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1st Amendment Praetorian is a right-wing paramilitary organization that works with far-right influencers to provide security at political events and has singled out claims of voter fraud as key to its “intelligence” mission.
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About Steve Bannon, a former Navy lieutenant and investment banker, is a filmmaker, media executive, provocateur and political extremist who served as the CEO of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and briefly advised him in his official role as White House chief strategist. When he was part of the Trump administration, he was a staunch ally … Read more
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Christina Bobb was a reporter for the right-wing news outlet One America News (OAN) from 2020–22, anchoring the pro-Trump show Weekly Briefing. She left the network in March 2022 in order to work for Trump directly through his Save America PAC.
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John Eastman is a right-wing lawyer and law professor who advised Trump on ways to hold on to the presidency despite losing the 2020 election. He has subsequently been subpoenaed by both the House Select Committee and the Justice Department in their ongoing investigations of the insurrection.
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About Boris Epshteyn is a right-wing attorney and political consultant who was an advisor to Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. In 2017, he became chief political analyst for Sinclair Broadcast Group, which had reportedly worked with the 2016 Trump campaign to generate favorable coverage of the candidate in newscasts on its 173 television stations. … Read more
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About Katherine Friess, an attorney and former lobbyist, was part of Trump’s team based at the Willard Hotel prior to the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to The Washington Post. Earlier, she also played a role in “laying the groundwork” for the purported “forensic report” claiming to prove that Dominion Voting Systems in Antrim County, Michigan … Read more
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Rudy Giuliani is a right-wing lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. Attorney General for the Southern District of New York from 1983–89 and as mayor of New York City from 1994–2001. He led the city in the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy and was also known for implementing the “broken windows theory” model of policing, which focuses on petty crime and disproportionately targets poor and minority urban residents.
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About Robert Hyde is a U.S. senate candidate perhaps best known for allegedly helping to track U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s movements in Ukraine as part of a scheme with Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas to dig up damaging information on Hunter Biden. Although his proximity to Yovanovitch is unclear, Hyde has become close with key … Read more
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About On Jan. 5, 2021, 91 legislators from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin wrote a letter to former Vice President Mike Pence alleging the 2020 election was beset with widespread voter fraud and demanding he postpone the certification of election results on Jan. 6. The lawmakers argued that the Electoral Count Act of 1897, … Read more
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About Bernard Kerik was the police commissioner of New York City during the 9/11 attacks and is a staunch ally of Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor at the time. After the 2020 presidential election, he got involved with helping Giuliani and Trump overturn the results, serving as lead investigator for the legal team. Earlier in … Read more