Hopefully, this story is “cover” and, behind the scenes, @January6thCmte and @TheJusticeDept are speaking with Frank Scavo about his ties to Trump, Bannon, the #MAGAMoonies & January 6. But I’m not optimistic. 1/ #papol
.@cjkink, an excellent local PA journalist, has written about Frank Scavo and his motley PA crew many times. Here’s one where he was kind enough to reference my piece. 4/
I’d like to think that @cjkink’s reporting and mine had something to do with this. 5/
If @January6thCmte is listening, they must ask Scavo about Trump’s visit to Old Forge in August 2020. I have reason to believe there was a private meeting with Trump, Scavo and others that day and that it is very significant. 6/
I do not believe Scavo was a mastermind. But I believe he was in communication with those who were. 7/
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Yes. I still strongly advise hand marked paper ballots (pen and paper), rather than either: (a) machine marked “paper ballots” (marked by a touchscreen), or (b) paperless. I took a break from election security as my main focus for several reasons. First…. 1/
… it became a very negative space for me. This is the last published (outside of Medium) article that I wrote. It deserved a lot more attention than it got. The Big Lie effectively ruined advocacy in this area. It was already very uphill. 2/ whowhatwhy.org/politics/elect…
I spent months researching and writing it, which overlapped with my father dying and the book draft I needed to be writing to make a deadline. The book deal on election security then fell through, another crushing blow. 3/
September 2020: “Trump basically said to go fuck them up. This makes me so happy.” — Joe Biggs, Proud Boy leader (now indicted) 1/
2/ Posted to Biggs Instagram account on January 18, 2020. h/t @LeaLovesUSA
3/ Biggs attended the 2016 RNC in Cleveland as a “reporter” for Alex Jones. Here’s a link to a video where he and Alex Jones led a chant of “Hillary for Prison.” Turns out he’s the one facing prison time.
“To draw such [large] crowds,” Ali Alexander “made clear Stop the Steal would collaborate with anyone who supported its cause, no matter how extreme their views.
‘We’re willing to work with racists,’ he said on one livestream in December.” - June 2021 propublica.org/article/new-de…
“‘Thirty percent of that crowd was Alex Jones’ crowd,’ Alexander said on another livestream, referring to the Million MAGA March on Nov. 14. ‘And there were thousands and thousands of Groypers — America First young white men. …” 1/
“Even if you thought these [white nationalist Groypers] were bad people, why can’t bad people do good tasks? Why can’t bad people fight for their country?” - said Ali Alexander (a person of color, JFC) 2/
Reminder that Roger Stone has ties to Joel Greenberg (who has confessed to having sex w/ a minor) and Matt Gaetz (who is under investigation for alleged sex trafficking of a minor. 1/