The Trump Riot Aftermath (Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Proud Boys join the club)

[Bang]

But ther CarnserTOOSHIN sez I ain't gotsta have no Crool an' Unyooseral punishment, and shorely sendin' me t' JAIL is bad enuff, but in DC I'd face many a'hardship.
Ain't y'all gotsa WHITE jail?

~Cooter
 

Edited February 2 by Bang

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

Wouldn't be surprised if there were more blacks in Kentucky jails than in D.C. jails lol...

[China]

Jan. 6 Rioter Said to Have Instigated Breach Is Convicted

 

A Jan. 6 rioter who prosecutors argued was a key instigator of the violence that led to the takeover of the U.S. Capitol was convicted of multiple felonies on Friday, alongside four co-defendants.

 

Authorities long pointed to Ryan Samsel as the man whose actions were a tipping point that turned a rowdy pro-Donald Trump protest into a downright violent riot, with him being one of the first—and possibly the first—person to push through barricades and throw them at officers at what is known as the Peace Circle.

 

Samsel, a 39-year-old barber from Pennsylvania, was convicted Friday on federal assault charges and for obstructing the confirmation of the 2020 presidential election. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for June, and Samsel could spend multiple years in prison.

 

Investigators said there were photos and videos that showed Samsel was the rioter responsible for knocking a U.S. Capitol officer unconscious after hurling a barricade at her and knocking her to the ground, where she hit her head.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[GhostofSparta]

7 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

So basically he got in good with the Nazi gang and is having fun with his new buddies?

[The 12th Commandment]

12 minutes ago, GhostofSparta said:

So basically he got in good with the Nazi gang and is having fun with his new buddies?

3 hots and a cot.  

[Dan T.]

For some reason, seeing this guy get popped made me laugh out loud.

 

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

They should have done the same with Bannon.

[China]

Dillon man guilty of felony obstruction charges for role in Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach

 

A Dillon man was found guilty Wednesday of several felony and misdemeanor charges related to his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.

 

Henry Phillip “Hank” Muntzer, 55, was found guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia of obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder, both felonies, following a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb.

 

Muntzer was arrested by the FBI on Jan. 18, 2021.

 

In addition to the felonies, Judge Cobb found Muntzer guilty of misdemeanor charges of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

 

Henry Phillip “Hank” Muntzer's storefront located on South Atlantic Street in Dillon.

 

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[TheGreatBuzz]

Edit:  misleading tweet.  Sorry.

Edited February 13 by TheGreatBuzz

[China]

‘petekrilldontgiveaf–––’: Man in ‘Trump 2020’ sweatshirt who posted TikTok video from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is going to prison

 

A flag-waving man wearing camouflage pants, a “Trump 2020″ sweatshirt, a helmet, and goggles, who posted a video of himself on a scaffold at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on his TikTok account, “petekrilldontgiveaf—,” is going to prison for it, authorities said this week.

 

 

Peter Michael Krill, Jr., 55, of New Jersey, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison with 12 months of supervised release. He was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution, authorities said in a news release. Krill pleaded guilty in October to a felony charge of civil disorder.

 

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[China]

The Chesebro Docs: Two Weeks of Chaos

 

onald Trump’s months-long effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election culminated on a single, now-infamous day: Jan. 6.

 

But there was an alternate scenario gamed out by Trump’s lawyers — one that would have expanded the hours of indecision caused by the Trump campaign’s efforts and stretched out the process for weeks, all the way until Jan. 20, 2021, the Constitution’s ironclad deadline for the transfer of power. If their scheme succeeded, these lawyers hoped, Joe Biden would never take office.

 

The details of this scheme are being revealed here for the first time. They are drawn from a trove of documents provided to Michigan prosecutors by Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro, including thousands of pages of emails among Trump’s lawyers, some containing information that has never before been published.

 

The plan would have seen the Trump campaign pushing Republican lawmakers to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s win not just on Jan. 6, but for days afterwards. GOP legislators would have feigned confusion over competing slates of electors, paralyzing Congress as the Trump campaign brought increasing pressure on the Supreme Court to step in and resolve the election in their favor. 

 

To do this, Chesebro formulated various ways to invalidate the Electoral Count Act, the law laying out the procedures for Congress to certify the election on Jan. 6. Critically, the law places tight limits on how long individual lawmakers can debate disputed electoral votes — nullifying or inflating those limits, capped at five minutes per member and two hours total, could make Jan. 6 go on indefinitely. 

 

Chesebro wondered at one point whether “legal giants like [Sen. Ted] Cruz and [Sen. Mike] Lee would back” the effort and speculated that delay would finally “force serious review” in Congress of election fraud allegations; John Eastman suggested in talking points aimed at members of Congress that senators could, as a “fallback,” filibuster the five-minutes-per-member rule, turning the possibility of limited debate over several states into a process that could stretch out for an eternity. 

 

TPM obtained the trove of documents after Michigan prosecutors with Attorney General Dana Nessel’s (D) office sent attorneys a tranche of records provided by Chesebro as part of his cooperation with their investigation into the fake electors. Chesebro supplied the documents, which include emails, texts, a 4.5 hour interview, and legal memos, to prosecutors. The records do not provide a comprehensive accounting of the Trump campaign’s entire effort to reverse the President’s loss; they reflect what Chesebro provided as he sought to avoid further prosecution. 

 

On a normal Jan. 6, the Vice President opens the electoral votes submitted by the states. Before a 2022 reform to the Electoral Count Act went into effect, one senator and one representative objecting to a particular state’s results would lead to time-limited debate. 

 

By discarding the Electoral Count Act, Trump campaign lawyers suggested, Republicans in Congress could halt the certification and bring forth endless claims of election fraud in swing states, a process that, according to the documents, Chesebro hoped would create a spectacle, revealing the GOP-friendly Supreme Court as the only rational, functioning actor left standing. 

 

It was a Rube Goldberg device of a plan, and one that sought to use chaos as the invisible force drawing the high court — and whoever else the Trump campaign attorneys believed could resolve the election — into the mess. The hours of violence that ultimately emerged on Jan. 6 as Congress met to certify Biden’s win offer a glimpse of the potential consequences that might have accompanied weeks of delay in formalizing a winner. But for a Trump campaign desperate for a win, extending Jan. 6 to Jan. 20 would allow the high court to serve as a kind of deus ex machina as Congress — and the country — remained mired in strife over the failure to complete the legal formalities around Joe Biden’s election. 

Delaying certification of the President for that long may have led to some strange consequences, from the standpoint of the Trump diehards who pushed it: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi becoming “acting president” if the election could not be certified, or the Senate electing Mike Pence in Trump’s stead. 

 

“Through delay or chaos they were setting up a constitutional crisis,” said David Becker, a former DOJ attorney who now works on election security with local officials at the Center for Election Innovation and Research. 

 

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[LadySkinsFan]

They're working hard on Coup 2.0 right now. Trump needs to go on trial now. 

[AlvinWaltonIsMyBoy]

Sounds like text book treason to me.

 

[LadySkinsFan]

1 minute ago, AlvinWaltonIsMyBoy said:

Sounds like text book treason to me.

 

 

The still need the military, which they didn't have. The commanding officers didn't cooperate.

[TheGreatBuzz]

26 minutes ago, LadySkinsFan said:

 

The still need the military, which they didn't have. The commanding officers didn't cooperate.

There is far more of his supporters in positions of power than is safe.

[LadySkinsFan]

22 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

There is far more of his supporters in positions of power than is safe.

 

Fully agree with this! 

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

 

[China]

Massachusetts Man Arrested on Felony and Misdemeanor Charges for Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

 

A Massachusetts man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges related to his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It is alleged that his actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.

 

Thomas J. Method, 57, of Framingham, Massachusetts, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with a felony offense of obstruction of an official proceeding. In addition, Method is charged with several misdemeanor offenses, including knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.

 

Method was arrested today in Framingham and made his initial appearance in the District of Massachusetts.

 

 According to court documents, Method traveled from his home in Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., and participated in the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021. Video footage taken from that day depicts a man, allegedly later identified as Method, entering the U.S. Capitol building amongst a riotous crowd.

 

Law enforcement identified a video manifesto recorded on Jan. 5, 2021, where Method allegedly stated: “Hopefully the strength in numbers and this movement will get more Senators on board, and we can overthrow this . . . . I don’t care what happens as long as Trump maintains his presidency. I have a feeling it’s going to be mayhem, chaos, and pandemonium.”

 

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[Califan007 The Constipated]

On 2/13/2024 at 9:24 PM, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From that same thread...synced video footage of the moments right before the gun being fired and right afterwards:

 

 

 

 

Full text of the tweet:

 

"Derrick Evans recently stated in an interview about the #Cowpoke footage: "I do want to make it known that during this moment, everything was peaceful and then it started again, I guess—instead of starting, it started again after he fired the gun in the air. It might have been a coincidence. I don't know."

 

The only thing correct about that statement is Derrick's last three words—"I don't know."

 

Derrick Evans gets nothing right here. To illustrate this, here's footage from the West Plaza in the moments leading up to #Cowpoke firing his gun into the air—filmed by Tommy Tatum and synced to security cam footage. Turn on subtitles for Tommy's words. There's nothing "peaceful" about this period of time on the west side of the Capitol."

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

"2,000 Mules" and the Biden impeachment both sinking like a stone...

 

 

Election truthers admit in court they don't have evidence for Georgia voter fraud: report

 

https://www.rawstory.com/right-wing-group-admits-no-evidence-fraud/

 

True the Vote, the right-wing group whose alleged data formed the basis of the election conspiracy theorist documentary "2,000 Mules," told a court it doesn't have any records to support its claims of extensive voter fraud in Georgia, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday.

 

"True the Vote said in a recent court filing that it doesn’t know the identity of its own anonymous source who told a story of a 'ballot trafficking' scheme allegedly organized by a network of unnamed groups paying $10 per ballot delivered," reported Mark Niesse. "True the Vote also told the court it doesn’t have documents about illegal ballot collection, the name of its purported informant or confidentiality agreements it previously said existed. The records were subpoenaed by the State Election Board in 2022."

 

[...]When the book version of "2,000 Mules" was published, it actually had to be recalled by the publisher to scrub out further unsupportable claims that specific, named nonprofits were involved in illegal ballot harvesting, and that the operation had ties to "antifa" activists and Black Lives Matter.

 

 

[China]

How judges in D.C. federal court are increasingly pushing back against Jan. 6 conspiracy theories

 

In a Republican presidential primary season that has seen former President Donald Trump and other GOP leaders refer to Jan. 6 defendants as "hostages" and openly promote conspiracy theories about the attack on the Capitol, one institution has been at the forefront of countering those baseless claims: the federal court in Washington, D.C.

 

In a growing number of cases, judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia are using their platform to swat down conspiracy theories perpetuated by some Jan. 6 defendants and their supporters.

 

Several hearings and exchanges witnessed by CBS News over the past two months illustrate how judges are still confronting false claims about what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, and how they have responded to defendants and political figures who continue to perpetuate falsehoods about the attack.

 

Some of the judges, who share responsibility and oversight of more than 1,200 Capitol riot prosecutions, have ratcheted up their denunciations of efforts to rewrite the history of the attack on the Capitol, just as Trump campaigns to return to the White House.

 

In early January, Trump said he considered the defendants imprisoned for their roles in the attack on the Capitol "hostages" and openly talked about offering them pardons. GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, a member of House Republican leadership, appeared on a Sunday morning talk show and echoed those comments.

 

"I have concerns about the treatment of Jan. 6 hostages," Stefanik told "Meet the Press." "I believe that we're seeing the weaponization of the federal government against not just President Trump, but we're seeing it against conservatives." 

 

At a sentencing hearing for Capitol siege defendant James Little two weeks later, Judge Royce Lamberth, one of the most senior judges on the district court in D.C., uncorked a scathing rebuke of the falsehoods about Jan. 6 and those who were involved.

 

Little is a truck driver from North Carolina who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful picketing and parading. The Justice Department said he cited conspiracy theories about Jan. 6 during an interview with FBI agents in 2021: "[Little] blamed D.C. and Capitol Police for antagonizing the crowd, blamed supporters of Antifa and Black Lives Matter for leading supporters of the former President to commit violence and stated that he believes a civil war between Americans of differing political affiliations will take place because the former President won the popular vote.""

 

Lamberth, who was appointed to the court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, listened as Little and his attorney sought a lenient sentence. "You don't have to worry about me being part of any more J6-type things," Little told him.

 

After a brief recess, Lamberth returned to the bench and seemed to respond to Trump and Stefanik's comments: "The Court is accustomed to defendants who refuse to accept that they did anything wrong. But in my 37 years on the bench, I cannot recall a time when such meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream."

 

The judge continued: "I have been dismayed to see outright distortions and outright falsehoods creep into the public consciousness. I have been shocked to watch some public figures try to rewrite history, claiming rioters behaved in an orderly fashion like ordinary tourists, or martyrizing convicted Jan. 6 defendants as political prisoners or even, incredibly, hostages. That is all preposterous."

 

Lamberth said that kind of "destructive, misguided rhetoric" could present "further danger to our country." He sentenced Little to five months in prison, with credit for two months already served. 

 

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[China]

New Jersey man who wore name, phone number on jacket arrested on Capitol riot charges

 

A New Jersey man who wore a jacket with his last name and company phone number on it to the U.S. Capitol was arrested this week on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot.

 

 

Robert Coppotelli, of Toms River, was charged Friday with four misdemeanor counts for allegedly unlawfully entering the Capitol through the Senate Wing Door approximately 10 minutes after the first breach of the building. According to charging documents, Coppotelli walked through the building to the Crypt and then exited by climbing out of a broken window roughly 12 minutes after he entered.

 

Federal investigators said they received a tip in July 2021 identifying Coppotelli inside the Capitol thanks to a work jacket he was wearing with a “Coppotelli Heavy Equipment Sales & Services” logo and the phone number of the business. They determined Coppotelli lived at the same address in News Jersey as the registered address of the business.

 

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[China]

Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant from Citrus Heights indicted on receipt of child porn

 

A California man already under arrest for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has also now been indicted on child porn charges.

 

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California announced on Tuesday that a federal grand jury had indicted 36-year-old Kyle Travis Colton on a charge of receiving child pornography.

 

Court documents allege that Colton received the pornography between July 2022 and December 2023.

 

Colton was previously arrested on Dec. 15, 2023 on numerous charges relating to the Capitol riot.

 

CCTV footage allegedly captured Colton inside and outside the Capitol building that day. He was also allegedly identified as part of a group of rioters fighting law enforcement.

 

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