Roger Stone’s Proud Boys, Seizing Trump’s Call to Washington, Helped Lead Capitol Attack
The WSJ reviewed thousands of posts across social media to reconstruct how the Proud Boys invoked Trump’s rhetoric ahead of the Capitol attack wsj.com/articles/proud…
"Our investigation linked this network to Roger Stone and his associates," he added. Several of those pages had links to Proud Boys, he said. cnn.com/2020/07/08/tec…
There's been a Proud Boy at the White House for 4 years and everyone's shocked about the pic from today," the extremist group wrote.
The Trump adm was forced to deny that Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio had been officially invited to the WH ahead of a large MAGA rally taking place at the capitol in December.
On Parler, Tarrio uploaded a photograph of himself inside the WH gates.
Also on November 5, Bannon started his own "Stop the Steal" Facebook group; he changed the name to "Own Your Vote" the following day. It was not removed by Facebook, but they did later remove several other pages affiliated with Bannon.
Roger Stone and Steve Bannon have been in full disinformation mode. Stone has appeared on the show of far-right radio commentator Alex Jones to trumpet groundless claims that Biden is trying to steal the election. cnn.com/2020/11/13/bus…
📌Reminder: Joe diGenova represents the interests of indicted Oligarch Dymtro Firtash, who largely bankrolled the smear campaign against the Biden’s, to help Trump defeat Joe Biden
Parnas’ wife received wire transfers from a bank account in Russia.
The sum was $1M.
Firtash provided key documents that Giuliani used to further his discredited claim that former Vice President Joe Biden engaged in wrongdoing in Ukraine.
Firtash hired two Trump-allied lawyers Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova who were already working with Giuliani on his dirt-digging mission, which has led to intense speculation that Firtash is helping to finance Giuliani’s Biden smear campaign