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This is from The Telegraph, Britain’s leading conservative quality newspaper.
After launching the worst attack on the US Capitol since the War of 1812, many would-be insurrectionists have had their comeuppance.
They were truck drivers, mechanics, students and grandmothers, and on one ghastly afternoon they morphed into a mob that shamed America in the eyes of the world.
A year on from their day of infamy, some of the Jan 6 rioters are locked up in jail. Others have publicly recanted, occasionally in tears, blaming Donald Trump for brainwashing them. Hundreds more have scuttled back to ordinary lives in towns across the United States, and the FBI is still looking for them.
The most dangerous still believe that Mr Trump is the rightful president and are ready to do it all over again if the time comes.
The longest jail term so far has been five years for Robert Scott Palmer, from Tampa, Florida, who attacked police with a fire extinguisher and a plank. At his sentencing last month, Palmer said his view now was that Mr Trump and others had been "spitting out a false narrative about a stolen election," wrongly telling people like him it was "our duty to stand up to tyranny."
At another recent sentencing the judge jailed rioter John Lolos for 30 days but told him: "In a sense, Mr. Lolos, I think you are a pawn. Those who orchestrated Jan 6 have in no meaningful sense been held accountable. Regrettably, people like you were told lies."
Among those who have pleaded not guilty is Eric Munchel, 30, from Atlanta, known as the "zip tie guy" after he was photographed in the Senate chamber wearing combat gear and carrying plastic cuffs. His lawyers have claimed he was only there to guard his mother.
More than 700 people have now been arrested in a massively complex investigation, and the FBI is still looking for around 250 who were caught on camera assaulting police officers. The most sought after suspect is a man who planted pipe bombs.
A year on, the influence of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which drove some of them to believe Mr Trump was in a war against the "deep state," has faded. The anonymous "Q" has not posted a message since the riot, and proponents of the conspiracy theory have devolved into internal squabbles.
According to a report by the Atlantic Council in Washington, domestic extremist movements that embraced the Capitol attack later became "paralysed by paranoia" and accused each other of cooperating with authorities. Facebook and Twitter banned many of their adherents, leading to what the report called a "great scattering" of extremists online.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...-riot-donald-trumps-qanon-followers-one-year/
After launching the worst attack on the US Capitol since the War of 1812, many would-be insurrectionists have had their comeuppance.
They were truck drivers, mechanics, students and grandmothers, and on one ghastly afternoon they morphed into a mob that shamed America in the eyes of the world.
A year on from their day of infamy, some of the Jan 6 rioters are locked up in jail. Others have publicly recanted, occasionally in tears, blaming Donald Trump for brainwashing them. Hundreds more have scuttled back to ordinary lives in towns across the United States, and the FBI is still looking for them.
The most dangerous still believe that Mr Trump is the rightful president and are ready to do it all over again if the time comes.
The longest jail term so far has been five years for Robert Scott Palmer, from Tampa, Florida, who attacked police with a fire extinguisher and a plank. At his sentencing last month, Palmer said his view now was that Mr Trump and others had been "spitting out a false narrative about a stolen election," wrongly telling people like him it was "our duty to stand up to tyranny."
At another recent sentencing the judge jailed rioter John Lolos for 30 days but told him: "In a sense, Mr. Lolos, I think you are a pawn. Those who orchestrated Jan 6 have in no meaningful sense been held accountable. Regrettably, people like you were told lies."
Among those who have pleaded not guilty is Eric Munchel, 30, from Atlanta, known as the "zip tie guy" after he was photographed in the Senate chamber wearing combat gear and carrying plastic cuffs. His lawyers have claimed he was only there to guard his mother.
More than 700 people have now been arrested in a massively complex investigation, and the FBI is still looking for around 250 who were caught on camera assaulting police officers. The most sought after suspect is a man who planted pipe bombs.
A year on, the influence of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which drove some of them to believe Mr Trump was in a war against the "deep state," has faded. The anonymous "Q" has not posted a message since the riot, and proponents of the conspiracy theory have devolved into internal squabbles.
According to a report by the Atlantic Council in Washington, domestic extremist movements that embraced the Capitol attack later became "paralysed by paranoia" and accused each other of cooperating with authorities. Facebook and Twitter banned many of their adherents, leading to what the report called a "great scattering" of extremists online.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...-riot-donald-trumps-qanon-followers-one-year/