It's extraordinary that prosecutors in a case involving physical violence against officials, perhaps even the former President Obama and his wife are citing a posting by another former president. Again, we don't know if Trump read what he posted. We don't know if this guy read it, but it's incredible. Well, it's it's a Trump reposts, basically an old article where, you know, the streets where the Obamas live in Washington. It was right after he left the White House as mentioned. And then this individual post that under his I'm here you know we've got them surrounded post. So the timing is too coincidental to be an accident at least on the part of Taylor Taranto who seemed to follow that post read that post, reposted and then go straight there the day before on Wednesday the 28th he had a totally different target. He was focused on the National Institute for Standards and Technology, which fits into a lot of QAnon conspiracies. Right after that, he's literally on the street where the Obamas live, where the Podesta Podesta's live saying, you know, we've got them surrounded. I'm looking for the tunnels underneath, you know, the connect the houses and, you know, the entrance ways and so on. So he's a real human on his conspiracy theory is a stolen election. There is a January 6th rioter. He was literally right there immediately after the woman was shot breaking through the window by the Capitol Police in the heart of the capital. And and, of course, all the other QAnon theories that he has posted about on his social media shows the former president. I mean, I feel like we've had this discussion probably a gazillion times. But does he read the stuff he retweets? Sometimes, sometimes not. And, you know, he finds it in different ways. Often he looks at the replies to what people write to him. It's been harder to discern what some of his habits are using his own social media site as opposed to what he did with Twitter when there were a lot of aides who were either helping him or working in the White House under him. But sometimes he does. But he has been much more to use the word reckless. I think it's appropriate here. He's been much more reckless in terms of what he is willing to repost or reach truth or whatever he calls it on his site. And he is constantly, you know, reposting content that had he done it on Twitter, it would have gotten a lot of different attention. And had he been doing it on Twitter before he was banned, it would have created all kinds of consternation at the pre Elon Musk company. I mean, I think that, as John said, it appears as if the timing is related to this gentleman showing up at former President Obama's home. It is hard to ignore the fact that, you know, a lot of people who are adherents of Q and on or who, you know, listen to Trump's verbal cues on other issues have looked at his social media feed over time and taken inspiration from. Well, he also plays up to Q and on I mean, there's no doubt about it. I mean, he more now than he ever did before I mean, there were sort of winks and nods when he was in the White House. Now it's just much more open in various ways, including at his rallies. I mean, I think if you look at that, that last tweet where, you know, he's got himself in silhouette and the words on his on as graphic as the storm is coming, which is the Q and iron slogan. That was the day he kind of went over from saying, well, I only vaguely understand them and they seem nice. I don't I don't know. I don't know who they are, but they say nice things about me. Right. To the to to associating himself directly with the Ike analogy of. Q And on Jonathan, the Secret Service, obviously, I mean, they have enough challenges trying to take care of everyone under its protection. It's, again, just extraordinary that at least on some level, they now also have to worry about a former president posting information that could potentially endanger other officials and other former presidents. I mean, Anderson, it's crazy that we're even talking about this. Right. But we've we've actually discussed how threatening language in highlighting attributes of an individual by a prominent public official such as the former former president is dangerous. And, you know, as we were just discussing, those messages can be misinterpreted they can be misinterpreted as a call to physical action or harm against an individual or people associated with them. Think about the issue with Paul Pelosi. So these these statements that are made, these postings, they go beyond, you know, social norms. They're actually you know, they have a consequence. And we know that these messages have a consequence not just from the actions of January six, but in this case as well, you have an individual who feels empowered to act and engage in some sort of conspiracy theory action because he feels supported by online postings. He thinks that that is being directed or inspired by either the former president or proxies. That is so dangerous, not only for the Secret Service in the protection of the former presidents, but for law enforcement broadly in protection of all the public officials. John, it does seem like in this case they I mean, he got on their radar pretty quickly and they seem to kind of keep track of him. So, I mean, he was on the FBI radar because of his January six things and in fact, one of the strangest parts about the saga here is he was posting in his own social media, you know, here I am, come and get me. I'm a January six rioter. You know, look, mom, I'm an expert insurrectionist and baiting the FBI as they were developing that case here. You see a system that really worked because FBI, Washington field office is, you know, detecting. He's live streaming from Washington. The Capitol Police put out a be on the lookout for and you know, they've got his picture and information on his vehicle. The Secret Service Uniformed Division actually spots him and brings agents into the area and it all comes together before something happens. Here's a guy who was talking about having a self-driving vehicle that he was going to load with explosives and crash into the next building in Gaithersburg, Maryland, before he kind of self redirected to the Obamas. Could he have done that? There was fuel in the vehicle, gasoline. There were rags and bottles. It's the kind of thing you'd make Molotov cocktails from. Was he building a large incendiary device for the back? He had a steering wheel lock, which you could have, you know, activated the accelerator and kept it on a straight path towards a building. Far fetched, amateurish but certainly when you put together what he was driving around with and what he was talking about doing, that it's probably good that they stopped him when they did in making just in terms of the foreign press, I mean, he spent the 4th of July. It sounded like he was having a really happy Fourth of July. He spent it, you know, posting about the there was an F Biden, a picture of himself dressed up as George Washington, another depicting the burning the White House there was these attacks on the special counsel today, which seems especially low. I mean, what is going on with him? I think one of the I think the version of it, yes, you are seeing an angrier version of Trump. And I know people around him like to say, oh, he's not he's not angry about these indictments. He is angry about these indictments. And you were seeing it play out. But what I would argue, Anderson, is the version of him that you are seeing now that we have seen on the campaign trail is the version of him that we started seeing in 20, 20 in the lead up to his claims, his false claims about the November 20, 20 election. He was planning on doing all kinds of things in his final year in office, seizing control of the federal federal bureaucracy, making changes to it, getting the White House that he wanted in terms of staffing and this sort of anger and undercurrent of retribution. A lot of this is very authentic him. But I think this is his most authentic version to make him appreciate and Miller as well. Jonathan Wackrow as well, thanks so much.
