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dalton99a

(81,599 posts)
Sun Jan 10, 2021, 09:06 PM Jan 2021

AP story on the 120 people identified

https://hosted.ap.org/article/1806ea8dc15a2c04f2a68acd6b55cace/records-show-fervent-trump-fans-fueled-us-capitol-takeover

Jan. 10, 2021 6:45 PM EST
Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover
By MICHAEL BIESECKER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, GILLIAN FLACCUS and JIM MUSTIAN
Associated Press

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The Associated Press reviewed social media posts, voter registrations, court files and other public records for more than 120 people either facing criminal charges related to the Jan. 6 unrest or who, going maskless amid the pandemic, were later identified through photographs and videos taken during the melee.

That evidence shows the mob was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters, including Republican Party officials, GOP political donors, far-right militants, white supremacists and adherents of the QAnon myth that the government is secretly controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile cannibals. Records show the rowdy crowd also included convicted criminals, including a Florida man recently released from prison for attempted murder.

So far, at least 90 people have been arrested on charges ranging from misdemeanor curfew violations to felonies related to assaults on police officers, possessing illegal weapons and making death threats against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif.

Among them was Lonnie Leroy Coffman, 70, an Alabama grandfather who drove to Washington to attend Trump’s “Save America Rally” in a red GMC Sierra pickup packed with an M4 assault rifle, multiple loaded magazines, three handguns and 11 Mason jars filled with homemade napalm, according to court filings.

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AP story on the 120 people identified (Original Post) dalton99a Jan 2021 OP
Where's all the Antifa dressed up as Trump Supporters Matt Gaetz assured us they were ? ...nt Jarqui Jan 2021 #1
Yeah. Where are those guys? 2naSalit Jan 2021 #3
I don't understand this Antifa BS Jarqui Jan 2021 #4
They were pretending to be Trump supporters and Republicans for Flaleftist Jan 2021 #6
+1 dalton99a Jan 2021 #7
:) Jarqui Jan 2021 #10
He had all that just in case it got "wild" like Trump promised in the invitations to DC 1/6 lunasun Jan 2021 #2
'homemade napalm' - not your basic moonshine runner. keithbvadu2 Jan 2021 #5
Mel Brooks is clairvoyant: Denzil_DC Jan 2021 #8
+1. Very fine people dalton99a Jan 2021 #9
Blazing Saddles / Auditions for the Gang Klaralven Jan 2021 #11

Jarqui

(10,130 posts)
4. I don't understand this Antifa BS
Sun Jan 10, 2021, 09:45 PM
Jan 2021

First of all, the FBI considers "antifa more of an ideology than an organization"
You can't join it or donate to it, etc.

Secondly, Antifa is supposedly about being anti-fascist and anti-racist.
WTF is wrong with that?
I am and always have been anti-fascist and anti-racist like many people I know.
According to the Constitution and prevailing laws, America is too.

These idiots don't seem to understand the multi-syllable words they're using.
To me, it's crazy nonsense like death panels or Obama was born in Kenya.

Flaleftist

(3,473 posts)
6. They were pretending to be Trump supporters and Republicans for
Sun Jan 10, 2021, 09:51 PM
Jan 2021

years, going to rallies, donating to Trump, flying Confederate flags and Tump/Rambo flags just to make them look bad on 1/6/21. Antifa is very clever like that.

keithbvadu2

(36,937 posts)
5. 'homemade napalm' - not your basic moonshine runner.
Sun Jan 10, 2021, 09:47 PM
Jan 2021

'homemade napalm' - not your basic moonshine runner.

Denzil_DC

(7,266 posts)
8. Mel Brooks is clairvoyant:
Sun Jan 10, 2021, 10:01 PM
Jan 2021
That evidence shows the mob was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters, including Republican Party officials, GOP political donors, far-right militants, white supremacists and adherents of the QAnon myth that the government is secretly controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile cannibals. Records show the rowdy crowd also included convicted criminals, including a Florida man recently released from prison for attempted murder.


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