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Steve Bannon broadcasts election denialism and apocalyptic calls to action several times a day via Apple’s podcast app. He’s not the only one using the platform to spread claims that became a rallying cry of the mob that threatened the Capitol.
Skip to main content Currently Reading Pushed to the edge by the Capitol riot, people are reporting their family and friends to the FBI Hannah Knowles and Paulina Villegas, The Washington Post Jan. 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Tear gas is fired at a pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6.photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein. WASHSINGTON - When a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Leslie hoped that this would be her Trump-supporting parents' wake-up call. She hoped they were watching, maybe feeling ashamed. Then, a friend called. "Do you know al...
The politically liberal 35-year-old cried about the screenshots from her mother's Facebook page, posts defending the pro-Trump crowds and suggesting that Leslie's mom made it at least to the Capitol's steps. Then she reported her mom to the FBI - because "actions," she said, "should have consequences."
11 Gen 2021 di f.r.s. • 0 commenti In un articolo sull’Atlantic Elaine Godfrey spiega quali fossero gli scopi dei più organizzati tra gli insorti che hanno assaltato il Campidoglio americano lo scorso sei Gennaio, compresi la presa di ostaggi e processi sommari. “We are lucky, more than anything else, there wasn’t a large death toll,” Peter Simi, an expert on extremist groups at Chapman University, told me. “It could have been far, far worse.” Rioters could have set off these bombs, used the flex cuffs to take lawmakers hostage, or set up a kind of kangaroo court for the polit...