DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Palus Politicus January 6th Fallout p6

J/C



Just to prove you can't fix stupid, this guy shouts out "Trump Won" after being sentanced to 12.5 years. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...ichael-fanone-sentenced-125-ye-rcna89388

Nope, you can’t fix stupid but you can pardon it. Pffft Goper’s

Former California police chief found guilty of conspiracy over role in Jan. 6

A former California police chief was found guilty Thursday of four felonies, including conspiracy to obstruct Congress, over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Alan Hostetter, 56, was convicted of conspiring to obstruct and obstructing an official proceeding, as well as entering a restricted area and engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct with a dangerous weapon, after defending himself at a bench trial.

According to the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia, Hostetter “coordinated and conspired” with several other rioters from California to travel to Washington, D.C., for the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

On Jan. 6, the 56-year-old carried a hatchet in his backpack as he breached a police line and made his way to the upper west terrace of the Capitol.

He later posted a photo of himself on the terrace on Instagram, saying, “This was the shot heard round the world!…the 2021 version of 1776. That war lasted 8 years. We are just getting started.”

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth noted Hostetter’s past career in law enforcement as he handed down his ruling Thursday. Hostetter briefly served as chief of police in La Habra, Calif., according to NPR.

“No reasonable citizen of this country, much less one with two decades of experience in law enforcement, could have believed it was lawful to use mob violence to impede a joint session of Congress,” Lamberth said in court, according to The Washington Post.

“Belief that your actions are for a greater good doesn’t negate consciousness of wrongdoing,” the judge added.

https://thehill.com/regulation/cour...QdT-JXEEtzenVamYeBPmVV19johIS5c-c2X8J2vw

This is the part that most of those that attacked the capital will never understand. There is a right and wrong way to protest. The right way won't get you arrested. The wrong way will damn near every time.

Jan. 6 rioter sentenced to 7 years in prison for throwing spear-like object at police

A man from Lebanon, Maine was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in prison for throwing a spear-like object at police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Kyle Fitzsimons, 39, was convicted of 11 charges — including seven felonies — for his role in the insurrection and sentenced to 87 months in prison followed by 36 months of supervised release, according to the Department of Justice news release. He was also ordered by Judge Rudolph Contreras to pay $2,000 in restitution.

Authorities said between 3:45 and 4:30 p.m, he was among a crowd of rioters who were illegally on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, “brawling with law enforcement officers at the tunnel entrance of the lower west terrace of the Capitol building.”

Fitzsimons, who was seen wearing a white butcher’s jacket and carrying an unstrung bow, committed five assaults against police officers within a five-minute span. At one point, he threw the unstrung bow at the group of officers, which hit and bounced off the ballistic helmet of the the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), court documents revealed.

Amid another altercation with an MPD officer, a different rioter sprayed them with a chemical agent and Fitzsimons trapped the chemical under the detective’s mask, causing him to temporarily suffocate, the filing reads.

The butcher also encouraged his fellow rioters to “get in there” and fight law enforcement like he did when leaving the Capitol grounds.

The judge on Thursday said he attacked police in a “burst of frenzied fury” and unleashed an “orgy of assaultive rage,” according to the Associated Press.

Fitzsimons, who pleaded guilty in September, apologized to the officers he attacked, the court, his family and “anyone else I’ve disappointed by my conduct,” admitting that he didn’t see at first that he was a “danger to the republic,” AP reported.

Authorities have arrested more than 1,069 individuals for their involvement in the Capitol insurrection. More than 350 individuals have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement during the riot.

https://thehill.com/regulation/cour...qeth8I8Gc4MknnvzrVuxE0vHlXwGAdvhjC6c3zmE

Trump State Department appointee found guilty of seven felonies in Jan. 6 case

Federico Klein had a bench trial before another Trump appointee.

WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump political appointee who attempted to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 was convicted of seven felonies Thursday, the same day a grand jury deciding whether to indict the former president for his efforts to stop the peaceful transfer of power was hearing testimony from former White House aide William Russell.

Federico Klein, who worked in the State Department during the Trump administration, was convicted by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, also a Trump appointee, after a bench trial that unfolded last week. Klein was represented by Stanley Woodward, an attorney for several former Trump officials, including Russell, who was testifying elsewhere in the federal courthouse. Klein, who was 42 at the time of his arrest, faced charges of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers; obstruction of an official proceeding; and civil disorder; as well as misdemeanor offenses.

Klein was originally set to go to trial alongside two other co-defendants, but one of the men — Christopher Quaglin — admitted his guilt. Klein instead went to trial alongside Steven Cappuccio, of Texas, who authorities said ripped off an officer’s mask and joined an effort to try to charge past law enforcement.

Klein was in a tunnel leading into the U.S. Capitol, where some of the worst violence against police took place on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors had argued. He did not enter the building, however.

During the trial, Woodward argued that it was in "the eye of the beholder" what Klein was doing in the tunnel. He acknowledged that Klein's presence at the front of the police line was not a factor in his favor but that the government had not proven Klein's intentions that day.

“This case rests on reasonable doubt,” Woodward said. “What they cannot prove is what the intent was here.”

Woodward also encouraged McFadden to look closely at the evidence as to whether there was anything to suggest that Klein actually assaulted officers, though McFadden noted that "doesn't get him out of the briar patch" because the statute — assaulting, resisting or impeding officers — also makes it unlawful to interfere with officers performing their duties.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...uilty-seven-felonies-jan-6-cas-rcna95194

“I hire the best people." - Donald Trump

Judge rebukes Tucker Carlson, 'QAnon Shaman' Chansley for 'alarming' Jan. 6 show

A federal judge on Thursday denied a bid from Jacob Chansley to withdraw his guilty plea to obstructing Congress on Jan. 6 and rebuked the so-called "QAnon Shaman" for going on a Tucker Carlson program that gave a distorted view of the riot.

Chansley's bare chest, painted face, and hat of fur and horns made him one of the most recognizable participants in the attack. He was also one of the first rioters to admit to a felony crime. Judge Royce C. Lamberth sentenced him in November 2021 to 41 months in prison, the low end of federal sentencing guidelines, after Chansley said he was "truly repentant" and called his behavior "indefensible."

"I think your remarks are the most remarkable that I've heard in 34 years" as a judge, Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, said at the time. "I think you are genuine in your remorse."

Chansley finished his sentence in March. But after leaving prison, he asked Lamberth to undo his conviction, saying security camera footage from inside the Capitol aired by Fox News host Tucker Carlson a few weeks prior showed police allowed him to wander around the building on Jan. 6. The attorney who represented Chansley when he took his plea told Carlson he did not have that video at the time.

Lamberth, in a 35-page ruling, denied Chansley's bid while laying out in detail why the claim that he and other rioters were allowed in and around the Capitol by police are false.

All but 10 seconds of the video Carlson showed was produced to Chansley before his sentencing, Lamberth said, and the surveillance video Chansley now claims undermines his conviction is duplicative of police body-camera footage he was given months before he decided to plead guilty.

"These videos are decidedly not exculpatory," Lamberth wrote. "Such footage, conveniently omitted by the [Fox News] program, shows nearly all of Mr. Chansley's actions that day, including: carrying a six-foot-long pole armed with a spearhead, unlawfully entering the Capitol through a broken door, disobeying orders from law enforcement on more than a half-dozen occasions, screaming obscenities, entering the Senate chamber, climbing onto the Senate dais, sitting in the Vice President's chair, and leaving a threatening message for the Vice President." He added, "That law enforcement officers outnumbered by the quantity of rioters did not physically engage Mr. Chansley or impede his progress is irrelevant."

Lamberth said that if Chansley had gone to trial or fought conditions of the plea, as he now says he should have, he would have still been convicted and faced a higher sentence for not accepting responsibility. He said he was "disappointed" that Chansley had disavowed the remorse that had impressed the judge at sentencing.

"Such an about-face casts serious doubt on the veracity of any of Mr. Chansley' s claims, here or elsewhere," Lamberth wrote.

Chansley's current attorney, William Shipley, said on Twitter that his client "has moved forward" and will probably not challenge the conviction any further.

Several other defendants have argued unsuccessfully that the Fox News presentation is exonerating.

After dismissing Chansley's claims that the government failed to turn over information and that his attorney was not effective, Lamberth went on to express his concern with Carlson's misleading depiction on the riot, calling it not just "ill-advised" and inaccurate but "alarming."

"The host explicitly questioned the integrity of this Court - not to mention the legitimacy of the entire U.S. criminal justice system - with inflammatory characterizations of cherry-picked videos stripped of their proper context," he wrote, "language resembling the destructive, misguided rhetoric that fueled the events of January 6 in the first place."

The judge suggested that "members of the public who are concerned about the evidence presented in Mr. Chansley's case and others" read the public filings and attend court hearings.

"Those of us who have presided over dozens of cases arising from, listened to hundreds of hours of testimony describing, and reviewed thousands of pages of briefing about the attack on our democracy of January 6 know all too well that neither the events of that day nor any particular defendant's involvement can be fully captured in a seconds-long video carelessly, or perhaps even cynically, aired in a television segment or attached to a tweet," he wrote.

Carlson did not immediately return a request for comment.

The Capitol surveillance footage aired on Fox News was given to Carlson by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.); Carlson had demanded the video as a condition of supporting McCarthy's bid to lead the House against a right-wing revolt. Carlson was fired by Fox News in April, just after the network settled a defamation claim involving false claims about the 2020 election.

Video: Security footage from the Capitol shows Jacob Chansley entering the building after rioters broke through the front doors on Jan. 6, 2021.(The Washington Post)

Video available at the link

https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-rebukes-tucker-carlson-qanon-204257979.html

Giuliani team that tried to find evidence of 2020 fraud hands over hundreds of documents to January 6 probe.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...nie-kerik-trump-jack-smith-b2381097.html

The former New York City Police Department commissioner who collected spurious evidence of alleged voter fraud and manipulation for Donald Trump’s campaign has agreed to turn over hundreds of documents, according to court filings.

US Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith had sought those documents as part of a sweeping investigation into the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

But attorneys for Bernie Kerik had refused to share them, citing attorney-client privilege, as Mr Kerik was working for Trump-connected lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

The former president’s campaign has now withdrawn that claim of privilege, and Mr Kerik’s legal team has handed over thousands of documents to prosecutors investigating Mr Trump’s mindset and decision making as he baselessly stated that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged” against him despite a lack of evidence.

Mr Kerik’s attorney Timothy Parlatore had indicated he will meet with the special counsel team in the coming days.




Yeah yeah I know…hUntEr & hiLlaRy. Lol

If it wasnt on hunters laptop its fake!!!

Man who beat officer with flagpole during Capitol riot is sentenced to over 4 years in prison

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Arkansas truck driver who beat a police officer with a flagpole attached to an American flag during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison.

Peter Francis Stager struck the Metropolitan Police Department officer with his flagpole at least three times as other rioters pulled the officer, head first, into the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The bruised officer was among more than 100 police officers injured during the riot.

Stager also stood over and screamed profanities at another officer, who was seriously injured when several other rioters dragged him into the mob and beat him, according to federal prosecutors.

After the beatings, Stager was captured on video saying, “Every single one of those Capitol law enforcement officers, death is the remedy. That is the only remedy they get.”

U.S. Judge Rudolph Contreras sentenced Stager to four years and four months in prison, according to a spokesperson for the prosecutors’ office.

Stager, 44, of Conway, Arkansas, pleaded guilty in February to a felony charge of assaulting police with a dangerous weapon.

Prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of six years and six months.

Stager assaulted the officer during one of the most violent episodes of Jan. 6 — a battle between rioters and police guarding an entrance to the Capitol building in a tunnel on the Lower West Terrace.

Stager’s actions at the Capitol “were the epitome of disrespect for the law,” prosecutors said in a court filing.

“Stager joined a prolonged, multi-assailant attack on police officers, which resulted in injuries to the officers,” they wrote. “Stager himself wielded a flagpole and used it to strike at a vulnerable officer, who, lying face down in a mob of rioters had no means of defending himself.”

Stager’s truck driving job took him to Washington, D.C., on the day before then-President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6. Stager stayed overnight to attend Trump’s rally after delivering a load of produce, a decision that he will regret for the rest of his life, his lawyers said in a court filing.

Stager’s attorneys say he tried to help others in the crowd who were injured after the riot erupted. Shocked by what he saw, Stager had “reached his breaking point” and was “seeing red” when he picked up a flag on the ground, they said.

“Once the adrenaline wore off, Mr. Stager immediately called his wife to tell her he was horrified by his actions and that he was going to turn himself in upon returning to Arkansas,” his lawyers wrote.

More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Over 620 of them have pleaded guilty. Approximately 100 others have been convicted by juries or judges after trials. Nearly 600 have been sentenced, with over half receiving terms of imprisonment ranging from three days to 18 years.

Stager was indicted with eight other defendants on charges related to the tunnel battle. Four of his co-defendants also have pleaded guilty to assault charges.

Florida resident Mason Courson was sentenced in June to four years and nine months in prison. Michigan resident Justin Jersey was sentenced in February to four years and three months in prison. Michigan construction worker Logan Barnhart was sentenced in April to three years in prison. Georgia business owner Jack Wade Whitton is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 16.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-...yx7xylSy43ZEEwljrI-QU-24ivVxuE0LY7yKJtWY

“If you didn't know that TV footage was a video from January the sixth, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit,” - Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.

It is mind boggling he only got 4 years.

They had on MSNBC this morning that he thought the cop was antifa because of the shoes he was wearing.

Geez, what kinda shoes was he wearing... I want a pair because I must be Antifa.. I'm anti Fascist so there it is, I must be a member of Antifa and would you believe, nobody showed me the secret handshake or group footware,....