FBI Warning About January 6th "War" Threats Appeared On Pro-Trump Message Board

    "WE are the military. And we will be wild. By order of our Commander in Chief," former TheDonald.win user EagleKneivel wrote in late December in a now-deleted post on the site:

    EagleKneivel is apparently referring to President Donald Trump's December 19th tweet, as reported by the New York Times:

“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” Mr. Trump tweeted on Dec. 19, just one of several of his tweets promoting the day. “Be there, will be wild!”

    On Tuesday, a Washington Post story quoted an internal FBI document quoting and unidentified "online thread" making threats related to pro-Trump protests scheduled for last Wednesday, January 6th: "Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal."

    Research by The Script indicates this threat was posted on January 2, 2021, by EagleKneivel on TheDonald.win:

    This post has since been deleted also, but it is unclear if this was done by the user or the moderators of the TheDonald.win. Efforts to reach the moderators have been unsuccessful so far.

    Another quote in the Post story was by another former TheDonald.win user, Glyff: "if Antifa or BLM get violent, leave them dead in the street":

    This post has also been deleted, but is still available via a Google archive:

    Other deleted posts by EagleKneivel are similarly threatening, among them: "So are you loading magazines and cleaning your weapons, or are you waiting for others to solve your problems?," "We have the 2nd amendment. And a couple hundred million patriots that are going to use it when the inevitable time comes," and "And that is exactly why President Trump wants several million angry patriots within a few hundred yards of the proceedings. And he will have them."

    The FBI has not responded to The Script's request for comment.

'Fiction... Utterly, Unequivocally, Unreservedly, Undeniably False': Florida Governor's Spokesman on NY Gov. Cuomo's Nursing Home Accusation

     Attempting to deflect criticism of his handling of New York State's COVID-19 nursing home crisis, Governor Andrew Cuomo took aim at Florida, and Florida governor Ron DeSantis is having none of it. When the Finger Lakes Daily News questioned Cuomo's order requiring New York nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients, the governor denied the very premise of the criticism, insisting that "that situation never came to be in New York State because we flattened the curve so effectively that we always had available hospital beds... we never needed nursing home beds because we always had hospital beds... So it just never happened in New York." But Cuomo didn't stop there. "You know where it did happen?" he asked the interviewer. "In Florida. Florida today is doing exactly that. They're forcing nursing homes to take COVID positive patients because they need the beds in the hospitals."

    "[U]tterly, unequivocally, unreservedly, undeniably false," was the reaction of Florida governor Ron DeSantis spokesman Fred Piccolo Jr. when presented by The Script with Cuomo's remarks. "[Gov. DeSantis] established Covid only facilities to keep the Microbe out of the general population, Florida’s overall mortality rate is 2%,  & we have nearly 15,000 available beds & nearly 22% excess capacity in ICUs[.]" The spokesman suggested perhaps Cuomo was "writing a fiction novel in which case we’d withhold review until we read the manuscript."

    When The Script inquired of Gov. Cuomo's spokesman Rich Azzopardi about the source of Cuomo's assertion regarding Florida nursing homes, Azzopardi simply responded with a clipping of a two-and-a-half month old Florida Politics article, highlighting the sentence: "The rule also gives hospitals the green light to discharge residents with an unknown COVID-19 status to nursing homes, as long as the facility has a dedicated wing or building with designated COVID-19 staff." The article, however, references a July 17 Florida emergency rule that seems to bear little resemblance to Cuomo's characterization of the situation in Florida:

SUMMARY: This Emergency Rule establishes a requirement that hospitals must not discharge any long-term care facility resident that has tested positive for COVID-19 or is exhibiting symptoms consistent with COVID-19 to any long-term care facility until the long-term care facility resident has been cleared for discharge using either a test-based strategy or a symptom-based strategy, unless the receiving facility has a dedicated wing, unit or building with dedicated staff to accept the COVID-19 positive resident. This rule allows hospitals to discharge a long-term care facility resident who is awaiting test results for COVID-19, as long as the hospital confirms that the long-term care facility is able to isolate the resident while the hospital’s test results are pending and the hospital confirms that the long-term care facility is able to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) infection prevention and control precautions for a person with unknown COVID-19 status. [emphasis added]

    When asked to explain how Gov. Cuomo's assertion that Florida was "forcing nursing homes to take COVID positive patients because they need the beds in the hospitals" squared with the explanation he provided and how Florida's rules compared to New York's, Cuomo's spokesman Azzopardi did not reply.

    For his part, DeSantis spokesman Piccolo responded indignantly to the proffered explanation by Gov. Cuomo's spokesman. "Yeah this 'reasoning' is pathetic. Anyone who can read can tell this [Florida emergency] order still is light years ahead of Gov. Cuomo. I actually encourage everyone to read it. if this is what they based their nonsensical accusations on then this has graduated to slanderous balderdash.  This paragraph alone tells you all you need to know about how Gov. DeSantis protected the vulnerable. PS I’m from Buffalo. Everyone up there knows the truth." The "paragraph" Piccolo referenced in his reply is from the same Florida Politics article Cuomo's spokesperson referenced and includes this sentence: "Under the latest emergency rule, hospitals can return long-term care residents if it’s been 10 days since COVID-19 symptoms appeared, the patients have seen improvements in their breathing and they have been fever-free for three days without the use of medication."

    Regarding Gov. Cuomo's "it just never happened" claim that preceded his shot at Florida, a CNN fact check on Tuesday flatly concluded that "Gov. Cuomo falsely claims New York nursing homes never took in Covid-positive patients":

Cuomo's assertion that "it never happened" is false. According to a report from the New York State Department of Health, "6,326 COVID-positive residents were admitted to [nursing home] facilities" following Cuomo's mandate that nursing homes accept the readmission of Covid-positive patients from hospitals. Whether or not this was "needed," it did in fact happen.

Sanders Mocks Wealthy In 2010: 'How Can I Get By On One House? I Need 5 Houses, 10 Houses'

    In December 2010, Senator Bernie Sanders famously railed against Wall Street wealth in an eight hour speech on the floor of the Senate.  Developments in Senator Sanders's life and career in the intervening decade have led to choices that might raise the eyebrows of 2010 Senator Sanders. One passage in the 2010 speech is particular is noteworthy. Sanders mocks Wall Streeters for what he apparently sees as their excesses in housing and travel:

What is important is that I, on Wall Street, continue to get millions of dollars in compensation and in bonuses, that I have big parties. How can I get by on one house? I need 5 houses, 10 houses. I need three jet planes to take me all over the world.

    Though Sanders falls short of "5 houses, 10 houses," as of 2016, he does own three, finding common ground with the Wall Streeters who can't "get by on one."
    Sanders's 2010 comments on private air travel might rile his own 2020 campaign also. While he excoriated those who "need three jet planes to take [them] all over the world," Sanders's campaign entourage reportedly needed three jets to take them the 95 miles from Myrtle Beach to Charleston, South Carolina a few weeks ago:

    While the above report is unconfirmed, an article last week in The New Yorker included this line: "...Bernie Sanders left South Carolina, on Friday, on one of two private jets that his Presidential campaign had chartered[.]"
    For his part, Sanders sounds more like a prototype of the gruff, swaggering Wall Street CEO that Sanders like to lampoon when asked about his penchant for private air travel. Asked last August about flying private to California, Sanders replied: “I’m not going to walk to California. We do the best we can as an example, but I’m not going to sit here and tell you that we’re not going to use fossil fuels.”
    In other words, Sanders sees his own use of private air travel as justified by the importance of his position and mission. As for the rest? Let 'em fly coach.

Detroit's TCF Center Hosting Louis Farrakhan: Businesses 'Enthusiastic' About Nation of Islam Convention

    The Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan will be in Detroit's TCF Convention Center next weekend for the organization's annual Saviour's Day convention. Despite Farrakhan's history of anti-Semitism and other divisive racial invective, a spokesperson for the TCF Center told The Script, "The Nation of Islam draws over 30,000 guests to the region, and the entire hospitality community is enthusiastic about the return of this group to the Detroit area – an organization that was founded here in 1930." The same convention center, then named the Cobo Center, has hosted the Nation of Islam a number of times in the past, including 2016 when Farrakhan somewhat incongruously lauded Donald Trump as "the only [2016 candidate] who has stood in front of Jew­ish com­mu­nity and said I don’t want your money."
    Asked about the appropriateness of hosting Farrakhan, who has been denounced by the Anti Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and politicians across the political spectrum, the spokesperson said, "As a public facility, TCF Center hosts organizations that comply with the standard contractual obligations presented to every event organizer." The spokesperson said that the TCF Center would make no further statements on the matter.
    The five-member Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority (DRCFA) board that oversees the TCF Center is appointed by the state of Michigan, the city of Detroit, and Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. Representatives of the state of Michigan and city of Detroit did not respond to requests for comment on the matter. The media representative for TCF Bank, the corporation that recently purchased the naming rights for the TCF Center did not reply to an email seeking comment.
    The 2019 Saviour's Day convention was held at Chicago's United Center. As The Script reported in February 2019, the United Center deleted all references to the 2019 convention on its website and its Twitter account shortly after the convention's conclusion. A review of the United Center's website and Twitter account showed that deleting reference to past activities hosted at the center was not the norm. The United Center did not respond to inquiries regarding hosting the event or the subsequent deletions.
    The Nation of Islam's Saviour's Day convention has traditionally been a mix of Louis Farrakhan's positive messages of community and responsibility and promotion of conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic rhetoric. The 2017 convention (also at the Cobo Center) featured a symposium hosted by three 9/11 Truthers:

    At the 2018 convention, Farrakhan said "the powerful Jews are my enemy" and "Farrakhan, by God's grace, has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew and I'm here to say your time is up, your world is through." Last year, Farrakhan chided Jews for insisting on exclusive use of "The Holocaust" for the genocide of Jews by Hitler, saying, "[T]o them, the suffering of six million Jews is worth seven billion human beings on our planet."
    Although Louis Farrakhan's Twitter account has apparently been frozen by Twitter, the Nation of Islam has been promoting the 2020 Saviour's Day convention at the TCF Center on its own account. While the TCF Center's Twitter account has not mentioned the upcoming event, the TCF Center website does list the event currently scheduled for February 20-23, 2020 as shown below.

        The schedule for this year's Saviour's Day includes seminars and breakout sessions such as "The Black Man and Woman MUST Consider Separation Town Hall Meeting," "The Human Sex Trafficking Crisis," "Prison Ministry: Unjust Incarceration and the Death Penalty," and a documentary film, "Pushout: Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools." Farrakhan's keynote address on Sunday is entitled "The Unraveling of a Great Nation." While Farrakhan's keynote has been given at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena, adjacent to the TCF Center, in the past, the arena is currently bing demolished, so Farrakhan's address will be at the TCF Center itself in 2020.

Joe Biden Manipulates Video/Audio of Laughter at Trump in Campaign Ad

    The Biden campaign recently released an ad mocking President Trump for the lack of respect shown to him by world leaders. The ad uses clips of Trump addressing the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2018. Trump boasts: “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.” Someone in the crowd appears to laugh or react in some manner, and Trump responds directly to that individual with "so true." There is an awkward pause and as Trump smiles and as some laughter builds, he says, "Didn't expect that reaction, but that's OK," and the audience then laughs loudly and some applaud.

     The Biden ad, however, edits the sequence to make it appear as if the audience reacted with an outburst of laughter to Trump's original boast. Here is the original video of the event:

 

    Trump himself has come under fire for tweeting "doctored" video in the past, as well as for various photoshopped images.

2010 Profile: Elizabeth Warren "Felt Stifled" By "Administrative Constraints" At Her 1970s Teaching Job

    Two weeks ago, The Script published an article regarding Elizabeth Warren's evolving story of how she came to leave her first teaching job almost 50 years ago. Further investigation by The Script since then has failed to uncover any pre-2014 versions of Warren's anecdote that include the current details about being fired by her principal for being "visibly pregnant," not an uncommon occurrence at the time. However, The Script has discovered two additional pre-2014 examples of Warren relating the story without those details.
    A 1350-word profile of Warren in The Oklahoman in 2010 included a reference to Warren's exit from teaching in the early 1970s, saying Warren "felt stifled by the administrative constraints of the New Jersey public school where she worked," and implied this influenced her decision to switch to law. The entire passage reads as follows:

She became a teacher to brain-injured children, but felt stifled by the administrative constraints of the New Jersey public school where she worked. During a Christmas visit to Oklahoma City, her former high school debate classmates urged her to attend law school.

    Reached by email, the author of the 2010 profile, Don Mecoy, indicated he no longer had the notes from his interview with Warren that might have shed more light on her remarks. The Warren campaign did not respond to The Script's request for comment on the 2010 statement.
    Three years after that profile and less than a year before the publication of her autobiography where Warren first spoke of the principal's role in her release from her teaching job, Warren gave a commencement address at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. In a passage of the speech that contained a theme of "I was sure I had my life all planned," Warren does not mention being fired for being pregnant, but rather sums up that phase of her life as "I taught in an elementary school. I thought I had my life all planned. Two years, one baby and one move later, I decided to go to law school." Here's the remark in full context:

No, I spent pretty much my whole career as a teacher. After I graduated from a commuter college – which back cost $50 a semester – I taught in an elementary school. I thought I had my life all planned. Two years, one baby and one move later, I decided to go to law school, thinking I could be a trial lawyer. I thought I had my life all planned. Three years and another baby and another move later, I became a law professor, teaching bankruptcy and eventually writing books on the economic issues facing middle class families—and I was sure I had my life all planned.

   The Warren story finally broke out of the right-leaning media after the Washington Free Beacon published 1970s school board documents regarding Warren's exit from teaching. Only then did the Warren campaign responded publicly, and then primarily through a CBS News interview. When asked why her telling of the story changed after 2014, the Warren campaign told CBS News: "After becoming a public figure I opened up more about different pieces in my life and this was one of them. I wrote about it in my book when I became a U.S. Senator."
    Warren has subsequently attempted to turn the controversy to her advantage by championing the cause of women who have suffered pregnancy discrimination by employers. Neither Warren nor her campaign, however, have presented any clear documentation that can confirm the specifics of a firing story that Warren apparently waited 43 years to begin sharing publicly.

Elizabeth Warren: Fired From Teaching Job For Being Pregnant, Or For Lacking Qualifications? Story Appears To Change

Editor's Note:
>Ed Morrissey of Hot Air found video of Warren's 2007 interview here. [added 10/7/19]
>Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon found records of county records from the Riverdale Board of Education that directly contradict Warren's claims here. [added 10/7/19]
>Warren finally responded via CBS News on Monday, October 8, 5 days after this article was published. [added 10/8/19]
>Final note: Here's my editorial take on this issue.
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Original article:

    During her presidential campaign, Elizabeth Warren often emphasizes education as well as equal opportunities for women in the workplace. Warren tells of her own experience as a young public school teacher, let go from a special needs teaching job by a male principal for being "visibly pregnant." This past May, Warren put it this way when discussing her early teaching career:

“I loved it, and I would probably still be doing it today but back in the day, before unions, the principal, by the time we got to the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant,” she said. “And the principal did what principals did in those days: they wished you luck, showed you the door, and hired someone else for the job. And there went my dream.”

   In an interview twelve years ago, however, Warren told a markedly different version of the circumstances around her termination from her teaching job. (A writer for Jacobin Magazine, Meagan Day, first noted the interview on Tuesday on Twitter. Day is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and is a Bernie Sanders supporter.)
    At UC Berkeley in 2007 as part of a series called "Conversations with History," Warren was asked about her pursuit of a career helping special needs children. Her answer at the time made no mention of losing her job due to her pregnancy. Instead, she spoke of trying to further her education because she lacked some education courses that had required her to rely on an "emergency certificate" to teach that first year. While pursuing those courses, she said she realized, "I don't think this is going to work out for me." She and her husband then decided she would stay at home for the time being. Here is her full answer in context:

"I was married at nineteen and graduated from college after I'd married, and my first year post-graduation I worked in a public school system with the children with disabilities. I did that for a year, and then that summer I didn't have the education courses, so I was on an "emergency certificate," it was called. I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education and said, "I don't think this is going to work out for me." I was pregnant with my first baby, so I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, "What am I going to do?" My husband's view of it was, "Stay home. We have children, we'll have more children, you'll love this." And I was very restless about it."

    Not only is the male principal missing from her answer, but instead of special-needs teaching being a "dream" that ended with being let go, she expressed great uncertainty about her future, specifically in regards to teaching.
    In contrast, this past April, Warren briefly alluded to the story while speaking at Al Sharpton's National Action Network convention, saying, "Teaching special needs kids is a calling. But I finished out the year visibly pregnant and didn’t get invited back. Those were the days."
    Warren told this version of the story again later in May 2019 at Laney College in Oakland, California. The Berkeley Daily Planet reported it this way:

"Warren’s demeanor when she spoke at Laney College on Friday was natural and unassuming as she recounted her early life and her career: teaching disadvantaged children, studying law, and teaching business and banking law at the university level. Getting fired from her job teaching children by a male principal for being visibly pregnant. Running for office; winning her Senate seat."

    More recently, Warren brought up her experience at the September 12th Democratic candidates debate. Warren said:

And I made it as a special needs teacher. I still remember that first year as a special needs teacher. I could tell you what those babies looked like. I had 4- to 6-year-olds. But at the end of that first year, I was visibly pregnant. And back in the day, that meant that the principal said to me — wished me luck and hired someone else for the job.

    The earliest version of Warren's story that includes the principal explicitly dismissing her appears to be in her autobiography "A Fighting Chance" in 2014. In October 2017, when Warren spoke at the National Women's Law Center, she used words similar to those she used in her book to describe what happened:

I can still remember the first day of school as a special needs teacher. The classroom all shined up and ready to go.  There were cheerful pictures that I'd hung on the wall.  The children were all ready for a new adventure.  I loved that job. I truly loved that job. 

But by the end of the school year, I was pretty obviously pregnant. The principal did what I think a lot of principals did back then - he wished me good luck, and he didn't ask me back for the next school year, and hired someone else for the job. 

I stayed home, and I tried desperately to be a good wife and mother, but I really wanted to do something more.  So, I came up with a plan to go back to school, and this time I found a law school that was nearby.

    Prior to 2014, three profiles of Warren in 2012 (as she began to rise in national prominence) that mention her special education teaching job do not include details of why that job ended.
    The Warren campaign has not yet responded to a request for comment on how Ms. Warren reconciles the disparate versions of her story.