Thread by @DropMikeWilson

"No one - literally no one - had heard of Kessler before the event"

Read article from Feb '17. 3 months before Spencer's torch rally, 4 months before planning UTR >>richmond.com/news/virginia/…

"No one - literally no one - had heard of Kessler before the event"

Article from February 2017. 3 months before Spencer's torch rally, 4 months before planning UTR on Discord richmond.com/news/virginia/…

"No one - literally no one - had heard of Kessler before the event"

Read article from May 2017. 2 weeks after the first torch rally, 1 week before he starts planning UTR on Discord. propublica.org/article/things…

"No one - literally no one - had heard of Kessler before the event"

Read article from June 2017, where he announced rally at council mtg. Next day he's on Discord planning UTR. Traditionalist Workers Party publicly encouraged people to attend on Facebook. nbc29.com/story/35595559…

"I remember seeing normal MAGA people post stuff about the event on twitter for weeks."

These people either knew or they were either duped. Read "Unite the Right" rally organizer Jason Kessler's plan to attract "normie conservatives" to the white identity movement.

"I remember seeing normal MAGA people post stuff about the event on twitter for weeks."

Read "Unite the Right" rally organizer Jason Kessler & supporter in their own words on how to attract "normie conservatives" to the white identity movement.

"I remember seeing normal MAGA people post stuff about the event on twitter for weeks."

Read Kessler encouraging his followers to adopt the garb of Trump supporters at a June 2017 Proud Boys event in Charlottesville.

"I remember seeing normal MAGA people post stuff about the event on twitter for weeks."

Read Kessler encouraging his followers to adopt the garb of Trump supporters to bait Antifascists. UTR attendees wore khakis & white polos like Trump.

"I remember seeing normal MAGA people post stuff about the event on twitter for weeks."

Read Kessler & followers in June 2017 discussing a "chance to crack some Antifa skulls" using sign posts "to bludgeon our enemies" & opportunities to bait Antifascists.

"I remember seeing normal MAGA people post stuff about the event on twitter for weeks."

Read Kessler asking white nationalist followers not to display swastikas or do Roman salutes in order to attract "normie conservatives" to the white identity movement.

"There was no indication it was anything other than a free speech rally and also to urge support of monument preservation."

Read Kessler in his own words, "Make no mistake. This is a pro-white event and folks are going to have to accept that"

The "Unite the Right" rally was organized ostensibly as a defense of a Confederate monument, but it was clear months before the event that the organizers planned to provoke violence for a "pro-white" event. Lie to yourself if you think otherwise or admit you were duped by them.

Some background on the Robert E. Lee statue, planning UTR & violence in Charlottesville twitter.com/i/moments/9541…