A podcast about the events of the Capitol Insurrection of January 6th, 2021, with updates on official hearings and cases developed by the Justice Department.
On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes was arrested for his participation in the Gunpowder Plot, a scheme by disaffected Catholic terrorists to blow up King James I and his Parliament using 36 barrels of gunpowder in the basement of the House of Lords. It seems oddly fitting that the presidential general election of 2024 is taking place on the 419th anniversary of that date. It seems very likely that the contest will drag on for days or even weeks, but the result may come down to this question: how many Americans just want to blow it all up? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G8vSbD4YHaTmzNcF3zu1fzv75w1Hu1tWPLe9XvfiuqQ/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HIlBqFI4WAk3-ehiqMM3jw_qGT_jmLBpoLXyXGTVfOM/edit?usp=sharing https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/brothers-new-york-arrested-assaulting-law-enforcement-weapon-and-other-charges-during https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/voisine-v-united-states/ https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/21847422/stephen-leigh-voisine/ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ballot-boxes-set-fire-portland-vancouver-rcna177611 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/what-happens-to-trump-s-november-sentencing/ar-AA1tkenR?ocid=BingNewsSerp https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656604/united-states-v-trump/?page=2 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/02/jack-smith-trump-election-brief-details-00182287 https://rollcall.com/2024/11/04/outlier-or-early-warning-late-iowa-poll-confounds/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7484kwl55qo https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/24/americans-take-a-dim-view-of-the-nations-future-look-more-positively-at-the-past/ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-trump-timeline/ https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-presidential-election-2024-labor-day-151f82b59473d29a448ef1cea9afe471 https://www.wgal.com/article/pennsylvania-ballot-counting-rules-2024/62786512
Returning again to the "19th Brumaire Scenario," I examine what documentary evidence there is regarding the "OTR movement" on January 6th, 2021, when the Secret Service informed Trump they would not take him to the Capitol. It is likely that this is a key question for the evidentiary hearings in DC before Judge Chutkan, presuming these actually move forward. Key questions include what Trump's intent was in his plan to go to the Capitol, what he intended to do once there, and the possibility that Trump had intended to lead a "procession" of 10,000 National Guard personnel from the Ellipse to the Capitol as a show of force to cow Congress. I will discuss the evidence that shows that there are documents cited in the Final Report that have not been uploaded to the GovInfo site for the Committee: though insurrection apologists have asserted this is evidence of obstructing, it seems far more likely that his is evidence that there are materials the Committee thought were vital to any DOJ case that would be brought, and so were reserved for any future prosecution. The identifying information of these witnesses p[rovided by the Committee are listed: there are six anonymized transcripts cited in seven pages of Chapter 7 that may be pivotal. I include selected evidence from the documentary record, mainly the materials cited in the Final Report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack. This includes some of the 26 documents submitted by the Secret Service and cited in the Report, the transcripts of Max Miller, Katrina Pierson, Tony Ornato, and more. I will also suggest that, while there's plenty of support for the idea that the USSS under Trump was obstructionist, the documentary evidence supports the idea that there was a "team normal" at the USSS, and these included the persons who ultimately did block the OTR movement. Although the documentary evidence is more scant than one would like, it seems probable that the final decision on the OTR movement was made by Kimberly Cheatle, who was the Assistant Director in charge of the Office of Protective Operations on January 6th, but who since has been promoted to Director. Some discussion also of the recent events in Butler, Pennsylvania, and how the evidence from January 6th shows that Donald Trump is an extraordinarily uncooperative and difficult person for the Secret Service to protect. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-J6-WITHOLDING/ https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000021632_00096/pdf/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000021632_00096.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000030809/pdf/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000030809.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000021633_00030/pdf/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000021633_00030.pdf https://archive.org/details/january-6th-committee-witness-testimony-20221129-anthony-ornato-1 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000152321/pdf/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000152321.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000028929_00001/pdf/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000028929_00001.pdf https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/house-gop-january-6-committee-report/index.html https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/117118/witnesses/HHRG-118-HA06-Wstate-MatthewsE-20240417.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000208061/pdf/GPO-J6-DOC-CTRL0000208061.pdf
With sentencing in the hush money case coming right before the Republican National Convention, the leading contender for that party's presidential nomination has claimed that he doesn't care about his supporters, he just wants their votes, and also that suicide ought to be preferable to them than voting for his opponent. At the same time, every discussion of consequences too includes some claim that allowances ought to be made for the possibility of political violence, as if leniency for the dear leader should be a consequence of the threat of political violence posed by the Trumpist movement. No electoral or judicial process ought to be held hostage by the threat of political violence. In this episode, I examine a recent arrest made for threats against the FBI, new charges brought by the State of Wisconsin against three defendants who allegedly conspired to commit fraud, and other developments. Political violence must be deterred, and so I also revisit a "top ten" list of the worst defendants charged to date I compiled for Episode 1, Season 8, "The Worst." Each of these gets a "where are they now" treatment, and a review of their sentences, release dates, and the progress of the relevant legal processes. https://time.com/6982979/trump-conviction-judge-jail/ https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/06/politics/merchan-trump-gag-order-contempt/index.html https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59869101/united-states-v-coffee/?page=1 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60044813/united-states-v-mchugh/?page=2 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59743200/united-states-v-padilla/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59780846/united-states-v-mckellop/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59704067/united-states-v-egtvedt/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59249721/united-states-v-foy/?page=2 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/58955673/united-states-v-lang/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.226964/gov.uscourts.dcd.226964.133.0.pdf https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59291007/united-states-v-sabol/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59735143/united-states-v-webster/ https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/arizona-man-charged-selling-guns-use-mass-shooting
"It was just a delay that somebody or somebodies were willfully, deliberately delaying making the decision." (Transcript of Major General William Walker before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, p 118) For three hours and 19 minutes, the NC National Guard waited in the DC Armory on January 6th, 2021, supposedly awaiting approval from Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy to deploy to the US Capitol. That order was never conveyed to Walker, although Secretary of Defense Chris Miller claims he authorized deployment at 3:04 pm, and Secretary McCarthy claims he called Walker to authorize deployment at 4:30 pm--a phone call Walker has consistently denied took place. Who were the "somebody or somebodies" who delayed deployment on January 6th, and what were their motivations? Given the conflicting accounts and the threadbare relationship between the official account of the DOD and what actually happened on January 6th, it seems unlikely we will ever see a definitive account of why the delay was felt to be necessary. Nonetheless, there is circumstantial evidence in the documentary record that shows that both the civilian and military leadership on duty on January 6th were uniform in their desire to keep both active-duty and National Guard servicemembers on the sidelines in the fight for the Capitol. The fact that this actually happened, and very much aligned with the preferences of top leadership is probably more than just a coincidence. If Trump had intended to misuse the military, why is there no record of his attempting to issue an illegal order on January 6th? Why did Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy believe it was necessary to personally develop a CONOP for January 6th, a circumstance that seems as unlikely as Jeff Bezos delivering your Amazon order? Why is it that neither General Walker or anyone else has seen the plan McCarthy supposedly developed in 20 minutes? Why was Ryan McCarthy so surprised to "I don't know what actually happened." (Miller, 115) "I -- I can't -- I don't know how to explain that." (McCarthy, 136) "You're coming up with a plan without me being involved in the plan?" (Walker, 108) Q: Was there any hesitation by DOD leadership to deploy the D.C. National Guard? A: None. No. (Milley, 258) "In fact, even in hindsight, I am really glad the cops showed up first. I'm glad that the FBI or the DEA or whoever it was, I'm glad they were the ones that showed up first and cleared the Capitol. Because they're the pros, they know how to do it. They're cops." (Milley, 275) https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report?path=/gpo/January%206th%20Committee%20Final%20Report%20and%20Supporting%20Materials%20Collection/Supporting%20Materials%20-%20Transcribed%20Interviews%20and%20Depositions/%7B%22pageSize%22%3A%2250%22%2C%22offset%22%3A%220%22%7D https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report?path=/gpo/January%206th%20Committee%20Final%20Report%20and%20Supporting%20Materials%20Collection/Supporting%20Materials%20-%20Transcribed%20Interviews%20and%20Depositions/%7B%22pageSize%22%3A%2250%22%2C%22offset%22%3A%220%22%7D https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2022/08/08/milley-almost-quit-over-trump-wrote-biting-resignation-letter-new-book-reveals/ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/chairman-joint-chiefs-says-no-role-military-presidential-election-n1238772 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMrvbCVNcwE&t=1s https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/09/mark-esper-fired-defence-pentagon-donald-trump https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/chris-krebs-fired-by-trump/index.html DOD Statement on Personnel Changes at the Pentagon > U.S. Department of Defense > Release https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/d-c-mayor-muriel-bowser-press-conference-on-capitol-protests-transcript-january-6 https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IJ/IJ00/20211213/114313/HRPT-117-NA.pdf
I interview Aquilino Gonell, formerly of the United States Capitol Police. Gonell has published American Shield, an autobiography recounting his life story from his childhood in the Dominican Republic, and New York City, his service in the Second Iraq War, and also detailing his leadership role in a Civil Disturbance Unit on January 6th, 2021, as well as the aftermath of the attack and his decision to testify before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack. Sergeant Gonell is a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal and the Congressional Gold Medal. https://www.counterpointpress.com/books/american-shield/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741940/escudo-americano-by-aquilino-gonell/ https://www.uscp.gov/department/united-states-capitol-police-memorial-fund https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/03/politics/capitol-police-officers-exclusive-interview-january-6/index.html https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117hhrg50139/html/CHRG-117hhrg50139.htm https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/01/06/remarks-by-president-biden-at-presentation-of-the-presidential-citizens-medal/
For the third anniversary of the January 6th Attack, I speak with Riverfox, a sedition hunter whose current role includes a crowdsourced effort to debunk the "Fedsurrection" narrative. We discuss what this campaign of far-right propaganda is, why it is central to the politics of the Trumpist movement, and how to counter it. After the interview, I will review some recent developments, to include the arrests of three longstanding Florida fugitives for charges stemming from their alleged roles in the January sixth attack. I also review some recent developments in the January 6th cases against Trump: 2023 was the year in which cases were finally charged against the apex of the January 6th Attack conspiracy, but 2024 will be the year in which these cases are tried. I'll then discuss what it means for the electoral prospects of a major party nominee who will be campaigning for the presidency while embroiled in multiple felony cases in different jurisdictions. Finally, I will review the numbers, using some interesting data visualizations from the people behind the X account @jan6thdata that show some intriguing patterns among January 6th defendants. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-capitol-police-officer-harry-dunn-announces-bid-for-congress/ar-AA1mvgED https://news.gallup.com/poll/311825/presidential-job-approval-related-reelection-historically.aspx https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-denies-special-counsels-request-to-take-up-trump-immunity-claim/ar-AA1lUOoc https://www.ijpr.org/npr-news/2024-01-05/supreme-court-takes-up-colorados-decision-to-kick-trump-off-its-primary-ballot https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/121120zr_p860.pdf https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/supreme-court-refuses-quick-action-on-trump-election-lawsuits.html https://cha.house.gov/cha-subcommittee-reading-room-fe781e74-d577-4f64-93cc-fc3a8dd8df18 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67891889/united-states-v-donald-trump/ https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24250215-us-v-trump-gov-appellate-response-to-trump-immunity-dc-case?responsive=1&title=1 https://archive.org/embed/TheKGBAndSovietDisinformationLadislavBittman
This episode's guest is Julie Farnam, who was a witness before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, in which she testified regarding intelligence she had obtained before January 6th that attendees intended to come to the event armed, that white supremacists planned to attend, that participants were sharing maps of the Capitol tunnels, and many other data points that ought to have been sufficient for the USCP to adequately prepare. This interview is occasioned by the publication of her forthcoming book, “Domestic Darkness: An Insider's Account of the January 6 Insurrection and the Future of Right-Wing-Extremism,” which is available for preorder now, wherever books are sold, with a publication date of January 2nd, 2024. Farnam had served as the Assistant Director of the Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division (IICD) for the USCP during the run-up to, and then in the aftermath of, the January 6th, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Following the resignation of her immediate superior, Jack Donohue, in the Spring of 2021, Farnam assumed the position of Acting Director of the Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division for the USCP. Then, when she was passed over for Donohue's job in March of 2022, Farnam returned to her Assistant Director position, which she later left. We discuss Farnam's experiences in her government career, and the "culture of mediocrity" that was evident in the failure of USCP leadership to act on the intelligence IICD had provided in the assessment she wrote and submitted on January 3rd, 2021. We also discuss how it was that she came to be interviewed by the FBI regarding an MPD officer who allegedly gave sensitive law enforcement information regarding investigations and pending arrests with the Chairman of the Proud Boys. Also discussed: a pressure campaign by USCP intended to force Farnam not to submit her manuscript for publication, in incident involving Russian nationals behaving suspiciously on January 6th, an interview she conducted with a DOD source who told her that Charles Flynn and Bradley Gericke were concerned that an as-yet not public intelligence report was too focused on the danger to the Capitol from the crowd that would attend Trump's Ellipse speech, and insufficiently concerned with Antifa and BLM. https://www.igpub.com/tag/julie-farnam/ https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000034626/ https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21174477/uscp-jan6-intelreports-cnn.pdf https://www.rules.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Jan%206%20HSGAC%20Rules%20Report.pdf https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/30/capitol-police-trump-insurrection-485138
Following the latest developments in the January 6th story, including the arrest of the 1,200th January 6th Attack defendant, a key ruling by the DC Circuit Court in the Blassingame civil case in DC, the rejection of Trump's claim of absolute immunity in the election interference case in DC, the rape allegation against the Chairman of the Florida Republican Party, and the claim by the House Speaker that he will release all the security video from the Capitol taken on January 6th, 2021, but only after he blurs the faces of the Trumpist mob so that these individuals will not be identified and charged by the Department of Justice. In the final segment, I will read from a transcript from an audio recording of an online "space" taken from the website formerly known as Twitter. There's an ongoing effort led by a Texas Three Percenter and several supporters of the Proud Boys paramilitary gang to harass federal law enforcement officials at federal prisons, and also to collect their names for unspecified purposes. The participants claim that this is being done in an effort to secure the early release of Proud Boys and other January 6th defendants, even though that's not how this works. I will also play excerpts from the space so listeners can hear these Trumpist "activists" harassing federal officers who are sworn to protect the community. https://www.businessinsider.com/moms-for-liberty-gop-chairman-threesome-christian-bridget-ziegler-conservatism-2023-12 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/06/sarasota-gop-joins-ron-desantis-in-pushing-ziegler-to-resign/71822927007/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.38510/gov.uscourts.cadc.38510.2029472.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.171.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.176.0.pdf https://www.modeldmedia.com/features/timeline-of-calls-to-action-at-tcf-center.aspx https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/19/2123875/-Faketriots-stage-protest-of-Jan-6-veterans-by-trying-to-clog-up-VA-suicide-prevention-hotline
We get caught up on arrests in the January 6th Attack, which have picked up again. I also discuss the attempt by an AFO defendant in New Jersey to flee from the FBI, and the sentencings of some notable defendants. Also: leaked proffer videos in the Fulton County case, and the effort to get cameras in the courtroom in the Trump's DC case. Most of the episode consists of a review of the figures connected with the Tomotley Plot, a ring of attorneys and former military intelligence officials who worked together to overturn the 2020 presidential election at Lucian "Lin" Wood's plantation in South Carolina. I draw on dozens of transcripts to show how extensively Powell and her co-conspirators are connected to every part of the January 6th story. The story of what happened at Tomotley is one that's had little coverage, but it was every bit as important to the progress of the Trumpist plot as Trump International or the war room at the Willard. Apparently no one took even a moment to consider the wisdom of a group of white, southern lawyers working together with retired military officials in an attempt to disenfranchise millions of American voters, particularly black voters, at a locale so thoroughly associated with the Confederacy that General Sherman burnt the place to the ground in 1865. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/special-counsel-says-trump-wants-jan-6-trial-to-be-a-media-event-as-it-argues-against-live-court-tv/ar-AA1jRGcm https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.260552/gov.uscourts.dcd.260552.16.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.260552/gov.uscourts.dcd.260552.22.0.pdf https://www.rawstory.com/lin-woods-tweet/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/prosecutor-asks-judge-to-revoke-bond-for-harrison-floyd-in-georgia-election-case/ar-AA1jZN9w https://abc7chicago.com/jenna-ellis-sydney-powell-donald-trump-2020-election/14054154/ https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/who-is-misty-hampton-former-coffee-county-elections-director-indicted-for-election-interference https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/16/a-stay-at-lin-woods-maga-friendly-bed-and-breakfast https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/lin-wood-loses-again-as-federal-appeals-court-savages-georgia-election-lawsuit/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/politics/lin-wood-law-license/index.html https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/wisconsin-federal-judge-picks-apart-sidney-powell-and-lin-woods-lawsuit-in-brutal-order/ https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000082296/pdf/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000082296.pdf https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/michigan-voting-machine-plot-charged-lambert/index.html https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/trump-indictment-georgia-protective-order-plea-deal-interviews https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21201004/documents-for-eo-story.pdf https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/09/14/2018-20203/imposing-certain-sanctions-in-the-event-of-foreign-interference-in-a-united-states-election
In this episode, I will read the final chapter of Franz Neumann's Behemoth, which I see as a touchstone for understanding Trumpism. Writing in exile, Neumann described Germany as a nullity, a place with no underlying political theory, no theory of society, and ultimately not even properly a state. He describes it as a nation where a coalition of elites rule through careful application of propaganda, which is used to control the people directly, without the mediation of the state. https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.10130/page/9/mode/2up https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691134130/secret-reports-on-nazi-germany https://web.archive.org/web/20020809080635/http://www.wbenjamin.org/Behemoth.html
In this episode, I chat with sedition hunter Jewelz about the sedition VIPs who are still at large and apparently uncharged, which is concerning, given the expiration of the 5-year federal statute of limitations on January 6, 2026. I also discuss the recent plea deals of Sidney Powell, Ken Chesebro and Jenna Ellis in the Georgia election interference case in Fulton County. We also catch up on developments in the cases of certain January 6th defendants. I also examine the transcripts from the January 6th Committee for clues regarding Powell's overall connections to the broader conspiracy to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, in which she is a major node. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.246841/gov.uscourts.dcd.246841.38.0.pdf https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/6010_003.pdf https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oath-keepers-leader-stewart-rhodes-resist-bidens-presidency-push-trump-to-act/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/kenneth-chesebro-takes-last-minute-plea-deal-in-georgia-election-interference-case/ar-AA1izKpy https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jenna-ellis-former-trump-attorney-with-deep-colorado-ties-pleads-guilty-in-election-case/ar-AA1iN5if https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/sidney-powell-continues-to-peddle-election-conspiracies-despite-guilty-plea/ar-AA1iQlum
In the intro to this episode, we hear Donald Trump declare the beginning of communism in our country in response to the failure of his own attorneys to request a jury trial in the civil case brought by Leticia James being heard before Judge Engoron. We will then review almost every new criminal defendant charged since the last episode: in the beginning of September, these were mainly AFO defendants, but moved to parading defendants later in the month. The trend of defendants who are connected to other defendants or who displayed organized behavior continued. We then move on to Trump's request that Judge Chutkan recuse herself based on the idea that her ruling against members of the January 6th mob somehow constituted bias on her part, a motion that she unsurprisingly ruled against. We then move on to another motion in the same case, a motion by the government to impose a protective order to prohibit Trump from threatening witnesses, tampering with the jury pool, and generally attempting to try the case on Fox News and OANN rather than in the courtroom. Trump's legal team also claimed that the indictment against Trump was itself somehow prejudicial, and the government opposed this claim, and used thew opportunity to offer a very succinct summary of the allegations contained in the indictment. We then move on to the imposition of the gag order on the New York civil case, which was occasioned by Trump's allegation that the clerk in the case is “Chuck Schumer's girlfriend.” Next, we move on to the Fulton County case, and the plea agreement reached with Scott Hall, a Georgia bail bondsman who is the brother-in-law of longtime Trump associate David Bossie. Hall has admitted wrongdoing in illegally accessing election equipment in Coffee County, Georgia. Hall is also linked to Sidney Powell and Jeffrey Clark, two other defendants in the Fulton County RICO case: although he is a “small fish,” he is in a very unique vantage point to offer evidence against the alleged conspiracy. Finally, we address the sentencing of Shane Leedon Jenkins, a Texas lifelong felon who has a category VI criminal history who was found guilty of assaulting law enforcement on January 6th, and who was the subject of the second episode of this podcast. The government recommended Jenkins receive 19 years, 8 months in their 42-page sentencing memorandum, but ultimately Jenkins was awarded far less, despuite the fact that he is a grifter whose history begins with killing his stepfather and who is utterly unrepentant, raising over $118,888 from donors who support his criminal activities. 61-Order Denying Recusal - DocumentCloud gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.60.0_2.pdf (courtlistener.com) United States v. TRUMP, 1:23-cr-00257 – CourtListener.com gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.64.0_2.pdf (courtlistener.com) Gentile v. State Bar of Nevada :: 501 U.S. 1030 (1991) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center trump-ny-fraud-ruling.pdf (documentcloud.org) Why a fraud finding is like ‘corporate death penalty' for Trump (msn.com) Did Judge Kill The Trump Organization? What Fraud Ruling Means For Ex-President's Business (forbes.com) Trump returns to court for $250 million fraud trial after judge imposes gag order (msn.com) Trump Rages No Jury in Fraud Case 'Beginning of Communism' (mediaite.com) GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000082296.pdf (govinfo.gov) CNN Exclusive: Trump operative seen on video in Georgia voting system breach testifies before special grand jury | CNN Politics https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.283580/gov.uscourts.gand.283580.6.18.pdf http://www.senatorligon.com/THE_SENATE%20JUDICIARY%20SUBCOMMITTEE_FINAL%20REPORT.PDF What the Heck Happened in Coffee County, Georgia? | Lawfare (lawfaremedia.org) MM010952 - (Mark Meadows Production), MM010972 (November 3, 2020, Jason Miller group text message to Mark Meadows and David Bossie at 11:53 pm) - Content Details - (govinfo.gov) gov.uscourts.dcd.229273.86.0.pdf (courtlistener.com)
Over the summer of 2023, the pace of arrests quickened once again, with over 8 Capitol attackers arrested on average every week. These arrests included a great many individuals who assaulted police on January 6th, 2021, and a number of VIP defendants. We will catch up on these cases, and review a few other developments, including news that Molly Michael is offering evidence against Trump in the stolen documents case. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.259850/gov.uscourts.dcd.259850.5.0.pdf https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113 https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/political-information-10-1945.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/17/fbi-agents-testify-security-clearances/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjE2MzAyMDkwIiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4NDM4MjQwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY4NTY3ODM5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjg0MzgyNDAwLCJqdGkiOiI1MTIyNWNjZC1hMjdlLTQwOGUtOWQ1Zi1jYjlmZDM0ZTc2YTkiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvMjAyMy8wNS8xNy9mYmktYWdlbnRzLXRlc3RpZnktc2VjdXJpdHktY2xlYXJhbmNlcy8ifQ.04N4JVU47bSF8sx4R38s1b0bQ5GKACIoLbbiCJP7kiw https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/04/19/inside-southern-sons-active-club-part-i/ https://www.rawstory.com/cindy-chafian-2657493858/ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:CTRL0000034601_-_Transcribed_Interview_of_Cindy_Chafian,_(October_28,_2021).pdf https://www.rawstory.com/cindy-chafian/ https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/politics/alex-jones-rally-organization-efforts/index.html
We begin with the bombshell revelation that Trump's main fake elector attorney, Kenneth Chesebro, was on Capitol grounds on January 6th, following Alex Jones, Trump's stand-in, and appearing to send messages to persons unknown, for over an hour. Other topics include the Fulton County indictment, the surrender of Trump and his 18 co-defendants, the Coffee County data breach, the threat to the community posed by Trump and other January 6th defendants, and the decision by violent convicted gang member Christopher Worrell to become a fugitive from justice, rather than to attend his sentencing. The episode concludes with a reading of my transcription of Trump's comments on Tuesday, August 22, when Trump hosted the "Patriot Freedom Project" at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. In his comments, Trump claimed that the January 6th Attack was led by BLM and Antifa, while pledging his devotion and love for January 6th defendants, apparently to include white supremacists, gang members and violent criminals, but somehow excluding the BLM and Antifa members who he claims were behind the January 6th attack, even though he won't identify which defendants were BLM or Antifa. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kenneth-chesebro-alleged-architect-of-fake-electors-plot-followed-alex-jones-around-capitol-grounds-on-january-6th/ar-AA1frglK https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-georgia-indictment-against-trump-and-18-allies https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/attorney-for-trump-s-personal-valet-denies-conflicts-in-classified-docs-case/ar-AA1fscdZ https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1692565572536402067 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-was-indicted-georgia-trump-18-co-conspirators-fulton-county/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/georgia-election-indictment-highlights-wider-attempts-illegally-access-102291944 https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/21/politics/colorado-elections-breach/index.html https://www.npr.org/2023/08/01/1142599350/deperno-michigan-voting-machine-breach-charges https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-bond-200000-fulton-county-georgia-case/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66529579 https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/07/31/fulton-da-reports-threats-urges-staff-stay-safe-ahead-trump-decisions/ https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194471162/trump-indictment-fulton-county-grand-jurors-threats https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/16/pattern-to-attack-the-prosecutors-trump-vs-fulton-county-da-willis/70595855007/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-bemoans-travesty-of-justice-after-georgia-arrest-and-mugshot/ar-AA1fK2Jl https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/proud-boy-turned-jan-6-fugitive-now https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-district-of-columbia-capitol-siege-b944fd79b8e132f633bfb0111adfaba8 https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/23/politics/trump-fundraiser-january-6-defendants/index.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-schedules-trump-codefendant-ken-chesebro-for-october-trial-in-racketeering-case/ar-AA1fJqzA
Donald Trump has now been charged with four felony counts for his scheme to defraud the US, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to deprive voters of the right to vote and to have their votes counted. In this episode, I examine the indictment, the identity of Trump's co-conspirators, and also selections from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack depositions of fake electors and others involved in the conspiracy to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election. I also examine the prospect of state-level charges against the fake electors and others, as well as the ongoing terrorist threat illustrated by the example of Craig Robertson, a Trump supporter who was shot by the FBI at his home in Provo, Utah while they were raiding his home as a result of his threats against President Biden, Alvin Bragg, and others. https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.pdf https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/co-conspirator-6-trump-2020-election-indictment-rcna98014 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-are-the-co-conspirators-in-the-trump-indictment/ https://www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1192129237/should-trump-trial-be-televised https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/08/jack-smith-donald-trump-pac-00110279 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-fake-election-documents-michigan-dana-nessel-1284781/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/politics/michigan-fake-electors/index.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/05/06/georgia-probe-eight-fake-electors-immunity-deals-trump/70190884007/ https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20493986/nara-records-regarding-invalid-elector-slates-nara-21-0174-a.pdf https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/michigan-fake-elector-i-was-duped-trump https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-fake-electors-scheme-corrupt-plan-indictment-101936714 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-09/twitter-fined-350-000-in-secret-doj-fight-over-trump-records#xj4y7vzkg https://airmail.news/issues/2023-8-12/legal-weasel https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/fulton-county-timeline-fani-willis-likely-to-present-trump-case-to-grand-jury-next-week/ https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/utah-shooting-fbi-biden-threats-rcna99106
This episode consists mainly of a close reading of "Planned in Plain Sight: A Review of the Intelligence Failures in Advance of Januart 6th, 2021," a report written by the majority staff of the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, chaired by Senator Gary Peters. This report offers the best look yet at the failures of the FBI and DHS I&A in the runup to January 6th, building on the work of the House Select Committee--although it certainly also has its own issues, failing to really assign any responsibility to Christopher Wray or Chad Wolf. Also discussed: the acquittal of onstage Judas James Beeks by Judge Mehta, the strange story of Taylor Taranto, the conviction on all counts of Trump appointee Federico Klein, the charging of 16 fraudulent Trump electors by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, and the possibility of a grand jury indictment of Donald Trump by the DC grand jury investigating the obstruction of the peaceful transfer of power on January 6th, 2021. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/former-jesus-christ-superstar-actor-acquitted-jan-6-charges-rcna93956 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59731868/united-states-v-caldwell/?page=2 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/georgia-man-arrested-in-relation-to-jan-6-u-s-capitol-breach/ar-AA1dSBDc https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article277292548.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/centre-county-man-faces-january-6th-charges/ar-AA1dAd0p https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sedition-hunters-capitol-attack-jeff-smith-trump-riot_n_6117e45fe4b01da700f646dd https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67545209/united-states-v-taranto/ https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/230627_HSGAC-Majority-Report_Jan-6-Intel.pdf https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Internal%20Review%20Report%2020210930.pdf?ref=foreverwars.ghost.io https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/21028-07 https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/examining-the-january-6-attack-on-the-us-capitol-wray-061521 https://www.axios.com/2023/07/21/trump-appointee-federico-klein-jan-6-guilty https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/20/trump-grand-jury-witness-executive-privilege-00107442
Mainly consisting of a reading of Appendix 1 of the Final Committee Report, which gives a very perfunctory depiction of "intelligence failures" in the runup to January 6th. Also an interview with artist and illustrator Brian Michael Weaver, whose careful research and satirical style are both evident in his "Insurrection Maze!" artwork, a work of comic art that would be the perfect gift for anyone interested in the January 6th attack. We will also review the developments in the invesyigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith, including a selection of readings from the Committee transcript of Mike Roman, a key organizer of the fake elector plot who has been reported as accepting a cooperation deal. Roman is uniquely situated to offer evidence regarding a wide range of potential targets, and also on how the fake elector scheme morphed into a conspiracy to obstruct the certification of electoral votes. https://www.brianmichaelweaver.com/ https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/doj-asks-to-dismiss-charges-against-magalumberjack-dillon-herrington-mobile-alabama-speedy-trial-lucas-denney-christopher-kelly-january-6/65-6ed270cc-1187-4d00-9de2-c1aa1f0d329b https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67503040/united-states-v-herrington/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.256518/gov.uscourts.dcd.256518.7.0.pdf https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-classified-documents-case-special-counsel-requests-december-trial/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/politics/trump-documents-cannon-hearing-july/index.html https://sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/SEB2020-059%20ROI%20redacted.pdf https://news.yahoo.com/giuliani-ordered-pay-georgia-election-205815524.html https://www.chron.com/news/article/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-interviewed-in-jan-6-18174184.php https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/exclusive-special-counsel-trades-immunity-for-fake-elector-testimony-as-jan-6-probe-heats-up/ar-AA1cWPyn https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/11/29/hyvy-n29.html https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-capitol-agent-idUSKCN2AV2XC https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-riot/ex-fbi-supervisor-assaulted-officers-on-jan-6-shouted-kill-em-as-rioters-attacked-police-line-feds/ https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/ibrahim-mark-sami https://wtop.com/dc/2023/05/wtop-interview-dc-police-chief-robert-contee-shares-why-hes-leaving-after-33-years/ https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2023-01-05/lynx-software-technologies-appoints-ryan-d-mccarthy-former-secretary-of-the-u-s-army-to-its-board-of-directors-lcj6y5vk https://t.co/vjAKJjLXuN https://news.yahoo.com/capitol-police-said-jan-6-151811832.html
Mainly consisting of a reading of the 37-count indictment of Donald Trump and Waldine Nauta, on the occasion of their arraignment in Miami. Other topics include the resumption of arrests of January 6th suspects, including some who had inexplicably not been charged long after identification, such as Mr. Show actor Jay Johnston and Long Island funeral home director Peter Moloney, #BlackBonoHelmet. Also discussion of the court finding that former Oath Keepers General Counsel Kelleye SoRelle is not competent to stand trial, and Trump's difficulties obtaining and retaining criminal attorneys. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-charge-bobs-burgers-arrested-development-actor-jan-6-capitol-riot-rcna88135 https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/california-man-arrested-felony-charge-actions-during-jan-6-capitol-breach-0 https://www.thedailybeast.com/actor-jay-johnston-banned-from-bobs-burgers-over-capitol-riot https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/09/trump-lawyers-quit-classified-documents-case.html https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ny-funeral-home-owner-arrested-jan-6-sleuths-ided-rcna88111 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.256180/gov.uscourts.dcd.256180.1.1.pdf https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/oath-keepers-attorney-deemed-not-competent-to-stand-trial-lawyers-say-kellye-sorelle-stewart-rhodes-militia-january-6-capitol-riot/65-70bcd4a6-a1ff-471e-bd96-97fec4ede855 https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/09/trump-lawyers-quit-classified-documents-case.html https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump-Nauta_23-80101.pdf
Mainly consisting of an examination of how Antifa was used in the runup to January 6th, as red herring to distract from the potential for Trumpist violence, and eventually as a scapegoat in a cover story concocted to shift the blame for the attack away from the Trumpist mob that committed the attack. https://kurier.at/chronik/niederoesterreich/erik-prince-kriegsgeraet-niederoesterreich-us-soeldner-chef-wiener-neustadt-gericht/402451938 https://abcnews.go.com/US/eve-hearing-fbi-revoked-security-clearances-3-agents/story?id=99414928https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-whistleblowers-admit-taking-money-from-ex-trump-official-kash-patel https://abovethelaw.com/2023/05/quitfired-trump-lawyer-tim-parlatore-says-trump-is-innocent-victim-of-his-bad-advisors/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-attorneys-letter-attorney-general-merrick-garland-meeting-special-counsel-investigations/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/politics/jennifer-leigh-moore-weaponization-subcommittee/index.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shane-lamond-dc-police-proud-boys-enrique-tarrio/ https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/05/protests-washington-dc-federal-agents-law-enforcement-302551 https://www.newsweek.com/russia-donald-trump-enemies-sanctions-response-ukraine-1801818 https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/sort-just-knowing-theyre-around-can-create-sense-security-and https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/soldiers-disciplined-helicopters-hovering-blm-protesters-dc/story?id=77066526 https://media.defense.gov/2021/Nov/19/2002896088/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2022-039%20V2%20508.PDF https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2022/06/dods-acting-ig-is-in-his-position-unlawfully-gao-finds/ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/search-for-accountability/2023/05/robert-storch-inspector-general-of-the-department-of-defense/ https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/markmilleynationaldefenseuniversitygraduationremarks.htm https://www.npr.org/2020/11/09/933105262/trump-terminates-secretary-of-defense-mark-esper https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/08/03/dods-missing-jan-6-phone-records-need-investigation-senate-leader-demands/ https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/06/dhs-domestic-intelligence-program-00085544
We recap recent developments, including Pence's grand jury testimony, the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy verdict, the civil case brought by E Jean Carroll and news that Special Jack Smith is investigating the Big Rip-Off. I then have a conversation with a sedition hunter who goes by the handle Patr10tic who has applied his skills in artificial intelligence to develop tools, and who has lately been keeping tabs on the community that has developed a series of bizarre conspiracy theories regarding January sixth, including an especially strange claim that individuals in the mob of attackers were supplied with some very unusual communications equipment on January 6th. The rest of the episode consists of a reading of the many transcripts that mention former Trump White House trade czar Peter Navarro, including his work on the Navarro Report, his contacts with Bannon and other co-conspirators, the Green Bay Sweep, and his efforts to bring as many people to DC as possible for January sixth. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/capitol-rioter-shot-local-deputies-fbi-informed-jan-6-charges-rcna80725 https://www.newsweek.com/pence-testimony-sharply-incriminating-evidence-trump-kirschner-1797201 https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trumps-embrace-new-hampshire-jan-6-defendant-dangerous-precedent-rcna81955 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zpPoruxy7k https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63359365/united-states-v-navarro/ https://vimeo.com/470515015 https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report?path=/gpo/January%206th%20Committee%20Final%20Report%20and%20Supporting%20Materials%20Collection/Supporting%20Materials%20-%20Transcribed%20Interviews%20and%20Depositions https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/prosecutors-reported-interest-trumps-fundraising-matters-rcna82198 https://rumble.com/vhpam3-episode-980the-border-tipping-pointpeter-navarro-on-the-stolen-election-and.html https://www.pinalcentral.com/san_tan_valley_sentinel/local_news/gop-lawsuit-questions-duplicateballots-in-queen-creek/article_ee9557d0-97e4-53e9-a269-5beb4b64370a.html https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23595949-letter-to-irs-re-request-for-review-of-501-c-3-status-61 https://archive.org/details/dominion-voting-systems-report-final-12-2-20.docx-1/page/n9/mode/2up https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/16/trump-white-house-aide-secret-author-dominion-report https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/politics/timothy-parlatore-testified-grand-jury-maralago-trump/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/john-mcentee-white-house-security-clearance/index.html https://nypost.com/2021/11/09/book-reveals-how-johnny-mcentee-became-deputy-president-of-trump-wh/ https://www.axios.com/2020/06/14/john-mcentee-white-house-trump https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-attorney-trump-legal-adviser-jenna-ellis-censured/
We begin with a short summary of recent sentencings in January 6th cases: many of the defendants who have faced more serious charges have opted to go to trial, which has meant that we were always going to reach a point when a large number of serious felony defendants would be found guilty and sentenced all at once. We have reached that point, so I take a moment to take stock of the felony defendants who have been sentenced since March 1. The bulk of the episode consists of an interview with a sedition hunter who I address as Jewelz, who specializes in “Sedition VIPs” and who can be found on Twitter @BetoAngelMommas. We have a broad-ranging conversation regarding the activities of sedition VIPs on January 6th, the role they and organizers played in the runup to January 6th, and the assymetric polarization of the Republican Party beginning during the Obama era. Jewelz also discusses the link between the Council for National Policy and a slew of persons involved in January 6th, and how the conservative funder Foster Friess has bankrolled any number of far-right actors over the years, including Ali Alexander, Charlie Kirk and Project Veritas. We also discuss the interlocking network of extremist groups, including Groundswell, the Conservative Action Group, Judicial Watch and the Tea Party, where many of the activists who organized January 6th gained experience and connections. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/ohio-man-pleads-guilty-felony-charge-actions-jan-6-capitol-breach https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/maryland-man-sentenced-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges-related-capitol-breach https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/texas-man-sentenced-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges-related-capitol-breach https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/north-carolina-man-sentenced-assaulting-officers-during-jan-6-capitol-breach https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/pennsylvania-woman-found-guilty-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges-related-capitol-breach https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/kentucky-woman-pleads-guilty-assaulting-officers-during-jan-6-capitol-breach https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/three-men-are-first-capitol-breach-defendants-convicted-trial-assaulting-police-officers https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/nevada-man-pleads-guilty-assaulting-officers-during-jan-6-capitol-breach https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7273354-CNP-Membership-Directory-September-2020 https://washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/02/22/justice-clarence-thomas-wife-ginni-behind-group-that-reportedly-pushed-january-6-fake-electors-scheme/ https://www.foiaresearch.net/organization/groundswell-group
In the defendant profile, will revisit Shane Jenkins, who was convicted on all counts on March 29, 2023, and faces a lengthy stint in the federal prison system. Also covering the news that a Manhattan grand jury has issued an indictment for 34 charges, which may be the first of several indictments to be issued in the many potential cases in which Trump would stand as a defendant. The majority of the episode consists of a close reading of the transcript of Senior Advisor to the President Eric Herschmann, who, despite offering useful testimony with regard to the now-infamous White House meeting with "team crazy," nonetheless has some odd memory issues, and seems oddly protective of Rudy Giuliani. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/texas-man-found-guilty-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges-related-capitol-breach-1 https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3923044-pence-on-ruling-that-he-must-testify-in-jan-6-probe-i-have-nothing-to-hide/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/donald-trump-indictment/index.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-grand-jury-hush-money-playboy-model-b2311288.html https://apnews.com/article/amazoncom-inc-donald-trump-jeff-bezos-business-ad911dcfadb4441fc3e7d9e0018c1dec https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/allen-weisselberg-attorney-trump-organization/index.html https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/29/manhattan-trump-grand-jury-set-to-break-for-a-month-00089422 https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/29/manhattan-trump-grand-jury-set-to-break-for-a-month-00089422 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3917300-squeezed-by-investigations-trump-escalates-violent-rhetoric/ https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000062567/
This episode begins with the numbers, and the description of a category of defendants who have recently been charged, after a long wait. These are defendants whose cases center in the "heave-ho" attack in the Lower West Terrace Tunnel, who it appears are being charged with felony counts of acts of violence on restricted grounds during civil disorder, rather than Assault on a Federal Officer. We then move on to some recent news, including what may be the most significant January 6th case to date, the arrest of Bannon's billionaire financer and CPAC sponsor, Trump's premature claim that he was to have been arrested this week in the hush money case, and the ruling by Chief Judge Howell of the DCD that Trump attorney Evan Corcoran must hand over documents and testify in the stolen classified documents case, overcoming attorney-client privilege based on the crime-fraud exception. The remainder of the episode consists of a close reading of the transcript of the seven-hour testimony of Jared Kushner, with an examination of his role in the "Big Rip-Off" detailed in Appendix 3 of the Final Report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/indiana-couple-arrested-actions-lower-west-terrace-during-jan-6-capitol-breach https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1574611/download https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ho-wan-kwok-aka-miles-guo-arrested-orchestrating-over-1-billion-dollar-fraud-conspiracy https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/guo-wengui-lin-wood-steve-bannon-million-maga-march/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/18/politics/donald-trump-manhattan-da-arrest-protests/index.html https://abcnews.go.com/US/sources-special-counsel-claims-trump-deliberately-misled-attorneys/story?id=98024191 https://news.yahoo.com/court-makes-extraordinary-night-demands-040839431.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/politics/trump-classified-documents-maralago-eluded-fbi/index.html https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000060760/
A quick update on some of the latest January sixth news, followed by a close reading of 300 pages of transcripts from crucial testimony by a key figure in the January sixth Committee Report, Trump campaign attorney Alex Cannon. Topics include the arrest of an AFO defendant who was arrested on January 6th, only to be released from his cuffs by the mob of Trumpist thugs, an analysis of the daunting task of reading some 18,000 pages of testimony, a call for assistance with regard to this task, with inquiries to be directed to @capinsurrep on Twitter, and some discussion of the question of whether the speech and debate clause actually applies to members of the executive branch, such as the vice president. The main body of the episode consists of a close reading of the two transcripts of testimony by Trump campaign lawyer Alex Cannon in April and August of 2021. Cannon offered very useful testimony to Committee with regard to the big lie, and had documentation to support his position that he had opposed "team crazy." Nonetheless, the transcripts make it clear that this opposition had its limits, and Cannon took pains to absent himself from the work of "team crazy," even going so far as to move his office. Although the Committee did not delve much into the question of Cannon's involvement in the TMAGAC "Big Rip-Off" scheme, already addressed in S3E11, "The Big Rip-Off," which was relegated to Appendix 3 of the Final Report, Cannon, whose expertise consists mainly of drawing up vendor contracts, lies at a nexus of Trump insiders who created LLCs that received disbursements from the Trump campaign and his PACs, sometimes totaling millions of dollars. Though the Committee seemingly took pains not to undermine Cannon's credibility, the questions surrounding these unusual dealings are reportedly of interest to Special Counsel Jack Smith. Cannon's transcript also shows how Cannon, who was represented by Daniel Benson, a named partner at Kasowitz, Benson and Torres, is linked to another KB&T client: Jared Kushner. Cannon told the Committee that it was Kushner, acting on the instruction of Donald Trump, who sought to create the Save America PAC as a leadership PAC because it would allow the campaign to transfer over 200 million dollars, ostensibly raised for the purposes of creating an Election Defense Fund that ultimately was never created, into an entity with few restrictions on how these funds could be spent. This move raises issues of FEC violations, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Also, in rare scoop for the podcast, I will reveal that Cannon authorized a secret investigation into January 6th funded with Trump PAC money. Cannon claims the investigation was conducted by 2M Document Management and Imaging, LLC, a firm with no clients not affiliated with Trump. Cannon also claims that this investigation, which was funded with part of the 6.2 million dollars disbursed to 2M, is work product subject to attorney-client privilege. Cannon asserted that neither the Committee, nor the public, nor anyone else, will ever see this privileged work product, which raises questions regarding accountability and transparency. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/jesse-james-rumson-sedition-panda-jan-6-b2291006.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-shell-spending-scheme-comes-under-doj-scrutiny https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/22/trump-brass-campaign-firm-449402 https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/politics/secret-grand-jury-special-counsel-trump/index.html https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-much-can-speech-or-debate-clause-protect-mike-pence https://www.golocalprov.com/news/blocks-voter-fraud-allegations-spark-controversy-in-rhode-island https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000062449/ https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000916113/
With 265 witness transcripts totaling approximately 18,000 pages of testimony into the Attack, The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack has created a record that goes far beyond what's included in the final Report. One transcript that I think will be of interest is the testimony of Justin Clark, a former Chris Christe aide who served as the Deputy Campaign manager for the Trump/Pence ticket, and whose firm, Elections LLC, has been receiving $40,000 to $60,000 a month, supposedly for "recount" efforts, right up to the present. Clark was asked about the campaign's decision to declare Trump as the victor on election night, the fake elector scheme, and what the Committee Report calls "The Big Rip-Off," a fundraising appeal that said the money would be spent for an "election defense fund" that was never created, although the fine print Clark included in the disclaimer said the money would go to the Save America PAC, the entity that is paying Clark and many other witness LLCs today, supposedly for "recount" work that has never taken place. Also includes an update on the numbers, the latest subpoenas from Special Counsel Jack Smith, and the revelation that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is going to hand over some 44,000 hours of video evidence of the January sixth attack for selective and misleading editing by an entertainment firm masquerading as a news outlet. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000083778/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/california-doctor-austin-harris-charged-in-jan-6-capitol-riot https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/georgia-grand-jury-forewoman-trump-rcna71666 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-subpoenaed-special-counsel-investigating/story?id=97398257 https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/politics/mark-meadows-subpoena/index.html https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tucker-carlson-january-6th/ https://today.westlaw.com/Document/I343d39201f7e11eb942ed6fa035012ef/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00580100&committee_id=C00618371&committee_id=C00618389&recipient_name=elections+llc
In the introduction, we catch up a on the latest numbers, and also a bit on the McGonigal case, the convictions in the second tranche of Oath Keepers in their seditious conspiracy case, and the ongoing seditious conspiracy case for the Proud Boys leadership, which should last at least a month longer. Then I am joined by Dakota Adams, son of Tasha Adams, and we discuss growing up with the specter of the collapse of civilization always 18 months away, eating powdered eggs, the Declaration of Orders We Will Not Obey, how the Oath Keepers almost became a far-right swinger sex cult, and the pimp daddy of white supremacist adjacent grifting. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/oath-keepers-members-convicted-seditious-conspiracy-rcna66622 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/31/2150338/-Violence-and-laws-of-power-Jurors-see-more-Proud-Boys-evidence-Jan-6-communications https://www.lawfareblog.com/proud-boys-liveblog https://www.businessinsider.com/charles-mcgonigal-fbi-indictment-allison-guerriero-russia-deripaska-spies-nypd-giuliani-2023-1 https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/retired-fbi-executive-charged-concealing-225000-cash-received-outside-source https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:229bc9c0-05d4-3d60-8d06-69d25500c45c https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states https://linktr.ee/dakotavadams https://dakotavadams.substack.com/
Focusing on recent reporting that signals Special Counsel Jack Smith is investigating a question that figures in Appendix 3 of the final Committee Report, "the Big-Rip Off." Possible charges include wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, as the Big Lie was used after the conclusion of the 2020 election campaign to supposedly pay for an "election defense fund" that was never created. Instead, these funds were used to create the Save America PAC on November 9th, 2020. Appendix 3 of the Report details the flawed and possibly criminal process whereby these fundraising appeals were created and approved, and the uses to which these funds were allegedly put, in a scheme reminiscent of the "We Build the Wall" plot that has resulted in federal felony convictions for Bannon associate Timothy Shea. We will also examine a transcript from a witness who is a possible recipient of Save America PAC funds, who invoked his 5th amendment right against self incrimination to a wide variety of questions, including whether he worked on the Navarro Report, how he got his job in the Trump administration, whether he was involved in campaign activities, and whether he knows Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, Patrick Byrne, Joanna Miller, Lin Wood, Mike Timarco, Rudy Giuliani, Ivan Raiklin, Phil Waldron and Steve Bannon. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-06/special-counsel-jack-smith-hires-anti-corruption-prosecutors-in-trump-probe https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/american-samoa-department-education-official-convicted-federal-jury-district-columbia-witness https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/former-virginia-governor-and-former-first-lady-convicted-public-corruption-charges https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/politics/subpoenas-special-counsel-trump-associates/index.html https://bipartisanreport.com/2023/01/12/trump-suffers-terrified-public-fit-after-jack-smith-issues-subpoenas/ https://www.salon.com/2022/11/23/launches-truth-social-on-new-special-counsels-wife/ https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-new-york-manhattan-donald-trump-government-and-politics-748410bc7d5aa006bad02e5bd7b68180 https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-crime-new-york-manhattan-elections-ff4731f198d9e71df765afb37bb42da6 https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1306611/download https://twitter.com/trumpemail https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/08/trump-save-america-pac-eyed-by-federal-grand-jury.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-breaches/
Recorded on the occasion of the second anniversary of the January sixth attack on the US Capitol, this episode is a page by page analysis of the Executive Summary of the Final Report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23466430/introductory-material-to-the-final-report-of-the-select-committee.pdf
Being the last episode before the final business meeting of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, I used this as an occasion to speak with Opal Katz, a member of the open-source intelligence community who has worked since immediately after the Capitol Insurrection to investigate what happened that day. Also includes a defendant profile of a key defendant whose case is currently before the DC Circuit Court. https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1359541/download https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1552486/download https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59696855/united-states-v-miller/?page=2 https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/dc-circuit-to-hear-appeal-on-judges-decision-to-dismiss-obstruction-charges-in-jan-6-cases-carl-nichols-trump-jacob-lang-joseph-fischer-garret-miller/65-3d72e925-9e0a-42dd-8d6e-b67cedda10e2
Mainly an examination of the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy case in light of the verdict in the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy case, as well as a breakdown of the Oath Keepers verdict itself, and a look at the consequences of the appointment of Jack Smith as Special Counsel moving forward. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1549501/download https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59704100/united-states-v-nordean/?page=3 https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-government-informant-dc84086d78b688bc585f874452d2b481 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.228300/gov.uscourts.dcd.228300.550.0.pdf https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/fbi-proud-boys-jan-6-b2225526.html https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-rests-oath-keepers-trial-calling-witnesses-pleaded-guilty-seditiou-rcna55313 https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-biggs-531b31b0 https://www.linkedin.com/in/zacharyrehl https://billypenn.com/2017/07/01/philly-trump-supporters-will-rally-against-those-calling-for-impeachment/ https://whyy.org/articles/proud-boys-maybe-counterprotesters-definitely-what-we-know-ahead-of-saturdays-we-the-people-rally/ https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/far-right-and-antifa-groups-both-claim-victory-after-portland-protests/283-8fab3373-b50b-4c96-b440-2c284b6abfe2 https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/01/31/marine-veteran-among-two-proud-boys-facing-federal-conspiracy-charges-in-capitol-riot/ https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/proud-boy-dominic-pezzola-had-thumb-drive-of-bomb-poison-instructions-doj-says/65-b584a8d4-9681-41ec-b6f0-5aed6c5d86b9 https://rumble.com/v18yv58-never-before-seen.-proud-boys-mosd-jan-6-pre-brief.-conspiracy-to-commit-se.html https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.229063/gov.uscourts.dcd.229063.401.1.pdf https://www.newamerica.org/future-frontlines/briefs/alt-finance-for-alt-tech/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60314314/united-states-v-samsel/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/politics/oath-keepers-convicted-verdict-charges-january-6-seditious-conspiracy https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/appointment-special-counsel-0 https://theintercept.com/2022/11/23/trump-jack-smith-justice-department/ https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-lawyers-2658189528/
Defendant profile of Donald Smith, whose charges were dismissed, becoming only the second January 6th defendant to have his case dismissed. Other topics include the the first Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial, the midterm elections and election denialism, Trump's failure to comply with his subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, use immunity extended to Kash Patel in the stolen documents case, and reporting that the work of several of the investigative teams under the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack will not be included in the forthcoming report by the Committee, which reportedly will focus narrowly on the case against Donald Trump, the announcement by Trump that he intends to seek the Republican nomination in 2024, and the determination by the RNC that it will no longer pay Trump's legal bills. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60630211/united-states-v-smith/ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-committee-staffers-told-preliminary-plan-final-report-focus-larg-rcna56802 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/62601657/united-states-v-rhodes-iii/ https://www.newsherald.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/19/vigilante-group-oath-keepers-arrested-in-mexico-beach-following-hurricane-michael/9509280007/ https://docs-cdn-prod.news-engineering.aws.wapo.pub/publish_document/f36d85e3-6ea5-4df2-add1-1903f07f832b/published/f36d85e3-6ea5-4df2-add1-1903f07f832b.pdf https://vadogwood.com/2022/10/13/virginia-trump-supporters-get-split-verdict-in-weapons-election-case/ https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/03/trump-news-kash-patel-granted-immunity-to-testify-in-mar-a-lago-documents-case-.html https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-committee-staffers-told-preliminary-plan-final-report-focus-larg-rcna56802 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-bannons-prison-sentence-delayed-appeal/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-deniers-2022-midterm-elections/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=189749572#app https://www.businessinsider.com/ronna-mcdaniel-rnc-cannot-pay-legal-bills-donald-trump-runs-2022-11 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59704100/united-states-v-nordean
Updates on the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy case ongoing in DC District Court, the question of whether felony defendants in January 6th cases are being treated leniently at sentencing, a look at a House candidate's surprising connection to the effort to overturn 2020 presidential election results in Georgia, and ten possible charges that may be referred to the DOJ by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack suggested by the text of the subpoena accepted Donald Trump's attorneys on his behalf. https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/lawreview/vol95/iss3/2/ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/steve-bannon-election-takeover-precinct-strategy https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cases-alleged-arizona-voter-intimidation-referred-doj/story?id=92054635 https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article267273242.html https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/north-carolina-gerrymandering/527592/ https://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/785672201/deceased-gop-strategists-daughter-makes-files-public-that-republicans-wanted-sea https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history/is-segregation-scriptural-a-radio-address-from-bob-jones-on-easter-of-1960/ https://spectacularmag.com/2022/09/29/emergency-room-nurse-courtney-geels-is-running-for-ncs-congressional-district-4/ https://www.newsoforange.com/community/article_c4e6e984-79e2-11ec-8ffe-d739af6b7d6e.html https://ballotpedia.org/Courtney_Geels#Campaign_themes https://www.ajc.com/politics/election/georgia-rips-trumps-voter-fraud-claims-in-court/P6TI4J3CKVDQZMNVG66Q2GBQCE/ https://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Dkt%20350-17%2C%20Ex.%20P%20Stewart%20Decl%20GA%20case_2.pdf https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/26/trump-receives-subpoena-jan-6-committee-00063628 https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23170927/20221021-j6-cmte-subpeona-to-donald-trump.pdf https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IJ/IJ00/20211019/114156/HMTG-117-IJ00-20211019-SD001.pdf https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60313941/smith-v-trump/?page=2
Summary and analysis of the ninth investigative hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, with an emphasis on identifying the over 20 new pieces of evidence and testimony offered at the hearing. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/13/1125331584/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript https://www.c-span.org/video/?523473-1/january-6-committee-votes-subpoena-president-trump https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/15/january-6-panel-department-of-justice-trump-00056932 https://lostnotstolen.org/ https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/january-6-clearinghouse-norfolk-report-january-5-2021.pdf https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k87yx/secret-service-jan-6-messages
Catching up on the events on the ongoing Seditious Conspiracy trial for Stewart Rhodes and the other defendants in the first tranche of Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy defendants, the plea agreement for cooperating fourth-degree Proud Boy Jeremy Bertino, and the ninth and possibly final hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack. Also, revisiting the current status of some of the felony AFO defendants profiled on the podcast, to see where they are now. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1541236/download https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/belmont-nc-proud-boy-jeremy-bertino-capitol-attack-guilty-plea/275-ae586dd8-862e-4e8f-ae48-3fa675e09717 https://apnews.com/article/oath-keepers-capitol-riot-trial-day-1-5a5edf6cbffc2a997aafb1036f858de1 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/9/2079108/-Insurrectionist-Who-Walked-Out-Of-His-Last-Court-Appearance-Arraigned-On-8-Count-Felony-Indictment https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-north-carolina-fayetteville-79f747a34b25a60b8a1b6ea1b2315ddd https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.239244/gov.uscourts.dcd.239244.23.0.pdf https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/07/15/breaking-news/fbi-arrest-honolulu-businessman-mike-miske-and-11-others-in-kidnapping-and-murder-of-hawaii-kai-man/ https://dailyegyptian.com/105773/news/who-is-mathew-capsel-a-look-at-an-illinois-resident-charged-for-his-involvement-in-the-jan-6/
As we head into October, a number of developments point to the end of the beginning, an actual reckoning for the organizers of the January sixth attack. President Biden has begun to call for a staucu defense of electoral democracy in the US, calling out "extreme MAGA Republicans" as "semi-fascist." About 40 members of Trump's inner circle have been served with grand jury subpoenas, and at least ten have had their phones taken into evidence. Sedition hunter "Bigfoot" joins me for an interview to discuss these developments in what looks to be the runup to an explosive October. https://www.businessinsider.com/9-trump-associates-had-their-phones-seized-by-federal-authorities-2022-9 https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-tells-charlie-kirk-35-maga-allies-got-raided-day-indictment-1741707 https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/12/politics/trump-orbit-grand-jury-subpoenas-justice-department-january-6/index.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dana-nessel-michigan-attorney-general-special-prosecutor-probe-2020-election-machines-her-possible-foe-this-fall-report/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-not-briefed-raid-trumps-florida-home-white-house-says-2022-08-09/ https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/trump-tax-returns-must-be-given-to-congress-court-says-.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/10/scott-perry-fbi-seized-cellphone/10284599002/
This episode covers the recent arrest of Oath Keepers attorney Kellye SoRelle, and the possibility that other defendants may be added to her case. Also a discussion of the ongoing Mar-A-Lago classified documents case, and the arrest of Steve Bannon in New York on money laundering and conspiracy charges. Finally, I use publicly available information from the DOJ inmate locator tool to examine where currently incarcerated January 6th inmates are being housed post-sentencing, and whether the government's designations process really adequately takes account of the safety of the community in determining the custody level of these inmates. https://www.bop.gov/mobile/find_inmate/ https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/designations.jsp. https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/5100_008cn.pdf https://levittownnow.com/2022/06/15/bristol-man-in-custody-made-threatening-statements-fed-say/ https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Matthew%20Ryan%20Miller%20Government%20Sentencing%20Memorandum.pdf https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1530526/download https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1120287/gov.uscourts.txwd.1120287.23.0_2.pdf https://www.facebook.com/NewRepubReviv/videos/who-is-kellye-sorelle/525652978058734/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/02/politics/russian-oligarchs-homes-searched/index.html https://www.ft.com/content/1133c42e-82c9-11e9-b592-5fe435b57a3b https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/08/steve-bannon-surrenders-to-manhattan-da-00055427 https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/09/09/doj-offers-judge-cannon-a-new-deal-00055852 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.69.0_2.pdf https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/09/politics/oath-keepers-january-6-election-fraud-trump/index.html
Arrests slowed down in the January sixth investigation over the summer of 2022. In this episode, we explore the 33 arrests from June 1, 2022 through August 19, 2022, looking for commonalities. I find that many of these cases do have a few things in common: they are more likely to involve groups of defendants, they are the result of more "complex" investigations that require more resources, and they are more likely to be linked to VIPs. I discuss what this trend means in the future, especially with the new case brought against the "B Squad," a group of Florida Three Percenters who were engaged in the fight in the lower west terrace tunnel of the Capitol and who are led by former Republican House candidate Jeremy Liggett. Also new developments in the search of the Florida club operated by a former New Jersey casino owner, the Kyle Fitzsimons trial, the sentencing recommendation of 210 months for former NYPD officer and eye gouger Thomas Webster, and Liz Cheney's loss in the primary for the Wyoming US House seat. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3604628-liz-cheney-defeated-in-wyoming-primary/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-motion-mar-a-lago-search/ https://www.wmtw.com/article/no-verdict-yet-in-bench-trial-of-maine-resident-kyle-fitzsimons-for-jan-6-capitol-riot/40944543 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ex-nypd-officer-found-guilty-attacking-dc-cop-flag-pole-jan-6-rcna26710 https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1528531/download
Topics include the FBI search of Donald Trump's Florida home in the investigation of the mishandling of documents, a defendant profile of a pastor who is affiliated with the New Apostolic Revival movement, the longest sentence handed out to a January 6th defendant to date, the subpoenas served to fake Trump electors, the contents of Alex Jones' phone being handed over to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, grand jury subpoenas issued to Pat Cippolone and Pat Philbin, and the testimony of Doug Mastriano before the Committee. https://www.justsecurity.org/81939/timeline-false-alternate-slate-of-electors-scheme-donald-trump-and-his-close-associates/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/politics/georgia-trump-investigation-fake-electors-email/index.html/ https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/ex-gop-chair-trump-fake-electors-plotted-hide-overnight-michigan-capitol https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3585008-dod-wiped-phones-of-trump-era-leaders-erasing-jan-6-texts/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/politics/kinzinger-cipollone-subpoena-trump-doj-2020-cnntv/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/politics/philbin-subpoena/index.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/27/mark-ponder-capitol-riot-january-6-prison-sentence/10171304002/ https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/texas-man-sentenced-prison-actions-related-capitol-breach https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1518531/download https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/mar-a-lago-search-warrant-fbi-donald-trump/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/doug-mastriano-january-6-committee/index.html https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-took-classified-material-white-house-florida-national-archives-says-2022-02-18/
Mainly dedicated to the 8th public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, but also covering other new developments, including the Bannon conviction for contempt of Congress, the latest defendant suicide, the announcement of new hearings after the August break, the release of DHS emails from January sixth, the continuing story of obstruction of justice by the Secret Service, new emails relating to the fake elector scheme, and new witnesses providing testimony to the Committee and DOJ. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22089493-foia-department-of-defense-emails https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-jan-6-missing-texts_n_62e3a22ce4b07f83766e534f https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/klukowski-justice/index.html https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/stop-the-steal-speaker-brandon-straka-gave-fbi-info-on-rally-organizers-more-than-a-dozen-others-as-part-of-plea-deal-ali-alexander-chafian-kremer/65-bee210ed-47ea-440d-93c1-2f889c040ffa https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/28/former-trump-white-house-chief-of-staff-mick-mulvaney-to-meet-with-jan-6-capitol-riot-committee.html https://www.c-span.org/video/?521771-1/eighth-hearing-investigation-capitol-attack&vod&start=4032 https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112138665/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript
A synopsis and analysis the seventh public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, including the significance of the testimony of Pat Cippolone and 34 other witnesses, the draft tweet regarding January sixth, text messages sent between Brad Parscale and Katerina Pierson, the "team crazy" meeting on December 18th, 2020 at the White House, and a synopsis of what we can expect at the final primetime hearing in this tranche of hearings, including the possibility of texts from the Secret Service, testimony from former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, and possible communications between Donald Trump and members of the Sedition Caucus during the 187 minute period when Trump was watching the violence at the Capitol unfold from the safety of the White House. https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/doj-tries-to-determine-if-sidney-powells-nonprofit-is-funding-the-oath-keepers-defense/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-sidney-powell-secretly-funding-the-oath-keepers-lawyers-the-feds-want-to-know https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/sidney-powell-funding-oath-keepers-defense https://www.npr.org/2022/07/12/1111123258/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript https://www.c-span.org/video/?521495-1/seventh-hearing-investigation-capitol-attack https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1518441/download https://www.businessinsider.com/patrick-byrne-overstock-testifies-january-6-committee-eight-hours-cnn-2022-7 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-expects-get-secret-service-texts-tuesday-says-new-witnesse-rcna38608
The fallout from the Hutchinson testimony and the 8.5 hour testimony of Pat Cippolone, the desperate and comically late claims by Steve Bannon and Stewart Rhodes that they really, honestly and sincerely want to testify before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, the possibility of new material from the Red Team and Green Team at the upcoming Committee hearings, the possibility of testimony from former Trump Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews and former Oath Keeper affiliate Jason van Tatenhove, and closing with the tempting possibility that Representative Raskin appeared to have floated that these hearings will feature "other witnesses." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jamie-raskin-face-the-nation-transcript-07-10-2022/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/sarah-matthews-testifying-january-6-committee/index.html https://www.propublica.org/article/top-trump-fundraiser-boasted-of-raising-3-million-to-support-jan-6-save-america-rally https://www.denverpost.com/2022/02/27/oath-keepers-colorado-jason-van-tatenhove/
News from the June 28th hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, featuring the testimony of former senior aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, including the revelation that two persons, whose identities are known to the Committee, have engaged in possible witness tampering. https://wwwhttps://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1108396692/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript https://www.c-span.org/video/?521387-1/sixth-hearing-investigation-capitol-attack https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/09/hutchinson-former-meadows-aide-replaces-lawyer-jan-6-hearings-00038439 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/jan-6-hearings-trump-mark-meadows-cassidy-hutchinson-threatened https://www.cbsnews.com/video/schiff-says-jan-6-committee-has-additional-leads-after-cassidy-hutchinson-testimony/#x.npr.org/2022/06/28/1108396692/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript https://www.c-span.org/video/?521387-1/sixth-hearing-investigation-capitol-attack https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/09/hutchinson-former-meadows-aide-replaces-lawyer-jan-6-hearings-00038439 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/jan-6-hearings-trump-mark-meadows-cassidy-hutchinson-threatened https://www.cbsnews.com/video/schiff-says-jan-6-committee-has-additional-leads-after-cassidy-hutchinson-testimony/#x
Discussion and analysis of the latest news related to January sixth, including the Dobbs decision, the death of former Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger, and the seizure of Jeff Rosen's phone. The main theme is the fifth public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack held on June 23rd, featuring testimony from Jeff Rosen, Eric Herschmann and Seth Engel on the subject of Jeff Clark's campaign in the waning days of the Trump administration to fire his own boss and have himself appointed Acting Attorney General of the United States, and his plan to send notices from the Justice Department to state legislatures in states where the Trump campaign sought to overturn the lawful slates of electors and replace them with unlawfully self-selected slates of fraudulent electors. https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1106700800/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript
A response to the public hearing held by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack held on June 21, which revealed the Committee's findings regarding the fake elector scheme and the efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the election results in key states. Also brief analysis of the fraudulent elector certificates. Includes information on the recent subpoenas issued to various figures in the fake electors scheme, which may ultimately conclude with charges to defraud the US government. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/22/jan6-fbi-electors-subpoenas/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjI2MDg1Njg5IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY1NTkzMTA5MywiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY1NzE0MDY5MywiaWF0IjoxNjU1OTMxMDkzLCJqdGkiOiI2N2Q5NGRlNS03OGQ4LTQzZDItODQ2OC02OGFkNTVjZjA3YzUiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vbmF0aW9uYWwtc2VjdXJpdHkvMjAyMi8wNi8yMi9qYW42LWZiaS1lbGVjdG9ycy1zdWJwb2VuYXMvIn0.jfPt1WWQFp5R0kenoSZKAW7bezYqji761lO1sbfYmfs https://lailluminator.com/2022/01/31/trumps-fake-electors-heres-the-full-list/ https://t.co/OZVCvFfrau https://www.npr.org/2022/06/21/1105848096/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript
Detailing the central allegations in the third public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, including the bombshell revelation that a Proud Boys witness has given sworn testimony that they sought to kill Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi, and "anyone else they could get their hands on." Includes also new details about the abuse leveled by Trump at Pence on January sixth, as well as compelling testimony from Judge Michael Luttig and top Pence Attorney Greg Jacob that Eastman's scheme to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power was unconstitutional and illegal, and that Eastman was certainly aware of this at the time. https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105683634/transcript-jan-6-committee
An examination of testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on June 13th, 2022, to include the allegation that Donald Trump preferred to accept the advice of an inebriated Rudy Giuliani to declare victory on election night, rather than the advice of campaign professionals such as Bill Stepien that he ought to wait for a final tally. Includes the dismantling of the election fraud disinformation by many witnesses, and also the potential charges of wire fraud stemming from fundraising appeals for an electoral litigation fund that did not actually exist. Some discussion as well of the latest revelations regarding sedition reconnaissance tours conducted by Representative Barry Loudermilk. https://www.npr.org/2022/06/13/1104690690/heres-every-word-of-the-second-jan-6-committee-hearing-on-its-investigation
A brief description of the hearing for the defendants in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy case on June 9 in Judge Timothy Kelly's court, including the assertion by Carmen Hernandez that the Committee and DOJ seem to be working closely together. The rest of the episode concerns what we learned from the first House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack hearing on June 9th, and also some of what we can expect from future hearings.
The last episode of the podcast before the public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack at 8:PM eastern on June 9th. Topics include the new superceding indictment for seditious conspiracy in the Proud Boys conspiracy case, witnesses who are scheduled to appear in public testimony before the Committee, and the order by Judge Carter that John Eastman must hand over 159 documents to the Select Committee. In the final segment of the show, I'll examine issues raised by the "Path To Trump " whiteboard featured by far-right podcaster Clay Clark, including the significance of the New Apostolic Revival movement in Trumpism and the role of Hans von Spakovsky in undermining public confidence in US elections. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/07/judge-eastman-emails-jan-6-committee-00037999 https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/proud-boys-indicted-texts-rcna32298 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/08/inaugural-january-6-hearing-to-track-activities-of-proud-boys-during-capitol-attack https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/documentarian-capitol-police-officer-testify-1st-prime-time/story?id=85238856 https://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139781021/the-evangelicals-engaged-in-spiritual-warfare https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-whiteboard-analysis/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ygwFBaZGvZU https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1412561481103675394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1412561481103675394%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftrump-conspiracy-whiteboard_n_60e54595e4b077215ddc1211
In the last episode before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack holds its first public hearing on June 9th at 8:00 PM eastern time, we look at some of the potential bombshells that could be revealed at the hearings, including links between the attackers and the funders behind the coup attempt, the possibility of evidence from witnesses covered under sealed indictments, the various reconnaissance tours conducted by members of the Sedition Caucus on January 5th, testimony from Marc Short and Judge Luttig, and the arrest of Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress. https://www.npr.org/2022/05/27/1101841769/former-army-reservist-and-alleged-white-supremacist-found-guilty-in-capitol-riot https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/politics/justice-department-fake-elector-plot-trump-lawyers-advisers/index.html https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/26/meadows-burned-papers-meeting-scott-perry-00035411 https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/20211109%20Hutchinson.pdf https://cnu.edu/news/2018/10/19-pols-s19_hutchinson/#.YpjffPrMLIU https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/politics/donald-trump-january-6-mike-pence-chants/index.html https://www.dailydot.com/debug/barry-loudermilk-january-6/
An examination of what we can expect from the public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack beginning on June 9, 2022. Includes the revelation that the Committee has evidence that at least seditionist member of the House conducted a "Reconnaissance tour" on January 5th, 2021, the reported testimony and cooperation of William Barr with the January sixth Committee, and questions regarding a nonprofit promoted by Steve Bannon that claims to be fundraising on behalf of January sixth defendants, while having a Stop the Steal founder serve as a trustee. https://www.npr.org/2022/03/11/1085783310/new-clues-emerge-about-the-money-that-might-have-helped-fund-the-jan-6-insurrect https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/220111%20Surabian%20Letter.pdf https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/04/january-6-committee-rioter-interview-519580 https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/1073061575/experts-see-red-flags-at-nonprofit-raising-big-money-for-capitol-riot-defendants https://www.salon.com/2021/08/04/why-did-lauren-boebert-lead-a-late-night-capitol-tour-three-weeks-before-jan-6/
An update on some developments as the focus shifts away from individual criminal defendants in the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and towards the figures at the center of the scheme to overturn the election victory of Joe Biden, as we look ahead to the public hearings scheduled for June 9th, now less than a month away. Some notes on latest developments, to include information requests from three additional members of Congress as well as new emails from John Eastman, this time sourced via a FOIA request made to his university email address at the University of Colorado. The rest of the episode then turns to the question of how the narrative that Democrats will inevitably lose the upcoming midterm elections is factually incorrect, defeatist and dangerous to electoral democracy in the US, as it will certainly be used by the Trumpist movement to amplify their fraudulent claims of fraud in if that Democrats do well in the midterms. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000180-b081-d3ee-a392-b19b26750000 https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing-political-geography-of-covid-19-over-the-last-two-years/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/15/public-expresses-mixed-views-of-u-s-response-to-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/
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