BLM Activist, Antifa, Anarchist or FBI asset: Who is John Sullivan?

The complete world was shocked by the scenes at Washington DC as scores of Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill whereas the US Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory. Since then, issues have solely escalated with Big Tech deplatforming US President Donald Trump and pushing free speech various Parler offline. Now, one other intriguing character has come to the fore. He is John Sullivan who makes use of aliases akin to “Activist X,” “Activist John,” and “Jayden X.”
There is a number of intrigue about him as nobody seems to make sure who he’s precisely. Those on the right-wing imagine he’s related to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) motion and the Antifa, that are recognized to riot and have interaction in illegal actions. As per journalist Max Blumenthal, nonetheless, BLM and Antifa activists have strictly disassociated themselves from John Sullivan and considers him to be a particularly problematic particular person.
John Sullivan shot to the limelight after he appeared on CNN for a chat with anchor Anderson Cooper concerning the video he had captured of Ashli Babbitt being shot by a regulation enforcement officer. Babbitt was a pro-Trump veteran who was shot through the protests at Capitol hill. On CNN, he offered himself as a ‘heroic journalist’ who captured the capturing on digital camera. Anderson Cooper additionally known as him a left-wing activist.
The night time of the Capitol riot, Sullivan was welcomed on @andersoncooper to current himself because the heroic journalist who recorded Babbit’s capturing. Cooper falsely known as him a “left-wing activist” and did not ask why he was truly within the Capitol. This was fodder for the Right. pic.twitter.com/LPezi5Hv09— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) January 14, 2021
There can be movies of him taking part within the riots, celebrating it and instigating the mob. John Sullivan says, “Let’s go! This sh*t’s ours. F*ck yeah… We accomplished this sh*t. We did this sh*t together!.. We’re all part of this history.”
I studied video shot by Sullivan (Jayden X) within the Capitol and compiled some moments of him zealously celebrating the invasion & instigating the mob all the best way as much as Ashli Babbit’s capturing. Watch with audio on. No dedicated BLM activist would say or do that – and he is not one pic.twitter.com/uE5VmUf6mU— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) January 14, 2021
In one other video, he may be seen telling Jade sacker, who accompanied him on CNN, “We did it.” He tells her, “Is this not gonna be the best film you’ve ever made in your life?” Sacker apparently has a documentary mission up her sleeve.
Seated w/Sullivan on CNN is Jade Sacker, a photojournalist who adopted him into the Capitol to movie his exploits as a part of a documentary mission. Here she’s heard congratulating him – “We did it!” – and he says, “Is this not gonna be the best film you’ve ever made in yr life?” pic.twitter.com/KWLVfgKPA7— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) January 14, 2021
Max Blumenthal is an editor at The Grayzone, an impartial left-wing media outlet. He has revealed an in depth report on John Sullivan the place he has documented the notion of him amongst BLM activists and Antifa. According to the journalist, John Sullivan is greatest recognized among the many left-wing crowd “for his propensity for inspiring chaos, engaging in counterproductive tactics that often trigger arrests, and consistently undermining BLM objectives.”
“If there’s violence to instigate, he will raise it to another level. But he’s not the one that does it. And that’s a dangerous type of person. That’s one of the most dangerous types of people to me,” one BLM activist is quoted as saying.
On the twenty third of November 2020, Antifa in Portland is alleged to have issued an ‘anonymous tip’ demanding that John Sullivan be “locked out” of their circles. “While it’s easier, and generally more fair, to believe he is a naive narcissist, clout chaser and inept organizer, it might not be an accurate analysis. A narc for the feds might not be an accurate assessment either. It’s more likely that John is an agent provocateur, putting activist communities in danger.”
Sean Michael Love, a BLM activist, stated of Sullivan, “He always gets released and usually much quicker than everybody else. And that’s just, you know, when you see that pattern, you wonder if there’s something else going on.”
What James Sullivan thinks of his brother
James Sullivan, the brother of John Sullivan, doesn’t seem like too keen on his brother and holds him liable for the Capitol Hill riots. “I know that John [Sullivan] was one of the people that led [the riot], and helped organize it,” James informed Blumenthal.
“And, again, what I said is that Antifa goes off of basic psychological warfare, and they’re seeing that the Trump supporters are very, very emotional – kind of on a knife’s edge… [Antifa is] organized. You know, they’re a well oiled machine. So like, they planned this, to change the public opinion against Trump supporters, and to create anarchy in the country.”
According to James, John Sullivan has psychological well being points as effectively. “What we [his family] have found out is that he is addicted to Adderall. He does not need to take it because he doesn’t have ADHD. And what happens is that he becomes a little bit paranoid. It’s very easy for him to to act cool, calm, and collected, but he flips on a dime.”
According to James, John Sullivan radicalized by the dying of George Floyd. Prior to that, John was on the Republican facet of issues as effectively. James stated that John had defamed his household, known as their father a White supremacist and accused James of being a wife-beater and abusing his kids. James was referring to their adoptive father, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Kevin J. Sullivan. He is White.
James, who’s a member of a right-wing group, confirms that BLM activists have been attempting to get John out of their circles. James says that he had acquired calls from them asking for his assist in the matter. “They reached out to me, and they said, ‘Hey, this is what John’s doing. We’re trying to get this stuff done and he’s getting people hurt and arrested. You know, and they don’t need to be arrested. These are good people that are going to prison because John would incite violence.’”
James recounted additional, “John coming back to disrupt that is something that even [elected] representatives have come out against. And the Democrats do not want him here. Like, we have a unique political climate here in Utah. There’s no real chance of violence or anything like that here – unless John comes back and starts igniting his group.”
‘John Sullivan knew people were considering storming the Capitol’
According to Jade Sacker, who had appeared on CNN with John Sullivan, he knew that folks have been going to storm the Capitol. She informed Blumenthal, “John knew somehow that people were considering storming the Capitol. He had had intelligence days before, and I didn’t believe him. I never thought that something like that would happen. And then when we showed up at the Capitol, there were thousands and thousands of people there. I didn’t think that we would be able to document what was going on. So when I said we did it, I was just shocked that we like got in there at all, and that we were on the front lines of being able to tell the story.”
Sacker additionally conceded that his final agenda is inciting as a lot chaos as doable. “He’s just angry. And he says it in a lot of his videos – ‘Fuck the system, burn it down.’ He doesn’t think it can be reformed. Like he kind of wants his civil war. He’s a bit of a provocateur and he wants to dismantle the system, and he believes in the value of civil disobedience. And because he is apolitical, I think he feels more a sense of allegiance to anyone who shares that the values of, I guess, chaos.”
John Sullivan: An FBI asset?
Blumenthal additionally says that there are ‘conspiracy theories’ floating round that John Sullivan is definitely a regulation enforcement asset. BLM activists definitely seem to imagine so. Love stated, “I definitely think that mentally, he has some things he has to work out. But as far as him cooperating with the law enforcement, that has been our belief.”
Sacker additionally informed Blumenthal that right-wing circles imagine that he’s working with the FBI. John, nonetheless, denied the allegations. He additionally maintains that he’s  “more on the BLM (Black Lives Matter) side, ending the police brutality, the racial discrimination” however couldn’t provide a coherent ideology based on Blumenthal.
The dominant narrative among the many right-wing, nonetheless, is that John Sullivan is a left-wing activist. Fox News reported that the ‘left-wing activist’ was charged in Washington and stays in custody in Toeele County, Utah.
John, nonetheless, maintains that it was an act to construct rapport with the protesters. “I had to relate to these people, and build trust in the short amount of time I had there to get where I need to go,” he informed Rolling Stone. “To the front of the crowd to see the dynamic between the police and the protesters, because nobody wants to see the backs of people’s heads from a far-off distance.”
Meanwhile, Jack Posobiec of OAN stories that Donald Trump is being briefed that John Sullivan didn’t act alone.