GOP Invites Extremist Convicted Rioter To Inauguration

December 12, 2024 Extremists, Trump cultists

ABC News reports:

A California man who pleaded guilty to a felony for his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol filed a letter Wednesday showing he was personally invited by a retired Republican congressman to attend trump’s inauguration. Russell Taylor, whom prosecutors described as a “leader” who organized a “group of fighters,” filed the letter from retired Republican Rep. Chris Stewart in a request for the judge overseeing his case to approve his travel to the nation’s capital.

Stewart makes no direct mention in the letter of Taylor’s participation in the Capitol attack, instead describing him as “a man of integrity and faith who has served those who are less fortunate.” However, prosecutors described him as “repeatedly calling for violence and a show of force” to overturn the election and, on Jan. 6 itself, led a mob while wearing “an exposed knife on top of a bullet proof chest plate and carrying bear spray.”

From my June 2021 report:

The charges against the six men, all from California, were disclosed in an indictment unsealed on Thursday in federal court in Washington.

Two of them, Alan Hostetter and Russell Taylor, were seen a day before the riot with Roger Stone, a friend and adviser to Trump, during a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court against the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

About 30 people – including members of two other right-wing groups, The Oath Keepers and The Proud Boys – have been accused of conspiracy, the most serious charges related to the riot. Those pending cases are the largest and most complex of the roughly 500 brought by the Justice Department since the attack.

That’s Taylor in the final tweet below.



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