This timeline shows many of the extremist origins, dark money's undue lobbying influence, gaslighting and propaganda that came to create the potent and dangerous Summer of 2020. This toxic mix commingled with election fraud and tampering to continue to corrupt US democracy.
More in depth coverage of Racism to June 2020 is told here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/06/atlantic-reader-race-and-racism-us/613057/
Timeline to June 2020
2005-2006
Deeply conservative justice Alito confirmed 58-42 vote, Mitch Mcconnell voting. Supreme court tipped more conservative.
- https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4581286/user-clip-flashback-2005-senator-mcconnell-guaranteed-dignified-process-an-vote-case-supreme
- https://www.wkyufm.org/post/kentucky-senators-praise-alito#stream/0
- https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5181091
Sometime in 2008-2009
Tea party events with help from SPN's FreedomWorks as noted in the first chatper of Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us, Amanda Carpenter.
Jan 21, 2010
Citizens vs FEC, 5-4 vote in favor of Citizens, tie breaking vote from Alito.
2012
Freedom Partners created 2012, and run by Marc Short, and I360 started in 2009
https://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/koch-brothers-rnc-113359
2013
Weakening of Voting rights act through Shelby vs. Holder, with a 5-4 vote. RBG writing a scathing descent, opposing majority view of Roberts: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/colorblind-justice-john-roberts-voting-rights-north-carolina/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/how-shelby-county-broke-america/564707/
Jan 28, 2015
https://web.archive.org/web/20150128201920/http://www.stripes.com/opinion/lt-clint-lorance-could-be-any-one-of-us-1.325886
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sean_Parnell_(Center_for_Competitive_Politics), writes position piece supporting clemency and within days he's on Hannity to push the story. Note the date and the publisher is CVA. This is how the echo chamber is seeded, a piece from a Koch org, or related org staffer.
Jan 2016
DHS noted a review of previous highs in militia groups rise in 2009, slightly dropping till rising again. Political pressure from republicans via the Tea Party to drop the department. Concern for Tea party members to increase in militia group participation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/09/us/politics/homeland-security-looked-past-militia-movement-ex-analyst-says.html
June 2016
Noted riffs between RNC and Trump Campaign, however, these aren’t permanent.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-republican-national-committee-224403
July 2016
FBI director James Comey Started investigation on Trump associates and Russia.
August 2016
Steve Bannon signs on to the Trump Campaign.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/politics/steve-bannon-trump-white-house.html
October 2016
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
October 27, 2016
Brad Parscale: voter suppression, media disinformation and fundraising campaigns with the help of Cambridge Analytica, and board vice president Steve Bannon and alt-right media bubble
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go
Jan 6, 2017
Freedom Partners detail what to repeal:
- Repeal the following by new Executive order:
- Executive order establishing a task force on commercial advocacy
- Executive order putting a moratorium on new federal coal leases
- Presidential memorandum requiring new federal overtime rule promulgation
- Paris Climate Agreement requiring greenhouse gas emissions reductions
- Proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) programs incidental to the Clean Power Plan
- Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) payday and vehicle title loan rules
- Proposed CFPB arbitration rules
- Work with Congress to repeal:
- Final Stream Protection Rule regarding coal mine permitting
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM) federal lands Methane Rule
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): 2017 and 2018 obligations
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards: Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles
- Work with agencies to repeal:
- EPA Rule defining The Waters of the United States
- EPA Clean Power Plan
- HHS Electronic Health Record Incentive Program
- HHS Establishment of Exchanges and Qualified Health
- DOL Overtime Rule
- DOL Fiduciary Rule
- FCC “Net Neutrality” Rule
- USDA Calorie Labeling for Vending Machines
“Freedom Partners will hold lawmakers who oppose regulatory relief accountable for their positions. Floor Time: Congressional leaders should devote sufficient floor time to voting on finalized regulations and putting lawmakers on record on President Obama’s most harmful regulations.
Voter Education: Network organizations will educate voters about their elected representatives’ positions on regulations that impose barriers to opportunity for hardworking families.”
Fact check? Search for Freedom Partners in the Internet archive. A source doc from their website is there.
Jan 20, 2017
Marc Short Joins Whitehouse, promotion from Pence’s communications advisor. Keep in mind, Mr. Short has been working with Koch funded NPOs since the late 90s. He’s been Pence’s chief of staff from 2009-2011, then back to the Koch funded Freedom Partners till 2016.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-town/staffers/marc-short
Feb 24, 2017
EO 13777, Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda: Hires staffers from former ALEC member lobbyists
Hires EPA staffers of chief climate deniers, including one with family employed by Big Oil.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-town/staffers/category/taskforce?page=1
March 29, 2017
Trump ends moratorium on new federal coal leases
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062507113
May 9, 2017
James Comey fired by President Trump
A week later, Robert Mueller appointed as special counsel to take over the investigation of obstruction of Justice surrounding the probe into Trump associates and Russia
June 1, 2017
Trump announces to withdraw from Paris Accord
Late June, 2017
Governors Meeting in Whitefish
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/us/politics/under-trump-coal-mining-gets-new-life-on-us-lands.html
June 19, 2017
1.1 TB of data leaked from GOP voter data on 198 million US citizens
https://gizmodo.com/gop-data-firm-accidentally-leaks-personal-details-of-ne-1796211612
2016 registered voters are about 200M.
Aug 12, 2017
‘Unite the Right‘ rally, Charlottesville, Virginia
Attendees were joined by white supremacists groups to protest the removal of a statue commemorating the confederate general Robert E. Lee, resulting in the death of one of a peaceful counter protester in support to remove the statue.‘
Aug 15 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/15/donald-trump-charlottesville-trump-tower-white-supremacists#maincontent
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/trump-defends-white-nationalist-protesters-some-very-fine-people-on-both-sides/537012/
Aug 18, 2017
Steve Bannon exits Trump Whitehouse
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/politics/steve-bannon-trump-white-house.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-steve-bannon-trump.html
No love between Mcconnell and Bannon. Outlines tactics used by Mcconnell “World” to discredit opponents. Outlines rational of republican self preservation initiated from the senate compared to carte blanche Freedom Partners/AFP doctrine. Bannon was already associated to Stephen Miller, a known white supermacist. How much of this was posturing?
May 7, 2018
Americans for Prosperity draft US budget cuts:
- .55B in Wildland fire management
- .5B in Indian Health Services,
- 162M in Bureau of Indian Affairs & Education construction funds
- which include 1B removed from CDC.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180513150711/https://americansforprosperity.org/americans-for-prosperity-releases-45-billion-in-recommendations-for-rescission-package/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6810490-AFP-2018-Budget-Cut-List.html
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1238956214072967169
Jan 09, 2018
Steve Bannon Steps down from Breitbart
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/us/politics/steve-bannon-breitbart-trump.html
May 06, 2018
Sept 20, 2018
Denver Post shows Identity Evropa linked to white supremacy increasing from 2017 and 2018.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/09/20/white-supremacy-front-range-colorado/
Nov 3, 2018
Extremenism summary including Charlottesville
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesville-white-nationalism-far-right.html
Jan 28, 2019
Cambridge Analytica is founded in 2013, with Robert Mercer, Steve Bannon as board members
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/they-were-planning-on-stealing-election-explosive-new-tapes-reveal-cambridg/
Jan 29, 2019
RNC pledges support for Trump in 2020 election.
'"The Republican National Committee passed an unprecedented pledge on Friday to give Trump its "undivided support" before he's the party's official nominee.' '"The members just wanted to underscore, underline, highlight that we are here to reelect President Trump and Republicans up and down the ballot," the RNC's national press secretary, Cassie Smedile, said.'
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rnc-push-undivided-support-trump-reelection-state-leaders/story?id=60603125
March 2019
https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-facebook-privacy-awakening/
Marc Short rehired to Pence’s Chief of Staff
https://twitter.com/VP/status/1097896017498914816
March 22, 2019
Mueller Report finished, resulting in 34 indictments, 14 criminal investigations. A redacted report was published on April 18, 2019 and made available to the public.
July, 2019
2016 elections hacked by Russians operatives:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/us/politics/russian-hacking-elections.html
August 06, 2019
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/conversation-christian-picciolini/595543/
August 08, 2019
Mcconnell campaign locked out of twitter for posting an expletive ridden video with threats of violence. Senate Republicans, and RNC retaliate with mischaracterization of what happened and boycott spending on Twitter.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/08/twitter-locks-mitch-mcconnell-campaign-account-for-video-of-protesters.html
Oct 15, 2019
281 Lobbyists work for Trump administration, in jobs responsible for regulating the industry they lobbyied.
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-a-staggering-281-lobbyists-whove-worked-in-the-trump-administration
Dec 18, 2019
Impeachment proceedings of President Trump started
Feb 23, 2020
Murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Brunswick, Georgia
https://www.nytimes.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-georgia.html
March 13, 2020
Murder of Breonna Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky (Mitch Mcconnell State Senetor and Gov. Beshear)
https://www.nytimes.com/article/breonna-taylor-police.html
March 22, 2020
Americans for Prosperity staffers lobby for opening up America and protest lockdown orders. https://theintercept.com/2020/03/26/americans-for-prosperity-cdc-coronavirus/
April 17, 2020
Domain tools software queries Internet Domain Name records show hundreds of domains registered at the same time, and their linked facebook pages have Google Analytics id that leads back to the Dorr Brothers who are astroturfing a majority of the lockdown protests websites.
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/whos-behind-the-reopen-domain-surge/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/politics/coronavirus-protests-trump.html
April 19 2020
Hyper pro gun lobbying created by Dorr brothers, and Mn chapter headed by DeVos advisor McNeilly, peddling corona disinformation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/19/pro-gun-activists-using-facebook-groups-push-anti-quarantine-protests/
April 22, 2020
Anti-lockdown protests roots in tea party and Mercer’s Convention of States, Koch big money
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-conservative-networks-backing-anti-quarantine-protests/2020/04/22/da75c81e-83fe-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html
May 07, 2020
https://theintercept.com/2020/05/07/are-trump-and-the-anti-lockdown-militias-itching-for-violence/
May 20, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html
May 24, 2020
Effigy of Governor Beshear publicly hung during Patriot Day 2nd Amendment Rally
Gov. Beshear, a democrat, a target? Why is that also the home of Brianna Taylor, to which has an open FBI investigation of police corruption? Why is an effigy being displayed in broad daylight by a III%ers in 2020?
https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article242972241.html
Warning, Explicit Effigy content: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/24/second-amendment-supporters-protest-covid-19-restrictions-capitol/5250571002/A
May 25, 2020
Murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis, Minnesota
https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd.html
May 27-June1
DHS finds chatter from far right extremists, organizing to incite violence to start the next civil war, per boogaloo movement. No evidence is found for antifa to turn violent.
https://www.businessinsider.com/white-supremacist-telegram-channel-encourages-violence-george-floyd-protests-2020-6
May 29, 2020
DHS memo citing white supremacist organizing on May 27, and inciting to storm the Minnesota State Capitol.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/01/dhs-domestic-terrorists-protest-294342
May 30, 2020
NV arrest three, loose ties to militia:
- https://apnews.com/6223153093f08fa910c4ab445771b773
- https://axios.com/twitter-suspends-fake-antifa-account-tied-to-white-nationalists-b387f109-2bfd-4326-a60f-a4d398a191c3.html
MN, arrest man handing out explosives, unaffiliated, used facebook to promote rioting:
https://www.peoriapublicradio.org/post/galesburg-man-charged-inciting-riots-chicago-minneapolis#stream/0
Arrests in Minnesota from May 30, about 80% of 40 ppl linked to white supremacist or organized crime:
https://courthousenews.com/minnesota-officials-link-arrested-looters-to-white-supremacist-groups/
May 31, 2020
Identity Evropa posing as Antifa on facebook to incite riots:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/twitter-takes-down-washington-protest-disinformation-bot-behavior-n1221456
Virginia: self proclaimed KKK leader runs over protesters with vehicle:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-rogers-kkk-leader-accused-driving-into-protesters-virginia-police-say/
June 2020
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/ Qanonmous cult amplifying white supremacy planted lies about antifa (june, online release was earlier)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/the-very-fine-people-trap-and-how-to-avoid-it-today/
June 1, 2020
Peaceful protests cleared with tear gas for the president's photo op and speech in front of a church.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/protests/tear-gas-protesters-lafayette-square-park-police-new-video-evidence/65-c39fb767-b114-41d6-bcbb-530b3823d8e7
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/tear-gas-washington-dc-protests-st-johns-church/65-7e9a67c7-e40b-47a2-8060-3f7d908139dd
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/02/timeline-clearing-lafayette-square/
Police punching press camera of foreign media: https://twitter.com/brett_mcgurk/status/1267662905383596032
Why were American’s rights infringed with use of force by the President for a photo op?
Why is the campaign manager telling the media how to explain official white house communication in front of a church?
‘…This tear gas lie is proof of that,” a statement from Tim Murtaugh, the communications director for Trump’s reelection, read. “For nearly an entire day, the whole of the press corps frantically reported the ‘news’ of a tear gas attack on ‘peaceful’ protestors in Lafayette Park, with no evidence to support such claims.”’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/05/reverse-fact-check-trump-his-supporters-about-tear-gas-falls-apart/
https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/06/05/870752740/black-lives-matter-d-c-sues-trump-and-barr-over-tear-gas-at-lafayette-square
Joint Chiefs Staff Report bayonetts issued but under strict orders not
to use unless further instructed, regarding orders given for riot
control on June 2, 2020.
https://apnews.com/62e1aa26fe5043a63441dcacea70703
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nypd-officer-appears-make-white-power-sign-protest-prompting-probe-n1224141
June 4, 2020
June 9, 2020
How The Antifa Fantasy Spread In Small Towns Across The U.S.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/antifa-rumors-george-floyd-protests
“I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” Bolton writes in the book, according to a news release from the publisher. https://apnews.com/c1bd22be2194dcdb16dbb052dc3d5bd4
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/airman-charged-killing-federal-officer-during-george-floyd-protests-california-n1231187
Epilogue
- Remember that Lt. that was pardoned, seeded from CVA staffer Sean Parnell? It was based on lies: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/clint-lorance-platoon-afghanistan/
- https://theintercept.com/2020/07/20/honor-john-lewis-voting-rights-act/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/fact-checker/the-trump-campaign-is-creating-an-alternate-reality-online-about-coronavirus--the-fact-checker/2020/05/28/1c0f3461-c361-4b1b-a271-d51cac654a28_video.html
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/donald-trump-will-be-president-thanks-to-80000-people-in-three-states/
- https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-primary-voters-ended-up-supporting-trump-survey-finds
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/31/ohio-republicans-are-embroiled-scandal-could-they-lose-election-trump/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/17/trump-has-broken-more-promises-than-hes-kept/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/technology/what-if-facebook-is-the-real-silent-majority.html
