UPDATE 2: The Boston Globe is reporting that Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and her husband retreated to her office during the attack and staff barricaded and bolted the door. When she went to her panic button (every office has one) she found that it had been ripped out. Capitol Hill Police moved her several times to keep her away from the mob.
UPDATE 1: New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill told constituents on a live stream last night that she witnessed certain representatives actually giving tours of the Capitol on January 5th that she’s now realized were actually reconnaissance for the attack the following day. She didn’t name them publicly, but is going to make sure that they are brought to justice along with other complicit representatives as well as Trump. She does know what she’s talking about, being a Navy helicopter pilot and member of flag staff for a decade. This story just piles more evidence on the emerging narrative that the attack was most certainly carefully planned and executed from the highest levels of the government.
ORIGINAL STORY: Seth Abramson, a NYTimes bestselling author and analyst for several networks, has compiled over 250 reports on last Wednesday and a seriously disturbing pattern is emerging about what events led to an invasion of the Capitol. The punch line is that this entire sordid episode was planned and executed with the specific intent of disrupting the certification of the Electoral Vote long enough for violent extremists to actually stop the certification. I won’t post the entire thread here, but you can read it here on Threadreader. It is required reading to begin to understand what happened on January 6th.
To set the scene, here were the main players:
Trump
Giuliani
Rep. Biggs (R-AZ)
Rep. Gosar (R-AZ)
Rep. Brooks (R-AL)
Sen. Tuberville (R-AL)
Arizona Proud Boys
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall
Assisted by:
Ali Alexander, far-right activist
Roger Stone, friend and advisor to the president
Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign manager
Donald Trump Jr., son of the president
Roger Stone is in the center of this conspiracy (sound familiar?), is close to the Proud Boys, and coordinated the effort. Alexander originally organized a “Stop the Steal” rally for January 6. Stone had coined the term. The event was eventually combined with another event, “Save America” which had been organized by a Trump dark money group. Since the election, Trump has raised over $300 million from loyalists for “election defense” but much of the money apparently went to Stone and Manafort to organize the insurrection. Stone recruited Biggs, Gosar, and Brooks in the house to object to the Arizona electoral vote, and got Tuberville to join in the Senate.
Here’s the money line: THE ONLY REASON THEY WERE TO OBJECT TO THE ELECTORAL VOTE WAS TO DELAY THE CERTIFICATION LONG ENOUGH TO GIVE THE MOB, LED BY THE PROUD BOYS, TIME TO BREACH THE CAPITOL AND STOP THE CERTIFICATION COMPLETELY.
Here are the Arizona Proud Boys at the Capitol. They wore the orange hats to distinguish members during the invasion:
That, boys and girls, is chilling. Seth Abramson has compiled public data that reveals a narrative that the President of the United States, one US Senator, three US Congressmen, a state attorney general, Trump’s insane attorney, two convicted felons, Trump’s shitbag son, and a violent far right group of extremists hatched a plan IN THE WHITE HOUSE to actually overturn a free and fair election, overthrow the US government, and hand it to Donald Trump, Dictator. Apparently, idiots like Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley were unwitting accomplices to the overthrow plot just trying to stay on the Crazy Train to 2024.
Read Abramson’s thread. It will give you cold chills about how close the United States government actually came to collapsing on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
