Illustration of Steve Bannon associate Frank Scavo (of Old Forge, PA in Lackawanna county) who organized buses to the Capitol & tweeted “its going down” 2 minutes before the breach & yet hoped to avoid prison time. No such luck. #FrankScavo 1/
3/ “Bannon also boasted that ‘after hours we’re on skyping these calls in Lackawanna county [Frank Scavo’s county] and to patriot groups around and conservative groups and Tea Party groups…’” #SubpoenaScavo@January6thCmte
Jack Posobiec:
* Planted a “Rape Melania” sign at a Trump protest (to make protesters look bad)
* Falsely claimed that pipe bombs had been planted during a protest of George Floyd’s murder
* Promoted the false claim that “Antifa” had derailed an Amtrak train #PosobiecLies 1/
Jack Posobiec also:
* Falsely claimed that Bernie Sanders had asked his supporters to “take down Trump” & that Loretta Lynch had called for “blood in the streets” (after Rep. Scalise was shot)
* Falsely claimed to work for CBS News #PosobiecLies 2/
Before January 6, there was the June 2018 Tommy Robinson rally in London that turned violent. Bannon so was impressed by the rally that he invited Robinson to a “Movement” dinner w/ Paul Gosar soon after. The Middle East Forum funded Gosar’s travel. 1/ nytimes.com/2021/04/23/wor…
“The anti-Islam agitator Tommy Robinson [who was supported by the Middle East Forum] struck gold in America. Keeping it might require help from Moscow, where other British far-right activists are also finding friends.” 4/3/21 1/ nytimes.com/2021/04/23/wor…
A “right-wing U.S. research institute [Middle East Forum] even bankrolled a 2018 [Tommy Robinson] rally in London that foreshadowed the violence at the Capitol: Mr. Robinson’s supporters attacked police officers in a street fight near Parliament.” 2/
“A month later, Representative Paul Gosar, Republican of Arizona, flew to London to speak at a second rally for Mr. Robinson.” 3/
“This type of malicious smear — vilifying the creed of almost 1/4 of the world’s religious adherents as a ‘false faith’ and its founder as a ‘pedophile’— is, unfortunately, all too familiar to Jewish people, who have suffered just this kind of religious and ethnic defamation.” 2/
“We know the dangerous outcomes of unchecked hatred.” 3/
“N.J. voters faced a new way to sign in [electronic poll books]. It didn’t always go smoothly for poll workers or those casting ballots.” 11/3/21 1/ nj.com/politics/2021/…
At “a number of polling locations, election workers had issues connecting through the internet to the state database, which led to long lines in some places, and voters even being turned away from others.” 2/
“In Bernardsville, a voter said new machines for District 7 failed and voters had been turned away. In Raritan Township, a poll worker had the manual out while trying to help a voter sign in. In Hillsborough, another voter said people waiting in line ultimately walked away.” 3/
“There also seems to be a significant overlap between [Nigel Farage’s ‘World for Brexit’] and Bannon’s far-right populist group ‘The Movement’. “ 8/1/19 1/ bylinetimes.com/2019/08/01/ban…
“People close to both organisations include Steve Bannon, Nigel Farage, Raheem Kassam and Farage’s girlfriend, Laure Ferarri, who helped set up the group and is a nominee for secretary-general.” 2/