#SeditionHunters - the January 6 Committee now focuses on white nationalists / neo-Nazis, with subpoenas to Nick Fuentes (America First) & Patrick Casey (Identity Evropa). Fuentes spoke at all 3 DC rallies, VIP section Jan 6, brought over 200 of his Groypers to the Capitol...1/
Fuentes is deeply connected to the MAGAverse of influencers who brought people to the Capitol on January 6. The Committee's rationale includes rallies, Groypers, and strange foreign bitcoin donations... 2/
Fuentes left college after the 2016 Charlottesville march, hit it big on social media with a toxic combination of racism and religion. On Jan 6 his Groyper army invaded the Capitol with America First flags & Christian symbols (at R. they help lift the Jericho March cross). 3/
His Groypers are everywhere on Capitol grounds, moving in small clusters. You can identify them by the combination of crosses and vile language. Here are two from Nebraska, in Christian hoodies, screaming at officers: "Burn in f-ing hell! F-- the blue! Pieces of s--!" 4/
Fuentes is extreme even for the alt-right - he trolls Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA as too mainstream! - but is strangely plugged in. On Nov 7, the day the election was called for Biden, Fuentes was one of the first to know about & promote the Nov. 14 "rehearsal" DC rally. 5/
Fuentes was a fixture on the Stop the Steal circuit in the 2 months leading up to the Capitol attack, appearing frequently with Ali Alexander and Alex Jones of InfoWars, speaker at many rallies. No one blinked when he advocated killing lawmakers. 6/ splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
Late on Jan 6, as police restored order, other STS figures frantically Tweeted CYA: "peaceful protestors" or "It was antifa!" But Fuentes was blunt: "This nonsense that today’s events were instigated by antifa has to be the absolute stupidest boomer bullshit I’ve ever seen..." 7/
After the Capitol attack, Fuentes called it "f--ing awesome" on Twitter. In Dec. 2021, the same: "I don't know if I should say this for legal reasons, but I'm gonna anyway. The 6th was awesome, it was fucking awesome." Time to learn those legal reasons. 8/
Updated deposition schedule, from @RubyWorms. The J6 Committee groups them by theme: Feb 8 is election fraud day with the Kraken 4 (Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Ellis & Epshteyn); Feb 9 is white supremacist day with Nick Fuentes and Patrick Casey. 9/
We now have the insurrection equivalent of a full house on our "9 Leaders Leading" page! DOJ has arrested all the top row, and the J6 Committee has now deposed all the bottom row. (Ali Alexander, also deposed, heads the Stop the Steal page instead.) 10/
Tracking #IamNickFuentes at the Capitol was a months-long manhunt by many #SeditionHunters - see megathread from @DianthaSol. His speech showed his intent: "We should not leave this Capitol until Donald Trump is inaugurated president!" (h/t @LCRWnews) 11/
Tracking Fuentes meant watching 100s of hours of video. The @January6thCmte also subpoenae'd Fuentes' partner in racism, Patrick Casey of Identity Evropa, citing his attorney as admitting "you were present on Capitol grounds on January 6 as well." Oh yes he was! Stay tuned. 12/
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We must remember what Congressmen did to support Trump's Jan 6 coup. Today Mike Johnson (#9 in the House Insurrection Index) appointed Scott Perry (#1) to the Intelligence Committee. Perry has 2 subpoenas already. Mark Meadows burnt notes from Perry in his fireplace that Fall. 1/
Just because the coup failed doesn't mean we are safe, if the collaborators are still with us. The Chief of Staff to a president planning an autogolpe burned notes after meeting with Perry. Perry cannot be trusted with our national secrets. 2/ politico.com/news/2022/05/2…
The day after the AP called the election, Trump asked Scott Perry and Jim Jordan to meet with Newt Gingrich to plan contesting it. From Johnny McEntee: "Chief added Jim Jordan and Scott Perry to Newt's meeting". Perry was Trump's chosen collaborator. 3/ govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GP…
Fascinating how the lawmakers upset about a 2024 New York fraud case are the same who helped Trump's coup in 2020. Mike Lee's hysterical letter today is signed by those Senators ranking #2, 4, 5, 7, 14 in the Senate Insurrection Index, plus the top 3 for post-Jan 6 actions... 1/
Here's the Senate Insurrection Index; screenshot has the signers of Mike Lee's letter marked. Leaders #1 Ted Cruz and #3 Josh Hawley (both Peter Thiel proteges) didn't sign it, but they were busy yesterday evening reciting their Trump talking points. 2/ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Josh Hawley (#3) might be the first Senator to trash America's legal system after Trump's conviction, 4 Tweets in 12 minutes: "prosecuting political opponents", "complete and total sham", "CRIMINALIZE..political opposition", "If you thought it couldn't happen in America.." 3/
As Israel's Netanyahu hysterically calls US campuses "horrific..German[y] in the 1930s", remember who took him to power: the divisive US operative Arthur Finkelstein, who also gave us autocrat Viktor Orban, antisemitic conspiracy theories, and indirectly, Donald Trump. 1/
From 1970, Finkelstein changed politics in the US and around the world with virulently negative campaigns that pushed fear & division ("rejectionist voting"), microtargeted messaging, 3rd party spoilers, and a complete disregard for truth and values. 2/ nytimes.com/2017/08/19/us/…
Finkelstein, who was both Jewish and gay, won races for homophobic candidates with antisemitic messaging. It's beyond twisted. He got Bibi elected in 1996; Bibi referred him to Viktor Orban - and to help Orban win he created the George Soros conspiracy. 2/ buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgra…
Tonight the Ukraine aid bill finally passed. That vote lets us ask: does being "anti-Ukraine" correlate with "pro-insurrection"? Answer: it sure does, especially in the Senate. The 18 Senators who voted no tonight (or didn't vote) all lie in the top 22 of Senate Jan 6 scores. 1/
None of the 8 Senators most culpable in supporting Trump's attempt to seize power Jan 6 voted for Ukraine aid. That's Cruz (TX), Tuberville (AL), Hawley (MO), Marshall (KS), Johnson (WI), Blackburn (TN), Lee (UT), and Paul (KY). 2/ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Of the other 8 Senators who did something measurable in support of Trump's Jan 6 coup, half voted against aiding Ukraine. One of the yeses is Steve Daines, who earlier today voted against breaking the filibuster at all. (Another is Lankford who wrote the aid bill.) 3/
The newly-released transcript of Walt Nauta's 2022 FBI interview is interesting for what it says about the investigation: FBI talked to him just four days after he started moving boxes at Mar-a-Lago. A week later, Nauta helped load boxes into an SUV to be taken to Bedminster. 1/
Trump was subpoenaed for documents "bearing classified markings" on May 11, 2022. Evan Corcoran warned him Mar-a-Lago might be searched; box-moving started May 22 and went to June 2. By June 19 Trump seemed to prep a defense that he'd declassified them. 2/ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
On June 19 Trump designated new representatives to the National Archives, including Kash Patel. On June 22 Patel started a PR binge about declassification, the same day Trump got a subpoena for security cam footage that would have shown Nauta. Events were moving very fast. 3/
The week that was, the world we're in: terrorists attacked Moscow and Russia's friends blamed Ukraine. Elon Musk and friends tried to squash free speech. JFK Jr. picked Musk's ex-lover as VP. The religious right (note the Ted Cruz-Josh Hawley axis) tried to ban mifepristone. 1/
Note how the mifepristone case went through a 3-judge chain: first Matthew Kacsmaryk, sworn in by James Ho, whose wife got payments from ADF, which brought the suit. Then to Ho, sworn in by Clarence Thomas, whose wife got payments from Harland Crow, who hosted the ceremony. 2/
This case shows the creeping influence of "religious liberty" legal advocacy groups. Matthew Kacsmaryk and James Ho both worked for First Liberty; so did Mike Johnson, briefly, before he went to ADF, which hired Josh Hawley's wife, who argued the suit. 3/ firstliberty.org/news/taking-th…