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UPDATED insurrectionist spotlight: navy seal (and son) edition
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John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
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Apr 14, 2021
🚨NEW: former Navy SEAL Shannon Rusch... brought his SON Trevor to the #Capitol siege.
There is VIDEO. Trevor breached the Capitol carrying a police baton.
Investigative collaboration between us, @1600PennPooch & reporter @KELLYWEILL. THREAD 1/
Story: https://thedailybeast.com/son-of-former-navy-seal-linked-to-the-proud-boys-caught-entering-capitol-on-jan-6…
John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
2/ Yesterday our investigative collaboration revealed that Shannon Rusch, a former SEAL and motivational speaker joined in the #ProudBoys surge to the capitol.
John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
BREAKING: former Navy Seal Shannon Rusch joined #ProudBoys as they surged over barricades to the Capitol.
THREAD.
Investigative collaboration between us, @1600PennPooch & reporters @arawnsley & @KELLYWEILL.
Story: https://thedailybeast.com/former-navy-seal-shannon-rusch-admits-he-marched-on-capitol-on-january-6…
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3/ Former SEAL Rusch uses social media a lot.
Including repeatedly posting pictures of himself and his son Trevor, and tagging him, in DC on January 5th...
John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
4/ Footage of the #ProudBoys staging on the 6th shows Shannon with a man strikingly similar to the pictures he posted of his son.
The two men march with the Proud Boys & participate in the surge across police barricades to the #Capitol.
5/ Some time later Trevor can be seen participating in a surge against the police. As they retreat he darts to pick up an unidentified object.
As he gets up a man interceding between police and the surging crowd appears to block him.
John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
6/ Trevor can then be seen heading up the stairs towards the #Capitol carrying a police baton.
Replying to @jsrailton
7/ Shortly the #Capitol door is breached, and moments after #ProudBoys leader Joe Biggs enters the #Capitol, we pick him up again.
He is waving the police baton.
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John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
8/ As Trevor makes his way deeper into the #Capitol he is captured letting out an excited "whoo!"
9/ Trevor denied to the @thedailybeast that he entered the #Capitol...
... by pasting verbatim an e-mail that Shannon had previously sent describing his own (Shannon's) actions.
Then went quiet when presented with photo & video evidence.
John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
10/ Observation: So many *family members* came together to the #Capitol siege.
The multi-generationally transmitted beliefs & ideologies that led them to DC still threaten our democracy...
11/ As Shannon's latest unrepentant posts make clear... that danger is not over...
John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
12/ Observation: investigative collaborations are critical to understanding & bringing accountability to Jan 6th.
Our collaborators @1600PennPooch did amazing work. @thedailybeast reporters @KELLYWEILL @arawnsley contributed key shoe leather reporting.
Son of Former Navy SEAL Linked to the Proud Boys Caught Entering Capitol on Jan. 6
thedailybeast.com
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