Roger Stone relied on deception to make unpopular views appear more popular than they were. “Facebook removes fake accounts posing as Floridians linked to Roger Stone” 7/8/20 1/ thedenverchannel.com/news/national/…
In July 2020, “Facebook…removed dozens of fake accounts… ‘linked to Roger Stone & his associates’ … ‘The people behind this activity used fake accounts…to pose as residents of Florida, [and] post & comment on their own content to make it appear more popular than it is…’” 2/
“Mueller investigators said Roger Stone orchestrated hundreds of fake Facebook accounts in political influence scheme” - 8/25/20 3/ cnn.com/2020/04/28/pol…
Charlie Kirk follows the same playbook, relying on deception to make fringe views appear popular. Do MAGAs like to be deceived or do they not know this? 4/ theguardian.com/technology/202…
6/ “Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter says … Twitter has taken action to stop a spam operation that pushed messages from fake accounts about Black people abandoning the Democratic Party.” 8/27/20 nbcnews.com/tech/security/…
7/ “The fake accounts were purported to be run by Black people whose viral tweets received tens of thousands of shares in the past month.”
8/ “Twitter suspends fake accounts pretending to be Black Trump supporters” - 10/14/20 cnn.com/2020/10/14/tec…
9/ Jack Posobiec relies on deliberately deceptive tactics too.
“As of three weeks ago, 172 of these individuals [pardoned by Trump] had pled guilty to assaulting law enforcement. By their own admission, they assaulted police. About 140 officers were injured, including Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the following day. Four officers who responded that day have since died by suicide.” 1/25/25 (Link in post 2.)
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Trump has picked Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. As of 9 days ago, Ingrassia’s Instagram included a pinned photo of himself w/ self-professed “misogynist” Andrew Tate who has since been charged w/ rape & trafficking in the UK & who performed the Nazi salute on video (in apparent defense of Elon Musk). 1/
MAGA’s favorite White South African activist group—Afriforum—admitted last year that “there is no white genocide going on in South Africa.”
(In 2018, Afriforum had traveled to the US to discuss their claim that White South African farmers were being murdered due to their race. They have since hobnobbed with Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, New Founding, CPAC, & NatCon.) 1/
The Center for Renewing America—founded by Trump’s OMB Director pick Russ Vought, a top architect of Project 2025—has *explicitly* said that it wants the federal govt to “eliminate” Obamacare’s life-saving Medicaid expansion. Here are some stats on the expansion. 1/ cbpp.org/research/healt…
Pete Hegseth attends a church that belongs to the CREC, the evangelical denomination founded by Christ Church pastor Doug Wilson. This guy. 👇 h/t @ExaminingMoscow 1/