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Jan 9 4 tweets 2 min read
#mattydickpics, who expressed OUTRAGE that Twitter took down non-consensual dick pics at the request of the Dems--it was LITERALLY his big reveal first thread--now says it doesn't matter.

He's still lying to you abt his FBI trying to enforce the Ku Klux Klan Act.
#mattydickpics, of course, is a self-described reverse chauvinist in favor of Russia, and he suppressed (censored) about 10 important details that anyone with basic knowledge of events relating to hacking in 2019 and 2020 could share abt background to the "laptop."
One thing that tips you off that #mattydickpics is a hack: He has provided no discussion of how Twitter responded to an Iranian hack-and-voter suppress effort made in the guise of the Proud Boys, which happened in these very same weeks of 2020.

Why not?
Well ... one possibility is that Matty is too stupid to know about it and he presented screen caps claiming these Iranian trolls pretending to be Proud Boys were really nice Americans trying to exercise their god-given right to violate the Ku Klux Klan Act.

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Jan 10
Let me say more about what we know of the docs that Trump stole, for comparison.

Remember, there were 4 sets:

1) returned Jan 2022
2) turned over June 2022
3) seized August 2022
4) found in Nov 2022
Of group 1, the classified docs were mixed in with personal items and clippings. That might just suggest that Trump had returned entire boxes.

Except he reportedly curated those boxes (and told NARA they were getting 12 but sent 15).

Still, it was intermingled.
We don't know about group 4, the two docs found in November, but it is most equivalent to this -- forgotten in a storage closet not being accessed every day.
Read 12 tweets
Jan 10
Here's something I've seen in ZERO of the reporting on the Penn Biden documents: Trump has made it a key part of his defense that NARA should not have referred his own stolen docs.

Seems a bit pertinent if y'all are going to claim this makes it harder to prosecute Trump, huh?
Also, it remains the case that EVEN NYT's updated story on the Penn Biden docs fails to mention the NYT's recent report that Beryl Howell has not yet decided whether to hold Trump in contempt for refusing--STILL!!!--to give back all the docs.

Also seems pertinent, huh?
WHY THE FUCK would you quote Trump, with no fact check, when he is still suspected of hoarding classified docs?

Maybe ask him to deny that on the record before quoting him at all?
Read 4 tweets
Jan 9
In addition to the ongoing Oath Keeper trial, which has gotten little coverage, and the Proud Boy case which kicks off maybe tomorrow, Richard Barnett and Joshua Black have trial this week (Black is doing a bench trial before ABJ).
It's fairly nutty to see people claiming that no Jan6ers are facing consequences bc these are all serious charges against ~12 men.
Barnett is the guy who put his feet on Pelosi's desk and brought an electroshock walking stick. Black is the guy who made it to the Senate floor who had been injured by a rubber bullet in his cheek, so was bleeding everywhere.
Read 4 tweets
Jan 9
I'm seeing a lot of people say this.

These people seem not to know that dozens of people were arrested (most in DC, not Fed).

But it's not an apt comparison. You had a choice: Finish the certification, or arrest people. The latter likely would have served Trump's interest.
It's a lot easier to focus on arrests if you're not 1) trying to protect every member of Congress and the VP and 2) trying to make it possible to finish the vote certification.
I say, often, that while alternative choices (eg, earlier impeachment, but also more arrests) might have been preferable, we cannot guarantee those wouldn't have resulted in worse outcomes, including a successful coup.
Read 4 tweets
Jan 8
Jeremy Liggett: A Little Bitty Fly that Jim Jordan Wants to Propagandize

emptywheel.net/2023/01/08/jer…
Everyone -- especially people parroting Jim Jordan claims -- should get familiar with the case of Stephen Friend, who doesn't want Jeremy Liggett and his associates investigated as a DOMTERR investigation out of DC.

THAT's what the fake "Church Committee" is about.
Liggett allegedly:

1) Signed Dustin Stockton up to an alleged 3% group
2) Coordinated w/convicted seditionist Kelly Meggs in December 2020
3) Paid for travel of some Tunnel invaders
4) Served as "marshal" at Trump's Ellipse event

That's investigation Jordan wants to undermine
Read 4 tweets
Jan 5
Tony Ornato explained he DEFINITELY knew who Code Pink was, but the militia called out by the guy he worked for? It gets hazy.

documentcloud.org/documents/2356…
Ornato also doesn't remember the news of Elmer pledging to violently back a Trump dictatorship sticking out.
In which Ornato SEEMS to suggest that Dan Scavino would alert the Secret Service if he found a threat to the President online, but not threats to the Republic.
Read 5 tweets

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