House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) slammed Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) on Saturday afternoon after Bowman pulled a fire alarm as lawmakers were trying to pass a stopgap bill to avert a U.S. government shutdown.
Bowman pulled the fire alarm in the House Cannon office building as House Democrats were trying to delay a vote on a GOP short-term spending bill, which sparked an evacuation of the building. Bowman, who is a former school principal, claimed: “I thought the alarm would open the door.”
McCarthy addressed the matter at a press conference after the House managed to pass a bill to keep the government open for the next 45 days — which now heads to the Senate.
&#8220;I think [House] Ethics should look at this, but this is serious,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;When you think of how other people are treated, when they wanted to come in and change the course of what was happening in this building.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m going to have a discussion with the Democratic leader about it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But this should not go without punishment. This is an embarrassment. You’re elected to be a member of Congress. You pulled the fire alarm &#8230; hours before the government being shut down, trying to dictate that government would shut down.&#8221;
&#8220;What’s going through a person’s mind like that? But we will find the right ability to deal with this,&#8221; he concluded.
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Speaker McCarthy criticized Rep. Bowman after he allegedly triggered a fire alarm in one of the U.S. Capitol office buildings as lawmakers scrambled to pass a bill to fund the government before the midnight shutdown deadline, calling it &quot;an embarrassment.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/hvsJ1tfyhL">https://t.co/hvsJ1tfyhL</a> <a href="https://t.co/awooHMQ46u">pic.twitter.com/awooHMQ46u</a>
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McCarthy Hammers Bowman For Pulling Fire Alarm: ‘This Should Not Go Without Punishment’

McCarthy Hammers Bowman For Pulling Fire Alarm: 'This Should Not Go Without Punishment'

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Jamaal Bowman

January 6

Kevin McCarthy

U.S.

Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jamaal-bowman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamaal Bowman</a> (D-NY) is under investigation after pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol office building on Saturday as top Republican lawmakers accuse him of violating the same law that many January 6 defendants were convicted of violating.
Bowman pulled the fire alarm in the House Cannon office building as House Democrats were trying to delay a vote on a GOP stopgap spending bill, which sparked an evacuation of the building.
Bowman&#8217;s chief of staff confirmed that Bowman was the one who pulled the fire alarm and claimed: “Congressman Bowman did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote. The Congressman regrets any confusion.”
U.S. Capitol Police released a photograph showing Bowman pulling the fire alarm near a door. Bowman, who is a former school principal, claimed: “I thought the alarm would open the door.”
The incident, however, sparked serious backlash from prominent Republicans who demanded that he be criminally charged for his actions and compared his actions to the actions of some of those who were arrested for their participation during the January 6 riot.
Donald Trump Jr. posted the photo released by Capitol Police, writing: &#8220;If they don’t charge Rep Bowman, with a crime for endangering the lives of those in the capitol &amp; obstructing congressional proceedings then they better let every single J6er that’s rotting in prison for nonviolent offenses out with an apology &amp; compensation right f***ing now!&#8221;
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If they don’t charge Rep Bowman, with a crime for endangering the lives of those in the capitol &amp; obstructing congressional proceedings then they better let every single J6er that’s rotting in prison for nonviolent offenses out with an apology &amp; compensation right fucking now! <a href="https://t.co/Cpc2su2VJP">pic.twitter.com/Cpc2su2VJP</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1708210455775248877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Punchbowl News co-founder John Bresnahan posted a photo of the door where Bowman pulled the fire alarm which shows that a red sign that reads &#8220;EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY&#8221; was present at the time that Bowman pulled the lever.
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This is the door that ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/RepBowman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepBowman</a>⁩ used to leave the Cannon Building <a href="https://t.co/OiUVB0iyJ4">pic.twitter.com/OiUVB0iyJ4</a>
&mdash; John Bresnahan (@bresreports) <a href="https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1708247334998454304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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An additional photo showed that the fire alarm was the only thing fixed to the wall that could be activated that did not require a maintenance key.
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This doesn’t really seem that confusing <a href="https://t.co/EXM5VOWJAp">pic.twitter.com/EXM5VOWJAp</a>
&mdash; John Bresnahan (@bresreports) <a href="https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1708247568084307989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepHarshbarger/status/1708201690057330768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X: &#8220;Today, we would’ve been working from our office in Cannon, helping constituents before a potential government shuts down, BUT Congressman Jamal Bowman pulled the fire alarm to delay the CR. EXPEL THE CONGRESSMAN!&#8221;
&#8220;How is it that Rep. Jamal Bowman (D-NY) can pull a fire alarm during a vote, which is clearly &#8216;interfering with a legislative proceeding,&#8217; and there be no ramifications?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRosendale/status/1708209690113430004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT). &#8220;Yet, protestors from across the country who came to Washington on January 6th are serving hard time in prison for doing less! #EqualJustice?&#8221;
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1708189879320854985" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: &#8220;A Democrat Member of Congress just committed a felony by pulling the fire alarm to try to delay and stop a Congressional vote to fund the government.&#8221;
The Committee on House Administration and the Capitol Police both announced that they had opened separate investigations into the incident.
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Rep Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire alarm in Cannon this morning. An investigation into why it was pulled is underway. &#8211; Chairman Bryan Steil
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USCP says they’re investigating the Bowman fire alarm incident <a href="https://t.co/d2YXVDXwtN">pic.twitter.com/d2YXVDXwtN</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicholaswu12/status/1708212418348798069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is a felony, plain and simple,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLisaMcClain/status/1708193654223896896" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI). &#8220;USCP had to waste resources investigating rather than actually keeping the Capitol safe. The House must hold Rep. Bowman accountable. Now.&#8221;
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGregMurphy/status/1708184345805025781" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: &#8220;If true, charges should be filed. Pulling a false fire alarm puts the safety and welfare of federal employees at risk. What a childish and reckless move.&#8221;

Jamaal Bowman Accused Of Committing Felony For Pulling Fire Alarm As Officials Confirm Probe Underway

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If this author knows anything about anything, it&#8217;s that Democrats and the Left think that even the most minor disruption of an official proceeding of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> is just about the worst thing you can do in American politics these days (or so they claim). Such an action desecrates the hallowed ground walked upon by our nation&#8217;s public servants and spits on the Constitution itself, Legacy Media has beaten into us for the last two-and-a-half years.
No matter how small or non-violent the action might be, even if accidental, anybody who would disrespect Congress must be thrown into the slammer, made an example out of, and have his or her life ruined. They should be given a nickname, too. Like The Lectern Guy, or The QAnon Shaman fella with the horns.
And so, it gives me no pleasure to say, but the evidence suggests that Congressman Jamaal &#8220;The Fire Alarm Guy&#8221; Bowman (D-NY) is now a threat to democracy who must have the book thrown at him.
On Saturday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-rep-reportedly-caught-on-camera-pulling-house-office-fire-alarm-ahead-of-continuing-resolution-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Bowman was seemingly caught on camera pulling the fire alarm at the Cannon House Office Building ahead of a motion to adjourn on Saturday as Democrats seek to delay a continuing resolution vote. Bowman and his ilk are threatening to shut down the government if Ukraine doesn&#8217;t get their money in the stopgap spending bill.
We didn&#8217;t think Bowman would literally threaten to shut down the government by sending everybody into a panic, but a still image of a man who looks a lot like Bowman pretty much confirmed it.
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🚨🚨NEW &#8212; Capitol Police are circulating this photo of a man pulling the fire alarm in Cannon. Looks a lot like Jamaal Bowman <a href="https://t.co/khzpigSvWI">pic.twitter.com/khzpigSvWI</a>
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Bowman allegedly broke multiple laws with such a heinous action. First, it&#8217;s a crime in Washington, D.C., to pull a fire alarm when there actually isn&#8217;t a fire.
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Jamaal Bowman reportedly pulled the fire alarm to further delay the CR vote
That’s legitimately a crime <a href="https://t.co/foxURHXZ91">pic.twitter.com/foxURHXZ91</a>
&mdash; John Hasson (@SonofHas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1708182529369378862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Secondly, obstructing a Congressional proceeding is a felony.
Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX) offered to apprehend him.
&#8220;I’m hearing Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was CAUGHT ON CAMERA pulling the fire alarm in a House Office Building to delay the CR vote. IF TRUE: he should be charged with obstructing an official proceeding which is a FELONY. As a former Sheriff, I’d happily slap the cuffs on him.&#8221;
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I’m hearing Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was CAUGHT ON CAMERA pulling the fire alarm in a House Office Building to delay the CR vote.
IF TRUE: he should be charged with obstructing an official proceeding which is a FELONY. 
As a former Sheriff, I’d happily slap the cuffs on him.
&mdash; Congressman Troy E. Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTroyNehls/status/1708184117265711602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Now, Bowman&#8217;s spokesperson is saying that he did not mean to cause a panic. It was all a big misunderstanding.
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NEW: Bowman spox Emma Simon on him pulling the fire alarm.
“Congressman Bowman did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote. The Congressman regrets any confusion.”
&mdash; Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1708194455835013498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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But oh no, just like those who entered the Capitol on January 6 and have argued they didn&#8217;t mean to break any laws, Bowman can&#8217;t be let off the hook. He wouldn&#8217;t want that either if he had any legal and moral consistency.
As Bowman once said, &#8220;No one in this country is above the law.&#8221;
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This is a post from Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY). 
This is the same guy who was just caught on camera pulling the Cannon fire alarm in an alleged attempt to delay the CR vote.
Oh, the irony! <a href="https://t.co/BVeOLVhgfr">pic.twitter.com/BVeOLVhgfr</a>
&mdash; Camryn Kinsey (@camrynbaylee) <a href="https://twitter.com/camrynbaylee/status/1708191679205785750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rules are rules. Bowman needs to be held to the same standard set by the Democrats. He can tell his sob story to the judge.
PS: Bowman is a former middle school principal. He didn&#8217;t know pulling the fire alarm would cause chaos? Give me a break.
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D) was a high school principal before getting elected to Congress. He literally had hours of fire drill safety training &amp; probably knows better than anyone the life &amp; death consequences of pulling a false fire alarm. <a href="https://t.co/h9ZAN7v1ik">https://t.co/h9ZAN7v1ik</a>
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Rules Are Rules: Jamaal ‘The Fire Alarm Guy’ Bowman Is A Threat To Democracy

Rules Are Rules: Jamaal 'The Fire Alarm Guy' Bowman Is A Threat To Democracy

America

Democracy

Politics

A Tampa man identified as a former federal prosecutor is a suspect in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> road rage stabbing incident that took place on Tuesday morning.
Authorities arrested Patrick Douglas Scruggs, 38, on charges of aggravated battery, aggravated assault and armed burglary, <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2023/09/27/howard-frankland-stabbing-suspect-is-former-assistant-us-attorney/#:~:text=Patrick%20Douglas%20Scruggs%2C%20who%20worked,another%20motorist%20after%20a%20crash." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Tampa Bay Times</a>. Records show he was released from jail after posting $65,000 bail.
A LinkedIn page for Scruggs showed he worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa from 2013 to 2023 before joining an Atlanta-based private law firm in May, the news outlet reported. Scruggs has experience working in January 6 cases and others over the years.
The Florida Highway Patrol put out a news release that explained what led up to the alleged stabbing on the Howard Franklin Bridge. It involved people in multiple vehicles.
A 40-year-old driver and his 43-year-old wife pulled over to help a 35-year-old man from Tampa who was slumped over in his sedan while stopped in the travel lanes, per authorities. At some point, the man woke up and accelerated forward, crashing his sedan into the couple&#8217;s car. He then backed his sedan out and crashed into a passing vehicle driven by Scruggs.
Scruggs pulled over, walked over to the 35-year-old&#8217;s vehicle, and stabbed the driver with a pocket knife, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Troopers added that Scruggs also tried to stab the couple as they tried to help the victim before the husband and wife fled.
Scruggs was detained by a St. Petersburg Police Department officer who was driving by the scene, authorities said. The stabbing victim was taken to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, they added, <a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/suspect-arrested-for-stabbing-driver-multiple-times-after-crash-on-howard-frankland-bridge-troopers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per Fox 13</a>.
Scruggs’ attorney, John Nohlgren, gave a statement to the Tampa Bay Times that stressed his client is innocent until proven guilty and claimed the incident was &#8220;a chaotic situation involving multiple crashes caused by only one person on one of our area’s busiest bridges.&#8221;
&#8220;That person was not Mr. Scruggs,&#8221; the statement added. “There is much more to this incident than what is being reported and we are diligently working to bring to light the full facts of what occurred. We urge that the public keep an open mind and withhold from making judgments. We will bring forth all of the facts and make them known to the authorities in the proper forum.&#8221;

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Stabbing Suspect In Road Rage Incident Identified As Ex-Federal Prosecutor

Florida

A former senior FBI official told House lawmakers the bureau conducted an internal audit after losing track of how many informants and other sources were involved in the January 6 U.S. Capitol breach.
Steven D&#8217;Antuono, former assistant director-in-charge of the Washington Field Office, told the House Judiciary Committee during a closed-door testimony in June that his office learned there had been confidential human sources (CHS) from various field offices, as well as other informants who went to the nation&#8217;s Capitol on their own accord, according to a Tuesday <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-09-19-jdj-to-wray-re-chs-follow-up.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray about the bureau&#8217;s use of confidential sources.
When asked by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) during a hearing on June 7, 2023, if D&#8217;Antuono knew about the sources and that the FBI knew ahead of time they would be present among the crowd of thousands of protestors, he responded with &#8220;that is my belief, yeah.&#8221;
&#8220;D&#8217;Antuono explained that due to the large number of CHSs present at the Capitol, the [Washington Field Office] asked FBI Headquarters &#8216;to do a poll or put out something to people saying w[ere] any CHSs involved&#8217; so the FBI could try to ascertain how many CHSs had been in attendance,&#8221; the letter reads.
D&#8217;Antuono said his office &#8220;started getting responses back&#8221; after contacting the bureau&#8217;s headquarters.
The committee disclosed one example from D&#8217;Antuono, who recalled that a source from the Kansas City Field Office had allegedly been in contact with his &#8220;handler&#8221; while &#8220;they were in the crowd, I think, saying that they were going in. They were trying to stop some of the action happening, and they left or whatnot.&#8221;
&#8220;This new information is extremely concerning,&#8221; Jordan wrote in the letter. &#8220;It suggests that the FBI cannot adequately track the activities and operations of its informants, and that it lost control of its CHSs present at the Capitol on January 6.&#8221;
&#8220;These revelations reinforce existing concerns, identified by Special Counsel Durham, about the FBI&#8217;s use of, and payment to, CHSs who have fabricated evidence and misrepresented information,&#8221; he added.
A spokesperson from the FBI National Press Office declined to comment when asked about the testimony by The Daily Wire.
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/sep/19/steven-dantuono-fbi-ex-official-confirms-lawmakers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Washington Times that the FBI&#8217;s alleged involvement in the Capitol breach could have likely contributed to the events unfolding that day.
&#8220;They just knew or should have known that what was going on, and one or more of those people in order to keep their cover, could well have been part of the reason that this got so far out of hand,&#8221; Issa said. &#8220;Because the FBI won&#8217;t admit that they had 20,30 or 40 individuals on their payroll and or informants, they also certainly won&#8217;t admit how many came into the Capitol, or how many who participated in some way in promoting this illegal activity.&#8221;
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland during a hearing on Wednesday how many agents and assets were present on January 5 and January 6.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know the answer to that question,&#8221; Garland responded.
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MASSIE: “How many agents or assets of the government were present on January 5th and January 6th.. Can you answer that now?”
GARLAND: “I don&#39;t know the answer to that question.”
MASSIE: “I think you may have just perjured yourself that you don’t know if there were any” <a href="https://t.co/a04nkeBGm9">pic.twitter.com/a04nkeBGm9</a>
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Speculation over the number of FBI informants present during the Capitol breach comes as the Department of Justice has charged more than 1,100 people with January 6-related federal crimes — of which over 650 have pleaded guilty, more than 600 sentenced, and half received terms ranging from three days to 22 years.
Former FBI official George Hill, who worked as a supervisory intelligence analyst for the Boston Field Office, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-fbi-official-tells-house-republicans-bureau-denied-agents-j6-riot-footage-to-protect-assets-informants-present-at-u-s-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> earlier this year the bureau denied his office&#8217;s agents access to 11,000 hours of U.S. Capitol video footage on January 6 out of fear that it would reveal the identities of possible undercover officers and confidential informants present that day.
Former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund said the FBI had at least 18 undercover agents in the January 6 crowd, in addition to the paid informants, and another estimated 20 authorities from the Department of Homeland Security, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fbi-lost-count-of-number-of-informants-at-capitol-on-jan-6-ex-official/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Post.
The outlet reported the bureau spends an average of $42 million annually in payments to its Confidential Human Sources, according to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) asked FBI Director Christopher Wray at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing last year if the bureau had any confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters during the Capitol riot.
Wray stonewalled the direct question and denied FBI informants were in the crowd on January 6.
&#8220;To the extent that there&#8217;s a suggestion, for example, that the FBI&#8217;s confidential human sources or FBI employees in some way instigated or orchestrated January 6, that&#8217;s categorically false.&#8221;

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Former FBI Official Says Bureau Lost Track Of How Many Sources, Other Informants Were Involved In Capitol Breach

Former FBI Senior Official Says Bureau Lost Track Of How Many Sources, Other Informants Were Involved In Capitol Breach

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Former Oath Keepers chapter leader Ray Epps, who was caught on video urging people to go into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, has been charged with disorderly or disruptive conduct in connection with the breach, according to the Associated Press.
Department of Justice authorities charged Epps with one misdemeanor count, disorderly or disruptive conduct on restricted grounds.
According to <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67807327/1/united-states-v-epps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court filings,</a> Epps &#8220;did knowingly, and with intent to impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, engage in disorderly and disruptive conduct in and within such proximity to, a restricted building and grounds — that is, any posted, cordoned-off, and otherwise restricted area within the United States Capitol and its grounds, where the Vice President was and would be temporarily visiting—when and so that such conduct did in fact impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, and attempted and conspired to do so.&#8221;
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ray-epps-subject-tucker-carlsons-jan-6-conspiracy-theories-charged-doj-rcna99836">reported</a> Epps could enter a plea deal to the charge.
Epps has long been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-the-ray-epps-questions-wont-go-away-despite-the-medias-best-efforts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> by many of being an undercover federal agent who instigated some of the events of that day. He has vehemently denied the accusation.
The 62-year-old Marine veteran from Arizona is seen in multiple video clips from January 6 and the day before trying to whip up other Trump supporters to &#8220;go into the Capitol&#8221; the next day.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll say it. We need to go into the Capitol,&#8221; Epps says in one clip. At least four times on video, Epps repeats his call to action to &#8220;go into the Capitol.&#8221;
Other videos reportedly show Epps with Proud Boys leader Zachary Rehl, who deployed a chemical spray at officers, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/january-6-ray-epps-trump-00116765" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>.  In May, A jury in Washington, D.C., <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/verdict-in-for-proud-boys-charged-with-january-6-seditious-conspiracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> Rehl of seditious conspiracy in relation to the Capitol breach and <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/two-leaders-proud-boys-sentenced-prison-seditious-conspiracy-and-other-charges-related-us">sentenced</a> him to 15 years in prison.
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An attorney for Epps said in July that federal law enforcement officials had informed his client that they intended to charge him in connection with the events of January 6.
The revelation was made in a lawsuit that Epps filed against Fox News in July that accused the network and former host Tucker Carlson of defaming him.
Buried deep in the lawsuit, Epps&#8217; lawyer said that the DOJ recently informed Epps that it plans to prosecute him. Epps&#8217; lawyer blamed Carlson for the potential forthcoming charges.
&#8220;Finally, in May 2023, the Department of Justice notified Epps that it would seek to charge him criminally for events on January 6, 2021—two-and-a-half years later,&#8221; the lawsuit said. &#8220;The relentless attacks by Fox and Mr. Carlson and the resulting political pressure likely resulted in the criminal charges.&#8221;
Fox reportedly denied liability and moved to dismiss the pending lawsuit in federal court in Delaware.
Epps <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ray-epps-capitol-riot-jan-6-fox-38748c79cd7b6916584a5db7ca87af7a">told</a> CBS in an interview earlier this year that he received numerous death threats that forced him to sell his home and relocate to the Rocky Mountains, where he and his wife were living in a recreational vehicle.
&#8220;I had to do the necessary things to keep my family safe,&#8221; Epps said.
Epps joins more than 1,100 people charged with Capitol breach-related federal crimes, of which over 650 have pleaded guilty, more than 600 were sentenced, and half received terms ranging from three days to 22 years.
Mairead Elordi and Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.

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Former Oath Keeper Ray Epps Charged With One Misdemeanor In Connection To J6 Capitol Breach

Ray Epps

US Capitol

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/infowars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">InfoWars</a> host Owen Shroyer received a 60-day sentence in prison on Tuesday for his role in the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6 that prosecutors claim he &#8220;helped create.&#8221;
&#8220;In the months prior to January 6, Shroyer spread election disinformation paired with violent rhetoric to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of viewers,&#8221; prosecutors wrote in <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.234903/gov.uscourts.dcd.234903.49.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court filings</a>.
Shroyer, the 34-year-old host of &#8220;The War Room With Owen Shroyer&#8221; on Alex Jones&#8217; media platform, never entered the federal building on that infamous day, but was still punished by prosecutors because he previously signed a deferred prosecution agreement after interrupting a House Judiciary Committee hearing for then-President Trump&#8217;s impeachment proceedings hearing in 2019.
As part of the agreement, Shroyer consented not to &#8220;utter loud, threatening, or abusive language or engage in any disorderly or disruptive conduct&#8221; anywhere on the United States Capitol Grounds or within any of the Capitol Buildings.
But according to court filings, Shroyer warned in November 2020 that if Joe Biden became president, &#8220;it&#8217;s not going to be a million peaceful marchers in D.C.&#8221; Then, on January 6, the media personality took to a megaphone before leading a crowd to the Capitol.
&#8220;The Democrats are posing as communists, but we know what they really are,&#8221; Shroyer said on a bullhorn, according to court filings. &#8220;They&#8217;re just tyrants, they&#8217;re tyrants. And so today, on January 6, we declare death to tyranny! Death to tyrants!&#8221;
According to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/owen-shroyer-infowars-capitol-riot-sentencing-11cb087e9716061591fd46b6861c4c1c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a>, Shroyer pleaded guilty in June to illegally entering a restricted area, a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum sentence of one year behind bars.
During Tuesday&#8217;s sentencing hearing, NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/infowars-host-owen-shroyer-sentenced-jan-6-case-rcna104378" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Shroyer told the court, &#8220;I was not a part of any larger plan for illegal activity or violence that day.&#8221;
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&#8220;It was to get the attention and draw the crowds away,&#8221; he said, according to The Associated Press.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who just last week handed down a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/enrique-tarrio-sentenced-to-decades-behind-bars-the-longest-j6-sentence-to-date" target="_blank" rel="noopener">22-year sentence</a> in federal prison to Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio for his role in the Capitol breach, told the InfoWars host that he &#8220;amped up&#8221; the crowd on the Capitol steps.
&#8220;Context is everything,&#8221; the judge said. &#8220;I do not believe that you were trying to distract the crowd or turn the crowd away from the Capitol.&#8221;
Prosecutors asked the court to sentence Shroyer to 120 days in prison, including 12 months of supervised release, 60 hours of community service, and $500 in restitution.
&#8220;Such a sentence protects the community, promotes respect for the law, and deters future crime by imposing restrictions on his liberty as a consequence of his behavior, while recognizing his acceptance of responsibility for his crime,&#8221; the prosecution wrote.
Shroyer&#8217;s defense team requested in <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.234903/gov.uscourts.dcd.234903.46.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court filings</a> on Sunday that the judge spare him incarceration, saying the case had been &#8220;characterized by a cooperative spirit between the defense and the Government,&#8221; adding their client complied with federal inspectors to search his cell phone without a warrant.
&#8220;But when Mr. Shroyer appeared at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he wore two hats: one was that of outraged citizen who believed that an election had been rigged, the other as full-time journalist and commentator who sought a front-row seat at an historic event,&#8221; the defense wrote.
Defense attorney Norm Pattis for Shroyer said he planned to appeal the sentence and has repeatedly accused prosecutors of infringing on his client&#8217;s First Amendment rights.
&#8220;Mr. Shroyer, and every person capable of speaking in the United States, has a right to utter the speech Mr. Shroyer used. That the Government would suggest otherwise is a frightening commentary on our times,&#8221; Pattis wrote in a court filing on Sunday.
But prosecutors argue the charges against Shroyer do not infringe on his free speech rights.
&#8220;Shroyer cannot light a fire near a can of gasoline, and then express concern or disbelief when it explodes,&#8221; they wrote.
A date was not immediately set for Shroyer to report to prison.
The Associated Press reported that Shroyer joins more than 1,100 people charged with Capitol breach-related federal crimes, of which over 650 have pleaded guilty, more than 600 were sentenced, and half received terms ranging from three days to 22 years.

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Donald Trump

Infowars

Former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was sentenced this week to more than two decades behind bars in connection to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, marking the harshest sentence to date in the Biden DOJ’s handling of January 6. 
Along with Tarrio — who was not even in D.C. on the day of the breach — his co-defendants, fellow Proud Boys, racked up huge sentences, too.
Before Tarrio, Ethan Nordean was tied for having the longest sentence at 18 years. Joe Biggs, a <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/07/veterans-make-most-of-proud-boys-members-indicted-sedition-jan-6-violence.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">purple heart recipient,</a> was handed down a 17-year sentence, and Zachary Rehl, a U.S. Marine veteran, was hit with a 15-year sentence. 
All four of the men — not a single one even accused of assault — were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee who sentenced each young man, agreed with the government that all four of them be hit with a “terrorism sentencing enhancement.” Meaning each sentence will be over ten years at a minimum. 
First, let&#8217;s look at what they were convicted of (among other lesser charges): seditious conspiracy. This is significant. The seditious conspiracy law was enacted after the Civil War to arrest Southerners who might try to keep fighting the U.S. government. It’s extremely rare in its application, and hard to prove – but it’s been used by the Biden DOJ about a dozen times now in connection to the Capitol breach, and so far, rather successfully. 
Save Tarrio, who was not at the Capitol, the other three young men were accused of trespassing and damage to government property. In Biggs&#8217; case, for example, he helped remove a fence outside the Capitol.
These are minor infractions, so the DOJ took on that rare seditious conspiracy charge, which they had to try to prove with speech, and mostly private speech. The government sifted through tens of thousands of private and some public messages from the men to build their flimsy, yet successful, cases.
In one message used by the prosecution, Tarrio <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/sedition-trial-for-miami-ex-proud-boys-leader-4-others-begins-2-years-after-jan-6-riot/2948854/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after the breach, &#8220;Make no mistake … we did this.&#8221; The government also highlighted a document outlining a Capital takeover that was sent to Tarrio on social media platform Telegram called “<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/26/proud-boys-leader-verdict-jan-6-00093891">1776 Returns</a>.” Tarrio did not directly respond to the sent document and claims he never even saw it, let alone open it.
The government told the court Tarrio, who is the son of Cuban immigrants, was &#8220;intelligent, charming, creative, and articulate” and argued that he used those talents to “inflame and radicalize an untold number of followers.”
Defense lawyers maintained throughout the trail that there was not a single shred of written evidence to show that the men conspired to stop the certification of the 2020 election, though they might have boasted and talked &#8220;s***&#8221; to each other, privately. 
Tarrio himself actually spoke about this glaring speech issue during the trial, from inside a jail cell. He suggested the trial concerned free speech, and said that the government is trying to “manipulate” how people speak to each other privately. Here’s what Tarrio said in a Twitter Spaces event, which was hosted on April 25th: 
<blockquote>“What they’re trying to do, what people are trying to do – and this is in general, I’m speaking in general – is manipulate how we talk to each other in the locker room,&#8221; Tarrio <a href="https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1651006027209342977" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;And it’s not fair &#8230; It’s just not right. It’s not the Justice system that you grew up in civics class learning about.” </blockquote>
Notably, the DOJ has had near-perfect success in prosecuting J6 defendants before D.C. juries – this is a very liberal city, where, in 2020, Biden secured a stunning <a href="https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/washington-dc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">93%</a> of the vote. That likely emboldened the government to go forward with these extreme charges, knowing they could win. 
It also seems Donald Trump is a key factor in the DOJ going so hard after the Proud Boys: it could help their pursuit of the former president. Trump notably said on television in September of 2020, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.” This was breathlessly reported by those in legacy media, the clip was shown by prosecution in this Proud Boys trial, and you can bet it will be a focus at Trump’s coming J6 trial. 
Reporter Julie Kelly, who’s been covering these J6 cases from the very beginning, believes just that. 
<blockquote>“There is no case for seditious conspiracy – certainly they could be charged with trespassing, or, ya know, vandalizing property – no one is accused of assaulting a police officer,&#8221; Kelly <a href="https://rumble.com/v2krcrc-tucker-speaks-again-atf-attacks-americans-proud-boys-on-trial-rep.-nehls-bi.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> months ago on Real America&#8217;s Voice. &#8220;The reason why the outcome of this trial matters, is because the government is going to use this – any convictions – special counsel Jack Smith – to indict Donald Trump on the very same offenses.”</blockquote>
Trump has since been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/politics/trump-indictment-charges-jan-6.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with conspiracy to violate civil rights, conspiracy to defraud the government, the corrupt obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to carry out such obstruction.
While the DOJ has continued this harsh pursuit, the American people have taken notice. Polling by Rasmussen from about 10 months after January 6 showed that <a href="https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/september_2021/are_capitol_rioters_political_prisoners_many_voters_say_yes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly half</a> of all Americans thought J6 defendants were “political prisoners.” And polling from this year by Quinnipiac showed that <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/polls-show-americans-are-divided-on-the-significance-of-january-6/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about half the country</a> is ready to move on from J6, finding it less significant an event than it’s being portrayed.
Some GOP lawmakers have weighed in on this, too, saying these defendants are being treated poorly and far more harshly than any BLM protester or rioter has been treated. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley (R), for example, has called out the DOJ for this disparity. 
In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland last year, Hawley wrote:
<blockquote> “While you treat persons charged with petty offenses from the January 6 riot as hardened criminals, now even the most heinous offenses can be treated leniently, as long as the perpetrator is of the correct race and the crime can be connected to some progressive cause.” </blockquote>
One case highlighted was over a BLM protester named Montez Terriel Lee, Jr. who was convicted of arson to a pawn shop that resulted in the death of a 30-year-old man. The DOJ, citing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to defend Lee, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/prosecutors-win-light-sentence-for-man-who-set-deadly-fire-during-floyd-riots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> for a lighter sentence for the man. Lee was sentenced to ten years – that’s less than half of Tarrio’s sentence – and, again, Tarrio wasn&#8217;t present at the riot. 
Lawmakers have also <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-treated-jan-6-inmates-celebrities-jail-visit-1234703702/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised objections</a> about how long some of these defendants have been <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/why-capitol-riot-defendants-being-held-without-bond-before-trial-january-6-congress/65-1e4d4dd6-eded-4187-85f1-d4dfcc3a9519" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held in jail</a> without bond awaiting their trials, arguing that their due process rights have been violated. Tarrio, for example, was locked up since March 2022 &#8211; long before his trial even started. 
To date, more than 1,100 Americans have been charged in connection to the Capitol breach, and more than 300 people have already been sentenced to prison time. And it doesn&#8217;t appear the DOJ is slowing down. 
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Enrique Tarrio

Biden’s DOJ Throws The Book At Proud Boys Over J6, Racking Up Huge Sentences

Biden's DOJ Throws The Book At Proud Boys Over J6, Racking Up Huge Sentences

January 6 Committee

Joe Biden

Readers Pass

By now everyone acknowledges that the federal government lies to Americans as a matter of course. It&#8217;s no longer just the so-called &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; who think that. Anyone who&#8217;s been paying attention over the last couple of decades has come to that conclusion. After COVID, after the recession that wasn&#8217;t really a recession because they changed the definition of a recession, after the wars in Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan and Ukraine and so on — there&#8217;s no reasonable person left in this country who trusts the federal government on faith, and rightfully so.
What this means is that, if you&#8217;re a Washington bureaucrat, toiling away in, say, Joe Biden&#8217;s Justice Department, you have to adapt. You can&#8217;t just feed people bald-faced propaganda, because no one will buy it. You have to work to sell the deception. So naturally, that&#8217;s exactly what the DOJ has been doing. They&#8217;re coming up with inventive new ways to lie that are difficult to detect, at least on the surface.
Here&#8217;s one example that went totally unreported by the mainstream press. Kevin Benjamin Weier is a California man in his mid-30&#8217;s. During the canonization of Saint George Floyd three years ago, Weier <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/08/man-pleads-guilty-to-moving-burning-board-against-federal-courthouse-during-protest-last-summer.html#:~:text=Kevin%20Benjamin%20Weier%20pleaded%20guilty,15." target="_blank" rel="noopener">took it upon himself</a> to light a federal courthouse in Portland on fire. There&#8217;s no dispute about that. Weier pleaded guilty to, &#8220;repositioning a piece of lit wood” against the walls of the courthouse. And Weier wasn&#8217;t the only one who tried that tactic. In case you&#8217;ve forgotten, here&#8217;s some of the footage from the siege of the federal courthouse in Portland:
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Kevin Benjamin Weier was one of the handful of militants who was arrested after this attack on a federal courthouse. After Weier pleaded guilty, Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ made a point to issue a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/southern-california-man-pleads-guilty-after-attempting-set-fire-federal-courthouse-during">press release</a> about the many years in jail that this domestic terrorist was facing. Specifically, the DOJ&#8217;s press release stated that Weier&#8217;s intentional destruction of federal courthouses was, &#8220;punishable by up to 10 years in prison.&#8221;
Admittedly, ten years in prison is a little light for trying to torch a federal courthouse with people inside of it. But at least it&#8217;s something. It&#8217;s a long sentence — long enough, you might think, to deter other Californians from trekking to Portland for the purpose of burning down courthouses.
What&#8217;s interesting is that Joe Biden&#8217; DOJ never released a follow-up press release, after Weier was actually sentenced. They sent the message that this arsonist would serve some hard time. But they failed to inform the public about Weier&#8217;s actual sentence. Why is that? It&#8217;s not hard to answer that question. As it happens, Weier ultimately <a href="https://twitter.com/AntifaWatch2/status/1461371361721524231?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> a sentence that was nowhere near the 10-year term the Biden DOJ suggested he might serve. Instead, on the recommendation of federal prosecutors, Weier received a sentence of <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.153765/gov.uscourts.ord.153765.43.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two years&#8217; probation</a>. For trying to set fire to a federal courthouse. And indeed, Kevin Weier never served a day in prison. He did have to pay a $200 fine, though. So there&#8217;s that.
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If you&#8217;re a former GOP congressional candidate by the name of Enrique Tarrio, this is all very confusing. Tarrio was just sentenced to 22 years in prison for his &#8220;involvement&#8221; on January 6th. Prosecutors had sought a 33-year sentence for Tarrio, but the judge brought them down a bit. What was Enrique Tarrio&#8217;s crime? He didn&#8217;t try to set fire to the Capitol building on January 6th. Unlike Kevin Weier, he didn&#8217;t place a flaming piece of wood up against a federal building. We know that because, on January 6th, Enrique Tarrio was nowhere near any federal buildings. He had been arrested for vandalizing a holy BLM banner a few days earlier, and was ordered by a judge to stay far away from Washington D.C.
Nonetheless, yesterday, Tarrio received the single longest sentence of any January 6th defendant. Watch:
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It&#8217;s a surreal news report, in a lot of ways. For one thing, neither the reporter, nor the two anchors, seem remotely concerned by the fact that Enrique Tarrio was just sentenced to 22 years in prison for &#8220;orchestrating&#8221; a riot that he didn&#8217;t even attend. There&#8217;s no discussion whatsoever about what Tarrio might have done, or how exactly he facilitated what happened on January 6th. No one cares.
So let&#8217;s talk about it. According to the government, Tarrio told his followers on January 6th to, &#8220;Do what must be done.&#8221; He also told members of the Proud Boys to organize a big crowd in Washington to storm government buildings. The scheme was known as &#8220;1776 Returns.&#8221;
Sounds pretty ominous. Storming government buildings? Where have we seen that before? If you&#8217;re not a goldfish, and your memory extends longer than a few minutes, you know the answer to that question. Here&#8217;s what the Supreme Court and the Capitol complex looked like during the Kavanaugh hearings:
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So these people bang on the doors of the Supreme Court, they storm a Senate office building. And their punishment is — absolutely nothing. They get zip-tied, at most, and let go immediately. Their explicit purpose was to derail a government proceeding. In fact, some of these activists barged into the Senate chambers. None of them suffered any real consequences.
In fact, Left-wing activists who have committed acts of violence — even homicides — have received far more lenient sentences than Enrique Tarrio just did. Consider the case of the BLM arsonist back in 2020 who <a href="https://www.startribune.com/10-years-in-federal-prison-leniency-for-man-who-set-deadly-pawnshop-fire-during-unrest/600136780/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lit a pawn shop on fire</a>, in the name of civil rights. Three days after Saint George Floyd overdosed, Montez T. Lee decided to commit an act of arson that killed Oscar Lee Stewart. Stewart&#8217;s body wasn&#8217;t found in the rubble for nearly two months. What was Montez Lee&#8217;s sentence? He got less than ten years in prison. That&#8217;s less than half the sentence that Enrique Tarrio will face, for sending some naughty text messages.
I&#8217;m focusing on Enrique Tarrio here because his sentence is the most egregious, but there are many more examples of this obviously unequal justice we&#8217;re seeing. Consider the case of Joseph Biggs, a man with no criminal record whatsoever. Biggs is an Army veteran who didn&#8217;t hurt anyone on January 6th. But he did walk around the Capitol building and he did help pull down a fence on the periphery of the building. And for that, judge Tim Kelly — the same judge who sentenced Tarrio — decided that Joseph Biggs needs to spend 17 years in prison.
Where have we seen political demonstrators ripping apart fences in front of government buildings before? Oh, that&#8217;s right. We saw it during the BLM riots that torched St. John&#8217;s Church across from the White House, and sent Donald Trump to the bunker. No one involved in tearing down that fencing and setting the church on fire was ever frogmarched in front of the cameras, or sentenced to 22 years in prison. In fact, it doesn&#8217;t appear that anyone involved in that incident, or the burning of St. John&#8217;s church, spent a day in federal prison. 
We see relatively light or non-existent sentences like this all the time. A <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2023/05/im-not-your-victim-anymore-man-gets-10-year-prison-sentence-for-raping-brooklyn-boy-in-case-that-went-unsolved-for-decades.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serial child rapist</a> in Ohio just got ten years in prison. A drunk driver in Phoenix — at four times the legal B.A.C. — just got <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/drunk-driver-sentenced-12-years-prison-second-degree-murder-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12 years in prison</a> for driving 135 miles per hour and killing someone. A terrorist train engineer in Los Angeles who <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/former-san-pedro-train-engineer-sentenced-3-years-prison-intentionally-derailing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tried</a> to run his locomotive into a U.S. Navy hospital ship during COVID received just three years in prison. A man who burned down a Minneapolis police station, live on national television, during the George Floyd riots <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9665137/Fourth-person-burned-Minneapolis-police-building-George-Floyds-murder-sentenced-prison.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> just four years in prison. Another man who lit a molotov cocktail and threw it at the police station <a href="https://www.twincities.com/2021/05/13/st-paul-man-sentenced-for-helping-torch-minneapolis-police-station-during-george-floyd-unrest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">got</a> just three years in prison. You get the idea.
On the other hand, anyone remotely involved in January 6th — including nonviolent offenders — is being hunted down right now. We&#8217;re talking about American citizens, well over two years after January 6th, who are being ambushed by heavily armed FBI agents playing hero. This is how the FBI just approached one small business owner in Arkansas, named Nathan Hughes:
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🚨 Last week, a friend of ours was raided by the feds over J6, his name is Nathan Hughes and he’s from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Nate was raided by the FBI and arrested at gun point. His girlfriend (who just had a miscarriage) was held at gun point and put in handcuffs. The FBI… <a href="https://t.co/LOpMQ28eUJ">pic.twitter.com/LOpMQ28eUJ</a>
&mdash; Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) <a href="https://twitter.com/hodgetwins/status/1698854092792070382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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What was Nathan Hughes&#8217; crime? According to the DOJ, he wore an Infowars shirt while <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/arkansas-man-arrested-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges-actions-during-jan-6-capitol-breach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;pushing&#8221;</a> against the police line in the Capitol. To be clear, if Nathan Hughes actually did &#8220;push&#8221; against the police line on January 6th, that&#8217;s a crime. It would be comparable to the crime BLM rioters committed in the footage we just showed you. 
But Nathan Hughes&#8217; case is not being handled remotely the same way as those BLM rioters. Nathan Hughes did not get off without any consequences whatsoever. Instead, he&#8217;s now facing more than five years in prison on &#8220;felony civil disorder&#8221; charges. The feds showed up to arrest him with body armor and rifles, in full view of customers, as if he was some kind of terrorist. In fact, the feds also raided Hughes&#8217; home, and opened his safe. The company &#8220;Liberty Safe,&#8221; for some incomprehensible reason, <a href="https://twitter.com/libertysafeinc/status/1699245595867971969?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complied</a> with the feds&#8217; demands and used a backdoor mechanism to open it.
There is no conceivable argument that can possibly justify all of this, for the simple reason that nothing remotely like this has ever happened to Left-wing terrorists like Antifa, or BLM. None of those thugs have ever received anything like this treatment, even when they murder people. If we lived in a country in which every &#8220;lawbreaker,&#8221; however that&#8217;s defined, faced extremely harsh punishment, then maybe the treatment of the J6&#8217;ers would be tolerable, because it would be consistent. That&#8217;s how the rule of law is supposed to work. It&#8217;s supposed to guarantee equal punishment for equal crimes. But we don’t live in that kind of country. Most criminals are treated with kid gloves, even the most violent and dangerous kinds. It’s only with Trump supporters, and Trump himself, and other political dissidents that suddenly we become a land of strict enforcement and merciless punishment. 
This is a point that&#8217;s been made again and again over the past couple of years, as Trump supporters are sent to prison for memes, as U.S. service members are dismissed for refusing to take the COVID shot, and so on. But the prosecution of people like Enrique Tarrio and Nathan Hughes marks an escalation in the Biden administration&#8217;s tactics. 
So does the Biden DOJ&#8217;s handling of the raid on Craig Robertson a month ago. Robertson was the elderly invalid Trump supporter in Utah who shared threatening memes about Joe Biden on social media for months. Weeks later, instead of picking up Robertson while he was on his motorized scooter at Walgreens, the FBI decided to surprise Robertson with a 6 AM raid at his home. Then they shot him after they say he raised a pistol. We reached out to the FBI to obtain the body camera footage from the raid. Yesterday, the FBI <a href="https://twitter.com/gregg_re/status/1699195964626469355?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused</a> to provide it, citing ongoing &#8220;enforcement proceedings.&#8221; That justification makes no sense, because they&#8217;ve already killed the 70-something-year-old man who was posting the memes they were so concerned about. But the FBI said it anyway, because they&#8217;re confident no one in the mainstream media will look into it any further.
On that point, if we&#8217;re being honest, the FBI is probably right. We may have actually reached the point where the federal government can imprison and even kill its political enemies without any oversight, even as it gives a pass to terrorists on their side of the political spectrum. If that&#8217;s the case, then we don&#8217;t have a society that&#8217;s governed by the rule of law anymore. We have a society that, like every dictatorship, enforces the will of the ruling class with raw power. You&#8217;d hate to think that might be what we&#8217;re dealing with. But unless a real opposition forms — unless conservatives start electing leaders who are ready and equipped to deal with this problem, for starters — then it will be our future. There&#8217;s no question about that.
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Guy Who Wasn’t Even At The Capitol On January 6th Gets 22 Years In Prison Anyway

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/trump-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump campaign</a> called a lawsuit seeking to ban the former president from the ballot in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colorado" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado</a> a political attack based on an &#8220;absurd conspiracy theory.&#8221;
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) in Washington filed a lawsuit on Wednesday <a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/lawsuit-filed-to-remove-trump-from-ballot-in-co-under-14th-amendment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusing</a> Trump of violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/section-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bars</a> from running for office anyone who had previously taken an oath of office, then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” The <a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023-09-06-08-43-07-Anderson-v-Griswold-Verified-Petition-2023.09.06.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> says Trump “incited, exacerbated, and otherwise engaged in a violent insurrection at the United States Capitol” on January 6, 2021.
“If the very fabric of our democracy is to hold, we must ensure that the Constitution is enforced and the same people who attacked our democratic system not be put in charge of it,” CREW President Noah Bookbinder said in a statement. “We aren’t bringing this case to make a point, we’re bringing it because it is necessary to defend our republic both today and in the future.”
“While it is unprecedented to bring this type of case against a former president, January 6th was an unprecedented attack that is exactly the kind of event the framers of the 14th Amendment wanted to build protections in case of. You don’t break the glass unless there’s an emergency,” he added.
The Trump campaign has called the lawsuit’s premise an “absurd conspiracy theory” that reflects a desire among Trump’s political opponents to take the former president out of the 2024 race.
“The people who are pursuing this absurd conspiracy theory and political attack on President Trump are stretching the law beyond recognition,” campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/group-sues-block-trump-2024-ballot-citing-14th/story?id=102964534&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a> in a statement. “There is no legal basis for this effort except in the minds of those who are pushing it.”
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The lawsuit is being brought by CREW and a group of Republican and independent Colorado voters. The group is being represented by the law firms Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC, KBN Law LLC, and Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff &amp; Murray LLC.

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Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/proud-boys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Proud Boys</a> chairman Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years behind bars in connection to the breach at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. 
The sentence marks the longest to date in the Department of Justice&#8217;s handling of J6.
Tarrio, the son of Cuban immigrants, was found guilty of seditious conspiracy by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., back in May, and then sentenced by Judge Timothy Kelly. The former Proud Boy was facing 33 years behind bars.
&#8220;I am not a political zealot. Inflicting harm or changing the results of the election was not my goal,&#8221; Tarrio <a href="https://apnews.com/article/enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-da60222b3e1e54902db2bbbb219dc3fb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> before sentencing. &#8220;Please show me mercy. I ask that you not take my 40s away from me.&#8221;
Tarrio was notably not in D.C. on the day of the Capitol breach. Prosecutors, instead, argued that Tarrio was a leader and not a foot soldier, calling him &#8220;intelligent, charming, creative, and articulate” and claiming that he used those talents to “inflame and radicalize an untold number of followers.&#8221;
The government relied heavily on private communication from J6 defendants, sorting through hundreds of thousands of messages to try to make the case that Tarrio and others were guilty of this rare seditious conspiracy charge.
The seditious conspiracy law was enacted after the Civil War to arrest Southerners who might keep fighting the U.S. government, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-seditious-conspiracy-explained-207f7ca08d7c30d3cb28127eb9992bca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press. It’s extremely rare in its application and hard to prove, though it’s been used by the DOJ about a dozen times in connection to the Capitol breach, rather successfully.
In one message used by the prosecution, Tarrio <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/sedition-trial-for-miami-ex-proud-boys-leader-4-others-begins-2-years-after-jan-6-riot/2948854/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “Make no mistake … we did this.” The government also highlighted a document outlining a Capitol takeover that was sent to Tarrio on social media platform Telegram called “<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/26/proud-boys-leader-verdict-jan-6-00093891">1776 Returns</a>.” Tarrio did not directly respond to the sent document and claims he never even saw it, let alone opened it. 
Defense lawyers maintained throughout the trial that there was not a single shred of written evidence to show that Tarrio conspired to stop the certification of the 2020 election.
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While the trial was ongoing, Tarrio said from inside a jail cell that the government was impeding on free speech rights. 
“What they’re trying to do, what people are trying to do &#8212; and this is in general, I’m speaking in general &#8212; is manipulate how we talk to each other in the locker room,&#8221; Tarrio <a href="https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1651006027209342977" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Twitter spaces event hosted on April 25. &#8220;And it’s not fair. &#8230; It’s just not right. It’s not the justice system that you grew up in civics class learning about.”
Two other Proud Boy members, Joe Biggs and Ethan Nordean, have also been convicted of seditious conspiracy. Judge Kelly sentenced Biggs to 17 years years behind bars and Nordean was hit with 18 years. Another Proud Boy, Zachary Rehl, was also convicted of seditious conspiracy, was given a 15-year prison sentence by Judge Kelly. Moreover, two Oath Keepers who have been convicted of seditious conspiracy; Stewart Rhodes has been sentenced to 18 years, and Kelly Meggs to 12 years.
Overall, more than 1,100 people have been charged in connection to the Capitol breach, and hundreds have already been sentenced to prison time.

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House Republicans announced on Friday that members of the media and other qualified individuals will have access to view security footage from the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021.
“House Republicans are continuing to deliver on our promise to bring transparency and accountability to the People’s House by increasing access to security footage of the U.S. Capitol from January 5th and 6th, 2021,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/congress-to-grant-limited-access-to-jan-6-security-footage-house-gop-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said in a statement.
GOP lawmakers first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-announces-new-round-of-journalists-receive-unfettered-access-to-j6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> earlier this year they would begin to slowly roll out to individual news agencies more than 40,000 hours of security footage from the Capitol breach to networks to counter the “politicization” fostered by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the January 6th Committee.
The Committee on House Administration published a set of guidelines that would allow members of the U.S. media, government-focused nonprofit organizations, and attorneys for defendants facing charges related to the January 6 to submit requests to view the footage.
“This announcement stands in stark contrast to the previous Democrat leadership, who blocked access to the footage and only showed carefully edited clips to the public,” Loudermilk, who chairs the administration committee’s oversight subpanel, added.
According to program rules, those seeking access to the security tapes would need to set an appointment that limits them to watch the footage for three hours at a time, once a week. Spectators are prohibited from recording the tapes from secured terminals inside the Capitol building and may only be given portions of the footage at the committee’s discretion.
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Here’s the instructions on how to see January 6th Capitol video footage and who is allowed access. <a href="https://t.co/7N3Rm4SU0F">pic.twitter.com/7N3Rm4SU0F</a>
&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1698392595171357087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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For more than two years, U.S. citizens have called on lawmakers to release the footage to the public, expressing concerns over how media outlets curate the timeline of events.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced in May that three news media outlets received footage from the Capitol breach to bring the American people more transparency about what happened that day.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) released “unfettered access” of the Capitol security footage to investigative journalist and Just the News founder John Solomon, senior writer for American Greatness Julie Kelly, and an unidentified third news outlet.
McCarthy first gave the exclusive surveillance footage to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who reported on several tapes showing two Capitol police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, known as the “QAnon Shaman,” throughout the building.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called from the Senate floor for Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch to pull Carlson off the air, and reporters from several sites hounded McCarthy for giving Carlson’s team access to the video.
Schumer accused McCarthy in a February letter to his colleagues of potentially causing another “attack” on the Capitol by releasing the security footage from January 6, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3870181-schumer-blasts-mccarthy-for-giving-jan-6-footage-to-fox-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Hill.
“The speaker is needlessly exposing the Capitol complex to one of the worst security risks since 9/11,” Schumer said in a letter to Senate Democrats. “The footage Speaker McCarthy is making available to Fox News is a treasure trove of closely held information about how the Capitol complex is protected and its public release would compromise the safety of the Legislative Branch and allow those who want to commit another attack to learn how Congress is safeguarded.”

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House Republicans Announce Media, Defendants Charged In January 6-Related Crimes Can Access Capitol Riot Footage

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