1/6 Insurrection Investigation

[Rick Plant]

MAGA rioter who boasted he was 'invincible' gets arrested after being ratted out by fellow insurrectionist



A Capitol rioter who said he wasn't worried about getting caught by the FBI because he was wearing a mask throughout the insurrection has been arrested.

Landon Mitchell was identified by a former co-worker who accompanied him to the Capitol, Luke Wessley Bender.

Bender was arrested in July after a high school classmate tipped off the FBI.

"On Jan. 6, Landon Mitchell bragged to a Facebook friend that he 'breached the Capitol' and was 'one of the very first in' when a pro-Trump mob stormed the halls of Congress. He appeared in video on the floor of the U.S. Senate, went through a senator's desk and took to the dais, where he posed next to the so-called QAnon Shaman," the Huffington Post reports. "Later, when a friend feared that the FBI might arrest Mitchell, he wrote that he was 'invincible' and 'not too worried' because he 'was masked up the whole time' he was inside the Capitol."

Mitchell later bragged to another friend that he appeared in footage from the insurrection that was published by the New Yorker magazine — but he said only the back of his head was visible.

"Thank God for giving me the foresight to put my mask up," he wrote, according to a criminal complaint.

Mitchell also posted photos and videos of himself inside the Senate chamber on Facebook.

When discussing his presence within the Capitol on January 6, Mitchell stated that 'people are fed up with how crooked the government has been and they pretty much been laughing at us thinking we wouldn't do anything about it,'" the complaint states. "He continued, "we[']re not happy. They learned that today.'"

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-arrests-2655330879/

[Rick Plant]

Republicans are anti American and Pro Insurrection. They are now asking for help to fund these thugs who tried to overthrow the US Government. "Good families" don't try to overthrow the US Government.   

Minnesota Republican seeks financial support for two men charged in Jan. 6 Capitol attack: 'They are a good family!'



A GOP state senator on Friday asked his Facebook followers to donate to the legal defense fund of a family facing felony charges in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

State Sen. Mark Koran, R-North Branch, shared the link to an online fundraiser organized by Rosemarie Westbury, whose husband and son, Robert Westbury and Isaac Westbury, were charged earlier this month with several counts of civil disorder and assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon, among other charges. Another family member, Jonah Westbury, was also charged in connection with the storming of the Capitol.

“Here's a local family in Lindstrom who can use some help," Koran wrote. “They attended the Jan 6th Rally and have been accused and charged with a variety of crimes. Some very serious and some which seem to be just to punish opposing views."

He added: “They are a good family!"

Koran did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment on his fundraising plea.

A spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Jeremy Miller, R-Winona, also did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment.

Koran's defense of the alleged Lindstrom rioters stands in stark contrast to Minnesota Republicans' frequent law-and-order message, as well as their condemnations of people who destroyed property during the demonstrations and rioting that followed the police murder of George Floyd in May 2020.

Koran was among Republicans who supported enhanced penalties for people charged with attempted murder of a police officer.

Koran, who ran unsuccessfully earlier this year for chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, has not dispelled false assertions that the 2020 election was fraudulent. Pressed by the Reformer last summer on whether President Joe Biden was duly elected, he said: “He's been inserted as the president."

Rosemarie Westbury wrote that her family “is being targeted by this illigitimate (sic), tyrannical government."

So far, she has raised $200 of her $50,000 goal. “We have an attorney who is willing to stand up for us, but this isn't going to be an inexpensive endeavor."

According to the charging documents, Isaac Westbury and Aaron James, another person charged in the case, used a police shield to “forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate and interfere" with an officer. They are also charged with carrying a dangerous weapon into the U.S. Capitol as they allegedly tried to “impede the orderly conduct of government business and official functions."

To date, eight Minnesotans have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-state-senator-says-men-charged-in-jan-6-capitol-are-good-family-and-need-financial-support/

[Rick Plant]

As new evidence emerges it has been revealed that Donald Trump's inner circle and MAGA GOP members of Congress were all involved in the planning of Donald Trump's insurrection and coup attempt. These anti American traitors will go to prison for treason against the United States when it's all said and done. It's hitting the fan folks!

Republican Paul Gosar told Jan. 6 rioters they'd get a blanket pardon from Trump: report
https://www.rawstory.com/paul-gosar-linked-capitol/

Mark Meadows was a 'regular figure' on Jan. 6 planning calls with organizers: report
https://www.rawstory.com/mark-meadows-involved-jan-6-organizing/

Katrina Pierson served as liaison between Jan. 6 insurrectionists and the White House: report
https://www.rawstory.com/katrina-pierson-linked-jan6/

Pro-Trump activists reveal Republican elected officials who participated in planning of Jan. 6 rallies: report
https://www.rawstory.com/insurrectionists-reveal-republican-involved-jan-6/

This mother-daughter duo planned the Jan. 6 rally. Now the House committee wants to hear from them, too.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2021/10/24/january-6-rally-organizers-called-before-congressional-committee/8536515002/?gnt-cfr=1

[Rick Plant]

More evidence of the GOP planned and coordinated 1/6 attempted coup and insurrection.

Legal expert says this is the ‘clearest case for prosecuting’ Trump for the Jan. 6 attack
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-capitol-riot-2655365155/

‘Folks knew crimes were about to be committed’: Dem lawmakers furious over Republicans’ involvement in Jan. 6
https://www.rawstory.com/folks-knew-crimes-were-about-to-be-committed-dem-lawmakers-furious-over-republicans-involvement-in-jan-6/

'Call your lawyer': Legal experts weigh in on bombshell report naming GOPers involved in Jan. 6 rally planning
https://www.rawstory.com/just-three-words-call-your-lawyer-legal-experts-weigh-in-on-bombshell-report-naming-republicans-involved-in-jan-6/

Marjorie Taylor Greene fumes after explosive report links her to Jan. 6 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-capitol-riot-2655365687/

MAGA rioter's lawyer says he didn't plan to take part in violence despite wearing tactical gear to Capitol
https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-court-hearing/

[Rick Plant]

Trump-loving lawmakers must be investigated for assisting Capitol rioters -- because they clearly had inside help: columnist



The U.S. Department of Justice must investigate reports that members of Congress and their staffers had extensive contacts with two organizers of the "Stop the Steal" rallies that preceded the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The organizers claim they met directly with Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and staffers for Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Madison Cawthorne (R-NC) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX), and justice correspondent Elie Mystal wrote in The Nation that the Justice Department must determine what role any of them might have played in coordinating the deadly riot.

"The Department of Justice should be leading the criminal investigation into the attack on the Capitol," Mystal wrote. "That is the entity that can not merely catalog but actually punish the insurrectionists."

Congress has a constitutional duty to subpoena documents and testimony about the riots to help pass new laws to ensure another attack cannot happen, but only the Justice Department can hold the conspirators accountable -- and so far, Mystal argued, they have not.

"We know the Justice Department is shirking its responsibilities and leaving Congress to do all the heavy lifting, because we have a good idea of whom its investigators haven't interviewed," he wrote. "There is no credible way to investigate the events of January 6 unless investigators talk to key players like Steve Bannon, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and others in the Trump orbit (like Don Jr.) who may have played a role in planning the event. Any investigation that was seriously committed to getting to the truth would have already interviewed Mike Pence, key congresspeople's staffs, and the congresspeople who had telephone conversations with Trump on the day of the coup attempt."

It's clear the department hasn't gone after those individuals because they haven't gone on Fox News to complain, and Mystal said investigators must learn who helped plot the insurrection because it's obvious that someone in the know gave that assistance.

"The failure of the DOJ to investigate the planning of the putsch is all the more shameful given the publicly available evidence that the insurrectionists may have had help on the inside," Mystal wrote.

Some of the rioters were straight the Senate parliamentarian's office, which is difficult to find without directions, and ransacked the place with a specific goal in mind.

"The insurrectionists somehow got there and began looking for the hard copies of the electoral votes that Congress was meant to certify that day," Mystal wrote. "Had they gotten their hands on those votes, even for a moment, they would have broken the chain of custody of the Electoral College count and at least delayed the certification of the election, as was their goal."

https://www.rawstory.com/jan-6-insurrection/

[Rick Plant]

FBI takes custody of noose from MAGA riot gallows



On Tuesday, NBC4's Scott MacFarlane, the chief reporter covering the trials of the January 6 Capitol insurrectionists, reported that the FBI has taken custody of the noose from the makeshift gallows set up outside the Capitol during the MAGA riots.

@MacFarlaneNews: "The noose from the gallows erected near US Capitol on January 6 is in the possession of the FBI Washington field office, per multiple law enforcement sources."

As the gallows was put out, some of the rioters chanted "Hang Mike Pence." The former vice president, as with most officials, had to be evacuated promptly.

An earlier report in April detailed the planning that went into these shows of force, with people on the message board TheDonald.win, debating whether to bring gallows or guillotines to erect outside of the Capitol.

MacFarlane's report comes amid news of ongoing prosecution of several of the rioters, with Thomas Sibick of Buffalo — accused of stealing the badge and radio from D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone — facing a hearing over pre-trial detention on Tuesday.

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-gallows/

[Rick Plant]

This MAGA insurrectionist is tired of sitting in jail so now she wants to sing a different tune. These loons are pathetic.   

'Sovereign citizen' who stormed Capitol tells judge she only blew up in court because she was under a lot of stress



On Wednesday, NBC4 Washington's Scott MacFarlane reported that Pauline Bauer, a so-called "sovereign citizen" who was jailed ahead of trial for her involvement in the January 6 Capitol insurrection, is now seeking for an appeals court to release her from pre-trial detention.

Bauer, a pizzeria owner from Pennsylvania, is accused of shouting "Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now. We want to hang that f*cking b*tch. Bring her out," while forcing her way into the Capitol with the crowd. She was kept in prison after outbursts in court, proclaiming to the judge that the court has "no dominion over a living soul," and that "I have a right to my self-determination!" She has also delivered lengthy, typo-ridden manifestos to the court proclaiming she had a right to be in the Capitol, and has called searches of her home "illegal."

Now, she is taking a different strategy: telling the court that she was under stress when she did all those things.

"When Ms. Bauer appeared before the Court on September 17, she had been working multiple days in a row, putting in 14 to 16 hours days [sic] and was suffering from lack of sleep," said the filing. "Ms. Bauer has also been receiving ugly hate mail ... Counsel respectfully requests that the Court take these circumstances into consideration and release Ms. Bauer to return to her productive and generous activities."

The "Sovereign Citizens" are a loose-knit movement of far-right activists who believe that the U.S. government, and most of its laws, are illegitimate, and that they alone have the right to decide what laws, taxes, and other functions of civil society apply to them. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the movement has roots in a racist and anti-Semitic Christian Identity group that believed nonwhite people are non-human and county sheriffs are the highest-ranking legitimate government authority. Its adherents have been linked to terrorist acts.

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-rioter-pauline-bauer-2655396690/