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🧵🧵 The Law Firms that Run DC

I see a lot of articles saying how President Trump is attacking law firms in Washington DC because he is vindictive. When in fact, it has nothing to do with being vindictive, and everything to do with the fact that they are acting like an extension of the Democratic Party.

This web shows how elite law firms in DC have become de facto political actors, coordinating with bureaucrats, Democratic campaigns, and activist groups to advance one side’s agenda while insulating allies from legal consequences.
1. Perkins Coie

Partisan Alignment: Strongly Democratic

Key Players: Marc Elias, Michael Sussmann

Involved In:

•Russiagate:

•Hired Fusion GPS on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC to create the Steele Dossier.

•Michael Sussmann was indicted for allegedly lying to the FBI about the source of Alfa Bank/Trump server claims (acquitted, but case exposed coordination between Clinton-linked lawyers and the intelligence community).

•Through Marc Elias, aggressively litigated to change election laws in battleground states pre-2020 (e.g., mail-in ballot rules, signature matching, ballot curing).

•Litigated against voter ID laws and redistricting efforts favoring GOP, using courts to alter rules under the guise of civil rights.
2. Elias Law Group

Partisan Alignment: 100% Democratic

Key Player: Marc Elias (founder, formerly at Perkins Coie)

Involved In:

•Election Lawfare:

•Filed hundreds of lawsuits between 2020–2024 aimed at changing ballot deadlines, preventing voter roll purges, and invalidating state-level election reforms.

•Sued states that passed voter integrity laws (Georgia, Texas, Arizona).

•Legal and strategic support for efforts to disqualify Trump from ballots under the 14th Amendment (Section 3).
3. WilmerHale

Partisan Alignment: Center-left establishment

Key Players: Robert Mueller, Jamie Gorelick

Involved In:

•Russiagate:

•Mueller was a WilmerHale partner before becoming special counsel.

•Several senior lawyers on Mueller’s team (Aaron Zebley, James Quarles) came from WilmerHale.

•Created a direct pipeline from a private DC firm to a politically charged investigation.

•WilmerHale defended companies and figures potentially affected by the Mueller investigation—raising questions about impartiality.
4. Latham & Watkins

Partisan Alignment: Progressive-leaning, deep resistance ties

Key Players: Kathryn Ruemmler (former Obama WH Counsel), multiple Obama-era appointees

Involved In:

•Lawfare Against Trump Policies:

•Litigated against Trump’s immigration, environmental, and regulatory rollbacks.

•Supported amicus briefs in support of January 6 prosecutions.

•Close ties to Biden DOJ officials (Ruemmler has known connections to current White House legal networks).
5. Covington & Burling

Partisan Alignment: Deep Obama/Biden ties

Key Players: Eric Holder, Lanny Breuer

Involved In:

•Russiagate/Deep State Entrenchment:

•Holder and Breuer returned to Covington after serving in the Obama DOJ.

•Firm has represented major tech and surveillance companies with ties to federal investigations.

•Defended figures in the intelligence community during investigations into FISA abuse and surveillance.
6. Debevoise & Plimpton

Partisan Alignment: Institutional left

Key Player: Mary Jo White (Obama SEC Chair), Andrew Ceresney

Involved In:

•Representing Hunter Biden in federal tax and firearms-related investigations.

•Helped negotiate controversial plea agreement that collapsed in 2023.

•Close ties to DOJ officials overseeing investigations of Hunter Biden. Scrutiny over sweetheart deals and unusual coordination.
7. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Partisan Alignment: Progressive legal elite

Key Players: Jeh Johnson (Obama DHS), Loretta Lynch (Obama AG)

Involved In:

•Represented progressive groups in redistricting and voting rights lawsuits.

•No comparable representation for free speech or conservative plaintiffs, reinforcing political asymmetry.

•Consulted by Democratic-aligned NGOs on how to frame post-2020 election audit challenges as “threats to democracy.”
8. Jenner & Block

Partisan Alignment: J6-focused, anti-Trump

Key Players: Donald Verrilli (Obama SG), Ian Gershengorn

Involved In:

•January 6 Committee Staffing:

•Provided legal support and volunteers to the J6 Committee.

•Ties to lawfare efforts to charge Trump advisors and allies.
•Worked behind the scenes with groups like Lawfare Blog and Brookings to craft legal theories around “insurrection” and “disqualification.”
9. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Partisan Alignment: Corporate Dem establishment

Key Players: Greg Craig (former Obama WH Counsel, indicted)

Involved In:

•Ukraine Lobbying Scandal:

•Paid millions by pro-Russian Ukrainian interests via Paul Manafort.

•Fined for failing to register under FARA. No major prosecutions of Skadden lawyers, despite harsh treatment of Manafort.

•Avoided accountability while similar conduct was used to hammer Trump affiliates.

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Feb 18
On February 16, MTG sat in Bethlehem with Mayor Maher N. Canawati and broadcast his claim that Israel is persecuting Palestinian Christians.

She cited 139 IDF checkpoints, accused settlers of stealing Christian homes, and urged American Christians to “speak out.”

What she did not say is that Canawati was not elected by the people of Bethlehem. According to the Palestinian News Network, his appointment was brokered by Palestinian Authority intelligence chief Majed Faraj during a closed session packed with Fatah officials and PA security figures.

The mayor’s chair is rotated through backroom power-sharing deals, not ballots.

Bethlehem sits in Area A under the Oslo Accords, meaning it is entirely under PA jurisdiction.

Israelis cannot even enter the city. Greene blamed Israel for conditions in a city Israel does not govern.

The persecution Greene attributes to Israel is inflicted by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas and she knows it.

Christians went from 86% of Bethlehem’s population in 1950 to roughly 10% today, all under PA governance.

In Gaza, the Christian population collapsed from 5,000 to 1,000 under Hamas rule.

A 2020 survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (a Palestinian institution in Ramallah, not an Israeli one) found that over 40% of Palestinian Christians feel Muslims do not wish to see them in Palestine, 44% face discrimination in employment, 30% have been called “non-believers” or “crusaders,” and a quarter have been urged to convert to Islam.

In 2007, Hamas militants murdered Rami Ayyad, a Bible Society worker, for his faith. Greek Orthodox Bishop Alexios confirmed that forced conversions to Islam occurred “under threats, coercion, compulsion, and force” and petitioned Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to investigate. Nothing happened.

Christians in Gaza have reported practicing their faith in secret and growing beards to blend in.

Christian women under the PA face systematic sexual harassment, land theft, firebombing of churches, forced marriage, and extortion all documented by scholars like Justus Reid Weiner at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, who interviewed dozens of victims too terrified to go public.

The PA actively suppresses reporting of this persecution. The Maronite church in Bethlehem was attacked six times, including an arson attack, and none of the incidents were covered by PA media and gag orders were imposed in every case.

Christian leaders are coerced into blaming Israel as a condition of their survival; researchers have described how the PA “uses Christian leaders as political pawns” who “shift the blame for their struggles onto Israel while denying the role of Muslim-dominated authorities in the persecution.”
The PCPSR itself has been the target of PA hostility, with its offices ransacked by mobs after publishing findings that contradicted PA narratives.

Pastor Johnny Shahwan was arrested by PA security forces for “promoting normalization” with Israel.

A mob attacked the Forefathers Orthodox Church in Beit Sahour while congregants cowered inside and the PA did nothing.

Gunmen shot up a Christian-owned hotel and no arrests.

MTG told you none of this though. She sat with the PA’s appointed spokesman and let him perform his role unchallenged.

She’s just an abject liar and you should ask yourself why.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where the Christian population is growing approximately 187,900 Christians live in Israel, with consistent year-over-year growth.

Christian schools in Israel are among the finest in the country, producing 34 percent of Arab university students from just 4 percent of Arab schools.

84% of Israeli Christians say they are satisfied with life in the country.

Arab pastor Saleem Shalash of Nazareth stated plainly: “As an Arab pastor, I would prefer to live in Israel. The freedom we have in Israel we don’t have in the best Arab countries. We can practice our belief without persecution. And if there is persecution, we can call the police and they will protect us.”

Same ethnicity. Same language. Same region. Christians under Israeli governance thrive. Christians under PA and Hamas governance flee or die.

MTG knows this she’s not stupid. Instead she chose to platform the PA’s hand-picked Christian puppet, amplify the lie that Israel is the persecutor, and give cover to the Islamist authorities who are executing the slow-motion extinction of Christianity from its birthplace.

Why do these people hate Christians so much?
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Feb 17
AUGUST 2017: The Beginning
Steve Bannon is ousted as Trump’s chief strategist

∙Leaves White House amid internal conflicts with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

∙According to Michael Wolff, Bannon meets Jeffrey Epstein shortly after through Wolff’s introduction

∙Wolff later writes: “Bannon and Epstein spent an enormous amount of time together and became very close friends” (NBC News, February 12, 2026)

LATE 2017 - EARLY 2018: The Friendship Deepens

Bannon and Epstein begin extensive communications

∙Text and email “at all hours” (NBC News, February 12, 2026)

∙“Traded political intelligence, speculated about Trump’s legal troubles and made plans to spend time together in far-flung locations such as Paris and New York” (NBC News, February 12, 2026)

∙Arrange secret meetings “under the cover of darkness” to avoid Epstein’s 24/7 surveillance cameras (NBC News, February 12, 2026)

∙Bannon asks for “access that’s not the front door” (NBC News, February 12, 2026)

Epstein offers Bannon lavish perks:

∙“Private jet travel, lodging at his Manhattan townhouse, and medical care” (NBC News, February 12, 2026)

∙Apple watches and other gifts

MAY 2018: “God”

Bannon calls Epstein “God” in text conversation

∙Context: discussing currency trading and Epstein’s financial acumen

∙“Bannon allegedly called Epstein ‘God’” (The New Republic, February 15, 2026)

∙Not sarcastic—appears to be genuine admiration
NOVEMBER 2018: The Secret Rome Meeting

Bannon meets Russian Aleksandr Dugin for 8 hours in Rome

∙Meeting takes place in a “fancy hotel room in Rome in November 2018” (Inroads Journal, December 14, 2022)

∙Location: Hotel de Russie, “blocks away from Julius Evola’s old apartment in Rome” (Inroads Journal, December 14, 2022)

∙Meeting was SECRET - Bannon told author Benjamin Teitelbaum: “If (the American media) knew I had a meeting with Dugin, literally it would be front page of the Washington Post. It’s ‘Bannon’s a traitor,’ and they’d go nuts.” (Inroads Journal, December 14, 2022)

∙When first meeting Dugin, Bannon said: “Can you imagine what Washington would think?” (Inroads Journal, December 14, 2022)

What they discussed (per Teitelbaum’s reconstruction from extensive interviews with Bannon):

∙Traditionalist philosophy and Martin Heidegger

∙“A series of geopolitical matters” (Wikipedia: Aleksandr Dugin, accessed February 2026)

∙Bannon “pressed him to abandon his support for China, Turkey, and Iran” (Wikipedia: Aleksandr Dugin, accessed February 2026)

∙The need to “support populist movements in Europe to confront global elites” (Reset DOC interview with Dugin)

∙How to create “a bridge between Russia and American populism” (Reset DOC interview with Dugin)

Dugin on Bannon:

∙Called Bannon “Washington’s last hope” in 2017 (Inroads Journal, December 14, 2022)

∙Said Bannon is “the only American intellectual familiar with Evola and Guenon and interested in Heidegger” (Reset DOC interview with Dugin)

∙Described him as his “ideological ally” (The Daily Beast, September 9, 2024)
Bannon on Dugin:

∙“You know, I’m such a fan of his writing” (Inroads Journal, December 14, 2022)

∙Described Dugin as “one of the greatest, most influential geopolitical thinkers and strategists of modern times” (Inroads Journal, December 14, 2022)

Also in November 2018: Coordinating with Michael Wolff and Epstein

∙Wolff tells Epstein he’s meeting with Bannon (The Hollywood Reporter, November 22, 2025)

∙Wolff is working on second anti-Trump book

∙Epstein later tells Bannon that Wolff’s book contains “lots of Steve quotes. Lots” (CBS News, November 14, 2025)

∙Bannon frets to Epstein: “How bad am I going to get lit up???” (CBS News, November 14, 2025)
DECEMBER 2018: Sharing White House Information

Text exchange about Trump’s assistant Madeleine Westerhout

Epstein writes about “sight of him in the residence in his undies” (CBS News, November 14, 2025)

∙Promises Bannon “details when I see you” (CBS News, November 14, 2025)

∙Both Westerhout and Trump have denied the implications

JANUARY 1, 2019: The 25th Amendment Discussion

Two months after the Dugin meeting, Bannon and Epstein discuss removing Trump

∙Day Democrats take control of House of Representatives

∙Bannon: “We either own 2019 or it will surely own us” (Mediaite, February 16, 2026)

∙Epstein reports speaking to Democratic contacts, says “emotions running high” (Mediaite, February 16, 2026)

∙Bannon: “Going to blow him up right our of the box– WH has zero plan to punch back– Fort Apache with no cavalry enroute” (Mediaite, February 16, 2026)

∙Epstein: “And no soldiers in the fort. He really is borderline. Not sure what he may do” (Mediaite, February 16, 2026)

∙BANNON: “I think it’s beyond borderline — 25 amendment” (Mediaite, February 16, 2026)

FEBRUARY 2019: “Humanize the Monster”

Epstein asks Bannon for help with his public image

∙New York investigators are circling

∙Federal probe is beginning

∙Epstein asks: “Do you think I can do my own video interview and upload it on you tube” (MS NOW, February 10, 2026)

∙Says Woody Allen would help edit

∙States his explicit goal: “Goal to himanize the monster” (MS NOW, February 10, 2026)
Bannon agrees to help

APRIL 2019: “Crush the Pedo/Trafficking Narrative”

Bannon lays out comprehensive strategy for Epstein

∙Federal prosecutors actively investigating 2008 plea deal

∙Bannon texts Epstein with three-part plan: “first we need to push back on the lies ; then crush the pedo/trafficking narrative ; then rebuild your image as philanthropist” (MS NOW, February 10, 2026)
Bannon arranges “totally confidential” media training

∙Takes place at Epstein’s residence (MS NOW, February 10, 2026)

∙Next day, Epstein tells someone his representatives are using Bannon’s “script” with The New Yorker (MS NOW, February 10, 2026)

After filming session:

∙Bannon texts that crew is “blown away” and “mesmerized because they have been sold you are a ‘monster’” (NBC News, February 12, 2026)
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Jan 8
🧵🧵 Who is behind the protests in MN tonight. Let’s do a deep dive.

Minnesota’s latest wave of anti‑ICE unrest did not appear out of thin air. It’s the result of a revolutionary ecosystem bankrolled and shaped by foreign‑aligned actors like Neville Roy Singham and their U.S. NGO partners. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Refuse Fascism’s orbit, the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR), the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), and local ICE‑watch networks all snapped into motion tonight each playing a distinct role in turning one shooting into a coordinated campaign against ICE.

But as we know with communists the thing is never about the thing. It’s about the revolution.
Long before Renee Good was killed, Minnesota had already become a laboratory for organized resistance to federal immigration enforcement.

Reporting from the Star Tribune describes a dense ecosystem of “ICE watch” networks: residents driving Lake Street for hours, phones mounted on dashboards, constantly feeding information into encrypted chats where a single message—“ICE at the grocery store” or “unmarked vans on 27th” which can draw dozens of people to a scene.

headsupnews.org/p/federal-agen…
Behind these neighborhood patrols are professionalized NGOs.

COPAL (Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina), for instance, built a rapid‑response immigrant defense program seeded by a one‑million‑dollar grant from the Bush Foundation, training more than 10,000 people to recognize ICE, know their “rights,” and mobilize.

Legal nonprofits like the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, churches, food shelves, and allied groups provide legal aid, transportation, food, and media support, transforming informal networks into a durable operational backbone.

When ICE ramped up its Minnesota operation, these ICE‑watch structures supplied the eyes, ears, and bodies on the ground. They knew where agents were operating, which hotels federal officials were using, and how to move people quickly so when national radical organizations signaled “go,” the local machine was ready.

m.arcamax.com/currentnews/ne…
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Nov 21, 2025
Rush Limbaugh, Andrew Breitbart and Charlie Kirk. Some voices are once in a generation. We feel their absence but their words, but their legacy will always be profound.
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Nov 17, 2025
What has Trump even done since he got into office? My favorite question.

THREAD: Trump’s First 10 Months - The Complete Promise Tracker 🧵
(1/30)

President Donald Trump’s second term has been nothing short of historic.

In just 10 months (January 20 - November 17, 2025), he’s issued 213 executive orders, 54 presidential memoranda, and 107 proclamations—far outpacing his first term.

Official White House tallies and independent trackers like PolitiFact’s MAGA-Meter rate over 70% of his major 2024 campaign promises as “kept” or “in progress.”

His “Agenda 47” platform outlined over 20 core promises with dozens of specific policy pledges focused on securing borders, economic revival, energy dominance, and restoring American strength.
This thread breaks down every major fulfilled promise by category, with specific actions, outcomes, and verified results.
(2/30) BORDER SECURITY - DAY ONE ACTION

Trump’s first promise: “Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion on Day One.”

DELIVERED: Executive Order 14001 (January 20, 2025) declared a national border emergency, suspended asylum claims at the southern border, and deployed 10,000 National Guard troops immediately.

RESULT: Within weeks, illegal border crossings dropped 98%, hitting historic lows with under 1,000 monthly apprehensions by June 2025.

This represents the lowest level of illegal immigration in decades and validates Trump’s “secure the border first” approach that critics said was impossible.
(3/30) BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION

Promise: “Resume and complete the border wall in high-traffic areas.”

DELIVERED: Executive Order 14005 restarted construction projects in El Paso, Rio Grande Valley, and other critical sectors. Trump reallocated $5 billion from military construction funds (same authority used in first term, now upheld by courts).

RESULT: 150+ miles completed or actively underway by November 2025. Construction crews are working 24/7 shifts in Texas and Arizona. The wall segments include advanced technology integration—sensors, cameras, and rapid-response vehicle barriers that have proven effective in stopping cartel smuggling routes.
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Nov 15, 2025
Before anybody gets triggered, let me make something perfectly clear:

Yes — I am a Christian.
Yes — I am an evangelical.
Yes — I am proudly pro-Israel.
Yes — I am the Zionist your group chats shake about.

And because of that, I already know exactly what’s coming.

The minute this thread goes up, the same people who accuse everyone else of being “NPCs,” “Zionist ops,” “globalist plants,” and “controlled opposition” are going to melt down like I’ve committed heresy.

Why?

Because I am about to give them a taste of their own medicine, the part they cannot handle:

Actual facts.
Actual receipts.
Actual history.

See, they love to weaponize lies against evangelicals.

They love to smear pastors, accuse widows, invent “ops,” and throw around words like “trafficking” with zero evidence.

But the second you turn the mirror around?

The second you apply their tactics back on them using true, documented cases?

Suddenly I’m the problem.
Suddenly I’m “hysterical.”
Suddenly I’m “obsessed.”

No, what’s actually happening is that the mask slips.

The response to this thread will prove, once and for all, that the loudest “truth-tellers” in “our”movement are the ones borrowing the exact same psychological warfare tactics the left uses:

– moral projection
– selective outrage
– emotional manipulation
– conspiratorial framing
– weaponized slander
– smearing entire churches
– exploiting tragedy for clicks
– accusing anyone who disagrees of being an “op”

And when their own rules are applied to them?

When you simply mirror their rhetoric with actual facts?

They will viciously attack me for it.

That’s fine.

I will be fake doxxed, called a criminal, they will post random peoples criminal histories, a Mossad agent, an Israeli bot, an account run by 246 people, part of the IDF, not really a stay at home mom, a grifter, and I can’t think of any other ones yet but the they will think of more ways to viciously attack me.

Because if you can’t respond to the message, the only thing you can do is attack the messenger and so I am OK with it. I will be the sacrificial lamb. I will be the one getting death threats. Its ok. I know how they operate now and I’ll take one for team America.

God calls us to bear witness not to be silent while wolves pretend to be sheep.

So if this thread makes you uncomfortable, good.

Sometimes the only way to expose what people are really doing is hold up a giant mirror and let bystanders watch what happens.

Now let’s begin.
A certain self-anointed podcaster/arbiter of truth and justice is screaming that “MAGA churches” are Zionist ops, Calvary Chapel is a Hollywood trafficking ring, pastors are “secret Jews,” and Charlie Kirk was murdered to silence his “awakening.”

Okay.
If we’re “just asking questions”…
If we’re “following the pattern”…
Let’s actually do it.

Let’s ask some questions. I can’t possibly imagine how anybody could have a problem with documented court cases being listed, and very reasonable questions being asked I mean, unless of course, there are hypocrites who are just projecting and grifting right?
I’m wondering, when this self- anointed arbiter of truth who sees very clearly the dangers of the evangelical movement and how they are now responsible for the global child trafficking happening around the world could possibly be silent on what’s going on in her own backyard?
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