The lead investigative consultant for former president Donald Trump’s legal team has released a deluge of evidence that he claims reveals a massive coordinated effort to influence and control the narrative of the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Jason Sullivan says that he has developed a social media listening algorithm in which he can determine if a tweet or post is on a trajectory to go viral.
“Leading up to January 6, we were listening to the social media discourse,” Sullivan told The Epoch Times, “and we set up the program to capture every viral event that took place on January 6 that pertained to the name ‘Trump.’”
Sullivan claims that at the time, “Trump” was the most tweeted word on the planet, and everything that contained the term was flagged by his software and captured.
Sullivan remarked that the reason behind their monitoring efforts is that “the one who drives the narrative drives the outcome.”
Calling it a “sting operation,” Sullivan claims that his findings reveal that voices pushing the now-established narrative within the media that Trump and his supporters orchestrated the breach of the U.S. Capitol were elevated.
In contrast, those who made statements counter to that narrative were allegedly suppressed, including Trump himself.
“What we discovered is that many of these captured tweets, which had exculpatory evidence, had been conveniently and systematically removed from Twitter, and some of the pages have even been scrubbed from the internet,” Sullivan stated.
In legal circles, exculpatory evidence is any evidence that is favorable to an individual on the question of their guilt.
A prime example of this coordinated suppression, according to Sullivan, was how social media platforms treated Trump as he called for peace.
Trump tweeted, “I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”
Twitter deleted this message.
Trump then tweeted a video message calling for peace, which the platform prevented other users from liking or sharing.
Soon after, Facebook and Instagram reportedly locked the president’s social media channels for 24 hours and 12 hours, respectively, which severely limited his ability to speak to the nation during a rapidly developing event.
According to Sullivan, Trump was not the only one suppressed on January 6.
His data contains numerous tweets containing images and videos that counter the media narrative surrounding that day that was deleted and the accounts who posted them suspended, even to this day.
One user, Melissa Tate, tweeted a video of what she alleged were Trump supporters intervening and stopping ANTIFA individuals from breaking windows at the U.S. Capitol.
Her tweet was reportedly deleted, and her account was shut down.
Sullivan claims that the U.S. House Committee on January 6 asked for his email data months ago, which contains all of the social media findings, yet has done nothing with it and has acted in opposition to the conclusions he feels are obvious.
“The January 6 Committee contacted my attorney and asked for all of my email communications regarding January 6,” Sullivan said. “We gave it to them, and now they voted to subpoena Trump, demanding that he provide evidence to defend himself against their allegations. I hope exposing this will encourage them to be more forthcoming with the evidence they received from me five months ago.”
NSA whistleblower Kirk Wiebe told The Epoch Times this form of narrative shaping and censorship is nothing new.
“Twitter has removed tweets before. It has censored people before. This is a censorship operation by the government working with Big Tech in classic fascist behavior,” Weibe told The Epoch Times. “Whenever government colludes with big business to control people, which is what this is all about, it’s fascism, and I’m not sure the average reader understands that.”