Remember Trump impeachment lawyer Michael van der Veen? He’s back! And he’s representing an Oath Keeper who used to worked for Four Seasons. Nice callback for the fans. huffpost.com/entry/trump-la…
Bruce Castor, Trump's other impeachment lawyer, is now representing a mother-and-daughter pair of Capitol defendants, @tomdreisbach reports: npr.org/2021/06/08/100…
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Proud Boy’s mom to him on Jan. 6: “When are you heading home… You need to get out of there… let me know when your out of the city….” huffpost.com/entry/proud-bo…
Proud Boy’s mom had advice on pepper spray:
"Try washing them with baby shampoo… And water… Baby shampoo or dawn mixed with water for the skin around the area.”
"The invidual is wearing a dark baseball type hat with 'KEEP AMERICA GREAT' in bright orange letters on the hat. The individual was also wearing a dark coat with a Burberry print around the hood of the coat.”
Capitol defendant Christian Kulas was arrested in Chicago today.
Kulas was publicly IDed about a week after the attack.
Hearing now beginning for Douglas Jensen, the QAnon believer who now says he realizes he bought into a “pack of lies.” Background from WaPo: washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06…
Jensen is being arraigned on the superseding indictment. Lawyer enters standard not guilty pleas, as expected.
Jensen’s full motion for review of his detention is worth a read.
"he fell victim to this barrage of internet sourced info and came to the Capitol, at the direction of the President of the United States, to demonstrate that he was a “true patriot.”
Something that’s stuck in my head: The violent Capitol rioter who was nabbed off a facial recognition hit on his girlfriend’s Instagram grid is about as off-the-grid as 31-year-olds get these days. Didn’t even have his own cell phone! huffpost.com/entry/facial-r…
Imagine how much effort it takes to live without a cell phone these days, and then you get nabbed by a facial recognition hit on your girlfriend’s public Instagram grid.
"He is an anomaly for his generation – he has no cellular phone and almost no presence on social media… [he was] persuaded by the rhetoric of President Trump and the Republican party, and was led to believe that the 2020 election was stolen.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Over the weekend, Samuel Lazar (no. 275 on the FBI’s Capitol wanted list, who bragged about macing officers at Capitol) showed up to a rally in a “Back The Blue” t-shirt.
There was apparently some drama involving state Sen. Doug Mastriano.