I knew violence was coming; actually, I predicted fire and didn’t want to be right. I watched the insurrection on TV as it happened, as many people did. I was hurt but didn’t know what to say, except to inform people to watch the crazy thing happening in DC.
It has been more than a week and I still struggle to articulate my thoughts in a well-organized manner. (Steven Glassman was able to articulate his thoughts with some choice words). The best thing for me to do right now is to compile articles from reputable sources as we learn more about this horrific event. Let us start by calling the event what it is:
a domestic terrorist attack, an insurrection, and an attack on democracy.
Eventually we may have closure.
I aim to be diverse with my sources. My main sources include NPR, Reuters, and NBC News. If you do not deem these sources to be trustworthy and unbiased, feel free to move on.
I will continually update this post until I feel it is complete. It will be available as the top post in the “Blog” category.
Accountability
The Orange One
“The Orange One” is the nicest name I can call him.
- Rep. Eric Swalwell Sues Trump Over Role in Capitol Riot / Mar. 5, 2021 / Reuters
- Rep. Bernie Thompson Sues Trump Over Role in Capitol Riot / Feb. 17, 2021 / PBS NewsHour
- Trump’s Impeachment Lawyers were Terrible / Feb. 9, 2021 / NPR
- Senate Declares Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial is Constitutional / Feb. 9, 2021 / NPR
- Impeachment Managers’ 13 Minute Video on Trump’s Speech and his Followers’ Interpretation and Actions / Feb. 9, 2021 / Bing
- Five Lawyers on Trump’s in Second Impeachment, Leaves Ahead of Trial / Jan. 30, 2021 / New York Times (featured on MSN)
- House Transmits Article of Impeachment to Senate / Jan. 26, 2021 / NPR
- Trump and a DOJ lawyer, Jeffrey Clark, Plotted to Remove Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to Overturn the Election / Jan. 23, 2021 / ABC 7 News
- Second Impeachment Trial Begins on the Week of Feb. 8 / Jan. 22, 2021 / CNBC
- Mitch McConnell Blames Trump for Riot / Jan. 19, 2021 / Associated Press
- Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s Personal Lawyer, Cannot be Trump’s Lawyer for Second Impeachment Trial because Giuliani is a Witness in that Trial / Jan. 18, 2021 / ABC News
- Trump is Having Trouble Finding Lawyers to Represent him in his Second Impeachment Trial / Jan. 14, 2021 / Bloomberg
- Trump is Impeached a Second Time / Jan. 13, 2021 / NPR
- New York City Ends Contracts with Trump / Jan. 13, 2021 / NPR
- Evangelical Leaders Call for a Wake-Up Call on their Support for Trump and Conspiracies they Believed / Jan. 13, 2021 / NPR
- YouTube Suspends Trump for at Least a Week / Jan. 13, 2021 / NPR
- Cushman and Wakefield (real estate firm) Cuts Ties with Trump / Jan. 13, 2021 / Bloomberg Quint
- House Approves 25th Amendment Resolution, but Pence Won’t Invoke / Jan. 12, 2021 / NPR
- Deutsche Bank and Signature Bank End Future Ties with Trump / Jan. 12, 2021 / NBC News
- PGA Cancels Championship at Trump’s New Jersey Golf Course / Jan. 11, 2021 / NPR
- Stripe Stops Processing Transactions for Trump Campaign / Jan. 10, 2021 / NBC News
- Lehigh University Revokes Trump’s Honorary Degree / Jan. 8, 2021 / NPR
- Twitter Permanently Bans Trump / Jan. 8, 2021 / NPR
- Facebook and Twitter Ban Trump / Jan. 7, 2021 / NBC News
Congress People who Still Voted to not Certify President-Elect Joe Biden’s Victory after the Insurrection
They may or may not be afraid for their lives.
- Google Stops Donation to Congress Members who Voted Against Election Results / Jan. 25, 2021 / Reuters
- Senate Democrats File Ethics Complaint Against Sen. Hawley and Cruz / Jan. 22, 2021 / NBC News
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) Suspended by Twitter for Spreading QAnon Conspiracies, including those about the Election Fraud / Jan. 17, 2021 / NPR
- More Backlash for GOP Sen. Josh Hawley / Jan. 16, 2021 / AP (Assoicated Press)
- GOP Leaders Condemn Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Book Deal was Cancelled / Jan. 8, 2021 / NPR
- A Different Publisher Decides to Publish Josh Hawley’s Book / Jan. 18, 2021 / NPR
- List of Republicans who Objected to the Electoral College Count / Jan. 7, 2021 / NPR
Everyone Else
The Orange One’s die-hard, unquestioning loyalists are gullible. Highly susceptible to believe the most outlandish and outrageous things and act upon them.
- Guy who said, “We need fresh people, we need fresh people” to Breach the Police Line is Charged / Mar. 5, 2021 / NPR
- Frederico Klein – Former State Dept. Aide in Trump Administration
- Proud Boys’ Sergeant at Arms Given War Powers Ahead of Capitol Riot / Mar. 2, 2021 / NPR
- Lawyers for 18-Year-Old Bruno Cua want him Released to his Parents / Feb. 26, 2021 / NPR
- Zip Tie Guy and Mom Remain in Custody / Feb. 18, 2021 / USA Today
- Eric Muchel – Zip Tie Guy
- Lisa Eisenhart – Zip Tie Guy’s mom
- 5 More Proud Boys and 2 Boogaloo Bois Arrested / Feb. 11, 2021 / NPR
- William Chrestman – Proud Boys
- Christopher Kuehne – Proud Boys
- Louis Enrique Colon – Proud Boys
- Felicia Konold – Proud Boys (how she got in, I don’t know)
- Cory Konold – Proud Boys
- John Subleski – Boogaloo Bois
- Adam Turner – Boogaloo Bois
- FBI Boston Division Arrests Two Men / Feb. 4, 2021 / ABC6
- Kyle Fitzsimons
- Brian P. McCreary
- Woman Charged in Capitol Riot asks Judge to Permit her to go on Vacation / Feb. 3, 2021 / CNN
- Two Women Arrested, One said that she wanted to Shoot House Speaker Pelosi’s “in the friggin’ brain” / Jan. 30, 2021 / CNBC
- Dawn Bancroft – in a video said, “We broke into the Capitol … we got inside, we did our part. We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain but we didn’t find her.”
- Diana Santos-Smith – seen in Bancroft’s video, lied to the FBI about her and Bancroft’s participation in the Capitol insurrection
- Two More Proud Boys Members Charged Among Others Charged or Arrested / Jan. 30, 2021 / ABC News
- Dominic Pezzola – conspiracy charges
- William Pepe – conspiracy charges
- Joshua Hughes and Jerod Hughes – Montana brothers who chased Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up the stairs
- Ronald “Ronnie” Sandlin – repelled into Senate chamber
- Nathaniel “Nathan” DeGrave – repelled into Senate chamber
- Christina Gerding and Jason Gerding – posted of their participation in the Capitol riot, face three charges
- James Bonet – took a selfie smoking a marijuana cigarette in the Capitol
- Tommy Allan – stole documents from Mitch McConnell’s desk in the Senate chamber; in another photo, Allan was seen with several documents
- Brandon Straka – spoke at the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 5 on Freedom Plaza in D.C.; in a post, Straka allegedly instructed other rioters to take the Capitol police officer’s shield away from him; made a comment on Twitter stating that the mob wasn’t Antifa
- Michael Joseph Foy – insurrectionist hit a Metropolitan police officer with a hockey stick for 16 seconds
- Publix Heiress, Julie Jenkins Francelli, and Alex Jones Funded the Rally Before the Capitol Riot / Jan. 30, 2021 / USA Today
- 33-Year Old Army Veteran from California Arrested / Jan. 28, 2021 / NBC San Diego
- California Gym Owner, Jacob Lewis, Arrested / Jan. 28, 2021 / ABC 7
- Proud Boys Leader, Enrique Tarrio, was Government Informant / Jan. 27, 2021 / ABC News
- The Dept. of Justice has Charged more than 150 People with 400 Open Cases / Jan. 26, 2021 / NPR
- Texas Man, Garret Miller, Charged with Threatening to Assassinate Rep. Ocasio-Cortez / Jan. 23, 2021 / Reuters
- Proud Boys Leader, Joseph Randall Biggs Arrested / Jan. 20, 2021 / CNN
- Prosecutors Filed Conspiracy Charge for Three Extremist Oath Keeper Members Citing Planned Attack and Hunting for Lawmakers / Jan. 19, 2021 / CNN
- Jessica Watkins – alleged founder of an Ohio militia, which pays dues to Oath Keepers
- Thomas Edward Caldwell – during the siege, received messages detailing directions to lawmakers’ location, and to “Turn on gas”
- Donovan Crowl – a member of the Ohio militia, former U.S. Marine
- Georgia Lawyer Boasts that he Kicked in House Speaker Pelosi’s Door and she would have been “Torn to Little Pieces” / Jan. 19, 2021 / NBC News
- Woman who may have Stolen House Speaker Pelosi’s Laptop is Arrested / Jan. 18, 2021 / NPR
- Jon Schaffer, Heavy Metal Guitarist Arrested, Faces 6 Charges / Jan. 18, 2021 / Newsweek
- “Baked Alaska” Arrested / Jan. 16, 2021 / Reuters
- Retired Firefighter from Pennsylvania Threw Fire Extinguisher at Police Officers is Charged / Jan. 14, 2021 / NBC News
- Former Olympic Swimmer, Klete Keller, is Charged / Jan. 14, 2021 / NPR
- Man Carrying a Confederate Flag and His Son Turn Themselves In / Jan. 14, 2021 / CNBC
- Man Wearing “Camp Auschwitz” Sweatshirt Arrested / Jan. 13, 2021 / NPR
- Zip Tie Guy Arrested / Jan. 10, 2021 / WPLN News (Nashville Public Radio)
- 3 More Men Charged / Jan. 9, 2021 / NPR
- Jacob Anthony Chansley – Man with his face painted and wearing a bearskin headdress
- Adam Johnson – Man carrying the House Speaker’s lectern
- Derrick Evans – newly elected member of West Virginia’s House of Delegates, resigned for his actions
- Man who Posed Sitting on the House Speaker’s Chair with his Boot on Her Desk is Arrested / Jan. 8, 2021 / NPR
- Others charged before him are listed in the article
Resignations
This exodus is more pronounced, another marker of how The Orange One is losing everyone and everything.
- Health and Human Services Secretary, Alex Azar / Jan. 15, 2021 / NBC News
- Acting Homeland Security Chief Chad Wolf / Jan. 12, 2021 / NPR
- Sergeant at Arms of Senate and House and Capitol Police Chief / Jan. 7, 2021 / NPR
- Key People in Key Positions / Jan. 6-7, 2021 / Reuters
- Betsy DeVos – Education Secretary
- Elaine Chao – Transportation Secretary
- Mick Mulvaney – Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, former White House chief of staff
- Matt Pottinger – National Security Adviser
- John Costello – Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Commerce Dept.
- Ryan Tully – Senior European and Russian Affairs Director at the National Security Council (NSC)
- Erin Walsh – Senior African Affairs Director at the NSC
- Rob Greenway – Senior Middle Eastern and North African Affairs Director at the NSC
- Mark Vandroff – Senior Director for defense policy at the NSC
- Anthony Rogierro – Senior Director for weapons of mass destruction at the NSC
- Rickie Niceta – White House social secretary
- Sarah Matthews – Deputy White House Press Secretary
- Stephanie Grisham – Melania Trump’s Chief of Staff
Lack of Preparation and Law Enforcement
Law enforcement is unique so it gets its own category.
- Many Trump Supporters Do Not Believe Antifa was Responsible for the Insurrection / Mar. 2, 2021 / NPR
- FBI Director Christopher Wray Defends Intelligence Sharing as Following Protocol for Raw Intelligence / Mar. 2, 2021 / NPR
- FBI Identifies Out Person Seen Spraying Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick / Feb. 26, 2021 / NPR
- First Senate Hearing on Capitol Insurrection / Feb. 23, 2021 / NPR
- Investigations Underway Into Some Capitol Police Officers’ Behavior During the Capitol Riot / Feb. 19, 2021 / The Hill
- Eugene Goodman Awarded Congressional Gold Medal / Feb. 11, 2021 / NPR
- Treat Domestic Terrorism as an Insurgency / Feb. 2, 2021 / NPR
- Maj. Gen. William J. Walker Said he Lacked Authority to Deploy National Guard Troops, Blames Bureaucracy / Jan. 26, 2021 / CNN
- New Capitol Police Chief Offers “Sincerest Apologies” to Congress, Confirms Police Knew of Incoming Threat / Jan. 26, 2021 / NPR
- Virginia Police Officers Fired Over Capitol Riot / Jan. 26, 2021 / CBS NewsSergeant
- Thomas Robertson
- On Robertson’s social media post: “CNN and the Left are just mad because we actually attacked the government who is the problem and not some random small business … The right IN ONE DAY took the f***** U.S. Capitol. Keep poking us.”
- Officer Jacob Fracker
- Thomas Robertson
- Eugene Goodman, Capitol Police Officer who led Rioters Away from Senate Chamber / Jan. 20, 2021 /
- FBI and DHS Knew of Threat but did not Produce Threat Report / Jan. 13, 2021 / NPR
- Police Question their Support for Trump Going Forward / Jan. 12, 2021 / NPR
- Struggles of Capitol Police Officers / Jan. 11, 2021 / PBS News Hour
- One officer died by suicide
- Many officers are working 12-16-hour days with no time off, asking their neighbors to feed their children
- Some Capitol Police Officers Suspended for Being Sympathetic to Rioters / Jan. 11, 2021 / NPR
- Former Capitol Police Chief Said he Requested National Guard but Was Denied 6 Times / Jan. 11, 2021 / NPR
- Capitol Police Officer, Brian Sicknick, Died in the Riot / Jan. 8, 2021 / NPR
- Slain Capitol Police Officer, Brian Sicknick, Lies in Honor in Rotunda / Feb. 2, 2021 / NPR
- Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Failed to Imagine this Catastrophe / Jan. 7, 2021 / Frontline & Pro Publica
Congress People’s Testimonies
Watching The Orange One’s second impeachment proceedings, some Republicans who are against voting to impeach said that there were not any witness testimonies. Obviously they’re not very good lawyers, because they do not consider their colleagues – the very same people they hid in rooms with and spread COVID-19 to – as witnesses when they recounted the event during the proceedings.
- Lead Impeachment Manager, Jaime Raskin (D-MD) Recounts his Family’s Experience on Jan. 6 / Feb. 9, 2021 / NPR
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Narrowly Escaped Death / Jan. 13, 2021 / NPR
- Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Compares Similar Behaviors of GOP to Abusers / Feb. 2, 2021 / BBC
- Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA) Ran for Her Life / Jan. 12, 2021 / NPR
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Recounts Her Experience and One of Her Young Staffer’s Experience / Jan. 10, 2021 / 60 Minutes
Other Witness Accounts
- PBS NewsHour Reporters Lisa Desjardins, Amna Nawaz, and Yamiche Alcindor / Jan. 12, 2021 / PBS NewsHour
Other Concerning Info.
As the insurrection unfolds, this isn’t the end of it. We must be vigilant.
- “I Felt Hate More than Anything”: How an Active Duty Airman Tried to Start a Civil War / April 13, 2021 / Frontline + ProPublica + Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program
- Senate Acquits Former President Donald Trump Again / Feb. 13, 2021 / NPR
- Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Holds Trump Responsible for Insurrection but Voted Not to Convict / Feb. 13, 2021 / NPR
- The Number of Hate Groups Declined – but Hate did Not / Feb. 1, 2021 / NPR
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Faces Backlash from GOP over Incendiary Social Media Posts / Jan. 27, 2021 / NBC News
- Trump’s American Carnage / Aired Jan. 26, 2021 / FRONTLINE
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Social Media Activities in 2018 and 2019 Show her Violent Nature Towards Obama, Pelosi, Clinton, and other Prominent Democrats / Jan. 26. 2021 / CNN
- American Reckoning – A PBS NewsHour Special Report / Jan. 18, 2021 / PBS NewsHour
- Social Media Site, Gab, Lets Talk and Plans of Violence Proliferate without Consequences / Jan. 17, 2021 / NPR
- United States of Conspiracy / Aired Jul. 28, 2020 / FRONTLINE
Other Interesting Developments
- FBI Finds Contact Between Proud Boys Member and Trump Associate Before Riot / Mar. 5, 2021 / NY Times
- George Washington University’s Program on Extremism Found Most Charged in Capitol Riot were not Affiliated with an Extremist Organization / Mar. 1, 2021 / NBC News
- Pentagon Evaluates their Ranks for Extremism and White Nationalism / Feb. 3, 2021 / Reuters
- Canada Lists Proud Boys as a Terrorist Group next to Al Qaeda and ISIS / Feb. 3, 2021 / NPR
- Droves of Registered Republicans Drop out of Republican Party after Insurrection / Feb. 1, 2021 / NPR
- Some of the Rioters did not Vote in Nov. 2020 Election / Feb. 1, 2021 / The Hill
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