“American Gulag”, “Free Jake”, “Our Freedom Spending”… The funds online intended to support the defendants of the invasion of the Capitol of January 6, who consider themselves as political prisoners, multiply.
Donald Trump supporters and members of the far-right groups who participated in the violent invasion of the Washington Capitol on January 6 are rising “Hundreds of thousands of dollars on the Internet through online prize pools, report it Guardian, by presenting themselves as true patriots, martyrs and political prisoners ”.
Among them, members of the extreme right-wing Proud Boys and several of the leading insurgents, including Jacob Chansley, known as the “shaman of QAno ”, sentenced in November to forty-one months in prison, and who has already raised more than $ 10,000 on his page called“ Free Jake ”, hosted by the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo.
“An American Gulag”
In their appeals for donations, the insurgents “Rewrite the history of the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, 2021”, which aimed to interrupt the plenary session of the United States Congress in full certification of the victory of Joe Biden in the presidential election of November 2020. “They transform this violent assault, which resulted in the death of five people, in a peaceful demonstration and a patriotic gesture aimed at defending American voters ”, notes the British daily.
Thus the page baptized “American Gulag” [“Un goulag américain”], created by Jim Hoft, the founder of the far-right site, a major provider of fake news The Gateway Pundit, claim that there is “Quantity of political prisoners in the United States unjustly imprisoned following the protest movement of January 6”.
Scott Fairlamb, the very first insurgent sentenced to 41 months in prison for assaulting a police officer during the assault on the Capitol, meanwhile, raised more than $ 38,000 on a goal of $ 100,000, on a page on which he describes January 6 as “A human tide of patriots animated by the love of America and the Star and Spangled Banner who have flocked from all corners of the great American nation to show their support for the 45e US President Donald Trump ”.
According to a first estimate of the site of CNN, carried out in September 2021 and which had more than 100 online jackpots, the insurgents of January 6 and their supporters had already “Raised over $ 2 million”.
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