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Re: 1/6 Insurrection Investigation
« Reply #936 on: August 06, 2022, 04:39:17 AM »
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Sentencing in Jan 6 case of Matt Baggott. Feds seek prison time, arguing he threw object at police, grabbed at police baton (he's yet another accused of "fist pump")

Baggot to argue his "biggest regret is allowing himself to be emotionally moved by the energy of the crowd".






Baggott becomes the latest Jan 6 defendant to say he's "stepping away" from political news. Not engaging on social media or "getting riled up" over it.

Very common to hear at sentencing hearings in Jan 6 cases. Judges rarely, if ever, press defendants on this point.

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Re: 1/6 Insurrection Investigation
« Reply #937 on: August 06, 2022, 04:46:37 AM »
US Justice Dept will seek 8 years in prison in Capitol riot case of former Rocky Mount, Virginia police officer Thomas Robertson. Robertson packed a gas mask, food rations, large wooden stick. And feds say he posted selfie in Capitol captioned "I am f***ng PROUD of it."




Prosecutors also submitted alleged texts from Robertson in 2021

Including: "Never f** with someone who is prepared to die in battle" ..."They may get the chance. Call me an insurrectionist so many times and I will oblige you”.


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Re: 1/6 Insurrection Investigation
« Reply #938 on: August 06, 2022, 04:53:23 AM »
Friday's court hearing in the seditious conspiracy criminal case against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes turned out to be what experts expected. 

This case is set for trial next month, despite request for delays from the defendants.


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« Reply #939 on: August 06, 2022, 09:35:14 PM »
It’s important to understand that Trump’s lawyers are not “in talks” with the DOJ. His lawyers just planted that in the media, so Trump will believe that they’ve got a handle on this, which they do not. The DOJ doesn’t negotiate the terms of a probe with its criminal targets.

The DOJ is not going to naively open its books to Trump’s lawyers and hand them an advantage. Especially *this* DOJ, which appears to place even more of a premium on secrecy than the DOJ historically has.

If Trump were a mid level guy who could be of value to the DOJ by flipping a bigger fish, then sure, they could be “in talks” about that. But Trump is the big fish, and thus has nothing to offer the DOJ – unless Trump wants to testify in his defense, which would be dumb of him.

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« Reply #940 on: August 07, 2022, 09:19:21 AM »
Jan. 6 texts, data deleted from Secret Service, Pentagon phones lead to accusations of cover-up

Evidence of all the information erased, wiped, deleted and otherwise obscured by members of former President Donald Trump’s administration in the days, weeks and months after the riot that unfolded at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is now apparently under scrutiny by the House select committee hearings investigating the failed insurrection.

Text messages and other data were wiped from the phones of Secret Service agents, despite Congressional and government watchdog requests to keep evidence from that day. Senior Pentagon officials involved in responding to the attack had their government-issued phones “wiped” as part of what the Pentagon called a standard process for departing employees. Top aides, including former acting secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf and former acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli, had their electronic devices wiped in the same process.

“The same mindset that would seek sweeping pardons is likely the same that would engage in a cover-up,” said Ryan Goodman, a former Defense Department lawyer who chronicled multiple deletions surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. “All of the data points currently align with a cover-up as the most likely explanation.”

The House committee is continuing to probe for more evidence related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, including seeking deleted texts, to add to the hours of witness testimony, reams of documents and immersive graphic displays already presented at the hearings. Staff for the panel declined to comment for this story.

Trump aides and advisers have denied any wrongdoing.

But the apparent attempt at obfuscating the evidence has been impossible to ignore. When the Jan. 6 committee hosted its “season finale” last month, it focused on the “187 minutes” — the more than three hours that elapsed after Trump finished his speech to supporters on the Ellipse near the White House and then finally called off the rioters.

White House call logs and the president’s daily diary for much of that stretch of time were empty, and Trump’s photographer at the White House was told “no photographs” during that period as he sat glued to Fox News watching the riot unfold. But, as the committee detailed, Trump was on the phone extensively with Rudy Giuliani, one of his lawyers at the time, and was even lobbying senators, as they were being evacuated, to try to overturn his election loss.

Investigators have been able to use documents from various court cases and even public interviews to fill in gaps in the timeline of that day. But breakthroughs sometimes seem to have been almost accidental.

One of the greatest caches of information came from former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows before he stopped cooperating with investigators. And that doesn’t account for the papers he burned in the White House after meeting with one of the top lawmakers who helped coordinate the insurrection, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Penn.

This week, a unexpected trove of information came to light during the defamation trial of longtime conspiracy theorist and Jan. 6 coordinator Alex Jones, when it was revealed that Jones’s lawyers accidentally sent two years of text messages from his cellphone to Mark Bankston, a lawyer representing the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Bankston said the Jan. 6 committee had requested the messages and related documents.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jan-6-pentagon-secret-service-texts-deleted-cover-up-accusations-170030306.html

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« Reply #941 on: August 07, 2022, 09:26:16 AM »
Feds include this passage in new court filing in Capitol riot case of Joshua Doolin: 

"On the morning of January 6, 2021, while at the rally, Doolin sent a text message to an associate stating “I wouldn’t mind dying with my family storming the capital [sic] on my birthday!”


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« Reply #942 on: August 07, 2022, 09:30:19 AM »
Despite requests to delay trial.. or move trial outta DC... accused Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy defendants are set to go on trial in DC federal court next month. Judge and attorneys discussed pretrial motion schedule on Friday. 

Highest-level case so far.


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« Reply #943 on: August 07, 2022, 09:34:11 AM »
Big delay in sentencing date for high-profile Jan 6 defendant Kevin Seefried, who paraded the Confederate flag at Capitol.

Sentencing pushed back from Sept 2022 to Jan 20, 2023 (more than two years after the riot)