#DCRallies 2/ MJ: Roger Stone solicited contributions for Jan 5/6 events through the StopTheSteal website (which he launched in 2016) “for private security at every one of our events, as well as funds for permits, staging, transportation, and legal fees”
3/ O.K. Leader Stewart Rhodes: Just as at the Nov & Dec DC. rallies, Oath Keepers “will be conducting PSDs for multiple high profile speakers over both days, and our teams will be either directly responsible for event security or assisting event security”
4/ NYT drew on the work of the Capitol Terrorists Exposers group to trace Roger Stone's Oath Keepers security team: “At least six people who had provided security for Roger Stone entered the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack.”
5/ Roger Stone's 1/5 driver: an alleged Oath Keeper whose wife was paid $1500 by the Oath Keepers over several months "to assist her and her children during Joshua James' absence to Texas and Washington, DC, while he was providing security."
6/ From @jsrailton, @CTExposers & Daily Beast:
One of Roger Stone’s 1/6 Oath Keepers security detail,
Robert Minuta, also escorted: #IAmAlexJones at the 11/14 DC rally
& Trump’s fmr Nat'l Security Advisor Michael Flynn
at the 12/12 DC rally
7/ Prosecutors say Stewart Rhodes "was in direct communication with some of the plot suspects before, during and after the assault on the Capitol....messages...from the encrypted chatting app Signal connecting Mr. Rhodes to regional Oath Keepers leaders."
He'd "been talking about civil war since he founded the Oath Keepers, in 2009. But now more people were listening." Rather than "as a revolutionary in waiting, he now saw his role as defending the president."
Indictment: #OathKeepers Robert Minuta:
"There’s violence against patriots by police so we’re en route in a grand theft auto golf cart to the Capitol building right now"...
1/ Before 1/6 “The House Sergeant at Arms warned Members of Congress...to arrive early...and use underground tunnels to travel" between office bldgs &
"the Capitol, instead of walking.... Such precautions are not common during protests"
25/ Thread on fmr. Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne,
who spoke at the 1/5 Freedom Plaza rally
18 days after a WH meeting with Trump along with
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and lawyer Sidney Powell.
1/5 speakers: Flynn, #IAmAliAlexander in orange hat & sweatshirt
#DCRallies 3/ This thread covers VIPs, those with event access badges or providing event security, a Capitol grounds map showing 1st Amendment demonstrations areas, #IAmAlexJones, WildProtest, Roger Stone, & state & local politicians at the insurrection.
#VIPAccessBadge
Here a Save America March VIP Silver Seating badge on the West plaza. Note the microphone.
The West Lawn (map area 1⬆️) was fenced off on Jan. 6th.
Trump finished speaking at this Ellipse event, organized by Women for America First, around 1:10 pm.
Getty/NurPhoto
#VIPAccessBadge
East steps of the Capitol: Alex Jones telling people to go down to wait for Trump to come speak, apparently to their permitted WildProtest stage, outside the barricades:
Lot 8, map⬆️.
Ali Alexander & #VipCamel (left balcony w/ VIP badge)