“I attended the rally on the White House lawn and went back to hotel and took a nap,” Pink wrote later to a disappointed Twitter user. “Case closed.”
i was in dc to peacefully show my support for the president. i attended the rally on the white house lawn and went back to hotel and took a nap. case closed
“All the people at these events deserve whats coming to them. They took the risk knowing full well what might happen. BLM protests over the past 6 months are not informed about the pandemic?” he added after the Twitter user noted the riot also occurred amid a pandemic.
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Yesterday, violent right-wing terrorists forced their way into the U.S. Capitol following a pro-Trump protest that everyone on the planet except, oddly, anyone involved in law enforcement knew was going to escalate to dangerous levels, leading to a day that the United States will never and should never live down. And, according to
Pitchfork, there were a couple of familiar faces in the crowd outside the White House, specifically Ariel Pink and John Maus. The two appeared in a photo posted by filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer from Washington D.C., prompting Pink to tweet that he was there to “peacefully show [his] support for the president” and that he “went back to hotel and took a nap” before all the sedition started. So that’s cool, right? He was just there to express how much he likes the idiotic despot who drove the protestors into a fury in the first place and spent the last four years convincing people that he’s univer
Musician Ariel Pink upset fans by confirming his attendance at the pro-Trump protests on Jan. 6, the same day a mob, encouraged by the president to march to the Capitol, stormed the Capitol building
Filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer posted a photo of Pink, 42, who was born Ariel Marcus Rosenberg, alongside songwriter John Maus in a hotel room in D.C. She also posted live videos of Maus navigating the crowd, causing some on Twitter to infer what Pink’s involvement in the protests, which he later confirmed.
proof that both @JOHNMAUS@arielxpink were at there. never once did one of these artists express ñ their solidarity for the BLM movement. it’s crazy how indie artists claim to follow this alternative lifestyle, yet express such traditional and archaic views. https://t.co/rxLizhipOO ceci (@yerbalover) January 7, 2021
Ariel Pink has admitted to attending a pro-Trump protest at the White House yesterday, after filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer posted a photograph of Pink and John Maus together in the city. Pink says he was there to “peacefully show [his] support for the president,” but was not part of the mob that stormed the Capitol. The role of Maus, whom Moyer filmed observing crowds at the Capitol, is unclear. In an email to Pitchfork, Moyer, whose Instagram account has been made private, says she met with the pair to discuss an unrelated project and, in her role as a documentary journalist, “felt obliged to record what was happening” in Washington.
Pink tweeted about his support for Trump last week
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One thing you probably didn’t expect to see as democracy in the United States was under siege were two musicians from the 2010s taking part in the rioting during the violent insurrection Jan. 6 on Capitol Hill. Yet, there were indie rockers Ariel Pink and John Maus, front and center on the scene.
According to several posts on social media that circulated on Wednesday night, including a photo taken in a hotel room and video captured by
TFW No GF director Alex Lee Moyer, who was there, the trio were active participants in the mayhem in Washington, D.C. where a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol as a Joint session of Congress met to certify the Electoral College results, which Joe Biden won by a 306-232 margin.