Thread by @capitolhunters

#SeditionHunters - the FBI have finally come for the Oath Keepers "Person 1", Stewart Rhodes. Arrested Thursday afternoon in Texas. Charges still sealed but WaPo claims it will be "seditious conspiracy", the first such charge for the Capitol attack. 1/ washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

DOJ has now issued a press release and posted documents. Seditious conspiracy is applied to Rhodes and 10 previously charged defendants. 2/
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As a reminder, many other groups are equally important. more charges are coming. On Jan 5th, Rhodes & his lawyer famously met up with other leaders in a parking garage, including Enrique Tarrio (Proud Boys), Joshua Macias (Vets for Trump), Bianca Garcia (Latinos for Trump). 3/

The parking garage meeting was captured because Tarrio let a British film crew shadow him. He was arrested Jan 4, released & told to leave DC, stopped at the garage en route. Watch for yourself at link. Tarrio passed leadership to other Proud Boys... 4/
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The OK indictment shows explicit talk of armed takeover, and inspiration from Eastern Europe, where 'hybrid' actions of large crowds combined with military actors have toppled governments. (Rhodes says: "Military aligned with the people"). Similar language is used by many.. 5/

Here are the OK's charging documents at link. They held training sessions on road blocks and ambushes, advocated use of force. On January 6, some of them acted less fearsome - skipped fighting, took selfies. But the intent was there, and the planning.. 6/
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To show how common this talk was, here's Patrick Byrne, not a military guy at all, former Overstock CEO, election-fraud conspirator, pal of Michael Flynn, met with Trump on Nov 18th - casually discussing the playbook he'd learned on a trip to Moldova... 7/ deepcapture.com/2021/01/a-mess…

Byrne wrote this on Jan 17, after the Capitol attack, partly to blame Jan 6 violence on the "Goon Left" and "weak" people. Hybrid actions require restraint! he says. What it shows: J6 figures casually referenced E. European hybrid warfare - because everyone talked about it. 8/

Many were open about what they wanted - here's Joshua Macias in front of the Capitol asking Trump to "invoke the Insurrection Act", declare martial law. Watch video and that language is everywhere - promoted on social media in a months-long campaign. 9/

https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1458964978560606209

Macias & Lamotta in that video (both Vets for Trump) are not yet charged with federal crimes, tho they have state charges for menacing a Philly vote-counting center. But Lamotta fought with police on Jan 6; he will be arrested. Big charges are coming. 10/

https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1411411021684568065

A timing note: Rhodes' conspiracy charges come just 8 days after a Washington Post article quoted a compromised source saying "There's no grand conspiracy that FBI found". Also the arrested are "mostly everyday Americans". Coincidence? Or planted spin? 11/
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In Aug., Reuters put out a similar article: anonymous sources claimed the FBI found no organization at all, specifically "there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones". That SAME DAY Jones' associate Owen Shroyer was arrested. People spin! 12/

https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1428705191159808008

Props to @MysteRayOfSun who found the Patrick Byrne article & all the #SeditionHunters whose work has been invaluable in identifying individuals, understanding patterns, & helping build solid, winnable prosecutions of those responsible for the Capitol attack. 13/

Typo fix: Byrne met with Trump on DECEMBER 18th, not November. This is the crazy meeting where Flynn & co. proposed seizing voting machines. Witness Jonathan Swan: "You wouldn't believe this stuff if you read it in fiction, but it actually happened." 14/

https://twitter.com/DonLemonTonight/status/1357945865739116544

With Rhodes' arrest, FBI has now made a clean sweep of the top row of the "9 Leaders Leading" in our Christmas thread. Hoping the 4 in the bottom row are having a nervous New Year. 15/

https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1477021651686490116

Update: For those who want visuals, Dallas News is staking out the house where Stewart Rhodes was arrested, in Little Elm, near Dallas. Lots of Dallas/Ft. Worth at the Capitol Jan 6: Kellye Sorelle, Ali Alexander, N. Texas Patriot Boys' Lucas Denney. 16/

https://twitter.com/jamielandersx/status/1481750645552164866

Another correction: the president of Latinos for Trump (& candidate for Texas State Sen.) is Bianca Gracia, not Garcia. She kept busy on Jan 5 - here's the parking garage crowd talking insurrection in a 40-minute video from VA State Sen. Amanda Chase. 17/

https://twitter.com/GoadGatsby/status/1346884918710833152

Update on Rhodes: a new spectacularly ill-advised interview by attorney Jon Moseley, who admits the OKs had expected to be called up to serve as a militia when Trump invoked the Insurrection Act. The J6 crowd widely expected this. (h/t @JohnDoeskibro) 18/

https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1481971846849318914

Here's the Above the Law take on the Moseley / Oath Keeper interview, says the interview is an "error in judgment" worse than Moseley's boasting he will "drink[] champagne on... Kelly Meggs' yacht, purchased from his malicious prosecution lawsuit.." 19/
abovethelaw.com/2022/01/oath-k…

Possibly not a coincidence that Rhodes appears to have chosen another lawyer to represent him now. 20/

https://twitter.com/bennybryant17/status/1482091416163659784