The Conspiracy Proved, trumpian Rot Exposed. Keep Going, Justice Department

Didn't plan on blogging much this week, but this news dropped about the ongoing trials for the trumpian insurrectionists who rioted on January 6 2021, especially one of the big fish to get caught (via Carrie Johnson at NPR): 

Former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right Proud Boys group have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy by a federal jury in Washington, D.C.

Jurors also convicted Tarrio and the others of obstructing an official proceeding, conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging their duties, obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder and destruction of government property with value of over $1,000 in one of the most important cases to date stemming from the siege on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021...

The convictions amount to a significant victory for the Justice Department, which has now secured them against top leaders of both the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers for their roles in the attempt to keep former President Trump in power and stop certification of the 2020 election...

The sprawling case included 500,000 chat messages, video clips, podcasts and even a police riot shield. FBI special agents, police on the front lines on January 6, and former members of the Proud Boys who pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors made up the bulk of the Justice Department witness list...

As the then-leader of one of the more militant extremist groups in open support of donald trump's reign of terror, Tarrio is a big piece of the overall puzzle that makes up trump's efforts to overturn the legitimate election results of 2020.

trump regularly associated himself, through speech and through public appearances at his non-stop rallies, to the Proud Boys and a number of videos/photos show Tarrio in close proximity to trump at several of those events. Tarrio himself emphasized his ties to trump to bolster membership and stoke his followers into acts of protests, and as proved in today's jury decisions incited them to riot on trump's behalf.

There hasn't been a lot of evidence - at least not shown at this trial or any of the other Proud Boy and Oath Keeper trials that also found Guilty verdicts to most of the insurrectionists - of any direct ties between Tarrio and trump when it came to the planning and execution of the January 6th riot.

But there's a shit-ton of evidence linking Tarrio and his Proud Boys to Roger Stone. There's a shit-ton of evidence - some of it from Stone's own documentarians - that Stone was heavily involved in the planning and arguably evidence of him managing it from his war room that day.

And Stone is practically tied to trump by the hip.

With Tarrio's case proved - that Seditious Conspiracy on January 6th did take place - there's standing here to follow through on the conspiracy angle and go after everyone linked to Tarrio that day.

Tarrio gets you Roger Stone.

Roger Stone gets you trump.

Let justice be done.