NEW: Here’s body-worn camera footage of #ThreePercentSheriff (aka Ronald Colton McAbee) attacking the police line at the Capitol. A lot of faces familiar to the #SeditionHunters community here.
There’s a huge contingent of bad faith actors with no shame who are cherry picking the video embedded in this @ZoeTillman tweet to try to downplay the brutal attacks on officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Truly astonishing how swiftly those loyalties collapsed.
“These animals (sic) cops don’t stop. That’s why people were attacking them.”
- Trumper Julie Kelly, who previously called officers who protected the Capitol from violent mob “crisis actors,” justifying attacks on law enforcement on Jan. 6.
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“Like many singles in D.C., Claire has ‘almost always’ passed on potential suitors who lived across the river in northern Virginia. Her MAGA alter-ego, on the other hand, didn’t have any reservations about bros located in Arlington and Alexandria.” huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
“I basically just [said], ‘Wow, crazy, tell me more’ on repeat until they gave me enough,” she said. “One of my friends was like, ’You basically got all these confessions just being, like, ‘Haha! Then what?’” huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
NEW: FreedomWorks has terminated an employee arrested by the FBI for his actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6: huffpost.com/entry/freedomw…
Quite a contrast between how FreedomWorks treated a lower-level staffer who stormed the Capitol for Trump and how they've treated Cleta Mitchell, who advised Trump’s efforts to overturn the election and was on that infamous call to Brad Raffensperger. huffpost.com/entry/freedomw…
The FBI affidavit doesn’t say it outright, but a careful read suggests that open-source sleuths played a role here. huffpost.com/entry/freedomw…
Judge McFadden to Fellows: “I strongly urge you not to represent yourself… There are signifiant downsides to you being the one who is making split-second decisions on courtroom issues.”
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-…