1/6 Insurrection Investigation

[Rick Plant]

In newer court filings, Justice Dept has emphasized the impact of the large metal Trump sign (with huge wheels) that was used as a battering ram on west front of Capitol on Jan 6.

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January 6th Committee @January6thCmte

The Select Committee has obtained a recording of communications over a walkie-talkie app among Oath Keepers who were inside the Capitol and others who were sharing intelligence from elsewhere.

Listen to how they reacted to President Trump’s 2:38 tweet in real-time.

Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1570519072319709184

[Rick Plant]

NEW:  Justice Dept to seek 78-months (6+ years) in prison for former Army Reservist Tim Hale-Cusanelli in Capitol riot case

"On January 6, Hale-Cusanelli took the opportunity to turn desire for civil war into action."




Prosecutors argue Cusanelli  "is personally responsible for threatening injury to officers both by leading and egging on the crowd to “advance” on the Capitol".

Feds (more): "Civil war, he said, would be the “the simplest solution, the most likely outcome inevitably.” If Hale-Cusanelli became King of America his “solution” to give the country a “clear bill of health” would be to purge Congress & give Jews “24 hours to leave” the country".

They allege he talked of a "purge".




And they say he talked of "faithless electors" ahead of Jan 6

He was convicted on all charges at trial in May




Prosecutors (More): "For this defendant, January 6 was about one thing – Civil War. Civil war may not have erupted as a result of January 6, but not for Hale-Cusanelli’s lack of trying"

Sentencing is next week

Here's full Justice Dept sentencing memo:



courtlistener.com
Sentencing Memorandum – #110 in United States v. HALE-CUSANELLI (D.D.C., 1:21-cr-00037) – CourtLi...
SENTENCING MEMORANDUM by USA as to TIMOTHY LOUIS HALE-CUSANELLI (Fifield, Kathryn) (Entered: 09/16/2022)

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MAGA rioter busted for recruiting extremists behind bars



On Friday, Law & Crime reported that federal prosecutors are warning in a sentencing recommendation that Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a convicted Capitol rioter with a history of cosplaying Hitler and extremist neo-Nazi ideology, is trying to organize extremists behind bars.

"'It is well established in the record at this point that Hale-Cusanelli subscribes to White-Supremacist and Nazi-Sympathizer ideologies that drive his enthusiasm for another civil war and formed the basis of this Court’s pretrial determination that Hale-Cusanelli was a danger to the community,' Justice Department attorney Kathryn E. Fifield observed in the memo," said the report.

"'Sources inside the jail also reported that Hale-Cusanelli has used the power of a fundraising organization spearheaded by his adoptive aunt to organize inmates and curry favor,' the sentencing memo states. 'One inmate said the situation was like ‘the movie Mean Girls, but with racist, antisemitic extremists.''"

Hale-Cusanelli was convicted in May on felony obstruction and four misdemeanors — and prosecutors are recommending six and a half years in prison.

"A former Army reservist and a security contractor, Hale-Cusanelli held a 'secret' clearance, and his access to classified information alarmed many after his ideology became apparent," reported Adam Klasfeld. "Court papers showed him with a Hitler mustache and hairdo, aping the dictator’s overwrought expressions in faux-stern selfies with his hand over his heart. It was more than World War II-era cosplay. People who knew Hale-Cusanelli told federal investigators that the former reservist expressed support for killing Jews and 'babies born with any deformities or disabilities,' and said that 'Hitler should have finished the job.'"

According to earlier reports, Hale-Cusanelli bragged to his former Black roommate about beating a police officer with a flagpole while in the crowd attacking the Capitol on January 6. He has also fantasized about a "f*****g civil war" and said that if he were made king of the U.S., he would give all Jews "24 hours to leave the country" — including Jewish members of Congress.

"A former Army reservist and a security contractor, Hale-Cusanelli held a 'secret' clearance, and his access to classified information alarmed many after his ideology became apparent," reported Adam Klasfeld. "Court papers showed him with a Hitler mustache and hairdo, aping the dictator’s overwrought expressions in faux-stern selfies with his hand over his heart. It was more than World War II-era cosplay. People who knew Hale-Cusanelli told federal investigators that the former reservist expressed support for killing Jews and 'babies born with any deformities or disabilities,' and said that 'Hitler should have finished the job.'"

According to earlier reports, Hale-Cusanelli bragged to his former Black roommate about beating a police officer with a flagpole while in the crowd attacking the Capitol on January 6. He has also fantasized about a "f**king civil war" and said that if he were made king of the U.S., he would give all Jews "24 hours to leave the country" — including Jewish members of Congress.

At trial, he tried to defend himself by telling jurors that he never intended to obstruct Congress, and didn't actually know the Capitol building was where Congress gathered to do business, adding, "I know this sounds idiotic, but I'm from New Jersey. I feel like an idiot, it sounds idiotic, and it is."

Read More Here:

https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/mean-girls-but-with-racist-antisemitic-extremists-hitler-posing-ex-army-reservist-convicted-for-jan-6-is-organizing-behind-bars-feds-say/

[Rick Plant]

Court schedules plea hearing for next week in Capitol breach case of Paula Conlon of West Virginia, who's accused of telling police to "back off".. while on a front line of the mob.

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'The worst is yet to come': Experts warn MAGA violence is spreading -- and law enforcement should prepare



According to two different experts on the rising tide of domestic terrorists since the election of Donald Trump, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better as long as the former president remains free to incite violence in much the way he did on Jan 6, 2020.

Speaking with the New York Times' Blake Hounshell, authors Luke Mogelson and Andy Campbell, both of whom have new books on right-wing extremists, waved the red flag about what they see coming as Trump continues to egg his followers on -- which is setting the stage for more violence.

As Hounshell summed up their warning: "The worst is yet to come."

Getting right to the point, Campbell, who has a new book out on the Proud Boys, told the Times, "I really do believe that, going forward, it’s not just going to be MAGA rallies. It’s not just going to be political violence at Proud Boys rallies or leftist rallies or B.L.M. events. It’s going to be political violence at any civic event that happens to fall in the cross hairs of Donald Trump and company.”

According to Hounshell, "In the United States, it is not illegal to be a part of a domestic extremist group. To go after specific threats, the government has limited tools, meaning that federal officials often must find links to groups overseas in order to crack down on homegrown extremists or prosecute them under other provisions of law," adding, "Complicating matters, Republican politicians like Trump — who instructed the Proud Boys to 'stand back and stand by' during a presidential debate in 2020 — often provide rhetorical cover."

Mogelson claims the violence he saw on Jan 6, when supporters of the former president stormed the Capitol, reminded him of covering armed conflicts around the world for the past decade.

"He witnessed a mob killing of someone in Iraq, which gave him an understanding of what he called the 'intoxicating' feeling that can whip a crowd of seemingly ordinary people into a frenzy," the Times reports before noting, "he began reporting on anti-lockdown groups that mobilized against the pandemic measures put in place by governors like Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, a Democrat, he immediately saw that the story was much larger."

He told the Times, "I soon realized that these groups and this movement was rapidly mutating.”

Campbell chimed in to add the Republican Party appears unable -- or unwilling -- to rein the far-right extremists in.

“The Republican Party seems to not know what to do,” he claimed before warning, “It seems like their inability to rebut the Proud Boys and other extremists is pushing this machine forward so much faster and really making it hard for law enforcement to keep up.”

Read More Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/us/politics/domestic-extremism-warnings.html

[Rick Plant]

In Sunday night filing, military vet Mark Mazza seeks leniency at sentencing in Jan 6 case, defense argues:

Jan 6 Cmte "announced that the riots that day were caused at the instigation of President Trump who lied about a stolen election. We agree completely with this assessment".