{"id":7455,"date":"2021-01-13T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/13\/freedom-caucus-chair-rep-andy-biggs-helped-plan-january-6-event-lead-organizer-says\/"},"modified":"2021-01-13T08:57:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T08:57:24","slug":"freedom-caucus-chair-rep-andy-biggs-helped-plan-january-6-event-lead-organizer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/freedom-caucus-chair-rep-andy-biggs-helped-plan-january-6-event-lead-organizer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Caucus Chair Rep. Andy Biggs Helped Plan January 6 Event, Lead Organizer Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"99Xez3lkp_8\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>THE HEAD OF the House Freedom Caucus, Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, helped plan the January 6 event that culminated in a storming of the Capitol, according to Ali Alexander, a lead organizer of the gathering. Alexander, a pro-Trump personality, was an early founder of the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d movement, and helped bring together various right-wing factions around a mass event on January 6, aimed to coincide with objections to the counting of Electoral College votes.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander made his claim in three separate livestreams in late December, adding that Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama were also involved. \u201cWe\u2019re the four guys who came up with a January 6 event,\u201d Alexander said. <\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/11\/capitol-plot-andy-biggs-paul-gosar\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/11\/capitol-plot-andy-biggs-paul-gosar\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/13\/freedom-caucus-chair-rep-andy-biggs-helped-plan-january-6-event-lead-organizer-says\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HEAD OF the House Freedom Caucus, Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, helped plan the January 6 event that culminated in a storming of the Capitol, according\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7456,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions\/7456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}