{"id":1514021,"date":"2022-06-13T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514021"},"modified":"2022-06-13T16:51:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:51:29","slug":"j6-committees-own-witness-debunks-claim-of-coordinated-insurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j6-committees-own-witness-debunks-claim-of-coordinated-insurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"J6 Committee\u2019s Own Witness Debunks Claim Of Coordinated Insurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fj6-committees-own-witness-debunks-claim-of-coordinated-insurrection%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514021&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Nick-Quested.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Last week, the Select Committee on Jan. 6 brought forward a pair of witnesses to testify in the panel\u2019s first prime-time hearing to depict the Capitol riot as a coordinated \u201cinsurrection.\u201d Among them was a documentary filmmaker named Nick Quested, who was embedded with the far-right group the \u201cProud Boys\u201d on the day of the turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Quested gave the committee an eyewitness account of the riot as he followed the Proud Boys throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI filmed several rallies in Washington D.C. on December the 11th and December the 12th and I learned there would be a rally on the Mall and \u2014 on January 6th,\u201d Quested said. \u201cSo my three colleagues and I came down to document the rally. According to the permit, the event there was going to be a rally at the Ellipse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After arriving at the National Mall, Quested added, he \u201cobserved a large contingent of Proud Boys marching towards the Capitol. We filmed them and almost immediately I was separated from my colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quested shared his footage from the demonstrations and how he \u201cdocumented the crowd turn from protesters to rioters to insurrectionists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow a central question is whether the attack on the Capitol was coordinated and planned,\u201d said Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., while wrapping up questions. \u201cWhat you witnessed is what a coordinated and planned effort would look like. It was the culmination of a months-long effort spearheaded by President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Except Quested did not testify that the Proud Boys attended first as insurrectionists. To the contrary, Quested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meet-press-june-12-2022-n1296287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> NBC\u2019s Chuck Todd on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d Sunday that the group\u2019s leader, Henry \u201cEnrique\u201d Tarrio, was \u201cvery receptive\u201d to the documentary crew\u2019s embed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did you get Mr. Tarrio and other members of the Proud Boys to say, \u2018Yes. Film us. We want this on the record. Document what we\u2019re doing?\u201d Todd asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I had a colleague who gave me Enrique\u2019s phone number and I called him,\u201d Quested said, before going on:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>He was very receptive to the idea. He liked the film that I had produced called Restrepo with my colleagues Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, which was a film about a deployment of veterans in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. So I think the veteran aspect of that was appealing to them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The leader of a group plotting a coordinated insurrection would normally be hard-pressed to allow a documentarian to film it, let alone be receptive to an embed.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the Jan. 6 riot was coordinated, contrary to the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-us-capitol-attack-was-coordinated-sources-2021-08-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">finding<\/a> \u201cscant evidence\u201d of an \u201corganized plot,\u201d a coordinated attack would <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/09\/trump-haters-impeached-him-for-inciting-a-riot-now-theyre-claiming-the-riot-was-premeditated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">undermine<\/a> the committee\u2019s central claim of former President Donald Trump\u2019s culpability.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Select Committee on Jan. 6 brought forward a pair of witnesses to testify in the panel\u2019s first prime-time hearing to depict the Capitol riot as a coordinated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1898336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"J6 Committee\u2019s Own Witness Debunks Claim Of Coordinated Insurrection","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"J6 Committee\u2019s Own Witness Debunks Claim Of Coordinated Insurrection","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}