Remember when Trump:
* Posted a photo of himself wielding a baseball bat next to a photo of Alvin Bragg?
* Mocked MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi for getting hit with a rubber bullet?
* Praised Greg Gianforte for assaulting a reporter?
* Joked about the assault on Paul Pelosi?
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2/ Link: cnn.com/2020/09/19/med…

The Daily Signal—launched by Heritage—gushes that JD Vance & Trump have “Orchestrated Deal to Save TikTok”

They omit that, as of June, prospective buyers include Oracle founder Larry Ellison (who helped Heritage w/ a Project 2025 database) & Thiel ally Marc Andreessen’s a16z. 1/

2/ Link to the Daily Signal article, which says nothing about Ellison, Oracle, Andreessen, or a16z. dailysignal.com/2025/09/15/how…

The Daily Signal gushes that JD Vance (Peter Thiel’s protégée) & Trump have “Orchestrated Deal to Save TikTok,” adding that the US-backed buyer has yet to be named.

They omit that, as of June, one of the prospective buyers is a16z—founded by Thiel ally Marc Andreessen. 1/
2/ Link to the Daily Signal article. dailysignal.com/2025/09/15/how…

👀The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has published an article by A3P attorney Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to states & requires church-state separation. 1/
2/ The article was published several weeks ago. Here’s the link: journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/wp-conten…

While we were distracted, Trump appointed Josh Craddock—who recently signed a letter urging the DOJ to use the Comstock Act to curtail abortion pill distribution—to serve as Deputy Assistant AG in the DOJ’s OLC. Don’t worry. He probly won’t do much until *after* the midterms… 1/ 2/ Josh Craddock announced his appointment on 7/2/25.

https://twitter.com/joshjcraddock/status/1940416448062501204

Houraney “recalls encountering Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in Jan 1993” & says “Trump asked him to organise a party” w/ “some of his pageant’s finalists…[A]fter an hour at the party, Houraney says, there seemed to be only one other guest: Epstein.” 3/14/20 1/ 2/ Link for post 1: theguardian.com/us-news/2020/m…

ICYMI, during the 2016 presidential campaign, “Epstein invited [Peter] Thiel and [Thomas] Barrack to separate meetings with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations. **** Thiel, who had several interactions with Epstein starting in 2014, according to the documents, said his Oct 2016 meeting with Epstein & Churkin featured ‘nothing memorable.’
‘I was rather naive,’ Thiel said in an interview, ‘and I didn’t think enough about what Epstein’s agenda might have been.’ Barrack, founder of Colony Capital and a longtime Trump ally, declined to comment.” 1/ archive.is/2023.09.03-150… 2/ h/t @capitolhunters

Tulsi’s report seems to me like an attempt to distract. As I detailed on Medium, Obama stated in Dec 2016 that, “We have not seen evidence of machines being tampered with *** That doesn’t mean that we find every single potential probe of every single voting machine across the country. But we paid a lot of attention to it. We worked with state election officials, etc. And we feel confident that that didn’t occur.” 1/ 2/ Link: jennycohn1.medium.com/2016-the-attac…

A whistleblower alleged that staff of Palantir—co-founded by Facebook investor/director Peter Thiel—had worked w/ Cambridge Analytica (CA) on the FB data it acquired. But a Palantir spokesperson claimed Palantir never had a relationship w/ CA & never worked on its data. 5/2018 1/ 2/ Link for post 1: cnbc.com/2018/03/27/pal…

F#ck. “The prospective buyer of TikTok’s American operations” cited by Trump is an “investor consortium” that includes “Andreessen Horowitz,” the VC firm founded by Peter Thiel ally Marc Andreessen (which also played a role in Elon’s Twitter acquisition) - Bloomberg, 6/30/25 1/ 2/ Link for quote in post 1. - 6/30/25 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Carbyne is an “Israeli emergency response startup” chaired by former Israeli prime minister EHUD BARAK & backed by PETER THIEL’S Founders Fund. Sum, a limited partnership, “owns 100% of Carbyne’s series A preferred stock.” JEFFREY EPSTEIN invested $1.5M in Sum in 2016. 1/ 2/ Link for post 1: calcalistech.com/ctech/articles…

“Following new revelations about Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties to a prominent Trump donor [Peter Thiel],” @RonWyden
“today renewed his demand that the Trump administration produce key Epstein documents….” 6/17/25 1/
2/ Link: finance.senate.gov/ranking-member…

😳 Here we go again. “A consultant claiming to work for the White House called several Republican county clerks in Colorado last week, seeking ‘third-party’ access to secure voting equipment, election officials told The Denver Post.” 7/16/25 1/ denverpost.com/2025/07/16/col… Remember Coffee County, GA? 2/ apnews.com/article/2022-m…

Terrific post by @LuluFriesdat of @Smart_elections —which seeks a hand recount of the presidential election in Rockland County, NY—in which they correct those who have wrongly suggested that Smart Elections’ legitimate concerns & findings thus far amount to “proof” that the election was rigged for Trump.

THIS is what credible election integrity messaging looks like: “Are we concerned about all the software updates they released? You bet we are. Can we say conclusively that there was some kind of malware in those updates that changed vote totals? No we cannot. That’s why we’re in court. To get that kind of information.”
👏👏👏👏
1/ open.substack.com/pub/smartelect…
Those of you who have followed me for years know that I spent about four years of my life focusing on election security. (See my article below.) 2/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/10/trump-…

“As of three weeks ago, 172 of these individuals [pardoned by Trump] had pled guilty to assaulting law enforcement. By their own admission, they assaulted police. About 140 officers were injured, including Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the following day. Four officers who responded that day have since died by suicide.” 1/25/25 (Link in post 2.)
1/ 2/ Link: policeforum.org/trending25jan25

Trump has picked Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. As of 9 days ago, Ingrassia’s Instagram included a pinned photo of himself w/ self-professed “misogynist” Andrew Tate who has since been charged w/ rape & trafficking in the UK & who performed the Nazi salute on video (in apparent defense of Elon Musk). 1/
2/ I learned about Ingrassia from this article by NPR. npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-…

MAGA’s favorite White South African activist group—Afriforum—admitted last year that “there is no white genocide going on in South Africa.”

(In 2018, Afriforum had traveled to the US to discuss their claim that White South African farmers were being murdered due to their race. They have since hobnobbed with Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, New Founding, CPAC, & NatCon.) 1/ 2/ Link for post 1.

The Center for Renewing America—founded by Trump’s OMB Director pick Russ Vought, a top architect of Project 2025—has *explicitly* said that it wants the federal govt to “eliminate” Obamacare’s life-saving Medicaid expansion. Here are some stats on the expansion. 1/ cbpp.org/research/healt… 2/

@AutismCapital 1/ @AutismCapital 2/

Pete Hegseth attends a church that belongs to the CREC, the evangelical denomination founded by Christ Church pastor Doug Wilson. This guy. 👇 h/t @ExaminingMoscow 1/ 2/ vice.com/en/article/dis…

“Pete Hegseth nomination is a milestone for Doug Wilson’s church movement” 1/13/25
1/ usatoday.com/story/news/pol… 2/

https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1779602589795181048