"It definitely didn't take a lot of arm twisting to get them to start talking about it. "They just wanted to regurgitate a lot of these ideas to somebody, and it seemed like I was a willing participant," she said. They couldn't see her rolling her eyes on the other side of the phone. 6 attack and said they made comments that were "very on-brand for a MAGA rally," when they parroted the debunked talking points about the 2020 election they were hearing from prominent Republicans. She ended up chatting with about a dozen guys in the days after the Jan.
Her strategy, she said, was saying "Wow, crazy, tell me more" to guys on repeat until they gave her enough for her to send their information to the FBI. "I felt a bit of 'civic duty' I guess, but truthfully, I was mostly just mad and thinking, f- these guys," she said, speaking anonymously for fear of online reprisal.