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Oct 25, 2021, 8 tweets

Here's officers' perspective of Sam Lazar's assault on the police line on Jan. 6. Lazar would spend the next several months between his participation in the assault and his arrest attending political rallies in Pennsylvania, including a Rudy Giuliani event. #FacePaintBlowHard

A judge ordered last week that Sam Lazar be held until trial.

The feds also saw his appearance in that NYT doc. Here's how they submitted it. (CC: @trbrtc)

"STAND DOWN LEOs! STAND THE FUCK DOWN! STAND THE FUCK DOWN LEOs!... LEOs GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY OR JOIN US!" -- Sam Lazar #FacePaintBlowHard

A real cross-section of the "Stop The Steal" movement here. Don't sleep on the Gen-Zer in the Ruth Chris Steak House face mask. Big do-you-know-who-my-dad-is energy.

“Reached by HuffPost… Lazar claimed he ‘wasn’t able to make it’ to the Mastriano event he was photographed at, and then hung up.” huffpost.com/entry/samuel-l…

“People on the FBI’s wanted list tend to lay low, and while Lazar renamed his Facebook page and curtailed his public social media presence, he’s still attending political events with people who are telling him that the election was stolen.” huffpost.com/entry/samuel-l…

“The same day that Lazar attended the event with Trump conspiracy theorists who believe the election was stolen, Trump issued a series of diatribes calling the 2020 election ‘THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY!’ and the ‘greatest Election Fraud in the history of our Country.’”

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