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Showing Original Post only (View all)'The Leaders Of The Riot Were Paid!' [View all]
- 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 its 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 its 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
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My neighbor up the hill had one hanging from the 2nd floor, but he has money to spend...
Hekate
Jan 2021
#47
Yes some did pay for expenses out of pocket. Right, put it on the credit card.
Irish_Dem
Jan 2021
#26
Let's face it. Everything they did was a money making proposition for themselves.
Irish_Dem
Jan 2021
#46
I had seen news earlier in the week where bitcoin lost over $125 billion of value this past Monday
BumRushDaShow
Jan 2021
#34