Sen Ron Johnson: "What makes you think they were Trump supporters?" A thread from charged rioters.
US v. Nichols "On Jan. 7 NICHOLS posted on Facebook: “I hear so many reports of 'Antifa' was storming the capital... Know that every single person who believes that narrative have been DUPED AGAIN! Sure, there may have been some ‘Antifa' in DC, but there wasn't enough to
'Storm the Capital themselves.” US v DRESCH On Jan. 7
DRESCH posted "just setting the record straight. antifa did not take the capitol. that was Patriots, I can't guarantee there weren't some shit birds in the crowd but ... we the people took back our house."
US v BLAKE REED The Blake Austin Reed Facebook account screenshot includes the words, “We The People have spoken and we are pissed! No antifa, no BLM... We
The People took the Capitol!”
US v Straka STRAKA made the following comments on Twitter on Jan. 6: “I’m completely confused. For 6-8 weeks everybody on the right has been saying ‘1776!’ & that if congress moves forward it will mean a revolution! So congress moves forward. Patriots storm the Capitol – now
everybody is virtual signaling their embarrassment that this happened.”
x “be embarrassed & hide if you need to- but I was there. It was not Antifa at the Capitol. It was freedom loving Patriots who were DESPERATE to fight for the final hope of our Republic because literally ”
nobody cares about them. Everyone else can denounce them. I will not." US v ROBERTSON On Jan. 8 Robertson replied to a Facebook comment: “Respectfully....I was in the Capitol building 2 days ago. I am a VCDL, NRA member and a serving Soldier and police officer. Damage control by
"the Republicans in DC is trying to say it was ANTIFA. It wasnt. Possible some were there? Of course. Caused it?? Nope.”
US v Miller On Facebook, "One individual tried to blame Antifa for the riots, but MILLER countered, “[Y]ou don't think we should have stormed the capital[sic]?” Also “Yah... we charged ... We where [ sic ] going in ... No matter what ... Decided before the trump speech ..."
Another tweeter posted '“The people storming The Capitol
are not Patriots. They are PAID INFILTRATORS,” to which MILLER responded, “Nah we stormed it. We where [sic] gentle. We where [sic] unarmed. We knew what had to be done.'
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TODAY D.C. Circuit court of appeals upholds release of Trump/Mazars USA financial records to House, saying it has 'amassed detailed evidence of suspected misrepresentations and omissions' in former president's financial disclosures. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/…
Chief Circuit Judge Srinavasan wrote for panel: “If the level of evidence presented by the Committee here does not suffice to obtain a narrowed subset of the former president’s information, we doubt that any Congress could obtain a President’s papers.”
Srinavasan added: "Requiring disclosures aimed at preventing Presidents from engaging in self-dealing and other conflicts of interest is assuredly a legitimate legislative purpose.”
A federal judge in D.C. has rejected Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich's emergency request to claw back personal financial records subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 committee...
"I found no case, and there doesn't appear to be one, saying that Congress must give back documents once it has received them , no matter how Congress has received them," U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg rules on emergency motion for temporary injunction.
The decision leaves a rocky legal path ahead for Budowich, who said his bank JP Morgan's decision to notify him of the House subpoena just before a Dec. 24 Christmas eve deadline "blocked the courthouse doors" to him to stop an invasion of his financial privacy
NOW IN COURT In first Capitol riot felony sentencing, U.S. argues "Jan. 6 was genuinely an act of terrorism... The need to preserve respect for the law is really at its pinnacle in a crime like this." BKGD washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
Defendant Paul Hodgkins "was part and parcel of an act of domestic terrorism going around him, and that context is relevant when this court is sentencing him," Asst. U.S. Atty Mona Sedky argued before U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss.
Sedky: "Imposing this 18-month sentence will be just punishment for Mr. Hodgkins, holding him accountable for this tpe of criminal conduct. But equally important, it will send a loud and clear message to other would be rioters that if and when they are caught, they will be
NEW New Proud Boys indictment charges father-and-son police officers from central Florida in Jan. 6 Capitol riot w/ husband of Orange Co. (FL) sheriff’s deputy, highlighting members' ties to law enforcement. Son is also married to an officer. washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
The wives' departments said they were not involved in their husbands' activities, but acknowledged the spotlight on off-duty officers involvement with the extreme alt-right.
Orange Co. Sheriff’s Office prohibits employees from belonging to extremist groups & calls alt-right “an ideological grouping” associated w/ conservative or reactionary views, characterized by rejection of mainstream politics & online spread of deliberately controversial content.
NEW In first, U.S. charges Jan. 6 defendant with bringing firearms to Capitol under controversial federal rioting law. Four Capitol breach defendants now including alleged Texas Three Percenters recruiter Guy Reffitt face gun charges. washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
The Trump DOJ spurred criticism after turning to the civil disorder law in 2020 after decades of virtual disuse to prosecute dozens of protest-related cases after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.
Critics say the statute dates to 1968 when southern Senators pressed Congress to pass the Civil Obedience Act as an amendment to the Civil Rights Act, to “protect the public from irresponsible rabble rousers” in the civil rights movement.
NEW U.S. arrests self-described N.J. Proud Boys member Shawn Price in Jan. 6 Capitol riot, alleging he posted on Facebook “. . .me and 4 of my chapter brothers pushed that line and started it ourselves had to be done,” re: attack on police line @ W Terrace justice.gov/usao-dc/case-m…
FBI in charging papers said Price joined Proud Boys in Nov. 14 and Dec. 12 MAGA rallies in D.C., and ID'd himself on Facebook in open source videos of violent street skirmishes
In black sweater, NJ Devils knit cap, Price allegedly sent a video selfie:
Associate: today we stormed the mother fucking capitol of our country . . . took some shots
PRICE: Trump isn’t going anywhere honey . . . don’t worry. Yeah . . . fuck yeah . . . that’s how we do it baby