#Capitol Riots

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Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Sentenced To 22 Years For Role In Jan. 6 Attack

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I love the smell of a c*nt getting his comeuppance in the morning

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The Donald in the presidential limousine.

(footage from "The Godfather")

[geezerwench]

They come out of the woodwork. They're like Jehovah's Witnesses. At least they aren't knocking on my door, but they do show up in replies and messages.

Bizarre QAnon, tin foil hat, conspiracy theories, Texas woman.

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By Alan Feuer, New York Times

Published May 5, 2022 Updated June 9, 2022

Prominent Republicans — including former President Donald J. Trump — have for months promoted a conspiracy theory that an Arizona man named Ray Epps was a federal informant who helped to instigate the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The claims, made in congressional hearing rooms, on Fox News and at Mr. Trump’s political rallies, have largely been based on a video taken just before violence erupted at the Capitol, showing Mr. Epps at the barricades outside the building whispering into the ear of a man named Ryan Samsel.

Within moments of the brief exchange, Mr. Samsel, a Pennsylvania barber, can be seen moving forward and confronting the police in what amounted to the tipping point of the riot. Despite lacking proof for their claims, many Republicans have surmised that Mr. Epps instructed Mr. Samsel to antagonize the officers. They have also pushed the notion that because Mr. Epps has not been arrested, he must have been working for the government.

But for more than a year, well before the name Ray Epps was widely known in right-wing circles, federal authorities have had information — from both him and Mr. Samsel — suggesting that he was not a government agent and did not encourage the younger man to engage with the police that day.

Just two days after the attack, when Mr. Epps saw himself on a list of suspects from Jan. 6, he called an F.B.I. tip line and told investigators that he had tried to calm Mr. Samsel down when they spoke, according to three people who have heard a recording of the call. Mr. Epps went on to say that he explained to Mr. Samsel that the police outside the building were merely doing their jobs, the people said.

Then in late January of last year, in an interview with the F.B.I., Mr. Samsel said much the same thing, telling investigators that a man he did not know came up to him at the barricades and suggested he relax, according to a recording of the interview obtained by The New York Times.

“He came up to me and he said, ‘Dude’ — his entire words were, ‘Relax, the cops are doing their job,’” Mr. Samsel said.

The theories surrounding Mr. Epps have been debunked before, most notably after he spoke last year to investigators working with the House select committee examining the Jan. 6 attack. During the interview, committee officials said, Mr. Epps said that he was not an F.B.I. informant and denied reports that he had urged protesters to go into the Capitol at the behest of federal law enforcement agencies.

Still, the rumors about him have persisted, becoming regular fodder for right-wing politicians and media figures.

Last month, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, mentioned Mr. Epps — and his supposed role in fomenting the Capitol riot — during a hearing in Atlanta held to determine whether she should be labeled an “insurrectionist” and barred from office under the Constitution.

The recordings of Mr. Epps and Mr. Samsel were released by the government last week as a discovery disclosure to scores of defense lawyers representing people charged with crimes in connection with the Capitol attack. A spokesman for the Justice Department declined to comment on why prosecutors have held on to the material so long and decided not to make it public.

Right-wing chatter about Mr. Epps, who is 60 and runs a wedding and event venue in Queen Creek, Ariz., began last spring after videos of him at a pro-Trump rally in Washington started to circulate online. Aside from the clip with Mr. Samsel, Mr. Epps was caught on video standing in a crowd of Trump supporters on the night of Jan. 5, 2021, urging his compatriots to “go into the Capitol” the next day.

At a hearing in October, Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, showed the clip of Mr. Epps encouraging the crowd and used it to question Attorney General Merrick B. Garland about whether federal agents had acted as agitators on Jan. 6.

The story about Mr. Epps gained further traction near the one-year anniversary of the Capitol attack when the Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson featured it in a documentary called “Patriot Purge,” which suggested that the Capitol attack might have been a “false flag” operation by the government.

Not long after, questions about Mr. Epps were raised again at a Senate hearing — this time by Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas.

“There are a lot of people who are understandably very concerned about Mr. Epps,” he said.

According to the people who have heard the recording of Mr. Epps, he told the F.B.I. during his call that instigators might have been in the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6. But he explained that he was not one of them and did not suggest that anyone who might have encouraged the mob that day was working for the government.

Mr. Epps also suggested during the call that he believed that the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. Trump.

The recording of Mr. Samsel appears to be a brief clip of a longer interview with the F.B.I. that took place in late January 2021 after he was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer at the Capitol.

In the same interview, Mr. Samsel told the F.B.I. that another person in the crowd outside the Capitol, Joseph Biggs, a leader of the far-right group the Proud Boys, also pulled him aside that day and spoke to him just before he confronted the officers.

While Mr. Biggs has denied the account, Mr. Samsel told investigators that Mr. Biggs encouraged him to push at the barricades and that when he hesitated, the Proud Boys leader flashed a gun, questioned his manhood and repeated his request.

[jloisse]

Un révolutionnaire Antifa autoproclamé qui a été profondément impliqué dans les émeutes du 6 janvier a été reconnu coupable des sept chefs d'accusation retenus contre lui par un tribunal.

Après seulement quelques heures de délibération, le jury a reconnu coupable John Earle Sullivan, 29 ans, de l'Utah, communément appelé « Jayden X », de sept chefs d'accusation.

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Starting to think that the Capitol rioters were basically a bunch of occultists trying to use the potent ritual spot of the Capitol to do a "resurrection" of their mythical white nationalist ethno-state. And while it's good (???) that the secular government security forces at least stopped them, it is quite alarming that it went...quite this far. Like imagine if the Golden Dawn stormed the Acropolis+parliament demanding to...reinstate "true Hellenic rule" or sth and the Greek government just...let them do that-

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Man who propped his legs on Nancy Pelosi's desk on Jan 6 found guilty The infamous gentleman who propped his legs up on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk inside the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection was convicted today "on all eight counts in his indictment," according to AP News. This includes "felony charges of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding." — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/01/23/man-who-propped-his-legs-on-nancy-pelosis-desk-on-jan-6-found-guilty.html

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Ex-White House aide says Donald Trump knew Capitol rioters were armed in explosive testimony

Ex-White House aide says Donald Trump knew Capitol rioters were armed in explosive testimony

Donald Trump rebuffed his own security’s warnings about armed protesters in the January 6 rally crowd and made desperate attempts to join his supporters as they marched to the Capitol, according to dramatic new testimony Tuesday before the House committee investigating the 2021 insurrection. Cassidy Hutchinson, a little-known former White House aide, described an angry, defiant president that day…

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US Candidate for Governor Ryan Kelley Arrested in Capitol Riot Probe

US Candidate for Governor Ryan Kelley Arrested in Capitol Riot Probe

The FBI arrested the leading Republican candidate for governor in Michigan Thursday on charges of participating in the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol by supporters of then-president Donald Trump. The Justice Department said Ryan Kelley took part in the violent attack on the Capitol that aimed to halt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the presidential…

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Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address

"As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice."

[geezerwench]

Michigan white man ARRESTED for his involvement in the January 6th, 2021 Capitol Insurrection. Ryan Kelley - running for governor of Michigan.

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