Thread by @ryanjreilly

In case you missed it: Josh Hawley claimed it was a total mystery to him whether he fist pumped any Capitol rioters, so @ArthurDelaneyHP and I set out to settle that lingering question for him. Hope that helps! huffpost.com/entry/josh-haw…

TL;DR: Yes, Josh Hawley fist pumped people who "participated in the criminal riot.” In fact, it’d be tougher to identify people who Hawley fist pumped who didn’t break the law. huffpost.com/entry/josh-haw…

Already showed you how the guy with the bullhorn (who was directing the crowd Hawley saluted) rioted, but perhaps we should follow someone less obvious.

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1391053756519886850

How about the lady in the red jacket? Here she is obeying the law by staying behind the barriers before Hawley’s first pump. So does she continue obeying the law after rioters violently bust through those same barriers?

No, she does not! She joins the mob. And why wouldn’t she, if she thought the election was stolen? Seems like the very least you could do, if you thought this was 1776 and that Joe Biden was about to steal the presidency.

Somehow didn’t make this connection, but one recently arrested defendants made his push on the east side of the Capitol where Josh Hawley saluted the crowd. He was right next to bullhorn guy, and suggested making “HOME VISITS” to lawmakers.

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1389229293067284482

If the government’s red circle didn’t you figure out who Doug Wright is in that photo, his Facebook message can clarify:

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1389230557092003841

Let’s return to Bullhorn guy. Here he is inciting the crowd moments before he helps busts down the police barrier. He also lends his bullhorn to another man who incites the crowd by comparing them to “a bunch of antifa, a bunch of bitches,” accusing them of not being “patriots.”

Consistently impressed by the work of the open source community investigating the Capitol attack. That video only had about 200 views on YouTube when someone flagged it for me last week. It’s really value evidence (that is also backed up for safekeeping).