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Jul 6, 2021, 5 tweets

FBI undercover employee to Capitol defendant: “Hey brother, you were masked up in the Capitol right?”

Capitol defendant: “Yeah thoroughly. Why?”

FBI UCE: “I keep hearing about good people getting hunted down for this shit. Just
paranoid.”

The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department had an undercover at Freedom Plaza on the morning of Jan. 6, per court documents.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

(H/T to PACER whisperer @SeamusHughes)

"DUONG later that day talked again about going into the Capitol and said when he went in, he was 'just recording as like a journalist,' using quotes with his fingers when saying this to indicate his sarcasm.”

Don’t sleep on “raised his hand.”

A common tripwire in the FBI sting: "money's really tight right now.”

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