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stay at the much less expensive Harrington Hotel.
At the Willard and the White House, the Jan. 6 Panel Widens Its Net
What went on at a five-star hotel near the White House the day before the riot could be a window into how a Trump-directed plot to upend the election ended in violence at the Capitol.
By Luke Broadwater and Mark Mazzetti
Nov. 9, 2021
WASHINGTON — “We are essentially in a national emergency,” Michael T. Flynn declared on Jan. 5, during an interview with the internet conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recorded in a luxurious suite at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel near the White House.
“The truth is going to come out,” said Mr. Flynn, the former three-star general and national security adviser. “Donald Trump will continue to be president of the United States for the next four years.”
In another room of the five-star hotel, a phalanx of lawyers and political advisers for Mr. Trump — including Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal lawyer; Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner; and John Eastman, a scholar working feverishly on a legal strategy to prevent Joseph R. Biden Jr. from assuming the presidency — had set up a kind of command post. On the hotel’s grand front steps, Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, was flashing his signature Nixon victory sign to fans as members of the Oath Keepers, a militant group, protected him.
What unfolded at the Willard Hotel in the hours before the Capitol riot has become a prime focus of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack as the panel intensifies its scrutiny into whether there was any coordination or tie between those pushing a legal strategy to overturn the election results and those who stormed the Capitol that day as Congress met to count the electoral votes to formalize Mr. Biden’s victory.
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What went on at a five-star hotel near the White House the day before the riot could be a window into how a Trump-directed plot to upend the election ended in violence at the Capitol.
By Luke Broadwater and Mark Mazzetti
Nov. 9, 2021
WASHINGTON — “We are essentially in a national emergency,” Michael T. Flynn declared on Jan. 5, during an interview with the internet conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recorded in a luxurious suite at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel near the White House.
“The truth is going to come out,” said Mr. Flynn, the former three-star general and national security adviser. “Donald Trump will continue to be president of the United States for the next four years.”
In another room of the five-star hotel, a phalanx of lawyers and political advisers for Mr. Trump — including Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal lawyer; Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner; and John Eastman, a scholar working feverishly on a legal strategy to prevent Joseph R. Biden Jr. from assuming the presidency — had set up a kind of command post. On the hotel’s grand front steps, Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, was flashing his signature Nixon victory sign to fans as members of the Oath Keepers, a militant group, protected him.
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What unfolded at the Willard Hotel in the hours before the Capitol riot has become a prime focus of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack as the panel intensifies its scrutiny into whether there was any coordination or tie between those pushing a legal strategy to overturn the election results and those who stormed the Capitol that day as Congress met to count the electoral votes to formalize Mr. Biden’s victory.
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Magazine
CULTURE CLUB
How a D.C. Bar Became the ‘Haven’ for the Proud Boys
Harry’s Bar used to be a low-key haunt for off-duty police officers and tourists. Now, it’s attracted a brand-new clientele—and has become news for all the wrong reasons, from Covid-19 violations to stabbings.
DECEMBER 12, 2020: Members of The Proud Boys attending the second Million Maga March at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, DC pass by Harry’s Restaurant and Bar in the Harrington Hotel.
By IAN WARD
12/14/2020 07:35 PM EST
Ian Ward is a writer based in Washington, D.C.
On November 14, after a long day jeering at antifascist and Black Lives Matter protesters, the Proud Boys were thirsty. In downtown Washington, D.C., where about 400 of the group’s members had gathered for the Million MAGA March to protest President Donald Trump’s electoral defeat, a small band of Proud Boys wandered down E Street, their feet dragging in heavy tan combat boots. The weather in D.C. had been unseasonably warm for November—about 65 degrees and sunny—and the group looked sunburned and tired. Toward the back of the pack, a middle-aged man in a tactical vest and blue-mirrored sunglasses came to a stop, pulled a mango White Claw from the front pocket of his vest and cracked it open.
“I want to punch some commies,” he said, and took a sip.
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CULTURE CLUB
How a D.C. Bar Became the ‘Haven’ for the Proud Boys
Harry’s Bar used to be a low-key haunt for off-duty police officers and tourists. Now, it’s attracted a brand-new clientele—and has become news for all the wrong reasons, from Covid-19 violations to stabbings.
DECEMBER 12, 2020: Members of The Proud Boys attending the second Million Maga March at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, DC pass by Harry’s Restaurant and Bar in the Harrington Hotel.
By IAN WARD
12/14/2020 07:35 PM EST
Ian Ward is a writer based in Washington, D.C.
On November 14, after a long day jeering at antifascist and Black Lives Matter protesters, the Proud Boys were thirsty. In downtown Washington, D.C., where about 400 of the group’s members had gathered for the Million MAGA March to protest President Donald Trump’s electoral defeat, a small band of Proud Boys wandered down E Street, their feet dragging in heavy tan combat boots. The weather in D.C. had been unseasonably warm for November—about 65 degrees and sunny—and the group looked sunburned and tired. Toward the back of the pack, a middle-aged man in a tactical vest and blue-mirrored sunglasses came to a stop, pulled a mango White Claw from the front pocket of his vest and cracked it open.
“I want to punch some commies,” he said, and took a sip.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/22/brett-kavanaugh-review-sparked-4-500-tips-fbi/8057810002/
The FBI, the DoJ, Congress, and the Federal Court System have some real right wing agents of planned
shit deeply embedded into them. Kavanaugh along with Alito, Roberts, Goursch, and Coney Island all
had been vetted by the Judicial Crisis Network. By the 1980s it was obvious because of population
dynamics and what the majority of the American People wanted if just left up to clean voting the Republicans
were headed the way of the dodo so "they" have been very busy making sure "they" keep power no matter
what. They have to be crushed in the elections this fall and the shits need to be weeded out of power.
BTW Chuck Grassley's, "I don't expect Vice President Pence to be there for the counting of the electoral votes."
was a big tip on just how wide and deep the rot is.
Sorry to
The FBI, the DoJ, Congress, and the Federal Court System have some real right wing agents of planned
shit deeply embedded into them. Kavanaugh along with Alito, Roberts, Goursch, and Coney Island all
had been vetted by the Judicial Crisis Network. By the 1980s it was obvious because of population
dynamics and what the majority of the American People wanted if just left up to clean voting the Republicans
were headed the way of the dodo so "they" have been very busy making sure "they" keep power no matter
what. They have to be crushed in the elections this fall and the shits need to be weeded out of power.
BTW Chuck Grassley's, "I don't expect Vice President Pence to be there for the counting of the electoral votes."
was a big tip on just how wide and deep the rot is.
Sorry to
