The pledge by GOP to release all the Jan 6 videos has been broken.
I believed my involvement to make footage available was a temporary fix until staff could protect innocents from DOJ and thugs like Sedition Hunters. Now I see GOP has capitulated to DOJ and Capitol police.
I have lots of video. And it would benefit me in many ways to keep it on close hold. But I will release what I have because this is wrong.
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As I reported yesterday, Judge Tim Kelly gave a nearly 3-hour "oral ruling" to dismiss defense motions and give a blow-by-blow account of DOJs case against the Proud Boys.
I received transcript. Here are some highlights.
Kelly explaining low bar to prove seditious conspiracy:
Kelly repeatedly mentioned Donald Trump--the man who appointed him--and suggested, as did DOJ, Trump's off-handed comment at 2020 debate gave rise to the "conspiracy."
MOSD is the name of a group chat.
Kelly again cites Trump--his Dec 19, 2020 "will be wild" tweet that DOJ also claimed was the start date of the "conspiracy." J6 committee also heavily relied on that tweet.
Headed to DC courthouse shortly to cover sentencing of 4 Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Before Jan 6, DOJ used this statute against legit terrorists trying to kill Americans. Now Biden's DOJ successfully uses it against rabblerousers who knock over a bike rack:
The "existential threat" is a bunch of guys infiltrated by FBI planning a trip to DC to protest a rigged election; using inflammatory language in group chats infiltrated by FBI informants; and going into a public building during business hours.
No weapons or assault necessary!
Enrique Tarrio wasn't even in DC. He was arrested the day before for (allegedly) burning a BLM banner in Dec 2020.
Biden's DOJ wants these men to rot in prison---4 of them already have been held behind bars denied release under pretrial detention for 2 1/2 years.
NEW: I have transcript from today's hearing before Judge Chutkan and it's worse than reported.
Chutkan marveled at Jack Smith's rapid "discovery" production while downplaying fact DOJ could not name a single case in DC District that went from indictment to trial in 5 months:
Chutkan confronted John Lauro, Trump's attorney, about needing longer than 4 months to go thru 12 million+ pages of evidence bc--get this--most of it related to Trump and he must have reviewed it already. Sure, he has all the J6 committee material in his nightstand😂
Absolutely preposterous. Chutkan, desperate to fast track Trump's trial, continues to challenge Trump's lawyer on his need to do his job.
Chutkan argues that he should have started preparing Trump's defense A YEAR AGO.
CHUTKAN: Just going through court docket for Russell Alford, the only J6 defendant to go to trial in Chutkan's courtroom. Alford was arrested in March 2021 on 4 misdemeanors--after Chutkan allowed numerous exclusions to Speedy Trial Act, she set his trial for April 2022:
BUT that's not when his trial commenced.
After both DOJ and defense asked for another delay bc DOJ kept violating its own discovery deadlines, Chutkan vacated April 2022 trial date and set it for September 2022--a full 18 months after Alford was arrested and charged.
Chutkan denied Alford's change of venue motion (like every DC judge) insisting she could seat a fair jury. She consented to an extended jury selection process.
12 jurors and 2 alternates chosen in one day😂
She then suggested every American was a J6 "crime" victim lol
The only reason DOJ then Jack Smith conducted classified docs investigation in DC rather than proper venue of FLA was to get favorable rulings by Obama Judge Beryl Howell--which they did.
Not a single defendant lived in DC. Not a single crime alleged to have happened in DC.
Dates of alleged crimes in 1st indictment all come after Trump left Washington.
Which is why, at the last minute, Smith realized he had a jurisdiction problem. So he took all the evidence collected by Dem grand jury in Obama-appointee run DC courthouse and reportedly read summaries of the grand jury proceedings to a FLA grand jury to get the indictment.
Does that sound legit? No. If Smith was properly using the grand jury in DC, why not indict there?
Is it possible a GJ and judge in FLA would have approved a warrant to seize months of security footage from inside the home of a former president to see who moved some f*cking boxes?
Beryl Howell, former chief judge of DC District court (her term of destruction ended in March), is the tumor of the malignancy that festers in Washington.
She is notorious for sealed orders and sealed hearings.
Democratic Senate staffer turned Obama appointed federal judge turned chief judge who also aided Robert Mueller witch hunt still butthurt Trump wasn't charged.