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May 8, 2024 • 14 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Back in 2020, after Donald Trump lost the presidential election, the official account of the Arizona Republican Party started getting a little... wild.

In late night tweets, they started asking followers if they were ready to die for Trump.

phoenixnewtimes.com/news/die-for-s…

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When another Twitter user called the person behind the account "one of the funniest posters in the state," the AZGOP's comms director posted this: Image
Days later, on Dec. 14, 2020, the Arizona Republican Party posted footage of the fake electors signing. That video is now a key piece of evidence in the Arizona criminal indictment of the fake electors.



nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…
Cut to Jan. 6.

The Arizona GOP posts this tweet of far-right influencer Raheem Kassam, who happened to be livestreaming at the time of the photo.

This guy tells Kassam it's for the AZGOP account.

Kassam calls the AZGOP account "spicy."


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That same guy then makes his way onto Capitol grounds. Image
That night, the Arizona Republican Party posted videos from the Capitol grounds.

But who shot it?

Well, #SeditionHunters recently surfaced footage that shows it was a man identified as then-AZGOP Comms Director Zach Henry: First he pans slowly to the right, then abruptly to the left, and then he does a clockwise 360-degree spin.

There was a lot of supporting evidence and the facial rec matches were on point, but it's always good to get a clothing match.

Facebook is often good for these purposes, but this is the first time I know of that a clothing match photo was snapped AT THE CAPITOL years earlier.
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So here we are, in 2024.

After working as deputy communications director for Jan. 6 conspiracy theorist Vivek Ramaswamy’s presidential campaign, former AZGOP official Zach Henry is now doing “influencer engagement” for conspiracy theorist RFK Jr.

nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…
“I was in D.C. on January 6, but I’m not going to confirm where I was on the day or, you know, how close I got to the Capitol." nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

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Meanwhile, some influencer engagement in Zach Henry's likes tab:

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In other Zach Henry news:
Welp!
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.@nickquested has an important new film out called 64 Days that zeroes in on the critical timeframe in the lead up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

I’ve watched far more Capitol attack footage than any sane human being should, and even I was floored by what he’s got.
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The day after the 2020 election, a mob of Trump supporters who believed Trump’s lies about voter fraud flooded to the TCF Center in Detroit, the largest majority-Black city in the nation.

NBC News’ own ⁦@PattersonNBC⁩ was inside, here’s some of what he saw:
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NEW: One of the worst Jan. 6 rioters, David Dempsey, hit with 20 years in federal prison by a Reagan-appointed federal judge who has spoken out about the “preposterous” and dangerous rhetoric some Republicans have used in an attempt to “rewrite history" on Jan. 6.
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More to come:

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DOJ inspector general concludes, as folks who were paying attention four plus years ago did contemporaneously, that having Bureau of Prisons guards man civilian protests was a bad idea. Image
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“If [we] don’t have a charge, we don’t say anything about an investigation; we just don’t do that.”

From the OIG report on Willam Barr and the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney who helped fuel the ex-president's bogus voter fraud narrative back in 2020. Image
He announced his resignation just before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was fueled by Trump's election lies. huffpost.com/entry/david-fr…
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"we found that Barr had articulated his position about the sentencing recommendation both before and shortly after the first sentencing memorandum was filed, and before the President’s tweets." oig.justice.gov/sites/default/…
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"Barr was in the middle of listening to what others thought about the idea of a second filing when someone mentioned the tweets, and then 'the air almost went out of the room.'" Image
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