Convicted of nothing, other than the mass media hating him.
Give me a better choice to vote for. I will.
He hasn’t been to court yet to be convicted. He claims he’s innocent but wants complete immunity from any crime he’s committed while president. Why does he need immunity if he’s innocent? 90+ indictments and he’ll be convicted eventually then maybe pardon himself. It’s only matter of time. It’s the reason he’s running. To save himself. Not US. A monkey is a better choice than trump.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson
So you post opinion pieces all the time, claiming it as fact. The "news" anymore is nothing but opinion.
Let me explain the difference here. You claim that "news anymore is nothing but opinion". But the news is the news. The things I quote that trump said, he said. The convictions and sentences of the Jan.6th mob are news, not opinion. The sickening quites of politicians I post are true, not opinion. Just because it doesn't fit into your little box doesn't mean it isn't news. It means you've found an excuse to dismiss it. Now you are certainly correct when it comes to people that have opinion and talk shows on news channels. Like the Rachel Maddow's and Sean Hannity's of the world. They are most certainly not news. Which is exactly what you did here.
Laurence Elder is an American conservative political commentator and talk radio host. He had a radio talk show until April of 2022. His very job was to cater his message to conservatives. That is his career. To mold and include messages his audiences would follow and not being impartial. He is by his own job description exactly what you describe.
By contrast, a judge goes into the law profession. They must go to law school. And to make it to a state supreme court they have work themselves up the ladder of the court system. Their job by description is to adjudicate the law.
Somehow you have decided that a conservative mouthpiece has more credibility than people have dedicated their life to the study and application of the law because they are "liberals". You have made the decision that because the very talking heads you listen to claim they are liberals means they are not qualified to do their jobs properly.
Instead you call a conservative talking head the beacon of truth.
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"This, of course, does not stop the media — only 3.4% of American journalists are registered Republicans — from routinely calling Jan. 6 an "insurrection."
Prove that wrong.
Show your source.
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But, YOU are one that has posted repeatedly he was found guilty of insurrection.
Arch’s new stuck on stupid talking point…. Was he found guilty? You can’t make this crap up.
Face it arch, your golden boy, is a turd sandwich wrapped in racist fascist fantasy of ‘alt facts’ and dictatorial dreams of grandeur. And he has been found to be an insurrectionist leader by LAW! Remember when the law meant something to GOPers? Obviously, one of us was wrong about him, and the 91 indictments as of now, say it wasn’t me.
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Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
Seems trumps dementia is getting worse Can you imagine the right's outrage had biden said this?
Trump confuses Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi when talking about Jan. 6 Megan Lebowitz and Jake Traylor Updated Sat, January 20, 2024 at 1:07 PM EST·3 min read 447
Former President Donald Trump appeared to mistakenly refer to GOP rival Nikki Haley instead of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., when discussing the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at a campaign rally in New Hampshire on Friday night.
The mix-up came during Trump's remarks to a crowd of supporters in Concord, where he spoke for more than 90 minutes and repeatedly bashed Haley, who served in his administration as an ambassador to the United Nations and has never been a member of Congress.
“Nikki Haley, you know they, do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it, because of lots of things like Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don’t want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people,” Trump said.
Rumor has it neither one of them is his type. That may help explain it. He forgets those women. Just ask E. Jean Carroll who was in a picture with trump who said he had never seen her before in his life and when shown the picture mistook her for his wife. It happens all the time!
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Nikki Haley suggests Trump may not be ‘mentally fit’ to be president after he seems to confuse her with Pelosi
Brie Stimson Sat, January 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM EST·3 min read
Former South Carolina Gov. and Republican candidate for president Nikki Haley on Saturday suggested that former President Trump may not be "mentally fit" after he seemed to confuse her with ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while discussing the Jan. 6 riot.
"Last night Trump is at a rally and he’s going on and on, mentioning me multiple times as to why I didn’t take security during the Capitol riots. Why I didn’t handle Jan. 6 better. I wasn’t even in D.C. on Jan. 6. I wasn’t in office then," Haley told supporters at a rally in Keene, New Hampshire, in anticipation of the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary Tuesday.
She continued, "They’re saying he got confused, that he was talking about something else, he’s talking about Nancy Pelosi. He mentioned me multiple times in that scenario."
She said she didn’t want to say anything "derogatory" about Trump, "but when you’re dealing with the pressures of the presidency, we can’t have someone else that we question whether they’re mentally fit to do this. We can’t," she added, referring to suggestions that President Biden isn’t mentally fit.
While speaking in Concord, New Hampshire, Friday evening, Trump told his crowd, "By the way, they never report the crowd on Jan. 6. Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley. Do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it?"
Haley and Trump have stepped up their attacks on each other ahead of the New Hampshire primary. "All of it, because of lots of things, like Nikki Haley is in charge of security," he mistakenly said about Jan. 6. "We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don’t want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people."
Biden’s campaign was quick to post the clip on it’s X, formerly Twitter, "rapid response channel, with the caption: "Haley reacts to Trump’s delusional and confused rant last night where he suggested that she was Speaker of the House on January 6: He got confused. I question if he’s mentally fit."
With three days left until the Republican primary in New Hampshire, Haley and Trump have stepped up attacks against each other.
Haley finished a narrow third to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Iowa, but has surged past him in polling for the Granite State, although Trump maintains a double-digit lead in most polls.
Haley, 52, has repeatedly presented herself as a younger, fresher alternative to Biden, 81, and Trump, 77, and said there should be a mental fitness test for anyone holding office who is over 75.
It’s beyond the twilight zone that trump has a lead in anything but the number of crimes he’s committed. And Goper’s here with fingers in their ears going Lalalalalalal.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson
Former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro arrives at U.S. Federal Courthouse in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump White House official Peter Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced on Thursday to four months behind bars.
He was the second Trump aide convicted of contempt of Congress charges, after former White House adviser Steve Bannon, who also got a four-month sentence but is free pending appeal.
Navarro was found guilty of defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House Jan. 6 committee. He served as a White House trade adviser under then-President Donald Trump and later promoted the Republican’s baseless claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
He has vowed to appeal the verdict, saying he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because Trump had invoked executive privilege. A judge barred him from making that argument at trial, however, finding that he didn’t show Trump had actually invoked it.
Navarro said in court before his sentencing Thursday that the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack had led him to believe that it accepted his invocation of executive privilege. “Nobody in my position should be put in conflict between the legislative branch and the executive branch,” he told the judge.
The judge told Navarro that it took “chutzpah” for him to assert that he accepted responsibility for his actions while also suggesting that his prosecution was politically motivated. “You are not a victim. You are not the object of a political prosecution,” the judge said. “These are circumstances of your own making.
Navarro’s lawyers had advised him not to address the judge, but he said he wanted to speak after hearing the judge express disappointment in him. Responding to a question about why he didn’t initially seek a lawyer’s counsel, he told the judge, “I didn’t know what to do, sir.”
The judge is allowing Navarro’s defense to submit a written brief on the question of allowing him to remain free pending appeal.
Justice Department prosecutors said Navarro tried to “hide behind claims of privilege” even before he knew what the committee wanted, showing a “disdain” for the committee that should warrant a longer sentence. Prosecutors had asked a judge to sentence him to six months behind bars and impose a $200,000 fine.
Defense attorneys said Trump did claim executive privilege, putting Navarro in an “untenable position,” and they asked for a sentence of probation and a $100 fine.
Bannon, who also made executive-privilege arguments, was convicted of two counts.
Navarro’s sentencing comes after a judge rejected his bid for a new trial. His attorneys had argued that jurors may have been improperly influenced by political protesters outside the courthouse when they took a break from deliberations. Shortly after their break, the jurors found Navarro guilty of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress.
But U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta found that Navarro didn’t show that the eight-minute break had any effect on the September verdict. He found no protest was underway and no one approached the jurors — they interacted only with each other and the court officer assigned to accompany them.
Reagan-appointed judge warns GOP's 'preposterous' claims about Jan. 6 could pose threat Judge Royce Lamberth says he's "shocked" that "meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream" as some Republican politicians defend Jan. 6 rioters.
Jan. 25, 2024, 5:17 PM EST By Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON — A Republican-appointed federal judge who has served on the bench for 37 years slammed prominent politicians for their "preposterous" claims about how the courts have handled Jan. 6 cases and their attempts to "rewrite history" about the U.S. Capitol attack, saying such rhetoric could foreshadow future far-right violence.
Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, appointed to the bench by former President Ronald Reagan in 1987, said at a resentencing hearing Thursday that he is "shocked" at how prominent political figures have talked about the convicted criminals who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, calling the politicians' remarks "preposterous" and warning that such rhetoric "could presage further danger to our country."
While Lamberth did not refer to the politicians by name, he used quotations from Reps. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga. (who said rioters behaved "in an orderly fashion" like tourists), Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. (who called Jan. 6 inmates "political prisoners"), and Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. (who, echoing former President Donald Trump, called Jan. 6 criminals "hostages"). In 2022, the Republican National Committee passed a resolution referring to the events of Jan. 6 as "legitimate political discourse."
"The Court is accustomed to defendants who refuse to accept that they did anything wrong. But in my thirty-seven years on the bench, I cannot recall a time when such meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream," Lamberth said, according to his prepared remarks.
"I have been dismayed to see distortions and outright falsehoods seep into the public consciousness,” Lamberth continued before he issued a stark warning: "The Court fears that such destructive, misguided rhetoric could presage further danger to our country."
Lamberth, a former Judge Advocate General Corps captain who served in Vietnam, said he could not "condone the shameless attempts" to misrepresent what happened on Jan. 6. The court, he said, "cannot condone the notion that those who broke the law on January 6 did nothing wrong, or that those duly convicted with all the safeguards of the United States Constitution, including a right to trial by jury in felony cases, are political prisoners or hostages."
Lamberth then made an effort to "set the record straight, based on what I’ve learned presiding over many January 6 prosecutions, hearing from dozens of witnesses, watching hundreds of hours of video footage, and reading thousands of pages of evidence."
"On January 6, 2021, a mob of people invaded and occupied the United States Capitol, using force to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power mandated by the Constitution and our republican heritage," he said. "The rioters interfered with a necessary step in the constitutional process, disrupted the lawful transfer of power, and thus jeopardized the American constitutional order. ... This was not patriotism; it was the antithesis of patriotism."
Lamberth went on to say that it was "a matter of right and wrong" and that it fell to judges to say the actions of those who broke the law on Jan. 6 were wrong.
"The Court does not expect its remarks to fully stem the tide of falsehoods. But I hope a little truth will go a long way," he said.
More than 1,250 people have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to the Justice Department. More than 700 defendants have entered voluntary guilty pleas, meaning they appeared before judges and admitted under penalty of perjury that they had, in fact, engaged in criminal activity on Jan. 6, according to the Justice Department.
Just this week, Edward Richmond Jr. of Louisiana, who was previously convicted of voluntary manslaughter for killing an Iraqi civilian while deployed overseas, was arrested and charged with assaulting law enforcement officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Richmond, federal authorities say, used a baton to assault law enforcement officers battling rioters at the lower west tunnel, where some of the most extreme violence of the day took place. Richmond will plead not guilty, said his attorney, John McLindon.
A day after Richmond's arrest, federal authorities on Tuesday arrested Andy Steven Oliva-Lopez, whom online sleuths identified as the man who was photographed and recorded using chemical spray to assault law enforcement officers at the west tunnel on Jan. 6, according to the FBI. It is unclear whether Oliva-Lopez has entered a plea.
Are you pretending to believe they care about the law? Just read the immigration thread. All they care about is doing what "they think is right". Saying and promoting the things they "feel". They have no concern about following the law or saying things to incite further division and violence. That's actually what they want.
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Proud Boys member sentenced to prison on Jan. 6 charges after insulting judge
Proud Boys member Marc Bru has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges related to storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 after he insulted the judge who punished him.
Bru repeatedly interrupted Chief Judge James Boasberg, calling him a “clown” and a “fraud” presiding over a “kangaroo court.” Boasberg warned him that he could be kicked out of the courtroom if he continued, The Associated Press (AP) reported.
“You can give me 100 years and I’d do it all over again,” said Bru, who was handcuffed and shackled. Boasberg determined Bru had no remorse.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement that Bru, a resident of Vancouver, Washington, was also fined $7,946 and owes $2,000 in restitution.
Bru, a member of the far-right Proud Boys militia group from Washington state, was found guilty in October of felonies related to the insurrection, including obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder and multiple misdemeanors for participating in the riots and entering the Capitol building.
Prosecutors described Bru as one of the least remorseful rioters who participated in the insurrection. Bru planned for a “January 6 2.0” attack to take over the government in Portland, Ore., just weeks after the riot in Washington, D.C., the AP reported.
“He wanted a repeat of January 6, only he implied this time would be more violent,” prosecutors said.
The DOJ said Bru charged the makeshift barricades police officers made with a bicycle rack and used his body weight to push against it. Bru did not attend the “Stop the Steal” rally hosted by former President Trump, authorities said, adding that he joined other rioters inside the Capitol and entered the Senate gallery and in total, spent about 13 minutes inside.
Bru had failed to appear at two court hearings since June. He represented himself in court and had an attorney on standby, the AP reported.
Prosecutors recommended Bru be sentenced to seven years and three months in prison.
More than 1,200 people have been charged with crimes related to storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. About 900 have pleaded guilty, and more than 750 have been sentenced, with two-thirds receiving imprisonment, data compiled by the AP found.
Jan. 6 rioter who flipped officer over ledge gets more than 6 years in prison
A rioter who flipped a law enforcement officer over a ledge during the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol was sentenced to more than six years in prison Tuesday, according to multiple reports.
New York resident Ralph Celentano, 56, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison. District Judge Timothy Kelly said Celentano’s actions Jan. 6 were “disgraceful” and the attack on the officer was “a truly cowardly and despicable thing to do,” NBC News reported.
Celentano was arrested in 2022 in connection to his role in the Capitol riots and was found guilty last year of multiple misdemeanor and felony charges, including assaulting law enforcement officers. According to the prosecutors, Celentano made his way to the front of the rioters gathered at the Lower West Terrace, where he engaged in several altercations with law enforcement officers during the Capitol riot.
According to court documents, Celentano and other rioters successfully breached the police line. He then spotted a Capitol Police officer with his back turned near a raised platform, and hit the officer in a “football style tackle,” according to the documents. The documents said the officer then flipped over the ledge and fell onto the officers below him.
The government had asked for Celentano to be sentenced to 135 months in prison, three years supervised release, a $2,000 restitution and a $300 special assessment, according to a sentencing memorandum last year.
“Celentano’s conduct on January 6, 2021 demonstrates a violent character and disrespect for law enforcement, which weighs in favor of a lengthy term of incarceration,” the sentencing memo states.
Colorado man sentenced to prison for assaulting police officers during Jan. 6 riot
A Colorado man was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for assaulting law enforcement officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Why it matters: Even more than three years later, the Capitol riot continues to be a lightning rod for both Republicans and Democrats as the effort to prosecute participants in the insurrection churns on.
State of play: Jonathan David Grace, 49, was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $5,000 in fines, the Department of Justice announced in a press release Tuesday.
Grace will also need to pay $2,000 in restitution. After being arrested last March, Grace pleaded guilty to a felony assault charge back in October for his actions during the riot.
According to the Justice Department, Grace was part of a mob that confronted police officers in a tunnel on the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6. Grace remained in the tunnel "fighting police officers" for almost an hour, per the press release.
The big picture: To date, more than 1,265 people across all 50 states have been charged in connection to the insurrection, per the press release.
Among them, more than 440 people have been charged with "assaulting or impeding law enforcement."
At least 23 people with Colorado ties have been arrested and charged with roughly 100 federal crimes for their roles in the attack, making the state one of the top for those indicted.
Recently, Colorado's Supreme Court made the unprecedented move of barring Trump from the state's primary ballots in the 2024 election. Trump has appealed the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Vet who killed Iraqi civilian ordered to jail on Capitol riot charges
A military veteran who shot and killed a handcuffed civilian in Iraq nearly 20 years ago was ordered jailed Tuesday on charges that he used a metal baton to assault police officers during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Chief Judge James Boasberg agreed with prosecutors that Edward Richmond Jr., 40, of Geismar, Louisiana, is a danger to the community. Richmond initially was released after his Jan. 22 arrest.
FBI agents found an AR-15 assault rifle in Richmond’s closet when they searched his Louisiana home. Richmond is prohibited from possessing firearms after his 2004 manslaughter conviction for fatally shooting an Iraqi cow herder in the head while serving in the U.S. Army.
“The government is concerned that, under growing pressure, he may snap again,” a prosecutor wrote in a court filing.
The judge described Richmond’s conduct at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as “pretty troubling to me.”
The prosecutor said Richmond was trying to live “off the grid” with untraceable income before his arrest on charges including civil disorder and assaulting police with a dangerous weapon. But the judge said he didn’t view Richmond as a flight risk, as prosecutors argued.
Last Wednesday, a federal magistrate judge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ordered Richmond’s release from custody. Prosecutors persuaded Boasberg to overrule the magistrate’s decision.
The judge ordered Richmond to surrender to the U.S. Marshals Service next Monday. Richmond is the sole caregiver for his 16-year-old son. The judge agreed to give Richmond time to make arrangements for his son’s care while he is in jail.
“I know it’s important to you. It’s important to me also,” the judge told Richmond, who appeared remotely with his Louisiana-based attorney, John McLindon.
McLindon said prosecutors are relying on “antiquated incidents” in Richmond’s life to argue that he is a danger to the community.
“There is not one shred of evidence that in the last three years he has engaged in any type of violence or crimes. He has simply worked and raised his son,” the defense attorney wrote.
Richmond was 20 when an Army court-martial panel convicted him of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced him to three years of military confinement for killing Muhamad Husain Kadir in February 2004. Richmond also was dishonorably discharged from the Army.
The Army said Richmond shot Kadir in the back of the head from about six feet away after the man stumbled. Richmond testified that he didn’t know Kadir was handcuffed and believed the Iraqi man was going to harm a fellow soldier.
Richmond initially was charged with unpremeditated murder, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. But the panel of five officers and five enlisted soldiers reduced the charge to voluntary manslaughter.
Richmond was dressed in tactical gear when he attacked police outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit.
Body camera footage captured Richmond repeatedly assaulting police officers with a black baton in a tunnel on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace, the FBI said. Police struggled for hours to stop a mob of Donald Trump supporters from entering the Capitol through the same tunnel entrance.
“January 6 was not a one-time, innocent mistake, but rather one example of a pattern of dangerous behavior; of responding to tense situations with violence,” wrote the prosecutor, Victoria Sheets.
Sheets said the rifle found in Richmond’s home was registered to his ex-wife. Prosecutors plan to charge Richmond with a crime in connection with the gun, Sheets said.
“He knows he’s not supposed to have this weapon,” she told the judge. “He knows what those weapons can do.”
A witness helped the FBI identify Richmond as somebody who had traveled to Washington with several other people to serve as a “security team” for the witness for rallies planned for Jan. 6, the affidavit says.
Over 100 police officers were injured during the riot. More than 1,200 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol attack.
Body camera footage captured Richmond repeatedly assaulting police officers with a black baton in a tunnel on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace, the FBI said. Police struggled for hours to stop a mob of [insert name here]*supporters from entering the Capitol through the same tunnel entrance.
I'm not a part of this conversation, nor do I plan to be.
I simply quoted this slice from the article to remind us all what happened that day. Reading these two sentences brought back a flood of images, and the dead feeling I had inside as I watched it all go down in real time. We had just come home from a meeting with our estate planner, turned on the television... and saw this abomination. Two offspring, raised by The Greatest Generation, watching the Capitol building their fathers risked life and limb to protect and defend in WWII, being sacked by angry, misled people who were born on this soil, just like you & me.
These people did this vile thing to My Nation's Capitol. And they did it in front of us all.
Time/memory has a way of sanding down the edges of things that once had sharp, well-defined corners. Occasionally, we need reminders- so we don't forget how stark, primal and visceral the moment actually was. Americans died on that day. On the site of the heart of our democracy.
12/7/41. 9/11/2001. 1/6/2021.
These three dates represent to me, the most brazen attacks upon US soil since the Civil War. Only one of these attacks came from within the US community.
They are not 'persecuted patriots.' They are not 'political prisoners.' They are criminals who attacked our country with a strategic goal.
We now return you to your regularly-scheduled broadcast.
*name redacted from original article quote, because seditious conspiracy is the same, under any name. I had to look long and hard to find a 'Capitol noose photo' that didn't feature partisan campaign flags from that day. Short version: I did my best to make this about the state of America on that day. Truth: democracy is never far from threats like this- from any and all angles.
This thread has never really been a conversation Clem. Just posts showing what actually happened that day and the crimes they committed. The reason it has never become a conversation is because it's been avoided and ignored. As if sticking their fingers in their collective ears and going la, la, la changes what happened. As if ignoring it changes that trump did everything he could to overthrow an election. As if he didn't sit there for hours watching it while doing nothing. They don't wish to address any of that and as such it's never been and probably never will be a conversation on this board.
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FBI arrests Jan. 6 rioter IDed with help of facial recognition and a throwback Eagles hat
A Facebook photo from a family visit to a pumpkin patch helped confirm the New Jersey man's identification by online sleuths.
WASHINGTON — The FBI this week arrested a New Jersey man who wore a throwback Philadelphia Eagles beanie to the Jan. 6 riot after online "sedition hunters" identified him with the help of facial recognition and Facebook photos from a 2020 family trip to a pumpkin patch.
Lee Giobbie, 40, a financial adviser from Eastampton, was arrested Tuesday and charged with several federal crimes, including felony charges of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. Giobbie, federal authorities alleged, yelled "move the gates!" over a bullhorn before the barricades on the east side of the Capitol were breached on Jan. 6, 2021. He was later recorded at the front of the mob yelling "push, push, push, push!” as it broke through another police line and then helped breach the Capitol, pushing through the east doors leading into the rotunda, authorities said.
"We need something to break the door down!" Giobbie said, according to the FBI, which said open-source video also shows Giobbie pushing against a police shield during the chaos.
Giobbie, authorities said, was "one of the first rioters to enter" and "aggressively pushed his way through the Rotunda Door as police were actively trying to defend it." Inside the Capitol, Giobbie was briefly detained by an officer, and he ultimately left the Capitol through a door on the west side of the building, according to the FBI and open-source evidence gathered by online sleuths.
Online sleuths identified Giobbie in 2022 and reported him to the FBI that year, and they reported additional information about him last year. They turned up a 2020 family photo from a trip to a pumpkin patch, posted a few months before Jan. 6, in which Giobbie was wearing the same Philadelphia Eagles beanie the FBI said he wore on Jan. 6.
An FBI affidavit, citing help from confidential human sources, also featured an image that compared a small mole or freckle on Giobbie's right cheek that appeared in both Giobbie's professional work portrait and high-quality images of Giobbie taken on Jan. 6. Small facial markings can help confirm matches produced by facial recognition, a tool that has proven very useful to the online sleuths who have aided the FBI in cases against hundreds of Capitol rioters, who have identified hundreds of additional rioters like Giobbie.
Hope Lefeber, an attorney for Giobbie, told NBC News that Giobbie was made aware that he was under investigation several months ago and confirmed that it did appear that Giobbie "was inside the Capitol building." Giobbie, she said, was not arrested at his home, and his home was not searched, but agents served a search warrant for his phone.
Lefeber said she had communicated to the government that Giobbie would have voluntarily surrendered and said that sending agents out to arrest him was a waste of government time.
"This man has not engaged in any subversive activities, has not been destructive in any way, has not done a damn thing since Jan. 6," Lefeber said. "Now we'll have to resolve this and see where this goes."
The Eagles used the version of their logo featured on Giobbie's hat from the late 1980s until 1996, when the modern Eagles logo was introduced. The throwback logo, used when the Eagles wore kelly green jerseys rather than their current midnight green color, has proven immensely popular among Eagles fans like Giobbie, who, according to social media posts, also roots for the New Jersey Devils.
The Eagles set off a merchandising bonanza when they reintroduced their old-school logo and kelly green jersey before the 2023 season, which ended with their loss Jan. 15 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Eagles players wore the throwback uniforms during their games against the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills this season. Fanatics, the ubiquitous sportswear manufacturer, had trouble stocking the throwback version of legendary Eagles center Jason Kelce's jersey, which have been listed for hundreds of dollars on eBay.
The Eagles certainly were not the only sports team whose gear was spotted on Capitol rioters. A former Boston K-9 officer who has been charged in the attack, for example, wore "a beanie with the logos of several Boston sports teams" to the Capitol on Jan. 6, two charged rioters wore Washington Capitols jerseys, another convicted rioter wore a New York Yankees hat, a charged Georgia man wore a Georgia Bulldogs hat, a Michigan man who pleaded guilty wore a Michigan sweatshirt, and a charged "internet pornography personality" was known to online sleuths as #RightWingRedWing because of his Detroit Red Wings gear.
The FBI has arrested about 1,250 people in connection with the Capitol attack, and about 900 have pleaded guilty. Online "sedition hunters" know the names of hundreds of additional rioters who have not been arrested.
"As former chairwoman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, Horn very early on became a "Never Trump" campaigner, working with the anti-Trump Lincoln Project to oppose his candidacy. She said the events of Jan. 6, 2020 and the 91 charges pending against him indicate he's not worthy of being president again.
"I will not vote for Trump and I will not vote for a Republican unwilling to denounce Trump," said Horn, 59. "He is a grotesque, narcissistic, emotionally ill criminal who has already made it clear he is willing to toss aside the Constitution and incite an insurrection. That goes completely against everything I used to believe the Republican Party was about."
Pennsylvania man seen as Jan. 6 instigator convicted on multiple counts
Ryan Samsel, one of the individuals who prosecutors accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted Friday on multiple felony counts, along with four co-defendants.
Samsel was one of the first people to confront the police on Jan. 6 outside the Capitol, with prosecutors saying he was part of a group that breached a restricted perimeter on the Capitol grounds and “paved the way” for other rioters to storm the area.
Prosecutors said Samsel and the four co-defendants “ignited a fire that burned for over four hours at the Capitol,” The New York Times reported.
Federal charges were filed against Samsel a month after the riot, with prosecutors alleging he attacked a Capitol Police Officer, Caroline Edwards, who suffered a concussion.
He was found guilty Friday of assaulting Edwards, and convicted on felony counts of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Samsel, along with co-defendants James Tate Grant, Paul Russell Johnson, Stephen Chase Randolph and Jason Benjamin Blythe, were all found guilty of civil disorder, the DOJ said in a release.
The DOJ said Randolph, like Samsel, was found guilty of assaulting Edwards, while the three others convicted Friday were found guilty of assaulting another officer, among other charges.
The individuals were found not guilty on three misdemeanor charges and said they were not aware that former Vice President Mike Pence, who was protected by the Secret Service, was in the building, NBC News reported. However, they were found guilty of one misdemeanor charge for committing an act of physical violence on the Capitol grounds, the DOJ said.
Video circulated showing Samsel speaking with Proud Boy member Joe Biggs, who is sentenced to 17 years in prison, near the Capitol before Samsel began taking down bike racks used as a line of defense for police officers. Edwards then fell backwards, hitting her head.
Samsel is being held in custody and sentencing for him and the codefendants will be June 13.
The DOJ said nearly 900 people have been convicted of crimes stemming from the Jan. 6 riot, with 149 people convicted of assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers or employees.
It was just another tour day at the Capitol building per the GOP narrative. You know, because everyday of regular tours ends up with about 900 felony charges against tourists.
I think I have figured out why Eve is so drawn to MMA.........
FBI used MMA fight poster to identify Jan. 6 rioter from Tennessee
WASHINGTON (WATE) — A Tennessee man pleaded guilty to a felony charge earlier this month for his action during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Devin McNulty, 28, of Loudon pleaded guilty to one count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers on Feb. 1 in Washington D.C.
He initially faced charges including an act of physical violence in a Capitol building and engaging in physical violence, and civil disorder. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 28.
According to court documents, the FBI first learned about McNulty through an anonymous tip. Agents were able to identify him by comparing photos and videos from the Capitol to a poster advertising a Knoxville mixed-martial arts fight McNulty competed in.
Investigators identified his cell phone number and used call logs and data from Snapchat to track his whereabouts from Knoxville on Jan. 5 to Washington D.C. the next day.
McNulty was seen on various videos shared on social media from the Capitol grounds, including at the west front of the Capitol building and scaling the retaining wall to reach the Upper West Terrace.
ther footage appears to show him pushing directly against a police officer’s riot shield. An officer interviewed following the riot said he attempted to gain control of their shields, forcing them to exert increasingly more effort to counteract him. The officer described their interaction with McNulty as “aggressive” and “persistent.”
search warrant for Google accounts linked to McNulty showed searches for “flights from TYS to Washington on Jan 6, 2021, returning Jan 8, 2021.” TYS is the airport code for McGhee Tyson Airport. Other search terms included “charges against rioters,” “What we know about the people arrested after the Capitol riots” and “how to mass delete Gmail emails.”
He was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia on June 13, 2023.
Man who assaulted officers with hockey stick on Jan. 6 sentenced to prison
A Michigan man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for assaulting law enforcement officers with a hockey stick during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
District Judge Tanya Chutkan sentenced Michael Joseph Foy, 32, to 40 months in prison and two years of supervised release for actions he took during the Capitol attack. He was convicted of obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers for those actions last year in a stipulated bench trial.
Court documents show Foy traveled from Wixom, Mich., to the nation’s capital to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally, according to a press release from the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia. He attended wearing an American flag around his shoulders and carried a “Trump 2020” flag that was attached to a hockey stick.
The press release stated Foy pushed his way through a mob of protesters to the entrance of the Lower West Terrace tunnel of the Capitol building, where he picked up a sharp metal pole and “threw it over the head of rioters into the body of a police officer.”
The pole knocked the officer into the archway and Foy proceeded to use his hockey stick to attack the police, according to the release. Video footage showed Foy swinging his hockey stick and hitting officers at least 11 times within 16 seconds, including an officer who was already injured on the ground and another who was knocked backward.
Court documents say that Foy swung his hockey stick over his head and downward at police officers as if he were chopping wood with an ax. Body-worn camera, taken from a police officer prone on the ground, shows Foy swinging down onto the officer’s exposed body. Court documents say Foy attacked an officer in the face, head, neck, and body area, and not in self-defense.
The press release said he shouted “let’s go” to other rioters after assaulting multiple officers with the hockey stick. He then proceeded to climb through the shattered window, bringing his hockey stick with him.
The attorney’s office noted that more than 1,313 individuals have been charged with crimes related to the riot at the Capitol since Jan. 6, 2021.
We’d get 40 months for any kind of resistance of arrest, let alone assaulting officers or blocking congressional work. I don’t get these light ass sentences for traitors.
Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
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