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Kyle Cheney

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3 Nov

Detained Jan. 6 rioter and Proud Boy Christopher Worrell has told judges, interviewers and his own lawyers he never confronted/threatened Capitol Police.

Prosecutors reviewed new videos and now say he has repeatedly lied to them all.

Prosecutors also say they have new indications Worrell deleted evidence from his phone before his arrest. And they say since his pretrial incarceration he’s repeatedly misrepresented his access to medical care.

WOW: Judge LAMBERTH is going to release Worrell to home confinement, saying the conditions at DC jails are so horrific he can't ensure Worrell will be "safe" as he prepares to undergo chemotherapy for cancer.

Lamberth will move Worrell to Alexandria jail temporarily today.

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

30 Oct

EXPLOSIVE late-night court filing fomr National Archives details what Trump is trying to block the Jan. 6 committee from obtaining.

They include "daily presidential diaries, schedules, appointments showing White House visitors, activity logs" and records of calls to Trump/Pence.

The records include files drawn from Mark MEADOWS, Stephen MILLER, and hunreds of pages from binders of Kayleigh McAneny.

They also include a draft proclamation marking the deaths of Capitol Police officers. Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood.

The first tranche: Meadows, Miller, Philbin, White House logs, call records >>>

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

28 Oct

Chief Judge HOWELL, in her first Jan. 6-related sentencing, says prosecutors seem "schizophrenic" in describing the Capitol attack in harsh terms but then seeking less-than-maximum sentence / cutting 'petty offense' plea deal.

Howell: Do you believe "general deterrence is going to be served by letting rioters who broke into the capitol, overran police … broke into the building through windows and doors — and now they’re going to be able to resolve their criminal liability through petty offense pleas?"

Howell perplexed at government decision to assess most Jan. 6 defendants $500, which she says would amount to about $300,000 total for all known defendants, "barely a drop in the bucket."

She says total financial cost of attack is more than $560 million.

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

27 Oct

@JaxAlemany

NEW: House investigators are preparing to seek testimony from John Eastman, the lawyer who helped Trump draft a strategy to overturn the 2020 election on Jan. 6.

Confirming WaPo / @JaxAlemany scoop.

politico.com/news/2021/10/2…

@JaxAlemany

@JaxAlemany Eastman has become newly infmaous for his memo encouraging Pence to overturn the elecftion on Jan. 6. But we reported on similar arguments he was making out loud at the time — in Supreme Court briefs and phone calls with state officials.

politico.com/news/2021/01/0…

Eastman's Supreme Court brief was as brazen as his Pence memo, lamenting the rising distrust in the election results — without mentioning it was Trump himself fueling the distrust with false calims.

supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/2…

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

21 Oct

NEW: A federal judge sentenced Troy SMOCKS to 14 months for threatening lawmakers on social media on Jan. 6-7.

Smocks, who is Black, claimed he was facing harsher treatment than white Jan. 6 defendants.

Judge Chutkan called his remarks “offensive.”

politico.com/news/2021/10/2…

Smocks, who has been detained since January, described his upbringing in the segregated south. He invoked MLK and noted some plea deals cut by white rioters like Brandon Straka.

“This is racism,” he said.

politico.com/news/2021/10/2…

But Chutkan thoroughly rejected his claims. She noted his extensive criminal history and the brazenness of his threats.

“People died fighting for civil rights,” she said. “For you to hold yourself up as somehow a soldier in that fight is audacious.” politico.com/news/2021/10/2…

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

21 Oct

Troy SMOCKS, a black defendant who is being sentenced for making threats related to Jan. 6, is using his sentencing hearing to argue that he's being punished more harshly for his crime than white Jan. 6 defendants.

Smocks says he was raised in segregated south and just wants "to be treated equally."

"Brandon Straka ... He was allowed to plead guilty to a class 3 misdemeanor with a $500 fine. Again, he’s a white guy. This is racism."

SMOCKS has been detained since January 15. He has an extensive criminal history. He's about to receive a sentence from Judge Tanya Chutkan.

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