{"id":3008,"date":"2021-12-09T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEBuZlMp0oCy-FWTXLpcrTtgqFggEKg0IACoGCAow7s8BMNBIMLXUiQY"},"modified":"2021-12-09T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T09:45:00","slug":"rioter-bizarrely-claims-yale-secret-society-pushed-him-to-storm-the-capitol-the-daily-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"Rioter Bizarrely Claims Yale Secret Society Pushed Him to Storm the Capitol &#8211; The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_2772,w_4928,x_0,y_448\/dpr_2.0\/c_limit,w_740\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1639159359\/GettyImages-1230455307_copeph\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Mobiledoc\">\n<p>One rioter has a novel reason for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6: a Yale University secret society made him do it. Allen Hostetter, an alleged member of the \u201cThree Percenters,\u201d told a federal court Monday that the Yale secret society \u201cSkull and Bones\u201d works for the government and ordered him to raid the building that day. According to Hostetter, the group worked in tandem with the government and secret Christian denominations to entice him to join the raid, resulting in him \u201cliterally being walked up the steps of the U.S. Capitol led by said agents or operatives\u201d in a false flag operation. Hostetter is not the first to claim the riot was a false flag operation\u2014Tucker Carlson propagated the same theory in his<em> Patriot Purge<\/em>&nbsp;documentary on Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadItAtLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-12-09\/militia-member-says-yale-secret-society-made-him-storm-capitol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Read it at <\/span><span class=\"ReadItAtLink__name\">Bloomberg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One rioter has a novel reason for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6: a Yale University secret society made him do it. Allen Hostetter, an alleged member of the \u201cThree Percenters,\u201d told a federal court Monday that the Yale secret society \u201cSkull and Bones\u201d works for the government and ordered him to raid the building that day. According to Hostetter, the group worked in tandem with the government and secret Christian denominations to entice him to join the raid, resulting in him \u201cliterally being walked up the steps of the U.S. Capitol led by said agents or operatives\u201d in a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}