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Mar 13 8 tweets 5 min read
I'm just now discovering that last summer #mattydickpics called for Hillary to be banned from Twitter because he misrepresented the Sussmann trial and misrepresented the entirety of the Russian investigation.

Imagine being duped by John Durham?

racket.news/p/shouldnt-hil…
Just last summer, #mattydickpics was so stupid that he didn't understand that when people steal files via cloud computing, it leaves traces in many different servers. (He has changed that view now that he's Elmo's chief pet, but is too stupid to realize he has.)
This is classic "Russiagate" propaganda, making the provably false claim that the claims of Trump ties to RU all came from the dossier and Alfa Bank.
As all "Russiagate" propagandists do, #mattydickpics left out details about contacts with Russians that Trump and others were lying about, starting with Mike Flynn.
Remember #mattydickpics is writing about the Sussmann trial, which proved that FBI fucked up the investigation into the anomalous communications. And yet he takes DOJ IG's conclusion, not the one shown at Sussmann's trial.
This is also makebelieve from "Russiagate" propagandist #mattydickpics. Papadopoulos pled guilty to hiding when he got advance notice of the hack and leak AND refused to explain his notes about a back channel meeting w/Russia he was planning for September 2016.
Here, #mattydickpics argues that bc the disinfo in the dossier distracted from Konstantin Kilimnik's role in the 2016 election until an investigation disclosed it is proof that there's no there there.

"Russiagate" logic for you.
Anyway, I hope #mattydickpics is asked to testify again, because this little Substack -- in which he called for Twitter censorship bc he's so stupid he spread stupid RU propaganda that undermines his current claims -- should have been entire focus of Dem questioning last week.

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