The Aftermath S2E3 - #StormtheCapitol

Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath

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Trump, News & Politics, January 6, Politics, Lawfare, Insurrection

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🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Social media was key to Jan. 6. End to end. It was key to gathering the crowd that stormed the Capitol. It was key to generating the sentiment that led people to drop their lives to come to Washington willing to commit crimes. It was key to sending them home when the deed was done. Of course, we’re all on social media. But how does social media propel people to action, even inspire them to move from online to on the ground—and to the grounds of the Capitol? It’s impossible to track. But we know that some accounts wielded enormous influence, and none more so than Donald Trump’s. The thing is, Trump wasn’t the only one behind his social media face. He had one trusted aide who ran the accounts with him.

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0:00.0	Mr. Airs, why did you decide to come to Washington on January 6th?
0:07.0	For me, for me personally, you know, I was, you know, was you pretty hardcore into the social media, Facebook, Twitter,
0:19.3	Instagram. I followed you know President Trump you know on all of the websites you know you
0:27.9	basically put out you know come to stop the steel rally you, I felt like I needed to be down here.
0:35.0	It's July 12th, 2022, the seventh hearing of the January 6th committee.
0:42.0	A man named Stephen Ayers is testifying
0:45.1	before the committee talking about how he lost his job, sold his house, and
0:50.4	pleaded guilty to criminal charges because of what he did on January 6th 2021.
0:57.0	Airs says he used to just be a family man and a working man.
1:04.0	But as a result of Trump's tweets,
1:06.5	he had come to believe the election had been stolen.
1:11.1	I had some friends.
1:11.8	I found out were coming down I just hopped you know hopped on with
1:15.2	them right at the tail and when I found out and came down here with them.
1:20.5	Airs had not come to Washington intending to storm the capital.
1:24.8	He marched on it because that's what Trump urged the crowd to do in his speech on the
1:29.8	ellipse. And just as his role in the riot began with social media, it ended with a presidential
1:36.9	tweet.
1:38.5	When asked why he left the building, Ayers responds,
1:41.9	Basically when President Trump put his tweet out
1:44.8	we literally left right after that come out.
1:48.6	All over the country,
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