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Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 06:40 PM Jan 2021

'Stop the Steal' organizer Ali Alexander says 3 GOP congressmen helped him plan the rally.

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Source: Business Insider..

Sarah Al-Arshani
11 hours ago
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Ali Alexander, the organizer of the "Stop the Steal" movement, said three Republican representatives helped him plan the rally on January 6 that preceded the armed insurrection at the Capitol that left five people dead.

Alexander said Reps. Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks, and Paul Gosar helped him plan the rally, which happened as Congress was getting ready to certify the electoral votes and cement President-elect Joe Biden's victory, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

"We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting," Alexander said in a Periscope video that has since been deleted, The Post reported.

According to The Post, he added that the plan was to "change the hearts and the minds of Republicans who were in that body, hearing our loud roar from outside."


Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/stop-the-steal-organizer-gop-members-helped-him-plan-rally-2021-1



If true, those 3 congressmen need to be charged with, "rioting and insurrection." I wonder if this can be
proven beyond a reasonable doubt?..In a trial? Will these 3 even be charged?
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paleotn

(21,489 posts)
1. Singing like well trained canaries.
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 06:43 PM
Jan 2021

I figured those in custody were spilling their guts. Insufferable whiners usually incriminate everyone when they get caught. FBI is probably amazed at how easily these clowns fold.

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
2. ..The three have not confessed.. That is to come. Ali Alexancer has confessed.
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 06:46 PM
Jan 2021

paleotn

(21,489 posts)
4. Not the Congress Critters....
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 06:56 PM
Jan 2021

I meant the rubes in custody. They're spilling their guts. Some without even been pressed terribly hard, so the rumor is. FBI interrogators are use to dealing with hardened criminals and foreign terrorists. But these yokels...they're coming apart like cheap sweaters and taking the Congress Critters down with them.

riversedge

(79,285 posts)
3. whow. and the Truth is dribbling out hour by hour. I wonder if Pelosi can do anything
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 06:54 PM
Jan 2021

about this?? Will have to have some details of How these 3 helped the terrorists.

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
5. One and only one has said that he talked to Alexander...Paul Gosar..
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 06:57 PM
Jan 2021

The other two: Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks have refused to talk about this or refused to comment
to anyone about this.

C Moon

(13,440 posts)
6. I'm smiling on the outside, but laughing on the inside.
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:01 PM
Jan 2021

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
7. It didn't take too long, did it? I think all will come out in due time..Yes, all..
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:08 PM
Jan 2021

The FBI is good at finding ....ALL INFORMATION...yes..all....
It said on the internet that money sources have been found. And exchange of money has
been also found. Here is that link .

posted by appalachiablue:

title of link below:

Exclusive: Large Bitcoin Payments To Rightwing Activists A Month Before Capitol Riot Linked To Forei

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142670954

C Moon

(13,440 posts)
11. I imagine when they were brought into a room with actual FBI agents, reality hits them hard:
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:35 PM
Jan 2021

Oh. I don't have my digital room full of nazis and racists to tell me how genius and brave I am.

ancianita

(42,786 posts)
8. If Ali Alexander or the Capitol's CCTV footage provide evidence, this law probably applies
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:10 PM
Jan 2021

and they must be expelled based on the evidence.
No matter their excuses, they are caught committing a crime.

US Constitution 14th Amendment Section 3

No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a Member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

msongs

(73,049 posts)
9. a video that has since been deleted...is this guy in some sort of custody? nt
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:28 PM
Jan 2021

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
12. I think the FBI has the video and all necessary to indict, try and convict whoever was there.
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:35 PM
Jan 2021

jb5150

(1,360 posts)
10. Might need to use a little, oh what's the word, enhanced interrogation ...
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:32 PM
Jan 2021

to get to the truth.

badboy67

(460 posts)
13. What's the cost for a Presidential Pardon nowadays?
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:38 PM
Jan 2021

regnaD kciN

(27,440 posts)
14. Time for "14th Amendment solutions"...
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:41 PM
Jan 2021

Congress needs to declare them seditionists, expel them from the House, and ban them from ever holding federal office in the future.

Omaha Steve

(108,381 posts)
15. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:48 PM
Jan 2021

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