Let's talk about Jacob Chansley, since this part of the Tucker report is one of the most deceptive.
0. His sentence was 41 months (3 years, 5 months). Since he has been jailed continuously since his initial arrest the weekend after the attack (he was hard to miss) he should be released late this year when he competes 85% of his sentence. (The federal standard for good behavior release.)
Now his basic timeline inside the Capitol:
1. He is one of the first 50 people (of over 3000) to enter. Entering about 1 minute after the initial breach.
2. Shortly after entry he is part of a long duration (but non-violent) stand off with USCP officers outside the Senate chamber. You've seen photos of this stand off certainly.
3. After leaving the "stand-off" area he proceeds up the steps and enters the Senate Gallery.
4. A few minutes later he goes back down the stairs and enters the Senate Chamber itself, proceeding to the dias. (As I noted in a post many months ago, he is followed by a police officer from the gallery to the Chamber. The officer then tries (by himself) to convince Chansley and the others to vacate the chamber. Eventually a dozen or more officers show up.)
5. After leaving the Senate Chamber, he exits the building.
Tucker's "Police escort remix"
deliberately edits out the time stamps. (The security footage all is labeled and time stamped in frame. The only reason it is not visibile in the Fox version is that Tucker has removed it.) We do not know exactly *when* the "escort" footage is from. Is it during the ~25 minutes of the "stand-off"? (Does he wander off during it, particularly when the crowd dwindles?) Is it when he is looking for the chamber and enters the gallery? (#3 above) Is it as he leaves the gallery and heads down to the chamber below? (We know he was followed by police.) Is it after he leaves the chamber?
Because Chansley plead guilty, there was no trial and the DOJ prosecutors did not put all of the footage of him in the Capitol into the record where we would see it.
A quick "Shaman" time line was thrown together by an online investigator. Her twitter handle is OSINTYeti
Chansley timeline Google Doc
At 2:13:30 PM, Chansley enters the ground floor of the Senate wing through a door opened by a rioter who'd entered through a smashed window (the first breach) less than 1 minute earlier.
By 2:16:40 (2m50s later) he has joined the back of a crowd of 20-30 intruders confronted by a line of police. This takes place on the main floor (2nd floor) of the Capitol. The police have their backs to the entrance to the Senate Chamber in the distance. In the intervening 3 minutes was the infamous chase of the guy in the black "Q" shirt of USCP Officer Goodman up the stairs. Most of those in this stand off were part of that chase and entered through the same breach at the same time. This includes the person who knocked out that window that started the breach.
At 2:41-2:42 PM, Chansley is still in the same location though the crowd has dwindled. I do not know if he spent the entire 25 minutes in that corridor or if he wandered off.
At 2:49, he climbs the stairs to the 3rd floor.
At about 2:52 he enters the gallery of the Senate (accessed from the 3rd floor). At 2:55 he is spotted by a reporter in the gallery.
He then leaves the gallery, fails to heed a police instruction to leave and enters the floor of the Senate after going back down to the 2nd floor.
At 3:08 he is photographed on the dais with others (where he leaves a threatening note for the VP). At about 3:09 police reinforcements arrive and finally drive out all of the intruders.
By 3:40 he can be seen outside the building.
His statement of offense with his guilty plea is here (Start with paragraph #9 on page 4):
"What I did" -- Jacob Chansley
His presence in the chamber was itself a crime and that's the one he plead to: Obstruction of a government proceeding, 18 USC 1512(c)(2).
Tucker is gaslighting you all. Using your desire that the crimes not be what they have been reported combined with low levels of factual information and misleading edits.
