#SeditionHunters - a big arrest today! #BulgePB, who hung with the Proud Boys elite on Jan 6, is Nathaniel Tuck, a former cop from Florida, IDd by the great @ne0ndistraction. He's at R here, escorting #FashProShop to the E. side of the Capitol to meet up with Joe Biggs. 1/
#BulgePB was arrested along with his dad, also a Florida police officer, or was one til he resigned today. Weirdly for a cop, apparently texted his family “We stormed the Capitol, fought the police.” See ne0n's thread for more.. 2/ orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-…
Interestingly the wives of both #BulgePB and #FashProShop aka Arthur Jackman are ALSO police officers in Florida. Sarah Jackman just cleared for duty, says she thought Proud Boys were a nice group where "men spend time together & attend Bible studies.” 3/ clickorlando.com/news/local/202…
This triumphal video shot after leaving the Capitol shows #BulgePB's 'fash-y' haircut and two-armed salute - he's not so nice after all. 5 of this Elite 8 are now arrested, all but Ethan Nordean (#Rufio) from Central Florida; likely the others are too. 4/
Arrested Proud Boys Joe Biggs (#JoeBiggs), Arthur Jackman (#FashProShop), Paul Rae (#1776HatPB), & Nathaniel Tuck (#BulgePB) all live in the same part of Central Florida, in adjacent Volusia, Seminole, and Orange Counties. A logical place to look for more Jan 6 suspects! 5/
In general not a good day for FL law enforcement! Feds also indicted 16 members of a FL white supremacist gang who used “corrupt law enforcement officers and state employees” to try to dodge charges for murder, kidnapping..1 Capitol attacker among them. 6/ nbcnews.com/news/crime-cou…
And an update from the fabulous @OSINTyeti - it's not five but SIX of the "Elite 8" Proud Boys group that are now arrested.... because #HorizontalBlackPB is Kevin Tuck, Nathaniel Tuck's dad. Arrested marked in red here. 7/
Since today is a FL geography lesson, let's compare the arrestees from the Proud Boys "Elite 8" to the violent #MachineGunKitty crew arrested last week, who are from Polk County... What's going on in Central Florida? 8/
Kevin Tuck aka #HorizontalBlackPB also shows the ugly mixing of insurrection & religion; he's been a pastor for 15 years at the Lighthouse Church. Their FB: "Children are always looking for a word.. sons become the word." On Jan 6 he helped his son breach the U.S. Capitol. 9/
In 20 seconds of searching, can't help but notice that there's an Eddie George Jr. who is a heavily researched Proud Boy from Florida with selfies with Roger Stone and supposed connections to Turning Point U.S.A. ...11/ firestormonfash.noblogs.org/post/2020/07/0…
To remind people: #AliGPB, the potential match to Eddie George Jr., rushes up to give #BulgePB a hug during their triumphant march from W to E sides of the Capitol. That was just as the Capitol was breached & they knew the attack would succeed. 12/
Eddie George Jr. apparently arrested this AM in North Carolina! Still unclear if he's the same as the Florida PB. May be connected to what Vox calls "the most bizarre conspiracy theory you’ve never heard of", 'Frazzledrip'. Thread from @jordangreennc. 13/
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/
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/
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/ edge.org/event/the-edge…
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
in short: Trump spent so much time with Epstein and underaged girls that even Epstein couldn't figure out how it wasn't news!
"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/