I am grateful that the rule of law prevailed in my defamation case against Patrick Byrne.
The court’s order which you can read for yourselves speaks for itself.
“the most plausible explanation is that Defendant is not credible, fabricates awesome and farfetched narratives to garner attention in the media, and fabricated the defamatory story at issue in this case to damage Plaintiff’s reputation.” (Page 14 of the order.)
When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.
A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”
That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.
I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.
@PatrickByrne did not work alone “fabricat[ing] awesome and farfetched narratives to garner attention in the media” to defame me and damage my father’s presidency in the service of @realDonaldTrump.
In December of 2020 Byrne was in the Oval Office, urging the President to seize voting machines. Steve Bannon was in the Willard Hotel war room promoting the same lies. Byrne spent $40M of his own money, including $27M to The American Project and millions to the J6 protestors for fines and fees and living expenses for their families. Bannon ran the same cause every morning on @Bannons_WarRoom.
They pushed the same lies on the same targets for the same years. Stop the Steal and The Hunter Biden Laptop conspiracy were all a part of the same operation.
The court described their methods last week in my win over Byrne. I’m writing about all of it on my Substack.
Here’s an excerpt:
“In April 2019, Bannon texted Epstein his three-step plan: ‘first we need to push back on the lies; then crush the pedo/trafficking narrative; then rebuild your image as philanthropist.’
The three-step playbook he texted to Epstein in April 2019 is worth reading again alongside what he did with the laptop material sixteen months later.
For Epstein: push back on the ‘lies,’ crush the pedo/trafficking narrative, rebuild the image as philanthropist.
For the laptop: fabricate the folders, distribute the altered sex pictures, use the @nypost’s @mirandadevine to launder it into credibility.
The method is identical. The target changes. The practitioner does not.”
The record exists. Read it on my Substack. Link in the replies.
Putin
Last night Donald Trump released a declassified document that says his own intelligence community identified Putin as personally running an operation to defeat my father in 2020, built around a fake Burisma corruption scandal centered around me and executed through prominent Americans.
Trump tasked his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to fly to Kyiv and meet a known Russian agent.
The Americans who ran, laundered, and legitimized the operation:
Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani. John Solomon. Joe DiGenova. Victoria Toensing. Lev Parnas. Igor Fruman. Chanel Rion. Sean Hannity. Steve Bannon. Miranda Devine. Ken Vogel. Ron Johnson. Chuck Grassley. James Comer. Jim Jordan.
To name a few.
An operation formally sanctioned by Trump's own Treasury Department on September 10, 2020, and expanded to include more named actors on January 11, 2021.
Oh, and don't forget the Russian-linked FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who later pleaded guilty to making the entire Burisma bribery story up.
The record exists and we have all the receipts, and more.
I spent the last few months talking to people across the political spectrum, and to people who want nothing to do with politics at all. Here is what I learned.
We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided, on purpose, by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. They’ve captured our government, denied our healthcare, looted our treasury, and saddled us with crippling debt.
I believe in a New New Deal. Healthcare as a human right. The right of every family to a decent home, and an end to endless wars.
And a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy, because these machines were built on the whole of human inheritance. That inheritance belongs to all of us, and not just to the handful of men playing God with our very existence.
And none of it happens if we just move on. Donald Trump, his family, and his administration are robbing us blind, not just of our money, but of our faith in one another, and they have to answer for it. Truth and reconciliation, not revenge. Then we break the system that let them do it.
The question is not whether we will lose our democracy. The question is whether we will fight to take back what has already been stolen.
I learned in recovery that you can’t heal what you won’t name. Neither can a country.
Addiction robs us of the power to choose.
I was actively choosing suicide. I knew it. I felt hopeless and alone.
Today, in recovery, I have a choice every day, and that is the greatest gift anyone can ask for.
You are not alone. You are never alone. We do recover.
Jared Kushner holds no government position.
Yet he is our Middle East Envoy.
The Saudis have paid him $100M and invested $2B in his firm.
He pushed for Saudi nuclear enrichment over the objection of national security officials.
Today his father-in-law made it happen.
But what about my paintings…
“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” — Matthew 9:13
Christ did not come for the ones who use His name as a weapon. He came for the ones they aim it at. He came for the prostitutes and the lepers. He came for the addicts. He came for those that thought they were alone. He came for me.
The people most certain of their own salvation were the ones He warned about most. The people the world tried to throw away were the ones He sat down to eat with. That is the gospel.
Latest right-wing fascist violence: Shooting of UNARMED Renee Nicole Good in the face —at a point-blank range—three times, calling her "f'ing bitch", walking off UNSCATHED, lying about self-defence, & getting state protection of WHITE NAZI SS ROGUE ENTITLED RASCALS by the government. Shift the blame elsewhere.... & Voila... genius🤷♀️🤑💲💵🇺🇸
ELON & JDV scream “left-wing violence” while white-nationalist manifestos trend on Elon’s own app.
Elon, you disowned your daughter then cry “Democrat plot”—still fighting the urge to blame her for existing? Right-wing mass shooters post your memes before they pull triggers.
Clean your own crime scene.