Members of Joppatowne Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5838 on Pulaski Highway say they were unknowingly renting their hall once a year to a white supremacist group.
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Social media posts claim Antifa, a far-left movement, stormed the US Capitol. But there is extensive visual evidence that Donald Trump loyalists some with hats or flags identifying them as such breached the building where Congress meets, while images and a video provided as proof of Antifa involvement actually show two supporters of the president and a man allegedly linked to a skinhead group.
“Indisputable photographic evidence that antifa violently broke into Congress today to inflict harm & do damage. NOT @realDonaldTrump supporters,” pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood wrote on January 6, 2021 in a tweet that included two images.
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Members of the ultranationalist street gang known as the Proud Boys were easy to spot at the protests that flared across the United States throughout 2020, often in the middle of a brawl, typically clad in black and yellow outfits.
But in December, as the group’s leaders planned to flood Washington to oppose the certification of the Electoral College vote this week for President-elect Joe Biden, they decided to do something different.
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Johnson is a married father of five.
One Twitter user called the man, wearing a Trump hat, out and identified his wife as a doctor. The tweet has not been verified.
Dude got ID d almost immediately. He s Adam Johnson and his wife is Dr. Suzanne Johnson at Davita Medical in Palmetto, FL. Wild he thought he could just take this photo without ANY consequences. Also he deleted his Facebook so he knows he fucked up. https://t.co/ub3TBi5T4g Spooky Matt Roth (@MattRoth732) January 7, 2021
“Dude got ID’d almost immediately,” wrote the user. “He’s
Adam Johnson and his wife is Dr. Suzanne Johnson at Davita Medical in Palmetto, FL. Wild he thought he could just take this photo without ANY consequences. Also he deleted his Facebook so he knows he f up.”