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In reply to the discussion: Alex Jones Says His Orders for the January 6th Insurrection Came from Trump [View all]CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)53. Suckers.
They were already let down by what they saw as a lack of gratitude from the Trump administration: Their hoped-for administration jobs, possibly an overseas posting, never arrived. They had ties to Steve Bannon, and hoped to use his connections to become high-dollar fundraisers, but he never really made those introductions. They wanted Fox News appearances, and social media clout, but had trouble locking down both. Their highest-profile effort, the We Build the Wall fundraising campaign, ended in charges and recrimination. And in the months after the Jan. 6 rally, they came to feel betrayed by a movement they helped build.
If you go work for Trump, Stockton said to me last week, over a year after we had met up in D.C., you eventually become the focus of the attack, and when you do, they just dump you.
They are, they know, now political actors without a country, reviled on the left for being associated with insurrectionists, and on the right for now willing to talk about what actually went down that day in Washington. They can make for difficult, even unsympathetic, subjects, figures who perpetrated a decades worth of hijinks and dirty tricks who at last pulled off a stunt so big and outrageous they lost control of it.
Jan. 6 was supposed to be the culmination of their careers. Instead, it felt like the end.
Blinded by their ideology. It's no secret this is how he treats everyone.
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Alex Jones Says His Orders for the January 6th Insurrection Came from Trump [View all]
kpete
Nov 2021
OP
It it sounds like Alex Jones believed he was going to go down there?
Laura PourMeADrink
Nov 2021
#40
Jonestown Jones may plead the fifth to keep his evil ass out of jail for contempt of
Alexander Of Assyria
Nov 2021
#3
tRump made it up, lied to Jones who is too stupid to know Service does not do things like that. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2021
#8
Liar to liar chitchat and conference of sedition planning liars in the WH, must of been a spectacle.
Alexander Of Assyria
Nov 2021
#12
tRump lied to the crowd too when he suggested he would meet them at the Capitol, egged them on. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2021
#7
he's got a lot of trouble of his own and doesn't seem the kind of guy to go to jail for tfg
certainot
Nov 2021
#36
Just pointing out that this is not a confession of a crime as there is nothing illegal about
cstanleytech
Nov 2021
#58