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January 6 Defendants & Discussion (2 Viewers)

INTERESTING TAKE 

If the Jan. 6 committee truly cares about protecting norms, the last thing it should want is for Attorney General Merrick Garland to indict Donald Trump.

If you believe that a prosecution of the most likely candidate to run against Joe Biden in 2024 by the president’s own Justice Department would be considered anything but a politicized travesty by about half of the country, you haven’t been paying attention.

The ongoing, very public lobbying campaign to get Garland to act would also increase the sense that he buckled to political pressure.

Jan. 6 was indeed, as many people have remarked, a banana republic-worthy event, but the same would be true of a prosecution of a former president.

The orderly transfer of power has a number of constituent parts. One, obviously, is the loser conceding defeat and not trying to overturn the result. Another is the loser not getting hounded legally once out of office. This is why we honor the statesmanlike wisdom of Gerald Ford in pardoning Richard Nixon, and why it was wrong for Trump to play with the idea of prosecuting Hillary Clinton after 2016.

One of the most discussed of Trump’s possible indictable offenses is obstruction of a congressional proceeding. This requires corrupt intent, meaning that Trump didn’t believe his own claims and was lying about massive voter fraud.

After Trump has spent his adult life exaggerating, twisting and obscuring the truth to suit his interests and ego, it is almost impossible to distinguish between his legitimate self-delusions and his deliberate deceptions. On top of this, he is naturally prone to conspiratorial thinking. No one is going to be able to establish his state of mind with any certainty, and it’s my guess that he could pass a lie detector test making all his various allegations of fraud, even if they contradict one another.

Then, there’s the matter that most of Trump’s allegedly illegal acts were carried out on the advice of lawyers and, indeed, in the company of lawyers, including the notorious call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Once a political impropriety is charged as a crime, it enters a realm where fine-grained questions of law and intent become paramount. And the court of law isn’t like the Jan. 6 committee where evidence can be presented without contradiction by any pro-Trump advocates in an extended prosecutorial brief. As a figure in the political realm, Trump no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt; as a criminal defendant, he’d be entitled to one.

In our system, we have a mechanism for punishing transgressions that are grave abuses of power, yet not crimes. It is called impeachment. The Jan. 6 committee is now seeking, in effect, to get Trump indicted for an impeachable offense.

A prosecutor is not the U.S. House or Senate, though. It is not the role of the law-enforcement system to try to belatedly dole out punishment for constitutional enormities or presidential dereliction of duty. One side using prosecutions as a tool of political accountability or vengeance (depending on your point of view) only invites retaliation by the other side and an escalatory spiral that wouldn’t be good for our politics or the law.

Rich Lowry is editor-in-chief of the National Review.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/lowry-trump-indictment-should-be-off-the-table/ar-AAYQQRc?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2e54fd73e960452b95c856d4a196843c

 
Desert_Power said:
Our great national nightmare may finally be over. The Supreme Court is finally allowing us to control the reproductive rights of women again. So sick of being prevented from controlling the lives of others by activist judges!
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We've officially been at war against religious fundamentalism since 9/11, almost 21 years. So it only makes sense that we need to start changing the laws, removing freedoms, in the US because of religious fundamentalism. 

 
2Squirrels1Nut said:
We've officially been at war against religious fundamentalism since 9/11, almost 21 years. So it only makes sense that we need to start changing the laws, removing freedoms, in the US because of religious fundamentalism. 
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You two should get a hysteria room together and keep each other safe from these fake and imaginary Religious BoogeymenTM you keep talking about.  :shrug:

I sometimes think the left is just brainwashed into blaming religion for everything.  It's literally like clockwork that we know that is what they are going to say every time.

 
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I'm a devout Christian too.  However, if you look at history, forcing religion on people always ends badly. Every. Time. 

ETA

Sorry for the hijack.  The country is being taken over right in front of us and I fear for the future of my children and grandchildren. 

 
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Joe Mammy said:
Except women.
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Lol....men don't have the constitutional right to kill unborn babies either.  All this ruling did was say the obvious, abortion is not a protected right under the constitution.   If the people and the states believe it should be a right, the pass a damn Amendment, don't create it by judicial activism out of thin air.  

 
moleculo said:
Seriously?  That's where you are going with this?  I think some introspection would do you some good.
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He's already associated/equated white rural males with the slaves....multiple times in several threads, so this is sort of a step up :shrug:  

 
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 this is interesting

The meeting, on Dec. 30, 2020, marked the founding of a special new chapter of the Proud Boys called the Ministry of Self-Defense. The team of several dozen trusted members was intended, Mr. Tarrio told his men, to bring a level of order and professionalism to the group’s upcoming march in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, that had, by his own account, been missing at earlier Proud Boys rallies in the city.

Over nearly two hours, Mr. Tarrio and his leadership team — many of whom have since been charged with seditious conspiracy — gave the new recruits a series of directives: Adopt a defensive posture on Jan. 6, they were told. Keep the “normies” — or the normal protesters — away from the Proud Boys’ marching ranks. And obey police lines.

“We’re never going to be the ones to cross the police barrier or cross something in order to get to somebody,” Mr. Tarrio said.

There was one overriding problem with the orders: None of them were actually followed when the Proud Boys stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

While the video conference has been mentioned in court papers, it has not been widely seen. A recording of it was seized from Mr. Tarrio’s phone by the F.B.I. this year, and a copy was recently obtained by The Times.

Lawyers for the Proud Boys say the recorded meeting is a key piece of exculpatory evidence, contradicting claims by the government that a conspiracy to attack the Capitol was hatched several weeks before Jan. 6.

In court filings, prosecutors have claimed that the Proud Boys began to plan their assault as early as Dec. 19, 2020 — the day that President Donald J. Trump posted a tweet announcing his Jan. 6 rally and saying it would be “wild.” But the video conference shows that, just one week before the event, when Mr. Tarrio and other Proud Boys leaders gathered their team for a meeting, they spent most of their time discussing things like staying away from alcohol and women and taking measures to ensure their own security.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/proud-boys-ignored-orders-given-at-pre-jan-6-meeting/ar-AAYTvJ7?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=da4a0b1f4f744e45a3a39fbb977955dc

 
Per court filings, it appears there'll be a Jan 6 trial underway on the two-year anniversary of Capitol riot.

Elias Irizarry's trial is set to begin Jan 3, 2023. He's accused of carrying metal pipe amid mob.

Charges:

Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds;  

Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds;

Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building;

Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building

Irizarry Statement of Facts, photo evidence and whatnot.

 
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Monday abruptly scheduled a hearing for Tuesday afternoon to hear what the panel called “recently obtained evidence” and take witness testimony.

The hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m., according to a news release issued by the committee, in which it provided no other details about the surprise session.
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WUSA9 CBS Article:

Judge upholds seditious conspiracy charge in Oath Keepers case

U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta becomes the first judge to weigh in on the government's use of seditious conspiracy charges in Capitol riot cases.
 

Yesterday, he declined to dismiss the indictment against nine Oath Keepers.

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Jordan Fischer, CBS

“If the Proud Boys are contemplating their own motion to dismiss the seditious conspiracy charge, sounds like it won't come until September, per the joint status report filed yesterday.”

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ETA: The Seditious Conspiracy Indictment 

 
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Scott MacFarlane Twitter

Former Trump political appointee Federico Klein argues he's being selectively prosecuted in Jan 6 case because of his prior service in Trump Admin.

Justice Dept hits back hard against the claim, in new court filing arguing Klein used police riot shield *against* officers.

Justice Dept: "Klein & others around him attacked, and attempted to enter, the Capitol as the Vice President, Members of Congress, and 1000s of staffers convened inside. That conduct, and the “threat to civilians” it engendered... dispels any inference of disparate treatment."

About comparisons to prosecutions of Portland cases in 2020:

Feds: “Although both Portland & Jan 6 rioters attacked federal buildings,” the Court observed that “the Portland defendants primarily attacked at night, meaning that they raged against a largely vacant courthouse”

Federico Klein links:

News Report

Statement of Facts

Indictment

Bodycam Evidence (Video)

Detention Order

 
BladeRunner said:
You two should get a hysteria room together and keep each other safe from these fake and imaginary Religious BoogeymenTM you keep talking about.  :shrug:

I sometimes think the left is just brainwashed into blaming religion for everything.  It's literally like clockwork that we know that is what they are going to say every time.
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In fairness, there is a large segment of the population who believes that laws should be significantly based on writings from the other side of the world like 1500 years ago based upon a man in the sky nobody has ever seen. 🤷‍♂️

 
Zow said:
In fairness, there is a large segment of the population who believes that laws should be significantly based on writings from the other side of the world like 1500 years ago based upon a man in the sky nobody has ever seen. 🤷‍♂️
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I may not have seen the man in the sky, but I've certainly seen the Wheel in the Sky. And it keeps turning and I don't know where I will be tomorrow.

 
Andrew Griswold, the Jan. 6 defendant who bragged that rioters "will farging do it again" after he stormed the U.S. Capitol, seeks leniency in part because the felony charge he pleaded guilty to means he'll no longer receive taxpayer dollars to install floors on military bases.

Pathetic Video of a gullible American:

"Pelosi, Schumer, all you mofos, back off, this is our country, we are willing to do whatever it takes to keep it. Don’t mess with us. Back off. This is our country. We showed ‘em today. We took it. They ran. And hid."

Andrew Griswold's lawyer now claims he's remorseful.

Sentencing set for July 13.

Griswold - Statement of Facts (photos)

 
dozer said:
Andrew Griswold, the Jan. 6 defendant who bragged that rioters "will farging do it again" after he stormed the U.S. Capitol, seeks leniency in part because the felony charge he pleaded guilty to means he'll no longer receive taxpayer dollars to install floors on military bases.

Pathetic Video of a gullible American:

"Pelosi, Schumer, all you mofos, back off, this is our country, we are willing to do whatever it takes to keep it. Don’t mess with us. Back off. This is our country. We showed ‘em today. We took it. They ran. And hid."

Andrew Griswold's lawyer now claims he's remorseful.

Sentencing set for July 13.

Griswold - Statement of Facts (photos)
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Yeah, not shedding a tear for the guy that can't get government contracts any more because he is an insurectionist.

 
dozer said:
Andrew Griswold, the Jan. 6 defendant who bragged that rioters "will farging do it again" after he stormed the U.S. Capitol, seeks leniency in part because the felony charge he pleaded guilty to means he'll no longer receive taxpayer dollars to install floors on military bases.

Pathetic Video of a gullible American:

"Pelosi, Schumer, all you mofos, back off, this is our country, we are willing to do whatever it takes to keep it. Don’t mess with us. Back off. This is our country. We showed ‘em today. We took it. They ran. And hid."

Andrew Griswold's lawyer now claims he's remorseful.

Sentencing set for July 13.

Griswold - Statement of Facts (photos)
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Nm

 
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Happening at 10: David Alan Blair, of Clarksburg, Maryland, will be in court for sentencing. Recommended sentencing guideline is 8-14 months behind bars.

Blair: Statement of Offense

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WUSA9 Article (DC Local News):

Maryland man who attacked police with lacrosse stick pleads guilty to felony in Capitol riot

David Alan Blair pleaded guilty Tuesday to one felony count of civil disorder in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

David Alan Blair, of Clarksburg, Maryland, appeared before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper to enter his plea Tuesday morning. In exchange, federal prosecutors agreed to drop the remaining charges against him, including multiple felony counts of assaulting police with a dangerous weapon and obstruction of an official proceeding.

 
dozer said:
Happening at 10: David Alan Blair, of Clarksburg, Maryland, will be in court for sentencing. Recommended sentencing guideline is 8-14 months behind bars.

Blair: Statement of Offense

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WUSA9 Article (DC Local News):

Maryland man who attacked police with lacrosse stick pleads guilty to felony in Capitol riot

David Alan Blair pleaded guilty Tuesday to one felony count of civil disorder in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

David Alan Blair, of Clarksburg, Maryland, appeared before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper to enter his plea Tuesday morning. In exchange, federal prosecutors agreed to drop the remaining charges against him, including multiple felony counts of assaulting police with a dangerous weapon and obstruction of an official proceeding.
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Business Insider Article:

A Capitol rioter was sentenced to 5 months in prison after cross-checking police with a lacrosse stick on January 6.

 
Congress reportedly has Roger Stone's encrypted chats with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

Roger Stone was part of an encrypted group chat involving the leader of the Proud Boys and the leader of the Oath Keepers in the months leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. 

The chat was named F.O.S., or “Friends of Stone”, and was mentioned in Tuesday’s Jan. 6 Select Committee hearing, which promised to expose ties between allies of former President Donald Trump and extremist groups. 

The existence of the encrypted chat was first reported in May by the New York Times, which said it had as many as 47 members. In addition to Proud Boy chairman Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes, other participants included Infowars host Owen Shroyer and “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander. It’s not immediately clear when the chat was created. 
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- Alarm blaring

- Smashed windows

- overturned and destroyed furniture

Newly released video, filmed by Jan. 6 defendant (and former New Jersey corrections officer) Marissa Suarez, shows some of the oh-so-subtle clues that storming the Capitol was unlawful.

 
Ray Epps

The guy that many of our Trump supporting friends tried to baselessly claim was an FBI agent responsible for …. I don’t know…

Leading a false flag J6 operation??

Part of a Qanon level government conspiracy to frame J6 rioters?

A way to deflect blame away from Trump?

Crazy, crazy, crazy….

Ray Epps is (or was) one of your own, but you piled on him and ruined his life.

New York Times Article:

‘It’s Just Been Hell’: Life as the Victim of a Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory

Ray Epps became the unwitting face of an attempt by pro-Trump forces to promote the baseless idea that the F.B.I. was behind the attack on the Capitol.
 

IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS — Up a winding country road, in a trailer park a half-mile from a cattle ranch, lives a man whose life has been ruined by a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory.

Ray Epps has suffered enormously in the past 10 months as right-wing media figures and Republican politicians have baselessly described him as a covert government agent who helped to instigate the attack on the Capitol last year.

Strangers have assailed him as a coward and a traitor and have menacingly cautioned him to sleep with one eye open. He was forced to sell his business and his home in Arizona. Fearing for his safety and uncertain of his future, he and his wife moved into a mobile home in the foothills of the Rockies, with all of their belongings crammed into shipping containers in a high-desert meadow, a mile or two away.

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“And for what — lies?” Mr. Epps asked the other day with a look of pained exhaustion. “All of this, it’s just been hell.”

Almost from the moment that a violent mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, allies of former President Donald J. Trump have sought to shift the blame for the attack away from the people who were in the pro-Trump crowd that day to any number of scapegoats.

First they pointed at antifa, the leftist activists who have a history of clashing with Mr. Trump’s backers but who did not show up when the Capitol was breached. Then they tried to fault the F.B.I., which, according to those who spread the baseless tale, planned the attack to provoke a crackdown on conservatives.

Mr. Epps, 61, was not just a bystander on Jan. 6. He traveled to Washington to back Mr. Trump, was taped urging people to go to the Capitol and was there himself on the day of the assault. But through a series of events that twisted his role, he became the face of this conspiracy theory about the F.B.I. as it spread from the fringes to the mainstream.

Obscure right-wing media outlets, like Revolver News, used selectively edited videos and unfounded leaps of logic to paint him as a secret federal asset in charge of a “breach team” responsible for setting off the riot at the Capitol.

The stories about Mr. Epps were quickly seized on by the Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who gave them a wider audience. They were also echoed by Republican members of Congress like Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

Eventually, Mr. Trump joined the fray, mentioning Mr. Epps at one of his political rallies and lending fuel to a viral Twitter hashtag, #WhoIsRayEpps.

After months of watching from the shadows as public figures he once respected — Mr. Trump among them — tarred his name and destroyed his reputation, Mr. Epps decided that he wanted to answer that question for himself.

In a daylong interview, sitting in his air-conditioned recreational vehicle with his wife, Robyn, and their two Shih Tzus beside him, Mr. Epps described himself as a father, a former Marine and a staunch but disillusioned conservative whose leaders had betrayed him. He granted the interview on the condition that the location of his new home not be disclosed.

“I am at the center of this thing, and it’s the biggest farce that’s ever been,” he said. “It’s just not right. The American people are being led down a path. I think it should be criminal.”

To that end, Mr. Epps and his wife have been searching for a lawyer to help them file a defamation lawsuit against several of the people who have spread the false accounts. Should they end up doing so, they would join a list of other individuals and companies — most notably, the voting machine producer Dominion Voting Systems — in using the courts to push back on the rampant disinformation that emerged again and again during Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.

“The truth needs to come out,” Mr. Epps explained, petting his dogs.

While Mr. Epps was a participant in some of the events that unfolded on Jan. 6, the claim that he inspired the Capitol riot in a “false flag” plot is solely based on the fact that he has never been arrested and therefore must be under the protection of the government.

But scores, if not hundreds, of people who appear to have committed minor crimes that day were investigated by the F.B.I. but have not been charged or taken into custody.

Mr. Epps said that he had acted stupidly at times when he and one of his sons took a last-minute trip to Washington for Mr. Trump’s speech about election fraud. But he said that he had managed to avoid arrest because he reached out to the F.B.I. within minutes of discovering that agents wanted to speak with him.

On Jan. 8, 2021, just two days after the Capitol was attacked, Mr. Epps learned from a family member that the F.B.I. had issued a be-on-the-lookout alert in his name. He said he immediately called the bureau’s National Threat Operations Center, and his phone records show that he spoke to agents there for nearly an hour.

The F.B.I. has repeatedly declined to comment on Mr. Epps, but his account of calling the operations center — and of sitting down for a formal discussion with federal agents in March 2021 — is backed by transcripts of those interviews reviewed by The New York Times.

The interview transcripts show that Mr. Epps told agents that he had spent much of his time at the Capitol seeking to calm down other rioters, an assertion supported by multiple video clips.

Mr. Epps, who questioned the results of the election, was also interviewed twice by the House select committee on Jan. 6. After his dealings with the panel were completed, officials released a statement saying he had told them that he never worked as an asset for, or an employee of, any federal law enforcement agency.

One of the moments Mr. Epps said he regrets most from his stay in Washington took place the night before the Capitol attack, when he joined his son and a friend for a pro-Trump rally at Black Lives Matter Plaza. During the event, he was videotaped by a right-wing provocateur encouraging people to go inside the Capitol on Jan. 6 in what he described, even at the time, as a form of peaceful protest.

The clip has been used to depict Mr. Epps as a man who not only urged people to riot at the Capitol but also then evaded prosecution. The Justice Department has not publicly addressed its decision not to charge him, but the legal definition of incitement requires a person’s words to cause an immediate threat of danger, not one that could possibly occur the following day.

On Jan. 6 itself, Mr. Epps, believing he could stop the violence at the Capitol, inserted himself into a conflict between the police and members of the pro-Trump mob that is widely considered to be the tipping point of the attack.

He can be seen in videos from around 1 p.m. that day accosting a rioter named Ryan Samsel, who had already started to confront officers behind a metal barricade on the west side of the Capitol. Mr. Epps said he intervened in the conflict to keep Mr. Samsel from attacking the police and tried to tell Mr. Samsel that the officers were merely doing their jobs. Mr. Samsel gave an identical account to the F.B.I. when he was arrested weeks later.

Mr. Epps also said he regretted sending a text to his nephew, well after the violence had erupted, in which he discussed how he helped to orchestrate the movements of people who were leaving Mr. Trump’s speech near the White House by pointing them in the direction of the Capitol.

Mr. Epps further acknowledged that while he moved past barricades into a restricted area of the Capitol grounds, he did not go into the building itself. The vast majority of those who did not enter the building or commit additional crimes have not been charged.

By the time the violence started spreading, Mr. Epps had already left the Capitol, having helped to get a sick protester to safety.

The problems began for Mr. Epps almost as soon as Revolver News published its first article about him in October. Suddenly, there were emailed death threats; trespassers on his property demanding “answers” about Jan. 6; and acquaintances, fellow members of his church, even family members who disowned him, he said.

Things became significantly worse after Mr. Carlson and prominent politicians began to amplify the lies.

In late December, Ms. Epps discovered shell casings on the ground near the bunkhouse of the farm-style wedding venue they owned in Arizona, suggesting that someone had been shooting at the building. Then, in January, Mr. Epps received a letter from someone claiming to have been brought into the country by a Mexican drug cartel.

The writer said he had overheard some cartel members talking about killing Mr. Epps.

“I right on paper to tell you need to be look out,” the letter said in broken English. “These drug gang people very bad people.”

Whether it was real or just a demented joke, Ms. Epps went into hiding, leaving Mr. Epps to arm himself and run the family business for a while through his security team. Ultimately, the couple sold the business and their ranch-style house, losing hundreds of thousands of dollars and wrecking the arrangements they had made for their retirement.

“It has a been a nightmare,” Ms. Epps said.

After leaving Arizona for the mountains months ago, the Eppses have not done much. They manage to spend time with their children — and some of their 37 grandchildren — but mostly keep to themselves. Mr. Epps has taken to wearing a wide-brimmed hat that hides his face. If people at the gas station or grocery store say he looks familiar, he will usually smile and then be on his way.

While he wants to clear his name, he is under no illusion that he will ever manage to divorce it fully from the lies.

“They’ll always be associated,” Mr. Epps said. “You can’t convince some people. There are extremists out there that you’ll never convince them that they’re wrong.”
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ashli-babbitt-e2-80-99s-husband-responds-to-jan-6-hearing-saying-she-was-trying-to-stop-riot/ar-AAYk7BV (interview at link)

Ashli Babbitt’s husband responds to Jan 6 hearing saying she was trying to stop riot

Ashli Babbitt’s husband has said that she was trying to stop the Capitol riot, echoing a new claim pushed by figures on the far-right. 

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Despite extensive reporting and video footage showing the opposite, figures on the far-right are now claiming that Ms Babbitt was trying to stop the riot.

Mr Babbitt told Newsmax that before she was shot, Ms Babbitt shouted “Stop! Don’t! Wait!”

Newsmax has previously claimed that Ms Babbitt punched a man breaking the glass door.

“I see a punch,” Mr Babbitt said. “A lot of people see a punch. I’ve gotten a lot of blowback, saying there’s no way, but I know my wife’s a lefty. She’s a southpaw, and you can see his glasses pop off his face. So I see what everybody else sees.”

Newsmax writes on its site that “the urging against a protester breaking the glass window shows Ashli Babbitt wanted a peaceful protest, not destruction or criminality. Also, Aaron Babbitt told Kelly, she was taking video in the Capitol building before she was killed as an unarmed protester”.

“I saw her step around the room, I saw her walk around with the phone — to me that’s telling me she’s taking a video and she’s trying to play by the rules of being inside,” Mr Babbitt said referring to a video of Ms Babbitt’s last moments. “I mean, they let everybody in. They didn’t stop anybody from coming in, so that’s where I go with on that one.”  [...]

 
She got to the finding out part of f###ing around. No sympathy for her. She made the choice to climb through a broken window, knowing what the others were attempting to do... trying to stop the rioters is a complete bulls### excuse after the fact. 

 
Ryan J. Reilly Twitter Thread 

Paul Lee Seymour, Jr. (Statement Of Facts) admits that he knowingly entered the Capitol unlawfully on Jan. 6 and posed in front of a Robert E. Lee statue with his father.

The curious thing about the agreed upon statement of offense here is that the Robert E. Lee statue was reportedly removed a few weeks before the Capitol attack. (Video)

The photo from the initial charging documents appears to have been snapped where the Robert E. Lee statue used to be located before it was removed.

 
Insurrectionist still being hauled in…

This from last week:

William Mellors Statement of Facts

Identification of Mellors

On January 7, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) received a tip from Tipster 1 about a man with a bloody ear. Tipster 1 included photos which can be seen in Exhibit 1, below: (see pics in SOF link)

Based on information obtained during the course of the investigation, including searches of law enforcement databases, comparison of a state-issued driver’s license photograph and an in- person interview (see below), I believe the individual depicted in the Exhibit 1, above, and the Exhibits, below, to be WILLIAM HENDRY MELLORS (MELLORS).

On or about April 5, 2021, the FBI identified a picture which appeared to show an individual believed to be MELLORS spraying officers with a chemical substance on January 6, 2021. The image was found at jan6attack.com and can be seen in Exhibit 2, below: (see pics of defendant committing crimes is SOF link)

 
During Matthew Bledsoe's testimony yesterday, he insisted that he didn't hear the door alarm going off on Jan. 6.

Then, prosecution plays a video…. That Bledsoe filmed of himself… With the door alarm blaring…

NBC News Article:

'Loudmouth' Capitol riot defendant had a rough day at his Jan. 6 jury trial

Matthew Bledsoe, who scaled a wall before entering the Capitol through a door with broken glass panels, tried to convince jurors that he thought he was allowed inside.

WASHINGTON — A Tennessee man and self-described "loudmouth," who filmed himself screaming "WE IN THIS B----" as he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, had a difficult time explaining his actions to a jury this week.

Matthew Bledsoe, of Memphis, is facing a felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding as well as multiple misdemeanors, including entering or remaining in a restricted building and disorderly and disruptive conduct. Bledsoe, the seventh Jan. 6 defendant to face a jury trial, took the stand as a witness on Wednesday.

 
dozer said:
During Matthew Bledsoe's testimony yesterday, he insisted that he didn't hear the door alarm going off on Jan. 6.

Then, prosecution plays a video…. That Bledsoe filmed of himself… With the door alarm blaring…

NBC News Article:

'Loudmouth' Capitol riot defendant had a rough day at his Jan. 6 jury trial

Matthew Bledsoe, who scaled a wall before entering the Capitol through a door with broken glass panels, tried to convince jurors that he thought he was allowed inside.

WASHINGTON — A Tennessee man and self-described "loudmouth," who filmed himself screaming "WE IN THIS B----" as he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, had a difficult time explaining his actions to a jury this week.

Matthew Bledsoe, of Memphis, is facing a felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding as well as multiple misdemeanors, including entering or remaining in a restricted building and disorderly and disruptive conduct. Bledsoe, the seventh Jan. 6 defendant to face a jury trial, took the stand as a witness on Wednesday.
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I hope he gets some extra years for lying under oath. 

 
dozer said:
During Matthew Bledsoe's testimony yesterday, he insisted that he didn't hear the door alarm going off on Jan. 6.

Then, prosecution plays a video…. That Bledsoe filmed of himself… With the door alarm blaring…

NBC News Article:

'Loudmouth' Capitol riot defendant had a rough day at his Jan. 6 jury trial

Matthew Bledsoe, who scaled a wall before entering the Capitol through a door with broken glass panels, tried to convince jurors that he thought he was allowed inside.

WASHINGTON — A Tennessee man and self-described "loudmouth," who filmed himself screaming "WE IN THIS B----" as he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, had a difficult time explaining his actions to a jury this week.

Matthew Bledsoe, of Memphis, is facing a felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding as well as multiple misdemeanors, including entering or remaining in a restricted building and disorderly and disruptive conduct. Bledsoe, the seventh Jan. 6 defendant to face a jury trial, took the stand as a witness on Wednesday.
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Matthew Bledsoe is guilty on each and every count. The government’s track record at jury trial in Jan. 6 cases remains flawless.

Actual Verdict Form. Guilty on five counts.

 
dozer said:
During Matthew Bledsoe's testimony yesterday, he insisted that he didn't hear the door alarm going off on Jan. 6.

Then, prosecution plays a video…. That Bledsoe filmed of himself… With the door alarm blaring…

NBC News Article:

'Loudmouth' Capitol riot defendant had a rough day at his Jan. 6 jury trial

Matthew Bledsoe, who scaled a wall before entering the Capitol through a door with broken glass panels, tried to convince jurors that he thought he was allowed inside.

WASHINGTON — A Tennessee man and self-described "loudmouth," who filmed himself screaming "WE IN THIS B----" as he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, had a difficult time explaining his actions to a jury this week.

Matthew Bledsoe, of Memphis, is facing a felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding as well as multiple misdemeanors, including entering or remaining in a restricted building and disorderly and disruptive conduct. Bledsoe, the seventh Jan. 6 defendant to face a jury trial, took the stand as a witness on Wednesday.
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Won't be missing too many Mensa meetings, I hope. 

 
Quick hitting piece from Time Magazine Dated June 15, 2022. Nice, quick, update on cases including sentences issued.

What Happened to the Jan. 6 Insurrectionists Arrested Since the Capitol Riot

"Here’s a look at what happened to 14 of the most high-profile Jan. 6 rioters."

This list does not include any of the leaders or planers of the J6 insurrection. No mention of the Oath Keepers or Proud Boys. No mention of InfoWars personalites, No politicians.

This list only includes "normies". Your rank and file Trump supporters who "got caught up" in the mob. 

Robert Scott Palmer: 63 months in prison

Devlyn Thompson: 46 months in prison

Lonnie Leroy Coffman: 46 months in prison

Nicholas Languerand: 44 months in prison

Jacob Anthony Chansley: 41 months in prison

Scott Kevin Fairlamb: 41 months in prison

Greg Rubenacker: 41 months in prison

Etc., Etc., Etc.

 
DOJ Press Release:

18 Months Since the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol

Wednesday, July 6, 2022, marked 18 months since the attack on the U.S. Capitol that disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of affirming the presidential election results.

Arrests made: 

More than 855 defendants have been arrested.

Criminal charges:

Approximately 263 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees, including approximately 90 individuals who have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.

Approximately 140 police officers were assaulted Jan. 6 at the Capitol.

Pleas:

Approximately 329 individuals have pleaded guilty.

Approximately 264 have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors. Another 65 have pleaded guilty to felonies.

A total of 24 of those who have pleaded guilty to felonies have pleaded to federal charges of assaulting law enforcement officers.

A pproximately 10 additional defendants have pleaded guilty to feloniously obstructing, impeding, or interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder.

Of these 34 defendants, 12 have now been sentenced to prison terms of up to 63 months.

Three of those who have pleaded guilty to felonies have pleaded guilty to the federal charge of seditious conspiracy.

Trials:

10 individuals have been found guilty at trials, including 8 who were found guilty of felony charges. One of these defendants was found guilty of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon, a felony.

Sentencings:

Approximately 203 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and received sentences for their criminal activity on Jan. 6. Approximately 99 have been sentenced to periods of incarceration.

Approximately 67 defendants have been sentenced to a period of home detention, including approximately 11 who also were sentenced to a period of incarceration.

 
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