Indie musician Ariel Pink tweeted overnight about participating in Wednesday’s Trump rally in Washington, DC, which resulted in an attack on the United States Capitol.
“I was in DC to show my support for the president peacefully. I attended the rally on the lawn of the White House and went back to the hotel and took a nap. case closed, ”he tweeted on Thursday, responding to a Twitter user who called him because of a photo showing him at a hotel in the district.
O Photograph introduced Pink, independent musician John Maus and documentary filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer, on whose Instagram the selfie of the three was posted. Moyer’s Instagram account has become private. The image shows the three of them in a hotel room and has the caption: “the day we almost died, but instead we had a lot of fun”.
Pink, born Ariel Marcus Rosenberg in Los Angeles, found the photo to be real, tweeting, “It’s true – I didn’t and never advocated violent confrontation or turmoil. it must be my boomer education. ”He also rejected criticism of participating in a rally during the pandemic, as well as the idea that the photo was proof that he invaded the United States Capitol.
“Everyone at these events deserves what comes to them. they took the risk knowing very well what could happen. Have BLM protests in the past 6 months not been reported about the pandemic? ”, He wrote in some replies in the tweet. “Proof that I broke into the congress. yes, i don’t see that. you are suggesting that the congress building has a bed and breakfast that we somehow got access to. “
The 42-year-old man predicted that the social media crowd would come after him and asked friends to “cancel” him before they became involved in the drama.
“Welcome to the panoptigan”, he tweeted, possibly meaning panopticon, which is a circular prison where all inmates can be seen from the center. “They wasted no time … save yourselves, friends, cancel me now and hand me over before they come to get you.”
The musician was registered as a supporter of the president, tweeting in October: “Trump and his team are THE geniuses of our time”. He has also shared ideas about electoral fraud in recent days, making it clear that he accepts that President-elect Joe Biden won the election.
“I do not refuse that biden won – he won – no argument there. The problem is – biden WON – which means that their Game Overdems are under the illusion that the United States will improve, instead of imploding – if Georgia turns blue – the United States will not arrive in the summer, ”he tweeted on Sunday. before Democratic candidates won both Georgia Senate seats.
Towards the end of 2020 and earlier this year, Pink participated in a lengthy discussion on Twitter, where she took the conservative side of the argument, defending Trump’s pandemic response, criticizing media coverage and alleging election fraud by mail.
“The reason the left / mainstream media has made it virtually a crime for people to support you is due to your unprecedented success as president of the United States,” he said in a series of tweets on December 30. “We change presidents and parties every 4-8 years. any decision made by a president can be undone by the next. that is why progress is slow and uneven. that’s why our government is relatively small and ineffective – whoever the government has so much to say in their lives … ”
The conversation continued over the days, with Pink tweeting on Sunday, “How do I seem to be delusional? I am not part of a whimsical minority subset of the Republican party. I would bet that most people would agree that this election was at least suspect. “
Pink’s record company did not respond on Thursday to a request for additional comments.