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Longtime Trump advisers connected to groups behind rally that led to Capitol attack Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and Michael Flynn all promoted the Jan. 6 rally. https://abcnews.go.com/US/longtime-...ed-groups-rally-led-capitol/story?id=75261028 Three of the key advisers who helped engineer Donald Trump's' rise to the presidency in 2016, and who fell from grace under the weight of federal criminal charges, resurfaced during Trump's final days in office to help engineer his ill-fated attempt to cling to power. Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn all participated in efforts to promote the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" event that ultimately devolved into a riotous and deadly melee at the United States Capitol, leaving five dead and causing Trump to become the only president to be impeached for a second time. While none of them spoke at the actual rally, Stone whipped up a crowd of Trump supporters in Washington the night before, telling them the president's enemies sought "nothing less than the heist of the 2020 election." "And we say, No way!" Stone said at the Jan. 5 rally. MORE: Trump allies helped plan, promote rally that led to Capitol attack Flynn promoted the so-called "Jericho March," a rally of Christians to "pray, march, fast, and rally for election integrity," according to the group's website, that also took place on Jan. 6 in the shadow of the Capitol. In the weeks leading up to the event, Flynn told his supporters that they would "need to be fearless as Americans." Speaking at a Dec. 12 rally in Washington to promote the Trump effort to overturn the election, Flynn told supporters they had reached a "crucible moment" and "there has to be sacrifice." "We're in a battle … for the heart and soul of the country," Flynn said. "We will win." Bannon also played a significant role in promoting the Jan. 6 rally, which was co-organized by "March for Trump," and he previously served as a prominent sponsor of the group's cross-country December bus tour ahead of the rally. Shortly after Trump lost the 2020 election, Bannon's "War Room" podcast was banned from Twitter for suggesting Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded. "I'd put the heads on pikes. Right. I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats," Bannon said. "You either get with the program or you are gone." Representatives for Bannon, who did not respond to ABC News' request for comment prior to the publication of this story, added in a statement that "Mr. Bannon did not, would not and has never called for violence of any kind. Mr. Bannon’s commentary was clearly meant metaphorically." Falls from grace All three men played pivotal roles in Trump's rise to power, only to see their reputations tainted by criminal investigation. Stone was one of Trump's earliest political advisers, working with the real estate mogul long before he ventured into campaign politics. After a brief period working directly for Trump's presidential bid, Stone took on the role of outside adviser, even as he maintained regular contact with Trump. Stone was later swept into the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, and faced allegations that he helped coordinate the release of hacked documents by WikiLeaks that were meant to damage Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton. In 2019, Stone was convicted on federal charges of obstruction of justice, lying to Congress and witness tampering, and sentenced to 40 months in prison. Trump commuted the sentence and ultimately issued Stone a pardon. MORE: Trump isolated during final days as Senate trial looms After leading Trump to victory as a top campaign strategist, Bannon also served in Trump's White House. He left after seven months and, like many top campaign officials, became swept up in the Russian investigation. He was never charged with wrongdoing in that probe. Last August, though, he was charged in federal court in an unrelated case with defrauding donors to a private fundraising effort called "We Build the Wall," which said it was raising private funds to help expand the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. He pleaded not guilty and is out on bail awaiting trial. Flynn served briefly as Trump's first national security adviser before he was dismissed for lying about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador. He, too, became a focus of the federal prosecutors and pleaded guilty to lying to investigators. He later recanted before being sentenced, and was also pardoned by Trump. A source close to Flynn told ABC News the retired general does not believe his words incited violence, and that he does not condone it, saying the riot was "the last thing we expected." Trump had invited Flynn and his family to the Jan. 6 rally but the source said they left disgusted at what the confidant said was a pointless gathering on the Ellipse, followed by outrageous political violence on Capitol Hill. "100% the election was stolen -- no one is going to convince us otherwise," the source said. "But Michael Flynn never called for violence. What happened there was terrible." Back in the fold All three men resurfaced in Trump's orbit as advisers became increasingly concerned that Trump would lose his bid for reelection to Joe Biden. And as Trump mounted his drive to convince his supporters that he had actually won the 2020 race "in a landslide," all three picked up the messaging and spread it to their followers. Even before Election Day, Stone was pushing the notion that vote counts could not be trusted. During a September appearance with extremist agitator Alex Jones, Stone called on Republicans to "be prepared to file legal objections and if necessary to physically stand in the way of criminal activity." After the election, Stone encouraged protesters to come to Washington to voice objections to the outcome. He was billed as a featured speaker for the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the assault on the U.S. Capitol, but did not appear. Since that day, he has sought to distance himself from the effort, telling ABC News in a statement that he condemned the violence perpetrated on the Capitol by the mob. "I have no role whatsoever in the January 6 events as I never left the site of my hotel until leaving for Dulles Airport before 6 pm curfew. A careful review of my language of January 5 indicates that I played no role whatsoever in advocating violence or any inappropriate or illegal activity," Stone said in the statement. "Indeed anyone breaking into the US Capitol, trespassing and destroying property would only be hurting the America First movement that I support." In the days after Trump's election loss, Flynn joined forces with Sidney Powell, the attorney who had helped engineer Flynn's decision to recant his earlier guilty plea. The two helped lead Trump's effort to dispute the election defeat, both in court and through a social media blitz that engaged, among others, followers of the conspiracy-driven movement known as QAnon. MORE: As New York dumps Trump, a Trump exodus to Florida is underway The two even met with Trump in the Oval Office, not long after Flynn appeared on the conservative network Newsmax to advocate that Trump impose martial law and command the military to "rerun" the election. At a Dec. 12 rally Flynn falsely told followers "there are paths that are still in play" for Trump to remain in office for a second term. "There's a lot of activity that's still playing out," he said before Trump flew over the crowd in Marine One. Mary McCord, a former federal prosecutor and expert in homegrown terror groups, said Flynn emerged as a hero among extremists. She said Flynn "riled up" the groups ahead of the Jan. 6 election protest, and "incited the most extreme among the crowd to do something about it." Bannon's quiet return Of the three, Bannon kept the lowest profile in the days after the election. Only in recent days did he surface as someone who appeared to be back in touch with the president about the election, according to Bloomberg News. Bannon was also helping efforts by 501(c)(4) political nonprofits, so-called dark money groups, to overturn the election results, including the bus tour. In public, Bannon repeatedly used his platform to promote the Jan. 6 rally, hosting rally organizers on his podcast at least 16 times amid the push to overturn the election results. Two days before the rally and subsequent attack on the Capitol, Kylie Jane Kremer of rally sponsor "Women for America First" appeared on Bannon's "War Room" podcast to promote the event. "President of the United States, as we know right now, tentatively at 11 he's going to come and address the nation and then it's gonna be -- the game is going to start on Capitol Hill," Bannon said. "I think one of the most historic days in American history will be Wednesday." Bannon did not return a request for comment from ABC News. Two of Bannon's longtime associates also served in key roles on Jan. 6. Dustin Stockton was one of the lead organizers of the rally, and Jennifer Lawrence ran media relations. Until 2017, Stockton and Lawrence worked as writers at the far-right media outlet Breitbart when Bannon was executive chairman, according to their LinkedIn profiles. The pair most recently worked with Bannon on his crowdfunding campaign "We Build the Wall," which in August 2020 resulted in the federal indictments over allegations of defrauding donors. Neither Stockton or Lawrence returned ABC News' requests for comment. Stockton served as "We Build the Wall's" vice president of strategy and marketing, according to his LinkedIn and social media posts, while Lawrence was the group's communications director before joining the "March for Trump" group. Stockton and Lawrence were both served warrants for their cellphones, as well as subpoenas to appear before a grand jury, in connection to the "We Build the Wall" group, but neither has been charged, according to CNN. MORE: New York City cancels all contracts with Trump Organization Stockton used some of the most incendiary language in the run-up to Jan. 6, at one point telling followers on a Facebook Live appearance to "clean your guns and prepare. Things are going to get worse before they get better." On a Facebook Live stream Wednesday night after the Capitol attack, Stockton appeared unrepentant, saying lawmakers were "trying to certify a fraudulent election." "I want to stand up against that," he said. "It's the whole reason I've been on this bus tour. That's the whole reason I've been organizing these events in D.C."
Tearful Pelosi says Congress members may be prosecuted as she announces Capitol security review Speaker says retired Lt Gen Russel Honoré will lead probe following Trump riot https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ears-capitol-congress-prosecute-b1788043.html A tearful Nancy Pelosi said members of Congress may be prosecuted over the Capitol insurrection as she launched a major security review. The House Speaker grew emotional as she announced that she has asked retired Lieutenant General Russel Honoré to carry out an “immediate” review security arrangements in the wake of the violence last week. And Ms Pelosi also warned lawmakers that they could face criminal charges if they were found to have aided the pro-Trump mob. “If in fact it is found that members of Congress were accomplices to this insurrection, if they aided and abetted the crime, there may have to be actions taken beyond the Congress in terms of prosecution for that,” she said. Democratic lawmakers are investigating whether members of Congress gave rioters tours of the Capitol in the days before the violence unfolded. The probe follows speculation that Republican members of Congress and Capitol Police may have played a role organising or enabling a deadly mob in support of Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election he insists was “stolen” from them. Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio, who chairs a Capitol Police oversight committee, has aid that an investigation is looking at more than one lawmaker who gave tours to “handfuls” of people at the Capitol the day before the riot. “Last week, we suffered a devastating attack on the Capitol that threatened the lives of and traumatised members of Congress, staff and support workers,” said Ms Pelosi. “To protect our Democracy, we must now subject the security of the US Capitol Complex to rigorous scrutiny." Lt Gen Honore Honoré is best known for overseeing humanitarian aid efforts in Louisiana following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Ms Pelosi says he will conduct an immediate review of security, inter-agency interaction and Capitol “command and control.” "I have asked retired Lieutenant General Russel L Honoré to lead an immediate review of security infrastructure, inter-agency processes and command and control," Pelosi said Friday morning. "The general is a respected leader with experience dealing with crisis." Federal watchdogs have also launched a review into how the FBI, Pentagon and other law enforcement agencies responded to the attack. The investigations have been launched by the inspectors general for the departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Interior and Defense, and they will look at how agencies shared intelligence before the riot and how the Pentagon mobilised troops as the mayhem unfolded. The Capitol Police have said they had prepared for only First Amendment outside the building as lawmakers gathered to certify the election. The Pentagon has said that the force turned down an offer of help in the days before the riot, despite the violence being publicly coordinated on social media platforms and Mr Trump egging on his supporters. The probe will also look at what the FBI knew in the run-up to the riot, as an internal bulletin from its field office in Norfolk, Virginia, stated that extremists had threatened to start a “war.” At least five people, including a US Capitol Police officer and a San Diego woman shot by law enforcement, died in the violence that followed a rally by Donald Trump. “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them,” Mr Trump told them. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.” His supporters then marched to the Capitol before overwhelming police lines and stormed the building to try and prevent lawmakers from ratifying Joe Biden’s election victory. After a lengthy delay to clear out the rioters the House and Senate returned and certified Mr Biden’s defeat of Mr Trump. Mr Trump was impeached in the House for “incitement of insurrection” following the mayhem. The final impeachment vote against Mr Trump was 232 to 197, with 10 Republicans joining all 222 Democrats in supporting the single article of impeachment. Mr Trump was first impeached in 2019 over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Mr Biden and his family.
The Traitor Weasel list Trump didn't incite Jan 6 alone. Here's a reminder of the officials who assisted. A Reminder Of Who Trump’s Biggest Enablers Are — Even While They Try To Change The Subject https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/...cruz-jordan-gohmert-gosar-biggs-brooks-greene Many Republican lawmakers are trying to turn the page on the Capitol Hill insurrection they helped fuel with their amplification of President Donald Trump’s election fraud conspiracy theories. That can’t happen. It’s as Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) said to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) this week, after Jordan laughably dismissed attempts to hold Trump accountable in the name of unity and healing: “We all want healing, but in order to get to healing, we need truth and we need accountability.” The truth is, there’s a good chance last week’s mob wouldn’t have happened without these lawmakers cheerfully indulging Trump’s fact-optional narcissism, and using their status to lend credibility to his phony fraud allegations. This list isn’t comprehensive, and there are valid arguments to be made for Republican lawmakers who propped up Trump in more indirect or subtle ways. But there is a distinct gang of Republicans who have devoted most of their waking hours to amplifying his fraud claims and trying to get the November election overturned. Here are their names. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) The aforementioned Jordan has spent weeks lending his perpetually-raised voice to the cause of spreading the Trump gospel. He and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) led the charge of House Republicans disputing the election results. Even as recently as two days ago, after the election has been completely certified and Jordan had a front-row seat for the violence his lies can cause, he repeatedly refused to acknowledge that President-Elect Joe Biden legitimately won the election. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) Brooks, like Jordan, has spent all his time recently in a mad scramble to get the November election overturned. He even put in an appearance before the mob that would, minutes later, attack the Capitol, during which he proclaimed that “today is the day that American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.” A couple of Democrats in the House have introduced a resolution to censure him. Brooks has refused to apologize, saying that his words are being misconstrued. “I will never apologize for fighting to win our causes at the ballot box,” he said in a statement. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) Gosar, a regular booster of “stop the steal” messaging, has been accused of helping to plan the rally that turned into the Capitol insurrection, alongside Brooks and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ). Right-wing activist Ali Alexander, who was a key promoter of the rally, has said that he was regularly in contact with all three. Brooks and Biggs have denied that they helped plan it; Gosar isn’t responding to questions about it. In an Ingrahamian turn, Gosar’s siblings are calling on him to resign or be expelled from Congress. His brother pointed out on CNN that Gosar’s conspiratorial tendencies stretch back to the Obama birtherism conspiracy. It’s not the first time Gosar has been criticized by his own kin: in 2018, six of his siblings put out an ad against his reelection. Gosar is the only House member on this list who did not join Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s extraordinary lawsuit seeking to toss the November election results in multiple battleground states. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) Biggs has since tried to distance himself from the pro-Trump rally-turned-riot, saying he had no role in it. He has eagerly promoted election fraud conspiracy though, going on OAN (Trump’s new favorite network now that Fox News is too liberal) to do so. Biggs has also baselessly claimed that it was actually incognito members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter behind the Capitol raid, just posing as Trump supporters. He is part of the movement seeking to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her leadership role as retribution for her vote to impeach Trump. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) Gohmert can conspiracy peddle with the best of them, even throwing his hat in the ring of frivolous, unsuccessful lawsuits to try to overturn the November election results. After his lawsuit was tossed, Gohmert said that the only remedy left was to “go the streets and be as violent as Antifa and BLM.” In a Wednesday floor speech, he stitched together quotes from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to try to make the galaxy brain argument that it’s actually she who’s fomenting insurrection. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) Seeking to style himself as the election fraud-boosting AOC of the right, Gaetz has gone full right-wing, infamously wearing a gas mask on the House floor in an attempt at an ironic sartorial expression of his COVID-19-denialism. After the Capitol raid, he blamed the left for inciting more violence than the right and reiterated some of the election fraud claims embraced by the mob. Per pool reports, Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI) pointed his finger at his head and twirled it in the universal sign for “crazy” as Gaetz began his speech ahead of the impeachment vote Wednesday. He ended it to a cacophony of Democratic boos: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) After Graham’s complete 180 — from being the late Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) best friend and closest ally to devoted Trump supporter — he has been at the forefront of the President’s causes, even reportedly going so far as to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to take steps that could wrongly hand that state’s electors to Trump. Last week, after the Capitol raid, Graham finally seemed to change his tune, proclaiming that “enough is enough.” That didn’t last long. Within days, Graham was warning Pelosi against pursuing impeachment, riding with Trump on Air Force One and urging his Republican peers to put out statements expressing their intent to vote against impeachment to stop the tide of momentum in the other direction. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Cruz, known to foster continued presidential ambitions, appears to have decided some time ago that his best route to the Oval Office runs through Trump’s approval. He’s done so by trying to fashion himself into a MAGA superhero. This is, I kid you not, is the actual tweet he put out advertising Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee: When people started calling him out on Twitter for being a clear source of the lies that fed the Capitol mob’s fury, he decided to fight with Beto O’Rourke instead of taking any accountability. The editorial board of his hometown paper, the Houston Chronicle, put out a piece after the raid titled “Resign, Senator Cruz. Your lies cost lives.” Cruz has since devoted his social media presence to a mix of calling for unity and decrying Twitter’s purge of accounts peddling the QAnon conspiracy theory. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) Hawley has frequently been paired with Cruz in recent days, as Democrats and political observers alike call for retribution for those responsible for the raid. Some are already predicting that a picture of Hawley raising a fist in solidarity to the rioters hours before they invaded the Capitol will forever blemish his future political career. Hawley too experienced a verbal lashing by his hometown paper, the Kansas City Star. In “Assault on democracy: Sen. Josh Hawley has blood on his hands in Capitol coup attempt,” the editorial board charges Hawley with being the person second-most responsible for the failed coup after Trump himself, noting that he was the first to publicly say he’d vote against the Electoral College certification of Biden’s win. Hawley has spent his time since the insurrection going after the “woke mob” at Simon & Schuster for cancelling his book deal. Honorable Mention: Rep. Marjorie Greene (R-GA) While she wasn’t yet sworn into her seat while the above list was using their bully pulpits to blast out Trump’s conspiracy theories, she has, in just the first few days of her term, shown herself eager and willing to carry on these men’s legacy. (Article includes Tweets, videos, pictures, and other evidence of Traitor Weaseldom)
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Treason Weasels have been whining about lost online QAnon followers... GOP politicians lost tens of thousands of followers after Twitter purged QAnon accounts. Here's who lost the most. https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-officials-lost-most-twitter-followers-qanon-purge-2021-1
GOP senator warns ‘rage-peddlers’ will try to ‘whitewash’ the plot to assassinate Pence https://www.rawstory.com/gop-senato...y-to-whitewash-the-plot-to-assassinate-pence/ The Washington Post on Friday published an explosive new account of the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, reporting that the Donald Trump supporters rioting to overturn the election came "perilously close" to reaching Vice President Mike Pence. Videos and online postings suggest that several pro-Trump rioters intended to kidnap Pence and possibly even execute him if he didn't overturn the election. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), one of the Senate jurors who will decide the fate of Trump's second impeachment, warned of people attempting to "whitewash" the insurrection during a new statement posted Friday. "Rage-peddlers are going to try to whitewash the attack on the Capitol, saying that a few bad apples got out of control. That's wrong," Sasse wrote. "Every American needs to understand what the Department of Justice has just made public: Investigators have strong evidence to suggest that some of the rioters who stormed the United States Capitol planned to kidnap and possibly assassinate the Vice President," he noted. "These men weren't drunks who got rowdy — they were terrorists attacking this country's constitutionally-mandated transfer of power," Sasse explained. "They failed, but they came dangerously close to starting a bloody constitutional crisis." "They must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The FBI is investigating widespread calls for violence across the country and every American has an obligation to lower the temperature," he argued.