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28 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Something fishy going on in Albany. Last night it's leaked that Letitia James, who orchestrated the ouster of Cuomo, is running for governor. Today it's leaked that charges were filed against Cuomo, then Times Union says the charges were "erroneous," then DA expresses "surprise"
To recap: the Sheriff of Albany County apparently circumvents the Albany County DA to leak the apparent filing of criminal charges. DA appears to repudiate this filing. (Who would even prosecute, then?) And suspiciously timed with Letitia James' political leak. Incredibly sketchy
Despite this incredibly suspicious series of events, Letitia James just released a statement trumpeting that the charges "validate the findings" of her ridiculous August report. But the charges allege the incident occurred on an entirely different date than what the report cited
And the mystery grows: this charge was apparently filed/leaked without even consulting the alleged victim for approval. Could it possibly be that concerns for AG James' political ambitions overrode concern for the alleged victim? That'd certainly be ironic
I'm not a lawyer but this sure seems unusual

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Michael Tracey Profile picture
29 Oct
When I pointed out what an obvious “mess” this whole story was back in August, the entire NY press corps pounced on me in a fit of rage. Just sayin’
Letitia "Tish" James is abusing her office right now to an astonishing degree, even by NY standards -- which is really saying something. What she's done is unprecedented. Please always remember that the NY media enabled and facilitated it
It defies explanation -- except for supremely cynical explanations centered around Letitia James' electoral ambitions. But I'm not a legal scholar: if anyone can cite a precedent for something like this happening before, I'd love to see it

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Michael Tracey Profile picture
28 Oct
Her transparent political hatchet job on Cuomo -- a gigantic farce on about 100 different levels -- worked masterfully, thanks in large part to an embarrassingly gullible NY media which uncritically parroted her orchestrated PR stunt
Regardless of how you feel about Cuomo (I was never a fan, to put it mildly) the orchestrated putsch to remove him from power was incredibly disturbing, not least because the lazy and gullible media turned into mindless PR agents for the putsch organizers mtracey.substack.com/p/what-the-med…
Letitia James was maneuvering to run for Governor this entire time, and Cuomo was her obstacle. So she got rid of him using unprecedented, due process-shredding methods -- radically abusing her power as AG. The entire media (left, right, and center) went along with it. Sick stuff
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
27 Oct
That's correct, a thuggish group of black-clad "protesters" did steal my phone out of my hands as I was recording a public event, after which they forced me to recite a political slogan in order to get it back, then hurled objects at me and threatened to curbstomp me. Cool stuff
When this occurred, the reaction of journalists and activists (negligible difference between the two categories) was generally to praise the theft, the object hurling, and the threat of physical attack. Very cool stuff
People with profiles like this were huge fans of the tactic
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
25 Oct
This Rolling Stone article that's supposed to contain bombshell new Jan 6 info is a complete dud. It's been public info since well before Jan 6 that dopey GOP members of Congress met with dopey "Stop the Steal" organizers like Ali Akbar. This is just repackaged to seem shocking
How is it at all revelatory, for instance, that Madison Cawthorn's staff communicated with "Stop the Steal" organizers, when Cawthorn was a speaker at the official Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally? What, we previously thought that he just showed up randomly to that event?
Not surprisingly Dem members of Congress wasted no time feverishly sharing the article, which writer Hunter Walker sure seems to appreciate. In doing so they conflate holding meetings about a public, legal political demonstration with having "helped plan" a terrorist attack
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
22 Oct
The Intercept, @ryangrim, and @nathanTbernard most of all owe an apology (and a retraction) to the Bates College student journalists they defamed. It’s utterly ridiculous:
It's simply impossible for The Intercept to defend Nathan Bernard's fraudulence. So they're going to continue obfuscating and hope that an insufficient number of people notice this revelation of blatant journalistic misconduct. That's their only tactic
Bernard and The Intercept were in such a big rush to "scoop" a story about a small liberal arts college in Maine, that just went off a faulty activist press release without bothering to verify anything -- thereby proliferating false, defamatory information mtracey.substack.com/p/to-suit-its-…
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21 Oct
To Suit Its Ideological Agenda, The Intercept Fabricated A Censorship Story That Even The Censorship "Victims" Denounce As False mtracey.substack.com/p/to-suit-its-…
The Intercept dramatically declared that two student journalists at Bates College had been "censored," but they didn't even bother to contact the journalists to ask them if they had been censored -- which the students both vehemently deny. Really bizarre journalistic misconduct
I likely never would have even noticed this relatively insignificant story if Intercept writer @nathanTbernard hadn't badgered me to cover it, lest I be totally owned for hypocrisy. So I covered it, and of course it turns out to be largely BS. (Bernard has stopped replying to me)
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