An army military war official is being investigated for attending more than 300 kilometers to the Trump rally that turned into deadly riots in the Capitol, military officials confirmed.
Captain Emily Rainey, 30, confirmed to the Associated Press that she led more than 100 people to Washington, DC on Wednesday as part of a North Carolina protest group she led called the Moore County Citizens for Freedom.
While her Fort Bragg commanders were reviewing her involvement in the protest, Rainey said she was fully ahead of her plans to go – and insisted her group was not involved in the storm on the Capitol.
“I was a private citizen and did everything right and within my rights,” the zealous anti-mask told the AP on Sunday, saying she was on leave at the time.
“I told my bosses before I left that I was leaving, and I told them when I returned.”
Her group – as well as most during Wednesday’s rally – were ‘peace-loving, law-abiding people who did nothing but show our rights for first amendment,’ she said.
She even shared a video on Facebook insisting that the rioters are all Antifa, saying: ‘I do not know any violent Patriots. I know no Patriots who open the windows of a national gem like the [Capitol]. ”
According to May. Daniel Lessard, a spokesman for the 1st Special Forces Command, Rainey is assigned to the 4th psychological operations group in Fort Bragg.
The group is called PSYOPS and uses information and misinformation to shape the emotions, decision making and actions of US opponents.
Members of the U.S. military are allowed to participate in political organizations and events in uniform, but are prohibited from sponsoring partisan organizations.
It is unclear whether Rainey’s participation in her group on Wednesday was in violation of DOD policy.
Rainey had previously made headlines in May after posting a video online of her repeated warning tape on a playground closed under the COVID-19 restrictions in North Carolina.
Police in Southern Pines, a community about 20 miles (30 kilometers) west of Fort Bragg, have charged her with personal property in connection with the incident after injuring her twice with warnings.
In Facebook posts, Rainey calls her Moore County Citizens for Freedom a ‘movement’. In one report in November, the group boasted of a ‘peaceful protest’, warning at the time: ‘They must pray that we stay that way.’
With Post Wires