š: (MAJOR REPORT): For the first time in U.S. media, Donald Trump's plan for the January 6 insurrection has been itemized, fully sourced, and annotated. The 12-part strategy, never before outlined, is terrifyingāand involves elements not widely discussed.
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(THREAD) To understand the second impeachment of Donald Trump, we must understand the words that preceded and augmented his January 6 incitement of insurrection. This thread unpacks four key speechesāDon Jr., Giuliani, Mo Brooks, and Eric Trump. I hope you'll read on and RETWEET.
1/ If you haven't yet seen my analysis of Trump's January 6 "incitement to insurrection" speech, you can find it at the link below. This thread will look at four shorterābut deeply consequentialāspeeches just before Trump's, all by Trump allies or family.
2/ DONALD TRUMP JR.
Trump Jr.'s speech on January 6āwhich ended less than an hour before his father incited an insurrectionāis one of the most inscrutable of the day, because its beginning includes some promisingly responsible rhetoric. Then it descends into madness and chaos.
3/ "I'm looking at the crowd here, and you did it all [congregate here] without burning down buildings! You did it without ripping down churches! Without looting! I didn't know that that was possible!" Within 2 hours of his speech, Don Jr.'s audience would be looting the Capitol.
4/ So obviously Don Jr.'s opening is ironic to a historic degree, but this isn't the first time we've heard this rhetoric from him. He habitually ignores right-wing violence because he knows that his chief rhetorical canardāwhich marries progressivism and violencesāgets applause.
1/ If you haven't yet seen my analysis of Trump's January 6 "incitement to insurrection" speech, you can find it at the link below. This thread will look at four shorterābut deeply consequentialāspeeches just before Trump's, all by Trump allies or family.
(THREAD) Media has yet to do a deep dive on precisely what Trump *said* in his January 6 speech in DC\u2014a speech now called an "incitement to insurrection," and the basis for an article of impeachment coming Monday. This thread unpacks the speech. I hope you'll read on and RETWEET. pic.twitter.com/ba6eaNScNW
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 9, 2021
2/ DONALD TRUMP JR.
Trump Jr.'s speech on January 6āwhich ended less than an hour before his father incited an insurrectionāis one of the most inscrutable of the day, because its beginning includes some promisingly responsible rhetoric. Then it descends into madness and chaos.
3/ "I'm looking at the crowd here, and you did it all [congregate here] without burning down buildings! You did it without ripping down churches! Without looting! I didn't know that that was possible!" Within 2 hours of his speech, Don Jr.'s audience would be looting the Capitol.
4/ So obviously Don Jr.'s opening is ironic to a historic degree, but this isn't the first time we've heard this rhetoric from him. He habitually ignores right-wing violence because he knows that his chief rhetorical canardāwhich marries progressivism and violencesāgets applause.
As I know from my many years as a criminal defense attorney, GP, inmates can usually get books if they're sent directly from the publisher. What is your inmate number going to be? I will try to get you a copy of PROOF OF COLLUSION to help you pass the time while you're in prison.
2/ As GP rails against Mueller to help sell movie rights to his story (or whatever), here's what his attorneys actually said in court: "Our firm would in a second stand up if we saw prosecutorial or governmental misconduct. We have seen no such thing." But they didn't stop there.
3/ George's attorneys added, "We have seen no entrapment. We have seen no set-up by U.S. intelligence people. Everything we saw, theyāve been on the square." So apparently on the same day my world "collapses," George's lawyers will *also* experience a massive temporal distortion.
Looking forward to watching @SethAbramson\u2019s world collapse around him when he realizes he has been absolutely wrong about his apparent \u201cinsight\u201d since day 1. I repeat, trust the insiders, not the nuts.
— George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) October 8, 2018
2/ As GP rails against Mueller to help sell movie rights to his story (or whatever), here's what his attorneys actually said in court: "Our firm would in a second stand up if we saw prosecutorial or governmental misconduct. We have seen no such thing." But they didn't stop there.
3/ George's attorneys added, "We have seen no entrapment. We have seen no set-up by U.S. intelligence people. Everything we saw, theyāve been on the square." So apparently on the same day my world "collapses," George's lawyers will *also* experience a massive temporal distortion.
I... OMG. I am speechless. This is the *Oscars*. And this just happened. And I do not think it was a bit.
This feels to me like another sign that the world is off its hinges, so I sure hope we are going to find out thatādespite there being no evidence of itāthis was staged.
(PS) Either that was the most straight-faced comic bit in major-television historyāin fact *so* straight-faced it was a total failureāor mega-Hollywood star Will Smith just straight-up *assaulted* a famous comic during one of the most widely watched annual telecasts in the world.
(PS2) Iām agreeing with those of you saying it wasnāt a bit, I just wanted to leave room because... well, because I just canāt believe what happened. I do know that Jadaās hair is a sensitive subject for her, but between that and a violent assault is a hell of a lot of territory.
(VIDEO) Here is the uncensored version.
Not a bitāan assault.
(PS3) This affected me. I just said to my wife, āIf Will Smith canāt keep it together at the *Oscars*, how the hell can any of *us* be expected to keep it together anymore?ā Iām not saying that response makes sense, only that it reflected how I was feeling.
These are dark times.
This feels to me like another sign that the world is off its hinges, so I sure hope we are going to find out thatādespite there being no evidence of itāthis was staged.
MAYHEM BETWEEN CHRIS ROCK AND WILL SMITH AT THE #Oscars pic.twitter.com/265hGbsEDg
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) March 28, 2022
(PS) Either that was the most straight-faced comic bit in major-television historyāin fact *so* straight-faced it was a total failureāor mega-Hollywood star Will Smith just straight-up *assaulted* a famous comic during one of the most widely watched annual telecasts in the world.
(PS2) Iām agreeing with those of you saying it wasnāt a bit, I just wanted to leave room because... well, because I just canāt believe what happened. I do know that Jadaās hair is a sensitive subject for her, but between that and a violent assault is a hell of a lot of territory.
(VIDEO) Here is the uncensored version.
Not a bitāan assault.
(PS3) This affected me. I just said to my wife, āIf Will Smith canāt keep it together at the *Oscars*, how the hell can any of *us* be expected to keep it together anymore?ā Iām not saying that response makes sense, only that it reflected how I was feeling.
These are dark times.