NEW: MI-08 GOP Nominee Thomas Smith Attended January 6th, Cheered on Proud Boys, and Uplifted Right Wing Conspiracies on Twitter

NEW: MI-08 GOP Nominee Thomas Smith Attended January 6th, Cheered on Proud Boys, and Uplifted Right Wing Conspiracies on Twitter

After “sort of stumbl[ing] into the Republican nomination” in Michigan’s 8th District, new reporting details Thomas Smith’s disturbing, extreme online activity: including his “almost-real time narration of Smith’s train journey from Michigan to Washington D.C. for the [January 6th] protests” and a tweet saying verbatim, “I was there on January 6th.” Smith posted dozens of times about his plans to attend the far-right January 6th insurrection, hi…