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

[LD0506]

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[EmirOfShmo]

Oath Keeper emotional as he accepts 2nd plea deal in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case

 

Federal prosecutors on Friday secured a second guilty plea and cooperation deal with a member of the Oath Keepers militia group charged in the government's seditious conspiracy case stemming from the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.

Brian Ulrich, of Guyton, Georgia, admitted on Friday that he was part of the group of Oath Keepers that was seen during the riot ascending the east steps of the Capitol in a military-style "stack" formation.

The 44-year-old pleaded guilty to two felony charges of seditious conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding, both of which carry maximum sentences of 20 years in prison and fines up to $250,000. As outlined in his plea, Ulrich's estimated offense level carries a sentencing range between 63-78 months, though the government could recommend a lesser sentence based on the extent of his cooperation.

As part of his plea deal, Ulrich agreed to provide "substantial cooperation" to the government, including testifying before a grand jury and at trial, as well as sitting for additional interviews with the government if they request it.

As D.C. district judge Amit Mehta read off the terms of his plea, Ulrich became emotional, his voice cracking as Mehta described the potential time in prison he could face at sentencing.

Mehta at one point asked Ulrich if he wanted to take a break to compose himself.

 

"It's not going to get any easier," Ulrich responded.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/oath-keeper-emotional-accepts-2nd-plea-deal-jan/story?id=84400519

[EmirOfShmo]

They should take away his pension, too.

 

NYPD veteran convicted of assaulting officer in Capitol riot

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal jury on Monday convicted a New York Police Department veteran of assaulting an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot, rejecting his claim that he was defending himself when he tackled the officer and grabbed his gas mask.

Thomas Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran, was the first Capitol riot defendant to be tried on an assault charge and the first to present a jury with a self-defense argument.

Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before they convicted Webster of all six counts in his indictment, including a charge that he assaulted Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun with a dangerous weapon, a metal flagpole. The assault charge alone is punishable by up to 20 years in prison, although sentencing guidelines likely will recommend a significantly shorter prison term.

 

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-police-new-york-riots-presidential-elections-4ec211cda4f84edb02e5c26e4e08be71

[LadySkinsFan]

Twenty years sounds right to me. Police officer who assaulted police officers? 

[Bang]

Screw it, he's a tough guy. Bet he can do 40.

 

~Bang

[China]

Three more House Republicans reject Jan. 6 committee request to testify voluntarily

 

House Republican Reps. Mo Brooks of Alabama, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Ronny Jackson of Texas on Monday rejected requests from the House select Jan. 6 committee to testify voluntarily regarding the attack on the Capitol.

 

All three members slammed the panel itself, calling it illegitimate or characterizing the probe as a "witch hunt."

 

Brooks, who had shared details of a pressure campaign by former President Trump after Trump withdrew his endorsement for Brooks' Senate campaign, said the moment had passed for his cooperation.

 

"At one time I would have voluntarily testified before the Nancy Pelosi Witch Hunt Committee provided the testimony was in public, the questioners were Congressmen, and the questions were limited to events related to January 6. But that time has long passed," Brooks said in a statement. "I wouldn't help (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi and (Jan. 6 Vice Chair) Liz Cheney cross the street — I'm definitely not going to help them and their partisan Witch Hunt Committee."

 

Jackson rejected questions asking if he knew about text messages between members of the far right Oath Keepers group about his security.

 

"I do not know, nor did I have contact with, those who exchanged text messages about me on January 6. In fact, I was proud to help defend the House Floor from those who posed a threat to my colleagues," Jackson said in a statement.

 

In a series of tweets, Biggs slammed the two Republicans who sit on the panel, Cheney and outgoing Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger.

 

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[China]

Donald Trump Jr. testifies before House panel probing Jan. 6 riot

 

Donald Trump Jr. testified Tuesday before the House committee investigating last year's attack on the Capitol, a person close to the former president's oldest son said Wednesday.

 

Appearing by videoconference for two hours, Trump Jr. spoke to the panel voluntarily, the source said, adding that the discussion was "pretty uneventful."

 

A spokesperson for the committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump Jr., through a spokesperson, declined to comment.

 

Politico previously reported on Trump Jr.'s meeting with the committee.

 

Lawmakers have been eager to question Trump Jr. about his apparent effort to press his father — through then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows — to quell a pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

 

 

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[mistertim]

I wonder if the committee just put a big sign written in crayon outside of their chambers that said "FREE DRUGS AND HUUKERS! IS TOATALLY LEGIT!" and then trapped Jr when he walked in and refused to let him leave.

[China]

Oath Keepers leader tried to contact Trump on Jan. 6

 

Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes attempted to contact former President Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, just hours after the group forced its way into the Capitol, pleading that he ask them to continue to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power.

 

The disclosure comes as a third member of the Oath Keepers struck a plea deal with the Department of Justice (DOJ), with William Todd Wilson of Newton Grove, N.C., pleading guilty to seditious conspiracy for his role in the riot alongside other members of the far-right militia group.

 

According to Wilson, Rhodes called an unidentified individual on speakerphone shortly after they left the Capitol asking to speak to Trump.

 

“Wilson heard Rhodes repeatedly implore the individual to tell President Trump to call upon groups like the Oath Keepers to forcibly oppose the transfer of power. This individual denied Rhodes’s request to speak directly with President Trump,” according to the court document.

 

“After the call ended, Rhodes stated to the group, ‘I just want to fight,'” the court document added.

 

The admission came in a statement of offense, which lays out the factual basis for a plea agreement.

 

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[China]

‘Caveman’ Costumed Son of Brooklyn Judge Receives Eight-Month Sentence After Felony Conviction Over Jan. 6 Siege

 

The son of a Brooklyn judge who dressed up as a self-described “caveman” during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol received an eight-month sentence on Friday, following his guilty plea to a felony and two misdemeanors.

 

 

“What you and others did on that day imposed an indelible stain on how our country is perceived,” U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, a Barack Obama appointee, said.

Aaron Mostofsky, 35, told the judge that he is ashamed of his actions.

 

“When it started getting chaotic to a point that I had never experienced, I started to make bad decisions,” he said, describing it as similar to a “war” scene.

 

For Boasberg, it seemed that Mostofsky got wrapped up in a “fantasy” of a stolen election.

 

“You dressed up as a caveman and acted a role like a fantasy game,” the judge said, adding that Mostofsky’s apparent belief that Donald Trump won in New York reached new heights of conspiracy theorizing.

 

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[TradeTheBeal!]

^^^Corniest looking dude on the planet.

[mistertim]

That dude looks almost as surprised and confused in those photos as Tucker Carlson does pretty much every day on his show.

 

 

[China]

6 minutes ago, mistertim said:

That dude looks almost as surprised and confused in those photos as Tucker Carlson does pretty much every day on his show.

 

 

 

He sorta looks like Lil Dicky:

 

[Dan T.]

Mo Brooks should be charged.  The ****er told an angry mob on January 6 to "kick ass and take names" while wearing a bullet-proof vest.  **** that guy.

[Larry]

2 hours ago, mistertim said:

That dude looks almost as surprised and confused in those photos as Tucker Carlson does pretty much every day on his show.

 

 

Wonder how he looked in his mugshot. 

[China]

 

[Dan T.]

^ ^ ^ Rudy asks "Do I look like a fool?"

 

 Watch the video below that he posted, then deleted, advertising himself on Cameo.

 

Answer: Yes, Rudy, you do.

 

 

Edited May 7, 2022 by Dan T.

[LD0506]

[China]

Oath Keepers sharing with January 6 investigators their efforts to find election fraud, communications with Trump allies

 

Top leaders in the Oath Keepers, the far-right extremist group, have been turning over phones and digital files and sitting for interviews with the FBI -- and detailing how they worked to benefit Donald Trump's campaign and communicated with others in the former President's orbit, according to court records and multiple sources familiar with the federal investigation.

 

Kellye SoRelle, a lawyer working with the Oath Keepers, told CNN that she has met with the FBI several times and handed over phones. 

She declined to say more about what she's shared with investigators, but her ties to the group have come up in court filings, including a virtual meeting a week after the 2020 presidential election when Oath Keepers talk about heading to Washington, DC, and SoRelle briefs them about the campaign's legal fight.

 

"I've done interviews. I've done everything. I'm helping them," SoRelle said about her cooperation with investigators. She does not represent any Oath Keepers in their criminal proceedings and has not been charged in the seditious conspiracy case against several members in connection with the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

Investigators also have learned about encrypted messages on the app Signal leading up to January 6, in which the Oath Keepers were messaging high-profile, right-wing political organizers, according to four people familiar with its existence. The Justice Department recently provided records of the chat to defense attorneys in the sedition case, some of the people said.

 

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[China]

Pa. Man Accused in Jan. 6 Attack on Cop Who Suffered a Concussion Demands Medical Treatment for a Condition Deemed Not Urgent by Jail Doctor

 

The Pennsylvania man accused of assaulting a cop on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 and causing her to sustain a concussion is demanding medical treatment while in pretrial detention, despite a jail doctor’s conclusion that the man’s condition isn’t urgent.

 

Ryan Samsel is accused of joining a group of Donald Trump supporters who worked together to overturn a police barricade by pulling and pushing it back and forth. That effort eventually knocked a police officer to the ground, causing her to hit her head and resulting in a concussion.

 

Samsel has been in detention since his arrest in January 2021. According to medical records, he suffers from a host of medical problems, including blood clots causing circulation issues in his arms and a condition called gynecomastia, or overdevelopment of breast tissue in men.

 

These medical issues, along with allegations he suffered injuries while in detention, formed the basis of his latest request for pretrial release. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb has resisted those requests, largely based on Samsel’s criminal history.

 

“There are nine prior convictions, and in each of the cases I saw, almost all had an assaultive component,” Cobb, a Joe Biden appointee, said at a hearing Thursday. “There was also evidence that with some of these arrests, many occurred when Mr. Samsel was on other periods of probation or parole.”

 

Cobb said that Samsel’s record was concerning enough that she doubted whether he would comply with the conditions of any supervised release.

 

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[China]

Nathan Entrekin, Jan. 6 raider from Arizona in gladiator costume, sentenced to 45 days in jail

 

A Cottonwood man who took part in the Jan. 6, 2021, raid on the U.S. Capitol clad in a gladiator costume, intending to portray Captain Moroni, a figure from the Book of Mormon, was sentenced on Friday to 45 days in jail.

 

Nathan Wayne Entrekin, 49, had pleaded guilty in January to a single count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol. In exchange, the government dropped four other criminal counts it had filed against him.

 

The judge ordered that Entrekin be on probation for three years after his release from federal custody.

 

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[China]

How the Jan. 6 panel broke through Trump allies' stonewalling

 

Donald Trump’s top election-subversion wingmen have stonewalled the Jan. 6 select committee for months, but investigators have found a reliable workaround: their deputies and assistants.

 

Time and again, the panel has managed to pierce the secrecy of Trump’s inner circle by turning to the aides entrusted with carrying out logistics for their bosses, according to interviews with lawmakers and newly public committee records.

 

Some of the select panel’s most crucial information has come from Trumpworld staffers, who were often in the room or briefed on sensitive meetings, even if they weren’t central players themselves. It’s a classic investigative strategy that’s paid dividends for select committee investigators, many of whom are seasoned former federal prosecutors.

 

“We are definitely taking advantage of the fact that most senior-level people in Washington depend on a lot of young associates and subordinates to get anything done,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the select committee. “A lot of these people still have their ethics intact and don’t want to squander the rest of their careers for other people’s mistakes and corruption.”

 

Aides like Cassidy Hutchinson, a close adviser to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Ken Klukowski, who advised former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, have helped the select committee fill in gaps about Trump’s private meetings, calls and efforts to overturn the 2020 election that investigators could otherwise only obtain from the principal players themselves.

 

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[LD0506]

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including his suggestion that they simply retabulate the popular vote to put Trump on top.

 

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