BREAKING: THREAD: Trump holdovers at FBI & DoJ and Senator Ron Johnson delayed 1/6 investigation into Trump in 2021. 1/
According to sources, JP Cooney, who is now on Jack Smith’s team, wanted to investigate Trump’s orbit including Roger Stone as early as February 2021, but D’antuono at the FBI (a Jim Jordan ally & the guy who delayed the Mar a Lago search warrant) blocked it. 2/
D’antuono called Mike Sherwin to warn him about Cooney. Sherwin is the guy who let Barr shorten Roger Stone’s sentencing recommendation (coincidentally written by Cooney) & let Barr drop the Flynn case. Sherwin and D’Antuono agreed to shut down Cooney’s top-down approach. 3/
Cooney wanted a task force to get the phone records of folks like Stone & Ali Alexander. He wanted to follow the money & investigate the funding of the big lie. He also wanted to subpoena the Willard. Sherwin and D’Antuono shut it down. 4/
Sherwin’s replacement was appointed by Biden, but the 50/50 senate power sharing agreement allowed the GOP to delay that appointment until November. Don’t forget, Trump also delayed the Biden transition team. 5/
Keep in mind, there are some republicans in the senate who participated in the coup & are probably not too excited to get the Biden DoJ team in place. The DC US Atty was delayed by RON JOHNSON, who actively participated in the coup. 6/
Sherwin resigned before he was sanctioned for his appearance on 60 minutes during which he violated DoJ policy. Trump is now using that appearance as a defense in the DC Jack smith indictment. 7/
Garland got there in March. D’Antuono ensured he was not made aware of Cooney’s task force idea. Lisa Monaco replaced Axelrod in April. Monaco was put in charge of politically charged 1/6 investigations and began probing the funding of 1/6. 8/
Then in September- before Sherwin’s replacement got there, she subpoenaed Sidney Powell and others. It makes sense she would have needed a few months to investigate before the first round of subpoenas went out. 9/
Sherwin’s replacement arrived in November thanks to Ron Johnson, and immediately appointed Windom to oversee the trump coup probe. Windom wanted all kinds of search warrants, but guess who told him no.
D’Antuono. 10/
Windom, undeterred, went to the Postal Inspector to get his warrants & subpoenas based on all the work Garland had done prior to Windom’s arrival. After enough pressure, and who knows, maybe it came from Garland, the FBI stopped blocking DoJ prosecutors in April of 2022. 11/
Two months after the FBI relented to DoJ prosecutors, the 1/6 hearings would begin. Yet somehow, people think the 1/6 hearings shamed the DoJ into action. 12/
Also, none of this is breaking. The newest part of this thread is six months old. I’m just tired of people blaming Biden & Garland for the bad acts of Trump, Barr, & their allies at the FBI. 13/
Did you know Trump is now using as a DEFENSE that his pals in the FBI delayed opening the probe? He’s using his own allies’ delays as a defense AGAINST the DoJ.
Blame the right people for the delays. END/
PS: Headlines matter.
The FBI is part of the DoJ, so people went with “DOJ DELAYS OPENING PROBE” instead of my headline: TRUMP ALLIES IN DOJ AND FBI, SENATOR RON JOHNSON DELAY OPENING PROBE.
Both are true but one is more accurate.
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I hate to break it to you, but even if Garland had appointed a special counsel in 2021 and trump was indicted a year earlier, there still would not have been a trial before the election. Let me explain. 1/
We know that last year, donald filed for immunity. That's interlocutory, which means it has to be solved before trial. That whole appeal and oral argument process from district court to circuit court to SCOTUS, took nearly a year. 2/
The way SCOTUS set up the process is that they sent it back to the lower court to determine what's immune and what's not under their new immunity rules, and then THAT second immunity decision is interlocutory, too. 3/
Allow me to go through Tim Pool’s sad excuses for why he’s quitting two weeks before an election. 1/
1. “It’s not a financial thing. We make a lot of money.”
Okay, but you want to start a family and you’re gonna quit the big ol’ money maker? Or is your wife the bread winner? Kinda woke, isn’t it? 2/
2. “The structure becomes bigger and bigger and bigger until it becomes impossible to manage.”
Then you expand and hire people and pay them well and give them benefits. Sorry you’re unable to run a small business. I started at my kitchen table with 10 downloads. Now I run a network and have over 50M. But I don’t get millions from Russia. 3/
THREAD: Despite the overwhelming support for telling my story, I want to address some of the pushback I've received from Republicans on this site. First, "This is pure propaganda. Florida has exceptions for rape. You support killing babies so much you’re willing to lie to unsuspecting people about it." 1/
Let me address the "Florida has an exception for rape" point first. Florida does have an exception for rape if you provide a "police report, restraining order, medical record, or other court order." That requires the service member to report their rape. Let me tell you what happened when I tried to report my rape. 2/
I was wrapped in a blanket and bleeding because my rapist's friends had stolen my clothes. It was still dark, around 0400. I snuck out and went to the on-base law enforcement office to report the rape. I was seated in an interrogation room under one of those fluorescent lamps at a metal desk, where I waited for about 30 minutes. 3/
Um, wow. The evidence and testimony Jack Smith has is DAMNING. For instance, the government has testimony that Donald said of the voter fraud claims that the "details don't matter." There is also testimony that trump said it didn't matter if he lost, he would just declare he won. 1/
There are also multiple conversations Pence had with his running mate that they'd lost and it was time to "take a bow". I'm just digging into this, but Trump is cooked. None of this is immune (or the presumptive immunity can be easily rebutted.) 2/
HA! When Trump was on the phone with Michigan, lying to them about voter fraud, Trump was corrected and reminded he lost two counties becuase he "underperformed with educated females", which pissed him off. 3/
NEW: THREAD: A new ruling from Judge McBurney in Georgia overturning the abortion ban and allowing the procedure to continue has some REMARKABLE quotes. Let's take a look at just a few. 1/
"While the State’s interest in protecting “unborn” life is compelling, until that life can be sustained by the State -- and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the State’s work -- the balance of rights favors the woman." 2/
"Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote. Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, even taking into consideration whatever bundle of rights the not-yet-viable fetus may have." 3/