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Feb 9, 2023 29 tweets 5 min read Read on X
One day after OGR proved that #mattydickpics is a liar who "censored" information about Trump's efforts to suppress speech, Elise and Turley are treating #mattydickpics as a factual mouthpiece.
BREAKING: Elise says that tech companies should no longer be reimbursed for legal process.
Remember that there are lawyers involved with Twitter Files whose role has not been disclosed. Are we sure Turley is not involved personally?
Turley is now complaining that the FBI is enforcing laws designed to protect the right to vote.

Liz Cheney's replacement ALSO doesn't want private companies to be paid for legal process.
Mike Johnson is speaking in favor of parents attacking school board members now.
BREAKING: @danielsgoldman catches Jim Jordan doing what he accused Adam Schiff of.
Linda Sanchez has a good purple hair thing going on.

Gets Elliott Williams to say that witnesses should have some actual knowledge of the things they complain about. Image
What's up with Matt Gaetz's nose? Image
Now the Deep State Committee is quoting Project Veritas, thanks to Matt Gaetz.
Meanwhile Raiklin loves this. Image
Jordan says that Gaetz' time expired, Gaetz is ignoring him, and now asking follow-up questions. Image
Thomas Baker claims there was unmasking abuse. Which is nutty bc a Trump US Attorney reviewed it, said it didn't happen.
Oh. Silly me. Jordan is just going to let Gaetz go on.
DWS quotes Jordan saying that Benghazi worked to attack Hillary.
DWS gets Turley to confess he has no unique or special knowledge of Twitter. Image
Now Issa is trying to resuscitate Turley after he confessed to having no knowledge. Image
Chris Stewart wants to call Jim Comey which is pretty cool bc we can ask about how he weaponized the FBI against Hillary Clinton. Image
Stewart said there was zero evidence against Carter Page, which is nutty bc the DOJ IG report he claims to be basing this on laid out a bunch of evidence.
Now Jordan’s fbi witness is trying to avoid saying that Jan6 was an act of terrorism.
Dan Bishop must think that Donald Trumps’s efforts to censor Twitter must be the worst in history bc that’s what the evidence shows.
Dan Bishop now taking a pro-Klan stance, opposing the protection of voting rights.
Dan Bishop is now arguing that the NSA shouldn’t have the total Twitter feed but the Saudis should. Why does Dan Bishop like Saudi Arabia more than the US?
For those asking who them woman sitting behind Williams, that’s Nicole Reddit, spouse of Guy Reffiitt, whose son was threatened by dad.
Sorry Nicole Reffitt.
Kelly Armstrong claims that DOJ was just bigfooting local prosecutions of people who assault school board members.
He’s the first Republican to make good, bipartisan points, abt third party data.
Turley revealing #MattyDickPics duped him into opposing the protection of voting rights.
Someone should have asked Turley abt CRT censorship.
Jordan now asking why the FBI would protect the right to vote.

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More from @emptywheel

May 15
.@SenatorRisch is also lying about the Hunter Biden laptop. Total liar about what the letter said (or perhaps he's illiterate?), now trying to make sure 51 people who were honest lose their clearnce.

Why does Senator Risch want to run interference for Rudy's alleged hacking?
Why is @SenatorRisch supporting the alleged private hacking of exposed persons?
@SenatorRisch JUST DOUBLING DOWN on his lies. He claims the letter was obviously false. The letter remains 100% true.
Read 6 tweets
May 15
Let's look at how CNN covers up how Trump used pardons TO GET people to lie.

CNN dismisses Manafort's FARA crimes (lying to hide on whose behalf he was influence-peddling) as "among other things" and never mentions he was found to have lied abt 2016. Image
"Among other things" shows up in describing Stone's crime.

Stone was always quite clear he was refusing to share contents of ~30 2016 convos he had with Trump, which pertained to how he had advance knowledge of RU actions.
edition.cnn.com/2024/05/14/pol…
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CNN doesn't describe what Flynn lied to investigations ABOUT (besides that he was on the take from Türkiye during the election, which goes unmentioned).

Flynn lied ABOUT secretly working w/RU to undermine Obama policies, including on sanctions.
Read 7 tweets
May 12
Since Manafort's ties to Oleg Deripaska are being laundered in the news, here's the email Manafort sent Deripaska hoping to "brief you in more detail" about his thoughts on the campaign.

documentcloud.org/documents/2208…
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One should assume that Manafort has been doing the same (who knows whom to) in recent weeks, since he was working for "free."
Then, after he was "off the campaign" (as he now claims to be) he was still sending instructions, such as projecting (even AFTER the Jim Comey disaster in October) that Hillary would claim vote fraud if she lost.

documentcloud.org/documents/2208…
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Read 6 tweets
May 11
The Maggie & Swan puff piece on Manafort is such a piece of propaganda I'm at a loss on how to unpack it.



Start with this line:

"Manafort was one of only a few Trump advisers who were sentenced to prison, for crimes unrelated to the campaign."nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/…
"One of only a few"?

Let's count:
Papadopoulos (1)
Gates (2)
Manafort (3)
Cohen (4)
Stone (5)

Broidy would have been, but he got pardoned first
Ditto Mike Flynn: Pardoned first.

That's leaving aside Navarro (6), Bannon (7), and Weisselbeg (8) bc they were late adopters.
Maybe write it this way: "Paul Manafort was part of a crime spree associated with Trump's first campaign rivaled only by Nixon, ignoring the 100s jailed so far for Jan6."
Read 11 tweets
May 11
As you read @rparloff's compelling argument Cannon is going to do campaign work for Donald Trump, compare how 2 other Trump appointed judges rejected Hunter Biden's claim that Trump politicized that investigation.
Trump PROVABLY intervened in the Hunter Biden case, arguably violating IRS code in doing so.

Trump attacked David Weiss, after which Weiss started fearing for his family and reneged on a plea deal.
Bill Barr set up a side channel that ended up framing Joe Biden, and that fabricated claim about Joe Biden is almost certainly what David Weiss reneged on the plea deal to chase.
Read 6 tweets
May 8
Here's a picture Stan Woodward used to show what Trump's boxes look like. He showed how one of these boxes, with over 30 docs marked Secret and Confidential, had doc order shifted. Image
Here's what most important box in Rob Hur's investigation of Joe Biden looked like--before & after.

Even just eyeballing shows how much got moved around.

It didn't stop Hur from offering conclusions based on location. And right wingers didn't accuse him of evidence tampering.
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Mind you, proximity was absolutely central to Hur's argument--the one right wingers argue wasn't aggressive enough.

It is highly likely that none of the docs in Woodward's box are even charged.
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