committee altering evidence not just about a text message that i forwarded to the white house chief of staff but others as well and now we re supposed to just take their word about this individual, mr. epps, who was encouraging peep tool foe into the capitol the day before january 6, but some how he s not getting charged. molly, how concerned are you going forward as we get closer to the mid-terms and then 2024 that social media companies will actually become bigger players in the serve ailen s game with the u.s. administration? we know benny thompson wants these social media companies to find out wr misinformation and extremism is rooted. nothing that they ve done thus far should keep you from being terrified about what they ll do. they seem to be willing to act as a sensorship and propaganda arm of the democratic party. they also are very much compliant with requests to turn
alleged michigan mot. a judge ordered acquittal in a 2012 trial saying prosecutors relied too much on hateful diatribe did ever have detailed plans for rebellion. in reading through the indictment, it seems eeriely for them similar here. we don t see any of the so-called evidence they have. maybe they do, but maybe they re just keeping the close to the chest. yeah. i mean, again, i ll have to look at it. i haven t had a chance to look at what they re saying here. we want people to be held responsible and 7 hundred some people they ve prosecuted we ll see how this plays out. the big take away i have, and molly referenced t republicans have been consistent throughout all this. we condemned the violence that took place on january 6, 2021, and we also con chemmed all the violence that took place in the summer of 2020. isn t it nice that democrats have done the same thing? instead we get the statements we get from the committee, the
tried this road it ha not very well for them. ini find it interesting back during the summer of violence in 2020 when the left was sieging the white house, federal court houses, police precincts, et cetera, you had the attorney general float the idea that this might be a way to go after some of those people that were causing so much damage nationwide and there was massive uproar within the agency, and also outside the agency. it was leaked in order to squash the plan. it s very interesting now that we see the department of justice doing the very same thing that s supposedly unacceptable when rioters were going after the entire country. in general, also, the fbi has tended to infiltrate various groups or have inform informants in them and that can complicate the prosecutions as well. to molly s point, the u.s. has a full record of convicting people of su diggs. sedition. the last time prosecutors brought a case was in 2010 in an