1. You had a very frightening experience at your Washington D.C. hotel yesterday evening, one in which two men were waiting for you on the seventh floor with an apparent plan of violence. Is that correct?
Answer: Yes, it is.
2. May I know your thoughts about this, please?
Answer: You know, these were professionals, certainly, and they had been given a deeply wrongful assignment. It was extremely fortunate that I was able to escape the situation. The odds of that safe evasion were profoundly low. So I was just remarkably lucky to have successfully fled.
3. Have you ever faced such an overt attempt on your life previously?
Answer: Not through direct contact, no. I have faced many, many sniper threats from the FBI over time. But not threats in which I have been facing two dangerous men waiting outside my elevator door. That was a first.
4. How long did it take you to ascertain the intent of these men?
Answer: Five seconds, perhaps? I think time expands in these situations and you just notice every imaginable detail while the world seems to be standing still around you.
5. What did you notice?
Answer: Everything. Absolutely everything. The overquick stride, the black gloves, the lanky hair, the rapidly aggressive nature of the approach, the way the two men clearly knew each other and yet said nothing, the impression that these two men had done the same type of thing many times before. Everything.
6. After your escape back onto your elevator, you traveled right back to the front desk to ask for security. Is that correct?
Answer: Yes, it is.
7. And this was clearly a serious attempt on your life.
Answer: Oh, yes. A very serious attempt.
8. There was an apparent allegation that this attempt on your life had been wrongfully justified by coerced falsified witness statements from transportation drivers yesterday and also potentially from hotel staff.
Answer: That's correct.
9. And you are being threatened with false reporting concerning your making this question and answer available on your blog at the current time, 2:03 PM on February 21, 2025. Is that correct?
Answer: Yes, it is.
10. Has the OIG Hotline reached out to you yet in order to convey investigative reports to you via courier service or to arrange a time to meet with you?
Answer: They have not, and it would seem that they are being prevented from doing so.
11. Why is that your conclusion?
Answer: I don't think it's possible for an Office within the Department of Justice to maintain investigative authority over the public and refuse to speak to that public at the same time. And I don't believe the OIG Hotline would ever choose that course of conduct in any case. So, I think this Office is being handcuffed from above.
12. Perhaps the White House could now intervene on your behalf to ensure that false reporting against you and your family members is immediately halted. Perhaps President Trump could direct the FBI to preserve your safety and that of your family members under all circumstances. Is this possible? Could he also direct outreach to your through the OIG Hotline or another honorable government representative?
Answer: I believe President Trump has the authority to assist my family and me decisively at this time. He is Commander in Chief, and Kash Patel is his newly confirmed Director of the FBI. So both President Trump and Director Patel have the ability to withdraw falsified law enforcement reporting that is ongoing as well as to withdraw any wrongful directives of harm against my family members, my properties, and myself. And yes, honorable outreach could be directed by President Trump, and that would be greatly appreciated by all of us.
13. And would that mean that you would not be served drugged or altered food in restaurants, as apparently happened last night?
Answer: Yes, it would.
14. And would that mean that you would not suffer further false witness statements from flight attendants, airline passengers, drivers, wait staff, hotel staff, museum goers, tour guides, or passersby?
Answer: It certainly would.
15. And would that mean that the FBI would be forced to acknowledge its egregiously false accusations pertaining to its own calculated harm of your Cape Cod property and perhaps your Portola Valley property as well?
Answer: Unquestionably. Yes.
16. And so President Trump really has the ability to insist on this integrity right away.
Answer: He does, and, at his directive, Mr. Patel does as well.
17. You visited the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery yesterday and saw an extremely moving film portrait of Frederick Douglass. Can you tell us your impressions?
Answer: Well, this experience was a tremendous gift, and high praise to everyone who made this exhibit possible, including the artist, Isaac Julien, and the curators, Marshall Stauffer and Ann Shumard.
I found it moving to the point of tears, although I ensured that mine were soundless.
But what a magnificent testament to the fortitude and courage of one of America's most cherished heroes.
His force of intellect, will and spirit necessitated that this man reclaim his own inherent right to his sovereignty.
And he changed our nation through that insistence.
And he's still changing it.
17. In what way?
Answer: His life gave me strength yesterday, and I had no idea of the ways in which I was about to require it.
But this courageous man's striving gave me the fortitude I needed at the critical hour, and so did the inspired labors of Isaac Julien, Marshall Stauffer and Ann Shumard in faithfully illuminating his prodigious gifts to us all.
18. Frederick Douglass insisted on his freedom. Are you also insisting on yours?
Answer: I am. And that which makes us ennobled and worthy as leaders is that we don't abandon that quest.
19. Will you please let us know how your family and you yourself are faring over the next several days, while you await outreach from the OIG Hotline or an honorable and peaceable representative of the government's choosing?
Answer: I certainly will.
20. Thank you for taking the time to speak with us this afternoon. Please remain safe.
Answer: You are quite welcome. And thank you.
Lane MacWilliams
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