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Something gotta give here
Author: Raine    Date: 10/25/2021 13:00:23

Last night, potentially huge news broke over at Rolling Stone Magazine. I can't read it because it's behind a paywall. It basically goes a step further to confirming what many people have suspected, and what appeared to be right before our eyes. From Business Insider:
Two pro-Trump rally organizers who planned election protests across the US, including demonstrations in Washington DC on January 6, said they regularly met with GOP representatives or their top staff in the weeks leading up to the event of the Capitol attack.

In an exclusive interview published by Rolling Stone on Sunday, the organizers said they allegedly spoke to "a dozen" representatives or their teams, naming Rep. Paul Gosar and Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, and Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama.

"We would talk to Boebert's team, Cawthorn's team, Gosar's team like back to back to back to back," said one of the organizers.

"I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically," the same organizer also said. The names of both sources have been kept secret because they are cooperating with the House select committee's probe into the Capitol insurrection, per Rolling Stone. (snip)

It's unclear what was discussed with each representative, but the organizers gave Rolling Stone an example with Gosar, saying he offered them the possibility of receiving a "blanket pardon" to motivate them to plan the rallies.

Three of these representatives - Biggs, Brooks, and Gosar - were previously credited by "Stop the Steal" movement organizer Ali Alexander for helping plan a rally on that day, which Brooks and Biggs denied.
The Daily Beast says "Rolling Stone also reports that at least three rally organizers are cooperating with the House panel probing the riot, and have alleged several members of Congress were “intimately involved” in the plans."

This comes on the heals of another pretty explosive article about the Willard Hotel here in DC. WaPo reported on Saturday that there was a command center for the January 6 'events'.
They were led by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Former chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon was an occasional presence as the effort’s senior political adviser. Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik was there as an investigator. Also present was John Eastman, the scholar, who outlined scenarios for denying Biden the presidency in an Oval Office meeting on Jan. 4 with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. (snip)
In those first days in January, from the command center, Trump allies were calling members of Republican-dominated legislatures in swing states that Eastman had spotlighted in his memos, including Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona, encouraging them to convene special sessions to investigate fraud and to reassign electoral college votes from Biden to Trump, two of the people familiar with the operation said.

On Jan. 2, Trump, Giuliani and Eastman spoke to 300 state legislators via a conference call meant to arm them with purported evidence of fraud and galvanize them to take action to “decertify” their election results. “You are the real power,” Trump told the state lawmakers, according to a Washington Examiner report. “You’re the ones that are going to make the decision.”


I'd like to see more sources confirm the Rolling Stone information. This seems a little too detailed to be a coincidence. One of my favorite tweeps directed people to read this thread from over the weekend, and it is chilling, infuriating, and terrifying.

Something has to give already. The events on 1/6 were just the beginning of it, and people need to be held accountable so we can stop it. It's as bad as I feared it would be, and maybe even worse.

Happy Monday!

&.
Raine

 ETA: link to the Rolling Stone article not behind a paywall.
 
 

7 comments (Latest Comment: 10/25/2021 17:18:35 by TriSec)
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