Proud Boys Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Charles Donohoe must face Jan 6 charges 12/29/21 1/ nypost.com/2021/12/29/pro…
2/ “A U.S. judge on Tuesday allowed a criminal case relating to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack to move forward, declining to dismiss charges against four members of the far-right Proud Boys group.”
3/ “The defendants — Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Charles Donohoe — have been charged with violating a federal law that makes it a felony to obstruct an official government proceeding, among other charges.”
4/ Reminder. The Proud Boys, which were conveniently founded in the midst of the 2016 election (when Stone was already accusing Rs & Ds of trying to “steal” the election) have ties to Roger Stone & Alex Jones. @hsu_spencer
“There are 2 stories of the radicalization of the pro-Trump wing of the [GOP].” One is “slower moving & arguably starts during the 1990s…” The other “begins on 9/7/20, when polling [showed] that Trump’s path to reelection faced significant challenges.” 1/ splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
“Far-right influencers such as Jack Posobiec and Ali Alexander used right-tilting social media giant Twitter to start pushing the five-year-old Roger Stone-inspired hashtag #StoptheSteal.” 2/
3/ “The laws restrict the number of available polling places, increase the likelihood that officials purge voter rolls under false pretenses, drastically affect mail-in voting, and shrink election day hours.”
“In 2004, Senator Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans might use paperless voting machines to steal elections. In July that year, she and Senator Bob Graham, also a Democrat, introduced a paper-trail bill in the Senate.” But the GOP killed it. 1/ jennycohn1.medium.com/the-2000-u-s-p…
“After Russia attacked America’s election infrastructure to help Trump defeat Clinton in the 2016 presidential race, Senator Ron Wyden (D)…introduced a bill…that wld have required both paper ballots &rigorous manual audits…in 2020. Again, however, the GOP killed the bill.” 2/
“It was Stone who reportedly persuaded Trump to bring…Paul Manafort into the 2016 campaign, & it was Stone who communicated with Wikileaks” b4 it “released emails that Russia had hacked from…Clinton’s campaign chair,” a sort of electronic Watergate. link.medium.com/a1X6Svthgmb
“Stone also accused the RNC of attempting to steal the 2016 nomination from Trump, the Democrats of attempting to steal the 2016 general election from Trump, and anyone and everyone of attempting to steal the 2020 presidential election from Trump.” 1/
“It was Stone who coined the phrase ‘Stop the Steal’ in 2016. He deployed it again during the Florida recount in 2018 and yet again in 2020.” 2/