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Heather Delaney Reese: Trump’s desperate plan to destroy our country from the inside

… The Trump administration had begun scrubbing prosecution records tied to the people who attacked our Capitol, including one involving a man accused of assaulting police officers during the Capitol attack who was also facing child solicitation charges.

They were proud to erase the public record. Proud to help rewrite the history of January 6th. Proud to scrub information connected to people who violently attacked police officers defending the Capitol. And even after being reminded of the allegations tied to the solicitation of a child, they still said they were “proud.”

… The prosecution of people who attacked the Capitol becomes “weaponization.” The men convicted by juries become the “persecuted.” And the public record of their crimes, the sentencing documents, the charges, the evidence, becomes “partisan propaganda.”

This is the whole project in three sentences. They are not denying what they did. They are renaming it. They are telling us that the record itself was the lie, and that erasing it is justice. That is the language every authoritarian movement eventually reaches for, the moment it stops fearing the truth and starts calling the truth the enemy.

And this was not just a single page removed. …

Jason Sattler: Yes, Elon Musk Did Buy the Election


June 6, 2025 Musk tweet

David McAfee @ RawStory: Questions about Trump’s criminal liability arise as Mueller prosecutor sees immunity crack


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