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The Straits Times Much is still unknown about the planning and financing of the storming of the Capitol.PHOTO: NYTIMES PublishedJan 17, 2021, 1:00 pm SGT https://str.sg/JzQe They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you Read now Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month for the first 3 months. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month for the first 3 months. including the ST News Tablet worth $398.

US Capitol breach: Online fundraisers, frenzied calls for 'revolution' fueled 6 January violence A few prominent firebrands, an opaque pro-Trump nonprofit and at least one wealthy donor had campaigned for weeks to amplify the president’s false claims about his defeat, stoking the anger of his supporters Jake Angeli (centre), a QAnon adherent known as the Q Shaman, with other Trump supporters who swarmed the Capitol. By Erin Schaff © 2021 The New York Times Keith Lee, an Air Force veteran and former police detective, spent the ...

Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images On the day of the insurrection at the US Capitol, a group of Christians were in DC taking part in the “Jericho March.” It wasn’t the first such event; others had taken place in late 2020 both in DC and at state capitals, inviting participants to sing, pray, listen to speakers, and march around Capitol buildings with the aim of calling for “election integrity.” (The Jericho March website has been updated with a statement from its organizers denouncing violence in general and the January 6 insurrection in particular. But a cached ve...

Hundreds of thousands Trump supporters turned out at the nation’s capital on Jan. 6 on the day of a joint session of Congress to count the Electoral College votes and certify former Vice President Joe Biden as President Elect. As a working journalist with 25 years experience, and having covered local and state events and politics, I was more than curious to attend the Washington, D.C. rallies held in response to what is perceived to be a “stolen election.” I joined with my brother, attending from Ohio, along with 55 others in the Women for Trump – Ohio group who had engage...

click to enlarge Trump tweeted "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" and thousands of insurrectionists heeded the call  The invasion of the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday was stoked in plain sight. For weeks, the far-right supporters of President Donald Trump railed on social media that the election had been stolen. They openly discussed the idea of violent protest on the day Congress met to certify the result. "We came up with the idea to occupy just outside the CAPITOL on Jan 6th," leaders of the Stop the Steal movement wrote on Dec. 23...