![]() Organized alongside Women for America First, a Trump-aligned political action committee, and featuring a pair of Trump-aligned pastors, their rented bus rolled across America, firing up crowds with claims of fraud in the vote-counting, rolling from South Florida up to Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, back to Washington again for a December “Stop the Steal” rally, then back out, making it all the way to the West Coast before turning east again. It was the highest-profile of a whole series that the duo threw together in the days after the election, when they got on a bus and went barnstorming around the country for their favorite defeated president. That gathering, a week after Joe Biden had been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, was put on in part by Stockton and Lawrence. And that is what Joe Biden’s agenda is! There is no way that senile old fool beat the hardest working and greatest president ever!” “Our institutions have been corrupted and weaponized against We the People. He called on the group to march on the Supreme Court. He talked about how they needed to gather offline, just like the original American revolutionaries did. He explained how Trump and the whole MAGA movement was an outgrowth of the tea party revolution from a decade ago. He talked about the liars and the fake news, and the Big Tech oligarchs who wanted to keep everyone at home on the Internet instead of out here, in the streets. “Our freedom is not coming back! We must rise up!”ĭustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence at the first “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington in November 2020. ![]() “If we let them steal the election from President Trump, we will never get it back!” Stockton told the crowd. Lawrence, who stood beside him clapping and cheering, was wearing red tights, an American flag belly shirt, a red MAGA hat and a Trump flag draped over her like a cape. Stockton was dressed in a blue and white camouflage button-down shirt. ![]() Stockton and his girlfriend, Jennifer Lawrence, left the hotel and pushed their way through the crowd to the stage, where upon arrival, Stockton stepped up to the microphone, gave a massive Ric Flair-style “Whoooooo!” stepped away from the microphone, then stepped back up, and gave another. The notion that day that a similar crowd would gather again eight weeks later and lay siege to the Capitol would have seemed fanciful, but not ludicrous. A marker was being put down, there on the streets of the nation’s capital: Joe Biden had lost, and Donald Trump had won, and his victory was being unfairly taken away, and something needed to be done about it. The mood that day was celebratory - Trump’s motorcade drove by, and he waved to the adoring throng - but still an air of menace hung over the proceedings. “Sorry, really being Covid-cautious!” he said - clearly a joke, since none of them were wearing masks either, and because in fact to do so would make anyone in this crowd seem ludicrous. ![]() When the elevators stopped on an upper floor, he prohibited anyone else from getting on. Inside the hotel, two blocks from the White House, Alex Jones was riding the elevator with a female companion and a bodyguard. It was November 2020, and even as the Washington Post’s front page had just announced a second surge of the coronavirus, tens of thousands of people were gathered, mostly maskless, swarming downtown D.C. ![]() He was talking on the phone (“Don’t worry, I’ll send you bodies”) greeting well-wishers (“A great day for patriots and a terrible day for the fake news”) and fretting about a speech to the crowd he hadn’t yet written. Dustin Stockton stood in a throng of thousands of people near the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., nursing an American Spirit cigarette and a Red Bull. ![]()
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