1/6 Insurrection Investigation

[Rick Plant]

'You attempted to punch police': Judge shoots down MAGA rioter's claim he wore tactical gear for self-defense



A man who wore tactical military gear to the January 6th riots at the United States Capitol building got slapped down by a judge after he tried to argue that he only wore the gear to protect himself from left-wing counterdemonstrators.

As reported by CBS News' Scott MacFarlane, defense attorneys representing Capitol rioter Robert Gieswein told D.C. District Judge Trevor McFadden at a sentencing hearing on Friday that their client was "wearing gear strictly for protection purposes" when he joined his fellow Trump supporters in violently storming the Capitol.

McFadden seemed skeptical of this argument and noted that Gieswein, a resident of Colorado, was caught on camera committing violent acts for an hour.

After taking a short break, McFadden returned and gave Gieswein a verbal lashing as he handed down his sentence.

"You were a foot soldier in the most disturbing riot we’ve seen in years," he said, as transcribed by MacFarlane. "Your conduct was shocking... you attempted to punch a police officer."

In addition to trying to punch police, federal prosecutors also alleged that Gieswein "sprayed... aerosol substance at a group of officers who were in the process of arresting another rioter."

In the end, McFadden slapped Gieswein with a four-year prison sentence.

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-rioter-sentence-2661756358/

[Rick Plant]

Father & son sentenced in Jan 6 case.

Grady Owens gets 37 months prison. His dad, Jason, gets 24 months.

Feds said both joined mob seeking to push their way into East Rotunda doors & "Grady Owens turned, raised a skateboard in the air & struck an officer on the side of his body".

[Rick Plant]

Trump campaign's Election Day operations official appears before Jan. 6 grand jury

Gary Michael Brown appeared as part of special counsel Jack Smith's probe into the "fake electors" scheme to stop the lawful transfer of power to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.



WASHINGTON — The deputy director of Election Day operations for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign appeared before a federal grand jury Thursday as part of special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Jan. 6 and efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of presidential power.

Gary Michael Brown, who has been accused of being involved in the so-called fake electors scheme after the 2020 election, was seen headed into the third-floor grand jury space at a courthouse in Washington where a grand jury has been hearing testimony about efforts to stop the transfer of power to President Joe Biden.

Stanley Woodward — an attorney who is representing several Trump aides, including Walt Nauta, who was indicted along with Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case — accompanied Brown in court Thursday. He declined to comment.

Brown, speaking with a member of the media after having emerged from the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, declined to comment, saying he was “starving” and wanted to get a sandwich.

The defunct Jan. 6 committee in Congress, when it subpoenaed Brown last year, said it had found “credible evidence” that he was “aware of, and participated in, efforts to promote unsupported allegations of fraud in the November 2020 Presidential election and encourage state legislators to alter the outcome of the November 2020 election by, among other things, appointing alternate slates of electors to send competing electoral votes to the United States Congress.”

The committee also said Brown and other members of Trump’s campaign had a coordinated strategy “to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to ‘reclaim’ their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump.” The committee said it appeared Brown “helped manage the Trump campaign staffers participating in this effort.”

NBC News reported last week that two of the "fake electors" testified before the federal grand jury in Washington the same day Trump appeared at a federal courthouse in Miami in connection with his indictment over his handling of classified records. Trump pleaded not guilty.

Smith's investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot and efforts to interfere in the transfer of power is separate from the probe that led to Trump’s indictment in Florida, although some of the grand jury proceedings related to that indictment took place in Washington, as well.

The special counsel's office declined to comment Thursday on Brown's appearance.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-campaign-official-appears-jan-6-grand-jury-dc-rcna90684

[Rick Plant]

CNN, Bill Moyers, and Newsweek has done an excellent job providing a detailed timeline of the January 6th insurrection.   


The January 6 insurrection: Minute-by-minute
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/10/politics/jan-6-us-capitol-riot-timeline/index.html


UPDATED: Insurrection Timeline — First the Coup and Then the Cover-Up
https://billmoyers.com/story/insurrection-timeline-first-the-coup-and-then-the-cover-up-updated/


Jan. 6 Timeline: How The Day Of The Capitol Riot Unfolded

On Jan. 6, 2021, a joint session of Congress was held to certify Joe Biden’s electoral-vote win as thousands gathered for a rally in support of President Donald Trump. Trump falsely claimed that the 2020 election was "stolen" while many of his supporters marched to the U.S. Capitol. Soon after, an unprecedented riot broke out and protesters breached the Capitol building. The chaos resulted in five deaths. Here is a timeline of how the day unfolded.

Watch:

[Rick Plant]

Court schedules THURSDAY initial appearance in newly-filed Capitol riot case of Alan St. Onge, a North Carolina man who's accused of being amid the mob that confronted police in the lower west terrace on Jan 6 2021.

[Rick Plant]

3 more Minnesotans charged for their roles in Jan. 6 riot

The three family members were recently charged with obstruction of law enforcement for their actions at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/three-minnesota-men-charged-in-connection-to-us-capitol-riot-january-6/89-fb489b6c-5574-45ec-b7ca-37219c2575d1

[Richard Smith]

Putin just withstood an armed insurrection by a militia in Russia.  Doesn't that make him a champion of democracy using the leftist standard?