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Matthew Sheffield

Dec 23 • 8 tweets • 4 min read

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My @TYTreports colleagues @jtlarsen @CandiceColeNews and I are publishing our ongoing analysis of the #J6Committee final report here: tyt.com/reports/7015be…

964 people have been charged in connection with the attack. Approximately 470 people have pleaded guilty to federal charges and 41 participants have been convicted.

Full #January6thCommittee report download link, just for completion purposes of this thread: documentcloud.org/documents/2351…

Some individual mention stats from the #January6thCommittee final report.

Trump: 1,569 times
McConnell: 8 times
Schumer: 7
Pelosi: 35
McCarthy: 137
Would-be member Jordan: 27
MTG: 12
Gosar: 2
Ginni Thomas: 0
Oath Keepers: 131
Proud Boys: 149

More individual/group mentions from #January6thCommittee final report:

Meadows: 181
Ali Alexander (full name only): 30
Alex Jones (full name only): 45
Freedom Caucus (full term): 5

More textual mention stats in #January6thCommittee report:

Racist: 4
Racism: 1
Christian nationalist (in quotes): 1
Christian nationalism (in quotes): 0
Jesus: 1
Groyper: 5
Nick Fuentes (full name only): 9
Antifa: 19
Militia: 32

The final report's refusal to discuss in detail Christian nationalism, racism, anti-abortion extremism, & other far-right ideologies matches what we heard initially based on the executive summary.

Not all members of the committee agreed w/this approach: tyt.com/reports/7015be…

Unfortunately, the final #January6thCommittee report does not seem to have properly formatted PDF table of contents, I made one that is fully clickable (ignore the page number references) for easy browsing: 1drv.ms/b/s!AmfAX2pz10…

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