‘Cease the Steal’ organizer Ali Alexander was seen on video promising members of two far proper teams – the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys – that he would work with them through the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, based on printed reviews.
The movies, which have been uncovered by CNN after they have been discovered on Periscope, present Alexander saying he’d discuss to the 2 teams about offering safety for the rally. He has turn out to be a outstanding determine within the Home of Representatives’ panel investigating the riot.
The Oath Keepers’ chief Stewart Rhodes and 10 different members have been charged with sedition in relation to the storming of the Capitol, whereas dozens of members of the Proud Boys have been additionally charged.
Alexander can be seen on one of many movies saying he’d moderately see the White Home struck by lightning and ‘burn down’ than see then President-elect Joe Biden reside in it.
In a single video, dated December 20, 2020, Alexander tells viewers that he was going to succeed in out to each teams.
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‘Cease the Steal’ organizer Ali Alexander was seen on video promising members of two far proper teams – the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys – that he would work with them through the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021
Ali Alexander says he was the one who got here up with the thought for Jan. 6 ‘Cease the Steal,’ together with Rep. Mo Brooks, Rep. Paul Gosar and Rep. Andy Biggs
Alexander, nationwide organizer of Cease the Steal, speaks to a gaggle protesting exterior the Secretary of State constructing simply weeks after the 2020 Election
Alexander, seen right here in an Instagram put up with former President Donald Trump
‘Don’t fear, I’m gonna make certain so many individuals are so protected,’ he stated. ‘It’s gonna make your head spin. I’m gonna attempt to be sure that each quarter-hour – so that you simply simply know in your head, you don’t should know in a map – that Metro stops are being patrolled.’
‘I’m gonna attempt to go that deep into it. I’m gonna discuss to the Proud Boys. I’m gonna discuss to the Oath Keepers and I’m gonna attempt to get patrols going, okay, of males that go for hours.’
Six days later in a video, Alexander stated he spoke once more to the Proud Boys to ensure they have been lined for room and board for the occasion.
‘I’ll discover you a room,’ Alexander stated. ‘My staff will discover you a room. I talked tonight to the Proud Boys to be sure that they have been all lined.’
Alexander himself has confronted no prices and has denied any involvement on that day.
Republican Consultant Paul Gosar speaks at a press convention in regards to the therapy of January sixth defendants
Chairman of the Home Freedom Caucus Andy Biggs
Consultant Mo Brooks of Georgia
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, then simply an elect to Congress, was additionally referenced as a buddy by Alexander
In December testimony earlier than the panel, he stated the proof he supplied them proved his innocence.
‘Anybody who suggests I had something to do with the illegal actions on January 6 is fallacious. They’re both mistaken or mendacity,’ Alexander stated in his opening assertion to the committee on December 9.
By his legal professional, Baron Coleman, he denied working with the Proud Boys although he did say Alexander tried to assist them with rooming preparations, whereas the Oath Keepers offered safety for Cease the Steal occasions.
Coleman additionally argued that Alexander was taken out of context within the movies and that he was joking and exaggerating.
‘Utilizing tiny clips from the 1000’s of hours of extemporaneous talking that Ali produced through the 2020 election cycle appears out of context and with out regard to the reality,’ Coleman stated in a press release. ‘All of Ali’s rallies, to this date, stay peaceable and with out incident. All the dozens of rallies he did, all peaceable, with out incident. The opposite ones beneath his care post-Election Day; all peaceable and with out incident.’
Alexander, seen right here at a Cease the Steal rally with Georgia Home of Representatives member Vernon Jones and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
Rioters on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington
The movies, which have been faraway from Periscope mysteriously, present Alexander saying he was coordinating with Congressional Republicans together with Representatives Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks and Andy Biggs in an try and overturn the 2020 Election, one of many essential causes behind the unique rally and the reasoning behind Cease the Steal’s existence.
‘I’m the man who got here up with the thought of January sixth once I was speaking with Congressman Gosar, Congressman Andy Biggs, and Congressman Mo Brooks,’ he stated in a video on December 28, 2020. ‘So, we’re the 4 guys who got here up with a January sixth occasion, hashtag ‘don’t certify.’ And it was to construct momentum and stress, after which on the day change hearts and minds of Congresspeoples [sic] who weren’t but determined or noticed everybody exterior and stated, ‘I can’t be on the opposite aspect of that mob.”
He claimed once more in a video on January 2 that Gosar, Brooks and Biggs have been working with him to whip up votes within the Home to contest the election.
Brooks and Biggs have beforehand each denied any work with Alexander in planning the assault. Neither Congressman nor Gosar has reply to requests for touch upon these movies.
Additionally in that December 17 video, Alexander spoke about Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene, who at that time had been elected, as ‘a buddy of mine’ who would assist their efforts to object to the election outcomes.
A spokesperson for Greene has denied any involvement.
WHO IS ALI ALEXANDER?
Ali Abdul-Razaq Ali, 35, is a far-right activist who who goes by Ali Alexander. He identifies as black and Arab, based on Politico.
He helped arrange ‘Cease the Steal’ motion, which oppose Joe Biden’s election win and is pushing to show that President Donald Trump received reelection on November 3.
Ali additionally takes accountability for organizing the January 6 rally that convened exterior the Capitol earlier than it was stormed by 1000’s of pro-Trump protesters. He stated in a live-streamed video that GOP Representatives Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs and Mo Brooks assisted with the trouble to disrupt the be a part of session of Congress transferring to certify the Electoral School outcomes for Biden.
‘I need to allow you to guys know the way we’re responding as a result of I used to be the one who got here up with the January 6 thought with Congressman Gosar, Congressman Mo Brooks after which Congressman Andy Biggs,’ Ali stated within the now-deleted video.
‘We 4 schemed up of placing most stress on Congress whereas they have been voting in order that who we couldn’t foyer, we may change the hearts and the minds of Republicans who have been in that physique listening to our loud roar from exterior,’ he continued.
Alexander, pictured right here with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones throughout an indication in Georgia in November, helped arrange the ‘Cease the Steal’ protesters who gathered close to the Capitol earlier than the chaos broke out final Wednesday
Ali Alexander pleaded responsible to 2 separate felony prices in 2007 and 2008 in Forth Price Texas
The activist runs with with Trump’s circle. In the summertime of 2019 he gathered on the White Home for the president’s ‘social media summit’ to bash platforms for his or her supposed anti-conservative and anti-Trump bias.
This week, following reviews of his involvement within the storming of the Capitol, Ali was banned from Fb, Instagram and Twitter and his accounts have been eliminated.
Ali Abdul-Razaq Ali, 35, who goes by Ali Alexander, is a far-right activist from Fort Price, Texas
Ali raised questions through the Democratic major race over then-candidate Kamal Harris’s ‘black-ness’, sparking hypothesis he was waging a ‘birther’-like marketing campaign in opposition to her. The now vice president-elect is half Indian and half Jamaican.
‘Kamala Harris is implying she is descended from American Black Slaves,’ he wrote on Twitter in June 2019. ‘She’s not. She comes from Jamaican Slave House owners. That’s fantastic. She’s not an American Black. Interval.’ Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. retweeted after which deleted the put up, asking if it was true, and serving to it go viral.
Ali resides in Forth Price, Texas. In 2007 he pleaded responsible to felony property theft within the Lone Star state and the following yr additionally pleaded responsible to to a bank card abuse felony – additionally in Texas.
