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Ryan J. Reilly

@ryanjreilly

Feb 7

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.)

[gestures broadly at everything] huffpost.com/entry/trump-vo…

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Ryan J. Reilly

@ryanjreilly

Feb 4

Two points on this piece from The Intercept:

1) Christian pregnancy centers are very clearly covered under the plain language of the FACE Act, full stop.

You can opine that you disagree with the law, fine, but that's clearly what the statute intended.

theintercept.com/2023/02/03/abo…

2) You can also think that many "crisis pregnancy centers" use immoral, deceitful techniques to trick vulnerable women.

Not sure the targeted archdiocesan facility with the "RESPECT LIFE!" lettering and this explicit language on its website fits into that category.

(Mutes mentions.)

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Ryan J. Reilly

@ryanjreilly

Feb 3

Confederate flag guy Kevin Seefried "had not considered the logic of those who see the flag as a symbol of American racism" before Jan. 6 and is "ashamed" that "many view him as a racist," his lawyer tells the court.

"Lacking an education beyond the ninth grade and lacking even average intellectual capacity..." 💀💀💀 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

"The fallout for heeding Mr. Trump’s call has been devastating: Mr. Seefried’s wife has left him, he is headed to prison and he will be destitute when he is released."

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Ryan J. Reilly

@ryanjreilly

Jan 31

@KenDilanianNBC

“The intel in advance was pretty specific, and it was enough, in our view, for law enforcement to have done a better job.”

What the Jan 6 committee actually found, before leadership decided it distracted from the Trump narrative.

⁦@KenDilanianNBC⁩: nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

“The FBI and DHS were too cautious about exploiting so-called ‘open source’ intelligence gleaned from social media out of misplaced concern about free speech violations.” nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

“When you make mistakes, ideally, you’ll learn from them. And this was a mistake.”

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

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Ryan J. Reilly

@ryanjreilly

Jan 31

Jan. 6 defendant Joseph Pavlik was arrested today in Illinois.

Feds say the retired firefighter is associated with "B SQUAD" members, five of whom were arrested in August. He also used to be associated with the Oath Keepers, per FBI affidavit.

B Squad was run by Jeremy Liggett. Feds say Pavlik and Liggett communicated at least 50 times, and that Pavlik rented an eight-passenger SUV from Jan. 4-8. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…