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Jun 21, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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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/ ImageImage
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/
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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/
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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/
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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/ Image
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/
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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/ Image
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/
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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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Apr 19
The Trump admin now CLAIMS to have made a mistake. Not "acknowledges". Trump's clowns sent a letter signed by 3 government officials, got the predictable response (mighty Harvard swung into battle), tried to amplify and flopped, and so now are whining it's all Harvard's fault. 1/ Image
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A new attack on Harvard, another attempt to impose government control. Trump first tried with $: canceling researchers' grants, threatening taxes. Now an attack via visas: to deport ALL Harvard's international students (38% of PhDs doing lab research). 1/
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Cannot emphasize enough how much of an own-goal it is to tell a university with a $53 billion endowment and a a giant PR team that you want to destroy them. Trump's goons blew it. Today's news is full of sympathetic profiles of crucial Harvard health research. Lawyers next. 1/ Image
Fascist regimes have always managed to co-opt universities, which are timid and self-protective and can be gradually weakened. But Trump's idiots blew it last week with insane demands to set up a police state overnight. They forced Harvard to fight. 2/
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Just going to keep reposting this screenshot from Bukele's inauguration last year every time he lies in reporters' faces about how he can't return an innocent US resident. This is the guy who will be imprisoning US citizens next. 1/ Image
Listen to what Trump says to Bukele, in this video posted by Bukele himself. At 7:29 Trump leans over and whispers: "homegrowns are next" - US citizens. And "you're going to have to build about 5 more prisons". Flagged by the NPR correspondent. 2/
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Trump defers to El Salvador's sovereignty but threatens Greenland. Why? It's not strange. Trump is deferring to Silicon Valley neo-fascists. They dream of seizing Greenland, but El Salvador president Bukele is their guy. He's their test case for a crypto-powered autocracy. 1/
Bukele branded himself the tech-friendly modern dictator: yes death squads, but also Bitcoin. Shred your old financial system and pay salaries in Bitcoin? Done in El Salvador. Spend taxpayer money on a national cryptocurrency reserve? Also El Salvador. 2/
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The dreaded "I told you so" moment: for years this account has warned that Trump and his backers want to dictate what schools can teach, from K-12 and university. That they wanted to impose curricula. And now it's here: Trump is trying to seize Columbia, a private university. 1/ Image
n Sep. 2022 I put it in a Twitter thread: that Trump had offered control over education as a quid pro quo for supporting his coup. Trump may not care about schools, but the people behind him do. They want to take away freedom of thought and speech. 2/
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