👀This text message connects Roger Stone to Oathkeeper Kelly Meggs who talked about killing Nancy Pelosi before the insurrection & then tried to hunt her down during the insurrection. @hugolowell 1/
2/
3/ We already knew that Stone & Meggs were in touch on 12/13. The text message reveals that they were in touch on 12/30 too.
10/ Oh wow. Oathkeeper Kelly Meggs (who had talked about killing Pelosi before Jan 6 & then tried to hunt her down on Jan 6) had even been to Roger Stone’s house. I did not realize this photo was outside Stone’s house. 👀
19/ The same lawyer represents Oathkeepers Kelly (“I wanna kill Pelosi) Meggs, Oathkeepers leader Stewart Rhodes, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, Ali Alexander, & Roger Stone? How cozy?
34/ How about Roger Stone? “Stone also urged Trump to consider declaring ‘martial law’ or invoking the Insurrection Act…” 9/11/20 @mmfamediamatters.org/roger-stone/ro…
35/ How about Mike Flynn & Sidney Powell in December? (Note that Roger Stone suggested it first)
39/ Whatever conditions they had hoped to use as a pretext for invoking the insurrection act on Jan 6 (pipe bombs exploding? Clash with Antifa?) did not apparently occur.
40/ PS. Meggs’ exact words were “I’m going on a killing spree… Pelosi first,” - not “I wanna kill Pelosi” (the latter of which was me paraphrasing).
41/ I feel this is important. Roger Stone knew that Trump was in danger of losing the election when he encouraged Trump to declare martial law or invoke the Insurrection Act in September 2020. He knew it.
43/ BTW, #EO13848 & USAid cld have been invoked only in the event of ** foreign** election interference. Remember this bizarre claim by Stone?
44/ Stone made that bizarre claim in December, around the time that Flynn & Powell called in Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act too. mediamatters.org/roger-stone/ro…
45/ Based on Staci BURK’S affidavit, the question arises whether Scott Koch, an associate of Mike Flynn, may have planted a false story about foreign election interference as well.
46/ Too bad Staci Burk didn’t save a separate copy of her recording of her conversation with Scott Koch (Flynn’s 1AP stole her phone). Oh wait. She says she did, and here it is. 🔥Note: I have not listened to this yet. I’m too tired/maybe sick right now. soundcloud.com/staci-burk/koc…
49/ It may be a coincidence, but Roger Stone protege Mike Caputo worked for USAID in the 90s. He might still have had some contacts there, even though he was apparently canned.
65/ Stewart Rhodes, Oathkeepers leader, also called for Trump to initiate the Insurrection Act, as first proposed by Stone in September 2020 & later Mike Flynn & Ivan Raiklan.
73/ On 12/19/20, the Oathkeepers (Stewart Rhodes & general counsel Kelleye Sorelle) published a letter that urged Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. independentsentinel.com/oath-keepers-o…
77/ In September 2020, Trump talked about using the Insurrection Act if the Democrats were to riot over a Trump victory. It suggests to me that he might have invoked the Act on Jan 6 if anti-Trump demonstrators had shown up & clashed w/ MAGAs.
Terrific post by @LuluFriesdat of @Smart_elections —which seeks a hand recount of the presidential election in Rockland County, NY—in which they correct those who have wrongly suggested that Smart Elections’ legitimate concerns & findings thus far amount to “proof” that the election was rigged for Trump.
THIS is what credible election integrity messaging looks like: “Are we concerned about all the software updates they released? You bet we are. Can we say conclusively that there was some kind of malware in those updates that changed vote totals? No we cannot. That’s why we’re in court. To get that kind of information.”
👏👏👏👏 1/ open.substack.com/pub/smartelect…
Those of you who have followed me for years know that I spent about four years of my life focusing on election security. (See my article below.) 2/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/10/trump-…
3/ After the Big Lie, I felt that the movement had been so discredited—by people improperly conflating vulnerabilities with “proof” of fraud & then using that non-existent “proof” to justify violence—that I could no longer effectively advance this ball.
“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.)
1/
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…