🔥Retired US Army colonel who circulated coup plot PowerPoint (proposing Trump declare a national security emergency & seize ballots) said he visited White House after election, spoke w/ Meadows 8-10x, & briefed several members of Congress on eve of #Jan6. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
The retired colonel election denier was Philip Waldron. He worked with Trump’s outside lawyers, including Giuliani, and on the “team” that “briefed” GOP members of Congress on the coup outlined in the PowerPoint. Waldron contributed to the “foreign interference” part of the plot.
Ret.Col.Waldron was brought in when the plotters turned to an election hacking plot. As the “cybersecurity consultant,” Waldron gave Meadows a list of IP addresses, servers & data to investigate “using the powers of the world’s greatest national security intelligence apparatus”😳
Waldron thinks Meadows passed his “data” list to John Ratcliffe, Trump’s wholly unqualified & shamelessly partisan DNI. Ratcliffe claimed he didn’t get it, tho Meadows says his job was passing info along “to the appropriate recipient.” Better subpoena Ratcliffe, @January6thCmte.
😬GOP Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC makes a surprise appearance in this Waldron report. Waldron briefed Graham in Meadows’ White House office on “significant foreign interference.” Seems like a whole lot of Republicans knew & stayed silent about the coup plot outlined in that PowerPoint.
Waldron also briefed GOP Senator @RonJohnsonWI & staff on fantasy foreign interference.
AND he briefed “several members of Congress in a congressional office.” He didn’t name them but said they were “shocked” by his (PowerPoint coup) presentation.
And of course right-wing media
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"Things we didn't do in 2014, we are prepared to do now."—NSA @JakeSullivan46 on today's Biden-Putin video call about #Ukraine, and #Russia's massive military buildup on its border.
NSA Sullivan: Russian gas isn't flow through Nord Stream 2. If Vladimir Putin wants to see gas flow through that pipeline, he may not want to risk it by invading Ukraine. Biden spoke with European allies after the call with #Russia's Putin, and they are "in lockstep" on #Ukraine.
Besides stiff economic #sanctions, Sullivan said US would provide more defensive material to Ukraine & would fortify @NATO’s eastern flank allies with additional capabilities, if #Russia were to further invade #Ukraine.
Some motivations behind Putin’s sphere-of-influence demand in #Ukraine:
😭Soviet Trauma: Hurt national psyche
😤Great Power status: Lost, Want
😬Origin Story: #Russia’s history begins in Kyiv
🤭Identity: Russian “greats”- Ukrainian
🇺🇦Democracy: if works next door,🥾corrupt Putin
"There are tactical reasons for threatening an invasion, but the real cause may lie in the Kremlin’s fixation with righting what it sees as a historical injustice."
I've always found Putin's "one people" argument incoherent in an abusive husband kind of way: Ukrainians & Russians are one people, have shared history, language & culture. Therefore, #Russia will invade #Ukraine, kill more "brothers & sisters", proving Russia really cares??🤔
#BREAKING Jury Reaches Verdict For 3 Men Charged With Killing Ahmaud Arbery
That's awfully fast. I fear the White men who killed an unarmed Black man in Georgia will go free. That would be another win for vigilantism. And a devastating loss for the family & justice in America.
💥Travis McMichael: GUILTY of ALL COUNTS—Malice Murder, Felony Murder, Aggravating Assault etc.
🚨 BIG #Jan6#coup news—from the depraved horse's mouth, as it were
Trump admits that he knew—at the time—that the angry mob he directed to go to the Capitol to fight were hunting to kill Mike Pence in the Capitol. And Trump defends it—on tape: "Well, the people were very angry"
Trump's all-consuming self-promoting depravity is shocking tho not surprising.
Also pretty shocking: Trump admits in @JonKarl audio that what he wanted Pence to do on Jan6—what he directed his angry mob to get Pence to do on 1/6—was only 50/50 legal, according to HIS own lawyers
@jonkarl Trump's "50/50" remark shows he knew his harebrained coup using Pence to stop Biden's election certification—cementing his loss—was unconstitutional. His own kraken "constitutional scholars" told him 50/50. Yet he sicced a violent mob on lawmakers anyway. And watched it on TV.
Wanted by the FBI, Capitol rioter Evan Neumann of MILL VALLEY, CA appeared on #Belarus State TV saying he fled to Ukraine, but likely worried about extradition back to US, he made the genius move to seek asylum in Belarus—land of the forever dictator & rigged & stolen elections.
🧵on Evan Neumann from upscale Marin County, CA. He's seeking asylum in Belarus & fleeing a 6-count indictment for attacking police in 1/6 Capitol siege.
Russian media's all over the MAGA line calling rioters "political prisoners". So prepare for lots more Evan on propaganda TV.
Democrats don't have a branding problem in rural America. They have a GOP media monopoly problem. The key fact in this story: white rural voters are fueled by a conservative media bubble that speaks in apocalyptic terms, convincing ppl that America's on the brink b/c of Dems.
Democrats can have the best branding, but if voters only consume right-wing radio & TV, right-wing propagandists are defining Dems. Dems' message can't reach voters living in GOP propaganda media bubble. That's what's gotten progressively worse. We're seeing it in these numbers.
Right-wing media is a drumbeat of demonization & disinformation. Have you listened to talk radio lately?? It's North Korea level crazy assaulting ppl's brains w/ fear & anxiety. Ds & sane Rs should join forces, buy radio stations, launch news channels in those media markets. BUT