Here's officers' perspective of Sam Lazar's assault on the police line on Jan. 6. Lazar would spend the next several months between his participation in the assault and his arrest attending political rallies in Pennsylvania, including a Rudy Giuliani event. #FacePaintBlowHard
A judge ordered last week that Sam Lazar be held until trial.
The feds also saw his appearance in that NYT doc. Here's how they submitted it. (CC: @trbrtc)
"STAND DOWN LEOs! STAND THE FUCK DOWN! STAND THE FUCK DOWN LEOs!... LEOs GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY OR JOIN US!" -- Sam Lazar #FacePaintBlowHard
A real cross-section of the "Stop The Steal" movement here. Don't sleep on the Gen-Zer in the Ruth Chris Steak House face mask. Big do-you-know-who-my-dad-is energy.
“Reached by HuffPost… Lazar claimed he ‘wasn’t able to make it’ to the Mastriano event he was photographed at, and then hung up.” huffpost.com/entry/samuel-l…
“People on the FBI’s wanted list tend to lay low, and while Lazar renamed his Facebook page and curtailed his public social media presence, he’s still attending political events with people who are telling him that the election was stolen.” huffpost.com/entry/samuel-l…
“The same day that Lazar attended the event with Trump conspiracy theorists who believe the election was stolen, Trump issued a series of diatribes calling the 2020 election ‘THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY!’ and the ‘greatest Election Fraud in the history of our Country.’”
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"there really is no centralized role in this for Defense or the Federal government components. This sits squarely in MPD's realm. I'm trying to tamp this down with the Deputy like I have the last couple of protests but this one may be different..."
From the latest batch of FBI emails on Jan. 6:
"It's her very first day in this position. He didn't tell her what the document was, or who wrote it, unfortunately and then went back to the 7th floor for more meetings..."
The only man known to have participated in both the newsman fight in Anchorman (2004) and the U.S. Capitol attack (2021) has formally pleaded guilty in connection with the latter.
Jay Johnston’s sentencing hearing in DC is set for Oct. 7, not long before his Mr. Show colleague David Cross appears in DC at the Warner Theater for his “The End Of The Beginning Of The End” show.
THREAD: Over two years ago, a Jan. 6 defendant told a court that he'd witnessed Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes (now serving an 18 year seditious conspiracy sentence) that he'd witnessed Rhodes try to contact Donald Trump during the Capitol attack.
That Jan. 6 defendant, William Todd Wilson, admitted that he heard Rhodes “repeatedly implore" an unidentified party he was speaking with "to tell President Trump to call upon groups like the Oath Keepers to forcibly oppose a transfer of power." nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Rhodes himself was convicted at trial and, in May 2023, sentenced to 18 years in federal prison. But that phone call wasn't a focus for prosecutors.
The only man known to have participated in both the News Fight in Anchorman (2004) and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol (2021) plans to plead guilty on July 8, per court docket.
He doesn’t count for any “law enforcement officers who stormed the Capitol” stats, but he’s certainly played a cop a bunch! nbcnews.com/politics/justi…