Jan 6 Breach of the Capitol: Consequences & Repercussions III

[essentialsaltes]

Man charged in January 6 Capitol riot after calling FBI admitting he was there in an effort to 'clear his name'

According to court documents filed July 6, Fontanez Rodriguez called the FBI National Threat Operations Center on Jan. 22, 2021, to “clear his name” about the Jan. 6 riots that attempted to interrupt the certification of Electoral College votes in the 2020 presidential election.

The messages included photos of the two men posing on the Capitol steps and standing before a Black Lives Matter poster with Fontanez Rodriguez’s knee on Kostolsky’s neck, apparently imitating a Minneapolis police officer’s actions in the George Floyd killing that sparked Black Lives Matter protests across the country.

Classy.

 

[Whyayeman]

... Fontanez Rodriguez called the FBI National Threat Operations Center on Jan. 22, 2021, to “clear his name ...”

Some of the reasoning we have encountered in their statements beggars belief. You couldn't make it up.

The whole lot of them are a full sandwich short of a picnic.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Marc Short, Pence's former chief of staff, testified under subpoena to a grand jury investigating Jan 6.

The Justice Department has issued several subpoenas to Republican operatives connected to the scheme to put forward "alternate" electors, and the grand jury heard testimony from "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander in June.

Earlier this year, he "quietly testified before the House select committee"

 

[essentialsaltes]

Some of Trump's edits to the Jan 7 speech.

Legal consequences must be swift and firm.

You belong in jail

I want to be very clear: you do not represent me.

At least he's being truthful on the last point. They did represent Trump and his goals.

 

[cow451]

And, speaking of repercussions, Josh Hawley is inspiring Republicans to run hard in 2022 .....

 

[wing2000]

Marc Short, Pence's former chief of staff, testified under subpoena to a grand jury investigating Jan 6.

The Justice Department has issued several subpoenas to Republican operatives connected to the scheme to put forward "alternate" electors, and the grand jury heard testimony from "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander in June.

Earlier this year, he "quietly testified before the House select committee"

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Pence's former chief counsel, Greg Jacob, also testified before the grand jury, sources familiar with his appearance told ABC News.

Former Pence chief of staff appeared before grand jury probing Jan. 6

 

[essentialsaltes]

A jury found Bannon guilty on both counts

I guess nobody expected him to keep his silence. I do wonder what he'll say under oath to the Jan 6 Committee.

 

[Whyayeman]

I might have agreed with the general thrust of that. Pence did indeed go along with his boss's lies about the election. That all changed on Jan 6th 2021, when the Vice President at the very end acted the part he was elected to play.

 

[cow451]

I might have agreed with the general thrust of that. Pence did indeed go along with his boss's lies about the election. That all changed on Jan 6th 2021, when the Vice President at the very end acted the part he was elected to play.

Pence finally did his job. Not exactly a hero. Dan Quayle had to explain it to him.

 

[Whyayeman]

Dan Quayle had to explain it to him.

Isn't it grand when giant intellects get together!

 

[essentialsaltes]

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson cooperating with DOJ's Jan. 6 probe

 

[essentialsaltes]

Mark Ponder, who assaulted police officers on Jan. 6, sentenced to 63 months in prison

The man, Mark Ponder, 56, was arrested in March 2021 in Washington and pleaded guilty in April to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon.

Ponder was detained by Metropolitan Police officers and told law enforcement, "When our country is being attacked with, like we are, we have a right to fight ... that is what the Second Amendment was built on," according to his plea agreement.

He also told the [FBI] agents "the way this country is going, you gonna have to pick a side," court filings said.

 

[ViaCrucis]

And, speaking of repercussions, Josh Hawley is inspiring Republicans to run hard in 2022 .....

-CryptoLutheran

 

[essentialsaltes]

One of two men charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, chemical-spray assault on three police officers at the U.S. Capitol, including Brian D. Sicknick, pleaded guilty to reduced charges Wednesday.

West Virginia sandwich shop owner George Tanios, 40, admitted to two counts of misdemeanor trespassing and disorderly conduct on restricted Capitol grounds, a reduction from an earlier 10-count indictment that included felony charges of rioting, assaulting law enforcement officers and obstructing of Congress’s certification of President Biden’s 2020 election victory.

In the plea, Tanios admitted to bringing two cans of chemical spray to Washington and giving one to [Julian] Khater prior to arrival at the Capitol.

Neither Tanios or Khater is alleged to have caused Sicknick’s death.

 

[essentialsaltes]

John Eastman loses emergency request to protect his phone data from DOJ investigators

@tribelaw


LATEST NEWS: DOJ has now obtained a warrant to search John Eastman’s cellphone. DOJ has had the phone since June 22. Now it has judicial permission to search its contents. To get that warrant, DOJ had to specify the crimes it has good cause to believe the contents will reveal.

 

[essentialsaltes]

but their text messages

Secret Service deleted J6 text messages after investigators demanded them: DHS inspector general

but their text messages II

Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security’s Wolf and Cuccinelli
DHS watchdog was alerted in February to unavailable records of top officials, but did nothing to alert or investigate

Text messages for former President Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli are missing for a key period leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to four people briefed on the matter and internal emails.

This discovery of missing records for the senior-most homeland security officials, which has not been previously reported, increases the volume of potential evidence that has vanished regarding the time around the Capitol attack.

The telephone and text communications of Wolf and Cuccinelli in the days leading up to Jan. 6 could have shed considerable light on Trump’s actions and plans. In the weeks before the attack on the Capitol, Trump had been pressuring both men to help him claim the 2020 election results were rigged and even to seize voting machines in key swing states to try to “re-run” the election.

Wolf had resigned five days after the attack on the Capitol, and cited “recent events” as well as legal rulings questioning his legitimacy to continue leading the department as an acting secretary for 14 months.

A Government Accountability Office report in 2020 found that Wolf and Cuccinelli were ineligible to serve in their positions because their appointments had not followed the proper order of succession, an issue the GAO referred to the DHS Office of Inspector General.

[Trump also appointed the IG who watched over the DHS officials he unlawfully appointed.]

 

[Pommer]

but their text messages II

Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security’s Wolf and Cuccinelli
DHS watchdog was alerted in February to unavailable records of top officials, but did nothing to alert or investigate

Text messages for former President Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli are missing for a key period leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to four people briefed on the matter and internal emails.

This discovery of missing records for the senior-most homeland security officials, which has not been previously reported, increases the volume of potential evidence that has vanished regarding the time around the Capitol attack.

The telephone and text communications of Wolf and Cuccinelli in the days leading up to Jan. 6 could have shed considerable light on Trump’s actions and plans. In the weeks before the attack on the Capitol, Trump had been pressuring both men to help him claim the 2020 election results were rigged and even to seize voting machines in key swing states to try to “re-run” the election.

Wolf had resigned five days after the attack on the Capitol, and cited “recent events” as well as legal rulings questioning his legitimacy to continue leading the department as an acting secretary for 14 months.

A Government Accountability Office report in 2020 found that Wolf and Cuccinelli were ineligible to serve in their positions because their appointments had not followed the proper order of succession, an issue the GAO referred to the DHS Office of Inspector General.

[Trump also appointed the IG who watched over the DHS officials he unlawfully appointed.]

Starting the cover-up before the investigation(s) is both “the smart move” and a major indicator of knowledge of culpability.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Pro-Trump influencer upset after documents detailing 'substantial' cooperation with FBI are [accidentally] released
“There is NOTHING WRONG with talking to the DOJ and telling them your friends are innocent," said Brandon Straka, who was convicted for his actions in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol siege.

According to the unsealed documents, some of the information that he provided to the FBI was derogatory in nature and could support criminal charges. But his GETTR post ignored that, and he instead wrote that the majority of the people he spoke to the FBI about were his friends and that he didn't say anything negative about them.

Speaking of negative things. Previously in Brandon Straka:

Shortly before his plea, Straka addressed 357,000 Facebook followers as “Patriots,” urging them to tune out “negative press … likely coming down the pike” as he took the first meaningful step toward concluding “the perils of the situation I am in.”

Ignore that I ratted you out for a lighter sentence.

 

[essentialsaltes]

[Trump also appointed the IG who watched over the DHS officials he unlawfully appointed.]

The Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog scrapped its investigative team’s effort to collect agency phones to try to recover deleted Secret Service texts this year, according to four people with knowledge of the decision and internal records reviewed by The Washington Post.

Staff at Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari’s office planned to contact all DHS agencies offering to have data specialists help retrieve messages from their phones, according to two government whistleblowers who provided reports to Congress.

But later that month, Cuffari’s office decided it would not collect or review any agency phones, according to three people briefed on the decision.

Late Friday night, Cuffari’s spokesman issued a statement declining to comment on the new discovery.

Cuffari, a former adviser to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R), has been in his post since July 2019 after being nominated by Trump.

 

[essentialsaltes]

In a 28-page filing, prosecutors said a law enforcement search on Jan. 19, 2021, of the home of charged co-defendant Thomas Caldwell, a retired Navy intelligence officer from Berryville, Va., recovered a document that included the words “DEATH LIST” handwritten across the top with the name of a Georgia election official and a purported family member of the official. Both were targets of baseless accusations that they were involved in voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, prosecutors said.

Alleged Oath Keeper Thomas Caldwell had a 'death list' including the name of an election official and their family. His lawyers say it's a 'doodle pad.'

"This document is not a 'list' but, rather, a doodle pad. The words 'death list' are written in all caps, whereas the balance of writing on the doodle pad is written in upper and lower case letters," read the defense's motion to exclude the note pad evidence.

"Moreover, the words 'death list' are separated from the names of the election workers by scribbled writing, and were clearly written with a different pen. There are no other names on the 'list,' because it is not a list. Importantly, the names written on the doodle pad were not, as the Government claims, election 'officials' but, rather, temporary election workers."