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Three Percenter Truck at Capitol on January 6 belongs to Hitler-Quoting Rep’s husband
Photo illustration: The Daily Beast / Getty / TwitterA truck parked at the United States Capitol and carrying a sticker from the Three Percenter militia on the January 6 riot day belongs to the husband of the new rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, who approved, quoted Adolf Hitler the day before. Researchers on Twitter first noticed the Ford pickup truck with the decal of the far-right militia parked on Capitol grounds in a footage posted on social media and obtained by CBS News. The presence of a vehicle with a militia decal then near the Capitol, inaccessible to normal vehicle traffic, raised questions about how it got there – and whether it belonged to any of the hundreds of suspects involved in the deadly mutiny. But in an email to the Daily Beast, Chris Miller, Rep. Miller’s husband and a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, admitted that the truck belonged to him even when he claimed ignorance about the militia group. Mitch McConnell says he will support Trump in 2024 after blaming him for Capitol Riot “A friend from the army gave me a decal. I thought it was a cool decal. I retired because of a negative pub, ”Miller wrote in an email on Thursday. He says he “was never a member” of the militia and “did not know anything about 3% until fake news started this fake story and read about it”. A request for comment to the US Rep. Miller office was not returned prior to publication. The link between the truck and Rep. Miller was first reported on Twitter on Thursday by the @capitolhunters account, which is organizing a survey of protesters seen on January 6: a Capitol riot by a large community of volunteers analyzing thousands hours of footage. The # Sedition3PTruck with government signs parked in a restricted area starting at 1:02 am. #SeditionHunters # Sedition3PSource: https://t.co/DubmxJhjSZ pic.twitter.com/INCs6geEYg— Phoenix on Wheels (@phoenixonwheels) February 25, 2021 A pickup truck with the same make, model, color and Illinois plate as the that was on Capitol Hill on January 6 is also visible in a July 2020 photo with Mary Miller banners to Congress during a July 4th parade in Illinois. That same day, Rep. Miller’s Facebook page posted a photo of what appeared to be the same truck with the same Trump-Pence and Mary Miller banners for Congress attached to the same PVC pipe structure as she campaigned in cities from Mattoon, Sullivan, Herrick and Moweaqua.https: //www.facebook.com/BaileyforIllinois/photos/888345101571058 Previously, the Millers had proudly posted photos of the same Ford pickup model, often with the same stickers, as “quitting herd “and weapons Save Life, a site affiliated with an Illinois-based arms rights group – as the truck on Capitol loaded on January 6. In at least one case, before Chris Miller was elected to the State Chamber in 2018, the truck in question had a different license plate. The couple has shown up with that truck at campaign events, sometimes with the vehicle stamped on pictures of their faces or posters “The taxpayer ‘s life matters”. The vehicle license plate at the Capitol on January 6 – registered in Illinois, but with a drawing of the state capitol building – appears to be a project reserved for Illinois politicians, like Chris Miller, who took office in 2019. The Three O Percenter decal may have been a relatively new addition to the car, as it was not visible in the images this summer.https: //www.facebook.com/ChrisMillerForStateRep/photos/2438928539529305Elected last November, Mary Miller, a Republican, may be more known for speaking at a “Moms for America” rally in front of the Capitol the day before the riot. “Hitler was right about one thing: whoever has youth has a future,” she told the crowd. She later apologized for the comments and said “some are intentionally trying to distort my words to mean something contrary to my beliefs”. drew the attention of law enforcement authorities due to the number of members arrested and charged with riot-related crimes since January 6. Robert Gieswein, an alleged hooligan identified by The Daily Beast who is visible in images of the first hooligans to invade the Capitol, “appears to be affiliated with the radical militia group known as the three percent,” according to an FBI statement filed in the court case against him. The group, which formed for the first time in 2008, is part of a loose network of “extremist anti-government” who compare their crusade against the United States government to that of patriots of the Revolutionary War era, according to the Anti League “Defamation. Its name comes from the false claim that only 3 percent of US settlers fought at that time A. Ties between militia groups and Congress have also undergone greater scrutiny after some lawmakers have suggested that their colleagues may to have played a role in the riot. Rep. Steve Cohen clearly stated that US Rep. Lauren Boebert led a “big” tour of the Capitol just before the uproar. Boebert said he didn’t give tours to anyone outside his family at the time and didn’t there is evidence that some of the protesters benefited from domestic help, however Boebert was criticized for his ties to militia groups after posing for a film at a rally gun rights in December 2019, where participants made three signs with the hands of Percenter. Read more at The Daily Beast. Got a tip? Submit to the Daily Beast here. Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Subscribe now! Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper into the stories that matter to you. To know more.