1. Here's the as-yet untold story of how Robert Caron of JTG MAGA connected the "ShadowGate" conspiracy theorists to journalist Lara Logan, and how they wound up in DC to assist in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. rawstory.com/lara-logan-cap…
2. "They knew Nov. 3 was going to happen, let alone Jan. 6. They were setting all these scams up. It sure seems like they were putting these things in place at least three months ahead of time to be able to prepare for Trump's loss." — Patrick Bergy, "ShadowGate" whistleblower
3. As Bergy points out, the useful kernel in "ShadowGate," which was released in mid-August 2020, was a false claim about election tech company Scytl that was promoted by writer-producer Millie Weaver.
4. Following the release of "ShadowGate," Weaver was fired by InfoWars host Alex Jones. But she found a new sponsor in Patrick Byrne, who confirmed to Raw Story that he paid for hotel rooms in DC for Weaver, Bergy, Weaver's partner Gavin Wince & pro-Trump podcaster Tore Maras.
5. After Jan. 6, Weaver assisted Rudy Giuliani by collecting and analyzing video to try to frame "antifa" for the attack on the Capitol.
6. Robert Caron, the JTF MAGA spokesman, was in an out of DC from Nov. 2020 through Jan. 2021. His name was all over a doc called "Invincible Argument" that called on Trump to deploy the National Guard to disband Congress.
7. On 1/5/21, the same day conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi published "Invincible Argument" on his website, Lara Logan tweeted out a link to the PowerPoint Phil Waldron used to brief members of Congress, which called on Trump to use the National Guard to seize voting machines.
Addendum: Thanks to @visionsurreal for the reminder that Caron has been interviewed by the FBI. Per @CNN, Caron said the agents told him they were investigating events that led up to the violence on Jan. 6, & Caron said he spoke w/ the agents about "key people."
I've mentioned that Millie Weaver promoted the bogus claim about Scytl tabulating votes on overseas servers in August 2020. That claim was also promoted by Tore Maras 9 mos. earlier. Read this piece by @TheOddPost about how Maras mangled legit research. theoddpost.com/2022/05/19/how…
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1/ H/T @kyledcheney — DOJ revealed in a filing last night that "it may seek to charge several additional defendants and/or seek to add new charges" in the Proud Boys conspiracy case.
2/ As DOJ's filing notes, any new charges would be "based in part on evidence seized on March 8, 2022." As previously reported by @RawStory, the feds raided the home of Proud Boy Jeremy Bertino on that day. rawstory.com/jeremy-bertino/
3/ Another unindicted co-conspirator yet to be arrested is John Charles Stewart aka Johnny Blackbeard, who is identified in DOJ's recent filing as articulating the Proud Boys' "criminal objective." (Elsewhere, the "MOSD leader" has been referenced as Person 3, who is Stewart.)
I’m at the Hagerstown Speedway for the #TruckersConvoy rally. Hard to say how many people are here but it’s definitely hundreds.
2/ Organizer Brian Brase is vague about what will happen tomorrow. “What that is, is yet to be determined. Bear with us.”
3/ One speaker says “10,000 truckers are trying to get in.” That might be exaggerated, but the speedway is on a two-lane road, and I saw vehicles backed up 2.5 miles
1/ The People's Convoy (the largest organization) has officially "cut ties" with Leigh Dundas, an anti-vax lawyer who was involved with the Jan. 6 insurrection.
2/ For background on Dundas' involvement, the People's Convoy joined forces with her in early February, & they met on Zoom to iron out logistics. Here's Dundas on 2/4: "US convoy coming soon.... I'm working with a lot of different trucking factions over the next 48 hours here."
3/ It's not clear exactly why the People's Convoy has parted ways with Dundas beyond this statement: "We only have like-minded individuals in our organization and are continually rooting out people that do not have the best interest of the convoy in mind."
The "state lead" for the Peoples Maryland/Virginia Convoy Telegram channel is a Proud Boy who attended the Jan. 23 anti-vax rally. He describes a "military operation" to supply the convoy once it reaches DC. rawstory.com/proud-boys-265…
"Ghost" is a member of the Maryland DC Proud Boys, one of three chapters with accelerationist tendencies that our three-part series is examining. Here's the second installment, which ran this morning.
1/ The wrongful conviction of Darryl Hunt, a Black man falsely accused of murdering a white woman, and the 19 years he spent in prison, is an emblem of the deeply entrenched racism that has disfigured Winston-Salem, NC. (photo via @JournalNow)
2/ In its own way, the Darryl Hunt saga is an equivalent trauma to what the Greensboro Massacre inflicted on its neighbor 30 miles to the east.
3/ I didn’t know Hunt personally, although I ran into him from time to time at public events while writing for @Triad_City_Beat. But I’ve had the honor of getting to know Larry Little, who was an early champion of Hunt’s innocence.
Whoa! Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and nine other Oath Keepers members charged with seditious conspiracy justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/lea…
Correction: Rhodes and 10 other Oath Keepers charged w/ seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 assault. Also newly charged is Edward Vallejo of Phoenix
From the #OathKeepers seditious conspiracy indictment:
Rhodes sent a link to a BitChute video to the "Leadership Intel Chat" on 11/7/20, endorsing the message of the Serbian author of the video: "Yes, I’m calling you for violence if that is the only way. Who cares?"