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Kevin Ryan's avatar

You touched on something at the very end but reading this golf cart article, it has become apparent that the Secret Service - between election day and January 6 - had to have more than ample opportunity to overhear what was underway and reason to know this was seditious. These guys (and women) did not fall off the turnip wagon on January 5. If the Secret Service has not turned over to the FBI detailed files and statements documenting the insurrection from election day to January 6, then they should be treated as an enemy organization. You cannot be around a man like Trump for any period of time without your inner alarm going off, telling you he is an enemy of the state and everything he does should be viewed through that lens. The Secret Service had a ringside seat to the insurrection planning, who was coming and going to meetings, and they should have known what Trump’s people and supporters were saying publicly - known based on daily Sec Service briefings if nothing else. Until they have cleared of suspicion, they should be considered a major threat to national security based on their seeming loyalty, collusion, and aiding and abetting Trump’s insurrection, and their proximity to Biden and VP Harris.

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Aside from what has been written above, I sense a connection between the mega-right-wing and Trump funder Robert Mercer, his daughter, and the insurrection. One of their go-to operatives, Steve Bannon, has had connections to the white-nationalist groups leading the insurrection. Mercer's daughter, Rebekah, has written about the necessity of armed conflict in their struggle: https://theintercept.com/2021/01/27/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot/.

The Mercer's involvement in far-right causes in Europe (Brexit) and Fascism is a matter of record. They also have chosen every path of tax avoidance available to them even at the expense of a decade of litigation with the IRS over a 7 Billion scheme that's even a bigger con than Trump. However, their anti-government stance has been extremely profitable to them. How would you like to have 7 Billion at your disposal while appointing your operatives to advise the POTUS while you traded stocks? Like Trump, they are void of patriotism.

After the Arizona R Chair urged violence at the Capitol, the Mercers rewarded her with 150 Million dollars: https://theintercept.com/2021/01/14/capitol-riot-mercers-election-unrest/.

This must animate the crazy, right-wing extremism of the Arizona Representatives like Gosar. They are swimming in Mercer money, and the Mercer's expect their extremism in return.

Moreover, the Mercer's helped Trump become POTUS (he was trailing by double digits and short on money before they got involved), but part of their deal was Conway and Bannon's appointment as advisors to Trump; while Mercer ran his hedge fund? Apparently, the heat was getting too hot in the kitchen, and Mercer stepped down and said he was cutting back about the same time Mueller was investigating Trump. It appears. However, his daughter took over his mission and his checkbook.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-rise-of-gop-mega-donor-rebekah-mercer/2016/09/13/85ae3c32-79bf-11e6-beac-57a4a412e93a_story.html

One of Rebekah's ventures was Parler, which played a huge role in organizing and motivating the 1/6/21 Insurrection:

https://www.businessinsider.com/rebekah-mercer-funds-parler-social-media-app-touted-by-right-2020-11

It will not surprise me if the Mercers turn out to be among the major funders, in addition to the Koch money, behind the new R Jim Crow voter suppression efforts, as well as the R opposition to addressing the ravages of neglect after 4 years and 13 Trillion of new Fed debt, spent to make the richest Americans richer while avoiding our critical challenges or as Trump would refer to them as "hoaxes."

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