Trump pardoned everyone participating in Jan 6 - in a sweeping pardon that was meant to include the planners - but that surely wouldn't cover Flynn's separate crime of "purchasing" a pardon. AFAIK that's illegal for both parties - so if we have justice again, he could be prosecuted for that. 3/
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To clarify the timeline: Platner, often seen as inconsistent, was a Blackwater fanboy for over 15 years. He wore a Blackwater hat to own the libs in 2008. A decade later, 2018, he joined Blackwater (by then rebranded Constellis). And in 2024, he had a old-style Blackwater sticker on his fridge. 5/
Dig into Platner's history, and it seems he says whatever sounds good at the time. Too drunk in 2007 to understand his new tattoo. A pious teetotaler in 2008. War's an exciting game, or a traumatic excuse. You should hear from people who knew him. Where are they? 4/
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Yes, there's a Jan 6 connection to Michael Flynn getting $1.2M of your money for being convicted of actual crimes. Trump pardoned those crimes in a nakedly transactional exchange in 2020: Flynn would only help Trump with Stop the Steal propaganda if he got that pardon. No morals other than money. 1/
Keep in mind: when a young Graham Platner was interviewed by his hometown newspaper in 2008 and said "I loved Iraq. I loved being there", said that his unit had burnt corpses, and that he wore a Blackwater hat because it annoyed the libs, this is less than year after he got a Totenkopf tattoo. 1/
We know about Flynn's pardon quid pro quo because the people who brokered it were so deep in Jan 6 that their texts were subpoenaed by the J6 Committee: Ed Martin, (now officially Trump's pardon attorney), and Vince Haley, the longtime Newt Gingrich staffer who wrote most of Trump's Jan 6 speech. 2/
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In Fall 2008, Platner left Maine for GWU in DC, where he'd live for a decade. He told MTV he "spends..his evenings..with his head in his books, thankful..he isn't living with a bunch of partying 18-year-olds", though he now says he was blackout drunk in 2007. We haven't heard from DC pals either. 3/
Platner talked excitedly about taking revenge for the deaths of his comrades in the Marines. Seems time that we heard from some of the people he served with. So far not a single person from his military days - no friends, no commanding officers - has come forward to endorse him. 2/
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Ed Martin was actually pitching to Newt Gingrich, Haley's old boss, not to Trump. On Nov 10, as the Nov 14 DC rally was approaching, Martin got urgent: "A POTUS pardon Thursday or Friday. He'd come to D.C. for the rally march. Please float it to Newt. We need that guy loosed". 3/
ABC reports that Mike Flynn’s reward for committing crimes for Trump will be $1.2M.
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The DOJ has reached an agreement with ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn to pay him roughly $1.2 million to settle claims that he was politically prosecuted, sources say.
isn't it amazing what you find digging through old News Papers
Soon after the election, as Stop the Steal efforts were spinning up, Ed Martin sent a series of text messages to speechwriter Vince Haley, suggesting Flynn would promote election denial if pardoned. Nov 7: "Please push Flynn pardon. We need him for the base rallying". 2/
it’s a shame mtv dot com deleted their archives in 2024
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Confirmed: this is Page 9 of the March 27th, 2008 edition (I bought an Ellsworth American subscription)
