Baked Alaska arrested by FBI for role in Capitol riot

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Long-time readers of Linux Beach may remember Tim Gionet, who goes by the on-line handle of Baked Alaska, as one of the chief instigators of a white supremacist attack on the Santa Monica Committee for Racial Justice in July and August of 2017. This was before he spoke at the infamous “United the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA on 12  August 2017. He was one of the “very fine people” the now twice impeached Trump heralded.  He was a feature player in the struggle I documented in Six days before Charlottesville, the same racists came to Santa Monica.  He can be seen in both these pictures from Santa Monica and Charlottesville—bearded, black baseball cap with white lettering. 

Latter, I told you that it had been reported that his injured bodyguard was visited in the hospital by a representative of Donald Trump. 

In 2018, he surfaced again as a supporter of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, at a pro-Assad rally organized by the “anti-imperialist” ANSWER Coalition. a real example of white Left-Right convergence at its finest. When he was profiled by Al Jazeera, Assad's infamous propagandist, Partisangirl came to his defense. 

Also in 2018, I exposed the relationship between the Republican candidate running against Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Omar Navarro, and Baked Alaska.

Well, Baked Alaska is back in the news again. Yahoo News reported this afternoon:

FBI arrest social media personality known as Baked Alaska for his alleged involvement in the Capitol riots

Tim Gionet, a streamer who has gained popularity on social media under the name Baked Alaska, was arrested in Houston on Saturday, and is being charged with federal crimes for allegedly taking part in the insurrection at the US Capitol. Gionet allegedly live-streamed himself and others while inside the Capitol on January 6. He also had a warrant out for his arrest for violating release conditions from a separate incident in Scottsdale, Arizona.

This is a rather unsurprising development given his history, but I thought you might want to know given the part coverage of him in this blog. All this scrud needs to do hard time.

More, later...

Clay Claiborne