First major trial of a J6 defendant is set to begin later this month.
DOJ already in some hot water with the judge, who notes jury instructions and other indictments still claim Kamala Harris was in the Capitol during the protest--she was not in the building. h/t @joshgerstein
I explained why DOJs falsehood about Harris' whereabouts is relevant to thousands of misdemeanor charges. Judge McFadden also scolded DOJ for perpetuating the lie before a grand jury:
Reffitt was charged six months after January 6 on a firearms violation--DOJ accused him of having a gun at the Capitol after DOJ and Wray had to admit no one had been charged with carrying a firearm that day.
But looks like DOJ only has proof of Reffitt carrying a holster...
BTW he's been incarcerated for over a year and now is in the DC Gulag. If DOJ can't prove his firearms charge (they can't) or that Harris and Pence were in the Capitol that day, Reffitt will have been detained on obstruction and civil disorder charges.
Political prisoner.
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No “they” didn’t hold any trips or missions: Steve Robeson, the convicted felon and FBI informant, organized every trip and paid for all of them with FBI funds.
Btw, notice familiar language btw Whitmer plot and Oath Keepers case?
Now I assume @ninaburleigh, who accused me of bad journalism, knows how deeply involved the FBI was in these trips. Funny it’s not mentioned in her article:
My write-up on Judge McFadden's order that blasted DOJ for "misleading" a grand jury for a year about Kamala Harris' whereabouts on January 6 and denying DOJ requests to limit cross-exam of Secret Service to confirm Pence's whereabouts.
Hearing right now with Beryl Howell, chief judge of DC District Court. This is an unusual hearing bc it appears the defendant, Greg Rubenacker, will plead guilty to all 10 counts in his indictment.
This includes 5 counts related to charge that relied on Harris, Pence location
DOJ fixed the 1752 charges against Rubenacker in a superseding indictment filed in November.
But DOJ still refuses to specify Pence's location.
I am curious to see if Howell addresses any of this:
Ok a thread on McFadden's ruling today finally calling out the falsehood Biden's DOJ has presented to federal judges, defendants, the public, and a grand jury.
DOJ has charged hundreds of J6 protesters with low-level misdemeanors, including bogus...
So DOJ promises to drop the bogus charges to get pleas on "parading" in the Capitol, which prosecutors know they can't just charge as a single count. They add on other unsubstantiated crimes to compel plea deals on the silly "parading" charge by promising to drop the other counts
“One officer died after suffering strokes on Jan. 7 – one day after he was doused with what appeared to be bear spray by one of the aforementioned ‘protestors.’”
Sicknick wasn’t “doused” with “bear spray.” The FBI admitted it wasn’t bear spray and there’s no evidence Sicknick…
was sprayed by anyone (cops were doing the dousing, btw.)
There is zero evidence his death was related to January 6.
Enrique Tarrio, head of Proud Boys who was once an FBI CHS and just joked to Tim Pool that “everyone gets called a fed,” is arrested on January 4 and charged with burning a BLM flag in Dec 2020. He spends the night… reuters.com/world/us/exclu…
in jail and ordered out of the city (which is why he wasn’t there on J6. Convenient since he, like Stewart Rhodes, is person one in conspiracy indictments for Proud Boys.)
But he just HAPPENS to meet Rhodes in a DC hotel garage on January 5 so a film crew can record it?
“The documentary film crew working on the Proud Boys report drove Tarrio to the Phoenix Park Hotel, not far from the Capitol building, said a source familiar with the matter.
Just as Tarrio arrived from jail January 5, Rhodes was outside the Phoenix Park Hotel in DC.”