Originally published at: EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6 - TPM – Talking Points Memo
On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like many others in the crowd that day: white, with a Trump 2020 hat on and a shirt marking his service to the country in Afghanistan. But this one was different. Brian W. Lynch was months into a new job as a federal prosecutor…
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All the best people.™
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If this guy didn’t even try to kill a cop, ziptie the Speaker, or dump a load in the Rotunda – what’s he even DOING applying for a Trump job?!
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How is it surprising? The Trump regime is littered with January 6 traitors. The man who incited the attack on the Capitol is “President” and leading insurrectionists are in ICE and DOJ.
It’s not a government, but a criminal mob.
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I am not surprised nor am I upset. Trump has a limited number of members of the bar to choose from. I would be upset if he took part in the invasion of the Capitol.
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A Lynch mob, as it were.
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He was there because of his belief in Trump and with an aim to overturn the course of history. It’s simple; Lynch is traitor to the oath he took to uphold the constitution.
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Well, I guess they finally found one of those ‘deep state’ folks that was supposedly egging on the protesters to attack the Capitol.
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Mr. Brian W. Lynch, what is an antifascist?
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Most of the people in that hearing today were in the Capital on 6 Jan.
Their amnesia is highly suspect.
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“People were trying to stop the certification of the electoral college vote on January 6th,” he said. “They were trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power between one presidential administration and the next.”
Let’s never stop saying this. It’s exactly what happened.
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I’d be more shocked if he’s the only one.
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Beware and be alert, the brown shirts are inside the house…
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You are right, he is sorely lacking in his thug bona fides.
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Well, you do need experienced leaders of your brownshirts.
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Come on, is there really any rule that prevents one from being a member of the SA and the SS at the same time?
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But he understands the mentality behind political violence… because it is his own!
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OK, but - (Mussolini’s Italian) Fascists wore black shirts - much more stylish than those brown-shirted German Nazis.
I guess our Fascists will be known for their red trucker hats. Tsk. Embarrassing.
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NSPM-7 directs federal law enforcement to treat “anti-Americanism, anti-Capitalism, and anti-Christianity” as indicators of political violence.
The Nazis used such terms as deutschfeindlich and kirchenfeindlich, but Gleichschaltung was more specific to business, like toeing the line. Like vulture capitalists and looters, the Nazis ultimately collapsed the German economy, not a modest accomplishment given its human and capital resources. If this test is whether a person is conforming to the enforcer’s notion of what is American, Christian and Capitalist is whatever the Trump Administration says it is, I suggest a similar “Sergeant Schultz” “I know nothing” test. The antebellum Know Nothing Party came out of a nativist group that opposed immigrants, particularly Italians and Irish. It’s a pretty good marker for home-grown fascists. For example, Mike Johnson uses the same “I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing!” approach made famous in the 60s tv show. A great tell in this respect was Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons congressional testimony last February that he did not know some countries that the agency deports individuals to actually existed. You passed the test, dude!
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Even in low-corruption societies, the real estate sector presents a special set of issues. Many political scandals come out of land, resources tied to land, buildings and infrastructure. It is beyond incredible that the US has replaced professional geopolitical negotiators with real estate mooks. Indeed, even the presidency is occupied for the first time by a commercial real estate developer. Clinton’s White Water vacation resort or some of Hoover’s mining projects pale in comparison. The Bushes were involved in oil extraction, Carter ran a family peanut farm. It is worth pondering how real estate developers captured the keys to the kingdom, as any government it seems may have an Achilles’ heel in their real estate sector. Ask Xi. Even though real estate’s problems have long been apparent (the 2008 global financial crisis emerged from regulatory inadequacies in the US), very little has been done to fix the problem.
It finds that in the majority of these jurisdictions, a would-be money launderer investing in real estate could evade detection by taking advantage of wide-open loopholes in anti-money laundering regulation. Critically, the ability of media, civil society and even government agencies to detect cases of suspicious real estate ownership and uncover gaps in implementation is severely impaired by a sub-standard data ecosystem across all the jurisdictions assessed.
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