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Jan 17 4 tweets 2 min read
#mattydickpics here trying to excuse GAPING holes in his work -- like the 2020 Iranian campaign (and blame them on others), says one of his biggest findings is ... meetings.

Meetings.

Then he lies about another--the reason for voter suppression reports.
To sum up: Months into this, #MattyDickPics thinks the biggest takeaways are:

1) a story he didn't write
2) meetings
3) a lie in service of people who violate the Klan Act
4) Adam Schiff trying to stop death threats
BREAKING!!!

Twitter had meetings.

Truly scandalous stuff.
Also note: What #MattyDickPics has written is VERIFIABLY FALSE. His screen caps often do not say what he claims they do. Like when he posted a claim that said FBI was not building cases after posting a screen cap showing they were.

emptywheel.net/2023/01/11/mat…

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More from @emptywheel

Jan 17
Let's talk about several ways Area Substacker engages in pro-Russian propaganda.

First, he posts this tweet from Pelosi which asks what Putin had on Trump, and claims, falsely, that she claimed Russian ran the US.

So even HIS "proof" is a lie.
In fact, we learned Putin DID have secrets Trump was lying to keep. One of those was the Trump Tower deal, which may have been pitched precisely SO Putin would have something on Trump. Cohen and Trump lied--Cohen to Congress--to hide that he reached out to the Krelmin in 1/16.
Another thing Trump was hiding was the pardon discussions with Julian Assange via Roger Stone, which started no later than 11/15/2016, and may have started 10/3/2016, before the Podesta drop (and, obviously, before he was President).
Read 6 tweets
Jan 15
Reposting this, from almost exactly a year ago. It explains how thousands of people who REALLY DID just come to hear Trump and protest about his false claims were exploited.

emptywheel.net/2022/01/13/the…
If the Proud Boys are to be found guilt of sedition--rather than just obstruction--DOJ will need to prove that the Proud Boys really did use these "normies" as "tools" in their assault on the Capitol.
If I were to rewrite this, I'd rewrite everything about Brandon Straka: we know he did "cooperate" to plead down to a misdemeanor. The value of that cooperation or his honesty remain a very big question.
Read 4 tweets
Jan 14
#mattydickpics LITERALLY described that he was a reverse chauvinist for Russia when he denied they'd invade Ukraine.

And he not only is not "reporting" anything, the talking points he parrots get several key details wrong. Image
The FUNNIEST thing about #MattyDickPics' latest faceplant, though, is the accused co-conspirator of one of those 12 people, who kept hacking US targets and even cheating Tesla!, goes on trial January 30.
#MattyDickPics is, as per usual, doubling down on things he knows nothing about.

Tl;dr: he's helping Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who CURRENTLY is butchering Ukrainians, dissociate his corporate person from his biological one.

Just more ass-kissing to oligarchs.
Read 5 tweets
Jan 13
Here's a claim from #MattyDickPics' latest SubStack. In it, he suggests that cloud platforms have better visibility on the authenticity and location of their traffic than the public.

It's utterly devastating to #MattyDickPics continued PR for RU on 2016

taibbi.substack.com/p/america-need…
In fact, it goes to the heart of #MattyDickPics' screaming ignorance abt attribution of the 2016 hack-and-leak: Not only did FBI attribute to RU, based off BOTH forensics from the targets AND evidence from cloud platforms, not only did security companies, but so did the platforms
Worse still, Twitter is not Facebook (or Google or Microsoft, all of which have FAR better visibility & tech than Twitter has ever attempted (cf @dotMudge).

Even in what #MattyDickPics has covered, there are indications that Twitter doesn't have perfect attribution.
Read 13 tweets
Jan 12
This, the primary cow-milker defense, is a new argument among January 6 defendants.

documentcloud.org/documents/2357…
I mean, aside from all the 🚨🚨🚨 in this paragraph that make you scream bullshit, I love sentences in Jan6 filings that obscure whether something happened before or after Jan6.

Also, how did he get to Miami?!?!?!
Read 5 tweets
Jan 12
The reason Jeremy Bertino said he didn't want anything to do with Joe Biggs' attorney Daniel Hull was not the seeming tie to a deposition about his own stabbing, but what happened in fellow Proud Boy Jay Thaxton's deposition before J6C.

documentcloud.org/documents/2357…
One thing Hull did repeatedly was to try to ascribe Thaxton's knowledge of things like the Proud Boy Ministry of Self Defense thread to @RawStory's @jordangreennc. Just good journalism.

documentcloud.org/documents/2357…
@RawStory @jordangreennc Hull balked, at length, about the discussion of the Ministry of Self Defense Telegram thread.
Read 10 tweets

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