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

[LadySkinsFan]

23 minutes ago, China said:

W.Va. politician who apologized for Jan. 6 now writing defiant book

 

A former state lawmaker who six weeks ago apologized to a federal judge for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack is now writing a book for a right-wing publisher claiming he has been mistreated.

 

Derrick Evans, who was sentenced in June to three months in prison after pleading guilty to felony civil disorder, said in a statement that he had been “slandered” and wanted “to share my story with the world.”

 

The terms of the deal are confidential, a spokesperson for Defiance Press said.

 

Evans filmed himself entering the Capitol building and urging others to do the same, while yelling at police officers who tried to control the mob. At his sentencing, he told Senior U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth he felt daily regret for getting “caught up in a moment which led to me breaking the law.”

 

But Evans has since repeatedly downplayed the violence and destruction and his own role in the riot, as prosecutors noted in a letter to the court. In a radio interview aired the day after his sentencing, Evans said he was “never going to have regrets when 

comes to standing up and doing what’s right.”

 

He has since described himself as a “political prisoner” and expressed a desire to run for office again. Evans was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 2020 and resigned after his arrest last year. Before that, he was known as a confrontational antiabortion activist who would film staff and patients going into West Virginia clinics.

 

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These narssists will say anything to reduce their sentence: they don't mean it, just like all narssists do. I'm so sick of these creeps.

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Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers: Donald Trump ‘has no idea what courage is’

 

Republican Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers over the weekend responded to criticism from former President Donald Trump for his testimony before the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol.

 

Trump in a rally last month supporting Arizona candidates he endorsed for office called Bowers a “RINO coward,” adding the Republican disgraced himself and the state for detailing efforts of the former president’s allies to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state.

 

“Someone born how he was and raised how he was, he has no idea what a hard life is and what people have to go through in the real world,” Bowers told ABC News’ This Week. “He has no idea what courage is.”

 

Bowers in the interview said he would never vote for Trump if he were to run again and doesn’t trust him in a position of authority.

 

He described the hold Trump and allies have on Republicans in the state as ruling by thuggery.

 

“They rule by thuggery and intimidation, so they found a niche, they found a way and it’s fear,” Bowers said. “People can use fear, demagogues like to use fear as a weapon, and they weaponize everything and we all know it.

 

“That’s not leadership to me.”

 

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[skinsmarydu]

21 hours ago, Ball Security said:

Good article from earlier in the year about Caldwell and Clark County, VA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/05/23/how-my-hometown-produced-jan-6-sedition-suspect/
 

Straight from my neck of the woods (literally a neighboring county to where I grew up).  I can believe it. 

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10 hours ago, China said:

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers: Donald Trump ‘has no idea what courage is’

 

Republican Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers over the weekend responded to criticism from former President Donald Trump for his testimony before the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol.

 

Trump in a rally last month supporting Arizona candidates he endorsed for office called Bowers a “RINO coward,” adding the Republican disgraced himself and the state for detailing efforts of the former president’s allies to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state.

 

“Someone born how he was and raised how he was, he has no idea what a hard life is and what people have to go through in the real world,” Bowers told ABC News’ This Week. “He has no idea what courage is.”

 

Bowers in the interview said he would never vote for Trump if he were to run again and doesn’t trust him in a position of authority.

 

He described the hold Trump and allies have on Republicans in the state as ruling by thuggery.

 

“They rule by thuggery and intimidation, so they found a niche, they found a way and it’s fear,” Bowers said. “People can use fear, demagogues like to use fear as a weapon, and they weaponize everything and we all know it.

 

“That’s not leadership to me.”

 

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Its not lost on me that he voted for Donald Trump twice but now says he has no idea what leadership is, and that he was raised this way. 

 

No ****ing **** you ****. That's what we ****ing told you in the first place. I hope the people he thought were on his side continue to make his life miserable, honestly. **** him and everything he stands for. 

[Dan T.]

Speaking of Arizona, the GOP State Attorney General just issued a letter saying that, after being thoroughly investigated, the Cyber Ninja allegations of dead people voting is bull****.

 

 

[mistertim]

52 minutes ago, Dan T. said:

Speaking of Arizona, the GOP State Attorney General just issued a letter saying that, after being thoroughly investigated, the Cyber Ninja allegations of dead people voting is bull****.

 

 

 

Holy crap, you mean that completely slapdash vote "audit" conducted by a wholly unqualified company with precisely zero experience in election matters and who's CEO was a vocal MAGA was full of **** and the entire thing was a sham? Say it ain't so!

[Dan T.]

And now the MAGA morons are branding Arizona State Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) a "traitor." 

 

Madness.

[EmirOfShmo]

 

[China]

Judge rejects bid to delay Oath Keepers Jan. 6 trial

 

The first trial on seditious conspiracy charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is on track to begin in Washington next month for nine members of the Oath Keepers’ militia, after a federal judge on Tuesday turned down a request by nearly all defendants to put off the courtroom showdown until next year.

 

Defense attorneys argued that publicity related to the House Jan. 6 select committee’s televised hearings and difficulties accessing evidence related to the case warranted putting off the trial from its scheduled Sept. 26 date for the opening of jury selection.

 

However, U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta said that a postponement would upend the court’s trial calendar and that trying to schedule the trial to avoid any potential conflict with the House committee would be unwise and likely ineffective.

 

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First on CNN: Jan. 6 text messages wiped from phones of key Trump Pentagon officials

 

The Defense Department wiped the phones of top departing DOD and Army officials at the end of the Trump administration, deleting any texts from key witnesses to events surrounding the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, according to court filings.

 

The acknowledgment that the phones from the Pentagon officials had been wiped was first revealed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit American Oversight brought against the Defense Department and the Army. The watchdog group is seeking January 6 records from former acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, former chief of staff Kash Patel, and former Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, among other prominent Pentagon officials -- having filed initial FOIA requests just a few days after the Capitol attack.

Miller, Patel and McCarthy have all been viewed as crucial witnesses for understanding government's response to the January 6 Capitol assault and former President Donald Trump's reaction to the breach. All three were involved in the Defense Department's response to sending National Guard troops to the US Capitol as the riot was unfolding. There is no suggestion that the officials themselves erased the records.

The government's assertion in the filings that the officials' text messages from that day were not preserved is the latest blow to the efforts to bring transparency to the events of January 6. It comes as the Department of Homeland Security is also under fire for the apparent loss of messages from the Secret Service that day.

 

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[mistertim]

1 hour ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

 

 

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Kansas Man Who Denies Turning Himself in to the FBI After Jan. 6 Gets Permission to Represent Himself

 

A Kansas man who allegedly turned himself in to the FBI after breaching the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 — although he vigorously denies doing so — has gotten the go-ahead from a federal judge to represent himself.

 

William Pope, 36, faces multiple felony and misdemeanor charges, including obstruction of Congress, civil disorder, and a handful of trespassing and disorderly conduct allegations. According to prosecutors, he entered the Capitol with his brother, Michael Pope, who lives in Idaho, after the two met up in Philadelphia on Jan. 5.

 

As Donald Trump supporters flooded the building, angry over his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, William Pope allegedly resisted police officers’ attempts to stop him from going inside the building and refused to leave an elevator when asked by police, forcing them to engage in a physical confrontation.

 

Pope is also allegedly seen in video taken at the time Ashli Babbit was shot and killed as she reportedly tried smash a window outside the Speaker’s Lobby.

 

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Brandon Straka 'potentially incriminating himself' in statements about plea deal, judge says

 

A federal judge said right-wing activist Brandon Straka could potentially face a charge of making false statements if he continued to publicly downplay or deny elements of the plea agreement in his Jan. 6 case.

 

Straka’s attorney, Bilal Essayli, and federal prosecutors appeared before U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich on Wednesday for a status hearing to discuss the release last week of a sentencing memo detailing aspects of his cooperation with the government’s investigation into the Capitol riot. Straka, who was traveling to support Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake before his scheduled speaking appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas, was not present for the hearing.

 

In the memo, which Friedrich said had been unsealed due to “inadvertent human error” following a request by a press coalition, another attorney representing Straka at the time, Stuart J. Dornan, described the “significant information” he provided to investigators – including the names of 18 people Straka provided information about.

 

While some of what Straka provided was as simple as contact information for members of a “Stop the Steal” text thread, his attorney also described evidence of “potential criminal activity” and, in at least one case, the identification of an alleged Jan. 6 participant who was not previously known to the FBI. The names on the list included high-profile organizers of the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6 and other right-wing social media personalities with large followings.

 

Straka was initially charged with four counts, including a felony count of impeding law enforcement during civil disorder. In charging documents, prosecutors said Straka, who spoke at a "Stop the Steal" rally on Jan. 5, headed to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 after receiving texts that the building had already been breached. Once there, videos show him encouraging other members of the mob to steal an officer’s riot shield and discussing his desire to enter the building — both elements included in the statement of offense he signed in September under penalty of perjury. After leaving the Capitol, prosecutors said, he posted messages encouraging rioters to “hold the line” and comparing January 6 to 1776.

 

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[China]

Exclusive: Trump lawyers in talks with Justice Department about January 6 criminal probe

 

Former President Donald Trump's legal team is in direct communication with Justice Department officials, the first sign of talks between the two sides as the criminal probe into January 6, 2021, accelerates, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

 

The talks revolve around whether Trump would be able to shield conversations he had while he was president from federal investigators.

In recent weeks, investigators have moved aggressively into Trump's orbit, subpoenaing top former White House officials, focusing on efforts to overturn the 2020 election and executing searches of lawyers who sought to aid those efforts.

 

The Trump team's discussions are with the US attorney's office in Washington, DC, which is in charge of the investigation, and its top January 6 prosecutor Thomas Windom, the sources said. The conversations have not been previously reported.

At this stage, the conversations are focused mostly on whether any communications that witnesses from the Trump West Wing had with the former President can be kept from a federal criminal grand jury under Trump's claims of executive privilege, the people said.

The Justice Department has been anticipating a court fight with Trump over executive privilege. The issue has arisen as grand jury subpoenas have been issued to two former White House counsel's office officials and to former Vice President Mike Pence's chief counsel and chief of staff.

Trump's legal defense team has warned him that indictments are possible, sources tell CNN.

 

Another source close to the former President told CNN that Trump also has posed questions about a potential indictment to members of his inner circle, some of whom believe the President is concerned about the possibility of federal charges.

 

In recent months, the former President has ignored advice from some of his advisers to avoid speaking with former and current aides who have become entangled in the House select committee's probe into January 6 and may become part of the criminal investigation, people familiar with the matter told CNN.

Trump has specifically been counseled to cut contact with his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, whose actions leading up to and on the day of the US Capitol insurrection have been deeply scrutinized by the House panel, the people said.

 

Some of Trump's attorneys believe Meadows could also be in investigators' crosshairs and are concerned he could become a fact witness if he is pushed to cooperate in the Justice Department probe, according to two people familiar with the matter.

In response, Meadows' attorney George Terwilliger told CNN on Thursday: "All of that is idle and uninformed speculation, apparently by people that know little but talk a lot."

Former White House attorney Ty Cobb said Meadows is "perfectly positioned to be the John Dean of this mess," referring to the former Richard Nixon aide who offered crucial public testimony during the Watergate hearings.

"The reason [Meadows] is valuable is also the reason he is in jeopardy: He was basically at Trump's right hand throughout all these exercises and participated in key meetings and phone calls," Cobb said.

 

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[LadySkinsFan]

Trump was conducting campaign/coup business even in the Oval Office. He directly wasn't conducting United States business during his obsession with remaining a dictator. Since the coup business is a crime, I doubt that executive privilege exists. Something Mr. Above the Law thinks that he's immune from prosecution. 

 

I'm hoping that the DoJ charges him with RICO.

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2 hours ago, LadySkinsFan said:

Trump was conducting campaign/coup business even in the Oval Office. He directly wasn't conducting United States business during his obsession with remaining a dictator. Since the coup business is a crime, I doubt that executive privilege exists. Something Mr. Above the Law thinks that he's immune from prosecution. 

 

I'm hoping that the DoJ charges him with RICO.

 

You are probably right that exec privilege is lost in that case. I am curious who will turn first once they start indicting folks. I feel like if the DOJ can prove they were planning crimes.....which in all honestly sounds like a lay up at this point.....then my worry that they would hesitate to pull the trigger is basically gone. No reason not to at that point. Right? 

 

Just get the ****er. Thats all i really care about. 

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19 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

This is hilarious 

[Dan T.]