Rep. Mike Nearman is a traitor -- New video shows him coaching how to breach the Capitol
Pro-Trump website 'TheDonald' confirms detailed plans to storm Capitol and kill members of Congress
Mike Nearman is the man who let armed protestors into the Oregon Capitol building in December, which led to a violent encounter with the police who were trying to remove them. The protestors attacked the police and used pepper spray.
Nearman willfully endangered their lives, along with the lives of his fellow lawmakers and Capitol staff. Although the original video of him letting them in was pretty damning, a new video has emerged that made no doubt that it was planned.
The new video shows Nearman walking his constituents through on how to breach the Capitol building, step-by-step, in a scheme called "Operation Hall Pass." He gives instructions on how to text him, where to stand, and how to get in. He knows what he is doing is illegal, which is why he intersperses his instructions with coy language. He says he will deny knowledge of the scheme, and that he will give out a random number---which happened to be his cell phone number.
He was speaking to an anti-union group called the Freedom Foundation, which is funded by billionaires such as Charles Koch and the DeVos family.
The Democrats in charge of the legislature have already stripped him of his committee assignments, and forced him to give up his badge to access the building. They have asked him to resign, but he has refused. The Oregon GOP is, as expected, deadly silent (complicit)โjust as the national Republicans are about January 6th. Nearman also faces criminal charges.
Rep. Mike Nearman is a traitor -- New video shows him coaching how to breach the Capitol - Alternet.org
Steve Schmidt's dire warning: US just one election away from permanent Trumpian autocratic rule
Lincoln Project co-founder and GOP strategist turned Democrat Steve Schmidt, ahead of Donald Trump's speech this weekend to the North Carolina Republican Party issued a dire warning: America is just one election away from permanent autocratic rule from the former president and his allies.
In a 512 word Twitter thread Schmidt warns that Republicans have grown even stronger since the January 6 insurrection, and those who think Trump being out of the spotlight and off social media has weakened him are "fools." He also urges the media to stop focusing on the demise of Trump's blog.
Trump is the "presumptive nominee" for the 2024 presidential election, Schmidt, a student of history, says, warning that "elected officials of the Republican Party are obedient soldiers in Trump's cult of personality."
"His words will surely kill again," Schmidt says.
Here's the entire Twitter thread in full (a few minor changes made in capitalization due to the way Schmidt writes his tweets):
Steve Schmidt's dire warning: US just one election away from permanent Trumpian autocratic rule - Alternet.org