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Kid Berwyn
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January 13, 2021
https://www.salon.com/2006/12/18/tennessee_terrorist/
They threw the MK ULTRA at him.
https://www.salon.com/2006/12/18/tennessee_terrorist/
January 13, 2021
By Davis Richardson
The Observer • 10/30/18
Excerpt...
Alexander is one of the many New Right media celebrities orbiting Trump land who built a brand through livestreaming musings on political warfare. Like many New Right figures, he also has a history of dog whistling to the nationalist wing of the MAGA movement.
Source: https://observer.com/2018/10/robert-mercer-bankrolled-pac-ali-alexander/
AKA Ali Akbar
Robert Mercer Bankrolled PAC Advised By Notorious Fringe ‘Philosopher’ Ali AlexanderBy Davis Richardson
The Observer • 10/30/18
Excerpt...
Alexander is one of the many New Right media celebrities orbiting Trump land who built a brand through livestreaming musings on political warfare. Like many New Right figures, he also has a history of dog whistling to the nationalist wing of the MAGA movement.
Source: https://observer.com/2018/10/robert-mercer-bankrolled-pac-ali-alexander/
January 12, 2021
News For Immediate Release
https://twitter.com/realCapnAmerica/status/1349025943982125063
January 10, 2021
Barracks Mate Paints Unflattering Portrait of Pat Robertson
LAURA KING
AP, December 3, 1987
Excerpt...
Robertson’s action against McCloskey stems from a 1986 letter in which McCloskey said Robertson used the political influence of his late father, U.S. Sen. Willis Robertson, to avoid combat duty in Korea.
McCloskey, who sailed to Korea on a troop ship with Robertson, said Robertson told fellow Marines that he called his father from Japan and arranged to be taken off the vessel.
Robertson was assigned to a training facility in Japan for several months before he was sent to Korea.
Most of the deposition, taken at Brosman’s New Orleans home, dealt with what Brosman had heard from others about Robertson’s assignment to the Japanese facility.
He said before he met Robertson, a Marine acquaintance introduced him to a third Marine who said he had been shipped over with ?the son of a United States senator. The senator had used his pull to get the son taken out ... and assigned ... in Japan so as to avoid having to go to Korea and probably be in combat.
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https://apnews.com/article/69a6b02cd742868d7beda31990af4662
McCloskey reported the truth about Pat Robertson during Korean War.
Barracks Mate Paints Unflattering Portrait of Pat Robertson
LAURA KING
AP, December 3, 1987
Excerpt...
Robertson’s action against McCloskey stems from a 1986 letter in which McCloskey said Robertson used the political influence of his late father, U.S. Sen. Willis Robertson, to avoid combat duty in Korea.
McCloskey, who sailed to Korea on a troop ship with Robertson, said Robertson told fellow Marines that he called his father from Japan and arranged to be taken off the vessel.
Robertson was assigned to a training facility in Japan for several months before he was sent to Korea.
Most of the deposition, taken at Brosman’s New Orleans home, dealt with what Brosman had heard from others about Robertson’s assignment to the Japanese facility.
He said before he met Robertson, a Marine acquaintance introduced him to a third Marine who said he had been shipped over with ?the son of a United States senator. The senator had used his pull to get the son taken out ... and assigned ... in Japan so as to avoid having to go to Korea and probably be in combat.
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https://apnews.com/article/69a6b02cd742868d7beda31990af4662
January 10, 2021
Trump tried to overthrow the government.
The President of the United States ordered a mob
to attack the Congress of the United States
and stop the certification of President-elect Joseph Biden.
I don’t give a damn how big the Big Lie, that is the plain truth.
January 10, 2021
Excerpt from the article:
“The President asked for his supporters to be there to attend, and I felt like it was important, because of how much I love this country, to actually be there,” he told the New Yorker.
Brock, who lives in a suburb of Dallas, denied that he went inside Pelosi’s office, but ITV News footage disputes his claim, showing him emerging from the suite.
The 53-year-old father of three added he wore tactical gear because he wanted to protect himself from Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
As for the zip ties, Brock claimed he found them on the floor.
“I wish I had not picked those up,” he told the outlet. “My thought process there was I would pick them up and give them to an officer when I see one. I didn’t do that because I had put them in my coat, and I honestly forgot about them.”
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https://nypost.com/2021/01/09/air-force-vet-identified-as-rioter-with-zip-ties/
Larry Rendall Brock, Jr.
Excerpt from the article:
“The President asked for his supporters to be there to attend, and I felt like it was important, because of how much I love this country, to actually be there,” he told the New Yorker.
Brock, who lives in a suburb of Dallas, denied that he went inside Pelosi’s office, but ITV News footage disputes his claim, showing him emerging from the suite.
The 53-year-old father of three added he wore tactical gear because he wanted to protect himself from Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
As for the zip ties, Brock claimed he found them on the floor.
“I wish I had not picked those up,” he told the outlet. “My thought process there was I would pick them up and give them to an officer when I see one. I didn’t do that because I had put them in my coat, and I honestly forgot about them.”
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https://nypost.com/2021/01/09/air-force-vet-identified-as-rioter-with-zip-ties/
January 9, 2021
"If you are too dangerous to be on Twitter..."
“... then you’re too dangerous to be charge of nuclear codes,” John Podesta, said just now on CNN.
“Get him out for office.”
January 8, 2021
...Warnock, the Ebenezer Baptist Church pastor, was arrested on the spot when he led a prayer in the Capitol Rotunda that year. He and other religious leaders were protesting healthcare cuts in President Donald Trump's proposed budget....
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/raphael-warnock-2017-us-capitol-arrest-reexamined/85-9e6aa191-54b5-4fcd-9088-3e3e6147b5ef
In 2017, Rev. Warnock knelt in prayer at Capitol and was arrested and handcuffed.
...Warnock, the Ebenezer Baptist Church pastor, was arrested on the spot when he led a prayer in the Capitol Rotunda that year. He and other religious leaders were protesting healthcare cuts in President Donald Trump's proposed budget....
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/raphael-warnock-2017-us-capitol-arrest-reexamined/85-9e6aa191-54b5-4fcd-9088-3e3e6147b5ef
January 7, 2021
David Corn
Mother Jones, Jan. 6, 2021
This is what Donald Trump has unleashed upon the United States: an unprecedented act of domestic terrorism.
Snip...
Trump owned this terrorism. He has whipped up his cultish followers with lies and conspiracy theories. At a rally on Wednesday morning, Trump told his supporters that the 2020 election was a grave crime and that Republicans and Democrats on the Hill were about to destroy American democracy by accepting the results. (During that event, Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer and chief coup-stirrer, called for “trial by combat.”) Trump directed his frenzied supporters toward the Capitol, where they breached police lines and took over the building. They shut down Congress. They terrorized lawmakers and staff, they fought with security forces, they broke American democracy.
This is all Trump’s doing. He has encouraged violence among his supporters since the 2016 campaign. At his rallies, he encouraged followers to assault protesters and provoked violent threats against journalists. During the Black Lives Matter protests, he threatened to shoot looters. When asked during a campaign debate if he condemned the Proud Boys, violent pro-Trump shock troops, he told them to “stand back and stand by.” Wink, wink. As my colleague Mark Follman has reported, Trump has long played footsie with far-right radicals. Elizabeth Neumann, a former Department of Homeland Security official who focused on counterterrorism and threat prevention, contended in a Washington Post op-ed that Trump has been fomenting violence: “Language from campaign materials and Trump’s extemporaneous speeches at rallies have been used as justification for acts of violence.” His “inconsistent and muddied” criticism of violence and white supremacists, she pointed out, exacerbated the problem: “Extremists thrive on this mixed messaging, interpreting it as coded support.”
By depicting his electoral loss as a theft and profound threat to the nation, Trump signaled to his followers, especially the extremists, that now was a desperate time requiring desperate measures. With such talk, he has become the instigator of one of the most significant terrorist actions in modern American history.
But Trump is not the sole author of this horrific assault on the US government and the citizenry. He has been enabled and supported for years by the Republican Party, Fox News, and other right-wing media, and the conservative movement, even as he fueled hatred and division and his corruptions were repeatedly exposed. They excused his aiding and abetting of a foreign adversary’s attack on the United States. They turned a blind eye to the brazen abuse of power that led to his impeachment. They cheered him, as he downplayed a pandemic, ignored public health guidance, and allowed tens of thousands of Americans to perish in preventable deaths. They remained silent as Trump repeatedly demonstrated he had no respect for democratic norms or the basic norms of decency. They remained silent as he presented tens of thousands of lies and false statements to the American public. Instead, they protected him, they hailed him as their leader.
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/donald-trump-is-now-a-terrorist-leader/
Donald Trump Is Now a Terrorist Leader
The attack on the Capitol is the culmination of Trumpism, and the GOP owns this.David Corn
Mother Jones, Jan. 6, 2021
This is what Donald Trump has unleashed upon the United States: an unprecedented act of domestic terrorism.
Snip...
Trump owned this terrorism. He has whipped up his cultish followers with lies and conspiracy theories. At a rally on Wednesday morning, Trump told his supporters that the 2020 election was a grave crime and that Republicans and Democrats on the Hill were about to destroy American democracy by accepting the results. (During that event, Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer and chief coup-stirrer, called for “trial by combat.”) Trump directed his frenzied supporters toward the Capitol, where they breached police lines and took over the building. They shut down Congress. They terrorized lawmakers and staff, they fought with security forces, they broke American democracy.
This is all Trump’s doing. He has encouraged violence among his supporters since the 2016 campaign. At his rallies, he encouraged followers to assault protesters and provoked violent threats against journalists. During the Black Lives Matter protests, he threatened to shoot looters. When asked during a campaign debate if he condemned the Proud Boys, violent pro-Trump shock troops, he told them to “stand back and stand by.” Wink, wink. As my colleague Mark Follman has reported, Trump has long played footsie with far-right radicals. Elizabeth Neumann, a former Department of Homeland Security official who focused on counterterrorism and threat prevention, contended in a Washington Post op-ed that Trump has been fomenting violence: “Language from campaign materials and Trump’s extemporaneous speeches at rallies have been used as justification for acts of violence.” His “inconsistent and muddied” criticism of violence and white supremacists, she pointed out, exacerbated the problem: “Extremists thrive on this mixed messaging, interpreting it as coded support.”
By depicting his electoral loss as a theft and profound threat to the nation, Trump signaled to his followers, especially the extremists, that now was a desperate time requiring desperate measures. With such talk, he has become the instigator of one of the most significant terrorist actions in modern American history.
But Trump is not the sole author of this horrific assault on the US government and the citizenry. He has been enabled and supported for years by the Republican Party, Fox News, and other right-wing media, and the conservative movement, even as he fueled hatred and division and his corruptions were repeatedly exposed. They excused his aiding and abetting of a foreign adversary’s attack on the United States. They turned a blind eye to the brazen abuse of power that led to his impeachment. They cheered him, as he downplayed a pandemic, ignored public health guidance, and allowed tens of thousands of Americans to perish in preventable deaths. They remained silent as Trump repeatedly demonstrated he had no respect for democratic norms or the basic norms of decency. They remained silent as he presented tens of thousands of lies and false statements to the American public. Instead, they protected him, they hailed him as their leader.
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/donald-trump-is-now-a-terrorist-leader/
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