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Jan 6 Breach of the Capitol: Consequences & Repercussions III

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They've been charged by the DOJ with the standard 4 misdemeanors for trespass and illegal entry in the Capitol. Any prosecution by the Marine Corps under the UCMJ has not been announced yet.
I would imagine they might be offered a deal with them resigning with an Honorable Discharge and full vet’s bennies that they’ve accrued or…standing Justice under the UCMJ which could be a career and freedom killing set of charges.
 
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I would imagine they might be offered a deal with them resigning with an Honorable Discharge and full vet’s bennies that they’ve accrued or…standing Justice under the UCMJ which could be a career and freedom killing set of charges.

I would hope that any negotiated departure from the USMC would involve a less than Honorable discharge, etc. in lieu of UCMJ charges.
 
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I would hope that any negotiated departure from the USMC would involve a less than Honorable discharge, etc. in lieu of UCMJ charges.
Too much “stick”, needs more carrots.
 
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He kicked back in Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6. Now he has ‘regrets.’

Richard “Bigo” Barnett took the stand in his own defense in a federal trial on charges stemming from the attack.


Barnett, 60 at the time, was a sales employee of a construction business who had driven to D.C. from rural Arkansas to help save the country from “the liberals,” he later told FBI agents. In the House speaker’s outer sanctum, he reclined at the desk with an air of nonchalance, like the company boss, grinning and holding forth as a photojournalist snapped one of the most widely viewed images from that day’s riotous attack on a joint session of Congress.

-now at trial, he's a bit more contrite-

“Because of all the controversies,” he testified. “I probably shouldn’t have put my feet on the desk. And my language.” Although he still suspects that former president Donald Trump was fraudulently denied reelection and that “nefarious characters” on the political left are intent on destroying the Constitution, he told the jury he would apologize to Pelosi in person if he could.
“I’m a Christian,” he said. “It just wasn’t good. It wasn’t who I am.”

[HIs lawyer] said the evidence in the case is insufficient to prove the legal elements of each charge beyond a reasonable doubt. More broadly, though, he cast Barnett as a harmless windbag — “that nutty uncle” who has “no sense of boundaries” or “societal norms,” who “doesn’t necessarily fit in today’s world” and “routinely offends others” with political incorrectness.

Before leaving for Washington, Barnett stopped in a Bass Pro Shops outlet to gear up, purchasing six walkie-talkies, some canisters of pepper spray and a retractable walking stick called a ZAP Hike ’n Strike, equipped on one end with a 950,000-volt stun device.
“I bought it for protection,” he testified. In D.C., “I knew at night antifa might be wandering around killing and stabbing people. I wanted to be prepared.”

see also

Barnett told FBI investigators that they wouldn't find anything if they searched his house.
"I assure you, I'm a smart man, there is nothing there," an FBI man recalled Barnett saying.
 
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A couple quick updates from this afternoon:

In other Jan 6 trial news...

* The second (part 2 of 2) "Oath Keepers" seditious conspiracy trial (4 of 9 defendants) went to the Jury this morning.
All four guilty of seditious conspiracy. Verdict still being read.
(8 more Oath Keepers who are *not* charged with sedition are slowly working towards trial also with the same judge with a pre-trial conference tomorrow.)

* The man photographed sitting with his feet up on a desk in the Speaker's office has been on trial for a week. Today he testified in his own defense. (Not a bright move usually, and seems especially so in his case.) He "conveniently lost" his cellphone and the stungun/walking stick he took inside the Capitol. The latter, he claims, didn't work after being damaged in the shower or something. (almost exact words) The prosecutor seems to have eaten him alive in cross examination (not done yet).

Guilty of all counts including obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder.
 
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Four Oath Keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack

The trial was the second to charge members of the extremist group with seditious conspiracy in the Capitol riot.

A jury on Monday convicted four members of the Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy in the second batch of guilty verdicts related to the extremist group's efforts to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election.


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[Me]: Of the 9 Oath Keepers charged with Seditious Conspiracy in this case (split in to two trials for logistical reasons) 6 have been found guilty of that charge by a jury. All were found guilty of Obstruction of a Government proceeding (the electoral vote count).

Two other Oath Keepers plead guilty to seditious conspiracy before the trials started.

These 4 defendants remain out on bail until sentencing in a few months. (Part of the selection process for which defendants were in which trial included putting all of those in detention in the first trial, some of whom were arrested two years ago.)

5 "Proud Boys" leaders are on trial currently on similar charges.
 
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More updates:
* A small business owner from Indiana who had used a "sovereign citizen" argument until recently is now having a bench trial before the judge (no jury) testified today. (She spent a couple months in pre-trial detention for refusing to cooperate with the proceedings.) Trial will end tomorrow. (day 2) Her only serious charge is obstruction of a proceeding (the EV count).
Guilty on all charges. Out on bail pending sentencing.
* There is another single defendant starting a jury trial. He has similar charges to the woman above which he earned by entering the Senate floor.
This one is still going on as is the PB leader trial. Yesterday and today the testimony has featured a PB from NY who joined up not long before the election and pled guilty to lesser charges earlier. His testimony has cooked the goose of a fellow NY PB defendant (the one who stole the police shield and smashed open a window to make the first entry breach of the Capitol), with not so much impact on the other defendants. (Limited knowledge.)
 
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Speaking of Eastman...

The State Bar of California intends to seek the disbarment of former president Donald Trump’s election attorney John Eastman for his role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

In a statement, the office of California bar Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona said Eastman faces 11 disciplinary charges, all arising from allegations that he was behind Trump’s plan to obstruct the count of electoral votes.

Per the statement, Eastman is accused of making false and misleading statements regarding alleged election fraud — including claims he made at a rally at the Ellipse outside the White House that preceded the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In the explanation of the charges, the California bar directly connects Eastman’s speech to the insurrection, saying he “contributed to provoking a crowd to assault and breach the Capitol to intimidate then-Vice President [Mike] Pence and prevent the electoral count from proceeding.”
 
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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.

A man who assaulted United States Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick with pepper spray on January 6, 2021, was sentenced on Friday to 80 months behind bars.

Julian Khater pleaded guilty in September to two counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. [Tanios got time served.]
 
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Are we not doing phrasing anymore?

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Are we not doing phrasing anymore?

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Ali Alexander is not the founder of Stop The Steal - Roger Stone started it back in 2016 when it looked as though Ted Cruz might win the primary.

Breitbart said:
Asked to elaborate, Stone said, “Go to StopTheSteal.org. For over a month we have had an 800 number up, a toll free number. We have collected and documented with sworn affidavits thousands of claims of voter irregularities in the states where Ted Cruz has won. And we’re prepared to present them to the credentials committee.”

I think the original StopTheSteal.org is now defunct.
 
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Judge revokes bond for Navy reservist Jan 6 defendant who praised Hitler (and was just convicted of firearms charges)

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden ordered Hatchet Speed, of McLean, Virginia, held without bond after a jury in the Eastern District of Virginia convicted him earlier this month of possessing multiple silencers disguised to look like cleaning supplies.

The silencers were discovered during a search of Speed’s residence following his arrest on multiple charges for allegedly entering the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors allege the silencers were part of a more than $40,000 “panic buying” spree by Speed in early 2021. The purchasing spree allegedly included 12 firearms and the three silencers he was convicted of possessing.

“Speed later told an FBI undercover employee that the silencers could come in handy when he carried out a plot to hold ‘mock trials’ for and kidnap his enemies, starting with local targets, such as members of the Anti-Defamation League,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing earlier this month.

[Concerning Jan 6] According to the affidavit, “SPEED described Pence’s act as a betrayal. SPEED stated that, at that point, he was like, ‘I’m going in there. Like I have no respect for people in this building. They have no respect for me. I have no respect for them.’”
 
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Interesting point of contention in the Trump-DeSantis rift. DeSantis doesn't want Jan 6 criminals to get away with their crimes.

Trump has expressed that, if elected again, he would be "looking very, very strongly about pardons, full pardons.”

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(Non-)Update:
Ashli Babbitt's wrongful death lawsuit still not filed

The family and its attorney launched an online fundraiser to pay for legal expenses, raising more than $460K.
(Non-)Update: AFAICT, there has still been no lawsuit.

Update: Divisions within the GOP on the death of Ashli Babbitt

[Speaker] McCarthy weighed in on the issue earlier Thursday when asked by a reporter if he agreed with a recent characterization by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) that Babbitt was “murdered” by a Capitol Police officer while she was trying to breach the doors near the House chamber on Jan. 6.

“I think the police officer did his job,” McCarthy said, without elaboration.

“I totally disagree with the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform. “ASHLI BABBITT WAS MURDERED!!!”

In his post, Trump characterized the officer as a “Thug” and a “MISFIT.”

“He was not a hero but a COWARD, who wanted to show how tough he was,” Trump claimed.

Lt. Michael Byrd, a 28-year veteran with the Capitol Police, said he fired his gun that day only as a “last resort.” He said he was trying to protect about 60 to 80 House members and staff who were sheltering beyond the glass doors of the Speaker’s Lobby.

Byrd, who was standing on the far side of the doors, fired a single shot at Babbitt, sending her tumbling backward onto the floor. Babbitt was hit in the shoulder and later died.

[Byrd of course was exonerated of any wrongdoing.]
 
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Jan. 6 defendant who sprayed line of police sentenced to 68 months after tearful apology

A Jan. 6 defendant who sprayed a chemical irritant at about 15 police officers — and later bragged about it in a video interview — was sentenced Wednesday to 68 months in prison. This is one of the stiffest Jan. 6 sentences handed down to date.

Daniel Caldwell, a 51-year-old Marine Corps veteran, delivered a tearful apology in court to the officers he sprayed, expressing remorse for his actions that day and pleading with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly for mercy.
 
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