Jan 6 Breach of the Capitol: Consequences & Repercussions III

[public hermit]

A family member who saw Jones on a news program reported him to the FBI on Jan. 8, 2021, according to court records.

For all the morons who thought storming the Capital was a good idea, many of them seem to have family or friends with better sense. I find that encouraging.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Colorado father and son arrested in connection with Capitol riot​

David Tyner told investigators that he and his son, Christian, made a father-son trip to Washington, D.C. in January 2021.

Both were arrested on suspicion of the following charges:

• Entering a restricted building without lawful authority to do so
• Engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct with the intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of government business
• Engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct with the intent to impede, disrupt or disturb the orderly conduct of a session of Congress.

 

[essentialsaltes]

While DC courthouse hunkers down for Trump to arrive, judges are sentencing January 6 defendants​

District Judge Randolph Moss addressed Trump’s appearance as he began the hearing for Jeffrey Grace, a Proud Boy from Washington state who pleaded guilty to illegally entering and remaining in the US Capitol building with his son on January 6, 2021.

“Nothing that is going on in the courthouse will have any bearings on what I decide today,” Moss said. Later on, the judge sentenced Grace to 75 days behind bars.
...
Mehta sentenced [Florida Man] Escalera to seven days of incarceration and two years of probation.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Judge denies Navarro effort to dismiss contempt case for defying Jan. 6 committee​

The ruling said Navarro had failed to prove that former President Donald Trump wanted him to assert executive privilege over his potential testimony.

“Defendant has failed to come forward with any evidence to support the claimed assertion of privilege."

Navarro says he has a witness, but... she's pregnant, so delay please, judge?

Peter Navarro asks for another trial delay after calling pregnant witness to testify​

The former White House trade adviser to Donald Trump subpoenaed Liz Harrington, who is the former president's spokeswoman, to testify at his trial scheduled for Sept. 5, but he asked to delay an upcoming hearing and the trial after learning she is due to give birth Aug. 29.

"Ms. Harrington's testimony will corroborate other evidence that President Trump instructed Dr. Navarro to assert executive privilege in response to the J6 Committee's subpoena," reads a court filing by his attorneys.

 

[essentialsaltes]

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.

John Eastman, awaiting potential indictment, asks judge to postpone his disbarment proceedings​

“[R]ecent developments in the investigation have renewed and intensified [Eastman’s] concerns that the federal government might bring charges against him,” his attorneys Randall Miller and Zachary Mayer wrote in an Aug. 4 filing posted to the court’s public docket on Monday.

Miller said the growing concern about criminal charges might prompt Eastman to assert his Fifth Amendment rights during disbarment proceedings.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Florida Hubby and Wife Arrested for Storming the Capitol Together​

According to a Tuesday press release from the Department of Justice, 51-year-old Bryan Bishop was arrested for felony offenses including spraying two cops with an orange “chemical irritant.”

[Wife Tonya arrested on misdemeanor charges.]

 

[essentialsaltes]

Chicago Police Officer Karol Chwiesiuk, sister found guilty of charges in Jan. 6 Capitol riot​

after more than five hours of deliberations, a Washington, D.C. jury has found a Chicago police officer and his sister guilty of four [misdemeanor] charges related to the Jan. 6 attack on Friday.

Karol Chwiesiuk and his sister will be sentenced on Dec. 7 at D.C. federal court. The siblings are some of the few Jan. 6 defendants who rejected plea deals and opted for a jury trial.

Previously in Chwiesiuk news.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Awww, that's aborbable.

With Trump now in their ranks, some Jan. 6 defendants see hope​

Inside the D.C. jail, defendants being held in Jan. 6-related cases say they are trading legal theories on how Trump’s case could affect their own — and joking about which empty cell could house the 45th president of the United States. Some of those charged in the Capitol attack say they think the newest, highest-profile member of their ranks bolsters the argument that they are “political prisoners,” and they hope his case might offer them some legal help, too.

[Shane Jenkin, found guilty of several charges:] “We definitely talk about Donald Trump. I don’t think they’ll ever put him in jail, per se. And if they do, I hope they would bring him here. We would have a good time, and it would be awesome to get to meet Donald Trump.”

Extremism analysts say characterizing Trump and the Jan. 6 defendants as political prisoners is wrong and could have dangerous consequences.

“Claims that insurrectionists are political prisoners is a way of deflecting accountability, of building political support,” said Lindsay Schubiner, the director of programs at the Western States Center, a Portland, Ore.-based civil rights nonprofit organization that monitors extremism and anti-democracy movements. “And maybe most importantly, a way of normalizing violence against American institutions and our democracy itself.”

“The issue of [obstruction] is hanging by a thread,” said defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor Gene Rossi, “given the composition of the Supreme Court, and he appointed three of the justices.” [spoken like a mob lawyer -- 'The Boss, he has three judges onna payroll, you ain't got nuttin' to fear.]

Trump almost certainly would not win a motion to dismiss his obstruction charges in front of U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is hearing his case. That is because the appeals court’s ruling is binding precedent in D.C.— unless there is a Supreme Court reversal, Rossi said. So, fellow Jan. 6 defendants should not expect legal help to emerge directly from Trump’s case.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Capitol police officer who aided Jan. 6 rioter gets probation, home detention, $10K fine (from April 2023)​

 

[essentialsaltes]

Justice Department seeks 33-year sentence for ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio​

Such a sentence would be by far the longest punishment imposed in a case stemming from the insurrection.

[Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes is the current champeen at 18 years.]

 

[essentialsaltes]

Man who attacked officers with flagpole during Jan. 6 riot gets 4 years in prison​

Michael Steven Perkins, 40, of Plant City, Fla., was sentenced in District of Columbia federal court, according to court records

[Doolin got 1.5]

 

[essentialsaltes]

Proud Boy on house arrest disappears days before sentencing: report​

Christopher Worrell, of Naples, Florida, was due to be sentenced Friday after being found guilty of pepper spraying cops as part of a mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol. He was facing 14 years in prison.

He had been on house arrest since being released from jail in November 2021 after he made a civil rights complaint about his treatment behind bars.

ETA:
Worrell isn’t the only Jan. 6 defendant being sought by authorities. Three others — Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III, Jonathan Daniel Pollock and Olivia Michele Pollock — were wanted Sunday, according to the FBI. Olivia, Jonathan’s sister who was charged with assaulting law enforcement, fled days before the start of her trial, the New York Times reported. The three are on the FBI’s wanted list.

 

[wing2000]

U.S. prosecutors asked a federal judge Thursday to sentence former Proud Boys chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and leader Joe Biggs to 33 years in prison and other top members of the far-right extremist group to two to three decades behind bars after four of them were convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/17/tarrio-sentence-jan-6/

 

[essentialsaltes]

Jan. 6 Capitol riot panel briefed on multiple calls between Secret Service and Oath Keepers, NBC News reports

• A member of the Secret Service had multiple phone calls in 2020 with members of the far-right militia group the Oath Keepers.

Emails reveal Secret Service contacts with Oath Keepers​

In September 2020, a Secret Service agent sent an email to others within the agency, informing them that he had just spoken to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes about an upcoming visit by then-President Trump to Fayetteville, NC. The agent, who referred to himself as “the unofficial liaison to the Oath Keepers (inching towards official),” described the group as “primarily retired law enforcement/former military members who are very pro-LEO [law enforcement officer] and Pro Trump.

The emails obtained by CREW as part of an ongoing public records request offer only a snapshot of the communication between the Oath Keepers and the Secret Service. As they focus solely on the time period around the Fayetteville event, the extent of the contact Stewart Rhodes had with the agency remains unknown.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Sorry, Jessica, you chose to illegally and violently support the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. You'll get no such help from MTG, Jordan and Gaetz.

Additional Context:

Jessica Watkins: Oath Keepers member and Army veteran sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for January 6​

There's one transgender terrorist we won't have to worry about for a while.

 

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FBI arrests Jan. 6 rioter they say assaulted officers with a speaker, a shoe and a lamp​

Curtis Logan Tate, known to online "Sedition Hunters" as #ShinyCircleTattoo because of a distinct tattoo on his hand, was arrested in North Carolina on Thursday. He faces several charges, including a felony charge of assaulting federal officers while using a deadly or dangerous weapon and a felony count of assaulting law enforcement during a civil disorder. The other items he allegedly used in the attack were a speaker box and a broken table leg.

 

[essentialsaltes]

John Eastman, awaiting potential indictment, asks judge to postpone his disbarment proceedings​

Opinion

Eastman’s defense is shattered in state bar proceeding​

At a critical hearing last week in the California bar proceedings, designated legal expert Matthew A. Seligman submitted a 91-page report, which I have obtained from the state bar, that strips away any colorable defense that Eastman was acting in good faith in rendering advice to the now four-times indicted former president Donald Trump.

Seligman reviewed the 12th Amendment, the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and “centuries-long practice by Congress,” to find that the Eastman positions were so devoid of support that “no reasonable attorney exercising appropriate diligence in the circumstances would adopt them.” In essence, Seligman strips away the pretense that Eastman (and, by extension, Chesebro) engaged in routine legal work.

Seligman’s report echoes the finding of U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter who, in a matter concerning Eastman’s claim of attorney-client privilege to protect documents from the Jan. 6 House select committee, found that it “more likely than not” that he and Trump engaged in criminal activity.

[Concerning Trump defenses:]

Trump’s claim of absolute immunity under Nixon v. Fitzgerald requires that his alleged conduct be within the “outer perimeter” of the president’s “official responsibility.” If the entire scheme was not even legally plausible, then certainly Trump’s maneuvering (plus the lack of any constitutional role for the president in certification) must fall outside the outer perimeter of his responsibilities.

Trump’s engagement in a patently unreasonable scheme would [also] deprive him of the protection of the Supremacy Clause.

If Eastman’s scheme was patently absurd, a Trump defense based on “advice of counsel” (requiring reasonable advice) would be invalid, especially when a fleet of other attorneys made clear the scheme was illegitimate.

 

[DaisyDay]

Federal judge sets Trump trial date in election interference case

The trial will begin in the middle of the Republican presidential primaries. Special counsel Jack Smith had requested a January trial, while Trump pushed for a 2026 start date.

www.nbcnews.com

WASHINGTON — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in federal court set a trial date for March 4, 2024, a schedule that could have a crucial impact on the 2024 race for the White House....

Earlier in the hearing, Chutkan said that while the special counsel team's proposal was too soon, Trump's proposal of 2026 wasn't reasonable. “Discovery in 2023 is not sitting in a warehouse with boxes of paper looking at every single page,” Chutkan said.
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[essentialsaltes]

Judge denies Navarro effort to dismiss contempt case for defying Jan. 6 committee​

The ruling said Navarro had failed to prove that former President Donald Trump wanted him to assert executive privilege over his potential testimony.
“Defendant has failed to come forward with any evidence to support the claimed assertion of privilege."
Mehta noted that two other Trump aides whom the House sought to hold in contempt — Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino — produced letters from Trump ordering them to assert executive privilege on his behalf.

Still no sign of evidence appearing.

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s testimony in contempt case is ‘weak sauce,’ judge says​

“I still don’t know what the president said,” Mehta told Navarro’s attorney Stanley Woodward, referring to a February 20, 2022, call during which Navarro said it was made clear the former president was invoking executive privilege. “I don’t have any words from the former president.”

“That’s pretty weak sauce,” the judge added

Woodward said during a hearing earlier this month that Trump is not expected to testify on behalf of Navarro, potentially undercutting a key defense.

 

[Pommer]

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