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Former Trump White House aide who met with January 6 panel attacks witnesses, lawmakers in profane and sexist rant

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Aformer Trump White House aide who met with the January 6 committee earlier this week went on a profane and sexist rant on a livestream after his testimony, where he railed against the lawmakers and attacked other witnesses, according to audio posted to his Telegram.

The aide, Garrett Ziegler, met with the House panel on Tuesday. Lawmakers were likely interested in hearing from him because of his ties to one of the most shocking episodes of the 2020 election saga: A White House meeting where then-President Donald Trump’s outside allies tried to convince him to declare martial law and use the military to seize voting machines.

In the 27-minute livestream, Ziegler used vulgar and misogynistic language to attack Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah Griffin, two women who worked for the Trump White House but have since publicly broken from the former President and cooperated with the January 6 panel.

He also accused the January 6 House select committee of being “anti-White,” without any evidence. (The nine-member panel is led by Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, who is Black.)

“They’re Bolsheviks,” Ziegler said in the stream, referring to the far-left communists who led the Soviet Union, “so, they probably do hate the American founders and most White people in general. This is a Bolshevistic anti-White campaign. If you can’t see that, your eyes are freaking closed. And so, they see me as a young Christian who they can try to basically scare, right?”

The livestream is audio-only, but the voice on the recording matches past videos of Ziegler. CNN has reached out to the January 6 committee and Ziegler’s attorney seeking comment.

At the White House, Ziegler was an aide to Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, who was charged with contempt of Congress for defying the panel’s subpoena. (He pleaded not guilty.)

The New York Times previously reported that Ziegler escorted some of Trump’s most controversial allies into the White House for the now-infamous December 2020 meeting where martial law was discussed. In Ziegler’s online postings, he disputed parts of the Times story.

On his Telegram channel, Ziegler continues to promote debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. He falsely claimed in recent posts that “the election was stolen” and that the January 6 attack on the US Capitol “was one of the greatest orchestrated false flags in history.”

CNN’s Holmes Lybrand contributed to this report.

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its from 7/6/2021

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seems like good guy with gun foiled the ff chan nazi setup

Just a few hours before he opened fire in a packed Indiana food court on Sunday evening, 20-year-old gunman Jonathan Sapirman appears to have made chilling posts on 4chan that warned of his plan and invoked Nazi imagery.

Sapirman, 20, walked to the Greenwood Park Mall from his apartment on Sunday with three legally purchased guns—two assault rifles and a handgun. He spent an hour in a bathroom then walked out into the food court and fatally shot three people, all of Hispanic origin, before 22-year-old “good Samaritan” Elisjsha Dicken shot him dead from long-range with a handgun.

Sapirman’s motive remains unclear; his family said he was being evicted from his apartment, had recently quit his warehouse job, and had been frequenting a gun range. Greenwood Police said he began buying firearms from local gun stores in March.

A since-deleted post that appears to have been posted by Sapirman on 4chan, the online message board that has played a role in several white supremacist-inspired mass shootings, has since circulated online.

“Name is jonathan and today seems like a good day to die,” the message, with a time stamp 1:13 p.m., reads. It was accompanied by a colorized wedding photo of an Unterscharführer, a rank in the Nazi military. He opened fire at around 6 p.m. the same day.

The post also included a link to Imgur, an image-sharing site, that contained photos of a young man wearing a white button-down shirt, a black face mask, blue jeans, and a combat-style vest. In the background are two AR-15-style rifles, a handgun, and ammunition.

The Greenwood Mall Shooter - Jonathan Douglas Sapirman likely posted to 4chan boards yesterday at 2:13:43 “my name is Jonathan and today seems like a good day to die”.

The post is now gone but did exist under the post ID listed. pic.twitter.com/rKLPe15peo

— John Curtis  (@Johnmcurtis) July 18, 2022

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— John Curtis  (@Johnmcurtis) July 18, 2022

Greenwood Police Chief James Ison would not confirm that the posts were written by Sapirman but he told VICE and local outlet WISH-TV that investigators were “aware” of the photos and message.

“The Greenwood Police Department and FBI are working diligently to identify the source,” he told WISH-TV. “When our investigation is complete we will issue an update. There is no time frame on this update as the investigation is ongoing.”

VICE reports that the man’s outfit in the photos on Imgur match the outfit seen in a graphic crime scene photo that has since circulated on 4chan. It shows the bloodied suspect lying dead on the tiles in Greenwood Mall with a placard that says “dead.” Ison did not dispute that photo’s authenticity to VICE, saying that police were trying to get to the bottom of where it came from.

Investigators have not alleged that Sapirman held any far-right or white supremacist ideologies. However, his three victims—married couple Pedro and Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda, and Victor Gomez—were of El Salvadoran and Mexican heritage, respectively, friends told WISH-TV. Greenwood is 84.5 percent white, according to census data.

Investigators said Monday that, when they searched Sapirman’s apartment, they found his laptop with a can of butane in a hot oven.

He also threw his cellphone in the mall toilet before unleashing carnage. The laptop and cellphone are being further probed by the FBI.

4chan has been repeatedly criticized for being a cesspool of bigotry and a training ground for far-right conspiracy theorists. Most recently, it allegedly played a role in radicalizing the Buffalo shooter who killed 10 Black people at a grocery store in a predominately Black neighborhood in Upstate New York.