When Luke Mogelson attended President Donald Trump’s speech on the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., on January 6th, he was prepared for the possibility that violence might erupt that day. Mogelson, a veteran war correspondent and a contributing writer at The New Yorker, had spent the previous ten months reporting on the radical fringe of Trump supporters, from anti-lockdown militias to fascist groups such as the Proud Boys. After Election Day, he interviewed Trump supporters who showed up at ballot-tabulation sites, and who believed the President’s lies that the results had been “rigged” and his victory “stolen.” At one post-election pro-Trump rally in D.C., Mogelson witnessed racist violence against Black residents of the nation’s capital. At another event, he watched the host of the white-supremacist Web program “America First” declare, “Our Founding Fathers would get in the streets, and they would take this country back by force if necessary. And that is what we must be prepared to do.”
After Trump’s incendiary speech, Mogelson followed the President’s supporters as they forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, using his phone’s camera as a reporter’s notebook. What follows is a video that includes some of that raw footage. Mogelson harnessed this material while writing his panoramic, definitive report, “Among the Insurrectionists,” which the magazine posted online on Friday. (It appears in print in the January 25th issue.) His prose vividly captures how the raging anger and violence of the initial breach of the Capitol was followed by an eerily quiet and surreal interlude inside the Senate chamber, where Mogelson watched people rummaging through desks and posing for photographs. Although the footage was not originally intended for publication, it documents a historic event and serves as a visceral complement to Mogelson’s probing, illuminating report.
Click here to read “Among the Insurrectionists.”
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If this is considered to be a riot, how would you classify the “demonstrations” by Antifa and BLM over the past year? The winners write history. Let us hope we win this war and will write the truth.
David DeGerolamo
Obviously this was sent out to the Patriots for us to see how the enemy Libtards see us and how dangerous their ideas are about how to treat us going forward.
They are so brainwashed that they cannot see facts in front of their noses …
Must be delusional subjugation of facts to their swallowed rhetoric…..
I posted this propaganda to show people what we are facing. The enemy will vilify us but this video does not corroborate their spin.
Total garbage -- glad this cat went to creative writing classes in college maybe he will be writing harlequin romance novels next — sure makes his BS deep -- was on the lawn in front of the capital — no way Trump caused this -- id look to the members of the state houses -The DOJ -- the court system — the media — all liars cheater and as for no Fraud — I’m sick and tired of this BS -- watched three state hearings — the cheating was so bad — but nothing was done about it —
Clearly, there are serious misconceptions and misrepresentations galore in that piece.
To characterize the Proud Boys as fascist is laughable considering the source. Facts are, the Proud Boys are a multi-racial group that felt everybody had a God-given right to defend their lineage when it was being publicly besmirched. Their founder is non-white and went on to become the co-founder of the Vice channel on satellite TV, which if anything, is left-leaning. It’s also brutally honest in many regards, touching on subjects that may not be in the mainstream, such as the CIA’s role over many decades in large-scale drug smuggling into the US.
The attendees to President Trump’s rally are now branded, as a whole, with the title of “rioters”.
Once again, anybody who was there or witnessed first-hand reports knows how ridiculous this title is. There was some vandalism in the Capital, but evidence shows there may have been more Antifa fascists in there than Trump supporters.
It may be just “semantics”, but that carries a lot of weight in a written “report”.
I DIDN’T WRITE THIS BUT IT DEFINITELY EXPRESSES MY FEELINGS
“My days on earth are numbered; But before I fade away, there is something important I need to say. It may not be important to anyone else; but it’s important to me.
Win, lose or fraud…President Trump. I just want to say Thank You for the last four years. Thank you for making it cool to be an American again. Thank you for showing us that we don’t need to be under China’s thumb anymore economically, or any other way.
Thank you for one of the strongest economies we’ve ever experienced in my lifetime. Thank you for all you have done for the minority communities, and the outstanding decrease in the unemployment rate you had.
Thank you for making it feel good to love our country and to be a proud patriot again. Thank you for supporting our Nation’s flag and the men and women who fought for the freedom that stands behind that flag.
Thank you for supporting our nation’s law enforcement organizations, and understanding how difficult their job really is.
Thank you for quelling the flood of illegal immigration, and bringing to justice the thousands of criminals that flood brought us.
Thank you for giving corporations a reason to come back to America to make our own products and put Americans back to work.
Thank you for bringing our troops home from endless deployments that presented us with little more than body bags; and for your commitment to strengthen our military.
Thank you for your never-ending attempts at bringing peace to the Middle East and your support for Israel.
Thank you for your Tax relief, and thank you for our energy independence. Most of all though…
THANK YOU for taking a damn rotten job that you never had to take.
Thank You for caring enough for this country to want to try and make a difference.
Thank you for showing America how little Career Politicians actually work for their constituents; and for showing us how much those politicians despise you for showing America how easy it is to build a great nation, rather than rape her to line their own pockets and stock portfolios.
Thank You for allowing us to experience a President that wasn’t a lifelong politician, but a lifelong American.
THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT. YOU ARE OUR BEST.”
Carry On,
Gunny
Interesting that the Q-Shaman cited Christ at least two or three times in his prayer in the Senate Chambers. When AJ interviewed him, he was talking about all kinds of mystical stuff and the power of chanting. Not sure what to make of that guy.
Just because they come in His name does not mean they are on the up and up.
we are told to test the spirits.
Many out there upon the world stage are saying the Word, using His name, yet how are they behaving and acting? Are they attempting to be good examples?
One site that i frequent has also stated that basically these were ‘all’ Trump supporters invading the Capital. i have no idea how a person can say this. i have emailed and asked, yet too no response.
I think most of the people that went into the Capitol were legitimate Trump supporters or Patriots. They also for the most part didn’t do anything that has warranted the response the event has received. However, the people that were breaking windows, that all had masks on and immediately dispersed as soon as they broke the entry point, those people were most likely some kind of agent provocateurs.
Let’s not kid ourselves. If the people who broke into the Capitol were NOT tricked by AntiFa into doing so, then they just saved AntiFa the trouble. It was a great defeat for our side and a great gift to the Left.
I’m not talking about the ‘morality’ of it, but just of the tactical sense of it. We’ve got to fight smart.
One more point about the 6 January events being an “insurrection”. What a joke! The American Right couldn’t insurrect itself out of a paper bag.