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1/ Yesterday's indictment of Douglass Mackey was deeply satisfying in that a co conspirator that was identified in the indictment ; Microchip. This Alt Right troll targeted me, & many others in 2017

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2/ Microchip specifically targeted my account & others for mass reporting efforts by his followers (he offered $5000 per acct suspended by Twitter) and encouraged harassment & threats towards those accounts. Threats of violence were directed at me (it didn't intimidate me)
3/ Additionally in the Mackey indictment, Baked Alaska aka Tim Gionet, was also named . Gionet was recently arrested for his role in the assault on the Capitol building. Now, this indictment of Mackey would seem to be just the beginning, because these guys connect to everyone
4/ For starters Baked Alaska & Microchip connect to this guy, Charles "Chuck" Johnson. He's the redheaded guy , standing on the steps of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R) , about to meet Julian Assange. We'll get back to JAss later.........,
5/ Baked Alaska & Chuck C Johnson have also been linked to Roger Stone . Hey, there's Roger Stone at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London too. Presumably Roge got lost in London to end up at Assange's bolt hole...........,
6/ Here's Roger Stone with internet sh*tposter Cassandra Fairbanks. Our Cassandra is VERY good friends with both Microchip & Baked Alaska. That's a trifecta of people that Cassie knows, who have been named in Federal Indictments. Such a naughty girl.......,
7/ Hey, there's Cassandra Fairbanks, Roger Stone, Carter Page, and Jack Posobiec & his wife. Are we getting that these people are all from the same pond, & possibly committed crimes against the United States together?
8/ There's Jack Posobiec & his wife with Cassandra Fairbanks, with someone that looks very much like Ali Alexander. Oh dear. Ali, like Microchip & Baked Alaska, had a controversial online presence

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9/ Now, we need to go back to 2016 at the RNC Convention to see what Jack Posobiec was up to. He was running a group called Citizens for Trump. No surprise that Poso gets mixed up with Baked Alaska & Cernovich there, along with Milo & Roger Stone.....,
10/ Talking of Cernovich, there he is in the White House press room with Cassandra Fairbanks. At this point, Cassie is surrounded by more dirty douches than at a Sexual Health clinic. Let's not even mention her work for Russian State media
11/ Now the reason all these guys love Assange so much, is because Julian did Trump & his crew a solid during the 2016 US Election by dumping the contents of the DNC hack online just before the election, and then Wikileaks cherry picked or lied about its contents to help Trump
12/ And who did the DNC hack, and gave it to Wikileaks? Why Russian Military Intelligence, the GRU, according to the Mueller Report.
13/ No @JackPosobiec . What Mackey & all of you guys have been doing isn't political speech. Trump & the rest of you, lied, accepted stolen data from a foreign adversery, tried to intimidate people with online harrassment & political terrorism, & now the Feds are coming for you

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