brand-new reporting regarding financial payments made out not to clarence, but to ginni thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice, who is already under fire today. we are going to get to all of it tonight. but first, before all that, there is this. do you remember, during the peak of the pandemic, when people would banged pots and pans outside their windows and clap and cheer for essential workers every night at 7 pm? well, this is kind of like that, but only for mogadore hards. since august, almost nightly, trump supporters have met outside the d.c. jail, and at about 9 pm, the january six defendants, inside the jail they flicker their lights on and off. and that s because they are signaling it s time for everyone, inside and outside, to seeing the star-spangled banner. the washington post reports that they do that on most nights. former president trump even recorded and released a rendition of the national anthem using these guys as, like, a backup cho
financial payments made out not to clarence, but to ginni thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice, who is already under fire today. we are going to get to all of it tonight. but first, before all that, there is this. do you remember, during the peak of the pandemic, when people would banged pots and pans outside their windows and clap and cheer for essential workers every night at 7 pm? well, this is kind of like that, but only for mogadore hards. since august, almost nightly, trump supporters have met outside the d. c. jail, and at about 9 pm, the january six defendants, inside the jail they flicker their lights on and off. and that s because they are signaling it s time for everyone, inside and outside, to seeing the star-spangled banner. the washington post reports that they do that on most nights. former president trump even recorded and released a rendition of the national anthem using these guys as, like, a backup choir. he then proceeded to play
proud boys away from trump s speech and towards the capitol. but when the rioters burst through the barricades, minutes after the proud boys arrived, he realized that this may have been the plan all along. quote, i was putting two and two together, he recalled, and saying, this is it. now, the fact that the proud boys leaders were using their own members as pawns is not just interesting. it is also important, legally speaking. one of the guys who was convicted today, the former chairman of the proud boys, a man named enrique tarrio, he was not even in washington on january 6th. tarrio was kicked out of the city by a local judge days earlier for a separate legal matter. but today, the jury still found mr. tarrio culpable. and when you zoom out and look at not just the proud boys, but at the bigger picture of accountability for january 6th, that verdict, that call, is really important, that you didn t have to be at the capitol riling up the crowd and directing troop movements. you didn t
and it turns out one of the things we learned in this trial was that, not only was the mob a tool of the proud boys, but internally, within the far-right group itself, the leaders of the proud boys were using their lower level numbers, the lower level proud boys, as ponds as well. here s an example. during the trial, and now former proud boy, a witness who cooperated with the government he testified that he was surprised when the group s leaders, like joseph biggs, when they marched about 200 proud boys away from trump s speech and towards the capitol. but when the rioters burst through the barricades, minutes after the proud boys arrived, he realized that this may have been the plan all along. quote, i was putting two and two together, he recalled, and saying, this is it. now, the fact that the proud boys leaders were using their own members as pawns is not just interesting. it is also important, legally speaking. one of the guys who was convicted today, the former chairman of the p