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16/ It’s a story any reporter would kill to cover—because not only are the crimes on camera, not only is one of them a violent crime, but both crimes were *politically motivated*, were committed by a candidate *as that candidate was inspiring others to violence*, and moreover... — PolitiTweet.org

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15/ Major media has so fallen in love with its “Republicans on the upswing!” narrative that it has forgotten to *do journalism*—like reporting on a *video* that unambiguously shows a Republican Senate candidate locked in a tight race in a battleground state committing two crimes. — 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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14/ Yet now there is political violence committed *by a GOP candidate*, accompanied by that candidate *inspiring another to commit political violence*, and the media is silent. Republican leaders are silent. New Hampshire law enforcement is silent. All of this is *unacceptable*. — PolitiTweet.org

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13/ Even law enforcement is speaking out now. Consider this new CNN article—gripping and harrowing—by Michael Fanone, one of the many law enforcement officers who *election deniers* (a group Don Bolduc proudly belongs to) brutally attacked on January 6. https://t.co/8nD6Ld3e9A — PolitiTweet.org

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12/ After the attack on Paul Pelosi and three crimes against a Democratic state candidate in Pennsylvania, everyone is talking about rising right-wing political violence—not just because it is criminal, but because it is a sign of things to come if the GOP succeeds on November 8. — PolitiTweet.org

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11/ At a time election deniers are lying to voters, inspiring political violence and committing violence themselves, Bolduc just did *all three of those things on camera* and it’s not being covered by media, not being denounced by GOP leaders, and not being handled by the police. — PolitiTweet.org

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10/ So will New Hampshire law enforcement—which knows it arrested an innocent man—compound that error by *not* arresting Don Bolduc for the two crimes he committed on-camera? Will Bolduc get a pass because it would be too *politically inconvenient* to arrest him for what he did? — PolitiTweet.org

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9/ We now have an election denier and insurrectionist who is ahead in his U.S. Senate race by an average of 0.3% across all polls *committing two state crimes on camera*. And not just *any* crimes, but crimes of (a) political violence and (b) politically motivated *retribution*. — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ But now we have a huge problem. And you may already have guessed what it is. — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ Officers called to the scene of a supposed assault by Bolduc made *no assault arrest*—rather, they arrested Joseph Hart, a longstanding *political* thorn in Don Bolduc’s side, for criminal trespass and disorderly conduct. I expect *both* charges will be dropped post-election. — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ We know it was a hoax because Bolduc has now recanted his on-scene/on-camera false report to law enforcement: pointing at Joseph Hart while exclaiming repeatedly—and falsely—“He hit me! He hit me!” And now even New Hampshire law enforcement is conceding there was no assault. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ Hassan and her campaign did the right thing: decried what they *thought* was political violence *against* Bolduc. They did not know at the time that it was all a hoax—and worse still, a politically calculated hoax. But we know it was a hoax for *other* reasons than the video. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ Bolduc then entered a debate venue where he knew he would lose badly—he has no political experience, and Hassan is one of the most competent senators in the United States—and *lied to New Hampshire voters on camera* about being assaulted, when *he* had committed the assault. — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ Don Bolduc’s false report to law enforcement—a crime—caused one of his supporters to apparently engage (on camera) in an act of political violence against an unarmed citizen, precisely the sort of political violence that we are seeing from Trumpist election deniers nationwide. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ Video now clearly shows that Bolduc assaulted a leading Libertarian Party activist (a crime punishable by up to a year in jail in New Hampshire), then made a false report to law enforcement (another crime punishable by up to a year in jail). But it gets even worse than this. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ The New Hampshire Senate race is a dead heat. Bolduc is an election denier and insurrectionist whose campaign has been hampered by one entity in New Hampshire: the Libertarian Party, which is currently keeping him from having a clear lead over his Democratic opponent (Hassan). — PolitiTweet.org

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(🔐) BREAKING NEWS: New Hampshire Republican Senate Candidate Don Bolduc Assaults Libertarian Party Activist on Camera Before Debate, Then Makes False Report to Law Enforcement As a former New Hampshire public defender, I am astonished by what I just saw. https://t.co/uPcB511yRi — PolitiTweet.org

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I might have worried that the alleged assault of Bolduc was some other incident I haven’t seen, but given Bolduc’s reaction this clearly is the event he says was an “assault” If it was, he committed it Either way, it all now appears to be a hoax—just like his election denialism — PolitiTweet.org

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It really is something to see, above, the video of Bolduc elbowing a Libertarian Party activist—an assault—and then repeatedly saying, “He hit me! He hit me!” though there’s no indication he was ever touched at all; hard not to conclude he was inventing a crime for political gain — PolitiTweet.org

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Don Bolduc is a dangerous insurrectionist, election denier and habitual liar who certainly does seem to have made up an assault to take the heat off his fellow insurrectionists for threatening and in some cases attacking Democrats and election workers all across the United States — PolitiTweet.org

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Political violence is *never* acceptable. And unless the incident in which Don Bolduc claims he was assaulted by a Libertarian Party activist is some other event besides this, it certainly does seem like the Republican Senate candidate lied about being assaulted to make the news. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Maggie_Hassan: Don Bolduc wants women to “get over” Roe v. Wade and is trying to hide his extreme anti-choice agenda from Granite State… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Maggie_Hassan: Don Bolduc thinks “gentleman” lawmakers give women the “best voice” on reproductive health care and that we should “get… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Maggie_Hassan: Donald Trump confirmed it: Don Bolduc is an election denier. https://t.co/rCzhOZPWpj — PolitiTweet.org

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Bolduc almost certainly cannot name a world leader. New Hampshire is an extremely well-educated state, and it deserves an extremely knowledgeable senator. Like Maggie Hassan. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AlKapDC: New: "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander in an online stream claimed former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey would “put me on the… — PolitiTweet.org

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She’s been “flat-out lying”—about absolutely everything—from the very first day of her campaign, Anderson. The level of contempt she has for Arizona voters is positively staggering. They’re just sheep to her—susceptible to a radio voice, poll-tested propaganda and soft lighting. https://t.co/GZKxrdm0oT — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Crime is almost *categorically* higher in red states. The redder a state is, the more dangerous it is. So of course Amer… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: With a billionaire troll running Twitter, threats and harassment on this feed, in my DMs, and in website emails are up 30… — PolitiTweet.org