And they skipped town right after the insurrection,” a neighbor of Bausman’s told Hatewatch in March, pointing to the Christmas lights. “As I was just telling a friend, those are our neighbors. Then he seemed to disappear from Lancaster, leaving his 2020 Christmas lights and a Betsy Ross-style American flag dangling from his porch.Ĭharles Bausman shared this message encouraging attendance at the Jan. He involved himself in #StoptheSteal activism perpetuating the lie of a stolen election alongside others in the far right, such as members of the gun-worshipping Unification Church cult. ![]() He promoted hard-right causes, including the anti-lockdown protests during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() Neighbors told Hatewatch that Bausman moved into their community in 2018, shortly after relocating from Russia. Hatewatch then visited Bausman’s home in Lancaster twice in March and interviewed more than a dozen of his neighbors but found no trace of him. Hatewatch launched this investigation in January after an anonymous tipster alleged to us that Bausman “fled the country” after traveling to Washington, D.C., for the fateful Trump event. “I messaged her as everything was happening and said, ‘You’re not there, are you?’ She said, ‘No, no, we’re here in Lancaster,’” Watkins recalled of Jan. ![]() (Photo by Mikhail Voskresenskiy/Sputnik via AP Images) Charles Bausman of Russia Insider appears at a 2015 RT conference in Moscow.
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