#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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Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
This thread is not about whether Platner is a Nazi. It’s about how he lies like a toddler when he’s cornered. And that’s enough. He’s not electable, and Susan Collins knows it. You can too, if you can read this thread, or this 18-page document. 2/ docs.google.com/document/d/1fN…
Back to 2009: Platner had finished 4 years active duty and enrolled in college, but quickly dropped out and wanted to go back to war. The Gulf War was raging; the Marines were so shorthanded they were recalling servicemen to duty. But they didn’t want Platner. 3/
Dec. 18, 2020 was the decision point that set the Capitol attack in motion. Around midnight, Flynn and Byrne were kicked out of the White House. At 1:42 AM Trump sent the first message about Jan 6 instead. But Jan 6 failed, and now Trump is desperate. 2/
Flynn and Byrne, the two key men Trump has asked to help him steal the 2026 election, were both compromised by Russian agents. Flynn dined in Moscow with Putin. Byrne was seduced by Russian agent Maria Butina. And now they want to steal your vote. 3/
WaPo reports: Trump put his receptionist Chamberlain Harris on the arts commission reviewing his ballroom. They omit: in 2021 Harris helped Trump move classified docs to Mar-a-Lago, kept some on her laptop. And once that went public, she wiped a 2019 trip to Russia off her CV. 1/
Chamberlain Harris had a fast rise: from VP of her college TPUSA chapter, then a summer trip to Russia, then into the White House in just a few months. A bit over a year later, she was Trump's trusted helper who helped him pack up classified material. 2/ theguardian.com/us-news/2023/f…
Her career trajectory - TPUSA right to the West Wing - wouldn't be surprising in DC, except for how she started scrubbing her LinkedIn when the publicity over Trump's classified documents grab began. The first thing to go was the trip to Russia. Then the entire LinkedIn. 3/
Alex Pretti's killers are identified by ProPublica. The man who shot Pretti in the back ("A4") is Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa. The man who instigated the confrontation ("A1") is CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez. Not new hires: 8 & 12 years service. 1/
ProPublica is terse about the sourcing but says "government documents" - likely a leak. Public video, public outrage, and news coverage all encourage leaks. Now the next step is obtaining the footage from the bodycam that Gutierrez ("A1") was wearing. 2/ propublica.org/article/alex-p…
A pushback on this statement by @davidmcswane. Sure, it's hard to sort out what agent did what in the chaos, but many people have done it: this account, CNN, NYT, WaPo. Just be methodical, label & describe them, and work frame by frame. People need to see the full story. 3/
The Epstein files show his wild geopolitical schemes, but realize: he was a huckster who conned his way up; his friends called him dumb. He may have been a tool. @TVolscho digs up early details: Epstein lied to get a Dalton job, got fired mid-semester since he couldn't teach. 1/
The Epstein files show him reaching out to Putin in 2013 to suggest tearing up the world's financial system. But a friend said that Epstein couldn't understand the talk at his science dinners, so would blurt out "what does that got to do with pussy". 2/ motherjones.com/criminal-justi…
As Epstein's emails show the extent of his ties to global elites, we have to manage the contradictions. Epstein curated his image, working the press. He was a genius at the con. But he was not likely the creator of all the schemes he pitched. Who was? 3/ substack.com/home/post/p-18…
New video implies one of Alex Pretti's shooters wore a bodycam that day - and shows his face.
Two agents at Pretti's murder - "A1" (NS-919), the instigator who fired at his prone body, & "A12" (NS-909) - are now seen earlier attacking another observer. The bodycam is clear. 1/
There is no suggestion that agents have changed their identifier numbers. The details of A1 / NS-919's vest match on both days, though it's seen more clearly in the new video. build. His build is the same. The new video also shows his face, partially. 2/
The new video is now linked in the summary document covered in this thread. (See Tweet 2 for link to Google Doc.) 3/