You might remember that when these photos first appeared Sanford was briefly misidentified as a retired Chicago Fire Fighter...
CNBC
Robert Sanford, 55, was identified by a friend as the man on a widely seen video tossing the extinguisher into a group of police surrounded by a wild mob President Donald Trump’s supporters in front of the Capitol, authorities said.
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Sanford also had told his friend that he had travelled to Washington, D.C., with a group of people on a bus to attend a rally Jan. 6 on the Ellipse, where President Donald Trump spoke and urged supporters to help him in his efforts to reverse Joe Biden’s presidential election victory, the document said.
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Sanford, who lives in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, disorderly or disruptive conduct on capitol grounds, civil disorder, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers while engaged in the performance of official duties.
Newsweek
Court filings say Sanford was seen on video carrying a "red object, which appears to be a fire extinguisher," as he stepped over a short wall at the lower west terrace of the Capitol building on January 6. Investigators allege he threw the fire extinguisher toward police officers, striking one who was wearing a helmet, before it rebounded and hit two others.
Stanford has been charged on four counts—knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly or disruptive conduct on Capitol grounds; civil disorder; and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers while engaged in the performance of official duties.
His trial is set for April 30. On Tuesday, the U.S. District Court for Columbia granted Stanford release with GPS monitoring and "other conditions imposed by the court" ahead of the trial.
Most of Sanford’s story is old news except for this little detail...
The Daily Dot
An attorney for Robert Sanford, a man accused of throwing a fire extinguisher at Capitol police on video, claimed in a recent filing that his client had been transported to the nation's capital on a TPA bus.
"He traveled to the District on a bus organized by Turning Point USA, a mainstream young conservative organization, with approximately fifty other people," the filing states.
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As reported by the Daily Dot on Jan. 27, Kirk quietly deleted a tweet made two days prior to the attack in which he promised to send "80+ buses full of patriots to DC to fight for this president."
If you have information about a deplorable retiree whose ride deleted evidence of organizing the Capitol Insurrection on January 6th, call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or leave a tip online. You may also submit relevant photos and videos to the FBI here.
I feel obligated to mention here that Snopes fully debunked the Ginni Thomas 80 buses rumor almost two months ago. Let’s not have any more of that stupid static again, okay?