NEW: Anthony Sargent (aka #bigbrickpitcher) has been arrested. The hand tattoos helped seal the case. A lot of work with open-source video on this one. #seditionhunters
Feds are really taking to this OSINT thing!
The FBI sealed the case up by surveilling Sargent in Florida and by pinning down his location at the Capitol with a Google search warrant. Uploaded here: documentcloud.org/documents/2106…
The selfie Twitter video cited here in the Jan. 6 case against Brandon Prenzlin of FreedomWorks urges Joe Manchin to vote against HR1 (voting rights bill) and protecting the filibuster.
Jeremy Groseclose, caught on video inside the Capitol, doesn’t want to take the plea deal his lawyer thinks he should.
"The defendant’s position and attitude has made it impossible for counsel to continue in this matter.”
Hearing at 10.
Also on the docket at 10: a plea agreement hearing for Andrew Ericson of Oklahoma. justice.gov/opa/page/file/…
At 1 p.m., there's a status hearing for Jeffrey Sabol, Peter Francis Stager, Michael John Lopatic, Clayton Ray Mullins, Jack Wade Whitton, Logan Barnhart and Ronald Colton McAbee. There was some action w/r/t McAbee's detention status today: huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
“Outrageous.” Judge lays into Trump-loving deputy charged with attacking law enforcement on Jan. 6 while wearing a “SHERIFF” patch. huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
“Frankly, this is a defendant who has taken oaths before. He swore oaths in multiple sheriffs’ offices that he would uphold the law… This is someone who uses his badge and authority when it works for him, and disregards it when it does not.” huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
New Jan. 6 arrested Mick Chan "told the FBI that he 'broke into, well, air quotes, broke into' the Capitol.”
He also "pointed his middle finger directly at the surveillance camera and raised his cellular telephone to take a picture of his middle finger,” feds say.
"Any fallout u think I should be aware of?” the Jan. 6 defendant texted a FBI special agent. LINK: documentcloud.org/documents/2106…
"CHAN said he was considering joining a class action lawsuit for people who were tear gassed on January 6.”
Raffensperger wholly refuses to engage with the substance of @chrislhayes’ line of inquiry. It’s almost like the myth of mass voter fraud has been beneficial to the GOP for decades, but some leaders just found Trump’s clownish, ham-fisted stretching of the myth embarrassing.
A weird thing that happened after the election was that the folks who have been playing this game with voter fraud claims for decades started to worry that Trump was making them look completely ridiculous.
There’s a whole class of professional Republicans who built their careers ginning up fears of mass voter fraud that got really frustrated after the election that the marks didn’t comprehend their role in the con.