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Jan 25, 2022 8 tweets 4 min read Read on X
#SeditionHunters - Alex Jones finally appeared for his deposition yesterday, mostly pleading the 5th. To remind: on Jan 6 Alex began trekking to the Capitol exactly when needed to bring crowds, seemingly on instructions, and the whole InfoWars crew seemed to expect the attack. 1/
Alex did not rush to the Capitol - instead he leads a crowd there only about 1:34 PM, when the attack had stalled. It's the same moment Proud Boy Zach Rehl texts "We’re at a standstill, cops are dropping concussion bombs and pepper spraying..." 1/
You can see the sequence in our agency response timeline. Breaches are in red. Notice after an initial swift attack, there's a blank: for nearly an hour, officers held off the attack on the W. Plaza. That's when Rehl texts, and Alex Jones and Ali Alexander head to the Capitol. 2/ Image
During this "faceoff" period, you can the Proud Boys re-regrouping. You can also see efforts to build up the crowd; Alex & Ali are involved. This is the ONLY time all day when Ali Tweets instructions to his followers: first come to the Capitol, then go around the other side. 3/ Image
That "messages" timeline was made for the Alex Jones and Ali Alexander depositions, to show how their actions served a strategic purpose on Jan 6th. Yesterday Alex pleaded the 5th rather than explain them. 4/
The InfoWars Jan 6 show makes clear they expected the attack. Listen to host Harrison Smith cheerfully talk about expected attacks on State Capitols - and then stop, dumbfounded and angry, after a rumor spreads that Trump has called the National Guard. 5/
Joe Biggs, who marched over 200 Proud Boys to the Capitol and led the attack, is a former employee of Alex Jones at InfoWars. Alex is deeply tied with the people directing the assault - and on Jan 6, they openly say they met with him. (h/t @creek_twit) 6/
These people are all connected, deeply, and with links that pre-date Trump. Biggs first appears on Alex's show in 2013, 8 years before the Capitol attack. But to understand their tangled connections you need to go back further, to when Biggs says he served in Afghanistan... 7/ Image

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