Only ONE of the THREE judges on the case—a Trump appointee “unanimously rated unqualified by the ABA Standing Committee” for bias & other issues—said there was probable cause to charge Don Lemon. But DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon deceptively declared on X that the “COURT” sees such probable cause 1/
2/ Link: abovethelaw.com
3/ Link: x.com
4/ Dhillon can’t “defend” her deception by claiming that she was just quoting the article bc the article she posted also says that only “One of the three judges, Judge L. Steven Grasz, in a concurring opinion, said he felt they had established probable cause to justify the arrest warrants.“ So WTF?
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5/ Here’s an article from 2017 about the one Trump-appointed judge who claimed to see probable cause to charge Don Lemon: “ABA committee explains its 'not qualified' rating for 8th Circuit nominee” It’s a brutal read. abajournal.com
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6/ In an apparent effort to shore up support for her “case” against the protestors of Cities Church, DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon has also reposted Polymarket, a prediction market backed by Peter Thiel. Yeah that’s weird. And noteworthy.
7/ h/t ⬇️ readwrite.com
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8/ “Peter Thiel Invests In Polymarket Political Betting Platform—But The Future Of Gambling On Elections Remains Unclear” 5/14/24 forbes.com
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9/ Harmeet Dhillon and Peter Thiel go way back. h/t Emily Mills on X
10/ Harmeet Dillon’s disclosures include Radiant Nuclear, a nuclear power company in El Segundo, CA. s3.documentcloud.org The company is backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. radiantnuclear.com
11/ Harmeet Dhillon reportedly attended this June 2024 tech fundraiser: “Trump rakes in $12 million at tech fundraiser in liberal San Francisco” reuters.com
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12/ “Harmeet Dhillon, SF-based attorney representing James Damore — the former Google employee suing the company for allegedly discriminating against him as a conservative white man — said Thiel will feel liberated in L.A.” 2/15/18 (Thiel has also targeted Google.) latimes.com
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13/ “Thiel has donated $300,000 to a Missouri attorney general [Josh Hawley] investigating Google.” 11/15/17 vanityfair.com
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14/ In September 2025, Harmeet Dhillon spoke during NatCon which has received funding from Peter Thiel who also signed NatCon’s June 2022 Statement of Principles. youtu.be nationalconservatism.org
15/ In 2021, Peter Thiel & Claremont Institute chairman Tom Klingenstein each donated at least $50k to the Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes NatCon. The NatCon conference was sponsored by (among others) Claremont and New Founding. nationalconservatism.org
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7/ Peter Thiel spoke at NatCon 1, 2, and 3. He also signed NatCon’s Statement of Principles, donated to the Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes NatCon, and recommended NatCon founder Yoram Hazony’s book.
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21/ NatCon’s Statement of Principles (signed by Russ Vought, William Wolfe, Hammer, Thiel, & others) also states: “Where a Christian majority exists, public life should be rooted in Christianity & its moral vision, which should be honored by the state and other institutions both public and private.“
18/ NatCon’s website promotes the Case for Christian Nationalism which was published by Christ Church pastor Doug Wilson’s family publishing company. bsky.app
4/ NatCon’s website, for example, explicitly promotes The Case for Christian Nationalism by Stephen Wolfe. The book was published by Doug Wilson’s family publishing company. nationalconservatism.org
19/ Pastor Joe Rigney helped plant Cities Church in Minnesota & has been encouraging the arrest of Don Lemon in relation to the protest that took place there. bsky.app
Joe Rigney has been encouraging Don Lemon’s arrest. He’s one of Doug Wilson’s minions. 1/
20/ Joe Rigney is a close associate of Doug Wilson (who has also signed NatCon’s Statement of Principles). bsky.app
4/ The website for Christ Church—where Doug Wilson is the “Senior Pastor”—identifies Joe Rigney as an “Associate Pastor.” christkirk.com
21/ Canon Press—Doug Wilson’s publishing company—published “The Sin of Empathy” in 2024. It was written by Pastor Joe Rigney. NatCon’s website promotes this book as well.
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23/ Yoram Hazony is the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes NatCon. Peter Thiel recommended Hazony’s book in 2022.
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5/ Yoram Hazony “even provided a front-page blurb for Stephen Wolfe’s The Case for Christian Nationalism, praising it as ‘pioneering’ and ‘relentlessly innovative’, notwithstanding its bold advocacy of Christian supremacy.”
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13/ In August 2022, NatCon founder Yoram Hazony gushed that “Three superb essays defending ‘Christian nationalism’ were published in the last week.” I wrote about this here. x.com
26/ One of the essays recommended by NatCon leader Yoram Hazony was written by William Wolfe, a former fellow of both American Reformer & of Russ Vought’s Center for Renewing America. Both Wolfe & Vought had signed NatCon’s 2022 Statement of Principles as well.
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3/ Last year, Vought wrote that he was “proud to work with William Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”
28/ Russ Vought was a top leader of Project 2025. bsky.app
30/ In Dec 2023, Paul Dans, then a Director of Project 2025, said that Project 2025 had 1K people divided into 30 teams working under the direction of Russ Vought, founder of the Center for Renewing America, which he called one of their “key coalition partners.” youtu.be
29/ “One document drafted by CRA staff and fellows includes a list of top priorities for CRA [Russ Vought’s organization] in a second Trump term. ‘Christian nationalism’ is one of the bullet points.” By Heidi Przybyla, 2/20/24 politico.com
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30/ Russ Vought & William Wolfe “spent time together at Heritage Action, a conservative policy advocacy group. And Vought has praised their yearslong partnership. ‘I’m proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism,’ he posted…in January 2023.” By Heidi Przybyla
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31/ I always found it telling that in the aftermath of Heidi Przybyla’s blockbuster report, William promptly deleted the reference to Russ Vought’s organization from his Twitter profile bsky.app
4/ Just as it was odd that William Wolfe deleted from his Twitter profile the reference to Vought’s Center for Renewing America soon after @heidireports.bsky.social reported on Wolfe’s Christian Nationalism and connection to Vought
32/ Soon after, I learned that William Wolfe had co-edited a draft Christian Nationalism manifesto that represented a very extreme (not mainstream at all) version of Christianity. I wrote about it here. buckscountybeacon.com
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33/ Let’s just say that William did not enjoy my article.
34/ He & his colleagues then waited until *after* the 2024 election to publish the final version of their manifesto. Here’s that final version. statementonchristiannationalism.com
35/ William Wolfe’s close ties to American Reformer have always also struck me as significant because American Reformer’s director is Chris Buskirk who co-founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network with JD Vance! bsky.app
11/ William Wolfe was a 2022 American Reformer “Cotton Mather Fellow”. americanreformer.org
36/ William Wolfe founded the Center for Baptist Leadership (CBL), which is supported by American Reformer per CBL’s website. Here is William expressing his support for the arrest & prosecution of Don Lemon in connection with the Cities Church protest.
37/ William Wolfe’s CBL also posted this article about the protest. centerforbaptistleadership.org
38/ American Reformer, which supports William’s organization, has published two articles about the Cities Church protest. Here’s one of them. americanreformer.org
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39/ Here’s the other one. americanreformer.org
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40/ American Reformer’s editor is Timon Cline who also works for New Saint Andrews College — founded by Doug Wilson bsky.app
51/ American Reformer editor Timon Cline is also employed by New Saint Andrews College—founded by Doug Wilson whose family publishing company published The Case for Christian Nationalism. Again, Rockbridge founder Chris Buskirk is an American Reformer director, & THIEL reportedly backs Rockbridge.
41/ Here he is at NatCon. bsky.app
21/ Hazony’s NatCon has also platformed Timon Cline who is employed by American Reformer & the Hale Institute at Saint Andrews College (founded by Doug Wilson). During NatCon 4, Cline presented “The Case for Renouncing Separation of Church and State” youtu.be
42/ ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bsky.app
👀 The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has just published an article by A3P Sr. Counsel Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to the states & requires a separation of church & state. 1/
43/ Based on this tweet by William Wolfe, it appears that both he and Timon Cline attended the “American Moment” September 2023 immigration panel featuring Russ Vought, Doug Wilson, & American Reformer co-founder Nate Fischer.
44/ Photos from that Sept 2023 immigration panel featuring Nate Fischer, P2025 leader Russ Vought, & Doug Wilson. So it seems that, since Sept 2023 at the latest, Doug Wilson was involved with formulating or strategizing re immigration policy for the next Republican administration. That is WILD.
45/ Here’s a link to the video from that event featuring P2025 leader Russ Vought & Doug Wilson. They were trying to make a “Christian Case” for extreme anti-immigration measures. The event was organized ny American Moment, which was deeply involved with Project 2025. youtu.be
46/ This Doug Wilson bsky.app
13/ Here’s a quote about slavery from a book co-authored by Doug Wilson who tried to retract after substantial blowback.
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14/ Here is Doug Wilson’s “retraction.” dougwils.com
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48/ Same guy. bsky.app
9/ “Doug Wilson Says ‘To Prevail in Conflict is Not Possible Without Deception’” By Nathan Wells, 11/13/24 (I wonder if this explains his misleading remarks in post 2, as the MSM is **finally** reporting on both him & NatCon.) dougwilsonsays.com
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Only ONE of the THREE judges on the case—a Trump appointee “unanimously rated unqualified by the ABA Standing Committee” for bias & other issues—said there was probable cause to charge Don Lemon. But DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon deceptively declared on X that the “COURT” sees such probable cause 1/