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Kyle Cheney

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Jan 22

JUST IN: DOJ searched Biden’s Wilmington home last night, the White House reveals.

Neither the WH statement nor the one from the president’s personal attorney seem to make clear whether this search was court-authorized or subject to some kind of non-voluntary warrant/legal process.

The statement from the president’s personal lawyer (below) along with the White House statement, leave some unanswered questions about the nature of the search.

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Kyle Cheney

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Jan 21

NEW: On J6, Doug Letter — the House’s top lawyer — was heading to the vending machines when he saw something unexpected: his boss Speaker Pelosi being whisked from the building.

Come with us, they pleaded. But Letter needed to get back to the chamber…

politico.com/news/2023/01/2…

He’d prepared enormous binders full of scripts and strategy memos to battle against Republicans challenging the election — and he didn’t want them swiped by the mob. So he raced back.

“I was the last person in before they locked the doors,” he recalls.

politico.com/news/2023/01/2…

Letter’s experience that day — he would later evacuate just as Babbitt was shot and witness guns drawn on the House floor — infused his work to steer the Jan. 6 committee ways unprecedented for a congressional probe.

politico.com/news/2023/01/2…

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

Jan 20

HAPPENING NOW: The cross-examination of Richard “Big-o” Barnett has been going for another 90 minutes and it hasn’t gone much better for him than yesterday.

Prosecutors are poking holes in his story about how he lost his cell phone and ‘hike n strike’ stun weapon; his claim to have been “pushed” into the Capitol, and his claim to have simply been looking for a bathroom while he wandered into the speaker’s office.

Barnett acknowledged telling a police officer near Pelosi’s suite ‘we’re in a war. Don’t be on the wrong side or you’re going to get hurt.’

“I was blustering,” Barnett said, saying he didn’t mean he’d be the one to hurt the officer.

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

Jan 19

HAPPENING NOW: Jan. 6 defendant Richard “Bigo” Barnett is taking the stand in his own defense after his wife and cousin testified on his behalf earlier in the morning. Case may get to the jury by end of day or tomorrow.

BARNETT says he has three regrets about Jan. 6: Going at all because of the “misery” it has caused for his family, going to the Capitol after Trump’s speech and how he behaved inside Pelosi’s office.

Q from McBride: Do you regret calling Pelosi a “bitch?”

Barnett: Yes. He notes he called her a “bi-otch” at first, which he thought was funny but now realizes was “crass.”

He says he would apologize to her if he saw her today.

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

Jan 17

HAPPENING NOW Proud Boys trial resumes with more from the police radio transmission. Here's something notable from 2:16 p.m.:

"Senator Patty Murray is stuck inside her hideaway and protesters are outside the door."

She has discussed this before pbs.org/newshour/show/…

WOW: USCP Inspector Thomas Loyd says that when he first ordered an evacuation of the 3rd floor House gallery, he said his officers were worried he might've been "under duress."

"I could’ve been held hostage or had a gun to my head."

LOYD now describing evacuations of members who were stranded in offices during the riot. He notes they had to evacuate members who were barricaded in Room H-152, which is a Rules Committee space.

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

Jan 13

👀 Judge Amy Berman Jackson just *acquitted* Jan. 6 defendant Joshua Black (pictured on the floor of the Senate) of obstruction because she said prosecutors presented no evidence he intended to stop (or even knew about) Congress’ session that day.

Black told the government he had been called by god to go to the Capitol and “plead the blood of Jesus” on the Senate floor. ABJ found that the “unique stew in his mind” made clear he didn’t clearly know what he was doing was unlawful. Govt didn’t present evidence to contrary.

She did find black guilty of entering restricted Capitol grounds with a deadly weapon and disorderly/disruptive conduct in Capitol w a dangerous weapon (a knife).

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