SPECIAL HISTORICAL ARTICLE: July 12 -July 16, 2020 / The USS BonHomme Richard Fire / Ghislaine Maxwell Denied Bail / The Twitter Blue-Check Blackout / and the Mass Arrest of MS-13 Leaders
SPECIAL HISTORICAL ARTICLE
JULY 12 - JULY 16, 2020
THE USS BONHOMME RICHARD FIRE
GHISLAINE MAXWELL DENIED BAIL
THE TWITTER BLUE-CHECK BLACKOUT
AND THE MASS ARREST OF MS-13 LEADERS
On the morning of July 12, 2020, the naval vessel USS Bonhomme Richard, a wasp class amphibious assault ship, caught fire while stationed in the port of Naval Base San Diego. Witnesses reported hearing an explosion at approximately 8:50 am. The subsequent fire would continue to rage for 4 days straight before finally being fully extinguished on July 16. By the time the fire was contained, 63 people; 40 sailors and 23 civilians; had suffered non-life-threatening injuries while battling the blaze. The ship was damaged beyond repair and was later decommissioned. One year later on July 29, 2021 a member of the ship's crew was charged with arson in connection with the fire; at the time of this writing they are still awaiting trial.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fire-uss-bonhomme-richard-naval-base-san-diego
https://www.foxnews.com/us/navy-fire-out-aboard-uss-bonhomme-richard-san-diego
https://www.foxnews.com/us/navy-charges-sailor-bonhomme-richard-fire
On the afternoon of July 14, 2020, while the naval ship fire was still raging, Ghislaine Maxwell, accused sex-trafficker and partner of Jeffrey Epstein, appeared in federal court to request bail in advance of her upcoming trial, scheduled for the following year. Prosecutors cited what they perceived to be an extreme flight risk, writing in their request for denial: "There will be no trial for the victims if the defendant is afforded the opportunity to flee the jurisdiction, and there is every reason to think that is exactly what she will do if she is released." Maxwell was denied bail and was remanded to custody in a federal detention facility in the state of New York to await trial. (Maxwell would later be found guilty of multiple accounts of sex-trafficking on December 29, 2021.)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ghislaine-maxwell-denied-bail-flight-risk-foreign-connections
The next day, in the early afternoon of July 15, 2020, several prominent verified blue-check Twitter accounts showed signs of being hacked, with the accounts posting odd messages promising to send $2,000 to anyone who first sends $1,000 to a bitcoin wallet. The accounts affected included prominent wealthy individuals such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, and Kanye West, as well as political figures such as Barack Obama and Joe Biden, in addition to major service providers such as Apple, Uber, and Square's CashApp, among others.
In response to this, Twitter took the unusual step of locking the majority of verified blue-check Twitter users out of their accounts until the problem could be identified, while at the same time allowing all non-verified user accounts to continue to be able to post normally. This meant that for the duration of the blackout, most mainstream news agencies, verified journalists, politicians, government services, and prominent public individuals were unable to post anything to Twitter. The blackout lasted for much of that evening and into the next day before the majority of verified accounts were able to access the site again, with many larger verified accounts still unable to use Twitter until the morning of Friday July 17. It was not until a full 36 hours after the initial blackout that full functionality would return to the website and all blue-check accounts were able to post normally again.
https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/meme-insider/the-great-blue-check-blackout-of-2020
It was on this same afternoon that President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr held a major press conference in the Oval Office announcing the success of a massive multi-state operation to arrest more than two-dozen leaders of the MS-13 gang, one of the most prominent Mexican criminal cartels responsible for human trafficking, drug running, and murder for hire in the United States. Because of the inability of verified news and political accounts to post to Twitter on the afternoon of July 15 and most of the following day, this story was under-reported at the time, with many of the non-verified Twitter users who remained spending that afternoon commenting on and joking about the absence of blue-check accounts. By the time full functionality had returned to Twitter on Friday July 17, the news cycle for this week was almost over, causing the story to receive very little fanfare at the time.
https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_trump-administration-announces-ms-13-gang-arrests/6192859.html
*NOTE: This is an excerpt from the book “Q - The Great Awakening - An Encyclopedia of Q Posts - November 2019 - December 2020.” The full book can be downloaded for free at the following links:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ha7no203duzwnw5/Q_ENCYCLOPEDIA_Nov_2019_-_Dec_2020.pdf/file
So, do you think it was a coordinated effort to block the news on Maxwell and the arrests? Or just three separate news stories? I was intrigued thinking it was going to be somehow tied together.