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Jun 13 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#SeditionHunters: The obvious question after today's hearings: where did the money go?

On the $5M to Manafort's company for the Ellipse rally, that's not necessarily overcharging - they pulled off was a miracle of logistics in 1.5 weeks. See thread next Tweet. 1/
Manafort's company seems to have stepped in last minute to make the Ellipse rally happen - people had travel plans but there was nothing, no permits even, no location. See links in thread. (And correction here - the final permitted size was 30K people.) 2/
The J6 Committee does seem to be hammering the money aspect, setting grounds for fraud charges. Financial crimes can be the best way to prosecute a criminal boss: remember, Al Capone was a murderer, but they got him on tax evasion. (h/t @Teri_Kanefield) 3/
To put in blunt numbers: Trump's Save America PAC raised $250M to investigate election-fraud claims, but the J6 Committee lists only $7.2M in spending. That is, 97% percent of the funds are not accounted for. Very, very hard to imagine they went to an approved purpose. 4/ Image

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Jun 15
#SeditionHunters: the "1776 Returns" document referenced in the Proud Boys indictment was released today as a court exhibit. Just a quick take: this is not the ops plan for the Capitol attack. It seems meant for the public, to move crowds around. 1/
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Remember not everyone gets all info. The crowd is told enough to get them to the Capitol. Proud Boys have specific assignments, as do regional militias. The PBs themselves have minders. The people directing the attack are largely not identified, though can be sometimes seen. 2/
The Capitol attack itself was highly coordinated with signals. Those are not described here. On Jan 6 there were no organized attempts seen to get into other buildings from outside, though it's possible that with larger crowds the story would have been different. 3/
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Jun 14
The circular firing squad has begun, not just in Trump's circle, but among fringier election fraud-ists tied to Jan 6. Unhinged AZ Rep Wendy Rogers is now urging Nick Fuentes' Groyper army to attack Ron Watkins, thought by many to be QAnon's "Q". 1/
Watkins in turn has filed an ethics complaint against Rogers. On Dec. 19, the day Jan 6 was announced, Watkins posted a video describing how Serbians swarmed their Capitol to overthrow their government. But now, a hard pivot from "revolution!" to "I want to see the manager". 2/ Image
Ron Watkins wasn't at the Capitol on Jan 6 (though his dad Jim toured the insurrection with a film crew) - but he offered to fund militia groups' travel. 3/
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Jun 9
Some key points as we head into J6 hearings. The Capitol attack was 1) coordinated, 2) meant to be fast, and 3) derailed by a rapid police response that produced key delays. Watch here as democracy is saved by DC bike cops: momentum shifts after the first terrifying minutes. 1/
To make sense of the 5-hour attack on Jan 6, we’ve broken it into 8 phases. These diagrams can help understand. Here’s the first hour: the rush in (L), & then (R) the faceoff on the W. Plaza that bought precious time. 2/
The delay was followed by a frenzy of action - coordinated movements around the Capitol to breach doors on both sides, flood the interior. They got through 5 exterior doors & the Senate, were blocked at 2 & the House in violent fights. It almost worked - but it was too late. 3/
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Jun 9
#SeditionHunters - BREAKING news, the first Jan 6 arrest of a major political candidate currently running. It's curtains for Michigan gubernatorial candidate #IamRyanDKelley. Charging docs are meticulous - all the known video. FBI is getting it done. 1/
justice.gov/usao-dc/case-m…
Ryan Kelley is one of many candidates at J6 - bottom center in this collage from last year - but one of the most arrestable since he committed vandalism. First flagged by @MichiganTea a week after the attack; the charging documents show that Tweet. 2/
Here's the mention of @michigantea's work: - page 2 of the charging docs. Never doubt that your contribution cannot move the needle on national scale events. 3/
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Jun 9
As the Jan 6 hearings begin, people will be confronting a physical action that lasted hours, involved thousands, some violent, most just watching. Was this an enraged mob? Or something organized? Who matters? It's hard to even start. Here’s some analogies that can help. 1/
Think of this mass event: five hours of violent action, strange pauses, odd costumes, cheering crowds. If you knew nothing about sports, how could you understand it? Is it just random play? If there’s a coach he’d be hard to identify, on the sidelines with headset on. 2/
The FBI works from bottom up. They pick up the brawlers and ask, “who told you to brawl? Do you have a boss?” Pick up enough and you can work up the chain, from utility player to quarterback to assistant coach to head coach. 3/
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Jun 6
#SeditionHunters - a long-awaited Jan 6 milestone: the Proud Boys, engines of the Capitol attack, now have seditious conspiracy charges too. Over 200 Proud Boys marched from the Wash. Monument, rushed the first police lines, were there at every breach. 1/
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The Proud Boys were so integral to the Capitol attack that they were our first "reels". Here's leader Joe Biggs, former US Army, former media (reporter for InfoWars), pal of major US politicians - he links all the worlds. Full reel at link. 2/
There's a time error on that trailer; the rush of the NW Scaffolds was 1:50 PM. Just beforehand, the Proud Boys lined up to prep for the breach, leaders Donohoe (#YutYutPB) and Biggs (#JoeBiggs) gathered as well. 3/
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