Conflict journalist reports Capitol storming led by Antifa agent provocateurs

It was reported by The Washington Post that the “first wave of protesters arrived at the Capitol about 12:40 p.m.” They would have had to start their trek to the Capitol before Trump even started his speech. It is unlikely that Trump supporters would miss his speech since it was the reason everyone came to Washington to see and hear the president. The president concluded at 1:11 p.m. Then his people started the 45-minute walk with crowd-related delays. It put the first people from Trump’s speech at Capitol Hill no earlier than 1:56 p.m. – a full hour and 16 minutes after people who broke into the Capitol arrived.

The Washington Post also said: “Sund’s outer perimeter on the Capitol’s west side was breached within 15 minutes,” meaning the Capitol was breached over an hour before Trump speech attendees could have even begun to arrive.

While the FBI reported after the incident that they didn’t find any ties to Antifa, it’s been reported that at least one person entering the Capitol had ties to Antifa and Black Lives Matter. He claimed to just be filming.

Michael Yon was interviewed after the Capitol building was stormed. Yon served as a Green Beret in the special forces in the 80s. In the 90s, he became a writer embedding himself in conflicts around the world. In 2008, The New York Times reported that he has spent more time embedded with combat units than any other journalist in Iraq. He has covered over 500 conflicts, including the Capitol riot, and possibly more than any living journalist. This interview is with Joshua Phillip from his show “Crossroads.”

“I’ve been doing this for years in many countries. On Wednesday, the big events happened at the Capitol building with Antifa leading the way and using agent provocateurs (APs) to basically guide Trump supporters into the Capitol building. They were encouraging people to ‘Go over the wall.’ They had set up the bike rack barriers that they had taken down and used those for ladders. And so you had APs helping people get over the wall. So I stopped, got video of their faces and photographed them. (It was) clear AP work. ‘Come this way. Go up. Come on, there’s still room. You can get in. Come on, you need to come up. This is your job. This is your chance. Stand up for your country.’ Waving huge Trump flags, got the rebel flags out there – false flag. That’s why they call it a false flag. Meanwhile, you’ve got Trump supporters going, ‘No, there’s Antifa here.’ Antifa then started attacking the police. They’re (Trump supporters) like, ‘That’s not us. That’s Antifa.’ You can see it on many videos.

Yon said, “Trump supporters were trying to intervene, and you can see when the initial attacks were going on, Trump supporters were trying to pull them back. And then back from the front line on some of my other videos, people right in front of me talking, saying, ‘I don’t agree with this. This is wrong. We shouldn’t be here. There’s Antifa all around us.’ You hear Trump supporters jumping up many times, going, ‘There’s Antifa here. They’re doing this. Antifa are making us look bad. Be careful, they’re going to attack us. There’s Antifa all over the place. They’re dressed just like us. We don’t know who they are,’ but on the tactical level, out there in front of the Capitol, the tactical, you might say, was Antifa that day leading them right into the action, breaking down doors. You can hear clearly Trump supporters saying, ‘Don’t break anything. Show respect.’

There must be thousands of videos. I obviously can’t go through them all, but you can clearly see many Trump supporters saying, ‘Don’t break anything. Don’t steal anything,’ that sort of thing. I did not go inside the building. I was outside the building watching the activities out there and saw a lot of agent provocateur activity with Antifa using Hong Kong tactics, wearing the same sorts of masks that they wore in Hong Kong. As you know, I was in Hong Kong for approximately seven months until they finally kicked me out, so I was in about a hundred of the big protests and many of the small ones, so I’m very familiar with their tactics, very familiar with their procedures and how they operate. And we know Antifa was actually in Hong Kong learning their tactics. And the goggles, and the same sorts of 3M masks and that sort of thing. Because this requires the kind of analysis that only Epoch (Times) is doing at this time, you in particular, because there’s probably thousands of videos to digest, but what we’ve seen so far and being physically present, Antifa clearly led the attack.

That was utterly obvious. For instance, outside, during a part of the attack when there was much gas fired and I believe rubber bullets, I’m not sure about that; they were throwing flash bangs. That’s clear. We were right there. There was a lady on a megaphone saying, ‘Send up the masks, send up the masks.’ She said it over and over. It’s on our video and others. That’s a clear Hong Kong tactic that I’ve never seen in any other war and conflict, which is Hong Kongers would constantly say, ‘Send up water, send up masks, send up shields.’ We saw shields. That’s what they used in Hong Kong. That’s what Antifa is constantly using. You see, they show up with their homemade shields often or shields that they’ve stolen. And so yeah, there was Antifa written all over this. What we saw there at the Capitol was right out of the handbook. It was the playbook. In other words, show up wearing your enemies’ clothing, waving their flags and do things while basically false flags.

That’s why they call them false flags. They’re bringing and waving the enemy flag, which is Trump supporters’ flag. They’re waving Trump flags and doing violence. Now, keep in mind there’s different elements of Antifa. What we saw in the Capitol building is your ‘A’ team. That’s your special forces Antifa. Those are the guys that come out for special actions. So that’s your 1% of Antifa. On the pie chart that I’ve shown you before that I drew out for you on paper, that’s your tiny sliver. That’s your special forces of Antifa. That’s what we saw in the Capitol building. They know exactly what they’re doing. They’re well-trained; they’re well-organized. They show up with the gear that they need. They’ve got the statements ready to say, ‘She’s dead,’ that sort of thing. They come out and they make great statements for the camera, sound bites. These guys are professionals. They come in and they harness the energy of a preexisting movement or protest, so in this case, let’s say Trump supporters.

I believe actual Trump supporters had a real rally; Trump called it himself. So he gave the speech at the Ellipse in the morning. So they (Antifa) basically hijack your horse. So they come in and, in this case, after the speech at the Ellipse, you had to walk pretty far over to the Capitol. So people left the Ellipse to go to the next rally. The next rally was at the Capitol building, so as Trump supporters started to go to the Capitol building, where we went next, that’s when I started seeing APs that were like, ‘This way, this way. Keep coming forward.’ ACAB is ‘All Cops Are Bastards.’ So when you see ACAB written, usually it’s magic marker or painted (somewhere on their helmets, gear or on them,) that’s a clear Antifa sign. It couldn’t be any clearer. Trump supporters never come up with ACAB. For instance, you never see Trump supporters with shields, and Antifa constantly uses shields. Hong Kongers, of course, use a lot of shields because they were getting hit with rubber bullets.

Another thing we saw is individuals changing their clothes on the scene. It’s something also we’ve seen with some Antifa members.

They’re harder to track when they change clothes. They can egress and ingress as well. They can go to the action in one set of clothes, change, do their Superman change and then egress after they changed clothes. I didn’t go inside the Capitol building. I saw it on other people’s video. So that’s a common Hong Kong tactic, to bring a change of clothes in your backpack or to wear two clothes to begin with and just take one off. You’ve got a group there, you can harness their energy and use it to your ends. ‘Come this way, everybody,’ just waving their flag. ‘This is where it’s at. Come over here. Go here. We’re going into this door.’ It’s too easy. And once people get riled up, they’ll do it because we’re humans and we will go with the herd, and right through that door.

I am the most experienced living American combat correspondent. I’ve been doing this for years in many countries. As you know, and war is what I do, not elections. And I know what I’m doing when it comes to war. And I see the United States is now clearly going into civil war. It’s unambiguous at this point. And so what we saw there, Antifa is helping to rile this up, CCP is neck deep in this and so we are facing an information war of unprecedented scope. I’ve written three books on it. Unfortunately, they’re all in Japanese because I’ve been working to try to wake the Japanese up to this. They’re also a target. The Japanese are facing the same information war, but in Japanese language.

They are trying to rewrite textbooks for schools, taking hold of teacher unions, every technique and tactic that you see being used here is being used in Japan, and it’s being used to split Korea and Japan. It’s being used in Korea as well. As you know, I spent years in Asia rolling around, studying this thing, so it’s coming for us now. We have to make a united face in order to face the enemy. The enemy is CCP and some others who are organic to the United States.”

Julie Reeder can be reached by email at [email protected].