Chairman Bennie Thompson says today's #January6thCommittee hearing will also be a business meeting and will present a fair amount of evidence that has already been heard.
Liz Cheney: "Claims that Trump actually thought the election was stolen are false." #January6thCommitteeHearings
Liz Cheney: "Our nation cannot only punish the footsoldiers who stormed our Capitol... With every effort to excuse or justify the conduct of the former president, we chip away at the foundation of our republic." #January6thCommitteeHearings
Zoe Lofgren discussing the "Red Mirage," the most critical part about Trump's 2020 loss that election conspiracy theories never ever discuss. Smart people knew Trump would have a false lead from same-day voting #January6thCommitteeHearings
Lofgren shows secret 10/31 draft speech written by Tom Fitton, a non-lawyer who Trump has turned to numerous times for disastrous/stupid legal advice, in which Trump was to proclaim he had won the election, even though no ballots had been counted. #January6thCommitteeHearings
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
🧵NEW from me: Tom Fitton, the far-right fake lawyer who got Trump into legal jeopardy with NARA previously worked secretly with Trump to falsely declare victory in 2020 before a single vote had been counted tyt.com/stories/7015be…#January6thCommitteeHearings
Trump has had difficulty hiring good lawyers for some time because of his record of urging attorneys to commit crimes, his refusal to heed their advice, and the fact that he doesn't pay bills.
Because of that, he has leaned heavily on Fitton, someone who has never been a lawyer.
Like many people who became prominent Trump advisers, Fitton had existed on the margins of Republican politics, regarded by party elites as cranks who shook down the rubes.
As Trump sought to illegally remain in office, most of his legal & campaign staff told him to stop.
NEW from me: Passive Trump doesn't lift a finger as his social media stock deal circles the drain
Company looking to acquire "Truth Social" is about to self-destruct and Trump is refusing to save it 🧵 tyt.com/stories/7015be…
Digital World Acquisition Corp ($DWAC) looks poised to be the latest of many failed businesses linked to Trump. And once again other people will be left holding the bag.
The vast majority of DWAC stock owners are small-time investors who appear likely to get hosed.
Euphoria for Cheeto Jesus compelled thousands of Trump fans to lap up DWAC stock after "Truth Social" announced that it would be acquired by the shell company.
But the deal looks doomed amid 2 federal investigations and a board member whistleblower.
Thread: How Elon Musk's Twitter purchase could kill off Trump's floundering "Truth Social" network tyt.com/stories/7015be…
Digital World Acquisition Corporation, the "blank-check" SPAC trying to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group has faced a series of devastating legal and regulatory setbacks since it announced its intent to acquire Trump's Twitter clone.
Chief among them is an SEC investigation which appears to have been prompted by one of the co-founders of "Truth Social" named William Wilkerson who filed a whistle-blower complaint w/the agency alleging illegal contact between Trump and DWAC chief Patrick Orlando
Thread: "The Right Stuff" and the history of doomed reactionary dating websites
You may have heard of The Right Stuff, the MAGA singles website. It's actually a retread of an idea that failed many times before. Join me for some internet archaeology!
In the early days of the web, before corporate behemoths ruined everything, almost anyone could start up a site and attract users for it. There were tons of micro dating websites, often powered by dating-site-in-a-can software.
Sean Hannity decided to make one.
In 2006, he launched "Hannidate," which appears to have been one of the first prominent right-wing dating websites.
It appears to have cost him almost nothing to set up and he seems to have viewed it as kind of a joke. Here is the archived homepage.
NEW: Former Trump official Adam Hageman pleads guilty to possession of child porn, will serve 5½ year prison term. tyt.com/stories/7015be…
Adam Hageman, who was a Trump political appointee in the Commerce Department after working for Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, was arrested in November of 2020. He's the second national Republican operative to plead guilty to having highly disturbing content.
Hageman had "dozens" of videos of child abuse on his phone, per investigators. He said he preferred to rape children between the ages of 12 & 16.
His former employer, Turning Point USA, hosts hundreds of events for children in this age group. It has not commented on the case.