#SeditionHunters have heard a lot about PA & AZ; now it’s time for NV! You may know that Proud Boys just tried to take over the GOP in NV’s largest county. On Jan 6, a suspicious meet-up is tied to Joey Gilbert, potential NV gov, & to Vets for Trump. Hang on for tangled thread 1/
On Jan 6, a group incl. Joey Gilbert (#PurpleMeathead) pushed through police barricades on the E. Plaza, then gathered on the E. steps just before the arrival of Alex Jones & Ali Alexander. We called these 3 #GnarleyParley, #WoodlandNorris, and #KleenKutKen. All are from NV. 2/
#GnarleyParley is Warren Gilbert of Reno, NV, Lt. Col. Marines (ret.), Joey’s dad. Served on NV Homeland Security Commission 2011-2019, advising on “potential acts of terrorism”. Maybe he’s now trying out domestic terrorism from the other side? (At R is III%er Rocky Pastorino) 3/
At the Capitol on Jan 6, Warren Gilbert was photographed on the E. Plaza with a group including anti-vaxxer #IamTyBollinger, Bikers for Trump, and Vets for Trump officials #IamTeddyDaniels of PA & #IamAnthonyLamotta (out on bail on federal weapons charges). 4/
#WoodlandNorris is Boone Cutler of Reno, NV, U.S. Army veteran (infantry and “Tactical PsyOp in Iraq”, per his site), former podcaster and radio host (Fox News) on veteran’s affairs. #KleenKutKen is Wade Cutler, an intern in Joey Gilbert’s law firm. 5/
Boone Cutler is involved with Vets for Trump - here he is with co-founders Joshua Macias and Vlad Lemets at the 2019 DC “Faith and Freedom Coalition” conference (selfie from Lemets’ FB with Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA). Next pic is them at the conference dinner. 6/
Macias was also at the Capitol on Jan 6, with LaMotta; both went to Philly with guns in Nov. to disrupt the vote count. Cutler’s website: “America has become disgusted with the political climate of today so the only place to turn to and trust for leadership is the Warfighter.” 7/
Cutler & Lemets appear in a Vets for Trump promo film with a theme: U.S. should stop fighting wars abroad, come home to fight leftists. Rear Adm. Kubic: “America was spread too thin.” Narrator: “We never imagined that the wars could come to our shores.” 8/ vimeo.com/boonecutler
Cutler: “We’re standing for the only candidate..that protects the sovereignty of America” Lemets: U.S. must “..fight an emerged asymmetrical threat on our shores - this requires that we strengthen America’s core.” Lemets himself was born & raised in Russia, enlisted in 2005...9/
..began Vets for Trump 2015. In 2019, the Vietnam Vets of America found the group’s FB page “was run entirely by foreign entities”, “infamous Macedonian trolls” who also ran disinformation campaigns in 2016. Lemets & Macias say they were naive & duped. 10/ washingtonpost.com/technology/201…
VVA began researching disinformation when their identity was stolen and used to post fake news. Read their report to the House Committee on Veteran’s Affairs, “Hijacking our Heroes”. VVA warned of disinformation in 2020 too... 11/ vva.org/wp-content/upl… washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
..and tried to reach out to veterans in their #Protect2020 campaign. “This is psychological warfare taken to an extreme, and it impacts our national security.” washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
So NV perps lead us to the radicalization of vets…
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..but NV also warns us about radicalization of local politics. This month NV saw “open warfare..between state & local [GOP] officials over a pro-Trump insurgency involving far-right activists w/ ties to the Proud Boys” (Politico)13/ politico.com/news/2021/05/2… reviewjournal.com/news/politics-…
NV might be a roadmap of the future: Jan 6 perps are seeking office in 4 swing states where they would have authority over elections..
NV: Gilbert (Gov, pot.)
PA: Mastriano (Gov), Daniels (U.S. Congress)
AZ: Finchem (Sec. of State)
MI: Kelley (Gov) 14/
Finally, doxxing people is never done lightly. Naming a Capitol #SeditionVIP happens only after screening by a team to verify identity, location, and importance, & vetting the resulting thread. But when perps touch on national politics, it’s important to tell their stories. 17/
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@hunterw@JenLawrence21 Clarification: there was ALWAYS a plan to move people to the Capitol. Calls to be at the Capitol at 1 PM had circulated for months. People in the crowd talk about it. You hear people on livestreams telling Trump, hurry up, we have to get to the Capitol. The only question is..1/
@hunterw@JenLawrence21 ...who knew of what part of the plan. Maybe Stockton can say he doesn't know (though he hangs with III%ers - disingenuous that he acts shocked, shocked, that Ali is associated with militia). But there was nothing spontaneous about an effort to get a large crowd to the Capitol. 2/
@hunterw@JenLawrence21 Also here is Stockton posting in Dec. 2020 praising his friend Matt Couch, who is tight with Cindy Chafian, best buds with Nathan Hughes who fought at the tunnel on Jan 6, and involved in trying to spring Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio from jail on Jan 4th. 3/
#SeditionHunters - the FBI motors forward, mopping up networks: today more of Zach Rehl's Philadelphia Proud Boys. The main 5 who move together are now all arrested. The 3 today all shared a Telegram chat with Rehl, easily picked up via his phone after his March arrest. 1/
All of Rehl's crew helpfully provided names, blood types, and emergency contact info in the group text, along with coordinated travel and discussion of radios. Combined with their group selfies, they practically write their own conspiracy indictments. 2/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Zach Rehl, Philly PB president, was first found inside the Capitol by @DianthaSol after a crowdsourced manhunt. His whole crew gathered in Sen. Merkley's office, familiar enough that they could be spotted even in black-and-white photos from the New Yorker... 3/
#SeditionHunters - three weeks ago the DoD Inspector General released a Jan 6 timeline so discrepant with former statements that it couldn't fit in our timeline. Now a bombshell memo call Lt. Generals Charles Flynn and Walter Piatt "unmitigated liars". 1/ politico.com/news/2021/12/0…
Former DC National Guard Col. Earl Matthews focuses on claims that it took hours to prepare National Guard to deploy to the Capitol, says those statements “constituted the willful deception of Congress.” 2/
Maj. Gen. Walker, former commander of the DC National Guard, had immediately called for the IG report to be retracted - it threw him under the bus, claimed he got a call at 4:35 PM to deploy the Guard and sat on it til 5:08 PM. Walker says that's a lie. 3/ washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
#SeditionHunters - the Dec. deposition calendar for the @January6thCmte is so packed you may need this guide from @RubyWorms. Kind of the sedition greatest hits: Michael Flynn on Mon., then Eastman & Jason Miller, next week even busier with Rhodes, Tarrio, RPL, Roger Stone.. 1/
..and the biggest fish of all, Alex Jones, gets a Saturday slot on the 18th. But that's not all: Stockton & Lawrence, McEntee, Stephen Miller, Bill Stepien, Taylor Budowich. Researchers working on any of these, best to get results in as soon as you can. 2/ january6th.house.gov/tip-line
Liz Cheney: "We are making rapid progress. We anticipate that next year, we will be conducting multiple weeks of public hearings, setting out for the American people, in vivid color, exactly what happened, every minute of the day on January 6th." 3/
#SeditionHunters - "arrest Friday" is back! Not just in numbers but in importance: the first arrest in awhile of a perp with an "organizational" role on Jan 6. But first, the colorful & violent #PinstripeBoilersuit, FBI #37 and #94, Josiah Kenyon of NV..1/
#PinstripeBoilersuit was ID'd within days of the Capitol attack: a witness told FBI they'd met him on the Washington Metro, gave his motel, ID'd from motel records. Arrests often lag IDs by many months, presumably to not overload the court system. 2/ justice.gov/usao-dc/press-…
And now, the biggest of the big game, hunted for months, the two who ran the breaches on West and East sides of the Capitol - #MaroonPB and #ZZtopPB. The #1 arrest priority for many, not the leaders of the insurrection but on-the-ground executors. 3/
Likely most people have heard how Twitter's new "safety" rules about posting pictures are being used against investigators - see WaPo article. No #SeditionHunters accounts affected yet, but it's safest to archive Tweet histories - tips to follow 1/ washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Twitter lets you download a zip file with all past tweets, replies, videos, etc. In your menu bar, go to the "more" setting, click "settings and privacy", then click "Download an archive of your data". They will prepare a zip file; that takes about 24 hours, then notify you. 2/
To save important threads (yours or other people's), first "unroll" them with an app like the threadreader, then save the result as a pdf (see below). Note- if an account is suspended the thread disappears, the actual pdf is the only safe backup. 3/