"In the months leading up to the January 6 Capitol riot, a now deleted Twitter account bearing the full name of E. J. Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), betrayed a seeming obsession with promoting election denial conspiracy theories while talking about violent threats to those who stood in Trump’s way."

~ David Gilbert

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https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ej-antoni-trump-bls-conspiracy-theories-epstein-covid-election-denial/

An Account Using the Same Name as Trump’s BLS Pick Posted Red-Pilled Conspiracy Theories

A WIRED review of a now deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein.

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"One of the final posts on the now deleted account used violent religious rhetoric in the hours before the assault on the Capitol began.

'Samson has his arms around the temple pillars, and though he may not survive, he will bring it all down on his enemies,' the account posted late on January 5, 2021, in response to a Twitter post from Trump calling on Republicans to 'FIGHT.'“

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"Last week, an NBC investigation uncovered video footage showing Antoni near the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The White House confirmed to NBC that it was Antoni, adding that he was merely a 'bystander' who was in Washington, DC, for meetings and had wandered over after seeing coverage of the incident on the news."

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"It never fails. You maintain one Twitter account that posts COVID conspiracy theories, attacks on the Black Lives Matter movement, and misogynistic cracks that Kamala Harris got where she is through a combination of blowjobs and more blowjobs, and the woke Left says you shouldn’t run a hugely important federal agency that you were already in no way qualified to run."

~ Gary Legum

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https://www.wonkette.com/p/how-dare-you-say-i-ej-antoni-am-unqualified

How Dare You Say I, EJ Antoni, Am Unqualified For This Job Just Because I'm Unqualified For This Job

The next head of BLS responds to criticism.

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