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Jan 13 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Now that Trump has flashed a NY Mafia pal (murderer Sammy Gravano of the Gambino family) to threaten Judge Engoron, is it finally time to mention that Trump's NY mob ties also touch his "friendly" Judge Aileen Cannon? Her husband worked for John Rosatti of the Colombo family. 1/ Image
Trump palled around with Colombo buddies John Rosatti & John Staluppi in the 1980s - Staluppi went into business with Trump in 1988. Cannon's husband worked for Rosatti later, 2011-14; could be legit. She's not required to recuse - but she should have. 2/
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Federal rules don't force a judge to recuse when a defendant is a former business partner of their spouse's ex-Mafia employer. But it looks unseemly. And when Cannon keeps granting Trump nonsensical delays on his case, we have to talk about it. 3/
Cannon's husband Josh Lorence seems to agree it looks unseemly, since he wiped his LinkedIn in 2022 when Cannon first got a high-profile Trump case. He was a senior exec at Rosatti's BurgerFi, a hamburger businesses oddly with branches in Saudi Arabia. 4/
Soon after the deal with Trump, Rosatti and Staluppi got mixed up in the bloody Colombo civil war that started in 1991 after boss Carmine Persico was jailed. John Rosatti, who supported rival Victor Orena, supposedly ordered a key hit on Persico's guy. 5/
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Smartly, Staluppi and Rosatti switched sides halfway through - they picked the winners. Note how they provide cars & helicopters to other mobsters - that was their semi-legit business. Staluppi would fly Trump's friends out to his Atlantic City casinos. 6/
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None of this has to mean Aileen Cannon is corrupt, but a reasonable judge would have recused. It's unseemly that the first criminal trial of a former US president has to mean thinking about Carmine "the Snake" Persico and Gregory "Grim Reaper" Scarpa. 7/
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These stories are old, but still relevant. Like Trump, wise guys Rosatti and Staluppi left New York for Palm Beach. Rosatti started BurgerFi; Staluppi bought a strip club; both sail luxury mega-yachts - and both are still part of Donald Trump's world. 8/
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Jan 7
Please, everyone: at this point in the Jan 6 investigation, any "leak" by sources in Trump's inner circle will be self-serving PR. ABC's "scoop" today just tells you Dan Scavino is nervous. It even gives him a quote: "I didn't do it" ! We have to realize: people use the press. 1/
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The entire ABC story is Scavino reputation laundering. We already knew from Cassidy Hutchinson that Trump didn't want to take action on J6. The only new info here is a claim that Scavino is a good guy too, that "Trump's closest aides" wanted to stop him. And we can't trust it. 2/ Image
On the anniversary of Jan 6, President Biden said that Trump was "trying to steal history" with his lies. So are a lot of people, and they use the press to do it. Readers can help defend democracy by not clicking / liking / RTing stories that are unverifiable PR efforts. 3/
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Jan 6
On January 5th, 3 years ago, DC was crowded. Ali Alexander yelled "Victory or Death!" at the Freedom Plaza rally. The pipe bomber walked their route. Trump worked the phones. A mystery: Trump made THREE calls to Josh Hawley - who never picked up, or returned the call. Why? 1/ Image
When Trump couldn't reach Hawley, he talked to Ted Cruz instead. These two Senators are deeply tied to Jan 6 and talked of as a pair. But Trump made many more efforts to reach Hawley. On the morning of Jan 6, same thing happens: Trump tries, and fails, to reach Hawley. Why? 2/ Image
On Jan 6, Cruz & Hawley sustained the objections and stopped the count. Their odd dance with Trump continues. This Dec. 10, Trump posted a veiled threat they might lose their elections: “Josh and Ted must be very careful, stranger things have happened!” 3/
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Dec 29, 2023
Seems like everyone's talking about the 1860s Civil War now. Was Jan 6 an insurrection? Let's check where officials most tied to the Jan 6 came from (state AGs, US Reps and Senators). No surprise: it's mostly the heart of the Confederacy, states that seceded before April 1861. 1/ Image
Trump didn't act alone, and the Civil War is not over. That map is based on scorecards that track actions of Congressmen & state AGs before Jan 6. Of the early Confederacy, only S Carolina is missing (& just barely - AG Alan Wilson nearly got SC there). 1/
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We have to compare Jan 6 and the Civil War to answer: does the 14th Amendment bar Trump from running? The parallels are helpful. In 2020-21, as in 1860-61, officials from many states tried to overturn the national election to choose their own president. 3/
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Dec 28, 2023
@emptywheel Who are the "11 Senators" whose staffers were considered to receive the fake-elector ballots? Only 8 Senators voted against certifying a state's electoral votes on J6: Cruz (TX), Tuberville (AL), Hawley (MO), Marshall (KS), Lummis (WY), Kennedy (LA), Hyde-Smith (MS), Scott (FL). Image
@emptywheel A possible source of Chesebro's number: 11 Senators signed Ted Cruz's Jan 2 request to delay the electoral count. (Oddly Josh Hawley didn't sign.) Ron Johnson did - and his staffers did try to give ballots to Pence, though on J6 he certified the vote. 2/
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@emptywheel In the end Mike Roman and Ken Chesebro managed to get the fake-elector ballots to Sen. Ron Johnson (WI). On Jan 6 morning, 1 minute after Pence entered the Capitol, Johnson's staffer tried to give them to Pence and was told "Do not give that to him." 3/
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Dec 22, 2023
This week a federal judge publicly worried that rogue state AGs might pursue political revenge on former federal officials. So here's a scoring of state AGs for Jan 6-related actions. Officers of RAGA fill the leaderboard - and Texas AG Ken Paxton stands out over all others. 1/ Image
The judge in Mark Meadows' GA case worried the law would let state AGs wreak revenge on former federal officials: "This nightmare scenario keeps me up at night" Public Notice says it's Ken Paxton who will go after Biden's cabinet. The scorecard agrees. 2/
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Paxton, ex-RAGA chair, was deep in Jan 6. He co-chaired Lawyers for Trump. In Dec. he filed the "state vs. states" suit to overturn the vote of 4 states. (Even LA AG Jeff Landry, scorecard #2, turned that down.) On Jan 6, Paxton was the only AG to speak at Trump's rally. 3/
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Dec 19, 2023
All working on Jan 6: let's keep track of what's known. Yesterday's revelation from the National Park Service about the 'secret' plan for a march to the Capitol actually came out in 2022 in Kylie Kremer's texts. She's talking to Mike Lindell (and is not a reliable narrator). 1/
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January 6 is a sprawling mess - one group organized the rallies and propaganda, another group plotted legal strategies, then there's militias and normies and folks directing at the Capitol. No one's memory can hold it all. That's why we kept notes. 1/
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To find who Kylie Kremer was talking to on Jan 4 when she said "POTUS is going to have us march [to].. the Capitol.. POTUS is going to call for it 'unexpectedly' ", just search - it's right there with primary source linked. (Do note that Kylie is not fully in the know here.) 3/ Image
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