As the J6 committee appears to be holding one of its last hearings, the key elements of the J6 attack’s theocratic, dominionist supporters are being revealed as connected to politicians like Doug Mastriano among other usual suspects. Another kind of splinter group, Negative48 has emerged at Trump rallies with similar apocalyptic purposes.
This week with the Select Committee will feature at least one clip from a Danish documentary on Roger Stone.
In one clip, previously reported by The Post, Stone told a staffer four months before the election that Trump should use the powers of his office to reject official results and secure victory in the courts with help from federal judges who owed him fealty.
“It’s going to be really nasty,” Stone said at home on July 9, 2020, predicting that Democrats would try to steal the election. “If the electors show up at the electoral college, armed guards will throw them out,” he said, apparently referring to ceremonial meetings of electors in state capitals.
“ ‘I’m the president. F--- you,’ ” Stone said, imagining Trump’s remarks. “ ‘You’re not stealing Florida, you’re not stealing Ohio. I’m challenging all of it, and the judges we’re going to are judges I appointed.’ ”
In another clip selected by the committee, Stone talked of violence after attending a rally for a Trump ally, Rep. Douglas A. Collins (R-Ga.), the day before the election.
“F--- the voting, let’s get right to the violence. Shoot to kill, see an antifa, shoot to kill. F--- ’em. Done with this bulls---.” Stone immediately followed this with: “I am of course only kidding. We renounce violence completely. We totally renounce violence. The left is the only ones who engage in violence.”
Later that day, as The Post previously reported, Stone seemed to welcome the prospect of clashes with left-wing activists. As an aide spoke of driving trucks into crowds of racial justice protesters, Stone said: “Once there’s no more election, there’s no reason why we can’t mix it up. These people are going to get what they’ve been asking for.”
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“You can’t understand what happened today without wrestling with Christian Nationalism,” Andrew Whitehead, a sociologist at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, said..., adding that white evangelical movements have long at least tolerated far-right extremism, well before Mr. Trump. “They provided the political and theological underpinnings of this, and it has allowed anarchy to reign.”
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Wallnau is one of the four Christian nationalist leaders on stage below who recited this bone chilling decree in July this year, as explained in my new piece. 2/
3/ Wallnau also supports America’s Black Robe Regiment (Regiment), which partnered with the Oathkeepers in 2021, as discussed in my new piece. Disgraced retired Lt. General Michael Flynn will help the Regiment commission new members during his NAR-sponsored tour in PA next month.
4/ Wallnau is an ally of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG). He interviewed her a few days before the Mastriano rally (where Wallnau spoke) and Trump rally (where MTG spoke).
5/ In Feb this year, MTG spoke at a conference hosted by Nick Fuentes, a rabid anti-Semite, white nationalist, & Christian nationalist. MTG’s intern, Milo Yiannopoulos, had arranged for MTG to attend.
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7/ These guys were slated to appear as special guests during the same conference hosted by Nick Fuentes.
8/ Please read the rest of my piece to see how this ties into the index-finger salutes during Trump’s Sept 17 rally. Thank you!
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“It was spontaneous, it was like the domino effect,” said McDaniel, who also attended Friday’s rally here in Wilmington, N.C., coming from her home in the Chicago area. She objected to news coverage that condemned the gesture, with some comparing it to a Nazi salute. “It was an amazing, amazing moment, when you have the unity that everybody is there, and not only in this small group that was on the floor, but other people were doing it,” she said.
The group on the floor was an offshoot of the QAnon community called Negative48, a name that they say stands for the opposite of evil. They’ve become a fixture at Trump’s rallies this year. Numbering about 100, they can be spotted by their lanyards sporting as many as 16 commemorative buttons from each rally they have attended. Or see them wrap their arms around each other to sway to Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds” blasting over the loudspeakers. Or lining up to take selfies in front of the stage with their leader, a man in American flag pants named Michael Brian Protzman.
The FBI has warned that extremist movements such as QAnon — which loosely revolves around the baseless belief that the world is secretly run by Satan-worshipping child sex traffickers — are likely to motivate some people to criminal and violent acts. The ideology has already been implicated in multiple crimes, including several people arrested in the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and a recent murder in Michigan.
But the Negative48 group rejects such characterizations.
“Some people call QAnon a cult, but I like to spell it cult with a Q, Q-U-L-T, because it’s hard to find people that are on our same page,” said group member Kelly Heath from Georgia. “It’s a strange story. You’re not going to hear about it every day. It’s like saying that God’s coming, the world is changing, and we need it to change. There’s bad people that run the world, and they do bad things to kids, and it’s ugly.” Heath said the group included members who were themselves victims of sexual abuse as children.
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September 2020 is full of signs of prepping to claim or seize victory (marked in yellow here.) First, organizationally: On Sept. 7 Ali Alexander reboots "Stop the Steal" (Roger Stone's first version was in 2016). Jack Posobiec immediate Tweets out "
#StoptheSteal2020 is coming" 2/
On Sep. 10th Roger Stone calls in to Alex Jones' InfoWars show and says outright that Donald Trump should seize power and declare martial law if he loses the election. He then makes the rounds denying that he said what everyone heard. 3/
On Sep. 21, Trump Tweets out "The radical left are laying the groundwork to steal the 2020 Election.." w/ an attached video prepping doubt about absentee ballots: "They are planting stories that President Trump will have a landslide lead on election night - but will lose.." 4/
The ominous implication of that ad was immediately flagged by Time reporter Vera Bergengruen, who noted even earlier "Defend Your Ballot" statements in August. But by Sep 2020, it was a full-on campaign. 5/
On Sep 23, Trump refused to commit to the peaceful transfer of power: "We're going to have to see what happens". That same week, in a presidential debate, he told the Proud Boys "stand back and stand by". The Capitol attack was foretold for months. 6/
The final green-lighting of the Capitol attack didn't happen til late, between midnight & 1:42 AM on Dec. 19th. Many competing plans were floating around. But groundwork was laid early, and militias were talking. Even Tim Pool got word of something. 7/
Pool: "I’ve had messages from people saying that they’ve already got plans to rush to D.C. as soon as Nov. 3 goes chaotic” “The right-wing militias, the Oath Keepers, the 3 Percenters, and just the Proud Boys and Trump supporters, they are going to rush full-speed to D.C..." 8/
In Sept. 2020 there wasn't yet consensus on Jan 6, and no one was in charge - the attack was a vague idea, not a concrete plan. But people were talking and logistics were being laid. The poll for Trump were already bad, and backup plans were being laid. 9/
One other important thing to notice about Sep. 2020: the day before Trump sends out his ad prepping an election fraud claim, he says he'll form a '1776 Commission' on patriotic education. Then actually forms it on Dec 18th, just before his J6 decision. 10/
The 1776 Commission was announced in Sep. just as election-stealing plans ramped up. It's formed the day the attack decision was made. It doesn't meet til Jan 5. At that point there's only two weeks to inauguration. The committee can only be effective if Trump got a 2nd term. 11/
That "1776 Commission" hangs over the Capitol attack. At every critical date, Trump takes time to move that Commission forward - giving those on it an investment in his 2nd term. When he didn't get one, they rushed out a hasty report & disbanded...
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.. but the 1776 Commission didn't just die. Chair Larry Arnn: ` has described education as a "weapon" in the conservative war to reclaim America' (Salon). His `1776 Curriculum' may be coming soon to your schools, even without a presidential mandate. 13/
Any campaign needs supporters. No one can overthrow the US Constitution without powerful people letting it happen. We see plans to seize power talked about early. And Trump's maneuvering before the Capitol attack included doing favors for those whose support he would need. 14/
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