Allen Groat attended two Million MAGA marches in Washington, D.C., after the November 2020 election, when thousands of supporters of then-President Donald Trump descended on the nations capital to push the big lie about widespread voter fraud. At the second march, Groat, 36, wore a black baseball cap with a U.S. flag on it and took selfies with a whos-who of far-right figures who weeks later would be key players in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

There was a selfie with Ali Alexander , main organizer of the Stop the Steal demonstration Jan. 6 that turned into the attack on the Capitol; one with Doug Mastriano , who was at the center of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and who is now the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania; another with Enrique Tarrio , leader of the violent neo-fascist gang the Proud Boys; and one with Alex Jones , the notorious Infowars conspiracist. (Groat later claimed to have worked as impromptu security for Jones during a rally.)