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'Boogaloo Boi' arrested on weapons and immigration charges after feds piece together his fake Facebook accounts
March 03, 2021
The FBI has arrested a "Boogaloo Boi" who tried to incite violent unrest in Minneapolis last summer during nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
Jaap Willem Lijbers, an undocumented Dutch citizen with ties to the anti-government Boogaloo movement, was arrested during a raid on his rural Virginia home on weapons and immigration charges, reported The Daily Beast.
<p>A criminal complaint filed Tuesday alleges that the 26-year-old Lijbers was a member of a Facebook group that included notorious "Boogaloo Bois" Steven Carillo, an Air Force sergeant who is charged in a series of police killings in June; Benjamin Ryan Teeter, a North Carolina man who pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for trying to provide material support to Hamas; and Ivan Harrison Hunter, a Texas man charged with rioting for firing an AK-47-style rifle into a Minneapolis police station during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations.</p><p>Lijbers was first identified in July during an FBI investigation of the Boogaloo movement, a loosely organized cohort intent on provoking a second civil war through random acts of violence, and authorities executed search warrants that found the Dutch national using the "Marvin Dorner" alias on Facebook to communicate with Hunter and Teeter about sparking unrest in Minneapolis.</p><p>Investigators said Teeter intended to pick up Lijbers on his way to Minnesota, but Lijbers got stuck at work, so they remained in contact online and coordinated efforts to provoke violence during protests over Floyd's killing.</p><p>Lijbers was unable to find a ride to Minneapolis so he instead brought a gun and a Boogaloo-themed sign to a local demonstration in Virginia, and he gave an <a href="https://wvva.com/2020/08/16/anti-kkk-group-boogaloo-bois-protest-at-richland-town-hall/" target="_blank">interview</a> with a local TV channel at an anti-Ku Klux Klan protest in August.</p><p>He deleted the "Dorner" profile over the summer and started using a new alias, "Jaxson Lynch," which he also used on the Discord app popular with right-wing extremists, and federal investigators found his contact information in Hunter's phone under "jax" after the Texas man's arrest.</p><p>That break allowed investigators to piece together Lijbers' real identity and found he had overstayed his three-month visitor's visa by nearly seven years, and they raided his home this week.</p>
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the U.S. Interior Department, U.S. Representative Deb Haaland, secured backing from a moderate Republican senator on Wednesday, further paving her way to confirmation. The support from Senator Susan Collins of Maine comes one week after West Virginia's Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said he would vote to confirm Haaland, who is poised to become the nation's first Native American in a presidential Cabinet post. Their backing is key in the 50-50 split U.S. Senate, in which Biden needs every Democrat on board to push his nominees throug...
'Put it up next to Elvis sightings!' Fox News mocked for latest effort to hype Hunter Biden probe
March 03, 2021
Fox News on Wednesday tried to reignite interest in the criminal investigation being conducted into Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.
In a tweet posted on Wednesday morning, Fox News wrote that its sources claim the "Hunter Biden probe [is] 'active and ongoing' without White House interference."
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Many of Fox News' Twitter followers noted that lack of White House interference in criminal investigations is actually supposed to be the norm, as former President Donald Trump in his four years repeatedly meddled in the DOJ's internal affairs by ordering his attorneys general to investigate his political opponents while also<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/trump-ordered-white-house-counsel-don-mcgahn-fire-bob-mueller-last-summer-heres-didnt/" target="_blank"> trying to remove former special counsel Robert Mueller</a>.
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