Posted on 02/16/2021 3:59:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In a text message, a radicalized Trump supporter suggested getting a boat to ferry “heavy weapons” across the Potomac River into the waiting arms of their members in time for Jan. 6, court papers say.
It wasn’t just idle talk, authorities say. Investigators found invoices for more than $750 worth of live ammunition and for a firearm designed to look like a cellphone at the Virginia home of Thomas Caldwell, who’s charged with conspiring with members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group in one of the most sinister plots in the U.S. Capitol siege.
Right-wing extremists, blessed by Donald Trump, were unleashed last month, and their menacing presence has reignited the debate over domestic extremism and how law enforcement should be handling these groups.
Their talk of civil war, traitors and revolution mirrored fighting words echoed by right-wing social media personalities and websites for months as Trump spread bogus claims about a rigged presidential election.
In nearly half of the more than 200 federal cases stemming from the attack on the Capitol, authorities have cited evidence that an insurrectionist appeared to be inspired by conspiracy theories or extremist ideologies, according to a review of court records.
The FBI has linked at least 40 defendants to extremist groups or movements, including at least 16 members or associates of the neo-fascist Proud Boys and at least five connected to the anti-government Oath Keepers. FBI agents also explicitly tied at least 10 defendants to QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory that has grown beyond its fringe origins to penetrate mainstream Republican politics.
In at least 59 other cases, authorities link defendants to violent or extremist rhetoric, conspiracy theories or other far-right connections on social media and other forums before, during or after the Jan. 6 siege, a deeper review by the AP found.
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“Right-wing extremists, blessed by Donald Trump”
Oh, FFS. AP, your BS is beyond the pale.
They speak wrong, they think wrong, and they have the wrong friends on social media. America cannot allow this! We must crush all who do not adhere to the Party!
and yet no one from antifa or blm has been arrested or at least no one has reported on that
$750 in ammunition doesn’t get you very far these days.
AP is far-left propaganda. It has been so for a very long time.
And it always takes at least two morons to construct a hit piece like this.
Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice.
The rhetoric around January 6 gets more overblown every day. The articles now sound like the homework assignments of a 10th grade Creative Writing class. This is journalism now? SMH
Yep, swimming the Potomac, with the boat’s tow rope in his teeth.
Sounds like a Hollywood script.
Of the videos I saw, no one looked like the people at Trump rallies..
Probably one to write it, and one to add the incendiary adjectives.
antifa is just an idea
“$750 worth of live ammunition and for a firearm designed to look like a cellphone at the Virginia home of Thomas Caldwell”
Expect for the cool cellphone .380 caliber pistol, I do not know many people with less than $750 worth of ammunition in their house. Easy to do at today’s prices.
I think I will order an iPhone gun, great for a CWP weapon.
OMG Not RHETORIC!!! The First Amendment never mentions RHETORIC especially EXTREME RHETORIC. Our forefathers never foresaw the dangers of rhetoric that did not have to be toned down before being flung out among the populace. Plus spewing is just a nasty habit and I am sure James Madison would not have approved for people taking such liberties with their rights.
BHO, Brennan, and Clapper deserve some accolades too. Psyops job well done. Except for a few, the American people didn't know what hit them!
“Of the videos I saw, no one looked like the people at Trump rallies..”
That’s true.
We knew for several days if not weeks that antifa/blm was planning to infiltrate this rally.
The election was stolen.
Boats to transport heavy weapons? Wtf? Is it 1861 again? We have bridges now. This piece is so rife with made up sensationalism and utter creative fiction , it makes the writers from “ the walking dead” look like tom clancey.
so most of those involved were what? Just innocent bystanders caught up by the excitement?
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