“Watergate” was “a mytho-poetic perversion of governance whose real and symbolic betrayals helped feed the paranoia and disaffection with consensus reality that form the ambient political background for high weirdness.” (As described by Erik Davis. High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies. London: Strange Attractor Press, 2019.)
The 2020 coup attempt
We know that Eastman sent an email on December 24, 2020, saying that Trump was unlikely to win on the "legal merits" of his position, to which another lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, replied that the Supreme Court Justices might be pressured to rule in Trump's favor if they "start to fear that there will be wild chaos on January 6".
USAmericans were already paranoid and disaffected, yes, but there was no longer any consensus reality to break. It was broken long ago.
6/ The confidential Proud Boys informant said the Proud Boys would have killed other lawmakers too, if given the chance. Listen. https://t.co/N0EqNPawEp
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) June 16, 2022
NPR keeps a video archive.
I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵
— Tom Dreisbach (@tomdreisbach.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
As violence against police escalated on the west front of the Capitol, some of the rioters appeared to take pleasure and even laugh.
— Tom Dreisbach (@tomdreisbach.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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There's a persistent myth that the cops "let people in." It's nonsense. There's extensive evidence that rioters knew they were breaking the law. Here's one of the rioters making a call, knowing that she might need to be bailed out of jail.
— Tom Dreisbach (@tomdreisbach.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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Just after 2:00 p.m., on the west front, the police - bloodied, battered, and overwhelmed - blasted this message, ordering people to leave. The Capitol was breached minutes later.
— Tom Dreisbach (@tomdreisbach.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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"You better run, cops!"
— Tom Dreisbach (@tomdreisbach.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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"Take his helmet off!"
— Tom Dreisbach (@tomdreisbach.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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And then there's this video, of officers talking with each other about what they just witnessed. "We didn't have a chance," one officer said. "[Trump] was still giving his speech, and I just had to leave, because he's basically just telling people to come down here and rip this place down."
— Tom Dreisbach (@tomdreisbach.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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Happens in other places too: 7 Dec 2022...
Related: See this February 20, 2023 Twitter thread about the narrative in the Dominion Voting Systems legal brief.
In April 2023, Elie Honig says Fox is 'headed for a full-blown journalistic and legal disaster'. (CNN video)
Update on Eastman: John Eastman (see the Eastman memos) and Jeffrey Clark (see the Clark letter) were both indicted in GA. They were also named as co-conspirators in the federal case, and they could eventually be indicted federally, perhaps after a verdict is delivered on Trump.
"The proceeding against Eastman in California is only one effort across the country where disciplinary authorities are seeking to compromise the law licenses of attorneys who assisted Trump after the election. Attorneys who worked for Trump in Michigan have been sanctioned, Rudy Giuliani’s law license is currently suspended, and he and Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official under Trump, are facing their own ongoing bar disciplinary proceedings. On top of those efforts, the criminal charges against Eastman, Giuliani, Clark and others in Fulton County, Georgia, could lead to their inability to practice law, if they are convicted."
— CNN, November 3, 2023
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