Prosecutors Look at Florida Election Protest as a Model for Jan. 6

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/politics/florida-jan-6-proud-boys.html


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President Donald J. Trump and other top Republicans were stoking claims that the election had been stolen, and their supporters were protesting in the streets. Members of the far-right group the Proud Boys and people close to Roger J. Stone Jr., including Representative Matt Gaetz, took part in the action as the crowd was chanting “Stop the Steal.”

The time was 2018, the setting was southern Florida, and the election in question was for governor and a hotly contested race that would help determine who controlled the United States Senate.
Now, four years later, the Justice Department is examining whether the tactics used then served as a model for the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

In recent months, prosecutors overseeing the seditious conspiracy case of five members of the Proud Boys have expanded their investigation to examine the role that Jacob Engels — a Florida Proud Boy who accompanied Mr. Stone to Washington for Jan. 6 — played in the 2018 protests, according to a person briefed on the matter.

The prosecutors want to know whether Mr. Engels received any payments or drew up any plans for the Florida demonstration, and whether he has ties to other people connected to the Proud Boys’ activities in the run-up to the storming of the Capitol.

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[republianmushroom]

1. I like it

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Does anyone have video clips of what they're talking about?

The only 2018 proud boy Florida election protest I came up with is this one:

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/412405-pelosi-heckled-by-miami-republicans-proud-boys-at-campaign-event/

[Nevilledog]

3. That's not the same protest

On Nov. 9, a group of about 100 angry protesters, including members of the Proud Boys, descended on the Broward County elections office, carrying pro-Scott and pro-Trump signs and protesting the recount.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. How did I miss that one?

Sounds like the Brooks Brother of 2000.

There's a definite pattern.

[Nevilledog]

5. No need to reinvent the wheel for these traitors.