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Oct 25 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
At Oath Keepers trial, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Ryan Salke commented on Jan. 6 rioters chanting “USA”after overwhelming officers

He said it was “totally ironic” to “storm the Capitol steps and somehow think that’s patriotic.”
Officer Salke user a flagpole to try to keep the eastern doors closed after realizing rioters were inside the Capitol as well.

“I wasn’t gonna move… I’m not going to walk away until I physically get removed from the situation.”
In sum, no, the Capitol police officers who were violently assaulted by the mob didn’t just open the doors and let rioters in.

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Oct 27
Judge Amy Berman Jackson at a Jan. 6 sentencing today: "People need to understand that they can't do this… They can't try to force their will on the American people once the American people have already spoken at the ballot box. That's the opposite of democracy, it's tyranny.”
“The threat to democracy, the dark shadow of tyranny, unfortunately, has not gone away… There are people who are still disseminating the lie that the election was stolen, they're doing it today.”
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Jan. 6 defendant Albuquerque Cosper Head is in the courtroom for his sentencing. So is the man he assaulted, former D.C. Officer Mike Fanone.
DOJ seeking eight years.

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In court, Mike Fanone told the judge to “show him the same mercy that he showed me on Jan. 6… which is none.”
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Oct 26
Henos Woldemichael, on the right here, has now been arrested.

“See grandkids, this is what it’s all about. This is why you’re free. All these great patriots.” justice.gov/usao-dc/press-… Image
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Oct 26
Thread: Jan. 6 defendant Nicholas Rodean was sentenced to home detention, and if you were in the courtroom, you’d understand why. Rodean has Asperger syndrome, which Judge Trevor McFadden said played a “major factor” in his conduct on Jan. 6.
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Rodean was attracted to “assertive male figures,” his attorney said. Rodean’s own sister said they were deeply interested in deterrence, but said “autistic people don’t fair well in prison.”
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Oct 26
At the Oath Keepers trial today, prosecutors spent time illustrating that Capitol Police didn't just let rioters into the east rotunda doors.

Featured testimony from former Capitol Police Officer Ryan Salke. ImageImage
Video played at trial:
“The number one priority of all of us was that these individuals don't get to the Capitol."

Ryan Salke, who did his job on Jan. 6 and was viciously assaulted, was a 2012 Romney volunteer.

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Oct 25
There’s a puff piece out there on an Oath Keeper who worked with police on Jan. 6 that fails to mention the most relevant piece of information with regard to the Oath Keepers trial: That the Oath Keeper says he wasn’t working with the Oath Keepers who have been charged. Image
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