What They Said

Butler County, Ohio, Sheriff Richard Jones, upon returning from the National Sheriffs’ Association Winter Conference in Washington, D.C., repeated warnings issued to attendees by the FBI regarding terrorists entering the country: “It’s not if they are going to attack, it’s just when they are. There are people already here who have come into this country who hate us and want to kill us.”

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas questioned Colorado attorney Jason Murray during Donald Trump’s 14th Amendment ballot battle before the U.S. Supreme Court. Referencing the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, Thomas noted, “There were people who felt very strongly about retaliating against the South — the radical Republicans — but they did not think about authorizing the South to disqualify national candidates. And that’s the argument you’re making. And what I would like to know is, do you have any examples of this?” Murray had none.

Major media cry “conspiracy theory” over conservative pundits who claim pop-music superstar Taylor Swift is being used in government PSYOPs. However, when Alicia Bargar, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory research engineer, addressed the 2019 CyCon Conference, an annual event organized by NATO’s cyber-operations unit, she recommended “peaceful” though “ethically concerning” methods of using social influence to change behaviors: “The first one that’s the most famous and the most common is working with famous people or influencers to share information or a particular message. So I include Taylor Swift here because she’s a fairly influential online person.” Her note next to Swift’s picture on the screen read, “Goal: Identify key actors to train and spread desired messaging.”

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