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15 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
There is a decent chance Bannon is actively trying to sabotage Glenn Youngkin.

A rally by Steve Bannon does absolutely nothing to help Youngkin, and can only hurt him. Bannon is certainly smart enough to understand that.

washingtonpost.com/local/virginia…
But Bannon holds it anyway, gets Trump to call in, has the various looney Trump followers do their normal looney Trump follower things, and, voila, Youngkin is suddenly back having to choose between alienating Trump's base and every person with a college degree in the state.
To what end?

Well, Bannon loves Trump because he was Bannon's useful idiot, willing to push all of the alt-right/white nationalist stuff that Bannon was promoting at Breitbart.
There's no way someone from the professional/managerial class like Glenn Youngkin is going to Steve Bannon for advice, should he win.

Further, a Youngkin win in Virginia would hurt Trump's standing in the GOP. It would show that you can be a reasonable Republican and win.
Bannon wants Trump to run again, because he can still manipulate Trump to push his personal agenda. And, of course, there is still a lot of money to be made off Trump.

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14 Oct
Q is running for Congress.
No. Some of you don't get it. He's not a Qanon cultist.

He is literally the guy who invented it.
Here is what he posted after Biden was inaugurated:
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8 Oct
NEW -- Criminal law already has a “crime-fraud” exception to attorney-client privilege.

Donald Trump’s attempts to keep secret his actions leading up to Jan. 6 could define a “coup-plotting" exception to executive privilege.

huffpost.com/entry/trump-ja… via @HuffPostPol
The Biden WH spells it out pretty clearly:

"The constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield, from Congress or the public, information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the constitution itself."
Because that is what Trump is arguing. He plotted inside the Oval Office to overthrow democracy so he could remain in power, but wants the rules and norms offered by that democracy to keep that plotting a secret, basically forever.
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7 Oct
NEW -- Donald Trump tried to overthrow our democracy, and as part of that incited the Jan. 6 assault that led to 5 dead police officers and 140 injured.

A Palm Beach police charity is going to put big cash in Trump's pocket anyway.

huffpost.com/entry/palm-bea…
The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation would not disclose how much it will be paying Trump’s for-profit South Florida club to host the Jan. 22, 2022, “Policemen’s and Fire Fighters’ Ball.”
Tax filings with the IRS, however, show that it paid $235,012 in 2020, $214,760 in 2019 and $262,261 in 2018 in facility rental costs for the same event in those years, all of which were also held at Mar-a-Lago.
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29 Sep
NEW -- When Trump was attacking Brian Kemp this weekend for failing to fraudulently overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s victory there, he may have inadvertently revealed more details of a scheme that could land him in prison.

huffpost.com/entry/trump-ge…
That the former president tried to coerce Kemp into calling a special legislative session to give Trump the state’s electoral votes rather than to now-President Biden has been known publicly since shortly after their Dec. 5 phone call.
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25 Sep
CONTEXT ALERT: With all the information that is already out there, it should be clear to everyone that if Donald Trump had had his way, he'd be sitting in the White House right now, the US military having enforced his decision to seize voting machines ...
and hold new elections in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan in, oh, perhaps a couple of weeks.

It was the refusal of military leaders to go along with his autocratic tendencies that safeguarded our democracy, and the reason why he was left with the absurd...
scheme to use his mob to intimidate Vice President Mike Pence into stealing the election for him on Jan. 6.

Trump is staging a rally tomorrow, and will get lots of coverage, and almost none of it will mention any of the above.

So, once again, here is that missing background:
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24 Sep
NEW -- Donald Trump tried to overthrow American democracy.

But 112 businesses and nearly three dozen people have taken $21 million from him anyway -- AFTER Jan. 6 -- to help him spread his lies about the election.

huffpost.com/entry/trump-mo…
Here are the individuals:
And here are the businesses (True, some, like Uber drivers or online hotel sites, would have no way of knowing their customer was actively undermining our democracy. But most of them knew exactly who they were helping and did it anyway.):
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