The mysterious nine-second call from the White House: CNN reveals the rioter's identity

[brooklynite]

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Source: CNN

The call was first disclosed by Denver Riggleman in an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes. Riggleman is a former Republican congressman who left his job working as a technical adviser for the January 6 committee in April.

CNN first learned about the call earlier this year and is revealing the rioter's identity for the first time.

The cell phone belonged to a 26-year-old Trump supporter from Brooklyn, New York named Anton Lunyk, who traveled to Washington DC the night before January 6 with two friends, Francis Connor and Antonio Ferrigno, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation, as well as a search of public records.

The three men attended the "Stop the Steal" rally on the Ellipse and then, along with hundreds of others, entered and illegally demonstrated inside the Capitol, a charge they pleaded guilty to in April and were sentenced for earlier this month. Attorneys for all three men declined to comment to CNN.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/mysterious-phone-call-white-house-rioter-jan-6/index.html

[AZLD4Candidate]

1. entered and illegally demonstrated inside the Capitol??? wth CNN? It was a riot and insurrection

[Bluethroughu]

3. 100%...are they spies who did they know in the white house.

This is more than what some people did, and we're waterboardede for. I'm not condoning that, but the right wingers championed it, against people that had not even attacked our government like these scumbags.

[Grins]

12. Nine SECONDS?

Not a lot there.

[Orrex]

18. If you're executing an agreed-to plan, nine seconds is plenty to give a "go" word

[hibbing]

14. First thing I noticed " illegally demonstrated", sounds so quaint n/t

[colorado_ufo]

27. Maybe this was what the conviction was.

[867-5309.]

29. Maybe these individuals weren't violent

Many were, but these may been among those who simply walked in.

[Ferrets are Cool]

30. Simply walked in?????

You must be kidding right? If they were inside, they were just as guilty of attempted sedition as ANYONE there.

[AllyCat]

31. And just happened to get a personal call from the WH.

Sure. All coincidences.

[Lonestarblue]

2. So who in the WH not only had this guy's cell phone number but called him during the insurrection?

[efhmc]

4. And so? Without more info this is of no use.

[Tikki]

5. Sounds to me like someone who can use the WH phone for call outs had a crush on

one of these traitors. Check on how “he” was.

Maybe set up a rendezvous for later in the week.

Tikki

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Or maybe 'great job outside the DNC and RNC the other night' (nt)

[Tikki]

8. Very, very, very possible.

Tikki

[efhmc]

6. Don't cell phones connect to one another without a switchboard?

So is the outgoing WH call a land line call? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

[underpants]

9. My impression is that calls from desk phones (land lines)

go through the switchboard for record keeping and security reasons.

[efhmc]

13. Thought so. Thanks for answering me.

[3Hotdogs]

15. Interesting. But all calls? Is the custodian, ordering bathroom tissue gonna have his calls recorded

I guess calls from Oval O and such would be recorded. The guy was from New York. was the Ghoul in the White House on J6?

[underpants]

16. I don't know. I'd guess yes all calls.

You don’t want someone ducking into the custodial office and calling out. Again, just a guess.

[3Hotdogs]

10. Probably was a landline.

I guess, next up is a subpoena to the traitor. Threaten with obstruction charges if the contact is not disclosed. I'm sure Garland is already on this.

[efhmc]

11. Thank you. I appreciate your answering me.

[Conjuay]

32. "Hello? KFC?"

“na, wrong number” (Click)

[Gore1FL]

17. Seems like an odd person to be calling. nt

[Johnny2X2X]

19. Probably calling off the plan

The WH saw that they hadn't been able to kill Nancy or Pence as planned and that they were safe, probably telling them to call it off as it was only going to work if they had killed several key people by then.

Make no mistake, the White House plan was to have people killed at the Capitol that day.

[Hekate]

23. Yes. Trump & co-conspirators wanted to behead the line of potus-succession & kill both Speaker& Veep

“It’s coming from inside the (White) House” is like a line from a horror movie.

[msfiddlestix]

20. Didn't know there was a 9 second mystery call, but now I'm curious. what was said on the call?

Does anyone know yet? I can imagine what might have been said, but yes, it would be good to know who was on the other end of that call.

[calimary]

21. They look like Incels to me.

Now we need to know the identity of the caller.

[Marthe48]

22. Which one is he of those 3?

The traitors look like members of a rat army.

[Mr. Ected]

24. J6 rioters "entered and illegally demonstrated", CNN?

But the FBI search of MAL pursuant to a valid search warrant was a RAID?

Words matter. CNN knows they do, too.

[liberal N proud]

25. DEMONSTRATED?

They were trying overthrow the government for gods sake!

[PurgedVoter]

26. So The Owner of CNN is fine with the overthrow of democracy

That is I think the logical conclusion of their calling it an illegal protest instead of an insurrection. When a news organization decides that something like this, a unique and horrible attack on US democracy, an illegal protest, after cops were killed, windows broken, etc... You can bet money the owner of that news organization is not a friend of our constitutional and peaceful means of choosing leadership. News organizations tend to go broad when they can go broad. When they downplay it, it tells you something.

The outing of this fellow, I suspect is a hope that we will be ranting over a nothing burger. This make me suspect that there is much bigger coming.

[867-5309.]

28. The J6 committee is throwing cold water on this

...Tim Mulvey, the January 6 committee spokesman, told CNN “in his role on the Select Committee staff, Mr. Riggleman had limited knowledge of the committee’s investigation. He departed from the staff in April prior to our hearings and much of our most important investigative work.”

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union, Congressman Adam Schiff, a member of the January 6 committee, also downplayed Riggleman’s comments to 60 Minutes that the call was an “a-ha moment.”...

Appearing on CNN Sunday afternoon, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, also a committee member, downplayed the significance of Riggleman’s book...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/mysterious-phone-call-white-house-rioter-jan-6/index.html

[Omaha Steve]

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