Jan. 6 Organizer Has Frenzied Public Meltdown Over Live Hearing

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Ali Alexander, a prominent figure in efforts around and involving former President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential election victory, suffered a frenzied, public meltdown in conjunction with this Thursday’s public hearing of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot. “WE. DID. NOTHING. WRONG.” Alexander metaphorically screamed in one post.

On Trump’s site Truth Social, Alexander posted over a dozen times about the Thursday hearing. “Liz Cheney joins her Cheney Daddy in being a WAR CRIMINAL. Domestic War Criminal!” Alexander said in another post. Is he trying to suggest the U.S. is currently embroiled in some kind of civil war, with Cheney on the side opposite Alexander? “This is SO overly scripted. All teleprompter. No authenticity. This ain’t convincing anyone!” Alexander yelled in a follow-up post. And yet, Alexander was clearly taking notice — he can’t rhetorically lose it on social media and expect to credibly convince people that there’s not actually anything serious or concerning in what the committee was presenting. Although his reasons would’ve been different than everyday Americans, Alexander was clearly concerned!

In another post, Alexander claimed that a video shared by the panel “proves… that the Proud Boys ran an independent operation and march separate from Trump or Stop the Steal.” In reality, there’s a lot more to it: Marcus Childress, an investigative counsel with the riot committee, explained in a video the committee shared on Thursday that after an infamous Twitter post from then-President Trump in which he said, in reference to January 6, “Be there, will be wild,” Trump supporters activated.

“Many of the witnesses that we interviewed were inspired by the president’s call and came to D.C. for January 6,” Childress explained, in reference to that tweet. “But the extremists, they took it a step further. They viewed this tweet as a call to arms.” It was apparently very soon after Trump’s tweet about the “wild” protest that Proud Boys leadership started a new arm within the Proud Boys known as the Ministry of Self Defense, a sub-entity that’s repeatedly come up in criminal proceedings against Proud Boys members connected with the riot.

In other words: Trump inspired these people. They acted in direct line with what he did. It doesn’t matter if — conveniently for Trump or Alexander — it’s other people who happened to directly perpetrate what’s now been formally concluded by the Justice Department to be a seditious conspiracy. Trump cultivated the inspiration for the riot and went along with it. Even now, he continues excusing it: “The so-called “Rush on the Capitol” was not caused by me, it was caused by a Rigged and Stolen Election!” the ex-president recently stated. In other words, Trump apparently believes the rioters had a point. It was a mutually beneficial relationship between Trump and extremist groups who participated in the Capitol violence; the fact they might not have metaphorically set out together doesn’t mean they weren’t eventually alongside each other.

Alexander, for his part, had a permit for a protest outside the Capitol on January 6 last year that never ended up happening because of the violence that enveloped the premises. Alexander has himself spoken with the riot committee, and he also indicated that he agreed to cooperate with a Justice Department investigation into circumstances surrounding January 6 after receiving a grand jury subpoena. “Have you ever seen a video with more fake edits and SPLICES? This video is a spoof!” Alexander ranted at another point during the Thursday night hearing. “Audio is completely edited. J6 Committee, you won’t be getting an Oscar for this! Hoax!” Melting down won’t make the evidence go away!