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The night before the January 6 attack on Congress, Roger Stone danced on a stage in Washingtons Freedom Plaza to a rap song featuring his own money-raising slogan: Roger Stone did nothing wrong. Minutes later, the longtime Trump adviserclad in a pinstriped suit and tan fedoradeclared that the fight to keep the defeated president in power represented an epic struggle for the future of this country between dark and light, between the godly and godless, between good and evil.

I will be with you tomorrow, shoulder to shoulder, he told an estimated 2,000 supporters of Donald Trump.

In fact, as Trump fans stormed the Capitol the next day, Stone was in a downtown DC hotel, from which he hightailed it back to his Florida home. Ever since, Stone has pointed to his absence from the protests that day as evidence that he had no role in, or advance knowledge of, the insurrection.

This is sort of Stones schtick. Beginning with hisglancing involvement in the Watergatescandal as a 19-year old, he has publicly promoted himself as a plugged-in operator, a self-proclaimed agent provocateur involved in a long list of controversial GOP machinationseven as he has scrambled to avoid legal consequences. He seeks notoriety but also deniably. He courted attention in 2016, when he told the public and the Trump campaign thathed had a hand in WikiLeaks release of Democratic emails hacked by Russian agents. When the investigation started, Stone claimed hed overhyped his role. Convicted of lying extensively to Congress and witness tampering, Stone dodged prison when Trump commuted his sentence. Then, while Stone was promoting the Big Lie, Trump pardoned him. After January 6, Stone reportedly asked a Trump lawyer to help him secure another, preemptive pardon in case he was charged in connection with his efforts to overturn the election.

Stone has danced on the edges of the January 6 scandal for nearly two years. But he may now be getting the kind of attention he dislikes. Two separate investigations appear be homing in on him. On Thursday, the congressional committee investigating the attack will hold a hearing that will reportedly feature footage and other material detailing Stones links to the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, two far-right groups accused of plotting to attack the Capitol.

Stone has also come up repeatedly in the ongoing seditious conspiracy trial of five Oath Keepers, including the groups founder, Stewart Rhodes. A chat called Friends of Stone on the encrypted app Signalwhich included Stone and 46 or so of his allieshas become a key source of evidence for prosecutors seeking to show that Rhodes was planning violence as soon as Trump lost. The final defense is us and our rifles, Rhodes told the group, after news outlets called the election for Joe Biden. Trump has a duty to stand, but so far, her [sic] hasnt. As Roger Stone said. Its not clear what statementof Stones Rhodes might have beenreferencing.

Stone has not been charged with a crime related to January 6 or the 2020 election. Nor is there clear evidence that he played a role in planning the attack or coordinating Trumps broader effort to retain power. Stone denies wrongdoing. Any claim, assertion, implication, or accusation that I knew in advance about, participated in, or condoned any illegal activity on January 6 at the Capitol is categorically false, he said in a statement sent by his lawyer. Nor did I play any role whatsoever in the efforts to delay the certification of the electoral college.

But Stone had a striking number of links to people charged with taking part in the attack on Congress, along with ties to Trump and others who helped chart Trumps legal and political maneuvers. He was a nexus. Stone appears to have acted, at least, as an early adopter of outlandish election fraud lies and as a connector and cheerleader for extremists interested in helping Trump hold on to power.

Here is a partial rundown of Stones activities surrounding the election:

Years before Joe Biden became the Democratic nominee, Stone coined the name of the movement that would falsely claim Trump won in 2020. In 2016, Stone launched a nonprofit called Stop the Steal to raise money to prevent the Republican Party from denying Trump the GOP presidential nomination at its convention. In 2020, Ali Alexander, working with Stone, adopted that name for his effort to overturn Bidens victory. A Stone associate set up new group called the Committee to Stop the Steal, and Stone relaunched a previously dormant Stop the Steal webpage,which was updated to argue Biden had not legitimately won.

During a September 10,2020, call to a show hosted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Stone said that Trump could only lose through election fraud. Stone suggested Trump declare martial law or invoke the Insurrection Act to stop it. In the ensuing months, the Insurrection Act became a preoccupation for many right wingers who argued Trump could use it to take emergency measures to expose imaginary fraud and cling to power. In their ongoing trial, Rhodes and other Oath Keepers have pointed to the law to justify acts that prosecutors say constituted a seditious conspiracy. The defendants say their actionssuch as assembling arsenals of weapons near DCwere legal because they were anticipating Trump invoking the Insurrection Act and calling them into action.

In an indication of how much he relishes attention, Stone granted extensive access to a Danish documentary crew, even as he was discussing how Trump could remain in power if he lost. The filmmaker provided footage to the January 6 Committee, including video from November 1, 2020, in which Stone, speaking to Trump fans, seemed to anticipate Trumps plan to prematurely declare victory. Noting the results would likely be too close to call on election night, Stone said: The key thing to do is to claim victory. Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

This statement was similar to Steve Bannons private comments, just a day earlier, in which Bannon said Trumps strategy was to declare victory early on Election Day, even if he was losing. As Mother Jones reported, Bannon said: With like 20 percent of the vote counted, Trumps just gonna walk in and go, Im the winner.' Trumps plan, as Bannon explained, was to use an early victory declaration to suggest mail-in ballots, which would tilt heavily toward Biden, were fraudulent, priming backers to believe the election was stolen. This is precisely what Trump did, falsely declaring, Frankly, we did win this election, while the votes were still being counted. Stones words are more evidence that Trump had a preexisting plan to use lies to try to retain power and that various Trump advisers knew about it.

In another video, also provided by the filmmakers to theJanuary 6 committee, Stone anticipated violence after Election Day. Fuck the voting, Stone said. Lets get right to the violence. Shoot to kill. See an antifa, shoot to kill. Fuck em. Done with this bullshit. Stone then added that he was kidding.

Reacting to news reports about this footage, Stone said it might be fake. Commenting on these matters is completely within my free-speech rights, although it is not clear that the clips provided by the film director to the Committee are not selectively edited or otherwise manipulated, he said.

As it became clear that Biden had won, Rhodes and other extremists began plotting how to stop him from taking office, according to the Justice Department. And the Signal group bearing Stones name was a key venue.

Trump has one last chance right now to stand. But he will need us and our rifles too. But will he finally act? Rhodes told the Friends of Stone group, as news outlets called the election for Biden. So will you step up and push Trump to FINALLY take decisive action? Thats what we must do now. And then if he still refuses to do his duty, we will still have to do ours. And we will. According to prosecutors, Rhodes also sent the group a step-by-step action plan based based on an obscure Serbian academics account of a mass protest in 1999 that ousted Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic. One of those steps: Storm parliament.

In mid-December, Rhodes pushed for Trump to claim emergency powers. People keep saying invoking the Insurrection Act is a last resort,' Rhodes wrote to the group. Trump cannot wait til after Jan 6 to expose all the traitors. He must do it NOW.

Stone said in December 2020 that he was advising Trump on how to ensure that he continues as our president. Rhodes seems to have hoped Stoneor other Trump associates would pass on his thoughts. Rhodes told other Oath Keepers he was busy on back channel working groups trying to advise the president. Stone could have helped with that,but there is no evidence that he actually did so. Its not clear how much attention Stone was paying to these messages. The Washington Post has reported that Stone told an aide to monitor the Friends of Stone group. Did Stone send the group any messages? None have emerged publicly.

The Friends of Stone group included Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the neofascist Proud Boys. Like Rhodes, Tarrio has been charged, along with four other senior Proud Boys, with seditious conspiracy. Stone has longstanding ties to Tarrio and the Proud Boys. Stone has said he hasadvised them since 2018. Notably, the January 6 Committee has even aired video showing Stone reciting an oathfeaturing the phrase Im a Western chauvinistthat reputedly is part of the Proud Boys initiation process.

Oath Keepers began providing security for Stone in the fall of 2020. The presence of Oath Keepers guarding Stone in Washington on January 5 and 6,2021, has been widely noted. Mother Jones has reported, moreover, that Stone began interacting with members of the Oath Keepers, including several who later stormed the Capitol, weeks earlier in Florida. In a December 13, 2020 photo posted on Facebook,Stone posed outside his Fort Lauderdale home with Kelly Meggs, the leader of the Oath Keepers Florida chapter.Meggs now faces sedition and other charges.The photo also includes another Oath Keeper who later pleaded guilty to conspiracy over his role in the attack on Congress.

On December 19, 2020, Meggs wrote in a Facebook messagewhich was revealed last year by prosecutorsthat he and the leader of the Proud Boys, presumably Tarrio, had organized an alliance between the Oath Keepers and the two groups. We have decided to work together and shut this shit down, Meggs wrote. In another message, Meggs said he had orchestrated a plan with the proud boys for January 6, which he said entailed beating the hell out of antifa. Its not clear if Stone was aware of these interactions between the two groups.

Stones security detail in DC included a rotating cast of Oath Keepers, including several, like Meggs, who were ultimately charged with playing a key role in the attack on Congress. Two Oath Keeperswho are nowfacing sedition charges, Joshua James and Roberto Minuta, evidence shows, were part of Stones security detail on January 6, before they raced to the Capitol to join in the insurrection.

In a December 19 tweet, Trump summoned supporters to Washington on January 6. Be there, will be wild! he wrote. Stone joined in the preparations, updating the Stop the Steal site to solicit money for private security at every one of our events, as well as funds for permits, staging, transportation, and legal fees. Funding was required, Stone declared,becauseGeorge Soros provides the funding for the attacks on our peaceful patriots.

Stone has never said how much money he raised or what he did with those funds. Oath Keeper members who provided security for Stone and for others in DC have insisted that they worked as volunteers and that, as a policy, they did not accept payment for these services. So what did Stone do with the money he raised? He has declined to say.

Stones remarks in Freedom Plaza on January 5 were among a series of similar speeches he delivered calling for listeners to take action to keep Trump in power. Nothing is over until we say it is, Stone said outside Washingtons JW Marriott, with Proud Boys looking on, on December 12, 2020. We will fight until the bitter end for an honest count of the 2020 election. Never give up. Never quit. Never surrender and fight for America.

Stone has defended his remarks by insisting he urged listeners to engage in peaceful protest. That is untrue. While Stones calls to fight can be defended as nonliteral, he did not specially call for nonviolence in the public remarks he gave in this period. In a statement regarding his January 5 remarks, Stone also said: I am certainly entitled to my apocalyptic view of Americas future as expressed in my speech.

Stone tends to defend his conduct ahead of January 6 in legal terms. As with Trump, this argument limits questions of moral responsibility to criminal liability. If there is no charge, then everything is okay. It remains to be seen if Stone, Trump, and many others who sought to overturn to election will ever be prosecuted for their actions. But they are also defendants in a civil lawsuit, brought by Capitol Police officers, where liability may be more broadly assessed.

For its part, the January 6 committeehas a far moreexpansive mandateto investigate the attack and, at least in theory, to expose the truth. For Roger Stone, the truth could be a problem.

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ALBANY A jury quickly convicted Alexander Contompasis of first-degree assault and all other charges Friday for stabbing two members of the far-right Proud Boys outside the state Capitol during a rally on Jan. 6, 2021.

Contompasis, who has been identified on Facebook as an independent journalist and poet, faces the possibility of 40 years in prison after being convicted of the stabbing the menat a "Stop the Steal" rally held in East Capitol Park. It was held the same day that other supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, including Proud Boys members, stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., as Congress prepared to certify President Joseph Biden's victory.

After deliberating roughly three hours and re-watching a video of the incident multiple times in slow motion the jury convicted the 39-year-old Albany manof first-degree assault, which carries up to 25 years in prison;attempted assault in the first degree, which carries up to 15 years in prison;second-degree assault and felony possession of a weapon following a week-long trial before acting Supreme Court Justice Roger McDonough.

Assistant District Attorneys Bryanne Perlanski and Marissa Olsen prosecuted the case, while attorney Jasper Mills represented Contompasis.

Contompasis claimed he was defending himself. Mills said he believed his client was the victim of an organized attack. It all came down to the video, he said.

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"It boggles my mind. ... It kind of saddens me a little bit that people would see stuff like that and just not think that it was a big deal, or at least not big enough a deal to warrant some kind of self-defense," Mills told the Times Union. "But that's what they did."

Both victims testified, as did Contompasis. In a pre-trial hearing, the prosecutors highlighted Facebook posts that tied Contompasis to antifa, the decentralized movement of anti-fascist groups. The defendant had said he is not a member of any antifa group.

The judge made it clear last week he did not want the case to be about politics.

Ill tell both sides right now: This case is not going to be tried as a pro-Trump, anti-Trump case," McDonough said. "Its not going to be tried as an antifa, Proud Boys case. Its going to be tried on the facts.

The judge ordered Contompasis detained in the Albany County Jail as he awaits sentencing, which is scheduled for Nov. 18.

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Circuit Paul Ricard in France is one of the fastest on the calendar and requires full commitment throughout the lap. Logan Sargeant is coming off back-to-back feature race victories and will be looking to keep that momentum up. Having failed to score in the last race, championship leader Drugovich will be determined to set that right.

The last time F2 raced here was in 2019 and it was won by Nyck De Vries, who since left for Formula E. The track is 5.842-km long with two DRS zones and a lot of overtaking opportunities for those brave enough.

The tires are different from the last time they were here. The track is also known to be reasonably high for degradation. This means getting the strategy right in the Feature Race will be paramount to finishing well.

No rain is expected this weekend, just extremely high temperatures. It will present its own challenges to the drivers who will be pushing for every position they can. Mistakes are not uncommon around here, but drivers must always remember the golden rule

Dont hit your teammate!

Drugovich maintains a relatively healthy lead, but Sargeant is on a charge and looking to close the gap further.

Formula 2 is more about the drivers aiming to step up to Formula 1 but the last races have moved the championship order around a bit. Serial winners Prema now sit in fourth a little adrift. Thanks to Sargents recent wins, Carlin is only one point off the top.

With the gap since F2 last raced here, not many of the drivers will have experience of the track. Potentially leading to anything happening. So far it has certainly been a fools game to predict what will happen but it doesnt stop us from trying!

With it effectively being Pourchaires home race then cannot look much further than him for the win.

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Alex Finley, a former C.I.A. officer who has seen yachts proliferate near her home in Barcelona, has weighed the superyacht era and its discontents in writings and on Twitter, using the hashtag #YachtWatch. To me, the yachts are not just yachts, she told me. In Russias case, these are the embodiment of oligarchs helping a dictator destabilize our democracy while utilizing our democracy to their benefit. But, Finley added, its a mistake to think the toxic symbolism applies only to Russia. The yachts tell a whole story about a Faustian capitalismthis idea that were ready to sell democracy for short-term profit, she said. Theyre registered offshore. They use every loophole that weve put in place for illicit money and tax havens. So they play a role in this battle, writ large, between autocracy and democracy.

After a morning on the docks at the Palm Beach show, I headed to a more secluded marina nearby, which had been set aside for what an attendant called the really big hardware. It felt less like a trade show than like a boutique resort, with a swimming pool and a terrace restaurant. Kevin Merrigan, a relaxed Californian with horn-rimmed glasses and a high forehead pinked by the sun, was waiting for me at the stern of Unbridled, a superyacht with a brilliant blue hull that gave it the feel of a personal cruise ship. He invited me to the bridge deck, where a giant screen showed silent video of dolphins at play.

Merrigan is the chairman of the brokerage Northrop & Johnson, which has ridden the tide of growing boats and wealth since 1949. Lounging on a sofa mounded with throw pillows, he projected a nearly postcoital level of contentment. He had recently sold the boat we were on, accepted an offer for a behemoth beside us, and begun negotiating the sale of yet another. This client owns three big yachts, he said. Its a hobby for him. Were at a hundred and ninety-one feet now, and last night he said, You know, what do you think about getting a two hundred and fifty? Merrigan laughed. And I was, like, Cant you just have dinner?

Among yacht owners, there are some unwritten rules of stratification: a Dutch-built boat will hold its value better than an Italian; a custom design will likely get more respect than a series yacht; and, if you want to disparage another mans boat, say that it looks like a wedding cake. But, in the end, nothing says as much about a yacht, or its owner, as the delicate matter of L.O.A.length over all.

The imperative is not usually length for lengths sake (though the longtime owner told me that at times there is an aspect of phallic sizing). L.O.A. is a byword for grandeur. In most cases, pleasure yachts are permitted to carry no more than twelve passengers, a rule set by the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, which was conceived after the sinking of the Titanic. But those limits do not apply to crew. So, you might have anything between twelve and fifty crew looking after those twelve guests, Edmiston, the broker, said. Its a level of service you cannot really contemplate until youve been fortunate enough to experience it.

As yachts have grown more capacious, and the limits on passengers have not, more and more space on board has been devoted to staff and to novelties. The latest fashions include IMAX theatres, hospital equipment that tests for dozens of pathogens, and ski rooms where guests can suit up for a helicopter trip to a mountaintop. The longtime owner, who had returned the previous day from his yacht, told me, No one todayexcept for assholes and ridiculous peoplelives on land in what you would call a deep and broad luxe life. Yes, people have nice houses and all of that, but its unlikely that the ratio of staff to them is what it is on a boat. After a moment, he added, Boats are the last place that I think you can get away with it.

Even among the truly rich, there is a gap between the haves and the have-yachts. One boating guest told me about a conversation with a famous friend who keeps one of the worlds largest yachts. He said, The boat is the last vestige of what real wealth can do. What he meant is, You have a chef, and I have a chef. You have a driver, and I have a driver. You can fly privately, and I fly privately. So, the one place where I can make clear to the world that I am in a different fucking category than you is the boat.

After Merrigan and I took a tour of Unbridled, he led me out to a waiting tender, staffed by a crew member with an earpiece on a coil. The tender, Merrigan said, would ferry me back to the busy main dock of the Palm Beach show. We bounced across the waves under a pristine sky, and pulled into the marina, where my fellow-gawkers were still trying to talk their way past the greeters. As I walked back into the scrum, Namast was still there, but it looked smaller than I remembered.

For owners and their guests, a white boat provides a discreet marketplace for the exchange of trust, patronage, and validation. To diagram the precise workings of that tradethe customs and anxieties, strategies and slightsI talked to Brendan OShannassy, a veteran captain who is a curator of white-boat lore. Raised in Western Australia, OShannassy joined the Navy as a young man, and eventually found his way to skippering some of the worlds biggest yachts. He has worked for Paul Allen, the late co-founder of Microsoft, along with a few other billionaires he declines to name. Now in his early fifties, with patient green eyes and tufts of curly brown hair, OShannassy has had a vantage from which to monitor the social traffic. Its all gracious, and everyones kiss-kiss, he said. But theres a lot going on in the background.

OShannassy once worked for an owner who limited the number of newspapers on board, so that he could watch his guests wait and squirm. It was a mind game amongst the billionaires. There were six couples, and three newspapers, he said, adding, They were ranking themselves constantly. On some boats, OShannassy has found himself playing host in the awkward minutes after guests arrive. A lot of them are savants, but some are very un-socially aware, he said. They need someone to be social and charming for them. Once everyone settles in, OShannassy has learned, there is often a subtle shift, when a mogul or a politician or a pop star starts to loosen up in ways that are rarely possible on land. Your security is relaxedtheyre not on your hip, he said. Youre not worried about paparazzi. So youve got all this extra space, both mental and physical.

OShannassy has come to see big boats as a space where powerful solar systems converge and combine. It is implicit in every interaction that their sharing of information will benefit both parties; it is an obsession with billionaires to do favours for each other. A referral, an introduction, an insightit all matters, he wrote in Superyacht Captain, a new memoir. A guest told OShannassy that, after a lavish display of hospitality, he finally understood the business case for buying a boat. One deal secured on board will pay it all back many times over, the guest said, and it is pretty hard to say no after your kids have been hosted so well for a week.

Take the case of David Geffen, the former music and film executive. He is long retired, but he hosts friends (and potential friends) on the four-hundred-and-fifty-four-foot Rising Sun, which has a double-height cinema, a spa and salon, and a staff of fifty-seven. In 2017, shortly after Barack and Michelle Obama departed the White House, they were photographed on Geffens boat in French Polynesia, accompanied by Bruce Springsteen, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, and Rita Wilson. For Geffen, the boat keeps him connected to the upper echelons of power. There are wealthier Americans, but not many of them have a boat so delectable that it can induce both a Democratic President and the workingmans crooner to risk the aroma of hypocrisy.

The binding effect pays dividends for guests, too. Once people reach a certain level of fame, they tend to conclude that its greatest advantage is access. Spend a week at sea together, lingering over meals, observing one another floundering on a paddleboard, and you have something of value for years to come. Call to ask for an investment, an introduction, an internship for a wayward nephew, and youll at least get the call returned. Its a mutually reinforcing circle of validation: shes here, Im here, were here.

But, if you want to get invited back, you are wise to remember your part of the bargain. If you work with movie stars, bring fresh gossip. If youre on Wall Street, bring an insight or two. Dont make the transaction obvious, but dont forget why youre there. When I see the guest list, OShannassy wrote, I am aware, even if not all names are familiar, that all have been chosen for a purpose.

For OShannassy, there is something comforting about the status anxieties of people who have everything. He recalled a visit to the Italian island of Sardinia, where his employer asked him for a tour of the boats nearby. Riding together on a tender, they passed one colossus after another, some twice the size of the owners superyacht. Eventually, the man cut the excursion short. Take me back to my yacht, please, he said. They motored in silence for a while. There was a time when my yacht was the most beautiful in the bay, he said at last. How do I keep up with this new money?

The summer season in the Mediterranean cranks up in May, when the really big hardware heads east from Florida and the Caribbean to escape the coming hurricanes, and reconvenes along the coasts of France, Italy, and Spain. At the center is the Principality of Monaco, the sun-washed tax haven that calls itself the worlds capital of advanced yachting. In Monaco, which is among the richest countries on earth, superyachts bob in the marina like bath toys.

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The nearest hotel room at a price that would not get me fired was an Airbnb over the border with France. But an acquaintance put me on the phone with the Yacht Club de Monaco, a members-only establishment created by the late monarch His Serene Highness Prince Rainier III, whom the Web site describes as a true visionary in every respect. The club occasionally rents roomscabins, as theyre calledto visitors in town on yacht-related matters. Claudia Batthyany, the elegant director of special projects, showed me to my cabin and later explained that the club does not aspire to be a hotel. We are an association, she said. Otherwise, it becomesshe gave a gentle wincenot that exclusive.

Inside my cabin, I quickly came to understand that I would never be fully satisfied anywhere else again. The space was silent and aromatically upscale, bathed in soft sunlight that swept through a wall of glass overlooking the water. If I was getting a sudden rush of the onboard experience, that was no accident. The clubhouse was designed by the British architect Lord Norman Foster to evoke the opulent indulgence of ocean liners of the interwar years, like the Queen Mary. I found a handwritten welcome note, on embossed club stationery, set alongside an orchid and an assemblage of chocolate truffles: The whole team remains at your entire disposal to make your stay a wonderful experience. Yours sincerely, Service Members. I saluted the nameless Service Members, toiling for the comfort of their guests. Looking out at the water, I thought, intrusively, of a line from Santiago, Hemingways old man of the sea. Do not think about sin, he told himself. It is much too late for that and there are people who are paid to do it.

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Washington A group of Proud Boys accused of seditious conspiracy on Wednesday successfully petitioned a judge to delay their trial until at least the end of the year. The move comes less than two weeks after their alleged leadership role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol took center stage in the first House Select Committee public hearing on the riot.

Judge Timothy Kelly said he "reluctantly" agreed to move the trial start date to December, pushing back its previously-scheduled start date of Aug. 8 .

Spearheaded by defendant Joseph Biggs who investigators say is an organizer of Proud Boys events and who is accused of being at the forefront of the far-right group's ascent on the Capitol the group argued the publicity and attention they received during the hearings would make their August trial unfair.

"It is estimated that trial will last from four to six weeks," Biggs' defense attorney argued, "Approximately 20 million Americans, which includes prospective jurors in this judicial district, watched and heard that Thursday evening prime-time production."

The House Jan. 6 select committee alleged in their first in a series of public hearing that hundreds of Proud Boys began marching to the Capitol before then-President Donald Trump's speech at the nearby Ellipse rallying supporters even began. One of the two witnesses who testified in the hearing was Nick Quested, a filmmaker who was with the Proud Boys on Jan. 6.

The defendants argued in court filings that this focus on the accusations against them would inject bias into a Washington, D.C. jury pool that is already likely "overrepresented among the hearing's viewership."

Criminal investigators in the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office allege the group, led by Enrique Tarrio, conspired to obstruct and stop the counting of the Electoral College votes by forming a mob to force entry into the Capitol building.

Prosecutors revealed in a court filing late last week that they sent a letter to the House select committee members asking for access to transcripts and relevant evidence that may have been collected to assist in the criminal probe related to the riot. The interview transcripts, which the committee says total over 1,000, are "potentially relevant to our overall criminal investigations" and relevant to specific cases already in process, according to the letter from the Justice Department.

They have attempted to gain access to the Congressional evidence, but have so far failed to do so.

House Jan. 6 committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson said that while the committee is cooperating with the Justice Department and may allow prosecutors to view some of the evidence later this summer, they have their own timetable for releases and would not disclose the transcripts until they deemed fit.

Biggs and some of his fellow co-defendants argued that the pending release of these transcripts and a final report by the committee, which prosecutors said they were told might happen in September, would further lead to "contaminating" the potential jurors tasked with deciding their guilt

"The most shrill and spectacular overtures about the alleged role of the Proud Boys on January 6, 2021 are arguably yet to come and showcased before the nation in the next few days," Biggs' attorney wrote on Tuesday in arguing the trial should be moved until at least December.

Tarrio, the alleged leader of the Proud Boys on Jan. 6, opposed moving the trial date. His attorney told the court Tarrio, "believes that an impartial jury will never be achieved in Washington D.C. whether the trial is in August, December, or next year," adding, "Tarrio is innocent of all the accusations contained in the indictment and every day he spends locked up in jail is a travesty of justice."

Federal prosecutors notably consented to the proposed delay, arguing it was "necessary to avoid the potential Constitutional and due process issues that have been presented in the parties' filings."

The government agreed that the lack of committee interview transcripts and other potentially relevant information could impede the government from providing defendants with all of the information legally required for a fair trial.

"It is reasonably foreseeable that information relevant to the defendants' guilt (or innocence) could soon be released to the parties and the public. The parties' inability to prepare their respective cases to account for such additional information is potentially prejudicialto all parties," prosecutors wrote.

They noted, "Were the trial in this case not continued, the parties in this case could find themselves in the unprecedented position of litigating a criminal trial simultaneous to the release of a Congressional report that is likely to include robust descriptions of the criminal conduct" that would be at issue at trial.

Tarrio, Biggs, and co-defendants Zachary Rehl, Ethan Nordean, and Dominic Pezzola have all pleaded not guilty to the charges against them and remain in pretrial detention. Charles Donohoe, another alleged leader of the group, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and assaulting and impeding police officers earlier this year and is now cooperating with investigators.

Wednesday's successful calendar shift was not the first time Biggs has worked to change the course of the pending jury trial on account of alleged juror bias from the House Jan. 6 committee hearings.

Last week, Biggs' attorney once again asked Kelly to move the criminal trial out of Washington, D.C., accusing the House committee of fomenting "misrepresentations" and "outright lies" about the Proud Boys.

"The good, well-meaning, informed, media-attentive citizenry of the District of Columbia from which jurors are drawn will believe that spectacle as packaged," Biggs' request said, "They trust Congress."

So far, despite over a dozen separate attempts, no Jan. 6 defendant has successfully petitioned a judge to move their criminal cases out of the nation's capital.

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Newly revealed video shows Proud Boys leaders calling on members to remain orderly and professional during the Jan. 6, 2021, march that turned into the U.S. Capitol riot.

Enrique Tarrio and some of his top lieutenants met Dec. 30, 2020, for a video conference to found the right-wing paramilitary group's Ministry of Self-Defense, and they told group members to remain in a defensive posture for their march the following week and keep "normies" away from them, but that's not what happened, reported the New York Times.

Were never going to be the ones to cross the police barrier or cross something in order to get to somebody, Tarrio said.

The extremist group's members played an aggressive and apparently coordinated role in breaking into the Capitol, and Tarrio and several other Proud Boys members have been charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the deadly riot.

Proud Boys members also repeatedly instigated Donald Trump supporters around them in a tactic that members later described in private messages as riling up the normies.

The video conference has been mentioned in court papers but hasn't been widely seen, and the Times obtained a copy recently that had been seized from Tarrio's phone.

Proud Boys lawyers say the video recording shows the Ministry of Self-Defense was not "formed to plan a violent attack on the Capitol," as prosecutors allege, but shows the group was trying to avoid the chaos and violence from a Dec. 12, 2020, march in Washington, D.C., following a pro-Trump rally.

However, the video shows group members using flagrantly misogynistic, homophobic and antisemitic language and rarely mention the Capitol at all, and prosecutors say some of the Proud Boys in that meeting used violent language in private messages ahead of the riot.

Time to stack those bodies in front of Capitol Hill," one of the members posted in a group chat that included other members of the ministry.

What would they do if 1 million patriots stormed and took the Capitol building," said another member in the group. "Shoot into the crowd? I think not.

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Wilmington, N.C. A Wilmington library that was celebrating Pride month with a reading was disrupted by Proud Boy demonstrators Tuesday.

The Southern Poverty Law Group has designated the Proud Boys as far-right extremists and a hate group.

Some of the families in the library said they were frightened by the protest.

"I definitely felt very unsafe, though," said Emily Jones.

A Pride story-time event at Pine Valley Library on Tuesday started peacefully. But parents said it quickly turned chaotic and filled them with fear when a handful of Proud Boys showed up in the window of their event room.

"They're doing that on purpose, for sure, to intimidate people," said Jones.

Jones was inside with her 1-year-old daughter. She said she takes her daughter to the story-time events often and was especially excited for this one, but her excitement quickly turned to panic.

"When a group of known violent people ... at that point, when those people show up, and they're coming into the library and trying to disrupt the story time, that's when I felt unsafe," said Jones.

The New Hanover County Sheriff's Office had deputies at the event to prevent the Proud Boys from entering the room.

Angie Kahney was in the hallway when the demonstrators walked in. She said the group was loud and disruptive.

But in a statement, the sheriff's office said there was no disturbance.

"They were yelling obscenities about how their tax money was being spent on pornography and drag queens. There was shouting. It was loud their attempt was to intimidate and create a disruption, and that's exactly what they did," said Kahney.

"They definitely disturbed us," said Jones.

The sheriff's office said because it's a public place, there was no need for the Proud Boys to be removed. The sheriff's office declined an on-camera interview with WECT, but did release a statement from Sheriff Ed McMahon saying he "took an oath not to uphold opinions but to uphold the law, which is exactly what my supervisors and deputies did."

The Wilmington library said they were aware the Pride reading might create some controversy. Librarians coordinated with the sheriff's office in advance and brought additional staff and volunteers to help.

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