Infiltration of Jan. 6 protests by the left

Going to be released as a series, not all at once.

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Stockton said he asked Black if he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and Black replied that he was “out of town.”

“Aaron had told me that he wasn’t in town for January 6,” Stockton said. “After seeing a picture of him and confronting him about it, he admitted he was on the Capitol steps to me and others,” Stockton said.

“I don’t know the extent of his involvement in the setup of American patriots on January 6,” Stockton said, “but took it as an unforgivable betrayal.”

In sworn testimony before the now-defunct Jan. 6 Select Committee, Stockton expressed his belief that outside individuals or groups came to the Ellipse and the Capitol that day intent on trouble.

“I honestly don't know if they’re foreign actors or — but it’s clear to me that there was a well-funded, well-paid group of probably 50-ish who were intent specifically on causing violence and chaos that day,” Stockton said, according to the official transcript of his interview.

Stockton said he believed a “paramilitary group that was well trained at moving a crowd” helped direct people from the Ellipse to the Capitol, where police lines were breached before 1 p.m. and violence later broke out on the West Plaza.

“But I believe they ran the worst and most aggressive elements within, like, the people who had came, and I think they ran them directly into a trap to cause these fights with the Capitol Police and sow this chaos,” Stockton testified.

The goals, he said, were to “create doubt in our American system [and] tarnish all the rest of us.”

Once the “toxic elements” in the massive crowds were steered to the Capitol, “professionals were prepared to, like, lead them into all the violence that occurred.”

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