In this week's @gaslitnation, we pay tribute to Harry Reid and his attempt to tell the truth about Trump, Russia, and FBI corruption in real time -- *before* the 2016 election. Here is a thread of Reid's 2016 letters to Comey, which Comey ignored.
"In an era of rising autocracy, it is crucial to remember who knew what and when – and who was willing to tell you in real time." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/mob-ment…
"Harry Reid was, to my knowledge, the ONLY elected official in office to do their job regarding election security in 2016. He was Senate Minority Leader at the time, but the rest of his caucus failed to match his assertiveness."
"Every institution failed the American people in 2016 – the FBI, the CIA, the Obama Administration, and of course, the GOP. Harry Reid did not fail the American people. He had no qualms about standing up and doing the right thing, which is to speak the truth and do it publicly."
"Harry Reid was flawed like every political figure is. But he was willing to stand up to power when it mattered, and to speak a disturbing and dangerous truth when others stayed silent, and that is a quality worth emulating." patreon.com/posts/mob-ment…
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There is an extra @gaslitnation episode this week. @AndreaChalupa and I released the episode from Jan 6, 2021, that we taped right after the Capitol attack. This is our instant reaction, no longer paywalled: patreon.com/posts/our-janu…
“There is a giant propaganda operation right now telling you that everything is fine, you just need to wait it out, you just need to watch our ‘great leaders’ play 3D chess...” — me on January 7, 2021 patreon.com/posts/our-janu…
"Bernard Kerik surfaced in the Trump admin at a press conference in August 2020, standing next to Giuliani’s son, Andrew, who worked for Trump -- part of the broad nepotism which included hiring Bill Barr's children, installing Ivanka and Jared, etc..." patreon.com/posts/mob-ment…
"Kerik is a convicted felon who was pardoned by Trump in 2020. He is an object lesson on why Congress should have taken Trump's abuse of the pardon power very seriously. Kerik, Stone, Flynn, Bannon and others were pardoned -- and then attempted a violent coup."
"Kerik is a Giuliani crime crony who served as NYPD police commissioner in the year before 9/11. Kerik was indicted after accepting a $250K bribe from an Israeli billionaire while serving as 'Interior Minister of Iraq' after Bush's invasion in 2003." patreon.com/posts/mob-ment…
"This is not just about Trump. This is not just about 1/6. This is about an entire apparatus and deep institutional rot and corruption that both facilitates this elite crime spree and embodies it." patreon.com/posts/tis-seas…
"These politicians and pundits are so disgraceful to pretend they just learn this. They have to keep playing with people's memories and sense of what's urgent to address. It's incredibly manipulative propaganda that taps into people's fears, especially their fear of abandonment."
"Merrick Garland refuses to prosecute the crimes outlined in the Mueller Report. Everyone should be extraordinarily alarmed that Garland refuses to act on since the report has been there the whole time." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/tis-seas…
"Mueller, famously reticent, broke his silence to say to say 'Yes you can indict Trump when he leaves office.' Of course, they could have before, but Barr would have prevented it. There's nothing preventing it now, except Merrick Garland." -- @AndreaChalupa on @Gaslitnation
"I'm so sick of this cable news fantasy football league of lawyers who acted like Mueller was a big Marvel superhero and falsely promised justice. They've been pulling the same trick with Merrick Garland all year." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/tis-seas…
"All year long, we've been telling people: trust your eyes and ears. Trust the evidence in the public domain. And here are we yet again, with officials vacillating between professed horror and selective amnesia over obvious crimes." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/tis-seas…
"All year long, we've walked the steady path of the truth while waves of propaganda washed up against us, trying to knock us down. Waves of propaganda from shark-infested waters. But the evidence was always clear." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/tis-seas…
"You did not need a PowerPoint to see that this was a planned coup. You did not need new texts. You needed your eyes and ears. Because they live-streamed the coup. They aired it on TV. They planned it on the internet and confessed openly." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/tis-seas…