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You may not know this, but some Donald Trump supporters are not exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer. We think it is fair to include 42-year-old Nathan Thornsberry in that group. He was a participant in the insurrection on 1/6 and, after giving it much thought (or maybe no thought?) he decided to write a book about his experiences. If you would like to read it, it's titled January 6: A Patriot's Story, and it's for sale here.
Thornsberry, unlike many of his fellow rioters, was not identified by law enforcement officials, and so was not prosecuted... before the book was published. If you were to click on the link, Einste... er, Thornsberry thought he could get away with his literary efforts by adopting a pseudonym, Nathaniel Matthews. It apparently did not occur to him that the FBI has a few tools at its disposal when it comes to unraveling these things. So, the Bureau subpoenaed records from Amazon, and found out that the owner of the account that published the book is... Nathan Thornsberry. They also matched the phone number on the account with one found on the Facebook page of... Nathan Thornsberry. And with a blow-by-blow account of what Thornsberry did that day, the Feds were able to go back to the video footage and line up his narrative with video of him committing various crimes, like destroying a police barrier.
So, Thornsberry has now been indicted and arrested. Based on comparable cases, he's likely going to spend a year or two as a very special guest of Uncle Sam. Maybe he can use that time to figure out where the weakness in his plan was. (Z)