Analysis: Recently, The NYT published a story detailing Trump’s plans if he is re-elected: “Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025.” The plans include a sinister expansion of presidential powers with a focus on tearing down independent agencies 1/x such as the FTC, the FCC as well as “scour the intelligence agencies, the State Department and the defense bureaucracies to remove officials he has vilified”

“What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of independence and seize them” 2/x

Where are we on knowledge about COVID (and why you should get vaccinated and mask in appropriate situations.) 😊

1/x The virulence (deadliness)of Delta is much higher compared to other Covid variants.

‘Increases with Delta variant were more pronounced: 120% (93-153%) for hospitalization; 287% (198-399%) for ICU admission; and 137% (50-230%) for death’

(Preprint) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

‘Trump's defense secretary (Miller) confirms he didn't approve plan to deploy National Guard until after Pence called him — over 3 hours after the Capitol riot began’

businessinsider.com/chris-miller-a… Two miles away waited 40 quick response National Guard members, who could not be deployed without Miller and McCarthy’s approval.

The commander of the D.C. Nat. Guard, Walker, said that had he not been recently restricted, he could have deployed sooner washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

‘phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did’ ‘McCarthy insisted that the rioters were Trump's supporters and begged Trump to call them off’

‘A furious McCarthy told the President the rioters were breaking into his office through the windows, and asked Trump, "Who the f--k do you think you are talking to?"’

I am reading the letter by Acting Sec Defense Miller Jan 4 that essentially broke the normal response chain to deploy the Nat. Guard on Jan 6. It is also astonishingly specific, including not using Intel assets. Miller was installed after Trump lost the election, which was considered somewhat unusual.

Now the story gets stranger. Miller reports he met with Trump Jan 5, the night before the riot.

vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/e…

Let’s piece together what happened to Ambassador Yovanovitch. She testified that Guilliani and a ‘corrupt foreign prosecutor general’ had plans to ‘do things to her.’ She was told this by Ukraine officials. The corrupt Ukraine official was Lutsenko.

nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

‘Expressing that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the Russian Federation interfered in the 2016 United States Presidential election and deliberately spread false information to implicate the Republic of Ukraine’

The House is at work. And it’s masterful. 2.

‘Bannon first met Trump in August of 2010. Their first meeting was approximately 2 hours long. David Bossie was present and said that Trump was thinking of running for president in 2012 . Bannon said "for what country?"’

buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl… ‘Bannon’s emails show Manafort was still advising the Trump campaign three days before the 2016 election — despite having been fired in August — & the campaign’s need to hide that fact.’

‘Manafort wrote that he had sent the memo to “Reince” and “briefed Rick Gates and Hannity.”’

‘House Intelligence Committee Releases Whistleblower Complaint’

(Declassified copy)

lawfareblog.com/house-intellig… ‘There was already a “discussion ongoing” with White House lawyers about how to treat the call because of the likelihood, in the officials’ retelling, that they had witnessed the President abuse his office for personal gain’

‘Exclusive: Russia carried out a 'stunning' breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil’

Alarming.

news.yahoo.com/exclusive-russ… ‘These Russian spies, the FBI discovered, were attempting to recruit a ring of U.S. assets — including Carter Page, an American businessman who would later act as an unpaid foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign’

Legitimizing a FISA warrant on Page.

What some billionaires worry about (the collapse of society as we know it):

‘Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system & asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”’ ‘They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader?’

You can download the redacted Mueller report here.

@CNN link

cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/image… ‘Harm to ongoing matter’

1. Currently several states are passing anti-abortion laws: Alabama, Georgia and Indiana and in THESE states, women have a MUCH higher risk of death from pregnancy. The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world. 26/100,000 compared to Finland at 3.8

npr.org/2017/05/12/528…

1. On what riots, school shootings and acts of racist mass murder have in common.

In 2015, Malcolm Gladwell talked about riots and offered a tentative idea to explain school shootings.

In 1996, the first school shooting occurred. Six more occurred in the two years following. 2. Then Columbine happened and things markedly escalated. Columbine was a turning point. A script was laid out. A narrative.

Gladwell: ‘This (school shootings) is a very contemporary phenomenon. It is an overwhelming American phenomenon.’

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Let’s play a game, laying out interesting dates, events and comments that occurred over a few short weeks in August of 2016.

As @emptywheel commented, Manafort gave Kilimnik 75 pages of polling data on August 2, 2016. 2.

Researchers picked up unusual data activity at Trump Tower servers (communicating with Alfa Bank.)

Tea Leaves and colleagues graphed the activity. Notice the spike around August 3, 2016.

1. From the just released DCMS report (UK):

‘The transformation of Cambridge Analytica into Emerdata illustrates how easy it is for discredited companies to reinvent themselves and potentially use the same data and the same tactics to undermine governments, including in the UK’ ‘We recommended that “the National Crime Agency, if it is not already, should investigate the connections between the company SCL Elections Ltd and Emerdata’

‘The summer of 2016, STONE spoke to senior Trump Campaign officials about Organization 1 & information it might have had that would be damaging to the Clinton Campaign. STONE was contacted by senior Trump Campaign officials to inquire about future releases by Organization 1.’ Members of the Trump campaign will likely be caught up in Mueller’s net.

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I have been reviewing the trove of hacked Russian documents that have just been posted online. I find it interesting that the Russians saved Cesar Sayoc’s Twitter account. Case study?

Sayoc sent pipe bombs to Soros, Clinton, Obama, Waters and others in 2018. A link to the hacked Russian files on Sayoc:
ia801503.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zi…

‘Schiff, Waters plan joint Deutsche Bank investigation’ 😊

•Donald Trump owes them $385 mil, Jared $290 mil and Ivanka $50 mil

•The Bank was fined $10 bil for Russian money laundering

•Deutsche Bank helped Mercer’s co. dodge over $6 bil in taxes.

politico.com/story/2019/01/… ‘Deutsche Bank loaned President Donald Trump over $1 billion for his real-estate projects while Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's son led a real-estate division there’

(From June, 2018) amp.businessinsider.com/anthony-kenned…

Russia issuing Trump his marching orders?

Klyushin (Russian billionaire) is telling Trump when to declare the emergency. Klushin previously tweeted directions to Trump to remove Brennan’s security clearance and two days later, the White House released the memo removing Brennan’s clearance. (Aug, 2018)

hillreporter.com/putin-ally-twe…

‘Trump administration is weighing Afghan troop withdrawal’

•Mattis leaving
•US pulling out of Syria

nbcnews.com/news/military/… Putin is following the ‘Foundations of Geopolitics.’ In the book, Dugin calls for ‘strategic control of the United States’ and calls Russia the ‘staging area of an anti-American revolution.’ Dugin called for the weakening of ‘liberal values.’

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundatio…