1/6 Insurrection Investigation

[Rick Plant]

Oath Keepers intended to 'turn on the gas' while lawmakers were in tunnels photographed Jan. 5 by Capitol tourists



Right-wing extremists charged in the U.S. Capitol riot threatened to "gas" lawmakers in tunnels where Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) led a tour the previous day.

The Georgia Republican led a group of 15 individuals later identified by police as constituents on a tour of the Capitol complex, where one participant took photos of hallways, staircases and tunnels, and that same man was shown on video from Jan. 6 shouting threats against individual Democratic lawmakers.

“We’re coming to take you out and pull you out by your hairs," the man says, referring to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). "When I get done with you, you’re going to need a shine on top of that bald head."

Conspiracy charges filed shortly after the riot showed a group of three Oath Keepers were particularly interested in lawmakers' movements in the tunnels underneath the Capitol complex, and one of them, Thomas Edward Caldwell, allegedly received a Facebook message about them.

“All members are in the tunnels under capital seal them in," reads the message. "Turn on gas."

Caldwell also received another message on the topic, according to an affidavit that replicates spelling errors in the original statement.

“Tom all legislators are down in the Tunnels 3floors down,” the message reads. “Do like we had to do when I was in the core start tearing oit florrs go from top to bottom."

The Jan. 6 committee noted on Wednesday that the tour had visited "entrances to Capitol tunnels."

"Individuals on the tour photographed/recorded areas not typically of interest to tourists: hallways, staircases and security checkpoints," the committee tweeted.

https://www.rawstory.com/turn-on-the-gas-capitol-riot/

[Rick Plant]

Republican Rep. Loudermilk released this statement yesterday: “I never gave a tour of the Capitol on Jan 5, 2021.”

This morning, this footage was released by the January 6th Committee. Dated January 5th, 2021. Proving that he did.

[Rick Plant]

Here is Rep. Loudermilk lying through his teeth yesterday claiming that he gave no tour of the Capitol on Jan 5, 2021. The January 6th Committee exposed him this morning for the shameful liar that he is by releasing video footage of the tour he claimed he never gave.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk @RepLoudermilk

BREAKING: The truth will always prevail. As I’ve said since the Jan. 6 Committee made their baseless accusation about me to the media, I never gave a tour of the Capitol on Jan 5, 2021…

https://twitter.com/RepLoudermilk/status/1536680390840418304

Rep. Loudermilk has some explaining to do.

These right wingers have no shame. They just blatantly lie even when they are caught red handed. Did Loudermilk actually think there would be no surveillance footage of him giving a tour that he lied about not giving inside the Capitol? The fact is, no tours were allowed due to the Covid 19 pandemic but Loudermilk gave a tour the day BEFORE the insurrection on Jan 6. Notice where the footage was recorded during this tour, secure areas for tunnels and hallways. Today, we learned members of the Oath Keepers militia wanted to "gas" members of Congress who were hiding in these these same tunnels for safety. So these individuals on this tour got a clear layout of the inside of the Capitol ONE day before the insurrection so they knew where to go.     

January 6th Committee @January6thCmte

Surveillance footage shows a tour led by Loudermilk to areas in the House Office Buildings, as well as the entrances to Capitol tunnels.

Individuals on the tour photographed/recorded areas not typically of interest to tourists: hallways, staircases and security checkpoints.

Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1537075019918065666

https://twitter.com/January6thCmte/status/1537075019918065666

[Rick Plant]

EricSwalwell@ ericswalwell
How do you think Republicans would have reacted if footage of a Democrat member of Congress surfaced giving tours to people who the following day launched a terrorist attack against the United States of America?

https://twitter.com/ericswalwell/status/1537085050268921858

Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin
This video shows one of the guests on Loudermilk’s inside Jan. 5 tour ominously name-checking Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler and AOC on Jan. 6 and chortling with a fellow Trumpie about using a weaponized American flag against “somebody special.” @January6thCmte is seeking more info.

Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1537075019918065666

https://twitter.com/RepRaskin/status/1537135844871528450

[Joe Elliott]

Great video on how John "Steal the Election for Trump" Eastman became John "Orderly Transition" Eastman.
Note, the phone call in question happened the day after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

[Rick Plant]

Why aren’t more people pointing out that Loudermilk was giving 15 people a tour of a space they’d already told him explicitly they’d be coming back to the following day—in fact had expressly and exclusively come to Washington to go to? Who gives a completely redundant *pre*-tour.

And why aren’t more people noting that Loudermilk told a podcaster that everyone on his tour was someone he knew *from church*, and that he checked in later to confirm none stayed at the Capitol Complex—where they were trespassing—after the riot began, when those were both lies?

And why in the world would Loudermilk leave 15 people who’d already told him they planned to trespass at the Capitol Complex the next day *alone* at the Capitol Complex the day before their planned crime?

What’s the opposite of a post-crime getaway driver—a pre-crime tour guide?

And how is Loudermilk going to say he thought a 7-bus caravan led by one of the best-known, best-connected Stop the Steal radicals in Georgia—a man who sharpened a flagpole for use as a deadly weapon on Insurrection Day—was just a DC tourist trip that happened to be on January 6?

For that matter, how does the USCP watch 18-month-old footage of an unidentified man with four cell phones photographing security tunnels and stairwells near the Capitol, say there’s nothing suspicious about it, then call a wrap on its “investigation” without interviewing anyone?

4 phones...... That is all.....

[Rick Plant]

Ginni Thomas emailed with ‘coup memo’ author John Eastman — and Jan. 6 committee has the receipts

New information reveals that the efforts of Ginni Thomas to overturn the 2020 presidential election were even more extensive than previously known, according to a bombshell new report by The Washington Post.

"The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has obtained email correspondence between Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and lawyer John Eastman, who played a key role in efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, according to three people involved in the committee’s investigation," the newspaper reported. "The emails show that Thomas’s efforts to overturn the election were more extensive than previously known, two of the people said. The three declined to provide details and spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters."

Justice Thomas refused to recuse himself from a case involving Jan. 6.

"The committee’s members and staffers are now discussing whether to spend time during their public hearings exploring Ginni Thomas’s role in the attempt to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, the three people said. The Post previously reported that the committee had not sought an interview with Thomas and was leaning against pursuing her cooperation with its investigation," the newspaper explained.

The report comes as the committee has three additional public hearings scheduled in June.

"The two people said the emails were among documents obtained by the committee and reviewed recently. Last week, a federal judge ordered Eastman to turn more than a hundred documents over to the committee. Eastman had tried to block the release of those and other documents by arguing that they were privileged communications and therefore should be protected," the newspaper reported.

Read The Full Report:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/15/ginni-thomas-john-eastman-emails/