NEW: Details on who the feds are charging connected to storming the Capitol, including a man w/ 11 Molotov cocktails, a West Virginia legislator, a man who repeatedly punched a cop in the head, a guy who stole mail from Pelosi's office, & more
DOJ said “we don’t expect any charges of that nature” when asked about incitement related to the storming of the Capitol. FBI said “we have no indication of that at this time” when asked about claims from some Trump supporters this was fomented by Antifa. washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-charg…
While sweeping for pipe bombs, cops found 11 Molotov cocktails & an M4 carbine in Lonnie Coffman's truck. Coffman had 2 handguns too. He told cops the 11 mason jars were filled w/ a mix of gasoline & melted Styrofoam, which DOJ likened to homemade napalm.
Mark Jefferson Leffingwell repeatedly punched a Capitol police officer in the head & chest as he tried to break through a police barrier in the Senate wing of the Capitol. He said he was sorry after he resisted arrest & was being transported to police HQ.
Christopher Alberts violated curfew & was slow to respond to orders to disperse. A cop spotted what looked like a concealed handgun bulge on his hip, & Alberts tried to flee but was detained. He had a Taurus G2C 9mm, body armor, gas mask, MRE, & med kit.
Joshua Pruitt refused to obey the curfew in the nation’s capital on Wednesday night, according to police, and after arresting him investigators were able to match him to images taken of the people who had stormed the Capitol Building earlier that day.
Nicholas Ochs, apparently the leader & founder of the Hawaii chapter of the Proud Boys, was also charged with unlawful entry to the Capitol after he gave an interview to CNN about it & posted a pic of himself smoking a cigarette in the Capitol on Twitter.
Great reminder here that Johnny Lawrence got a warning for his illegal elbow to the knee but Daniel LaRusso was allowed to win with an illegal kick to the face. Must've been some SEC refs out there in Reseda.
Exclusive: IC report concluded "China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence" in 2020 election & "appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward" b/c they disagreed w/ Trump admin policies.
Intelligence Community analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf: "Given analytic differences in the way Russia and China analysts examined their targets, China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference." washingtonexaminer.com/news/intellige…
IC ombudsman Barry Zulauf: "The analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tend to disagree with the administration’s policies, saying in effect, I don’t want our intelligence used to support those policies." washingtonexaminer.com/news/intellige…
Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger on COVID19: “There is a growing body of evidence to say a laboratory leak or accident is very much a credible possibility. Even establishment figures in Beijing have openly dismissed the wet market story.” washingtonexaminer.com/news/coronavir…
Speaking of the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis, another Trump admin official told me: “I don’t know of anybody in the federal government with access to all of the info that does not believe that this is a plausible scenario, if not the most plausible scenario.” washingtonexaminer.com/news/coronavir…
Tom Cotton: “The CCP thwarted investigations into the coronavirus’s origins. Circumstantial evidence points to the Wuhan lab, where accidental release remains the most likely scenario, but we can’t rule out other origins, including a natural transmission.” washingtonexaminer.com/news/coronavir…
“Fauci acknowledged he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and party on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.” This is Fauci admitting that he has been lying.
Anyway, happy Dr. Anthony S. Fauci Day to everyone!
But don’t worry, Fauci only lies for our own good, like claiming he only lied about masks early on to make sure there weren’t shortages, or now that he only lied about vaccination numbers needed to be to reach herd immunity because he didn’t think we were ready to hear the truth.