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The New York Times reports:
Keith Lee, an Air Force veteran and former police detective, spent the morning of Jan. 6 casing the entrances to the Capitol. In online videos, the 41-year-old Texan pointed out the flimsiness of the fencing.
He cheered the arrival, long before President Trump’s rally at the other end of the mall, of far-right militiamen encircling the building. Then, armed with a bullhorn, Mr. Lee called out for the mob to rush in, until his voice echoed from the dome of the Rotunda.
In the months leading up to the riot, Mr. Lee had helped organize a series of pro-Trump car caravans around the country, including one that temporarily blockaded a Biden campaign bus in Texas and another that briefly shut down a Hudson River bridge in the New York City suburbs.
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Remember cars swarming Biden’s bus in Texas at high speed on the highway, forcing the campaign to cancel events?
That was organized by a former police detective and one of the Capitol Hill insurrectionists /1https://t.co/f2yEhvbVhY pic.twitter.com/ejHWZbDJz7
— Nathan Newman ? (@nathansnewman) January 16, 2021
Threats like that throughout the campaign were normalized as Trump himself cheered the high-speed attempt to run the Biden bus off the road.
Trump was inciting violence in his supporters long before he lost the race. /2https://t.co/TZG5VZKfq3 pic.twitter.com/vl25pUASdl
— Nathan Newman ? (@nathansnewman) January 16, 2021
The media failure to call this attempted assassination of Biden set the stage for not taking seriously the clear death threats spread all over the Internet targeting Capitol Hill. /3
— Nathan Newman ? (@nathansnewman) January 16, 2021
Trump was not alone in praising that high-speed attack on Biden. Here is Rubio encouraging more of that kind of violence and threats. /4https://t.co/A16XX3icH1
— Nathan Newman ? (@nathansnewman) January 17, 2021
Keith Lee, the guy behind the “MAGA Drag The Interstate” caravans, played a major role in organizing the Capitol riots, @nytimes reports: https://t.co/tvGW7OVEEf
— Jesselyn Cook (@JessReports) January 16, 2021