The Washington Post reports:
Weeks before a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, right-wing activist Ali Alexander told his followers that he was planning something big for Jan. 6.
Alexander, who organized the “Stop the Steal” movement, said he hatched the plan — coinciding with Congress’s vote to certify the electoral college votes — alongside three GOP lawmakers: Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Mo Brooks (Ala.) and Paul A. Gosar (Ariz.), all hard-line Trump supporters.
“We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting,” Alexander said in a since-deleted video on Periscope highlighted by the Project on Government Oversight, an investigative nonprofit.
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in case he takes the video down, here’s the relevant section pic.twitter.com/IYiqxeX6Ch
— Jason Paladino (@jason_paladino) January 8, 2021
I caught Alexander Ali using a top ‘Christian’ crowdfunding website to drum up cash for his “security and protection” while in hiding.
He’s the Stop the Steal rally organizer who organized the Capitol riots with Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, and Andy Biggs.https://t.co/5HXwY8xEvt
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) January 13, 2021
Far-right activist Ali Alexander—who conspired with three top Trump allies in planning the Save America March—furiously deleting evidence in the biggest federal criminal investigation of the last 100 years isn’t suspicious at all pic.twitter.com/QJLPOIzflz
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 13, 2021
NEW: “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander in hiding after denying blame for Capitol riot https://t.co/PwcckkT9fO
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 11, 2021
Right-wing terrorist Ali Alexander threatens to stab people. This convicted felon worked with GOP leaders to organize pro-Trump mobs and has gone into hiding.pic.twitter.com/i31cEOHzyc
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) January 11, 2021
Heads will roll: The right-wing political activist Ali Alexander says that Arizona Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs worked with him to plan pro-Trump rallies, including the one that ended with an attack on the Capitol. https://t.co/yVVD5mXGCD
— Paul van der Meer (@Paul_VanDerMeer) January 11, 2021
Reporting from @DrewGriffinCNN, on air, that Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander confirms he was getting help with getting Trump supporters to DC on Wed. from three members of Congress -Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Mo Brooks (R-AL).
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) January 12, 2021