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Apr 18 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Jan. 6 rioter Zachary Alam, the subject of an absurd @SharylAttkisson segment in October, is set to be sentenced tomorrow.

Sharyl didn’t actually cover Alam’s trial, but told her viewers that his indictment doesn’t “mention any evidence he’s a Trump supporter.”

In fact and reality, the press release she cited seconds later in the segment noted that he has a MAGA hat on under his fur hat, and there’s this from his mom: There's just so much deception happening in @SharylAttkisson October 2023 segment that it makes you feel like banging your head against he wall.

Take that line about the how Alam's indictment doesn't mention "any evidence he's a Trump supporter."

Well, key basic question there, is it a speaking indictment?

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Apr 17 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Last month, New York Times Magazine ran a feature story about Vanderpump Rules, a cultural phenomenon of which I was only vaguely aware.

I was intrigued. I started with Scandoval episode, then went back and watched all 10+ seasons, plus the new spinoff.

It was a nice break from covering Jan. 6!

Today, the wall between The Real Housewives universe and J6 came crashing down... STORY: nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Apr 15 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A former Marine “who firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa, California, and plotted other attacks, including an attack on the Orange County, California, power grid in furtherance of a race war, an attack at Dodger Stadium during an LGBTQI+ pride night celebration, and the home invasions of Jewish homes in Los Angeles was sentenced today to nine years in prison…”Image DOJ: "Defendant’s fellow Marines noted that he made hateful comments towards all non-white individuals, including Jewish, Hispanic, African American, and Muslim acquaintances, including, for example, openly using a racial slur to refer to one fellow Marine’s spouse." Image
Apr 12 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
As former President Donald Trump continues to spew lies about election fraud, one of his supporters who broke police lines on Jan. 6 is blaming Trump's previous lie spewing for his conduct:
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Image Joshua John Portlock's team writes that the Jan. 6 defendant would still have a "lucrative career at Mitsubishi Motors" had he not fallen for Donald Trump's absurd claims about the 2020 election. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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Apr 12 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: A California federal magistrate judge had denied a search warrant for conservative influencer / Jan. 6 defendant Isabella DeLuca's phone without explanation, so the feds are now seeking approval from a judge in DC to give it a look.
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Image If you'd guessed that a Trump-supporting young would-be influencer who lived in D.C. had a lease in Navy Yard, congratulations, the redacted search warrant application indicates you were indeed correct.

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Apr 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Numerous Jan. 6 defendants have confessed they now feel like idiots for being gullible enough to fall for ham-fisted lies about the 2020 election.

The House Speaker and Republican presidential nominee, meanwhile, are planning a press conference about "election integrity." Image Trump, a self-described "very smart guy" with "a very good brain," continues to push conspiracy theories that fall apart if you apply just a tiny little bit of critical thinking:

nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
Apr 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
FBI sting nets an 18-year-old from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, the feds say swore allegiance to ISIS. Previously, a white supremacist, apparently!

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Image The suspect told a FBI confidential human source they worried the media would call him "a mentally ill psycho who did this out of desperation and delusion and not as an act of religiously motivated terrorism."

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Apr 5 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
"I have not examined the evidence in detail," @RobertKennedyJr said about Jan. 6.

Indeed, RFK Jr.'s statement makes that abundantly clear!

It contains several falsehoods, most notably the absurd claim that rioters "carried no weapons."

W/ @aseitzwald:

nbcnews.com/politics/2024-… @RobertKennedyJr @aseitzwald Numerous Donald Trump supporters, in fact, are sitting in federal prison right now because they brought guns to the Capitol on Jan. 6! nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…
Apr 5 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
"We want Trump!"

"civil war is all but assurred now."

"they are trying to give credit to storming congress on the news to antifa... BULLSHIT."

Feds seeking 10 years for David Joseph Gietzen.

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Image "They need to move out of the way so that the protestors could progress to the Capitol building and occupy it." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Apr 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“I’m not claiming Mr. Clark is deranged…”

A disciplinary counsel fighting to disbar Jeffrey Clark argued that he couldn’t possibly have believed the ridiculous smart thermostat related lies he was peddling about the 2020 election. nbcnews.com/politics/justi… “A rational person, faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, who still insists that the moon rises in the west, yes, that person is being intentionally dishonest.” nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Apr 4 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
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Donald Trump keeps calling Jan. 6 defendants "hostages." He did so again last night.

But an @NBCNews review of J6 cases identified just 15 current pretrial detainees ordered held by a judge.

Among them are defendants who (allegedly):

- set off an explosive device
- fired a gun
- plotted to murder FBI employees
- showed up at Obama's house with a van full of ammo after Trump posted his address

nbcnews.com/politics/justi… Two of the pre-trial detainees have body counts. One stabbed a 19-year-old to death in a park, he claimed self-defense and wasn't charged in that case but has an extensive criminal record.

The other killed a handcuffed Iraqi civilian.

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Apr 3 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: A Washington man who led an attack on officers on Jan. 6 and represented himself at trial using arguments a federal judge described as "bulls---" and "gobbledygook" was sentenced to seven years in federal prison on Wednesday.

nbcnews.com/politics/justi… Previously:
Mar 29 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: Feds seek nine year prison term for sovereign citizen Jan. 6 defendant Taylor Johnatakis: A federal judge called Taylor Johnatakis' sovereign citizen arguments nonsense, and said he "could get a lesser sentence" if he "weren’t so hardheaded."

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Mar 29 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Saying the dad hasn't yet been charged is not the same as saying he didn't take part! Let's see what the facts BARE out. Ah crap I did this joke in 2022.
Mar 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Judge Reggie Walton has been astonished that so many “gullible” people fell for Trump’s lies.

He’s also condemned the “demagogues” spreading lies about Jan. 6 “despite what their eyes tell them” because they want money.

“I don’t understand how people can live with themselves.” He also said that, unlike Donald Trump, Al Gore “was a man about it” when he lost the electoral college in 2000.
Mar 27 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
At his disciplinary hearing, election denier Jeffrey Clark's lawyer sought to prevent having his client asserting the Fifth over and over and over, which would "avoid us being on MSNBC for no good reason." More on the hearing involving election denier and almost-acting-attorney-general Jeffrey Clark here:
Mar 27 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Former Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen says he remembers telling Donald Trump he could have the leadership he wanted, "but it's not going to change the facts." (Because the election wasn't stolen via smart thermostat, a thing Jeffrey Clark actually believed!) "This was nowhere in his lane," Rosen says, of Clark's attempts to get briefed about some outlandish conspiracy theory about smart thermostats stealing the election. "This is not appropriate, it's way out of Mr. Clark's lane."
Mar 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Jan. 6 defendant Taylor Johnatakis' sister-in-law says she agrees with the judge that Johnatakis' sovereign citizen arguments are "bull shit" and "gobbledygook."
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Image From November: "A Jan. 6 rioter who represented himself during a jury trial and advanced sovereign citizen arguments that a federal judge described as 'bulls---' and 'gobbledygook' was found guilty Tuesday and ordered into government custody."

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Mar 22 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Smh, the DEEP STATE clearly waited for a FRIDAY and my DAY OFF to bury this Rally Runner news. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
“If I’m wrong, so be it, bro. I don’t care,” the Tucker Carlson guest who insisted on Fox News that this MAGA enthusiast with the red face paint was some super secret undercover agent. “I don’t give a s--- about being wrong.”

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Mar 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. The FBI doesn’t indict people, grand juries do.

2. Isabella DeLuca has not been indicted, she’s been charged by criminal complaint.

3. She was charged with five misdemeanors (he got that part right!) due to extensive video evidence of her criming.

nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

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Image Also, here’s another influencer who was charged back in 2020 for what non-serious people operating in bad faith might describe as “touching” a Molotov cocktail.

He was sentenced to years in federal prison and ordered to pay $12 million in restitution.
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Mar 18 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
NEW: A conservative influencer who says she interned for two GOP members of Congress helped steal a table used to assault officers on Jan. 6, FBI says.

nbcnews.com/politics/justi… "Fight back or let politicians steal [an] election? Fight back!" Deluca allegedly tweeted on the afternoon of Jan. 6. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…