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January 6th

Jul 20, 202593 min read

Overview

On January 6th, 2021, during the finalization of the Electoral College vote of the 2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump held a rally outside the White House at the Ellipse. This rally would then turn into a protest against the vote outside Capitol Hill in D.C., based around claimed voter fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election,(C-SPAN [3:33:05]) and it would become a violent riot, threatening the lives of lawmakers finalizing the vote, including Mike Pence,(January 6th Committee, p. 89) ((January 6th Committee [14:47]) (DoJ, p. 40) stalling the vote for a few hours.(MSNBC) (NPR, Lonsdorf, Dorning, et al.) (C-SPAN [57:00])

Speeches at Ellipse in order

Before the Capitol riot, Donald Trump held a rally at the Ellipse in front of the White House. Before he spoke to his audience, he had a few people give some speeches before him.(C-SPAN) (Politico, Choi)

Ivanka Trump's involvement

Ivanka Trump was originally invited to come speak, but she declined,(January 6th Committee, Ivanka’s Testimony, p. 20) however, she did still accept an invitation to go to the rally.(January 6th Committee, Ivanka’s Testimony, pp. 26-27)

Kylie Jane Kremer

Mo Brooks

Katrina Pierson

Amy Kremer

Vernon Jones

General Paxton and Senator Paxton

Eric Trump and his wife

Kimberly Guilfoyle

Trump Jr.

Madison Cawthorn

Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman

Rudy Giuliani first part

Rudy Giuliani starts out the speech by explaining that there are two points in their speech together.(C-SPAN [2:19:10])

  • Whatever they’re doing for the “plan today” is “perfectly legal.”(C-SPAN [2:19:23]) This is because of the “questionable constitutionality of the Election Counting Act of 1887”.(C-SPAN [2:19:45]) Because of this, “the Vice President can cast it aside and he can do — a president called Jefferson did when he was Vice President.”(C-SPAN [2:19:55])
  • He references Jefferson as an example of a vice president changing the outcome of an election for president, however, this was done before the Electoral Count Act was passed, which he already says has “questionable constitutionality.”(C-SPAN [2:19:45])
  • He also states that states “want” to change the outcome of the election from five “letters” that have been sent “begging” then to do that.(C-SPAN [2:20:25]) He is either lying since these were never sent by any official in the state governments or they are referencing the false elector scheme.
  • He states “who hides evidence, criminals hide evidence,” but ballots have historically been kept secret from the public and other non-authorized government officials due to the privacy concerns of voters.(C-SPAN [2:21:30])
  • He says “lets have trial by combat.”(C-SPAN [2:20:05])

John Eastman’s speech

  • John Eastman begins by stating that several states have violated their own state laws to change the outcome of the election, “we know there was fraud.”(C-SPAN [2:25:20])
  • Eastman brings up again that Mike Pence should “let the legislatures of the state[s] look into this so we get to the bottom of it.”(C-SPAN [2:27:00])

Rudy Giuliani second part

Donald Trump

In this speech, he pressures Republicans in Congress to challenge the vote certification, Mike Pence to refuse to certify the vote, and reiterates tons of different false election fraud allegations and riles the crowd up to “fight like hell” or else they’re not going to have a country anymore.

  • Quotes from Trump’s speech:(C-SPAN) (NPR, Naylor)
    • “They rigged it like they’ve never rigged an election before.”(C-SPAN [3:33:05])
      • Stating he won the election.
    • “All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats, which is what they’re doing. And stolen by the fake news media. That’s what they’ve done and what they’re doing. We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved.”(C-SPAN [3:33:35])
      • Says who stole it and reaffirming that they will “never concede.”
    • “And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with: We will stop the steal. Today I will lay out just some of the evidence proving that we won this election and we won it by a landslide. This was not a close election.”(C-SPAN [3:34:06])
      • He never came up with the term originally, but he co-sponsored it and stating “we will stop the steal.”
    • “We didn’t lose.”(C-SPAN [3:35:20])
      • Reiterating that he won the election.
    • “We will not let them silence your voices. We’re not going to let it happen, I’m not going to let it happen.”(C-SPAN [3:36:00])
      • Referencing that action will be taken, not just words.
    • (Audience chants: “Fight for Trump.“) “Thank you.”(C-SPAN [3:36:11])
      • “Fighting” for Trump, implying action with previous uses of the word “fight.”
    • “And Rudy, you did a great job. He’s got guts. You know what? He’s got guts, unlike a lot of people in the Republican Party. He’s got guts. He fights, he fights.”(C-SPAN [3:36:50])
      • Implying that he co-sponsors everything Giuliani says about the election and what to do, given that we gave a speech just before.
    • “And he looked at Mike Pence, and I hope Mike is going to do the right thing. I hope so. I hope so. Because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election. All he has to do, all this is, this is from the number one, or certainly one of the top, Constitutional lawyers in our country. He has the absolute right to do it.”(C-SPAN [3:37:22])
    • “States want to revote. The states got defrauded. They were given false information. They voted on it. Now they want to recertify. They want it back. All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people.”(C-SPAN [3:37:54])
      • States that the states want to recertify their electors, which isn’t necessary given precedent from the 1960 United States presidential election.
      • Despite these claims, no state officially wanted to rescind their approval electoral votes.
    • “I just spoke to Mike. I said ‘Mike, that doesn’t take courage. What takes courage is to do nothing. That takes courage.’ And then we’re stuck with a president who lost the election by a lot and we have to live with that for four more years. We’re just not going to let that happen.”(C-SPAN [3:38:22])
    • “We’re gathered together in the heart of our nation’s capital for one very, very basic and simple reason: To save our democracy.”(C-SPAN [3:40:40])
      • To establish that the rally is not just for words.
    • “For years, Democrats have gotten away with election fraud and weak Republicans. And that’s what they are. There’s so many weak Republicans. And we have great ones. Jim Jordan and some of these guys, they’re out there fighting. The House guys are fighting. But it’s, it’s incredible. Many of the Republicans, I helped them get in, I helped them get elected. I helped Mitch get elected. I helped.”(C-SPAN [3:41:50])
      • Calling out “weak Republicans,” one’s who don’t agree with him about the election.
      • Emphasizes that he’s the reason they got elected, implying that they would lose their future elections if they don’t help him now.
    • “And you have to get your people to fight. And if they don’t fight, we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don’t fight. You primary them. We’re going to. We’re going to let you know who they are. I can already tell you, frankly.”(C-SPAN [3:43:40])
      • Threatening Republicans who don’t support his views on the election and that they’ll lose their elected offices.
    • “But this year, using the pretext of the China virus and the scam of mail-in ballots, Democrats attempted the most brazen and outrageous election theft and there’s never been anything like this. So pure theft in American history. Everybody knows it.”(C-SPAN [3:43:56])
    • “But we look at the facts and our election was so corrupt that in the history of this country we’ve never seen anything like it. You can go all the way back.”(C-SPAN [3:45:17])
      • Saying that this election was the most corrupt election in U.S. history.
    • “And you know what else? We don’t have a free and fair press. Our media is not free, it’s not fair. It suppresses thought, it suppresses speech and it’s become the enemy of the people. It’s become the enemy of the people. It’s the biggest problem we have in this country.”(C-SPAN [3:45:38])
      • Framing the press as the enemy of the people.
    • “Republicans are, Republicans are constantly fighting like a boxer with his hands tied behind his back. It’s like a boxer. And we want to be so nice. We want to be so respectful of everybody, including bad people. And we’re going to have to fight much harder.”(C-SPAN [3:46:07])
      • Framing that Republicans were playing too soft in politics and that they need to fight much more harshly.
    • “And Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn’t, that will be a, a sad day for our country because you’re sworn to uphold our Constitution.”(C-SPAN [3:46:31])
    • “Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down. Anyone you want, but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.”(C-SPAN [3:46:47])
      • He wants the entire crowd at his rally to go to the Capitol and that they will cheer for some and not for others, implying that they will be treated differently by the crowd.
    • “Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.”(C-SPAN [3:47:24])
      • Emphasizing “strength” and being “strong” as central components to the walk to and actions to be taken at the Capitol.
    • “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”(C-SPAN [3:47:44])
      • Using the term “marching” when talking about going to the Capitol.
      • When he uses the word peaceful, he does not necessarily tell the people in the audience to be peaceful, but rather he says “I know that everyone here will,” implying he doesn’t have to tell them to be so.
        • This is the only time in the entire speech that he turns down the temperature when using the word “peaceful” once.
    • “But we’ve done it quickly and we were going to sit home and watch a big victory and everybody had us down for a victory. It was going to be great and now we’re out here fighting.”(C-SPAN [3:50:50])
      • Saying again how they’re “fighting” and that they all expected a victory.
    • “We will not be intimidated into accepting the hoaxes and the lies that we’ve been forced to believe. Over the past several weeks, we’ve amassed overwhelming evidence about a fake election.”(C-SPAN [3:59:17])
      • Saying the press has been lying and that the evidence of a fake election are true.
    • “By the way, Pennsylvania has now seen all of this. They didn’t know because it was so quick. They had a vote. They voted. But now they see all this stuff, it’s all come to light. Doesn’t happen that fast. And they want to recertify their votes. They want to recertify. But the only way that can happen is if Mike Pence agrees to send it back. Mike Pence has to agree to send it back.” (Audience chants: “Send it back.“)(C-SPAN [4:08:33])
    • “You will have an illegitimate president. That’s what you’ll have. And we can’t let that happen.”(C-SPAN [4:10:24])
      • Saying Joe Biden is an illegitimate president and implying he lost in fraudulent ways.
    • “The radical left knows exactly what they’re doing. They’re ruthless and it’s time that somebody did something about it. And Mike Pence, I hope you’re going to stand up for the good of our Constitution and for the good of our country. And if you’re not, I’m going to be very disappointed in you. I will tell you right now. I’m not hearing good stories.”(C-SPAN [4:20:45])
      • Claiming again that the left is the cause of the fraudulent election.
      • Claiming again that Mike Pence needs to help them.
    • “So when you hear, when you hear, while there is no evidence to prove any wrongdoing, this is the most fraudulent thing anybody has, this is a criminal enterprise. This is a criminal enterprise.”(C-SPAN [4:32:19])
      • Claiming that no only are the debunking of his claims are all false, but that their is an entire criminal apparatus for this election.
    • “The Republicans have to get tougher. You’re not going to have a Republican Party if you don’t get tougher. They want to play so straight. They want to play so, sir, yes, the United States. The Constitution doesn’t allow me to send them back to the States. Well, I say, yes it does, because the Constitution says you have to protect our country and you have to protect our Constitution, and you can’t vote on fraud. And fraud breaks up everything, doesn’t it? When you catch somebody in a fraud, you’re allowed to go by very different rules.”(C-SPAN [4:33:36])
      • Reiterating being “tough.”
      • Claiming the Republican Party would end if they don’t get more “tough.”
      • Implying that if one side is breaking some rules, then all bets are on the table.
    • “So I hope Mike has the courage to do what he has to do. And I hope he doesn’t listen to the RINOs and the stupid people that he’s listening to.”(C-SPAN [4:34:07])
      • Saying again that Mike Pence needs to do something to help him win the election and to not listen to the previously mentioned “weak” Republicans.
    • “We won in a landslide. This was a landslide. They said it’s not American to challenge the election. This the most corrupt election in the history, maybe of the world.”(C-SPAN [4:34:51])
      • Saying not only did he win, but that it was not close, it was a landslide.
    • “If we allow this group of people to illegally take over our country because it’s illegal when the votes are illegal when the way they got there is illegal when the states that vote are given false and fraudulent information.”(C-SPAN [4:39:35])
      • Implying that states only certified their elections due to “false information,” which would only be possible if the people under them were lying to them, since the press does not determine what electors are certified by the Governor of said state.
    • “And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”(C-SPAN [4:41:29])
      • Again, stating that if they don’t “fight” and “fight like hell,” the country will collapse and implying that this is your chance to stop that from happening.
    • “So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to the Capitol, and we’re going to try and give. The Democrats are hopeless — they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don’t need any of our help. We’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”(C-SPAN [4:41:59])
      • Finalizing the plan to go down to the Capitol and try to change the outcome of the election so that he wins, despite this being only a certification process, not an actual vote.

Actions by prominent Right-wingers

Proud Boys actions

Summary

The Proud Boys organized a plan to oppose and stop the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden on January 6th.(DoJ) (Scridb, p. 107) (DocumentCloud) Part of the Proud Boys plan was to wear incognito uniforms to “put fear” in the others in “this specific rally.”(Rumble, InvestigateJ6 [14:48]) (DoJ, p. 4) On January 6th, they would proceed to bash through barriers to enter property illegally, assault USCP officers, and taut the idea of “1776,” a famous revolution in American history.(DoJ, p. 5) (DoJ, p. 12) (DoJ, p. 23)

Convictions

Timeline

Before January 6th

  • November 5th, 2020:
    • Joe Biggs posts on Parler the following:
      • “It’s time for fucking War if they steal this shit”(DoJ, p. 5)
  • November 6th, 2020:
    • Enrique Tarrio posts on Parler the following:
      • “The media constantly accuses us of wanting to start a civil war. Careful what the fuck you ask for we don’t want to start one…but we will sure as fuck finish one.”(DoJ, p. 4) (Parler, NobleLead)
  • November 12th, 2020:
  • November 16th, 2020:
    • Enrique Tarrio posts on Parler the following:
      • “If Biden steals this election, [the Proud Boys] will be political prisoners. We won’t go quietly…I promise.”(DoJ, p. 4)
  • November 24th, 2020:
    • Joe Biggs in response to a social media post calling for unity in response to the results of the presidential election, posted the following: “
  • November 25th, 2020::
    • Enrique Tarrio posts on Parler the following:
      • “We need to remember: We’re at war with a virus — not with each other.”(DoJ, p. 5)
    • Enrique Tarrio posts on Parler the following:
      • “No, YOU need to remember the American people are at war with YOU. No Trump…No peace. No quarter.”(DoJ, pp. 4-5)
  • November 27th, 2020:
    • Ethan Nordean posts on social media the following:
      • “We tried playing nice and by the rules, now you will deal with the monster you created. The spirit of 1776 has resurfaced and has created groups like the Proudboys and we will not be extinguished. We will grow like the flame that fuels us and spread like love that guides us. We are unstoppable, unrelenting and now. . .unforgiving. Good luck to all you traitors of this country we so deeply love … you’re going to need it.”(DoJ, p. 5)
    • Zachary Rehl posts on social media the following:
      • “Hopefully the firing squads are for the traitors that are trying to steal the election from the American people.”(DoJ, p. 5)
  • December 12th, 2020:
  • December 17th 2020:
  • December 19th, 2020:
  • December 20th, 2020:
  • December 26th, 2020:
    • 3:30 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio and a few other members of the Proud Boys would begin a new chapter dubbed the “Ministry of Self Defense,” or MOSD. It would only include “hand selected members.” They would then begin making plans for January 6th through encrypted chats.(DoJ, p. 6) (Scridb, p. 25)
    • Enrique Tarrio announced that the leadership of the MOSD would reside in two, three-man councils that would work together with designated regional leaders.(DoJ, p. 10)
  • December 27th, 2020:
  • December 28th, 2020:
  • December 29th, 2020:
    • Enrique Tarrio would post a social media message saying “turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th but this time with atwist…[sic] We will not be wearing our traditional Black and Yellow. We will be incognito and we will be spread across downtown DC in smaller teams. And who knows .. . we might dress in all BLACK for the occasion.”(DoJ, p. 11)
    • Enrique Tarrio would send a message in the MOSD Prospect Group to notify members of a December 30 at 9:00 p.m. meeting explaining “how this all works” and that it will have a “will have a top down structure.” He would warn that “if that’s something you’re not comfortable with” then don’t attend the live session with the leaders of the “Operations,” Zachary Rehl, and two unknown people to the public.(Scribd, p. 194) (DoJ, p. 11)
    • Dominic Pezzola sent a direct message to Enrique Tarrio saying “Hey boss, [I’m] one of the guys bringing the [decorative] shield down … I’ll be in de w [sic] a few other brothers from NY.”(DoJ, p. 12)
  • December 30th, 2020:
    • Enrique Tarrio would hold a video call with members of MOSD. Enrique Tarrio, along with Charles Donohoe and others in MOSD leadership, emphasized that members should follow their commands from leadership, repeating that “fit in or fuck off.” Zachary Rehl would warn that January 6th was going to be a “completely different operation” and would not be conducting a “night march and flexing our [arms] and shit.”(DoJ, p. 12)
    • Zachary Rehl would post a link to a fundraiser “Travel Expenses for upcoming Patriot Events,” which would gain $5,500 from December 30th to January 4th.(DoJ, p. 13)
  • December 30th – 31st, 2020:
  • December 20th – 31st 2020:
    • Enrique Tarrio would message saying “I am assuming most of the protest will be at the capital building given what’s going .[sic] on inside.”(DoJ, p. 10)
  • December 31st, 2020:
    • 11:25 a.m.: Enrique Tarrio posted a picture of himself with Zachary Rehl at the “Million MAGA” rally with the message “Lords of War. #J6 #320” (DoJ, p. 13) (Scridb, p. 85)
    • 3:05 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio holds a vote in the MOSD chat with the text “POLL: Will you be attending the event in DC on Jan 6th? And if you do under what capacity?”(Scridb, p. 85)
      • “No I will not be attending.”: 34 votes
      • “Yes I will be attending bit with my chapter or other bots.”: 7
      • “Yes I will be attending and I want to the part of the MoSD op.”: 31
      • “Yes I will be attending and I want to be part of the MoSD op with Anna.”: 13
    • 3:08 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio creates a new MOSD group chat on Telegram.(Scridb, p. 86)
    • 3:11 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio or someone with a similar name posts a Telegram link to a new chat, presumably for MOSD.(Scridb, p. 85)
  • January 1st, 2021:
    • Enrique Tarrio would post two messages saying “Let’s bring this new year with one word in mind…Revolt,” and then another one later saying “News Years Revolution.”(DoJ, p. 13)
  • January 2nd, 2021:
  • January 3rd, 2021:
    • Members of MOSD exchanged messages about attacking the Capitol, with one saying “what would they do [if] 1 million patriots stormed and took the capital building. Shoot into the crowd? I think not.” Someone else responded saying “They would do nothing because they can do nothing.”
    • 3:35 a.m.: Enrique Tarrio sent a image of a family member’s debit card to Ethan Nordean to help afford a flight to Washington D.C.(DoJ, p. 13) (Scridb, p. 119)
      • I don’t know why the DoJ reports a separate date from the Telegram logs show for this source.
    • 7:10 p.m.: Another member in the group chat would say the following:
      • “I mean the main operating theater should be out in front of the house of representatives. It should be out in front of the Capitol building. That’s where the vote is taking place and all of the objections. So, we can ignore the rest of these stages and all that shit and plan the operations based around the front entrance to the Capitol building. I strongly recommend you use the national mall and not Pennsylvania avenue though. It’s wide-open space, you can see everything coming from all angles.”(DoJ, p. 14)
      • Zachary Rehl responded with “good start.”(DoJ, p. 14)
  • January 4th, 2021:
    • Enrique Tarrio was arrested and charged with destruction of property and possession of two large capacity magazines in D.C. Superior Court.(DoJ, p. 7)
    • Enrique Tarrio’s arrest would result in the created of a new encrypted group chat dubbed “New MOSD Leaders Group” for MOSD leadership and did not initially include Enrique Tarrio. Charles Donohoe said “Each one of us should personally clear our history of that MOSD chat,” with Zachary Rehl responding “you gotta manually delete each message from each chat,” adding “since [TARRIO] knew the cops were for him, hopefully he logged outta.” Charles Donohoe responded “Well at least they won’t get our boots on ground plans because we are one step ahead of them,” then advising everyone that he “removed everyone from the other group.”(DoJ, p. 14)
    • Charles Donohoe would create a new encrypted group chat, saying “we are nuking that one,” the previous group chat.
    • 7:15 p.m.: Charles Donohoe posted a message in the new MOSD group chat saying “Hey have been instructed and listen to me real good! There is no planning of any sorts. I need to be put into whatever new thing is created. Everything is compromised and we can be looking at Gang charges.” Then saying “Stop everything immediately,” and “This comes from the top.”(DoJ, p. 15)
    • 8:20 p.m.: Someone would post in the new MOSD group chat “We had originally planned on breaking the guys into teams. Let’s start divying them up and getting baofeng channels picked out.”(DoJ, p. 15)
  • January 5th, 2021:
    • 1:23 p.m.: A new group chat was made called “Boots on Ground” to be used for members in Washington D.C., with over sixty members including Ethan Nordean, Joe Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Charles Donohoe, Dominic Pezzola, and unknown persons known to by jury.(DoJ, p. 15)
    • 5:00 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio was released after being told to leave D.C. He did not immediately leave and later in the night would meet up with the leader and founder of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, for around 30 minutes.(DoJ, p. 7) (Courthouse News)
    • 5:23 p.m.: Joe Biggs posts a message in the new Boots on Ground group saying “Just trying to get our numbers. So we can plan accordingly for tonight and go over tomorrow’s plan.”(DoJ, p. 15)
    • 5:52 p.m.: Joe Biggs would post again “We are trying to avoid getting into any shit tonight. Tomorrow’s the day,” and then “I’m here with rufio and a good group[.]”
    • In response to a question from a member of the New MOSD Leaders Group, Zachary Rehl stated he was bringing multiple radios and another person would later in the evening.(DoJ, p. 16)
    • 8:00 p.m.: Dominic Pezzola posts “Anybody need coms programmed hit me up.”(DoJ, p. 16)
    • 8:27 p.m.: Ethan Nordean and Joe Biggs post a message to New MOSD Members Group saying “Everyone needs to meet at the Washington Monument at 10am tomorrow morning! Do not be late! Do not wear colors! Details will be laid out at the pre meeting! Come out at as patriot!”(DoJ, p. 16)
    • 9:03 p.m.: Zachary Rehl notified Ethan Nordean and Joe Biggs that he made it to D.C., with Charles Donohoe asking for a radio.(DoJ, p. 16)
    • 9:09 p.m.: Message is sent out in New MOSD Leaders Group saying “Stand by for the shared baofeng channel and shared zello channel, no Colors, be decentralized and use good judgement until further orders,” with them then saying “Rufio [NORDEAN] is in charge, cops are the primary threat, don’t get caught by them or BLM, don’t get drunk until off the street.” Charles Donohoe reposted the same three messages on the New MOSD Members Group at 9:11 p.m.(DoJ, p. 16)
    • 9:17 p.m.: Joe Biggs posted a message in the MOSD New Members Group saying “We just had a meeting woth [sic] a lot of guys. Info should be coming out” and “Just spoke with Enrique.”(DoJ, p. 16)
    • 9:20 p.m.: Someone adds Enrique Tarrio to the New MOSD Leaders Group, then Joe Biggs posts a message saying “We have a plan. I’m with rufio [NORDEAN],” Charles Donohoe responding “hat’s the plan so I can pass it to the MOSD guys,” with Joe Biggs responding “gave Enrique a plan. The one I told the guys and he said he had one.”(DoJ, p. 17)
    • 9:36 p.m.: Charles Donohoe adds Enrique Tarrio to the New MOSD Leaders Group.(DoJ, p. 17)

On January 6th

  • January 6th
    • 12:01 a.m.: Enrique Tarrio posts on New MOSD Leaders Group.(DoJ, p. 17)
    • 12:03 a.m.: Charles Donohoe posted “Standby” and then reposted the instructions from the Boots on Ground group and the New MOSD Members Group for the plan to meet at the Washington Monument at 10 a.m.(DoJ, p. 17)
    • 6:37 a.m.: Charles Donohoe posts in New MOSD Leaders Group asking “Are we gonna do a commanders briefing before the 10 a.m.?” Then posting the message on New MOSD Members Group and Boots on Ground group that he was on his way to the Washington Monument, with him adding “I have the keys until Rufio [NORDEAN] and Zach [REHL] show up.”(DoJ, p. 17)
    • 10:00 a.m.: Around 100 Proud Boys show up at the Washington Monument, including Ethan Nordean, Joe Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Charles Donohoe, Dominic Pezzola.(DoJ, p. 17) (Rumble, InvestigateJ6 [14:48]) Everyone was carrying walkie-talkie communication devices and were not wearing the traditional Proud Boys black and yellow.(DoJ, p. 17) Shortly after, Ethan Nordean and Joe Biggs would lead the group from the rally near the Washington Monument to the Capitol.(DoJ, p. 18)
    • 12:00 p.m.: Charles Donohoe would post an encrypted message on a different group chat saying “WE ARE WITH 200-300 PBS.”(DoJ, p. 18)
    • 12:53 p.m.: Ethan Nordean, Joe Biggs, and Zachary Rehl would lead the First Street pedestrian entrance near the Peace Monument, secured with a small number of USCP behind metal barriers. This barrier would be breached by Ethan Nordean, Joe Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Charles Donohoe, and Dominic Pezzola,(DoJ, p. 18) with them immediately charging for the Capitol.(DoJ, p. 19) (Twitter, @ElijahSchaffer) (January 6th Committee, p. 645)
    • 12:55 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (sometime between): Joe Biggs would record himself toward the Capitol with a crowd saying “Dude, we’re right in front of the Capitol right now. American citizens are storming the Capitoltaking [sic] it back right now. There’s millions of people out here; this is fucking crazy. Oh my God! This is such history! This is insane. We’ve gone through every barricade thus far. Fuck you!” They would then tear down a fence to get further to the Capitol.(DoJ, p. 19) Once they got to the west plaza of the Capitol, they would say in a video “we’ve just taken the Capitol.”(DoJ, p. 20)
    • 1:00 p.m.: Messages would be sent in the New MOSD Leaders Group saying “Push inside! Find some eggs and rotten tomatoes!” and “They deploy the mace yet,” with Charles Donohoe then saying “We are trying.”(DoJ, p. 20)
    • 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (sometime between): Zachary Rehl would steal a riot shield from a USCP officer and Charles Donohoe threw two water bottles at USCP officers.(DoJ, p. 20)
    • 1:27 p.m.: Joe Biggs would post a video of himself saying “So we just stormed the fucking Capitol. Took the motherfucking place back. That was so much fun.” BIGGS then added, “January 6 will be a day in infamy.”(DoJ, p. 20)
    • 1:37 p.m.: Charles Donohoe would post a message “Got a riot shield,” while at the rear of the plaza and taking a picture of himself with it.(DoJ, p. 20)
    • 1:55 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. (sometime between): Ethan Nordean and Joe Biggs were at the Upper West Terrance stairs of the Capitol, with Charles Donohoe and Dominic Pezzola at the base of said stairs.(DoJ, p. 21) The USCP tried to stop them but they were overwhelmed, they would try to tell them to stop, Dominic Pezzola would respond with “We ain’t stopping! We ain’t fucking stopping! Fuck you! … You think Antifa’s fucking bad, just you wait!”(DoJ, p. 21)
    • 2:13 p.m. – 2:14 p.m.: Zachary Rehl uses a stolen riot shield to break through a window of the Capitol, first people and rioters to enter the Capitol, with himself and others entering through the window.(DoJ, p. 21) (YouTube, @ABC7 [0:00]) Joe Biggs would then say “We’ve taken the Capitol.”(DoJ, p. 22)
    • 2:36 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio would make a public social media post saying “After I finish watching this I’ll make a statement about my arrest…But for now I’m enjoying the show…Do what must be done. #WeThePeople.”(DoJ, p. 22)
    • 2:37 p.m.: Ethan Nordean entered the Capitol would reunite with other Proud Boys.(DoJ, p. 22)
    • 2:38 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio would make a public social media post saying “Don’t fucking leave.” (DoJ, p. 22)
    • 2:39 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio responded to a question by a Proud Boys member “Are we a militia yet?” With him responding “Yep,” then “Make no mistake…” and “We did this…”(DoJ, p. 22)
    • 2:40 p.m.: Joe Biggs re-enter the Columbus Doors, pushing an USCP officer, then entering the Senate chamber where the Certification of the Electoral College vote would’ve happened.(DoJ, p. 22)
    • 2:41 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio would make a public social media post saying “Proud Of My Boys and my country.”(DoJ, p. 22)
    • 2:53 p.m.: Zachary Rehl enters the Capitol. Enrique Tarrio calls Ethan Nordean.(DoJ, p. 22)
    • 2:54 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio then calls Joe Biggs for 42 seconds.(DoJ, p. 23)
    • 2:57 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio would make a public social media post saying “1776” and “Revolutionaries are now at the Rayburn building,” referencing the House of Representatives, and finally “1776 Returns,” the title of the plan made on December 30th.(DoJ, p. 23)
    • 7:39 p.m.: Someone sends Enrique Tarrio text messages saying “Brother. You know we made this happen[,]” and “I’m so proud of my country today.” Enrique Tarrio responded “I know.”(DoJ, p. 23)
    • 7:44 p.m.: The same person sends another message to Enrique Tarrio saying “1776 motherfuckers,” with Enrique Tarrio responding “The Winter Palace.” Same unknown person responds “Dude. Did we just influence history?” With Enrique Tarrio responding “Let’s first see how this plays out.” With unknown person responding with “They HAVE to certify today! Or it’s invalid.”(DoJ, p. 23)
    • 11:16 p.m.: Enrique Tarrio would make a public social media post that featured a video of a masked man resembling himself, wearing a flowing black cape, standing in front of a deserted Capitol. The video was captioned, “Premonition.”(DoJ, p. 23)

Oath Keepers actions

Alex Jones’ actions

Timeline

Before January 6th

The lead up to January 6th is best summed up by being the culmination of all the voter fraud claims Donald Trump spread to the public about the election and the false elector scheme being created by Trump’s private legal team in the background.

(See Timeline)

On January 6th and 7th

After January 6th

Proud Boys

Oath Keepers

Alex Jones

Ray Epps

Ray Epps

Ray Epps claimed to be involved with the FBI in staging and stirring up January 6th.source needed

Link to original

Donald Trump’s reaction

Donald Trump first heard about the riot at the Capitol when a staffer told him what was happening at 1.21 p.m.(January 6th Committee, p. 592)

Page 592

“Sir, they cut it off because they’re rioting down at the Capitol,” the employee said. The President asked what he or she meant by that. “[T]hey’re rioting down there at the Capitol,” the employee repeated. “Oh really?” the President asked. “All right, let’s go see.” A photograph taken by the White House photographer—the last one permitted until later in the day—captures the moment the President heard the news from the employee at 1:21 p.m. By that time, if not sooner, he had been made aware of the violent riot at the Capitol.(January 6th Committee, p. 592)

Trump first confirmed acknowledgment of the January 6th riot.

Trump did not take action for the attack for 187 minutes to be exact. Within that period of time, his vice president, family, and immediate White House employees pleaded to him to take action but he did not accept their requests, while watching the events fold on television with a Diet Coke in hand.(January 6th Committee, p. 593) (January 6th Committee, Ivanka’s Testimony, pp. 213-214) source needed

Kevin McCarthy’s office

During the riot, Kevin McCarthy’s office got invaded by the rioters. After he got to safety, he called the President, Donald Trump, and told him about what his supporters were doing and to do something about it. Trump denied that they were not his supports but in-fact Antifa members, which McCarthy denied his assertion and repeated that they were his supporters, to which Trump replied with the implication that it was deserved.(January 6th Committee, p. 111) Trump then asks McCarthy if there is any way that they can further delay the certification of the vote.(NBC)|Recording [2:25] (Mediaite, Christopher)

Many of the events were described by representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican congresswoman.
(NBC) (Mediaite, Christopher) (Audio doesn’t start until [0:19])

Jaime Beutler

I had a conversation with McCarthy about this, Kevin is an unapologetic supporter of Donald Trump, has been since before he was president. He called the president and said “Hey, you basically need to get on TV, you need to call these people off.”

And the president’s response to him was “These aren’t my people, these are Antifa, which is not…

Kevin, to his credit, responded “No, they just came through my window, my staff are running, these are your people, they have MAGA hats on.”

And the president’s response to him was “Well, Kevin, I guess they are just more concerned about this election than you are.”

And that to me says I see that it’s happening ,and I either want it to continue to happen, or at the very least I don’t care. Either way, it doesn’t matter if you’re Republican, doesn’t matter that I voted for him, it doesn’t matter that he had a good economy, in that moment my decision is do I get to vote yes or no, that’s it.(Mediaite, Christopher)

Despite openly supporting Trump in public,(Twitter, @SpeakerMcCarthy) he privately wanted him to resign.(New York Times, Burns, Martin)
(New York Times, Burns, Martin)
Although it’s possible he could’ve changed his mind about Trump after a year from January 6th, it’s unlikely given the circumstances and is more likely doing it for political gain from his controversial time as House of Speaker.

Conspiracy theories

Nancy Pelosi’s role in January 6th

A few videos and quotes have been reported made by Nancy Pelosi of her claiming to take “responsibility” for the lack of preparation and defense of the Capitol on January 6th, with her saying in a bunker, “We have totally failed. We have to take some responsibility for not holding the security accountable for what could have happened.”(House Committee [6:49])

Another video shows her saying something similar in a car, recorded by her own daughter, saying, “We did not have any accountability for what was going on there … and we should have.” She also said, “Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with … I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more”(CBS6, Gaskins)

Despite her taking responsibility, however, there was little she could have done to prevent or stop the riot than unfolded on January 6th.

The Speaker of the House, who was Nancy Pelosi at the time, has no authority over the National Guard, including at the time, due to the fact that the National Guard is under the military, which would therefore be under the executive branch,(National Guard) which the President at the time, Donald Trump, had sole authority over.(AP News, Lajka) (FindLaw, Storm, Maggio)

Capitol Police Officer at the time Steven Sund would claim that Nancy Pelosi was at the top of the chain of command for Paul Irving, at the time Sargent-of-Arms for the House and implied that she either denied or stalled approval for the National Guard. The problem is that Irving was referring to the chain of command in the military, which would not be Nancy Pelosi, but rather Donald Trump and Christopher C. Miller.

https://mov2day.to/watch/movie-pelosi-in-the-house-free-online-dxlpp/1-1

https://x.com/tuckercarlson/status/1689783814594174976?s=46&t=ZP5t8kQfIn1LJX0ZCmusNA

Capitol police

Sund and Irving

Steven Sund, the at the time Capitol Police chief, called Paul Irving, the House sergeant-at-arms at the time, for federal assistance for the January 6th riot. Irving would respond to him one hour later letting him know that the request he made has been approved, but they were unable to realize it due to the fact that they do not have the power to call upon federal resources like that, including the National Guard.(New York Times, Mazzetti, Broadwater)

Antifa conspiracy

There have been claims that Antifa has predominantly at January 6th, including some by Donald Trump himself.(Reuters) (NBC) (Mediaite, Christopher) (January 6th Committee, p. 111) This is contrary to Donald Trump’s own Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, does not believe antifa was there in any meaningful way,(AP News) along with InfoWars reporting at the time, with them explicitly stating that, “This is not Black Lives Matter folks, this is not Antifa, these are patriots.”(BANNED.video, InfoWars [69:50])

Example of false comparisons

FBI and CIA involvement

FBI CIA

Aftermath of January 6th

Deaths connected to January 6th 

In total, nine people have died in connection to January 6th, with five of them committing suicide after the events of.

Caused by the events on January 6th

Ashli Babbitt


(LTLA5, AP News)
Ashli Babbitt was shot in the shoulder and killed by a Capitol police officer when she tried to enter a broken window to get into the Capitol.(Washington Post, Peiser, Jouvenal) (INDEPENDENT, Spocchia) (AP News, Biesecker) (NPR, Wise1) (FOX13, Dugan) She was a veteran of the Air Force, which she served for 12 years.(AirForceTimes, Losey)

Officer Jeffrey Smith


(CBS)
Officer Jeffrey Smith committed suicide with his service weapon in his car nine days after the insurrection, the day he was supposed to return to duty. His wife would comment on how he “changed” after January 6th and that it affected his mental state severly.(CBS) (New York Times)

Officer Howard C. Liebengood


(USCP)
Officer Howard Liebengood committed suicide three days after the riot.(USCP) (USCP) (NPR, Sprunt, Wise)

Questionably caused by January 6th

Rosanne Boyland


(New York Post, Eustachewich)
Rosanne Boyland was crushed in a stampede by rioters, with her family blaming Donald Trump,(USA Today, Thanwala, et al.) (Reuters) but their official cause of death was accidental acute amphetamine intoxication.(Washington Post, Hermann) (FOX13, Dugan)

Officer Brian D. Sicknick


(NBC)
Capitol Police officer died around 9:30 p.m., January 7th,(USCP) from two strokes at the base of his brain stem after the riots and that he died of “natural causes,” according to Francisco J. Diaz, the Washington medical examiner.(USCP) He did, however, say that “all that transpired played a role in his condition” as well.(Washington Post, Hermann)

Officer Kyle DeFreytag


(People, Chamlee)
Officer Kyle DeFreytag died on July 10th, a few months after(Bensing-Thomas) via suicide.(People, Chamlee) It’s unknown whether or not January 6th had an affect on his decision to commit suicide.

Officer Gunther Hashida


(Fox News, Casiano)
Officer Gunther Hashida died on July 29th, a few months after January 6th,(Mountcastle Turch) via suicide.(Fox News, Casiano) (Courthouse New Source, Rodgers) It’s unknown whether or not January 6th had an affect on his decision to commit suicide, however, his suicide did occur only a little over two weeks after Officer Kyle DeFreytag committed suicide.

Incidental, likely not caused by January 6th

Kevin D. Greeson

Kevin D. Greeson died of a heart attack during the protest, specifically hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease,(FOX13, Dugan) with family members saying he had a history of high blood pressure.(AP News)

Benjamin Philips

Benjamin Philips died of a medial emergency during the protest,(CBS), specifically hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.(FOX13, Dugan)

Court cases

Many of the rioters during January 6th were convicted of several crimes.source needed
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/36-months-jan-6-attack-capitol-0

Ben Shapiro’s reaction

Ben Shapiro, who is an American lawyer and conservative talk show host,(State Bar of California) (Simon & Schuster) (YouTube, @BenShapiro) stated on January 7th, a day after January 6th, multiple times that it was an insurrection.(YouTube, @BenShapiro)

Ben Shapiro

Rioters storm the Capitol Building to try to stop the electoral college vote count; the Left blames all Republicans for the insurrection; and Twitter suspends Trump. (YouTube, @BenShapiro (Description)) (YouTube, @BenShapiro [0:05])

Ben Shapiro

This was an attempted act of insurrection. I mean technically speaking that’s what it was, considering that the reason that this happened is because Congress was simply there doing their constitutional duty and tabulating the state-certified electoral count.(YouTube, @BenShapiro [2:27])

Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

Members of the commission:

Majority (D)Minority (R)
Bennie Thompson, Chairman, Mississippi
Zoe Lofgren, California
Adam Schiff, California
Pete Aguilar, California
Stephanie Murphy, Florida
Jamie Raskin, Maryland
Elaine Luria, Virginia		Liz Cheney, Vice Chair, Wyoming
Adam Kinzinger, Illinois(January 6th Committee, p. ii)

Republicans rejected from committee

Nancy Pelosi on July 21st would announce that she would reject Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, but would accept the other three recommendations, as long as they didn’t help Trump’s claims of the 2020 United States presidential election.(THE HILL, Lillis)

THE HILL

Monday evening, the Minority Leader recommended 5 Members to serve on the Select Committee.  I have spoken with him this morning about the objections raised about Representatives Jim Banks and Jim Jordan and the impact their appointments may have on the integrity of the investigation.  I also informed him that I was prepared to appoint Representatives Rodney Davis, Kelly Armstrong and Troy Nehls, and requested that he recommend two other Members.

With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee.

The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision.(THE HILL, Lillis|Pelosi)

Testimony on the committee

Perjury

Perjury

The January 6th committee, similar to court trials and other committees, have people speaking before the council are under oath, which means that if they lie about anything, that would be perjury, even if the lie told isn’t relevant.(Mark Reichel)

Lying to Congress has also been punished as recently as 2019.(Politico, AP News) (PBS News, AP News) (AP News)

Interestingly, Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s allies, and Donald Trump himself have not testified in any of the committees, including one’s managed predominantly by Republicanssource needed while Hillary Clinton did testify when she was under investigation years prior for different allegations.(CBS, Condon) (YouTube, @livenowfox)

Key people who did testify

Ivanka Trump


(Fine Art America)
Role:
Donald Trump’s daughter and Director of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship

Interview
DateStart Time
Tuesday, April 5, 202210:02 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Ivanka’s Testimony, p.1)

Ivanka Trump voluntarily testified about her father’s, Donald Trump, actions on January 6th inside the White House, along with her views of the election not being stolen and William Barr’s comments about the election. Despite her not fully cooperating with the committee, she still agreed with the fact that he was being hard to cooperate with in stopping the riot at the Capitol and that she agreed with Barr’s assessment of the outcome of the 2020 United States presidential election.(January 6th Committee, pp. 125-126) (January 6th Committee, Ivanka’s Testimony, pp. 213-214) (PBS News, Jalonick (AP News), Mascaro (AP News), Amiri (AP News)) (New York Times|January 6th Committee)

She also would testify that originally she was going to speak at the Trump rally on January 6th, (January 6th Committee, Ivanka’s Testimony, p. 20) but, she did accept an invite to go to the rally.(January 6th Committee, Ivanka’s Testimony, pp. 26-27)

Cassidy Hutchinson


(PennState)

Role:
Mark Meadows assistant from early/mid-2020 – January 2021.

Cassidy Hutchinson was a key witness to many of Trump’s and Trump’s allies actions before and during January 6th.

Interview 1
DateStart Time
Wednesday, February 23, 202210:10 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Hutchinson Testimony (Part 1), p.1)
Interview 2
DateStart Time
Monday, March 7, 202212:06 p.m.(January 6th Committee, Hutchinson Testimony (Part 2), p.1)
Interview 3
DateStart Time
Monday, June 20, 20221:04 p.m.(January 6th Committee, Hutchinson Testimony (Part 3), p.1)
Hearing
DateStart Time
Tuesday, June 28, 20221:00 p.m.(January 6th Committee)
Supposed Lies

Various online news websites would claim that Hutchinson was lying due to several inconsistencies within her testimony. The Gateway Pundit, for instance, would either talk about unnecessary bits to the overall point of Hutchinson’s testimony or are simply incorrect.

Steering wheel testimony

Cassidy Hutchinson was accused of lying about Donald Trump trying to grab a steering wheel from the Secret Service driver during their drive back to the White House.(Gateway Pundit, Wetmore) However, the article leaves out that she was recalling the even from a second or even thirdhand perspective from Tony Ornato, a former Secret Service agent who served as Trump’s deputy chief of staff at the time, and was not actually there during the events which she described. Other witnesses who spoke with the committee, one’s who did and didn’t testify, although disagreeing with her about Trump’s motion to grab the steering wheel, agreed with everything else she had to say about the encounter with Donald Trump in the vehicle, including his hostility with the idea of not being able to go to the Capitol building.(New York Times, Broadwater) (THE HILL, Beitsch)

The Gateway Pundit also claims double hearsay when she recalls this story from Tony Ornato. While it is true that using stories like this as evidence of a crime is generally invalid in court, Hutchinson’s general claim throughout her testimony was not that Trump tried to grab a steering wheel out of anger, her general claim throughout her testimony was that Trump had plans to steal the election from Joe Biden and knew he lost. Extra testimony like this therefore cannot reasonably be used to counteract the rest of her hours of testimony to the committee.

The Gateway Pundit shows quotes from interviews from the committee from the people that Hutchinson is referring to in her testimony saying they don’t recall the story she cited.(Gateway Pundit, Wetmore) However, this isn’t enough to prove she was lying and could simply mean that she either misremembered the event or they did.(New York Times, Haberman)

First “Lie”

Gateway Pundit

But Trump was in the Presidential SUV not “The Beast.”(Gateway Pundit, Hoft) (Gateway Pundit, Hoft)

The Presidential SUV does in fact go by “The Beast,” going as far back as 2011.(Business Insider, Allison Churchill and Robert Johnson) (MotorTrend) Even if this fact was wrong, it would not be difficult to mix two black vehicles that the president would use to get around, since they normally use “The Beast” to get around.

Second “Lie”

Gateway Pundit

Cassiday Hutchinson [sic] said President Trump grabbed the neck area of Secret Service agent Bobby Engel.(Gateway Pundit, Hoft)

(Yes, they misspelled her first name)

This claim has no real source, and the source given for the claim links to a post with no mention of someone grabbing someone else’s neck.
Cassidy Hutchinson does mention, notably in a source not mentioned by the Gateway Pundit,(Gateway Pundit, Hoft) that Trump tried grabbing him around his neck area, but he never actually had his hand on his neck, with only an implication.(Twitter, AP News)

Third “Lie”

Gateway Pundit

Cassidy Hutchinson said President Trump broke dishes and flipped tablecloths on January 6th.(Gateway Pundit, Hoft)

The only evidence against this claim comes from Trump’s Truth Social posts.(AP News, Merchant, Tucker) Trump himself would disagree with the allegations made against him here, but there has yet to be any contradictory testimony on this subject, and Trump being the accused would object to these allegations.

Fourth “Lie”

Gateway Pundit

Cassidy Hutchinson claimed to have written a handwritten note on January 6th.(Gateway Pundit, Hoft)

This claim does have some truth to it, since Eric Herschmann did also testify that he did in fact write the note despite Hutchinson’s testimony.(Gateway Pundit, Robison) However, it is also likely that they simply misremembered who wrote it or that they have similar handwriting. Regardless of who wrote it, similar to many of the alleged lies made by Hutchinson, they don’t affect the central point of the claims, since both Herschmann and Hutchinson agree that the note was to make Trump take action on January 6th at around 3 p.m.(January 6th Committee, Herschmann Testimony, pp. 66-69)

Fifth, sixth, and seventh “lies”

Gateway Pundit

Cassidy Hutchinson said her boss Mark Meadows called Roger Stone on January 5th to find out what would play out the next day on January 6th.(Gateway Pundit, Hoft)

Similar to the other alleged lies made here, the evidence for the lie comes from someone who did not testify against her or on contradiction to what she said.(Gateway Pundit, Hoft) The person who claims that she was lying was Michael Flynn, who was previously found guilty for lying to the FBI,(Casetext) so it’s very unlikely that he was in fact correct in this scenario.

Gateway Pundit

Cassidy Hutchinson said Mark Meadows spoke with General Flynn on January 5th.(Gateway Pundit, Hoft)

Similar to the previous “lie,” this was written in the same article.(Gateway Pundit, Hoft) Instead of Michael Flynn, this is Roger Stone saying he never communicated with Mark Meadows in this context. Again, Stone never testified to any official body any contradictory claims and as also been convicted of lying, this time to Congress during the First Trump Administration.(DoJ)

Gateway Pundit

Cassidy Hutchinson said General Flynn and Roger Stone participated by phone in a briefing in the war room in the Willard Hotel with Mark Meadows on January 5th.(Gateway Pundit, Hoft)

The final reported lie within this article has the same underlying issues with the two previous allegations, so there’s not much to explain.

Eighth “Lie”

Gateway Pundit

Cassidy Hutchinson said Jeffrey Clark met with Rudy Giuliani and Trump campaign at White House.(Gateway Pundit, Hoft)

Again, this allegation has the problem of having contradictory statements made without being under oath or within a testimony to a government body.(Twitter, @mrddmia)

Ninth “Lie”

Gateway Pundit

Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump’s White House counsel Pat Cipollone was at the White House on the morning of January 6, 2021.(Gateway Pundit, Hoft)

This allegation is another one of the strongest ones made that Hutchinson lied. However, this has a same problem as the other ones, it’s statements made without being under oath or under testimony. Not only that, but the people who did give statements against Hutchinson were anonymous to the Federalist. This doesn’t necessarily make their claims false or misleading, but it simply isn’t enough evidence to prove that Hutchinson was wrong, let alone lying.(Federalist, Justice)

Kayleigh McEnany


(Flickr, Gage Skidmore)

Role:
Kayleigh McEnany was Donald Trump’s White House Secretary from April 7th, 2020 – January 20th, 2021.

Depisition
DateStart Time
Wednesday, January 12, 202210:09 a.m.(January 6th Committee, McEnany Deposition p. 1)

McEnany would testify that Ivanka Trump was the one would initially suggested to add the words “stay peaceful” in the tweet sent by Donald Trump at 2:38 p.m.(January 6th Committee, McEnany Deposition pp. 184-185) (Twitter, @realDonaldTrump)

She would also state the following people were in the room during this event that she can recall, “Ivanka, the chief of staff, myself, Dan Scavino, and Eric Herschmann.”(January 6th Committee, McEnany Deposition p. 184)

William Barr


(DoJ)

Role:
William Barr was Donald Trump’s Attorney General from February 14th, 2019 – December 23rd, 2020.(DoJ) (January 6th Committee, Barr Testimony p. 6)

Interview
DateStart Time
Thursday, June 2, 202210:02 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Barr Testimony p. 1)

William Barr would testify to having several conversations with Donald Trump, which would end up causing him to resign on December 14th, with it effective on December 23rd.(January 6th Committee, Barr Testimony p. 6) (January 6th Committee, Barr Testimony p. 30) Since he resigned before most of the false elector scheme would be crafted, he had little to say about his actions after December 14th.
He had a meeting with him on December 1st, next on the day after on December 2nd, and his final one with him on December 14th. In each one, or at least for the first two mentioned here, he would tell Trump that all of his claims of voter fraud are false and that he and the Department of Justice have already investigated every widespread claim made by Trump and online.(January 6th Committee, Barr Testimony pp. 24-25) Notably in the first meeting, the conversation between the two would become so heated that Trump would slam his desk in frustration when Barr suggested that he would resign and that he was sorry there was nothing he could do.(January 6th Committee, Barr Testimony p. 26)

Richard Donoghue


(DoJ)

Role:
Richard Donoghue was Donald Trump’s Acting Attorney General from December 24th, 2020 – January 20th, 2021.

Interview
DateStart Time
Friday, October 1, 202110:02 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Donoghue’s Testimony, p. 1)

Richard Donoghue would testify that every claim Donald Trump made from the election about voter fraud was unsubstantiated and false.(January 6th Committee, Donoghue’s Testimony, p. 58) In one meeting in particular, Donald Trump would ask Donoghue to make a public statement, saying that the election was filled with fraud that might’ve caused Donald Trump to in fact beat Joe Biden. Donoghue responded with a resounding no, due to the investigations by the Department of Justice finding no wrong-doing. When Trump heard this, he responded with the following:

Richard Donoghue He says, "I don't expect you to do that. Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen." [. . .] So I put it in quotes. It is an exact quote from the President.(January 6th Committee, Donoghue's Testimony, p. 58)

Due to this conflict, Donald Trump would ask Jeff Clark if he would like to be the new Acting Attorney General, since Clark was supportive of Trump’s idea that Donoghue originally rejected.(January 6th Committee, Donoghue’s Testimony, p. 124)
Later on, Donald Trump would set up a meeting to accomplish this with Pat Cipollone (White House Counsel), Steven Engel (United States Assistant Attorney General), Jeff Clark (Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division), Richard Donoghue (Acting United States Deputy Attorney General), Jeff Rosen Acting United States Attorney General), Eric Herschmann (Senior Advisor to the President), and Pat Philbin (Deputy White House Counsel).(January 6th Committee, Donoghue’s Testimony, p. 122) During this meeting, Donoghue, along with everyone else during the meeting except for Clark and Trump, would not only oppose the idea of making Clark the new Acting Attorney General, but would resign if it was done.

Richard Donoghue

And then — and I said something to the effect of, “You’re going to have a huge personnel blowout within hours, because you’re going to have all kinds of problems with resignations and other issues, and that’s not going to be in anyone’s interest.” And so the President said, “Well, suppose I do this” — I was sitting directly in front of the President. Jeff Rosen was to my right; Jeff Clark was to my left. The President said, “Suppose I do this, suppose I replace him,” Jeff Rosen, “with him,” Jeff Clark, “what do you do?” And I said, “Sir, I would resign immediately. There is no way I’m serving minute under this guy,” Jeff Clark. And then the President turned to Steve Engel, and he said, “Steve, you wouldn’t resign, would you?” And Steve said, “Absolutely I would, Mr. President. You’d leave me no choice.”(January 6th Committee, Donoghue’s Testimony, pp. 124-125)

Hearing

Richard Donoghue was one of the witnesses at the fifth hearing.

DateStart Time
Thursday, January 13, 202210:00 a.m.(January 6th Committee)

Chris Hodgson


(Cornerstone)

Role:
Chris Hodgson was Mike Pence’s Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs from October 2017 – late-2018. Then became the Director of Legislative Affairs from late-2018 – January 2021.

Interview
DateStart Time
Wednesday, March 30, 202210:06 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Hodgson Deposition p. 1)
Chris Hodgson would testify that Mike Pence would resume counting the electoral votes at 8:05 p.m. after the Capitol was clear from the [[January 6thriot]].

(There’s likely more information that he gave that was notable but I have yet to read all of it yet.)

Sarah Matthews


(BBCnewsVietnamese, Facebook)

Role:
Donald Trump’s White House Deputy Press Secretary from June 2020 – January 6th, 2021.

Interview
DateStart Time
Tuesday, February 8, 202210:08 a.m. (January 6th Committee, Matthews Interview p. 1)

Sarah Matthews would testify that during the crafting of the tweet Donald Trump sent at 2:38 p.m.,(Twitter, @realDonaldTrump) there was discussion between herself, Kayleigh McEnany, Ivanka Trump, and Mark Meadows.(January 6th Committee, Matthews Interview p. 39) While discussing what words should be added, Ivanka Trump would suggest adding the words “stay peaceful” to be added. Trump’s reaction to this suggestion was initially negative, and that he did not want to add those words.(January 6th Committee, Matthews Interview pp. 39-40)

Sarah Matthews

… it was lvanka Trump who came up with “stay peaceful” and that he agreed to that phrasing to include in the tweet, but he was initially resistant to mentioning peace of any sort.(January 6th Committee, Matthews Interview p. 40)

Hearing

Sarah Matthews was one of the witnesses at the eighth hearing.

DateStart Time
Thursday, July 21, 20228:00 p.m.(January 6th Committee)

Nicholas Luna


(CBS)

Role:
Donald Trump’s Deputy Assistant from late-2018/early-2019 – January 2021.

Deposition
DateStart Time
Monday, March 21, 202210:05 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Luna’s Deposition, p. 1)

Nicholas Luna would testify that he was responsible for helping Donald Trump film his video, calling for protestors and rioters to leave the Capitol, posted at 4:17 p.m.(APP) (YouTube, @TheManilaBulletin) During the production of the film, he would be in charge of lighting, position of the camera, audio is clear, etc. He would also add that this video had at least two takes and maybe more, implying that there wasn’t too much of a rush by Trump to post it.(January 6th Committee, Luna’s Deposition, p. 162)

Anonymous white house employee

Role:
(Unknown)

Interview
DateStart Time
Friday, June 10, 20222:04 p.m.(January 6th Commission, WHITE HOUSE EMPLOYEE Deposition p. 1)

This anonymous white house employee would testify that Donald Trump at the earliest was made aware of the riot at the Capitol,(January 6th Commission, WHITE HOUSE EMPLOYEE Deposition p. 29) with a photo being taken likely within the same minute at 1:21 p.m.(January 6th Commission, WHITE HOUSE EMPLOYEE Deposition p. 30) He would go on to primarily watch Fox News coverage of the events unfold.(January 6th Commission, WHITE HOUSE EMPLOYEE Deposition p. 25)
They would also say that right around when he was informed of the riot, a photo was taken of him, likely the one below:(January 6th Commission, WHITE HOUSE EMPLOYEE Deposition p. 30)

(The Bulwark, Saleton)

Keith Kellog, Jr.


(NARA)

Role:
Keith Kellog, Jr. was Mike Pence’s National Security Advisor from April 27th, 2018 – January 20th, 2021.

Interview
DateStart Time
Tuesday, December 14, 202110:02 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Kellogg Deposition p. 1)

Keith Kellog, Jr. would testify that Donald Trump during January 6th would watch television of the news reporting of the riot instead of taking any action.(January 6th Committee, Kellogg Deposition pp. 133-135)

Molly Michael


(New York Times, AP News)

Role:
Molly Michael was a normal White House employee starting in 2017, then in 2018, became Donald Trump’ Executive Assistant in the White House.

Interview
DateStart Time
Thursday, March 24, 202210:08 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Michael Deposition p. 1)

Molly Michael would testify that Donald Trump was watching television instead of calling for any action during the riot at the Capitol.(January 6th Committee, Michael Deposition p. 115)

Shealah Craighead


(Town & Country, Hallemann)

Role:
Shealah Craighead was Donald Trump’s Chief Official White House Photographer from January 27th, 2017 – January 20th, 2021.(Paris Match, Sekkai)

Interview
DateStart Time
Wednesday, June 8, 20222:04 p.m.(January 6th Committee, Craighead’s Deposition, p. 1)
Shealah Craighead would testify that when attempting to take photographs of the events unfolding in the Oval Office and the White House at large during January 6th, she was told by Donald Trump’s other staff to not take pictures.(January 6th Committee, Craighead’s Deposition, pp. 26-28)

Shealah Craighead

You’re going to want photos. This is historical. Everything that’s happening today is historical. You know, for history’s purpose, you will want photos for your archives, for the President’s archives to show what you’re doing. You’ll want — something to that effect. You’ll want photos for the archives. It might not seem like you do now, but perhaps later you will. It’s all history.(January 6th Committee, Craighead’s Deposition, p. 28)

Shealah Craighead

Probably, again, not the exact quote, but probably something of: Thanks, Shea, no photos today. He is not — he doesn’t want any photos.(January 6th Committee, Craighead’s Deposition, p. 28)

Christopher C. Miller


(DoD)

Role:
Christopher C. Miller was Donald Trump’s Acting Secretary of Defense from November 9th, 2020 – January 20th, 2021.

Interview
DateStart Time
Friday, January 14, 202210:00 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 1)

Christopher C. Miller would testify to having two meetings with Donald Trump in the upcoming days of January 6th, one on the third, and one very brief one on the fifth. In the first meeting here, Miller would be accompanied by General Milley,(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 95) (January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 96) and it was primarily to discuss a national security threat by an unnamed foreign power, and he would say he cannot comment on the particulars of the foreign power or security threat in question.(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 96)

He did, however, clarify that the meeting was not for the purposes of January 6th. Despite this, January 6th did come up at the end of the meeting discussing the potential crowd size.(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 97) Towards the end, in a 30-60 second conversation, where Trump would briefly mention something along the lines of “give them what they need” in a passing comment,(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 98) Miller would respond by saying that they “had a request for support from Mayor Bower that we would fulfill.” This was all that was discussed about January 6th at this meeting.(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 98)

In the second meeting on January 5th, which would last not so long,(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 97) likely around 30 seconds,(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 99) Trump would mention to Miller “they were going to need 10,000 troops the following day,” with “they” referring to law enforcement, public security, and public safety.(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 99) Miller would interpret this brief comment as “presidential banter,“(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 99) and would take no action into deploying 10,000 active National Guard troops.(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 99) (January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony pp. 100-101) His reasoning would not just because of his interpretation of Trump’s casual comment, but also since he’s heard that “domestic law enforcement entities had stated earlier that they could handle much — you know, a million people.”(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 100) He would go on to reaffirm that the President, Donald Trump, could at any moment without any other authority confirmation, deploy forces as the Commander in Chief.(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 102)

Miller would go on to say that the cause for the delay in deploying the National Guard at the Capitol was due to a miscommunication between himself and McCarthy.(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 117)

Christopher C. Miller

What I’m saying is that it appears that McCarthy interpreted the guidance and the order at 3:04 differently than I relayed it, which I think is completely acceptable based on the chaos that’s going on and not to be pedantic, but I will.(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony p. 117)

Miller gives more details as to the specifics of the miscommunication in the military after.(January 6th Committee, Miller’s Testimony pp. 117-119)

Gregory Jacob


(PLI)

Role:
Gregory Jacob was Mike Pence’s U.S. legal counsel from March 2020 – January 2021.

Interview
DateStart Time
Tuesday, February 1, 202210:05 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 1)

John Eastman admitting that he would lose in Supreme Court at a 7-2, then at 9-0

Gregory Jacob would testify to witnessing alternate slates of electors being submitted that were not approved by any State authority on or around January 2nd.(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 61) January 4th would be the first time he would hear John Eastman, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer who helped craft the false elector scheme and the memos along with it, mention anything about the false elector scheme.(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 97) On January 5th, John Eastman would admit to Jacob that you would have to “set aside” the Electoral Count Act,(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 96) and “violate” it,(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 130) which would only be possible by breaking that law. He would also repeat the ideas of voting machines being rigged to Jacob on January 5th, which Jacob would disagree with.(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 131)

Jacob would also go into detail about his arguments with Eastman about the Electoral Count Act and how he thinks the false elector scheme would be wrong on a legal basis.(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 130-134) One of Eastman’s arguments was that Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus due to an emergency and that this case would be similar. (January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 123)
Eastman would mention getting letters from State legislators saying they wanted to change the outcome of the election, which Jacob would say never happened and that the State legislators never wanted to do this. Eastman’s response was that they would “try to get some letters.”(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, pp. 123-124)
During the arguments, Jacob would claim that Eastman acknowledged that the Supreme Court would likely rule 9-0 against his legal theory surrounding the Electoral Count Act and the Vice President’s role in the counting of electoral votes.(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 117) However, he hoped that the Supreme Court would not get involved with the Electoral Count Act issue because he thought the courts would think it’s a “political question,“(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 111) and Eastman would never answer what would happen after that to Jacob.(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 112) It’s likely that because the courts would not touch the case, it would allow Mike Pence to have much more room to enact the false elector scheme.

Jacob would end his testimony with some events on January 6th. At around 2:13 p.m., the Senate’s debate immediately stopped, and at 2:22 p.m., Mike Pence would be evacuated to a secure location.(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 177) He would go on to mention that despite the circumstances, Mike Pence would stay within the Capitol to make sure that “we completed the vote count that day.”(January 6th Committee, Jacob’s Deposition, p. 177-178)

Hearing
DateStart Time
Thursday, June 16, 20221:00 p.m.(January 6th Committee)

Marc Short


(Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service)

Role:
Marc Short was Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff from March 1, 2019 – January 20, 2021.

Interview
DateStart Time
Wednesday, January 26, 202210:13 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Short’s Testimony, p. 1)

Byung Jun Pak


(DoJ)

Role:
BJay Pak was United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia appointed by Donald Trump from October 10th, 2017 – January 4th, 2021.

Interview
DateStart Time
Thursday, May 19, 202210:03 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Pak’s Testimony, p. 1)
Hearing
DateStart Time
Thursday, June 13, 202210:00 a.m.(January 6th Committee)

Russel Bowers


(Arizona House)

Role:
Republican 54th Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives from January 14th, 2019 – January 9th, 2023.

Interview
DateStart Time
Sunday, June 19, 20224:33 p.m.(January 6th Committee, Bower’s Testimony, p. 177)
Hearing
DateStart Time
Tuesday, June 21, 20221:00 p.m.(January 6th Committee)

William Stepien


(Twitter, @_BillStepien)

Role:
William Stepien was Donald Trump’s White House Director of Political Affairs from January 20th, 2017 – December 7th, 2018.
He later became an advisor for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.(Politico, Isenstadt) (January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, pp. 7-8)

Interview
DateStart Time
Thursday, February 10, 202210:16 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 1)

William Stepien would testify that he initially worked with Donald Trump in his 2016 election campaign as a National Field Director, which meant he would help encourage voters to vote for him as president and track what’s going on in terms of what States were leaning which way.(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 7) Later on, we would become involved again in 2020 for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign in mid-July 2020 as a Senior Political Advisor.(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 8) Before becoming a campaign manager for Trump, he focused on overseeing the operating of the campaign and outreaching to States, after becoming a campaign manager, his roles would be expanded.(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 8) This likely meant Trump respected Stepien or at least felt that he was doing a good job for his campaign.
When the votes for the 2020 United States presidential election in Michigan were starting to go in favor of Joe Biden, he and his campaign staff would become confused as to why Rudy Giuliani was convinced that Trump had in fact won the State, despite them having the most up to date data that most would not be able to see at the moment,(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 52-53) to which they would feel that it was likely due to belief rather than data.(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 52) In response, Giuliani would show them a map on his tablet of the New York Times election night reporting of Michigan, which did not sway Stepien’s or any other campaign staffs mind that Trump was starting to do poorly.(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 54) Giuliani would then say that they should declare victory immediately, despite all the ballots not being counted yet.(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 54)
On November 7th, he would claim that Trump’s campaign would begin to receive calls from voters that there might have been foul play at their polling stations, although he does not specify if any of them were confirmed or not,(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 76) however he does differentiate “fraud” and “irregularities,” with irregularities not involving dead people or secret ballots.(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 81) Once the election was called off, Stepien said that at the time he and his campaign “did not have a basis to believe President Trump won on November 7th.”(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 82)
Hope Hicks was mentioned in the testimony William Stepien gave during the January 6th committee a few times.(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 49, 71-72, 116-118, 120, 122)

Paul Irving


(House)

Role:
Paul Irving was the House of Representatives’s Sergeant at Arms from January 17th, 2012 – January 7th, 2021.

Interview
DateStart Time
Friday, March 4, 20223:02 p.m.(January 6th Committee, Irving’s Testimony, p. 1)

Hope Hicks


(Forbes, Wilson)
Role:
Hope Hicks was Donald Trump’s White House communications director from September 12, 2017 – March 29, 2018,(January 6th Committee, Hicks’ Testimony, pp. 6-7) (Fox News) (New York Times, Rogers, Haberman) then she was counselor to the President from March 9, 2020 – January 12, 2021.(January 6th Committee, Hicks’ Testimony, p. 7)

Interview
DateStart Time
Tuesday, October 25,202210:15 a.m.(January 6th Committee, Hicks’ Testimony, p. 1)

Hope Hicks would testify that she never saw any convincing evidence of “fraud on a scale that would have impacted the outcome of the election,“(January 6th Committee, Hicks’ Testimony, p. 26, 28, 53, 84) saying that none would hold up in court.(January 6th Committee, Hicks’ Testimony, p. 27) She would even go as far to say that it was “damaging his legacy.”(January 6th Committee, Hicks’ Testimony, p. 84)

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