Three major January 6 figures were trailed by film crews, all foreign (Donald Trump, Enrique Tarrio: UK; Roger Stone: DK). Not likely random. Documenting your coup goes better if the filmer is less emotionally invested. Here's the subpoena (& response) by Alex "Leni" Holder 1/
Let's review the timing: by mid-September the machine for Jan 6 was already in motion: rallies, new organizations, talk of martial law. "Stop the Steal" was announced Sep 7. Holder's statement says he started the next week. 2/ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
At the Capitol, #NeonFilmer, who filmed straight into the violent tunnel fight, is an Italian cinematographer working for BardsFM. Several videographers with better gear, pro stuff, have no known ID or outlet & their footage has never appeared. We called them "in-house media". 3/
#SeditionHunters have archived media from over 400 professional videographers and reporters. If you carried pro gear at the Capitol & are not on this list (especially you in the neon pink jacket) please contact us before we turn over info to the J6C. 4/ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
In fairness to the DK crew trailing Stone, they had long worked with him, & Stone cut them off for the 3 critical hours of the Capitol attack itself (1-4 PM). Which says: Stone may not have fully expected or understood the scale of violence to come. 4/ washingtonpost.com/investigations…
Here's #NeonFilmer & some in-house media pals from another angle. Circled (& in Tweet 3 video), is "Trump's Brick Suit Guy" #IamBlakeMarnell - wore an RSBN press pass on J6 but also brandished a pitchfork, cheered the attack. The filmer by the tunnel is Andrew Morgan, arrested 6/
Update: for those want to know what depth of film-making experience it takes to be granted exclusive access to the US president, here is Alex Holder's IMDb page. Total: two production credits, ever. 7/ imdb.com/name/nm6831298…
Holder's doc "Keep Quiet" profiles a former leader of Hungary's far-right anti-semitic Jobbik party. Storyline: Szegedi finds he is in fact Jewish, moves to Israel. Sadly too much Jan 6 makes you cynical, too many such magic transformations: right-->left or left--> right. 8/
Candace Owens (#Blexit), Brandon Straka (#Walkaway), Asher Meza (#Jexit), Cassandra Fairbanks (Anon --> conservative), Anna Khait (honeypot --> Christian). So effective to say, "I was different, now I have changed". Maybe Szegedi's the real deal. Sure could use some reporting. 9/
Alex Holder now tells Rolling Stone he was hired directly by the Trump family & has "never-before-seen" footage of the Capitol attack. Let's take bets. Which "in-house" videographer will he feature? And was Trump getting that video live on Jan 6? 10/ web.archive.org/web/2022062121…
In case it's not clear: the week after Stop the Steal was announced, the Trump family hired a foreign filmmaker whose only prior experience was laundering the reputation of an extremist politician - and who now has his own, exclusive footage of the attack on the US Capitol. 11/
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As Elon Musk gives the Nazi salute in DC, let me just say that it was very clear, 4 years ago, at least to me, that Jan 6 was a precursor, and that this would be the result if we did not investigate it thoroughly - not the footsoldiers but the ones who gave orders that day. 1/
Some people say Jan 6 was more like the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch than the 1933 Reichstag fire, but either way, the analogy holds. The attack was planned; the Proud Boys were sub-contractors; there were people on the ground directing. And we missed it. 2/
Jan 6 is still relevant. Because there was so much effort to erase it, one key task is preserving its memory and its evidence. More broadly, resisting in a way that Germany did not in the 1930s. We need to read our history and listen to historians. 3/ lucid.substack.com/p/its-day-one-…
To all who will read the Jack Smith report on Tuesday - be warned that it's even worse than expected on the physical attack. It's just wrong. Like this: the attack did not start with 1000s of people marching from the Ellipse. It started with a few hundred, led by Proud Boys. 1/
What you won't find here: the 200+ Proud Boys who marched around the Capitol, kicked off the attack, and helped in nearly every breach. The gang who were convicted of seditious conspiracy. In this report, they don't exist. 2/ documentcloud.org/documents/2548…
You also won't find: the money used to pay militia to attend. "It's all paid for", people whispered. Who paid? You won't learn that. You also don't see: the online campaign before the attack. This early flier said noon - soon they switched to 1 PM. 3/
Dear pundits saying no worries, Trump can't round up 10M migrants because their work is needed for the US economy: stop. Deporting people is hard. Locking people up and making them work, that's easy. Remember, MOST camps in Germany from 1938 were "Arbeitslager" - labor camps. 1/
It is critical to understand this and stop the bad takes. No one will put immigrants in camps and have them sit around. They will work in factories and on farms and in construction, without pay, just as happened in all prior historical examples. 2/ theholocaustexplained.org/the-camps/type…
Everyone now thinks of Germany's six extermination camps and their gas chambers: Auschwitz, Birkenau. But their bigger project was the hundreds of forced labor camps. At WWII's end they housed over 5M people, slaving to Make Germany Great Again. That's our analogy. 3/
This election won't see another Jan 6 - Trump can't raise a crowd. But there will be something new; his backers are desperate. In 2020 TX AG Ken Paxton was one of Trump's main allies. Now, 2 weeks before the election, Paxton previews a plan: to contest the Texas vote. 1/
The scariest players in 2020 weren't Proud Boys; they were rogue state attorneys general, led by Ken Paxton: elected officials all in for sedition. It was Paxton for Texas who sued to reject the votes of the swing states. What will he do this year? 2/ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
On January 6 morning, as the mob gathered at the Capitol, Ken Paxton spoke at Trump's rally: "Texas fights...Twelve straight lawsuits...", claiming Trump won deep red Texas only because he averted fraud. What will he do in 2024 for Trump and Ted Cruz? 3/
Peter Thiel's sidekick Chuck Johnson is now accused of posing as an intelligence asset to defraud businesses. So let's ask: how in 2023 did SEVEN news outlets print Johnson's story that he and Thiel were working for the FBI, without calling his bs? 1/ semafor.com/article/10/16/…
The two outlets who named Johnson as their source are Business Insider and The Atlantic, but their stories were picked up by 5 others, and MANY outlets did worse: they printed versions of the story over April-Nov 2023 without naming sources. It was all bullshit - a campaign. 2/
When Johnson started calling reporters to say he and Thiel were Super Secret FBI Sources, they should have have known this was 1) bs and 2) a PR campaign by Thiel. They should have asked: why would Thiel do this? What is his goal? Every leak has a goal. 3/
People shocked by Evie magazine's article fawning over JD Vance's "classic beauty" and "blue laser beam...eyes that sent women swooning", please realize this is the same outfit that launched a menstrual cycle tracker funded by Vance's patron Peter Thiel. 1/
The propaganda efforts aren't even subtle. Evie (started 2018) is a pitch for the horseshoe left via a "wellness" magazine. The period tracker was spun up in 2022 ("women were tired of the pill"); they claimed they'd have 1M users in a year. They don't. 2/ futurism.com/neoscope/peter…
Evie's use of "blue laser beam eyes" for Vance is funny since that phrase is borrowed from the parody ZDF did of Peter Thiel using the James Bond theme song: "Immortal libertarian, so refreshingly Aryan... with blue laser eyes into human demise..." 3/