Thursday night was Joe Biden&#8217;s big State of the Union address. The stakes were high because this is a very closely fought election. 
The president of the United States is ailing. He has been trailing in the polls to Donald Trump, his arch-nemesis. But all he really had to do was be alive and be normal.
He did the first thing, but he couldn&#8217;t do the second thing — at all. One wonders what exactly his team thought they were doing when they wrote his State of the Union address, which was extraordinarily divisive, polarizing, and quite nasty. Did they think the only way to make him energetic enough for the speech was to ramp him up so high that they could not ramp him back down?
Whatever cocktail they used to awaken him, it was too much.
The address was a disaster in the making, although Democrats are now pretending they loved it. But they were always going to pretend they loved it. Members of the media were always going to use words like “feisty,” “energetic,” and “combative”; that was a foregone conclusion.
But — if you were the median voter, the person who&#8217;s deciding between Joe Biden and Donald Trump and you watched Biden last night, did that make you think our country is in the best of hands? Or did it make you think, Angry old man screams at clouds, thinks many, many Americans are terrible people, and also has his priorities totally screwed up.
There are a lot of independents who are going to look at what Biden said and how he acted last night and say to themselves that if the Democrats were trying to offer a contrast between “crazy Trump” and “solid, stolid Joe,” they missed politically.
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Even before the address, a number of pro-Hamas crazies who were sitting out in the middle of the street blocked Biden’s motorcade. He has been catering to these people. He&#8217;s been suggesting the real problem is that they&#8217;re just too passionate. It&#8217;s not that they&#8217;re wrong and actively siding with the worst terror group in the region; rather, it is that they just believe too hard. They just want too much. So last night, he allowed his motorcade to be blocked for legitimately dozens of minutes on the most watched night of the presidential year by a bunch of nutjobs who were sitting in the middle of the street on behalf of terrorists who mass rape and murder people.
That was just the lead-up.
The trajectory of Biden&#8217;s speech was angry, energetic, coherent at the very beginning — very angry, very over-the-top, insulting — but coherent. Next, it went to angry incoherence, loud incoherence. Then, it went to whispering incoherence because he lost energy. The drugs started to wear off about 40 minutes into his address.
Normally, the president of the United States opens with some sort of broad peroration, such as, “The state of our union is strong.” They talk about the glories and wonders of America, and then they say the state of our union is wrong. That&#8217;s the formula.
I&#8217;ve never heard a president begin an address with, “The state of our union just sucks right now. I&#8217;ve got to tell you; it just blows, man.”
But Biden immediately launched into a harangue against Republicans about Ukraine. According to him, he is the halcyon apex of democracy, democracy embodied, and all of his opponents are fascists who side with Putin.
He <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/07/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-prepared-for-delivery-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared himself</a> to Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
<blockquote>In January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation. He said, “I address you in a moment, unprecedented in the history of the union.”
Hitler was on the march. War was raging in Europe. President Roosevelt’s purpose was to wake up Congress and alert the American people that this was no ordinary moment. Freedom and democracy were under assault in the world.
Tonight I come to the same chamber to address the nation. Now it is we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union. And yes, my purpose tonight is to wake up this Congress, and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either. Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today.</blockquote>
So his excuse for being a terrible president is that he is facing the two most historic crises of the last two centuries in American life: World War II and the Civil War.
Now, let&#8217;s just be clear about where we are in American life right now. We are not killing each other by hundreds of thousands, which is what actually happened during the Civil War. We are not holding hundreds of thousands of people in abject servitude and bondage. We are not fighting a globalized world war against the Nazis, the Japanese, and their allies. That&#8217;s not happening right now.
It says something about his governance because we are living in a time where zero American troops are currently overly committed abroad in a war. Biden claimed there is a war on democracy for one reason: so he can get to what he says is an assault on democracy at home, which is about Donald Trump.
He started off with this long thing about Ukraine and Russia and I think most Americans were sitting home and thinking, We’ve got some problems at home. Why don&#8217;t we start with the border? Why don&#8217;t we start with inflation?
But he led with Ukraine because what he was attempting to do was label everyone who disagreed with him as being in league with and akin to Putin in terms of trying to overthrow democracy here at home.
He stated: 
<blockquote>My message to President Putin is simple. We will not walk away. We will not bow down. I will not bow down. History is watching. History is watching, just like history watched three years ago on January 6th. Insurrectionists stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger to the throat of American democracy. …
But we must be honest the threat remains and democracy must be defended. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about January 6th. I will not do that. This is a moment to speak the truth and bury the lies. And here’s the simple truth. You can’t love your country only when you win. </blockquote>
What he was doing was disgusting.
Comparing January 6 to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is insulting to Ukrainians because hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and wounded in Ukraine. On January 6, one person, Ashli Babbitt, was tragically killed. January 6 was a small riot.
But Biden has to blow it up into something bigger than that. He has to say January 6 is emblematic of a threat to democracy akin to Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine and overthrowing the Republic.
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I thought January 6 was terrible — but there&#8217;s one thing I know with certainty about that day: It was not a dagger at the throat of democracy. No one in their right mind thought that democracy in the United States was about to be overthrown on January 6.
We all watched the television and said, “That&#8217;s ugly and that&#8217;s bad, and some people were committing criminal acts to be arrested.” That&#8217;s what rational people thought. Only hysterics looked at that and said, “My God, Donald Trump is going to enshrine himself and his praetorian guard in the White House. He&#8217;s going to overthrow democracy, march himself down in a purple robe into the Senate chamber, and call for the execution of his political enemies.”
No one thought that was happening. It&#8217;s a stupid idea. Within two hours, the entire place was cleared and the Republican vice president was certifying the election, along with the Republican majority leader.
But Biden&#8217;s reelection depends on exactly that kind of hysterical nonsense. It depends on you — the moderate, the independent — believing the threat is that if Trump becomes president, democracy ends tomorrow in the same way that Vladimir Putin is an autocrat.
Donald Trump is an autocrat: That&#8217;s the argument Joe Biden was making last night.
His routine is so tiresome.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> celebrated the prosecution of hundreds of his chief political rival’s supporters Friday, nearly three years after the January 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol.
Biden <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-marks-3-years-since-jan-6-2021-capitol-riot-valley-forge/">appeared</a> before a crowd in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania — near Valley Forge — on Friday afternoon, to address the January 6 Capitol riot, focusing his speech on former President Donald Trump and his supporters.
“Since that day, more than 1,200 people have been charged for their assault on the Capitol, and nearly 900 of them have been convicted or pled guilty. Collectively to date, they have been sentenced to more than 840 years in prison,” Biden said to the applause of the crowd.
“What’s Trump done? Instead of calling them criminals, he’s called these insurrectionists ‘patriots’ … and he promises to pardon them if he returns to office,” Biden added. “Trump said they’re was a lot of love on January 6. The rest of the nation, including law enforcement, saw a lot of hate and violence.”
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Immediately following the storming of the Capitol, the FBI began a years-long investigation into those who were present or participated in the massive demonstration on Capitol Hill as Congress met to vote on certification of the 2020 election. Since then, the Department of Justice has <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/36-months-jan-6-attack-capitol-0">charged</a> 452 people with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees, which includes 123 people “who have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.”
The vast majority of the charges — 1,186 — are for “entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds.” Some who weren’t even present at the Capitol on January 6 have also been sentenced. Former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/enrique-tarrio-sentenced-to-decades-behind-bars-the-longest-j6-sentence-to-date">sentenced</a> to 22 years behind bars, the longest January 6 sentence to date, after being found guilty of seditious conspiracy.
Trump also faces federal charges in a case related to January 6 as an indictment unsealed by special prosecutor Jack Smith levels four counts at the former president: conspiracy to violate civil rights, conspiracy to defraud the government, corrupt obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to carry out such obstruction, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/politics/trump-indictment-charges-jan-6.html">reported</a>. Trump pleaded not guilty to the January 6-related charges, accusing Smith of “putting out yet another Fake Indictment.”
“I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M.,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial Misconduct!”
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In his speech on Friday, Biden also painted a grim picture of his political rival and what the 2024 election means for the future of America.
&#8220;Whether democracy is still America&#8217;s sacred cause is what the 2024 election is all about,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;The choice is clear. Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign is about him, not America, not you. Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. He&#8217;s willing to sacrifice our democracy to put himself in power. Our campaign is different.&#8221;

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Another sex tape was allegedly filmed inside the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Capitol</a>, which comes after news broke last week about an aide for Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) who allegedly filmed a sex video involving himself and an unidentified man inside a Senate committee hearing room.
Semafor <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/12/20/2023/us-house-quietly-investigated-separate-sex-tape-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Wednesday that an investigation was launched in June 2022 into a senior aide who worked for Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) over reports of “purported, unbecoming behavior.”
The senior aide, whom the publication decided to not name, denied that he was in the videos and said that he was informed by the congressman that the investigation found “no evidence to the allegation.”
The publication said that it was &#8220;clear&#8221; though that there was &#8220;in fact, a second set of Capitol sex videos, which circulated on Snapchat last year.&#8221;
The publication said that it was provided with recordings from a source that showed &#8220;a man masturbating inside a House office building, which was identifiable by standard Capitol House furniture and carpeting.&#8221;
&#8220;The desk at which the videographer performed also held a branded congressional mouse pad,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;A screenshot of a second video obtained by Semafor shows two men engaged in a sex act in an office setting. The participants’ faces are not visible in any of the material viewed by Semafor.&#8221;
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A spokesperson for Newhouse said that once their office was alerted about one of their staffers being suspected of being involved in the video, they &#8220;immediately contacted the appropriate House entities to conduct an independent investigation.&#8221;
They said that they would “not be providing further comment on personnel matters.”
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An actor featured in the DailyWire+ comedy &#8220;Lady Ballers&#8221; was arrested following the premiere in Nashville last week for charges related to his presence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Federal authorities arrested Siaka Massaquoi on November 30 after he and his wife, Charlotte, arrived back in California following the showing, according to a legal defense <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/siaka" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fundraiser</a> set up in his name.
&#8220;Upon their arrival, Siaka was separated from his wife and abruptly arrested by the FBI,&#8221; according to the fundraising page. &#8220;At the time, Charlotte was told the charges had to do with January 6th; however, she was not presented with any arrest warrant.&#8221;
Massaquoi, who appeared in the new comedy from The Daily Wire, was taken to the Monterey Park Jail, where he stayed overnight after being charged with four misdemeanors in connection to January 6, according to the fundraiser page.
Three years ago, approximately 20 FBI agents dressed in tactical gear raided Massaquoi&#8217;s North Hollywood home just before 6 a.m. on a Thursday — about six months after that infamous day in 2021, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-12/fbi-raids-home-of-los-angeles-based-actor-who-entered-u-s-capitol-on-jan-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Los Angeles Times</a>.
Video footage from the Capitol breach posted by StopHate, a Texas-based activist group, claims to show Massaquoi inside the Capitol building.
&#8220;He was at the threshold of the door for maybe a minute, &amp; even helping the police direct the flow of foot traffic out the door. Crime?&#8221; the group wrote in a December 2 post.
Massaquoi reposted the group&#8217;s video on his X account. &#8220;Witness why I was raided 2 years ago and recently arrested and charged Nov 30th 2023 almost 3 years later,&#8221; he said.
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Witness why I was raided 2 years ago and recently arrested and charged Nov 30th 2023 almost 3 years later <a href="https://t.co/0YH97WqftF">https://t.co/0YH97WqftF</a>
&mdash; Siaka Massaquoi (@_SiakaMassaquoi) <a href="https://twitter.com/_SiakaMassaquoi/status/1731055218790392177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Massaquoi also starred in The Babylon Bee&#8217;s &#8220;Californians Move to Texas&#8221; series. Seth Dillon, CEO of the satire website, called Massaquoi&#8217;s arrest &#8220;political persecution.&#8221;
&#8220;If you&#8217;ve watched our Californians Move to Texas series, then you&#8217;re already familiar with Siaka. You know how funny and talented he is,&#8221; Dillon wrote in an X-post. &#8220;But he isn&#8217;t just a talented actor and friend of the Babylon Bee; he also happens to be a Trump supporter. And he&#8217;s being punished for it by our government.&#8221;
In a Monday post, Dillon posted the arrest warrant presented to Massaquoi, revealing charges including knowingly entering a restricted building, and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building.
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Here&#39;s the arrest warrant containing the charges brought against <a href="https://twitter.com/_SiakaMassaquoi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@_SiakaMassaquoi</a>.
He has a hearing scheduled for this Thursday morning (10 am) at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles. <a href="https://t.co/Z0wlUs83Fl">pic.twitter.com/Z0wlUs83Fl</a>
&mdash; Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1731836160660418729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Although authorities never charged Massaquoi, the fundraiser&#8217;s page said that the family has &#8220;feared that this day might come, in which the government would charge him for something he didn&#8217;t do,&#8221; adding the actor has been &#8220;scrutinized at airports for several years.&#8221;
The fundraiser for Massaquoi has raised nearly $40,000 of its $115,000 goal to cover the legal expenses. The campaign page also requested to keep the family in prayer support as the couple is expecting their first child.
According to podcast host Lori Mills, authorities arraigned Massaquoi on Friday and released him with conditions.
&#8220;This judge was fair. Preliminary trial next week,&#8221; she wrote in an X-post. &#8220;We are praying it gets thrown out as DC wants the case.&#8221;
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Yes. He was arraigned yesterday and released with conditions. This judge was fair. Preliminary trial next week. We are praying it gets thrown out as DC wants the case. There is a go fund me. We were all there and stood with him. Love him and Char so much. His Jesus Saves… <a href="https://t.co/gBhK3RUoM3">pic.twitter.com/gBhK3RUoM3</a>
&mdash; Lori Mills (@LoriMills4CA42) <a href="https://twitter.com/LoriMills4CA42/status/1730987999897514244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Massaquoi — an actor who has landed parts in shows like &#8220;S.W.A.T,&#8221; &#8220;NCIS: Los Angeles,&#8221; and &#8220;Lethal Weapon&#8221; — also appeared as Duece Johnson in The Daily Wire&#8217;s first-ever feature-length comedy &#8220;Lady Ballers.&#8221;
The film&#8217;s director and co-founder of The Daily Wire, Jeremy Boreing, spoke out in defense of Massaquoi.
&#8220;Siaka is a good man and a huge talent,&#8221; Boreing <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1731027952471568391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1731027952471568391%7Ctwgr%5Eed40d0ce63363dcd743420e9e6e46f117faa9ab7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fbidens-doj-arrests-prominent-conservative-actor-in-front-of-pregnant-wife-for-attending-jan-6-protests-three-years-after-the-fact-charges-him-with-4-misdemeanors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an X-post. &#8220;The FBI arresting a man at the airport three years after the event &#8211; and after raiding his house and not charging him already &#8211; and then only charging him with misdemeanors is one of the most absurd things I&#8217;ve ever heard.&#8221;
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Federal authorities arrested Massaquoi more than two months after he filed a group lawsuit against the FBI, Bureau Director Christopher Wray, the Department of Justice, and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
<a href="https://www.ntd.com/biden-fbi-arrests-conservative-actor-for-taking-part-in-jan-6-protests_958093.html">According</a> to the lawsuit filed in a district court in Florida on September 20, the plaintiffs requested the court to certify the legal challenge as a class action lawsuit on behalf of individuals &#8220;who were peacefully protesting in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, but who did not commit any felonies or engage in any violence, but have been subjected to unconstitutional, illegal surveillance by Defendant Wray and his agents in the aftermath.&#8221;
&#8220;While there were a few people who chose to enter and engage in acts of violence in the U.S. Capitol, Plaintiffs were not among those involved in any such conduct,&#8221; the lawsuit said. &#8220;All Plaintiffs did was exercise their right to peacefully assemble and protest under the Constitution.&#8221;
The Department of Justice has reportedly charged more than 1,069 individuals from nearly all 50 states and the District of Columbia in connection to January 6.
A spokesperson with the FBI declined to comment when contacted by The Daily Wire.

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A manhunt was underway on Wednesday as federal and local authorities searched through a wooded area of New Jersey for a suspect accused of <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-swat-team-hunt-ex-national-guardsman-wanted-jan-6-charges-rcna124196" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charges</a> related to the U.S. Capitol Breach on January 6.
FBI Newark SWAT officials said in an alert that authorities joined the Jamesburg Police Department and Middlesex County Prosecutors Office in search of Gregory Yetman in Helmetta, New Jersey.
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&quot;FBI Newark SWAT, Jamesburg Police Department, and Middlesex County Prosecutors Office, are currently searching for a man named Gregory Yetman, wanted in connection with the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, in Helmetta, NJ. We are asking the public… <a href="https://t.co/iP1jeS9Yxz">pic.twitter.com/iP1jeS9Yxz</a>
&mdash; Johnathon O&#39;Halloran (@JohnnyOHally) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnnyOHally/status/1722297351635693847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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It is not immediately clear what specific charges Yetman faces. However, authorities labeled Yetman as &#8220;#278 AFO,&#8221; which stands for &#8220;Assault on a Federal Officer,&#8221; before unmasking his identity, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12726263/Gregory-Yetman-Jan-6-manhunt-FBI.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=1490&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.
Yetman, 46, allegedly fled into the woods around 9 a.m. as police were trying to serve a warrant.
Authorities described him as a white male who may be armed, and said that he was wearing a red jacket and baseball cap.
Authorities instructed the Spotswood Public Schools to shelter in place and closed surrounding local streets as SWAT team members searched Yetman&#8217;s backyard and shed and the backyards of other nearby homes.
According to reports, Yetman served as a military police sergeant in the New Jersey National Guard until the military service honorably discharged him in March 2022.
Yetman admitted in an <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/02/sedition-hunters-hundreds-jan-6-rioters-pending-fbi-arrests/11283885002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with USA TODAY earlier this year that he was in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. Online searchers alleged Yetman had used pepper spray while on the Capitol grounds, but he asserted he did nothing wrong and didn&#8217;t pepper-spray anyone while he was there on that day.
He said the FBI interviewed him in January 2021, but that he had not heard from federal investigators since.
&#8220;Everything&#8217;s been resolved, everything&#8217;s good,&#8221; he said.
Officials estimate approximately 2,000 people were present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. About 800 people out of the massive crowd breached the Capitol grounds, which included some who overturned barricades, clashed with police, and stormed the building in an alleged attempt to stop the January 2021 transfer of presidential power.
Senators from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee published a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/planned-in-plain-sight-senate-committee-lawmakers-blame-dhs-fbi-for-january-6-security-failures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> alleging several U.S. Capitol security failures on January 6, including the possibility that federal law enforcement agencies had downplayed numerous tips threatening violence ahead of the 2020 presidential election certification.
Federal authorities admitted that there were 8 FBI Confidential Human Sources, according to a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/636497598/Dominic-Pezzola#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court filing</a>, which also alleged DCMetro Police had at least 13 undercover plain-clothes agents, and some 19 informants belonged to Homeland Security Investigations, an agency under the Department of Homeland Security.
The FBI has charged more than 1,100 defendants in nearly all 50 states and the District of Columbia in relation to the Capitol Breach. Over 650 have pleaded guilty, more than 600 have been sentenced, and half received terms ranging from three days to 22 years.
Over 20 residents from New Jersey have been charged in connection to the Capitol breach, according to the Associated Press.

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U.S. Capitol police arrested an unidentified man armed with an AR-15 in a park near the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, according to authorities.
“USCP Officers just arrested a man with a gun in the park across from Union Station,&#8221; Capitol police <a href="https://twitter.com/CapitolPolice/status/1721948851387396117" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on X. &#8220;At this time we have no reason to believe there is an ongoing threat. We are working to gather more information and will put out more details when they are confirmed.”
Capitol police said authorities searched and secured the park and the suspect’s belongings “out of an abundance of caution.” The suspect remained in police custody on Tuesday afternoon amid an ongoing investigation.
Authorities <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-arrest-man-armed-ar-15-near-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> to Fox News the gun in possession of the suspect was an AR-15 and that they believed he was acting alone.
Due to the heavy police activity, authorities restricted access near the Capitol. They announced road closures along Columbus Circle between Louisiana and Delaware Avenues, NE, and D Street between Louisiana and Delaware Avenues, NE.
USCP authorities also <a href="https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1721951520038490564" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> responded to a suspicious package in the Upper Senate Park and warned staff and other personnel to avoid the area until further notice. It is unknown if the two incidents were related.
The arrest comes three days after authorities apprehended two individuals with firearms after the suspects crashed a stolen car into a barricade near the Capitol.
Police identified the two suspects as Ricardo L. Glass and Onosetale Okojie of Washington, D.C., both 20 years old, who were arrested for several charges, including carrying a pistol without a license, unauthorized use of a vehicle, and unlawful possession of a machine gun, according to Capitol police.
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In a <a href="https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/uscp-officers-confiscate-guns-capture-criminals-who-crashed-stolen-car" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>, authorities said on Sunday the suspects were idling at a green light near Union Station in a stolen white Infiniti Q50 when an officer noticed the driver could be impaired. When the officer attempted to make a traffic stop, the driver sped away and crashed into a Capitol vehicle barricade near 1st and D Streets around the northeast side of the city.
Glass and Okojie then ran away from the crash, which happened to be near the USCP headquarters, and attempted to escape until they were captured in the area, according to the news release.
Authorities later searched the stolen vehicle and confiscated two Glock handguns – one of which had a “Giggle Switch” to turn the weapon into a machine gun.
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U.S. Capitol police said authorities have confiscated more than 30 guns in 2023.
“All weapons are prohibited from Capitol Grounds — even if you have a gun that is legally registered in another state or the District of Columbia,” police said.

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U.S. Capitol security footage released on Thursday appeared to show New York Democratic Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jamaal-bowman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamaal Bowman</a> removing warning signs from an exit door before pulling a fire alarm in a House office building ahead of a government spending vote last month.
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🚨 NEW FOOTAGE: Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman removes warning signs before pulling the fire alarm in a House office building last month <a href="https://t.co/dhwOQN2G6y">pic.twitter.com/dhwOQN2G6y</a>
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The Daily Wire contacted a representative for Rep. Bowman for a response.
RNC Research shared the surveillance on social media just hours after Bowman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-congressman-pleads-guilty-to-pulling-capitol-fire-alarm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded guilty</a> to a misdemeanor count of falsely pulling a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building on September 30.
&#8220;I am responsible for activating a fire alarm, I will be paying the fine issued, and look forward to these charges being ultimately dropped,&#8221; Bowman said in a statement <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/25/congress/latest-on-bowman-fire-alarm-funding-capitol-police-00123575" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by POLITICO.
A spokesperson for the D.C. Attorney General&#8217;s office told the outlet that Bowman was &#8220;pleading guilty and has agreed to pay the maximum fine.&#8221;
The charges levied against Bowman carry a maximum penalty of six months in jail, but the D.C. Attorney General&#8217;s Office said the congressman &#8220;is pleading guilty and has agreed to pay the maximum fine&#8221; — which is $1,000 — and Bowman will issue a formal apology to the Capitol Police.
If Bowman sticks to the terms of the deal, which includes three months probation, prosecutors will drop the charge at a sentencing hearing on January 29, according to the plea deal reported by Reuters.
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Bowman told reporters before the arraignment, &#8220;Hell no&#8221; when asked if he meant to pull the fire alarm, but asserted he was &#8220;taking responsibility&#8221; for his actions.
&#8220;What I did was against D.C. law,&#8221; Bowman said, according to Fox News. &#8220;As I said from the very beginning, I was not trying to disrupt any congressional proceedings. I&#8217;m glad the investigation yielded that.&#8221;
Just before the lower chamber of Congress voted on a spending bill last month to avert a government shutdown, the procedure came to a temporary halt when the fire alarm went off.
Bowman, a 47-year-old former teacher representing a district covering part of New York City and Westchester County, told Capitol Police he was on his way to the vote when he pulled the fire alarm, believing it would open an exit door in the House building.
In a <a href="https://bowman.house.gov/2023/9/statement-from-congressman-jamaal-bowman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> hours after the incident, Bowman said that he did not &#8220;in any way&#8221; trigger the House building fire alarm &#8220;to delay any vote.&#8221;
&#8220;It was the exact opposite &#8212; I was trying urgently to get to a vote, which I ultimately did and joined my colleagues in a bipartisan effort to keep our government open,&#8221; Bowman said. &#8220;I also met after the vote with the Sergeant at Arms and the Capitol Police, at their request, and explained what had happened. My hope is that no one will make more of this than it was. I am working hard every day, including today, to do my job, to do it well, and deliver for my constituents.&#8221;
&#8220;Peace and Love,&#8221; he added.

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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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Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) held little back during a Freedom Caucus press conference on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday after Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
“What actual evidence do you have as opposed to allegations to show to the American public that would merit an actual impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden and prove that today isn’t just about some of you [inaudible]?” asked an off-camera reporter.
The reporter suggested that McCarthy was enacting &#8220;political revenge for the impeachments of Donald Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;This isn’t about political revenge. We have the bank accounts we can see, ma’am,&#8221; Perry fired back. &#8220;You can see that the homes that the Bidens own can’t be afforded on a congressional or Senate salary. You also understand that it’s not normal for family members to receive millions of dollars from overseas interests. Those things aren’t normal.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s not normal to have 20 shell companies, these things are not normal,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And it alludes to not only just widespread corruption, but money laundering, if not influence peddling itself and we also have the president, the vice president at the time, on record saying that the prosecutor was fired. &#8216;Well, son of a b***! The prosecutor was fired,&#8217; right? Because the prosecutor was going after the company that his son was working on.&#8221;
“That’s what we have. If you can’t see that. If you want, if you are that blind, I’ll turn it over to the attorneys,” Perry concluded as he walked away from the podium.
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The reporter claimed that &#8220;the American people can&#8217;t see that, they think it&#8217;s political revenge.&#8221;
“The American people can’t see that, they think it’s political revenge,” replied the reporter.
Perry rushed back and shouted at the reporter: “It’s because you don’t report on it!”
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&quot;You can see that the homes that the Bidens own can’t be afforded on a congressional or Senate salary. You also understand that it’s… <a href="https://t.co/fBcJnG0Ps7">pic.twitter.com/fBcJnG0Ps7</a>
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) mocked a reporter on Tuesday who asked him for his reaction to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announcing an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over allegations of corruption.
NBC’s Liz Brown-Kaiser asked Fetterman in the basement of the U.S. Capitol about the impeachment inquiry and, before she could finish asking the question, Fetterman jolted backward and threw his hands up around his head.
&#8220;Oh my God, really?!?!&#8221; Fetterman mockingly responded to the reporter. &#8220;Oh my gosh.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, oh, it&#8217;s devastating,&#8221; Fetterman continued as he proceeded to burst out laughing at the reporter.
&#8220;Ooooooooo! Don&#8217;t do it!&#8221; Fetterman said to the reporter while making a motion with his hands. &#8220;Please, don&#8217;t do it! Oh, no! Oh, no!&#8221;
Fetterman was quickly led away by one of his aides, who broke up the interaction between the senator and the reporter.
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In brief remarks at the U.S. Capitol, McCarthy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-announces-formal-impeachment-inquiry-against-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the impeachment inquiry will be led by Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) “in coordination with” Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO).
In a letter to Republican members, McCarthy said that the House’s investigation so far has “found that President Biden lied to the American people about knowledge of his family’s foreign business dealings.”
McCarthy continued:
<blockquote>Eyewitness testimony revealed that the President joined multiple phone calls and had various interactions with his son’s business partners. For example, Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s business partner, testified that Joe Biden spoke or met with Hunter Biden’s business associates around 20 times, and that after meeting with President Biden, foreign nationals sent Hunter Biden millions of dollars, and bought him a Porsche.
Bank records show that nearly $20 million in payments were directed to Biden family members and associates through numerous shell companies. The Treasury Department has more than 150 transactions involving the Biden family and their business associates that were flagged as “suspicious activity” by U.S. banks.
A trusted FBI informant provided information about alleged bribes to the Biden family.
There is also evidence that Biden used his official office to coordinate with Hunter Biden’s business partner about Hunter’s role in Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company.
Finally, despite these serious allegations, it appears that the President’s family has been afforded special treatment by Biden’s own administration – treatment they would not otherwise have received if they were not related to the President. For example, in July, there was the sweetheart plea deal that President Biden’s Department of Justice tried to sneak past the public. Had a federal judge not rejected the deal, it would have gone through unnoticed.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-barrasso-only-gop-leader-to-back-mccarthy-launching-impeachment-inquiry-into-biden">Senator Barrasso Only GOP Leader To Back McCarthy Launching Impeachment Inquiry Into Biden</a>

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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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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.”

House Republicans Unveil Instructions To Access January 6 Capitol Footage

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

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A Republican congressman auditing the Democrat-driven investigation into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a> says the now-disbanded <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> select committee manipulated its findings to craft a political narrative.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration, received a request from House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> to audit the January 6 committee’s findings. After gathering the piles of evidence – documents, depositions, videos, and other information – uncovered by the January 6 Committee, Loudermilk says there are conspicuous gaps in the records.
“Basically, all they did after spending $18.5 million was come out with a manifesto against [former President Donald Trump], trying to tie Donald Trump to the attack on the Capitol,” Loudermilk said in an interview with The Daily Wire. “That was their narrative. Everything that they did appears to be to just come up with that narrative.”
The Georgia Republican requested all of the January 6 committee records from its former chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS). What Loudermilk received showed how the January 6 committee omitted key facts about the riot in its final report, he said.
The most shocking discovery that Loudermilk made, he said, was evidence that showed “there were some plain-clothes law enforcement officers” among the rioters “who were encouraging people to go into the Capitol.”
He said the January 6 committee also manipulated evidence and made false claims, in one instance targeting him. The report says Loudermilk gave a tour of the U.S. Capitol to a man later accused of joining the riot. The man “took a tour of the Capitol with Representative Barry Loudermilk, during which he took pictures of hallways and staircases,” the <a href="https://www.jan-6.com/_files/ugd/acac13_ffa28ed6c2694272a265860e447122c7.pdf?gclid=Cj0KCQjwldKmBhCCARIsAP-0rfz2KznjL2iAGt2_CakMqdwXLHYukr_NvfAs5yF0JsGe6we6pp5EE0MaAu-kEALw_wcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> says.
The Georgia congressman says that is false. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-releases-new-surveillance-video-tour-eve-riot-rcna33713" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the committee that, while Loudermilk did lead a tour of several people around some of the Capitol Hill offices and hallways, they never entered the Capitol building.
In addition, Loudermilk says he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j6-committee-records-white-house-correspondence-missing-gop-lawmaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> little about the security around the Capitol building that day. The committee investigated it; it assigned its “blue team” to cover that part of the investigation into the riot. But Loudermilk says that little evidence from the blue team’s research was included in the files he received.
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“That’s a set of documents that we don’t have. Now our question is: did these documents ever exist?” he said. Loudermilk posited that “it’s more than likely” that the blue team did investigate, but found something that “somebody didn’t want them to,” so “they suppressed the records.”
Notably not included in the boxes of evidence, Loudermilk found a letter Thompson sent to the White House and the Department of Homeland Security appearing to show a manifest of records the committee received from both as part of its investigation. Thompson’s letter catalogued what it was returning as the committee was shutting down. Loudermilk said those records never should have been returned, and is now attempting to retrieve them.
“We need to get to the truth of what really happened and look into the conduct of the January 6 committee,” Loudermilk said. After all of his discoveries, one of his primary concerns now is working out “how much more of this report is just made up narrative.”

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