evidence: Roger Stone, the longtime Trump confidant, falsely accused a man who was not Crooks of being the shooter, citing unnamed "sources," in an X post Sunday. That man, whom The Washington Post is not naming, was an anti-Trump protester who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a scuffle with police in 2016. By the time Stone’s X post was removed Sunday morning, it had gained more than 1.6 million views and 10,000 likes. A separate man described as an "Antifa extremist" was also falsely named as the shooter in posts that received millions of views. His name, Mark Violets, was briefly one of the top "trending topics" on X in the shooting’s aftermath. Some of the posts with that false name included a photo of Marco Violi, an Italian soccer journalist. In an Instagram post, Violi said he was awoken in the middle of the night to numerous notifications about the allegations and that he intended to file a complaint about the accounts on X.