1/3 One of the most outlandish exchanges involve Epps being asked about a text HE SENT HIMSELF on J6: "I was in the front with a few others. I also orchestrated it."
Cmte staffers then basically FEED to Epps how he should answer the question.
(Epps in green, Qs in yellow)
2/3 Basically, Epps is coached to say he texted his nephew saying he "orchestrated ... it" b/c he was moving away from "the front" & trying to deescalate the situation and that he took credit for the "orchestrat[ion]" but he "didn't know what [he] was taking credit for." Umm, OK
3/3 You know that if a charged J6 Defendant was videoed telling people on J5 AND J6 to go "into" the Capitol "where our problems are," TAKEN TOGETHER with sending a text message that he also "ORCHESTRATED IT," that defendant would have the literal book thrown at them. No question
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1/x This will be a long 🧵on the topic of whether H.R. 3746's permitting reform is worth something or is basically worthless. H.R. 3746 raises the debt limit.
From here on out, I call it "the Bill."
This will no doubt be my longest thread so strap in. I'll begin with main pts.
2/x The "reforms" in H.R. 3746 (“the Bill”) will do little to solve the serious problems created by the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) and its regulations.
NEPA is a law that requires all infrastructure projects to be analyzed for their environmental effects.
3/x Worse even than Nixon's price controls, his signing the NEPA statute was one of his worst decisions.
NEPA is the go-to statute for leftist environmental groups to block infrastructure projects. You wonder why in China infrastructure sprouts up overnight but it takes 2 yrs
1/4 Rep Raskin tells us several things about “woke” here, all of which I think is balderdash:
see around 19:50-21:00 mark.
Specifically, he says:
1) conservatives don’t know what the term means; 2) the Left doesn’t really know what it means either;
2/4 cont’d: 3) we on the Left have stopped using the term anyway, so conservatives are too late; & 4) I, Rep Raskin, have a def’n for “woke” which is “stay vigilant” because we Dems are under attack.
3/4 No, “woke” is cultural Marxism, an attack on our traditions, religious life & culture.
The Left runs from “woke” as a label now because they prefer their radical beliefs to rest inside the equivalent of an amorphous smoke screen where they can hide.
2/ In essence, Speaker Pelosi & Rep. Schiff designed the first Trump impeachment to deny Trump due process. Remarkably, Nadler called them on it, as a new book from Politico reporter + WaPo reporter coming out 10/18 shows.
Nadler said Pelosi & Schiff acted "unconstitutional[ly]"
3/ Specifically, Pelosi and Schiff sequenced House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Schiff) hearings before House Judiciary Committee (Nadler) hearings, so they could deliberately deny Trump cross-examination rights.
1/4 In Somersett’s case (1772), Lord Mansfield, the great English jurist, set in motion the demise of slavery in the English-speaking world, saying “[slavery] is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law.” And there was no such legislation in England
2/4 Antislavery had achieved at least minority support among the American colonies’ thought leaders long before the Declaration of Independence and the Boston Party in 1773.
3/4 DeSantis is a great Gov but Declaration wasn’t the entirety of everything that was going on in 1776, though it did fuel later generations of abolitionists and Lincoln ending slavery in the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.
2 Preston Moore is a TikTok influencer. He’s a plaintiffs-side lawyer at Beasley Allen in Atlanta. He’s NOT a Trump supporter.
He reveals in video that he was offered money to spread J6 propaganda against Trump.
This will be a long thread because what he was asked is so damning
3 Preston is a Harvard Law grad and very studied in mock trials and rhetoric. He can see through snow jobs.
He was asked by the Good Information Foundation (THINK: it does the opposite of what it’s entitled) to spread unsupported lies about Trump and J6. thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/harvar…