Raffensperger wholly refuses to engage with the substance of @chrislhayes’ line of inquiry. It’s almost like the myth of mass voter fraud has been beneficial to the GOP for decades, but some leaders just found Trump’s clownish, ham-fisted stretching of the myth embarrassing.
A weird thing that happened after the election was that the folks who have been playing this game with voter fraud claims for decades started to worry that Trump was making them look completely ridiculous.
There’s a whole class of professional Republicans who built their careers ginning up fears of mass voter fraud that got really frustrated after the election that the marks didn’t comprehend their role in the con.
So many Dave Thomas Circle memories, but the prevailing one is grabbing food there after a loooonnnnng day at Obama’s first inauguration. (The 2009 inauguration perimeter was pretty intense.) washingtonpost.com/transportation…
NEW: Anthony Sargent (aka #bigbrickpitcher) has been arrested. The hand tattoos helped seal the case. A lot of work with open-source video on this one. #seditionhunters
Feds are really taking to this OSINT thing!
The FBI sealed the case up by surveilling Sargent in Florida and by pinning down his location at the Capitol with a Google search warrant. Uploaded here: documentcloud.org/documents/2106…
Prosecutors have released a number of documents and text messages in the case against Ronald Colton McAbee (aka #threepercentsheriff). He traveled up to D.C. with his friend #ScaryCherry3P, who is FBI 266-AFO and was named at detention hearing (but hasn’t been publicly charged).
The overwhelming scope of the Jan. 6 investigation is working in defendants’ favor. Here, a magistrate judge who ordered #threepercentsheriff released pretrial suggested the FBI didn’t act quickly enough to arrest him after learning his name. documentcloud.org/documents/2106…
NEW: Here's body worn camera footage that shows a mob of Trump supporters attacking police officers with a giant "TRUMP" sign on Jan. 6.
"PUSH! FUCKING PUSH!"
The videos were released in connection with the case against Capitol rioter Jose Padilla. They were previously presented as evidence in his detention hearing.
"WHAT ABOUT YOUR FUCKING OATH!... FUCKING OATHBREAKERS!"
“Cipparone's motion said ‘Mike’ had repeatedly mocked Stedman via Twitter, including posts that belittled his occupation as a dating coach and his participation in a ‘medieval fantasy singing group’ at Haddonfield Memorial High School.” courierpostonline.com/story/news/202…
Americans turning the worst people on their Facebook feeds into the feds after Jan. 6 remains one of my favorite Capitol attack story lines: huffpost.com/entry/facebook…