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13 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Great story here. Another component to this is that it was abundantly at the time that McSwain was plotting a run for office and was making ham-fisted moves to use his office to bolster his name recognition. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
McSwain was certainly no stranger to highly irregular press conferences! huffpost.com/entry/larry-kr…
You’d have to be really obtuse not to see what he’s been doing here. From July 2020: inquirer.com/politics/clout…
Here’s the latest fundraising text message from Bill McSwain, a former U.S. attorney who very clearly knows better but is doing what he thinks he has to do to appeal to a constituency that actually believes Trump’s voter fraud conspiracy theories.
Read @AaronBlake on former U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain attempting to execute his extraordinarily obvious plan to run for political office and the ham-fisted games he’s playing now with that Trump letter: washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

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13 Jul
Five years ago, @dliebelson, @shaneshifflett and I led a newsroom-wide effort to collect a year’s worth of data on jail deaths nationwide. This was the first piece in our series, focusing on the most common and preventable cause of jail deaths: highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/sa…
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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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