In the months leading up to the January 6 Capitol riot, a now deleted Twitter account bearing the full name of E. J. Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), betrayed a seeming obsession with promoting election denial conspiracy theories while talking about violent threats to those who stood in Trump’s way. A WIRED review of an archive of the account’s posts shows that in the months leading up to the attack on the Capitol, it spread baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and shared content from The Donald, a virulently pro-Trump message board that was used to organize the events of Jan 6, 2021. One of the final posts on the now deleted account used violent religious rhetoric in the hours before the assault on the Capitol began.
Author: David Gilbert
Published at: 2025-08-18 21:25:31
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