#SeditionHunters - bad day today for attorney Joseph McBride - the 2nd of his 3 alleged "agent provocateurs" is now arrested & indicted, Proud Boy Zachary Johnson (#GogglesMan), along with buddy Dion Rajewksi (#BadMarinePB per @seditiontrack). 1/
McBride named 3 suspicious provocateurs who should be blamed instead of his clients for Capitol violence. The first, #RedFace45, proved to be an eccentric St. Louis Cardinals fan known as "Rally Runner". #GogglesMan was a known Proud Boy and now an arrested one. Only 1 left... 2/
Here's the 3rd of McBride's villains, purported provocateur #PippiLongscarf, who led poor unwitting Patriots down the wrong path. 3/
@PiperK@sandibachom@sandibachom there is video, it's the normal MAGAverse crowd, the speakers, hangers-on. If there's someone in particular you want to find, just ask. Here are some. 1/
#SeditionHunters - Time's up for #RayBanTerrorist! a long-awaited Proud Boys arrest, one of the first tracked, now up on PACER, information to follow. He walked in with the Proud Boys, fought on the Plaza and in the tunnel, part of the crowd surrounding Officer Fanone. 1/
Former Air Force serviceman AJ Fischer got his tag as #RayBanTerrorist for his cool shades. But the militia movement is complicated - between the Air Force and his time in extremism, the great @rocketman2001
found he spent some time as a male model. 2/
Correction: AJ Fischer aka #RayBanTerrorist's modeling career came first, then the Air Force, then militia. Here he is in 2018 with pals from the 14th Airlift Squadron, Joint Base Charleston, S.C. (He's on the right.) The pathways to extremism are complicated. 3/
#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/ justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-…
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/
#SeditionHunters - this week's Capitol breach court cases, from @RubyWorms. Multi-person indictments in squares - big ones tomorrow coming up for status conferences, 3 of the main Proud Boys groups. 1/
Here are the big 4 PB leaders - Biggs, Nordean, Rehl, Donahoe - assembling the troops in the morning on Jan 6, issuing orders. No doubt that they planned: had a 60-person message channel; Donahoe had asked for a "commander's briefing" the night before.. 2/
The PB leaders filed to dismiss charges of conspiring to obstruct or impede an official proceeding (18 USC 1512(c)(2)): the electoral certification wasn't an official proceeding, driving lawmakers into hiding wasn't obstruction, + they weren't violent. Judge Kelly said, nope. 3/
#SeditionHunters following the developing story of VP-elect Kamala Harris & the pipe bomb on Jan 6: here are some resources to show the discrepancies. Politico writes that Kamala Harris was in the DNC building when the bomb was found, evacuated 1:14 PM. 1/ politico.com/news/2022/01/0…
On Jan 6, the first bomb was found in the RNC (Republican National Committee). USCP Chief Sund, in a Feb 1 letter to Congress, said the RNC bomb was found at 12:52 PM (widely reported), but the DNC one not til 1:50 PM - inconsistent with Politico. 2/ s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2047…
Events on Jan 6 were confusing, reporting was often scrambled, and the DNC bomb got less attention since the attack was ongoing. Sund is consistent, though, repeating the same timing in testimony to the Senate on Feb. 23: 1:50 PM for the DNC bomb. 3/ hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
Today, a year after the Jan 6 Capitol attack, President Biden helped explain what has kept #SeditionHunters working all that time: "we are in a battle for the soul of democracy that by the grace of God.. we will win". And: "Let's step up". We did. 1/
The "battle" isn't just about the specific incidents on January 6, it's bigger - it's defending the concept of truth at all. Biden: "Tragically, there are lies - lies conceived and spread for profit and power. We must be absolutely clear about what is true, and what is a lie." 2/
The foundation of understanding Jan 6 is public video - 22,000+ individual pieces of evidence. #SeditionHunters have watched all of them. DOJ and Jan6 Committee now have private information too, but video is open to all - here are instructions. 3/ docs.google.com/document/d/1zB…