by some of the stuff McSwain pulled. He didn’t so much shatter norms as he did nuke them. huffpost.com/entry/larry-kr…
He was pretty egregiously political and very very obvious what he was doing, so the Trump letter doesn’t come as a compete shock.
In the primary, McSwain is up against an early Big Lie proponent who stormed the Capitol grounds and bussed in Jan. 6 rioters, so he’s really got to shoot his shot. His approach may be palatable to college-educated and upper/middle class GOP suburbanites. huffpost.com/entry/doug-mas…
One thing McSwain does have going for him is that he wasn’t unlawfully present on Capitol grounds during an unfolding riot and he doesn’t have a plethora of photographs with multiple insurrectionists.

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13 Jul
“TREASON! TREASON! TREASON!"

Newly released video shot on Oath Keeper Kenneth Harrelson’s phone shows the mob breaching the Capitol from the east and entering the rotunda. Feds say he sent it via text and later attempted to delete it.
Here's the rest of that clip that shows the chaotic scene inside the rotunda as the mob had control of the building:
"They're stormin' the fuckin' Capitol building..."

Here's another clip from the Harrelson case, from before the mob breached the actual building on the eastern front.
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13 Jul
NEW: U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly indicates he believes it would be appropriate to release Doug Jensen under very strict conditions that amount to home detention.
(Standard reminder that pretrial release is theoretically the norm, and pretrial detention is supposed to be a last resort.)
Jensen’s obliviousness is helping him in court: Judge Kelly says it’s hard to imagine there was any preplanning when Jensen "had no basic understanding of where he even was.”
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13 Jul
QAnon believer and Jan. 6 defendant Douglas Jensen: “This is me, touching the fucking White House.”

NARRATOR: He was not, in fact, touching the fucking White House.

One of the latest Jan. 6 videos released by the feds this evening:
“Storm the White House! That’s what we do!” said Douglas Jensen as he prepared to storm the U.S. Capitol.
Here’s a video Jensen shot of the U.S. Capitol Police, who are not members of the U.S. Secret Service.
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12 Jul
Pretty much the worst possible scenario here for a RNC lawyer: Missing the moment to speak out and do the right thing at the time, but putting your thoughts in a private email where they come back and bite you down the road. washingtonpost.com/politics/rnc-t…
“As somebody who has been a registered Republican for virtually his entire adult life, I can tell you it smells of desperation… I’d like to see them stand up and be counted, and not buy into fantasy.” — David Iglesias Nov. 5 huffpost.com/entry/trump-vo…
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