🚨“Operation Occupy the Capitol"

The seditionists made little secret of their violent plot in Instagram and Facebook posts in December, and there were MANY warning signs on extremist sites and mainstream social media that were ignored by law enforcement.

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
On the fringe right-wing site 8kun (popular with QAnon followers), users talked for WEEKS about a "siege of the Capitol," some as if it were a foregone conclusion. Others debated how violent the uprising should be, and if police should be exempt.

This is DOMESTIC TERRORISM.🤬
An 8kun user posted just 1 day before the coup attempt: "You can go to Washington on Jan 6 and help storm the Capitol. As many Patriots as can be. We will storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, kill federal employees and agents, and demand a recount.”🤬
Some users responded: “Why kill cops and security guards? I was under the impression *the enemies were the high government officials* and the rest are uninformed masses?”

Trump knowingly incited these violent seditionists, while leaders were INSIDE the Capitol.

#RemoveTrump
Before the violent insurrection, there was a substantial uptick in insurrectionist hashtags both on extremist sites and on the open web, specifically a large bump in traffic around the hashtags “1776” and “Occupy” in the night before the rally.

WHY WAS THE THREAT IGNORED⁉️
‼️After the arrest of the Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio by DC police in the aftermath of the siege of the Capitol, members of the group **threatened online to “burn down” the Capitol**.

The Proud Boys should be designated as a domestic terrorism organization.🤬
Trump, the Seditionist-in-Chief, urged his violent supporters to join his DC rally in the days before the siege. Once at the rally, he urged his supporters to march on the Capitol just before the violent insurrection.

REMOVE TRUMP NOW.🤬

#RemoveTrump #GOPSedition

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10 Jan
‼️“That was a heavily trained group of militia terrorists that attacked us. They had radios...2-way communicators and earpieces...bear spray...flash bangs. They were prepared.” ~Black veteran of the US Capitol Police.

ARREST THEM ALL.🤬

#GOPSedition
buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanu…
“They strategically put 2 IEDs, pipe bombs in 2 different locations. These guys were military trained. A lot of them were former military,” the veteran said, referring to 2 pipe bombs found outside the headquarters of the @DNC and the Republican National Committee.🤬
“I found out what (the terrorists) were planning when a friend of mine screenshot me an Instagram story from the Proud Boys saying, ‘We’re breaching the capitol today, guys. I hope y’all ready.’”

Yet officers were unprepared and then outmanned and overpowered by the violent mob.
Read 11 tweets
8 Jan
🚨BREAKING: Sen. @lisamurkowski said Donald Trump should RESIGN immediately and that if the @GOP cannot separate itself from Trump, she isn’t certain she has a future with the party.💥

FINALLY, a Republican stands up for democracy.

#RemoveTrump #sedition
adn.com/politics/2021/…
🔥Murkowski: “I want him to RESIGN. I want him out. He has caused enough damage.

“He hasn’t been focused on what is going on with #COVID. He’s either been golfing or he’s been inside the Oval Office fuming...
...and throwing every single person who has been loyal and faithful to him under the bus, starting with the @VP. He only wants to stay there for the title...for his ego. He needs to get out. He needs to do the good thing, but I don’t think he’s capable of doing a good thing.”💥
Read 7 tweets
8 Jan
🔥David Humphreys—who along w/his family has donated $6 million to Josh @HawleyMO—denounced Hawley as a “political opportunist” who used “irresponsible, inflammatory, and dangerous tactics” to incite the seditious attack of the US Capitol.

#GOPSedition
missouriindependent.com/2021/01/07/maj…
Humphreys: “Hawley’s irresponsible, inflammatory, and dangerous tactics have incited violence and further discord across America. And he has now revealed himself as a political opportunist willing to subvert the Constitution and the ideals of the nation he swore to uphold.”💥
“In October 2016 I publicly voiced my opposition to Trump in the @nytimes: ‘At some point, you have to look in the mirror and recognize that you cannot possibly justify support for Trump to your children…I need to say the same about Hawley.”🔥
Read 4 tweets
7 Jan
🚨BREAKING: @SpeakerPelosi calls on @VP Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the #25thAmendment to REMOVE Trump—calling him a “very dangerous person”—and says the House may #ImpeachTrump (again).

The @GOP allowed this traitor to remain in office.🤬

#GOPSedition
Pelosi: “By inciting #sedition as he did yesterday he must be REMOVED from office. While there are only 13 days left any day could be a horror show for America.”💥

#RemoveTrumpNow #GOPSedition
Pelosi hammers the @HouseGOP who challenged the election results yesterday, calling them “enablers of the president’s #sedition.”

These @GOP traitors must be REMOVED FROM OFFICE to FACE JUSTICE.🤬

#GOPSedition
Read 4 tweets
3 Jan
🚨BREAKING: Trump begged Republican @GaSecofState Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary 1-hour phone call Saturday that experts say raises “legal questions.”

Lordy, there are tapes!😎

#sedition
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
💣@washingtonpost *got a recording* of the conversation—Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him and THREATENED him with vague criminal consequences if Raffensperger refused to pursue his false claims, warning that he was taking “a big risk.”
Trump repeatedly claimed: “There’s no way I lost Georgia. There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.”🙄

“So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”

THIS IS NOT LEGAL.
Read 7 tweets
1 Jan
‼️After Dr. @Cleavon_MD Gilman was FIRED by Yuma Regional for speaking the truth about the #coronavirus pandemic, @CorriganWright—an ICU nurse at the hospital—RESIGNED over “mistreatment and negligence” from the hospital’s administration.

#COVID19

azcentral.com/story/news/loc…
Wright was enraged by a "lack of action” stemming from the #coronavirus outbreak at the #Arizona State Prison Complex in Yuma where >1,400 inmates & >1,500 staff have tested positive.

Sick inmates were treated at the hospital—guards were forced stay close *without adequate PPE*.
Wright emailed hospital administrators about the risk to prison staff, but her manager “told me to shut my mouth.”🤬

THIS IS SO WRONG.

Our frontline healthcare workers are heroes, who are valiantly fighting to SAVE LIVES. We must listen to them!
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