NEW: Members of the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Operations Division heckled former Officer Mike Fanone at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony, Fanone tells me.
“They called me a piece of shit and mockingly called me a great fucking hero while clapping," he said.
Fanone says they called him a disgrace, said he was not a cop anymore, and said he didn't belong at the ceremony. It happened in the rotunda, he said.
Was trying to tweet the appropriate GIF earlier but was clearly CENSORED and SHADOWBANNED. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Just imagine. You’re a pro-Trump Rep. with a new fancy-pants title, and you think you’ve hit paydirt on the FBI and Biden campaign leaning on Twitter in 2020.
Then you find out the Trump White House pressured Twitter to take down a mean tweet from the co-host of Lip Sync Battle.
Corruption? From one of the two-bit “prosecutors” in a municipal “court” in the St. Louis area? Wow, who could have imagined. stltoday.com/news/local/cri…
If you think municipal prosecutors are too big for their britches imagine how impressed the St. Louis County municipal court “judges” who hold court out of the living rooms of converted single family homes are with themselves. huffpost.com/entry/st-louis…
Full disclosure: The muni court "judge" in my St. Louis County case -- appointed after giving $20K to a politician who later went to federal prison in a "pay to play" bribery scheme -- couldn't even spell my name right. A real pro! huffpost.com/entry/ryan-rei…
Jan. 6 Committee: "Nobody in the DOJ leadership could have predicted" that President Trump would do things like urge a mob to "fight like hell" on Jan 6.
Apprentice star Donald Trump in 2012, when the guy who'd roasted him at the White House Correspondents' Dinner was reelected:
(Deep in book writing, but it only now dawned on me that he used literally the exact same language a decade ago and called for "revolution" and a march on Washington because he was big mad that Mitt Ro... **checks notes** **checks notes again** Mitt Romney lost.)
Jan. 6 defendant Gabe Chase is set to take a misdemeanor plea tomorrow. An online sleuth flagged to me that he appears to have briefly used what appears to be pepper spray as rioters were fighting cops, so potentially getting good credit for cooperation here. #SeditionHunters
You can see the moment in @FordFischer's video here. He appears to sort of blindly shoot around the corner, and now I bet he's feeling very lucky that it does not appear his spray actually connected with a cop.