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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts)
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 02:33 PM Apr 2021

'Occupy the Capitol': New report contradicts FBI's claims of no evidence in riot planning

WASHINGTON — FBI officials have repeatedly said they gathered no credible intelligence in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection suggesting that pro-Trump extremists intended to storm the U.S. Capitol.

And even after months of intensive investigation, Justice Department prosecutors have presented no evidence so far that any of the 420 individuals charged to date for their actions on Jan. 6 planned in advance to attack the building in which Congress was certifying Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election.

But a new report by a nonprofit research group, and a separate review by NBC News, uncovered hundreds of social media posts discussing plans to move on the Capitol, including a map of the building and talk of how to create a stampede that would overwhelm Capitol Police.

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One post on a very active forum for angry Trump fans called the TheDonald.win was titled "If we occupy the Capitol building, there will be no vote." The top response to that post reads: "GOTTA OVERWHELM THE BARRICADES AND COPS."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/occupy-the-capitol-new-report-contradicts-fbis-claims-of-no-evidence-in-riot-planning/ar-BB1fQyoa

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'Occupy the Capitol': New report contradicts FBI's claims of no evidence in riot planning (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP
yeah. this stuff was out here from the very beginning stopdiggin Apr 2021 #1

stopdiggin

(11,361 posts)
1. yeah. this stuff was out here from the very beginning
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 04:34 PM
Apr 2021

I'm not sure how to parse the sentence on these statements. Didn't see it -- or didn't take it seriously? (probably the latter?) But certain people were quite plainly talking about the Capital, and disrupting the vote. And that's be pretty clear from about -- Jan 6th.

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