On 6/7/23 the House Judiciary Committee interviewed Steven D’Antuono, former FBI Assistant Director in Charge of the DC field office.
Most of the interview covered topics such as the warrant served at Mar a Lago, but I asked questions about the J6 pipe bombs.
If you are just becoming familiar with the rapidly collapsing narrative of the J6 pipe bombs, I suggest reading @DarrenJBeattie’s comprehensive and insightful coverage of this topic.
The purpose of this thread is to post the original transcript of my interview with the FBI ADIC.
In addition to reading this transcript, you might want to watch my questioning of the ATF director and the FBI director. I also suggest watching the video of the discovery of the DNC pipe bomb.
I’ll post those three videos at the end of this thread.
Mr. D’Antuono was in charge of the Washington DC FBI office from 2019 (just before J6 2021) until November of 2022. He was in charge of the agents who were conducting the J6 pipe bomb investigation. Previously he was the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI office in Michigan.
A one hour kitchen timer on a bomb allegedly placed 17 hours earlier. How could that be operable?
Could the detonator even function?
Did it contain explosives?
Remarkable timing of discovery.
Here I asked about the video my staff and I found regarding the discovery of the second pipe bomb.
Would the people who discovered the bombs be suspects?
Do we have all of the video at the best resolution?
Did the FBI release false or incomplete information?
Did they use cell phone data to find the suspect they say they think planted the bombs on J5?
He tells me the cell phone data was corrupted.
Follow up questions about the corrupted cell phone data and the limited DNC video
Karlin Younger question.
Who to follow up with at the FBI?
The last two pages of my portion of the interview.
Transcribed interviews like this are not always released to the public. I want to thank Chairman Jordan and his staff for releasing this transcript.
Here’s my questioning of the ATF director about these pipe bombs:
Here’s my questioning of FBI Director Wray about the pipe bombs:
Here’s the video my staff and I discovered and subsequently released with the support of Kevin McCarthy:
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🧵 Last night Trump endorsed the idea of eliminating the Department of Education!
On February 7th, 2017, the US Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos as Trump’s Secretary of Education.
Purposefully, on that same day, I introduced HR 899, a bill to terminate the Department of Education.
🧵 I remember meeting Betsy DeVos for the first time at the White House Christmas party and that uncomfortable moment when I told her I was trying to eliminate her department.
To my surprise she quietly agreed.
She said publicly this week she would eliminate the department!
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Many people like that my bill is only one sentence long. No beating around the bush.
Yesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went to Heaven. Thank you for your prayers for our family in this difficult time.
She was valedictorian at our high school where we went to the Prom together, accepted at MIT and Harvard, earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from MIT, and devoted her life to our family.
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Americans are suffering under crippling inflation, and the Federal Reserve is largely to blame.
During COVID, the Federal Reserve created trillions of dollars out of thin air and loaned it to the Treasury Department to enable unprecedented deficit spending.
🧵 By monetizing the debt, the Fed devalued the dollar and enabled free money policies that caused the high inflation we see today.
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If we really want to reduce inflation, the most effective policy is to end the Federal Reserve
🧵 At the time of that breakfast with Scalia, John Boehner was Speaker of the House and Barack Obama was President.
There was concern that Obama was doing things we hadn’t authorized and Boehner had convinced most of my GOP colleagues there wasn’t anything we could do about it.
🧵 Scalia finished his breakfast and began to speak. He started by saying that being a referee between us and the executive branch was not his job.
He explained that his job as a jurist was to determine if there was harm and what the remedy might be.
🧵 Occasionally, constitutionality of a law was a question, but only as a side effect of Scalia’s job, which was to determine if someone had been harmed and what the remedy was.
He was adamant that his job was not to referee disagreements between the executive & the legislature.
🧵I once had breakfast with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and about 18 other members of Congress in a private room at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington DC.
He was invited to speak on the topic of “restoring the constitutional balance of government.”
🧵 At the time of that breakfast with Scalia, John Boehner was Speaker of the House and Barack Obama was President.
There was concern that Obama was doing things we hadn’t authorized and Boehner had convinced most of my GOP colleagues there wasn’t anything we could do about it.
🧵 Scalia finished his breakfast and began to speak. He started by saying that being a referee between us and the executive branch was not his job.
He explained that his job as a jurist was to determine if there was harm and what the remedy might be.
🧵 How does Lucy pull the football from Charlie Brown in Congress?
This $100 billion bill that moves us to the brink of war around the globe…
began as a House bill to help VETERANS get reimbursed for emergency care!
🧵 The Veterans’ bill, HR 815, passed the House as a Veterans’ bill and went to the Senate.
The Senate stripped every word from it, inserted the foreign aid supplemental, and sent it back to the House.
The House will vote on 4 separate bills (Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, +other).
🧵 After the 4 separate bills pass the House tomorrow, a tricky Rule that passed in Rules Committee last night converts them into amendments to the Senate supplemental… HR 815, the bill that started in the House as a Veterans’ bill !