1/6 Insurrection Investigation

[Rick Plant]

Feds will be seeking 15+ years in the Capitol siege case of Kyle Fitzsimons of Maine, arguing he was responsible for "five separate violent assaults against police officers during the brawl at the mouth of the tunnel”.

Fitzsimons wore a butcher coat while amid mob.

[Richard Smith]

After spending about one week the secret service has closed the cocaine investigation at the White House.  They can't solve it.  What a shock!  Nothing to see there.  Of course, if Trump had been in the WH there would have been armed raids, arrests, and interrogations of individuals.  Trump would have been impeached and indicted even if he had nothing to do with it.  But nothing to see here.  They also found marijuana but never told anyone.  No double standard of justice, however.  Just ask Wray and Garland.  Every Granny who was present on Jan. 6 has been investigated for years, placed in maximum security prisons.  But one week and done at the White House.

[Rick Plant]

Sentencing is beginning in Jan 6 case of Audrey Southard-Rumsey.

Prosecutors will ask for 6 years prison, arguing she went on "violent rampage" in Capitol.  And they say, while carrying a pole, she was a "principal agitator" in the mob -- and called "for a 1776-style revolution."

Prosecutor argues Southard “led the mob toward the House Chamber”  on Jan 6.

“She was directly terrorizing Congress”.

Prosecutor argues against the type of “caught up in the moment” defense that’s frequently invoked by Jan 6 defendants.

Asst US Attorney says Southard “worked on a revolutionary manifesto”.

Prosecutor says Southard sought to “install Donald Trump as President”.

[Rick Plant]

WATCH: Jan. 6 rioters came within feet of Pence

Former Vice President Mike Pence was evacuated to a secure location within the U.S. Capitol as rioters were overtaking the building.

[Rick Plant]

'He's looking at everything': Legal expert says Jack Smith's new interviews show he's closing in



Special counsel Jack Smith is ramping up the investigation of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by interviewing election officials in Pennsylvania and New Mexico.

This is a huge indicator that Smith's investigation is going over the entire scheme with a fine tooth comb, argued former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on CNN Friday.

"As we have learned in recent weeks about truly how broad the January 6th investigation is, we now know it's gone into all seven of these battleground states," said anchor Kaitlan Collins. "What does it signify to you as we learn more about this investigation, where it could be going?"

"Two weeks ago, there were questions about just how broadly is Jack Smith looking here, is he looking narrowly at the submission of fake electors?" said Honig. "We now know the answer. He's looking at everything. He's looking at all seven states. He's focusing on all different aspects of the pressure campaign on state and local officials, on Mike Pence, the submission of the fake elector certificates."

In other words, Honig added, "He's doing what prosecutors have to do. He's getting all the information. Then he's got to sit down and winnow it down and figure out, is any of it criminal."

"One thing that's interesting about Al Schmidt, the Republican in Pennsylvania, is he said he was asked about how misinformation on widespread voter fraud impacted officials," said Collins. "That stood out to me, because [Michigan Secretary of State] Jocelyn Benson said the same thing, that she was asked about the impact these lies had on election officials. What would Jack Smith's team be trying to do with that information?"

"We used to sometimes say that building a case is like building a house," said Honig. "If you think of it that way, the misinformation is the foundation. Everything that followed, all these pressure campaigns, all these schemes were all based on a lot of disinformation. The false claim that Donald Trump had won this election and that there was massive fraud. And it's not surprising we're hearing similar things from different state officials in different states because you would want, as a prosecutor, to ask the same slate of questions. If you find yourself getting the same type of answer over and over, that contributes to an argument that this was coordinated, this was intentional, this was a conspiracy."

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[Rick Plant]

Jack Smith can prove 'Trump participated in an insurrection': Former Bush official

Donald Ayer, a former deputy attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, appeared on CNN Friday to make the case that special counsel Jack Smith has the evidence he needs to show former President Donald Trump participated in an insurrection against the United States government.

Ayer started off by arguing that the DOJ would be very careful in bringing charges of supporting an insurrection against Trump, but he argued that prosecutors had what they needed to make such a charge stick.

"It fits like a glove, what Trump did," he said. "You can tell this story in terms of Trump summoning these people to Washington, and his conduct during the day... the tweet that he sent out [saying] Pence isn't doing his job, and then sitting there for 187 minutes and doing nothing, and really lending support. He participated in an insurrection and supported it."

Ayer also said that it was necessary from a practical perspective for Smith to prove that Trump knew he legitimately lost the 2020 election -- but he thinks that Smith has "overwhelming" evidence to support such a charge.

"He said it to a bunch of people," he said. "He may have said it to his family members. And so he knew he had lost, and he went ahead and did these things."

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[Rick Plant]

More new charges are coming!

Legal experts see strong potential for Trump charges in Jan. 6 probe
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4095773-legal-experts-see-strong-potential-for-trump-charges-in-jan-6-probe/