Tuesday's hearing on the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will focus on the role of extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
that he moved to Montana to embed with the militia group to write a book, but he instead ended up writing for the group's website and running its social media presence for a year and a half. In his blog, The Colorado Switchblade, Van Tatenhove said he has"been asked to give a historical overview" of groups like the Oath Keepers in the hearing. He has previously spoken to the committee once over Zoom and then again in person on March 9.
According to his signed plea agreement, Ayres, who is from the Youngstown, Ohio, area, posted about his plans for a January 6 trip to Washington, D.C., on Facebook during the week prior to the attack. One of his Facebook posts quoted then-President Donald Trump's December 19, 2020 tweet predicting a"wild" scene in the nation's capital on January 6.
"You'll see the evidence that we have of how the president's tweet in the wee hours of December 19 activated the groups, and how the members of Congress amplified that tweet, and the tragic end result was January 6," she said in an interview with CBS News ahead of the hearing. Ayres admitted to being one of three people seen discussing the Capitol breach in a hotel room in a video posted to YouTube on January 7, 2021. According to the plea agreement,"Ayres stated [in the video] that the 'fake news' would not accurately report on what happened at the Capitol but that they had 'seen it all' and they 'got footage all over the place on the Capitol' and that they would 'probably share some of it here and there.
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