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But according to the new filing [by the DOJ], Munchel and his mother took the handcuffs from within the Capitol building — apparently to ensure the Capitol Poli

• krapp 5y ago
  OK, fair enough. That doesn't speak to motive or intent. From the filing[0]: MUNCHEL and Eisenhart made no secret of their intentions in traveling to Washington: they told a reporter for The Sunday Times that they made the trip because they “wanted to show that we’re willing to rise up, band together[,] and fight if necessary. Same as our forefathers, who established this country in 1776.” Notably, MUNCHEL told the Times reporter that he had left his guns in Tennessee because of the “strict” guns laws in Washington—the implication being that MUNCHEL would have been armed with a firearm had Washington’s gun laws not been in place. And, as described below, there is evidence that MUNCHEL and Eisenhart were armed with firearms when they came to Washington for the rally. [0]https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.85025/gov.uscourts.tnmd.85025.8.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.85... So they were not simply protestors operating on the spur of the moment without a plan. And that still leaves all of the planning done on social media, and the communications captured by the government. To claim that no one at the Capitol that day went there with the intent to disrupt the certification of the election of Joe Biden would be incorrect.