Did you ever think of casting Kanye West in the role of G. Gordon Liddy? No? Only a complete lunatic would think of such a thing? Well, tell that to the Great Screenwriter In the Sky because this is yet another entry from the Bat Guano On Steroids file, and it promises to be a classic. I would say that the MAGAs aren’t going to top this one for a while, but then again, I don’t want to tempt fate. After what I’ve seen, if we tempt fate around here, the next thing you know pigs will have replaced reindeer and be guiding Santa’s sleigh — with Superman going down the chimney with the gifts.
G. Gordon Liddy didn’t actually enter the Watergate complex, he supervised the burglary from nearby. Likewise, Kanye West did not go to a George elections official’s home and threaten her with unnamed goons coming to her home if she didn’t cooperate, he sent one of his publicists. Here’s a good description of the situation. Bess Levin, Vanity Fair
According to an insane report from Reuters, Trevian Kutti showed up to the home of Ruby Freeman—who’d been receiving death threats after being falsely accused by Trump of illegally counting phony mail-in ballots—and said she was sent by a “high-profile individual” with an urgent message. It somehow got weirder from there:
Freeman asked a neighbor to come over and talk with Kutti, who was with an unidentified male…Kutti told the neighbor that Freeman was in danger and that she’d been sent to provide assistance. Freeman said she was open to meeting them. She asked Cobb County police to send an officer to keep watch so she could step outside, according to a recording of her 911 call. “They’re saying that I need help,” Freeman told the dispatcher, referring to the people at her door, “that it’s just a matter of time that they are going to come out for me and my family.”
An officer arrived and spoke with Kutti, who described herself as a “crisis manager,” according to the police incident report. Kutti repeated that Freeman “was in danger” and had “48 hours” before “unknown subjects” turned up at her home, the report said. At the officer’s suggestion, the women agreed to meet at a police station. The officer’s report did not identify the man accompanying Kutti.
Once at the station, Kutti, according to a recording obtained by Reuters, told Freeman, “I cannot say what specifically will take place. I just know that it will disrupt your freedom and the freedom of one or more of your family members. You are a loose end for a party that needs to tidy up.” She added that “federal people” were involved, without getting into specifics.
According to Freeman, Kutti then said she was going to patch a man named Harrison Ford—not the actor, Freeman said—onto a speakerphone, telling Freeman he had “authoritative powers to get you protection.” Over the next hour, Kutti and the man on speakerphone reportedly tried to get Freeman to admit to voter fraud she did not commit. “If you don’t tell everything,” Freeman said Kutti told her, “you’re going to jail.” At that point Freeman apparently became increasingly suspicious—as one might!—and called for an officer. At home, Freeman googled Kutti and found out she was a Trump supporter.
On January 5, the day after Freeman’s meeting with Kutti, an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation called Freeman and urged her to leave her home of 20 years because it wasn’t safe, Freeman said.
The following day, January 6, Kutti’s prediction that people would descend on Freeman’s home in 48 hours proved correct, according to a defamation lawsuit Freeman and Moss filed last week against a far-right news site. Freeman, the lawsuit said, left hours before a mob of angry Trump supporters surrounded her home, shouting through bullhorns.
Neither Kutti nor West responded to Reuters’s request for comment.
Now here, without further ado is the body cam footage of this bizarre encounter. Three minutes of pure batshit doesn’t begin to describe it.
Police bodycam video recorded on Jan. 4, 2021, shows Trevian Kutti, a publicist for hip-hop artist Kanye West, telling a Georgia election worker who former President Trump falsely accused of manipulating votes that she was in imminent danger https://t.co/AeF1I18mdJ pic.twitter.com/ott7ohVQnI
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 10, 2021
If you’re wondering why they dragged Harrison Ford’s name into this, it’s Harrison FLOYD. That makes a lot more sense.
Trevian Kutti is saying "Harrison FLOYD" – (not Ford)
Floyd led a group called Black Voices for Trump, and ran for Congress in Georgia, in 2020.https://t.co/MvLsp20N7O pic.twitter.com/BIUXDkyxCu
— Kathleen Sullivan (@KayAnneSacto) December 10, 2021
This is indeed banana republic activity, seasoned heavily with Mafia. As nuts as Watergate was, it never like this. At the apex of Watergate — or the nadir, depending on your vantage point — Barry Goldwater left the Senate, walked down the street and crossed the lawn to the White House. He told Nixon he was finished and to resign. If Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, or any senior GOPer had had the guts to tell Trump that he had crossed the line and do the same we wouldn’t be reading stories like this one.
This is not America. This just buttresses my opinion that 2022 is going to be an even more intense election than 2020 or 2016.
