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https://hosted.ap.org/article/1806ea8dc15a2c04f2a68acd6b55cace/records-show-fervent-trump-fans-fueled-us-capitol-takeoverJan. 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 Trumps 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
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Jarqui
(10,130 posts)1. Where's all the Antifa dressed up as Trump Supporters Matt Gaetz assured us they were ? ...nt
2naSalit
(86,803 posts)3. Yeah. Where are those guys?
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)4. I don't understand this Antifa BS
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
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.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)2. He had all that just in case it got "wild" like Trump promised in the invitations to DC 1/6
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)5. 'homemade napalm' - not your basic moonshine runner.
'homemade napalm' - not your basic moonshine runner.
Denzil_DC
(7,266 posts)8. Mel Brooks is clairvoyant:
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.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)9. +1. Very fine people
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)11. Blazing Saddles / Auditions for the Gang