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Previous guy is now the stuff of (sub)urban legends [1]
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Date: 2022-06-30
Holy Zapruder, Batman, GOP donors now think previous guy is a choking Doberman, because the banal stories about him get repeated as though they could be true, gaining veracity only by their repetition. The initial GOP attempts at disinformation tried to divert attention by misidentifying the presidential vehicle as “The Beast” when it was an SUV. Like Trump’s “perfect” phone calls, this firehose stream of falsehoods resembles his attempts to disinform the public with a barrage of lies like an oral tradition that becomes “plot perfect”, while remaining a folktale.
History is replete with examples of decisions made or actions taken based on gauging political impact, and gauging it wrongly, and making a mistake. It’s very hard to predict what impacts will look like in the future, not just two years from now, but 10 years from now. It’s very hard to predict or control those outcomes. Given that, to not take action would be to license any future inhabitants of the White House to engage in efforts to stay in office and sponsor acts of violence in order to stay in office.
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x "We want our authoritarians to be classier and less exposed to legal liability, also better at shredding democracy", megadonors noted. — Wendell "Fan of the 9th Amendment" Albright 🌻 (@WendellAlbright) June 30, 2022
The video, posted on Tuesday, has been viewed over 640,000 times. In it, behind a group of Trump supporters, a person can be seen moving their hands frantically inside the then-President's Chevy Suburban limo. It is not clear whether the person is gesturing towards the driver or other people in the car. www.msn.com/…
Additionally, Newsweek states that the Committee has now put out a video of Trump raging at the agents in the car:
After the hearing, Trump, who has long opposed the investigation into the riots, lashed out at the former White House aide on his social media site Truth Social, where he downplayed her role in the administration and accused her of lying.
According to the Committee’s tweet:
Today’s testimony makes clear that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol with the armed mob, despite warnings not to do so from his advisors. When the Secret Service ruled out the possibility, the former President erupted in anger in the Suburban he was riding in.
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“In Last Second, as in Six Seconds some 54 years earlier, Josiah Thompson eschews all speculation as to who the conspirators may have been as well as their motives. Focusing on the final second, he explains how it can be known with great certainty that Kennedy was hit twice in the head, just 0.71 seconds apart, by bullets fired from diametrically opposed directions. The first of these final and equally non-survivable shots came from behind a stockade fence atop the grassy knoll and not from the Texas School Book Depository, where Lee Harvey Oswald was located.” en.wikipedia.org/… /s
The Choking Doberman is an urban legend that originated in the United States.[1] [2] The story involves a protective pet found by its owner gagging on human fingers lodged in its throat. As the story unfolds, the dog's owner discovers an intruder whose hand is bleeding from the dog bite.[3]
Jan Harold Brunvand, a folklorist and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah,[4] wrote about this and other urban legends in his book The Choking Doberman and Other "New" Urban Legends[2][5] published in 1984 by W.W. Norton & Company.[2] He provided the reader with several varying accounts of the story. While the basic elements of the story remain the same in each version, the details, such as the number of fingers found, the breed of dog, and the condition of the intruder when discovered change slightly.[3]
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x There seems to be a major thread here… Tony Ornato likes to lie.
https://t.co/0c2itYqf5J — Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️ (@AdamKinzinger) June 30, 2022
x A thread. Donald reached into the front of the SUV.
https://t.co/YbfWErju6C — Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) June 30, 2022
x One of the goals of disinformation campaigns like the one targeting Cassidy Hutchinson is to discredit the significant points of her testimony by calling into question details about the less-significant/insignificant points. Stay focused on the big picture, which isn’t in doubt. — Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) June 29, 2022
x Statement on behalf of Cassidy Hutchinson issued by her counsel Jody Hunt and William Jordan:
“Ms. Hutchinson stands by all of the testimony she provided yesterday, under oath, to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.” — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 29, 2022
Hutchinson recounted the story from Tony Ornato, the assistant director of the U.S. Secret Service Office of Training.
She said that Ornato told her that when security declined to bring Trump to the Capitol, the former president allegedly grabbed at the steering wheel of the vehicle transporting him.
"Today's testimony makes clear that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol with the armed mob, despite warnings not to do so from his advisors," the January 6 Committee Twitter page captioned their video.
"When the Secret Service ruled out the possibility, the former President erupted in anger in the Suburban he was riding in."
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x Today's testimony makes clear that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol with the armed mob, despite warnings not to do so from his advisors.
When the Secret Service ruled out the possibility, the former President erupted in anger in the Suburban he was riding in. pic.twitter.com/Ef69CAenn6 — January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) June 28, 2022
x The steering wheel incident that she testified hearing about it coming into question. But there’s ample testimony and reporting and, you know, Trump’s own statements that he wanted to go to the Capitol. Still true even without that anecdote. — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 29, 2022
Umbrella Man consists of Errol Morris talking with Josiah “Tink” Thompson, one of the first and most respected of Warren Commission critics. Thompson has had an extraordinary, colorful career. I met him when he was my freshman philosophy professor at Yale and he was working on The Lonely Labyrinth, his landmark analysis of the gloomy Danish anti-rationalist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. But after the release of the Warren Commission report, Thompson turned his incisive intellect to the question of ballistics and its relation to the Zapruder film.
“The Zapruder film serves as a clock,” Morris points out. One can measure the time it took for the three assassination shots (one missed) to be fired—which the Warren Commission concluded was slightly under six seconds—and then calculate how long a single shooter would take to shoot, reload, resight, shoot again, reload, resight and shoot again. Thompson concluded that Oswald wouldn’t have had the time to get off all three shots himself and—after working with Life’s copy of the Zapruder film—he published his findings in Six Seconds in Dallas, one of the first strictly forensic books critical of the Warren Commission, a book even Bugliosi speaks respectfully of, though he disagrees with it.
Morris recalled for me the dramatic moment in the course of the nearly seven hours he spent interviewing Thompson on camera when the former professor handed him a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle identical to the one Oswald was alleged to have used, and demonstrated the slow and complicated process of reloading and resighting that Oswald would have had to have undertaken to get off three shots in six seconds.
Thompson eventually became so intrigued by unsolved mysteries that he left a comfy job in academia behind to become a private eye (his memoir is called Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye). He has spent the last 37 years working, often successfully, for defense lawyers in tough cases.
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