1. When I saw the inorganic Reopen movement quickly evolve into armed threats in #Michigan, starting around April, its apparent coordination with a similar Reopen push from Trump made me suspected then it was coordinated. Whether Kochs or GRU, it was a crime and it was obvious.
2. For decades the extreme right had been nurtured by the GOP with money from ideologically driven donor base that first produced movements like the Tea Party using Astroturf events on the DC Ellipse. This had now evolved in something more akin to an armed insurrection advanced
3. by Trump-supporting white supremacists. When I saw it, I knew they had crossed the line and that the @FBI would get them. I think Trump may be going off on Barr because Barr didn't leak the Michigan investigation to him and his storm troopers are terrified.
4. So Trump is going nuts and wants to indict everyone because he fears people close to him are teed up for one.

There are six fresh sealed Art 3 cases sitting in the WDMI and Trump may fear he or people close to him are on one. But they're already filed and it's too late for
5. another AG to stop it. If as I reported in June, this Michigan crew was supported by the people who fund the RNC, this could reach into Trump's campaign. And as I write this, I think someone as high up the totem pole as Brad Pascale may soon make an appearance in Michigan.
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