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19 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
#SeditionHunters - while the depth of foreign influence on the Jan 6 Capitol attack remains unclear, hopefully will get clearer soon... because FBI just raided the DC mansion of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, connected to Trump advisor and potential J6 figure Paul Manafort 1/
As a reminder, Manafort's company, Event Strategies, arranged the Jan 6 Ellipse rally. Longtime lobbyist and fixer for dubious figures: helped get pro-Russian strongman Yanukovich elected in Ukraine in 2010, then managed Trump's 2016 campaign. 2/
time.com/5003623/paul-m…
After Manafort was convicted of election-related crimes, The Atlantic wrote "That he would be accused of helping a foreign power subvert American democracy is a fitting coda to his life’s story." But it wasn't a coda - pardoned by Trump Dec. 23, 2020.. 3/
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
...2 weeks before the Capitol attack, a violent attempt to subvert American democracy directly. The Jan 6 attempt of course was supported and enabled by the kind of public disinformation campaign that Manafort ran in Ukraine... 4/
theguardian.com/us-news/2018/a…
Is it a coincidence that Manafort's Dec. 23 pardon was issued the same day as one for dirty trickster and Jan. 5th rally speaker Roger Stone? 5/
npr.org/2020/12/23/949…

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21 Oct
#SeditionHunters have worked for months to understand the order & organization under the seeming chaos of the Capitol attack. New analysis suggests: U.S. democracy hung by a thread for critical minutes. And we owe an immense debt to the men and women who fought to preserve it. 1/
New public resources include detailed timelines of the Jan 6 attack, backed up by hours of synchronized video; and a heartbreaking study of the fight for the “tunnel” door, & one of its heroes, by Emmy-award winning director Consuelo Gonzalez. Watch it. 2/
To understand why the tunnel was so important, pull back & consider patterns on Jan 6. Beneath the chaos are ordered motions, directed by people with bullhorns. The seeming plan: to hit multiple entries at once, flood the building, & block police reinforcements. But it failed. 3/ Image
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7 Oct
The Senate Judiciary Committee just released an "interim" report on efforts by the Trump admin. to pressure DOJ to subvert the election. #SeditionHunters findings on PA State Sen. #IamDougMastriano's Jan 6 actions are featured. (h/t @hockeynut0118) 1/
judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… Image
The report - all 400 pages - covers actions by Acting Asst. Attorney General Jeffrey Clark. It includes the shocking finding that on Dec. 28, senior DOJ leaders threatened to resign en masse if Trump carried out plans to use to DOJ to pressure states to appoint new electors. 2/ Image
The report explicitly links Trump's attempts to "weaponize" the DOJ to the January 6 attack: they "created the disinformation ecosystem necessary for Trump to incite almost 1,00 Americans to breach the Capitol in a violent attempt to subvert democracy" 3/ Image
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6 Oct
#SeditionHunters - is this the downfall of Alex Jones, the “king of conspiracy” (CNN), the most famous figure at the Capitol attack? He’d tormented the Sandy Hook parents for years; last week lost by default their multi-$M lawsuit. Will the law come for him for Jan 6 too? 1/
Alex’s reel shows how central he is on Jan 6: VIP section at the rally, marched w/ entourage to the Capitol (trailed by shouts: “Alex Jones!”), speechifed from the E. steps..& then decamped to a rented rooftop overlooking the besieged Capitol. He KNEW. 2/
rumble.com/vndge8-alex-jo…
Alex films himself so much we had to edit to keep the reel to 17 mins - but he must hate our reel since it keeps getting banned from YouTube. It's on Rumble now; hope to repost on the ‘Hunting Insurrectionists’ YT channel (itself shadowbanned -use link) 3/
youtube.com/channel/UCboWX…
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1 Oct
#SeditionHunters - today's arrest of former Green Beret & Florida Congressional candidate Jeremy Brown suggests that FBI now has a strategy for going after the semi-organized groups who arrived armed and ready on Jan 6, but remained on the edges waiting. 1/
Brown's Signal chat (L) shows intent to storm the Capitol; he called his group "Ground Force One". But, on Jan 6, while he was on the E. Plaza, he didn't attack. (The pic at R is him shoved BY police). How to avoid a defense of `selective prosecution'? 2/
extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/…
Brown's charging documents start with 11 pages describing the Capitol attack in detail as an attempt to stop certification of the election. Only on p. 12 do "facts specific" to him appear. He's quoted as telling police they're "violating the laws"... 3/
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29 Sep
#SeditionHunters - the @January6thCmte issued subpoenas today to 11 rally organizers, including the Kremers, Cindy Chafian, Caroline Wren, & folks from Event Strategies who helped with the Jan 6 rally. Event Strategies is part-owned by Paul Manafort... 1/
january6th.house.gov/news/press-rel…
Manafort chaired Trump's 2016 campaign, was indicted and convicted on federal charges relating to Ukraine after the Mueller investigation, then was pardoned Dec. 23, 2020 by Trump... 14 days before the Capitol attack. 2/
washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
Manafort has a long trail of cons, grifts, lobbying for shady foreign actors. He's also a pioneer of "black ops" to influence public opinion, including armies of Twitter trolls. Was Event Strategies' role on Jan 6 more than just setting up the chairs? 3/
theguardian.com/us-news/2018/a…
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24 Sep
#SeditionHunters - this week’s hack of the roster for the ultra-secretive Council for National Policy, “the most powerful conservatives in the country” (NYT), reminds us that longtime CNP member Jason Jones (#VIPCamel) was at the front of the East Capitol breaches on Jan 6. 1/
Anti-abortion activist Jones has been a CNP member since the last hack in 2014. ID’d in January, he was so brazen people thought first he might somehow be legal. Instead he may be the first CNP member arrested for Jan 6 actions - he helped pull down the barricades. 2/ ImageImageImage
On Jan 6, Jones began the day in the VIP section at the Ellipse near others later seen at the Capitol (labeled in blue here, including #IamDougMastriano). 3/ Image
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