'The Leaders Of The Riot Were Paid!'

[appalachiablue]

- Loyal insurgents gather.
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- 'The Leaders Of The Riot were Paid.' Daily Kos, Jan. 14, 2021.

Yahoo News has the exclusive story: Large bitcoin payments to right-wing activists a month before Capitol riot linked to foreign account:

- Right-wing figures and websites, including VDARE, the Daily Stormer and Nick Fuentes, received generous donations from a bitcoin account linked to a French cryptocurrency exchange, according to research done by software company Chainalysis, which maintains a repository of information about public cryptocurrency exchanges and whose tools aid in government, law enforcement and private sector investigations. Chainalysis investigated the donations after Yahoo News shared the data points about the transaction. -

If this happened, now, one can be sure it’s happened before. The 1/6 riots have done more then expose the weakness in protecting the seats of our government, it has brought to the forefront the terror we face within.

Under the Biden Department of Justice these fringe terrorist groups and organizations will be watched, scrutinized, and indicted. The cow-towed media, beaten into submission by Trump, will be hungry for any story on domestic terrorism and it’s sponsors. Their enablers within the government will be flushed out and punished.

The fact that the monies have been traced to overseas will bring multiple agencies into play. We are under attack from within and abroad.

There was a reason Trump and Republicans feared losing, this is a big one... ~

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/14/2009209/-The-Leaders-of-the-Riot-Were-Paid
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- Yahoo News, 'Large Bitcoin Payments To Rightwing Activists A Month Before Capitol Riot Linked To Foreign Account'

WASHINGTON — On Dec. 8, someone made a simultaneous transfer of 28.15 bitcoins — worth more than $500,000 at the time — to 22 different virtual wallets, most of them belonging to prominent right-wing organizations and personalities.

Now cryptocurrency researchers believe they have identified who made the transfer, and suspect it was intended to bolster those far-right causes. U.S. law enforcement is investigating whether the donations were linked to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.

While the motivation is difficult to prove, the transfer came just a month before the violent riot in the Capitol, which took place after President Trump invited supporters to “walk down Pennsylvania Avenue” and “take back our country.”...

https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-large-bitcoin-payments-to-rightwing-activists-a-month-before-capitol-riot-linked-to-foreign-account-181954668.html




- AP news photo.

[catrose]

1. And here Soros owes me since 2017 /snark

Every accusation is a confession.

[underpants]

10. Yeah. Damn that Soros!

Great pic here

[JHB]

19. Lucky bastard! I've still got unpaid invoices from years starting with "19"

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

52. "Every accusation is a confession."

When coming from RWers, so true!

[NCjack]

2. Maybe the Senate trial needs to slow down. This riot is expanding its border.

Looks like it is leading to a foreign adversary. Maybe linked to Mr. 45.

[Wicked Blue]

5. Could it - gasp - be Russia?

Never would have thought it.

[Arne]

3. What stuck out here was that they really really really did fear this loss.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Who made those huge Trump flags for them?

They were everywhere, in every state.

[underpants]

7. He's sold a lot of merchandise

[Marcuse]

18. What a Pissant!

[AnotherMother4Peace]

17. Hmmm - good question. Not cheap. nt

[Hekate]

47. My neighbor up the hill had one hanging from the 2nd floor, but he has money to spend...

That’s gone now, but last I checked he still has TRUMP in Xmas lights uphill back of his house, very visible from the street.

[SheltieLover]

6. "All roads lead to Russia"

[orangecrush]

40. My thoughts exactly

[Bluethroughu]

9. Paid hitmen?

What is the prison term for that?

[Mike 03]

11. Whatever they accuse us of they are guilty of in spades.

OMG, all the times Dem protesters have been accused of being paid actors, mass-bussed to events in luxury buses paid for by George Soros.

[appalachiablue]

13. You noticed that too, lol. Used it to death

[njhoneybadger]

12. Hmmmmm

[Irish_Dem]

14. I keep asking: Who is bankrolling this enterprise?

There had to be money flowing in.
Who paid for bus and airline tickets?
Hotel rooms? Food and booze?

People were acting like they were on a free vacation.
Maybe they were.

[JHB]

22. Turning Point USA claimed to be paying dozens of buses, maybe accomodations too

However, keep one thing in mind: based on the people who have been identified, this wasn't exactly a gathering of the "economically anxious." There were a lot of people who could very much afford to shell out for tickets and hotel rooms and drinks to party over afterward.

There may be a lot for whom "they" (whoever that might be) paid to get people there, but there's also a large portion, maybe the majority, who just put it on their own credit cards.

[Irish_Dem]

26. Yes some did pay for expenses out of pocket. Right, put it on the credit card.

I think some had a free trip.

The truth will come out I hope.

[DENVERPOPS]

32. Yes

The truth will be coming out for years, if not decades...........

Hell, it would take a large staff to investigate just the Grifting of Trump, Trump Inc, Ivanka and Jared.....

[Irish_Dem]

33. Like investigating a huge mob family. nt

[DENVERPOPS]

35. You can bet

that the shredders have been running non-stop in the White House and elsewhere since the 7th of November.....

[Irish_Dem]

36. Exactly. Destroying as much evidence as possible. nt

[DENVERPOPS]

41. And,

we don't even want to think about the amount of TopSecret Intelligence they have collected to sell after they are no longer in power.

Do you remember the Valerie Plame incident. When she was "outed" as a CIA operative by W/Cheney/Rumsfeld?????????

Someone I was sitting with when the news of that was on TV said: There will be dozens of *people* all over the world, "disappearing, or found dead" in the next 24 hours.....

[Irish_Dem]

44. Cheney is responsible for the death of covert agents, yes.

Scooter Libby should still be in prison.

I am sure agents have died with Trump giving intel to Putin, perhaps North Korea too.

Some say there is not much left for Trump to sell.
He and Jared have sold everything.
Jared has not been getting huge loans from Saudi for nothing.

[DENVERPOPS]

45. You are correct in everything you said.

WBush and his entire administration should have been taken to the Hague.................

The part about Jared/Saudis is particularly true....And the worst part? Is he did it in plain sight and on the taxpayers dime.....

[Irish_Dem]

46. Let's face it. Everything they did was a money making proposition for themselves.

They grabbed as much as they could in plain sight.
Think about what they did in secret.

Yep Bush and Cheney, Cheney in particular belongs at the Hague.

[DENVERPOPS]

49. It wasn't just Trump and his spawn

Republican Politicians, Trumps entire administration, Republican Donors, Republican Corporations, and all the Uber wealthy Republicans was like turning children loose in a candy store, with absolutely no fear of retribution for stealing everything they could lay their hands on.......

[Irish_Dem]

50. The GOP when in power always backs their limos up to the US Treasury.

But Trump and his pals take the cake.
What happens when you hand the keys of the US Treasury to a crime syndicate?

[DENVERPOPS]

51. Hey ID

good way of putting it!!!!!!!!!

[Blue Owl]

15. K&R for visibility

[llashram]

16. this

seems to be serious. All law enforcement and security agencies will probably be months sorting out the crimes committed by trump, his family and other associated parties.

[soldierant]

21. If not years.

[BadgerMom]

20. K & R

[mjvpi]

23. Who needs conspiracy theories when realty is a, well, conspiracy?

My head hurts.

[grantcart]

24. "Follow the bitcoin"

[Borderer]

25. Surely no-one can blame Trump for this.

The article says that they actually received payment. Not his modus operandi at all...

[Irish_Dem]

27. MO of GOP dark money and Putin oligarchs.

[Borderer]

28. I realise that.

I was being facetious.

[Irish_Dem]

29. Yes I know

[orangecrush]

39. ...

[bucolic_frolic]

30. Nothing happens in the world without money

[BobTheSubgenius]

31. The insurgency just got worse.

It was bad enough....oh, I guess it wasn't quite bad enough, because this little bombshell takes it to a whole different realm.

Agree with someone's sincerely-derived political postures or not, there is a certain amount of honour in going after that which you sincerely believe. I know a lot of people are too young to remember this, but...the Republican party used to be made up of largely reasonable people with whom were disagreed. Sometimes, bitterly and fully, but we could at least agree to disagree about most things.

Pimping yourself out as having a defensible disagreement arising from a thorough examination of a subject, then acting on it is not honourable in the least, when you're paid for that "deliberation." It is the moral equivalent of no-questions-asked mercenaries. Hell, it is pretty much the direct equivalent.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. I had seen news earlier in the week where bitcoin lost over $125 billion of value this past Monday

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/01/11/crypto-market-erases-200-billion-in-market-value-in-24-hours-regulator-warns-investors-could-lose-all-their-money/



(of course it is a very volatile currency so... )

[mountain grammy]

37. Let me know when they arrest Ginni Thomas

She’s in it all the way.

[orangecrush]

38. Putin

[PatrickforO]

42. Follow the money. Always.

This investigation will be massive, and though the real powers behind the curtain will probably survive, but maybe this bowl of worms can at least be thinned out.

[Swamp Country Po Boy]

43. Bitcoin?

Биткойн!

[dalton99a]

48. Kick

[live love laugh]

53. " ... under attack from within and abroad...". Yup. nt