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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-j6-footage-shows-capitol-police-may-have-incited-riot-firing-munitions-peaceful-crowd

House Speaker Mike Johnson has released over 40,000 hours of J6 footage including capitol police body cam footage to the public in the interests of transparency, an action which should have been taken years ago. Each new piece of footage only confirms what many Americans already understood - That the few scant minutes of available video recycled by the media paint a false picture of what really happened. Many would argue that J6 was nothing more than a protest that was turned into a riot by police incitement and establishment spin.

Even worse, there are many people now languishing in prison because of that spin. ...

New video clips seem to show capitol police firing rubber bullets, tear gas grenades and stun grenades into crowds of peaceful protesters on J6 before anyone tried to enter the capitol building, possibly triggering the violence that would follow (and creating the footage that was played ad nauseum on major news networks as proof of insurrection).

When is Trump going to help some of the J6'rs stuck in prison?

Dude is a billionaire, knows lots of lawyers and is getting plenty of our campaign cash to cover his own legal bills.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/rep-clay-higgins-200-feds-on-j6-the-framing-of-donald-trump/

https://twitter.com/toobaffled/status/1730926797678874690

@AmericanHubener
CAPITOL POLICE ENTRAP CROWD BY KEEPING DOORS WIDE OPEN FOR THEM TO WALK IN Pelosi opened magnetic doors to the Capitol, I.e., Capitol Police Master at Arms opened the doors 100% under Pelosi’s direction:

https://notthebee.com/article/siaka-massaquoi-conservative-actor-and-activist-was-detained-by-the-fbi-after-coming-home-from-daily-wires-movie-premiere

Siaka Massaquoi, a conservative actor, RedState contributor, and activist from LA, was detained Friday night by the FBI after returning home from a Daily Wire movie premiere for charges related to January 6th, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol.

Siaka starred in the viral Californians Moving To Texas video series produced by The Babylon Bee last year.

Here are a few messages he shared on his Twitter account:

https://notthebee.com/article/siaka-massaquoi-conservative-actor-and-activist-was-detained-by-the-fbi-after-coming-home-from-daily-wires-movie-premiere

Authorities raided Siaka's house over two years ago, but he was not charged with anything at the time.

Turns out Siaka is on a "list." He entered the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but has not been charged with anything. His apartment was raided by over 20 armed FBI agents on June 10, 2021, and he's been under investigation ever since for "associating with members of a social media group."

Well, I suppose a black conservative Christian would be found threatening to the gay and treasonous FBI.

The protection of Hunter and Pedo Potatus while political persecution of Trump continues is really all you need to know about the FBI.

https://slaynews.com/news/ramaswamy-schools-cnn-dana-bash-new-jan-6-footage-debunking-media-narrative/

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy schooled CNN’s Dana Bash on how the recently released Jan. 6 footage debunks the anti-Trump narrative peddled by her network and other corporate media outlets.

During a post-GOP 2024 debate on Wednesday night, Bash questioned Ramaswamy about his belief that Jan. 6 was likely “an inside job.”

After House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) recently made police bodycam and security footage from the U.S. Capitol public, the video has conflicted with the narrative that the events on January 6, 2021, were a “Trump-incited riot.”

The videos show Capitol Police officers throwing explosives into peaceful crowds and ushering protesters into the building, as Slay News reported.

The new evidence also suggests that FBI agents were operating undercover in the crowds. ...

VIVEK RAMASWAMY: “If you would asked me three years ago, is there some chance January 6 is an inside job, I would have said that was crazy talk.

“I would say, looking at the facts of the video footage that have come out, that it is shocking, that you still haven’t gotten a clear answer of how many federal agents were in the field that day.

“Look at now the video footage of actually throwing explosives and rubber bullets into what was a peaceful crowd, then releasing to the public what came in response to that.

“But now, look at the video footage that was released, and I’m glad we’re talking about it because viewers deserve to look at that footage, Capitol police literally letting people in who were then now prosecuted.

“Some of them gone on to commit suicide because of what the government is doing.

“That is the case of entrapment.

“I think the government has not been transparent about this, which is why I then brought up another case where the government now, 20 years later, would declassify documents, tell us that they lied to us at the time.”

DANA BASH: “Eight hundred and fifty people —”

RAMASWAMY: “I do think we have a government that consistently lied to its people.”

BASH: “An inside job suggests that everybody was — who attacked the Capitol was hard to —”

RAMASWAMY: “I didn’t say that.

“I didn’t say that, but I was saying that there is case — there’s entrapment going on.

“There’s entrapment going on and this looks like a case of entrapment.

“If you look at even over the last —”

BASH: “What do you mean by entrapment?”

RAMASWAMY: “Entrapment means that the police go to people to do something otherwise and the otherwise wouldn’t have done, and then they arrest them for actually doing it.”

BASH: “And you don’t think it was actually the former president who —”

RAMASWAMY: “Let’s — why do you think that was the media narrative? Now, look at —”

BASH: “We heard him — we heard him with our own ears.”

RAMASWAMY: “— case and see what you think about this, right?

“You guys said this for a long time, about the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot, suddenly gone silent after it comes out a trial that — absolutely, that was a case of entrapment, which is why those people were acquitted.

“So, I’m saying this is somebody who, on the other side of this, as a biotech CEO, somebody who was even anti-woke.

“But if I was looking at this, I would have said aloud that this is crazy talk.

“But if you actually get into the details, I think it is startling, how much the government has systematically lied, and I think it’s both parties over the course of the last 25 years —”

BASH: “But on the January 6 —”

RAMASWAMY: “— the Left used to be better pointing this out are being skeptical of the government.

“But now, it is the Right.”

BASH: “— which is the most — which is the most aggressive offensive attack on the U.C Capitol, on democracy itself, that we have seen in our lifetime and in many, many lifetimes, to say without evidence that it was an inside —”

RAMASWAMY: “I’m not saying without evidence.

“I think that what we’re seeing now is the video footage that has come out.

“I was in a different place before a lot of that evidence came out.

“But you have to respond to the evidence. What is your response?

“What is anybody else in CNN response to the video footage that was released of Capital police literally just peacefully allowing people into the Capitol —”

BASH: “What we know —”

RAMASWAMY: “— or shooting into peaceful crowd?”

BASH: “— is that 850 people have been convicted of crime.”

RAMASWAMY: “But the reality is many of them were convicted before that information was released.”

BASH: “Do you think that former President Trump has anything to do with this?”

RAMASWAMY: “You’re bringing up a really good point and your audience and everybody deserves to know the truth about this.

“Normally, there is a rule in constitutional law.

“It’s called the Brady rule.

“You have to turn over exculpatory evidence to the other side.

“In this case, it wasn’t turned over because the DOJ said Congress was sitting on it.”

https://slaynews.com/news/liz-cheney-outraged-ramaswamy-declares-jan-6-inside-job/

Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney has expressed outrage after Republican 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy declared Jan. 6 to be an “inside job” on national television.

The former Republican House leader blasted Ramaswamy for making comments during Wednesday’s GOP 2024 debate. ...

During the debate, Ramaswamy said:

“The real enemy is not Donald Trump.

“It’s not even Joe Biden.

“It is the deep state that at least Donald Trump attempted to take on.

“And if you want somebody who’s going to speak truth to power, then vote for somebody who’s going to speak the truth to you.

“Why am I the only person on the stage at least who can say that Jan. 6 now does look like it was an inside job?”

Ramaswamy also claimed that the 2020 election “was indeed stolen by Big Tech” and the 2016 election “was stolen from [Trump] by the national security establishment.”

I feel a bit better about Ramaswamy since he comments about the danger of the vaxx were censored by a convenient "technical glitch" in the last debate. He should say a LOT more about the vaxx if he wants real credibility.

Patrick says

Nailed it. It was to prevent the Congress from hearing the reasons. And it was planned long before Pence said that, with Nancy, Pence, the GOP Establishment (for certain McConnell), the DC Mayor.

https://www.georgiarecord.com/elections/2022/12/25/ruby-freeman-body-cam-admissions-revealed-in-the-georgia-ballot-scanning-scandal/

Newly uncovered police body cam footage of Ruby Freeman reveal her stunning admissions that directly contradict allegations made under oath by January 6th Committee witnesses, by certain reporters and show hosts, by members of Congress, and by lawyers in sworn statements to Federal Court.

Freeman volunteers to blow the whistle on election fraud.
In the body cam, Ruby Freeman alleges a coverup by the Georgia Secretary of State, the DOJ/FBI, the GBI, and the Fulton County DA.

911 call transcript, body cam videos, and police report were obtained by Open Record Requests. From that information investigators have learned that the police report was supplemented in contradiction of the facts.

Holy shit, Freeman worked for a Temp Agency founded by Stacy Abrams.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/corrupt-obstruction-thursday-december

Yesterday, NBC ran an electrifying story headlined, “Supreme Court agrees to hear Jan. 6 case that could affect Trump prosecution.” It’s at once the best January 6th news we’ve had for a long while and it’s also very promising news for the Trump prosecution. ...

As you may know, the federal government criminalized January 6th protestors and Capitol tourists by re-purposing a rarely-used evidence law, originally passed to stop people from destroying evidence in white-collar crimes. The repurposing wasn’t surprising. Ever since Biden occupied the White House and appointed Grandma Garland to the DOJ, we’ve seen nonstop criminal prosecution of conservatives via ‘creative’ legal theories, which have delighted democrats and the compliant corporate media, who have no imagination or ability to extrapolate whatsoever.

Anyway, hundreds of peaceful Capitol protestors have been convicted by D.C. juries under 18 U.S. § 1512(c)(2), a law passed in 2002 after the infamous document shredding story fell out of the Enron case. The law provides up to 20 years in prison for illegally destroying evidence or — and this is the tricky bit — when someone “corruptly … obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so.”

Someone at DOJ saw that language, which was supposed to be about illegally (“corruptly”) destroying evidence so it couldn’t be used as evidence at trial (the “official proceeding”). The DOJ saw that and thought “Eureka!” Congress had assembled on January 6th to certify the presidential vote totals, and the meeting could be described as an “official proceeding.” The Trump supporters didn’t want the vote to be certified yet, so they were allegedly trying to “obstruct, influence, or impede” that proceeding.

And there you have it. Voilá! Twenty years.

The DOJ picked Jacob Chansley as its guinea pig to test out its new legal theory. Chansely was the colorful “QAnon Shaman” who’d be certain to inflame a cerulean-blue DC jury. And the DOJ’s strategy worked perfectly: the jury gave Chansley five years, and the DOJ got its precedent.

Since then, hundreds more J6 defendants have been convicted under the same re-tooled evidence statute. Relying on that swelling, Frankensteinian body of legal precedent, Jack Smith indicted President Trump for the very same crime in the DC ‘election interference’ case.

In yesterday’s thrilling development, the Supreme Court granted certiorari — agreed to hear — an appeal from a January 6th defendant named Edward Lang who’d been convicted under the evidence statute. In essence, Lang argues the evidence statute is “unconstitutionally vague,” letting prosecutors twist the law like Chinese bioweapons engineers into any shape they want. Significantly, the appellate court decided 2-1 to uphold the DOJ’s novel interpretation of the statute.

That’s significant because, if the four Supremes who voted to accept the case had agreed with the appellate court, they wouldn’t need to take the case. They could just deny certiorari, and then the DOJ’s interpretation would become the law.

So the bare fact the Supremes took the case is highly suggestive that at least four of them have something they want to say about it. Most observers think it doesn’t look too good for the government.

The decision created a lot of excitement, as it should have. If the Supreme Court throws § 1512(c)(2) out as unconstitutional, all those J6 prisoners will be released, and most of the election interference case against President Trump will dissolve just like a fresh dusting of snow evaporating on a warm morning.

Some folks, like WND News, even went so far as to predict Jack Smith, Trump’s prosecutor, will be forced to drop the charges just because the Supreme Court took the case.

My take is: this is a perfect, politically expedient opportunity for the Court to weigh in on a bunch of politically-difficult issues without taking the hit. Nearly every conservative judge in other courts who’ve looked at this issue found the statute to be too vague, so the Supreme won’t have to stretch at all to reach that conclusion. They can just quote lower-court opinions. And the Court could also easily help out President Trump, in a case that on its face has nothing whatever to do with Trump. Easy peasy.

This is an exciting and encouraging development. If you like the legal stuff, you can read Ed Lang’s Petition for Certiorari here.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/corrupt-obstruction-thursday-december

Yesterday’s best clip featured Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on a live CNN Town Hall, rapidly tossing truth grenades like Hunter’s laptop, the Wuhan lab leak, and the Gretchen Whitmer fednapping trial (resulting in the jury finding the defendants not guilty). Vivek seized the live TV opportunity to go full-on, 100% January 6th Truther, while CNN anchor Abby Phillip was desperately trying to interrupt the candidate and redirect the question and was losing her mind:



As I’ve said before, I think we’re going to hear a lot more like this as new politicians enter the pipeline who weren’t connected with any of these awful scandals. I think it will happen for the jabs, too.

There’s a whole lot to love in Vivek’s answer, but I think my very favorite part was when Vivek said, “Abby, what I want CNN’s audience to know…” In other words, Vivek knew who he was really talking to: he wasn’t talking to Abby Phillip, but to the CNN audience, who are mainly people who think only white guys named Trump believe the government coordinated January 6th.

Say what you want about Vivek Ramaswamy, but it sure is fun watching him spar with woke reporters.

https://notthebee.com/article/vivek-ramaswamy-educating-cnns-audience-on-fbi-entrapment-is-never-going-to-get-old-and-this-video-will-age-like-fine-wine

https://twitter.com/DavidYeshua4/status/1737860372411961797

This video was deleted from President Trump’s account by Twitter, on January 6th 2021, shortly after tweeted out.

Would have been great if Trump pardoned all non-violent persons involved on Jan 6th in his final 2 weeks in office which he was legally allowed to do.

But because Trump doesn't know how to work the levers of government or have any allies that can play the game (or was too buy sucking Fauci's cock and giving him awards) Trump has left all these people to hang out and dry.

Trump will abandon you like he abandons everyone out of incompetence and/or malice. Trump is already tacking Left kissing up to Democrats and we aren't even out of the primary yet!

MAGA building a new party of BLM, Islamists, Trannies and soft Democrats to make up for all the Conservatives he lost.

If Trump is able to win the General, he will be more wounded and worthless than Arnold Schwarzenegger was as Governor of California after the Unions defeated his propositions.

socal2 says

Would have been great if Trump pardoned all non-violent persons involved on Jan 6th in his final 2 weeks in office which he was legally allowed to do.

At that point they weren't even indicted!

socal2 says

If Trump is able to win the General, he will be more wounded and worthless than Arnold Schwarzenegger

You really don't like Trump, do you?

"Fuck your freedom."
Arnold

Onvacation says

socal2 says

Would have been great if Trump pardoned all non-violent persons involved on Jan 6th in his final 2 weeks in office which he was legally allowed to do.

At that point they weren't even indicted!

Trump had the legal authority to proactively pardon before indictments. Other Presidents have done it.

So Trump was either too stupid or too cowardly to do the right thing.

https://twitter.com/JoshPower80/status/1736883498768633955

Onvacation says

socal2 says

If Trump is able to win the General, he will be more wounded and worthless than Arnold Schwarzenegger

You really don't like Trump, do you?

"Fuck your freedom."
Arnold

I will vote for him again if he is our nominee.

I just think he is going to lose badly. If he manages to win, he will have no one working for him that knows how to get anything done and will let the Deep State run rings around him like they did his first 4 years.

socal2 says

I just think he is going to lose badly.

To whom? And why?
socal2 says

he will have no one working for him that knows how to get anything done and will let the Deep State run rings around him like they did his first 4 years.

Disagree. He got a lot done in his first four years like no new wars and exposing how corrupt and powerful the deep state really is. socal2 says

Trump had the legal authority to proactively pardon before indictments. Other Presidents have done it.

How would he know who to pardon? How could he know the deep state was going to go as far as they did?
socal2 says

So Trump was either too stupid or too cowardly to do the right thing.

Why would you even consider voting for someone you think so little of?

Not expecting cogent answers.

Onvacation says

To whom? And why?

Anyone not Biden.

Onvacation says

Why would you even consider voting for someone you think so little of?

Not expecting cogent answers.

Because it is a binary choice and Trump will be better than any Democrat.

Still - I'd rather have the chance of 8 years of a DeSantis administration that is competent and effective than 4 years of Trump dealing with legal issues and drama while he tries to cut deals with the Democrats and Media to salvage his legacy.

socal2 says

I'd rather have the chance of 8 years of a DeSantis administration

Like Bush Jr?

How many wars do you want?

socal2 says

Trump dealing with legal issues

Do you think Trump’s legal issues are legit?

Maybe DeSantis will proactively pardon Trump for things he might say or think.

socal2 says

Trump had the legal authority to proactively pardon before indictments. Other Presidents have done it.

Interesting if true.

socal2 says

So Trump was either too stupid or too cowardly to do the right thing.

https://twitter.com/JoshPower80/status/1736883498768633955

When did a president ever pardon unindicted criminals within two weeks of them committing crimes? Your link doesn't say.

Carter gave amnesty to half a million draft dodgers but he did not pardon them. Do you really think Trump could pardon or give amnesty to anyone who might have been invited into the capitol on Jan 6? He still says that anyone who was violent or caused damage SHOULD be prosecuted.

Trump’s consideration of preemptive pardons quickly hit a wall. It was unclear how he could pardon an entire class of people that hadn’t been charged. “You didn’t know who the FBI was going to arrest down the road,” the first adviser said.

At the same time, the White House counsel’s office was forcefully telling Trump what he could not do as president, this person said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/02/trump-considered-blanket-pardons-for-jan-6-rioters-before-he-left-office-00004738

Patrick says

socal2 says

Trump had the legal authority to proactively pardon before indictments. Other Presidents have done it.

Interesting if true.

I don't think Trump realized, at the time, how evil his opponents were.

Onvacation says

I don't think Trump realized, at the time, how evil his opponents were.

This - he thought he could win-win most people over, not realizing how vicious the swamp creatures were to his drainage program.