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"President
Trump is Calling Us to Fight:" What the Court Documents Reveal About
the Motivations Behind January 6 and Networked Incitement
Research type:
Reports
Published on
July 20, 2022
Authors: Joan Donovan, Kaylee Fagan, and Frances Lee
Overview / Abstract
In this qualitative study, we analyze federal court documents related
to the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, in an effort to
identify, categorize, and quantify the most frequently cited reasons for
participating in the breach of the Capitol Building. We describe the
beliefs, ideologies, fears, conspiratorial narratives, and other themes
that most often contributed to the decision to participate in the
attack, and present representative excerpts from court documents. In
order to estimate the relative popularity of each motivation,
researchers coded the contents of 469 charging and sentencing documents,
representing 417 defendants. These excerpts provide a unique window
into the defendants’ thinking and plans in the weeks and days before the
attack, as well as in its aftermath. Our analysis reveals that the
members of the Capitol riot were far from consistent in their reasons
and goals, although most seemed to share a fear of sociocultural status
loss. Some defendants describe a desire for “revolution” or “civil war,”
while others describe the attack as a simple “flexing of muscles,” or a
demonstration of their frustration with the status quo. We find that
the largest fraction of defendants were motivated to come to Washington
DC on January 6 by either their desire to support President Trump, their
concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election, or some combination
of both.
Whether media
manipulation tactics are used to sow distrust in social institutions, to
destabilize relations of power, or to inflict harm on people and
communities, we offer a common vocabulary for describing them.
Whether media
manipulation tactics are used to sow distrust in social institutions, to
destabilize relations of power, or to inflict harm on people and
communities, we offer a common vocabulary for describing them.
Newly-created LD10 in East Mesa is reaping a whirlwind of national attention as two Conservative Mormon Republican contenders challenge each other in what is usually a low-voter -turnout Primary Election to gain a seat in the Arizona State Senate. Both Bowers and David Farnsworth has served two consecutive terms in the Arizona House entrenched "revolving-door' Mormon political machine. State legislative races are typically cheap, low-key affairs. But
Bowers’ national profile from his House select committee testimony, as
well as Trump’s imprint and heavy outside spending by groups like the
pro-Trump PAC Turning Point USA, which is based in Arizona, make this
contest unlike virtually any other on the map in 2022.
The Arizona Race That Reveals The Most About Trumpism And The 'Big Lie'
After
telling the Jan. 6 House committee about pressure he faced to overturn
the vote, Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers is fighting for his
political life.
By the time the Jan. 6 House
select committee had subpoenaed him to testify, Rusty Bowers was already
careening toward a messy showdown with the Republican Party — the Arizona House speaker uneasy with his party’s embrace of election lies versus a growing number of Republicans who’ve fully bought into them.
The battle will culminate on Tuesday in Arizona’s statewide primary, with Bowers pitted against a Donald Trump-backed
opponent, former state Sen. David Farnsworth, in his quest to move over
to the Arizona Senate after being term-limited out of the state House.
Although Bowers is the top Republican in the GOP-led chamber, his
victory and his political future are anything but guaranteed.
But
compared with those primaries — Lake is a firm election denier and
opponent Karrin Taylor Robson, an attorney, has tried not to lean too
heavily one way or another, labeling the election “unfair”
― the Bowers vs. Farnsworth contest draws a clear line in the sand on
Trump. An undisputed prerequisite for a Trump endorsement, Farnsworth
embraces both Trump and the “big lie.” Bowers, on the other hand,
acknowledges Trump did some good things for the country while also telling The Washington Post, “I don’t want Donald Trump to be the next president.”
IMAGES ARE EVERYTHING - wrapped in Old Glory is even better! Icons of the American West are convenient fodder for a new trooping of Trump apprentices ready to get into the media rodeo. Just a quick today to highlight another on-the-rise Conservative Republican who's also scored a newly published book.
Potential rival or running mate? Kristi Noem, the governor denying Trump a face on Mount Rushmore
South
Dakota Republican says monument is ‘special just the way it is’, while
speculation grows she is trying to broaden her national appeal
Donald Trump’s rough summer continues. Hammered by
the January 6 committee, his influence ebbing and possible prosecution
looming, now the former US president must face the death of a long
cherished dream.
Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota,
home to the hallowed national memorial, has ruled out any additions to
the 60-foot-tall (18-metre) faces of presidents George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
Noem first told the story
of Trump’s wish to be immortalized on Mount Rushmore in 2018. On
Thursday, speaking with reporters in Washington, she recounted again her
first meeting with Trump in the Oval Office when she was a member of
Congress.
“I
said, ‘Mr President, I’m Kristi Noem, I’m from South Dakota. South
Dakota is the home of Mount Rushmore. You should come visit it
sometime.’ And he said, ‘Oh, did you know that it is my dream to have my
face on Mount Rushmore?’ And I was surprised by that. We laughed and
chuckled about it.”
But asked on Thursday by the Guardian if Trump’s
dream of being carved into the monument could be realised even after his
involvement in the January 6 insurrection, Noem replied: “I don’t think we’re adding any faces to Mount Rushmore any time soon. It is pretty special just the way it is.
“I
don’t think anybody has ever claimed that any of our leaders were
perfect. Every one of us has flaws but we still have leaders that led us
through challenging times. Remembering that history is incredibly
important.”
Noem is widely seen as a
potential rival – or running mate – for Trump for the Republican
presidential nomination in 2024. This week she published a memoir, Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland, and delivered speeches to the Heritage Foundation thinktank and National Conservative Student Conference in Washington.
Noem,
the first woman to hold the governor’s office in South Dakota and up
for reelection this year, resisted significant lockdowns during the
coronavirus pandemic and accused other state governors of having
“overstepped their authority”. In her address to the Heritage Foundation on Wednesday, she also lambasted Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert.
“He,
out of anybody in this country, should never be given one minute of
airtime ever again for the devastation that he has wrecked on so many
families,” she said. “He has wiped out their livelihoods, he has
destroyed kids’ education – we have kids that forever will struggle
because they’ve been forced to wear masks that has hurt their
development. It is a tragedy what that man was allowed to do to the
United States of America.”
Fauci, who is President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, has repeatedly hit back at his rightwing critics in kind.
Last year he told the New York Times:
“‘Fauci has blood in his hands’ – are you kidding me? Here’s a guy
whose entire life has been devoted to saving lives, and now you’re
telling me he’s like Hitler? You know, come on, folks. Get real.”
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At the latter event she was accompanied by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, apparently working for her again
after a brief hiatus, and she held an informal conversation with
reporters where questions included the supreme court’s decision to
overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that guaranteed a woman’s right to
abortion.
The
detailed account in the memoir -- set to be published next month --
provides fresh insight into the pernicious environment inside former
President Donald Trump's West Wing. Coming just as the former President
gears up for a 2024 campaign, excerpts from the book reveal how
viciously the Trump team turned on one another from the earliest days of
the administration, and how distrust and resentment affected every
aspect of governing.
Trump's
son-in-law and senior adviser writes that Bannon once yelled and
threatened him in the Cabinet Room after Gary Cohn, a senior economic
adviser, informed Kushner that Bannon was leaking negative information
about him.
"Steve, you gotta stop leaking on Gary," Kushner said he told Bannon. "We're trying to build a team here."
Kushner
writes that Bannon responded: "'Cohn's the one leaking on me. ...
Jared, right now, you're the one undermining the President's agenda,' he
continued, his eyes intense and voice escalating into a yell. 'And if
you go against me, I will break you in half. Don't f--- with me.'"
In
"Breaking History: A White House Memoir," Kushner questions his own
response and says he was "woefully unprepared" after Bannon, "a black
belt in the dark arts of media manipulation," declared war on him. CNN
has reached out to a spokesman for Bannon on Kushner's book.
The
detailed account in the memoir -- set to be published next month --
provides fresh insight into the pernicious environment inside former
President Donald Trump's West Wing. Coming just as the former President
gears up for a 2024 campaign, excerpts from the book reveal how
viciously the Trump team turned on one another from the earliest days of
the administration, and how distrust and resentment affected every
aspect of governing.
Trump's
son-in-law and senior adviser writes that Bannon once yelled and
threatened him in the Cabinet Room after Gary Cohn, a senior economic
adviser, informed Kushner that Bannon was leaking negative information
about him.
"Steve, you gotta stop leaking on Gary," Kushner said he told Bannon. "We're trying to build a team here."
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