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RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) BREAKING NEWS: New Hampshire Republican Senate Candidate Don Bolduc Assaults Libertarian Party Activist on Camera Bef… — PolitiTweet.org

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MORE/ The article atop this thread has now been updated with significant additional information. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) BREAKING NEWS: New Hampshire Republican Senate Candidate Don Bolduc Assaults Libertarian Party Activist on Camera Bef… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @liesocial: Sounds like something @WMUR9 @NH_StatePolice @mht_nh_police should be looking into. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yesterday’s 90-minute live Q&A already has 1,000+ views. If you have Instagram and want to see/hear me speak live—Twitter can be such an impersonal medium—you can check it out below. I hope you’ll also RETWEET for anyone else you think might be interested. https://t.co/COinpWcdkN — PolitiTweet.org

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MORE/ The word is getting out: Don Bolduc orchestrated a hoax for political purposes, and right-wing media happily ran with the fake news. Look at all these right-wing outlets lying—like Bolduc himself—about an assault *Bolduc* committed. Zero retractions. https://t.co/byNv3rXUmF — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) BREAKING NEWS: New Hampshire Republican Senate Candidate Don Bolduc Assaults Libertarian Party Activist on Camera Bef… — PolitiTweet.org

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@PinkPeonies2014 @rmcbethke That is exactly what I posted on my feed. Twice. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) BREAKING NEWS: New Hampshire Republican Senate Candidate Don Bolduc Assaults Libertarian Party Activist on Camera Bef… — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION10/ When a rabid dog does what rabid dogs do, the parties most responsible are the enablers who are *not* rabid. Here that’s the media, which in New Hampshire and nationally has repeatedly misreported this story or ignored it. Shame on all of you—and God help all of us. — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION9/ Political violence is never acceptable. And right now almost all of it is coming from the very same election deniers and insurrectionists who sagely assure voters that—despite red states being far more dangerous than blue states, per the data—only the GOP can fix it. — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION8/ Throughout it all, the GOP runs on an “anti-crime” line. They’re pro-January 6 crimes; pro-crimes at Trump rallies; joke about the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi; but because *organized crime* looted some stores in Summer 2000, they feel entitled to preach violence. — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION7/ Republican Greg Gianforte assaulted a guy and won his election. Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene kicked an activist on video—nothing was done. Trump throttled a Secret Service agent on January 6 and USSS deleted texts to hide it. Now Bolduc commits crimes on camera. — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION6/ This incident is why America is screwed. Shoddy reporting, never corrected but nevertheless viral; politically minded policing; election deniers caught in deceit and violence not called out for it because it isn’t the narrative media wants. All of it caught on video. — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION5/ Watch the video for yourself. It’s in this thread and at PROOF. Read the news article linked to by PROOF. Then ask yourself—why was an assault *ever* reported when police never charged one, no video showed one, and Bolduc recanted his false report to law enforcement? — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION4/ Obviously Newsmax can be sued down to its boots by Hart, and should’ve retracted this story already—there was no punch, nor any dodging of a punch, only crimes by Newsmax’s favored candidate, Bolduc—but the damage is done. This Newsmax article is trending on Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION3/ But that’s not all. Now fake-news websites like Newsmax have picked up Bolduc’s lies (see below) as a way to nakedly aid his campaign—trying to elicit sympathy for him among independent voters in New Hampshire. Amazing how perfectly all of this has been orchestrated. https://t.co/a9xZIgC1Q1 — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION2/ But please don’t sleep on the *other* side of this: Bolduc, knowing Hart was innocent of any crime—and knowing he himself had just committed two crimes—*immediately* went on camera and lied to Granite State voters about it. This too is a classic insurrectionist move. — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION/ This appears to be another case of a powerful, high-profile election denier committing and inspiring political violence and then having his crimes ignored by media, law enforcement, and Republican leaders. And this is *exactly* why America is at the point of collapse. — PolitiTweet.org

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VIDEO5/ We now have right-leaning New Hampshire media outlets trying to downplay or elide entirely the fact that Bolduc alleged—then recanted—an assault, even as they fail to highlight what Joseph Hart was actually arrested for (*not assault*). They too know what they are doing. — PolitiTweet.org

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VIDEO4/ In the view of New Hampshire Republicans, Libertarian votes are rightly *theirs*—and therefore Hart, as a key Libertarian figure in New Hampshire, is responsible for Bolduc being in a dead heat in his race rather than ahead. Bolduc knew *exactly* what he was doing, here. — PolitiTweet.org

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VIDEO3/ According to reports, Hart was well known to both the Bolduc and Hassan campaigns as a Libertarian activist—which explains why Bolduc immediately called for police. Not because Hart did anything, but because Bolduc’s livid at the New Hampshire Libertarian Party right now. — PolitiTweet.org

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VIDEO2/ I’ve now watched this video 25 times. Joseph Hart never makes contact with Bolduc; he has a camera in one hand and keeps his other behind his back. Bolduc clearly elbows Hart in the stomach; inspires *two* of his followers to apparently assault Hart; then lies to police. — PolitiTweet.org

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VIDEO/ https://t.co/g9shNtdjEi — PolitiTweet.org

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@PinkPeonies2014 It is literally right on my feed *and* at PROOF. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) BREAKING NEWS: New Hampshire Republican Senate Candidate Don Bolduc Assaults Libertarian Party Activist on Camera Bef… — PolitiTweet.org

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20/ So this story has so many juicy angles to it—and video of crimes!—that how it isn’t the leading news story in America right now is beyond this journalist, longtime journalism professor, and former New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer. My mind, quite simply, is blown by this. — PolitiTweet.org

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19/ According to the latest St. Anselm poll, 19% of independent New Hampshire voters are either voting for the Libertarian Party candidate instead of Bolduc or are unsure who to vote for—it’s in *this* context that Bolduc falsely accused a leading Libertarian activist of assault. — PolitiTweet.org

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18/ The video of the assault on Hart by Bolduc can be found at PROOF and here on my feed. It is truly astonishing that this has not become national news in a 0.3% dead-heat battleground-state Senate race, when it is Libertarians like the man Bolduc assaulted who Bolduc is mad at. — PolitiTweet.org

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17/ ...were followed by that candidate *lying about the crimes in a televised Senate debate* and then (it just goes on and on, this story!) *recanting* his prior claims because surely someone had told him they constituted not just political ratf*ckery but *another* state crime. — PolitiTweet.org