The New York Times has compiled a 17-minute video that shows how the Proud Boys, who were the tip of the spear during the January 6 attack, went to the event incognito without their traditional Black and Yellow outfits, and used this tactic to blend into the crowd and incite them to further attack the Capitol.
"This time we're not going to be wearing the colors that you're used to seeing us in," Biggs says in a video recorded before the riot. "Nope, this time myself and other leadership have decided we're going to go incognito. We're going to be blending in ... you aren't going to know who the f*ck is standing beside you. Could be Antifa, could be me."
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"I want to see thousands of normies burn that city to ash today," said one unindicted co-conspirator, according to court records highlighted by the Times.
In the video Proud Boys Joe Biggs, Dominic Pezzola, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, and Enrique Tarrio are currently charged with Suspicious Seditious Conspiracy in connection with the attack. During the attack Joe Biggs behaved as a field commander, Ethan Nordean was one of the first people to charge the barricades and Dominic Pezzola was the first to smash in a window using a shield stolen from a Capitol police officer. In addition, a document and plan generated by the Proud Boys entitled “1776 Returns” describes the step-by-step strategy that the Proud Boy used to enlist the “normies” from the gathering crowd provided by Trump as Shock Troops in the attack.
The right-wing has lately become highly animated by the idea that a man had equipped him and plotted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. This has them screaming from the rooftops.
A "madman, armed to the teeth with zip ties” came after Kavanaugh and of course it's an outrage. (Even though he turned himself in to the police.) They are particularly angry at Chuck Schumer for saying that Kavanaugh has “released the whirlwind” because that clearly translates not into having protests of his reported decisions, but is secret code to get a gun and some zip ties.
However, there has been far less response from the right to the news that members of the Proud Boys planned to kill Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence during their attack on the Capitol.
An FBI witness says that members of the far-right Proud Boys had hoped to assassinate Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during last week's violent storming of the U.S. Capitol.
An FBI special agent made the claim in an affidavit as part of a criminal complaint against 43-year-old Dominic Pezzola, who is accused of taking part in the riot in support of President Donald Trump's false claims that the presidential election was "stolen." Pezzola, who is also known as "Spaz," allegedly used a shield taken from a Capitol Police officer to smash a Capitol window before entering the building. An FBI witness said that the group Pezzola was with had discussed committing violent acts that went far beyond property damage.
"[The witness] stated that other members of the group talked about things that they had done during the day, and they said that anyone they got their hands on they would have killed, including Nancy Pelosi," the affidavit, which was filed Wednesday, reads. "[The witness] further stated that members of this group, which included 'Spaz,' said that they would have killed [Vice President] Mike Pence if given the chance."
So obviously the person responsible for criminal incitement here is Chuck Schumer, not Donald Trump who happened to say “We're going to the Capitol" where you’ll need to “Fight like hell, or else you’ll lose your country.” And yeah, we’ll ignore that they came to the Capitol armed with sticks and clubs, helmets, gas masks, ballistic vests, pepper and bear spray, walkie talkies for coordination, zip ties, handguns and a stash of long guns with a “quick reaction force” ready to bring them. Let’s ignore that nobody died with Kavanaugh, but nine people died during and after the Capitol attack. Let's ignore that no one was hurt over Kavanaugh but 150 police were injured at the Capitol attack, suffering concussions, heart attacks, strokes, having an eye gouged out and losing the tip of finger. Yep, let’s not think about any of that.
Despite all the talk that this attack resulted from “Antifa” agents “scattered in the crowd" instead, that exact role was enacted by Proud Boys. Again, this was all laid out in 1776 Returns.
The full document titled "1776 Returns," attached as an exhibit in a court filing Wednesday by Tarrio's co-defendant Zachary Rehl, was described by one former federal prosecutor as "an absolutely devastating piece of evidence."
Tarrio, Rehl and three other members of the extremist group the Proud Boys face multiple felony counts, including seditious conspiracy, the most serious charge resulting from the Jan. 6 insurrection. The defendants are in jail in Washington, D.C., awaiting trial.
Patrick Cotter, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago who has practiced criminal law for 40 years, said the "1776 Returns" document is a bombshell for prosecutors, assuming it can be verified.
"The authors are clearly planning multiple, multiple felonies; they're saying how they're going to do it, and it's all in service, apparently, to a broader crime, which is the sedition." Cotter said. "The purpose of the of the whole plan is, as they put it, 'No Trump, No America.' Either Trump will be given the presidency, election be damned, or they will shut down America and they will take violent action."
During the latest J6 hearings it was well established that Trump and his attorney John Eastman were determined to implement a plan to reject swing-state electoral votes using VP President Mike Pence that both men knew was illegal. They were specifically told this by White House Counsel Pat Cippilone. This is a view that was shared by MIke Pence and his legal counsel Greg Jacob.
Pence’s legal role in the election count: Greg Jacob, an attorney for Pence, testified that vice president did not consider it his role legally to decide the election. “There was no way that our framers … would ever have put one person, particularly not a person who had a direct interest in the outcome … in a role to have decisive impact on the outcome of the election,” Jacob said. The lawyer said that on Jan. 5, the day before the riot, Trump ally John Eastman admitted the Supreme Court would reject his plan to have Pence reject electoral votes. Retired federal judge Michael Luttig testified that there was “no support whatsoever” in either the Constitution nor in U.S. laws for the vice president “frankly, ever to count alternative electoral slates from the states that had not been officially certified.”
Donald Trump has now been screaming for “EQUAL TIME” to present his case that the 2020 election was stolen even though he already had 62 chances in court to present that case, and repeatedly failed.
Just hours before the House select committee was to begin its third televised hearing on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former president Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to demand he be given air time on the same networks to lay out what he described as his evidence of "massive Voter Fraud & Dem Security Breach!"
He followed that up moments later with "I DEMAND EQUAL TIME!!!"
Of course, he could have exactly that by simply testifying under oath.
What needs to be shown to button up this case as one giant coordinated conspiracy is the fact that Trump directed, aided and abetted the Proud Boys' strategy to attack the Capitol because it would help him with his illegal strategy to put ultimate pressure on Mike Pence for him to change the electoral vote count.
Perhaps the emails sent between Pence Counsel Greg Jacob and John Eastman could prove that point. As the attack was taking place Jacob emailed Eastman saying.
Thanks to your bullshit, we’re under siege.
Eastman reportedly responded to this with.
The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened,
Hm. Cause and Effect. Quid and Pro Quo.