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Jan 6 Breach of the Capitol: Consequences & Repercussions III

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Ryan Nichols, Jan. 6 rioter who confessed on video in the third person, pleads guilty to two felonies including assaulting a police officer​

“So if you want to know where Ryan Nichols stands, Ryan Nichols stands for violence,” he said [on Jan 6].

In another video, filmed before he took part in the attack, Nichols said that the mob would lynch elected officials who voted to certify Joe Biden’s presidential victory.

“This is the second [doggone] revolution!” Nichols said. “Ryan Nichols said it, if you voted for [doggone] treason we’re going to drag your [doggone] [butt] through the streets.”
 
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'Spider Nazi' pleads guilty to Jan. 6 charge

Brandon Dillard, a Las Vegas man whom online sleuths dubbed the "Spider Nazi," pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense.

In his statement of offense, Dillard admitted that he "repeatedly grabbed Officer B.M.'s helmet, making physical contact with Officer B.M. in an attempt to remove Officer B.M.'s helmet." If a judge imposes a sentencing enhancement for contact with an officer, his sentencing guidelines range would be eight to 14 months in federal prison, according to his plea agreement.
 
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Exclusive-Two former U.S. officials help ethics probe of Trump ally Clark, source says

Jeffrey Rosen, who served as acting attorney general, and Richard Donoghue, his former acting deputy, each have given voluntary interviews in recent months to the District of Columbia Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which is investigating Clark for possible misconduct, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

‘There seems to be a serial delay’: Attorney discipline board upbraids pro-Trump lawyer Jeffrey Clark in order setting ethics hearing schedule over 2020 subversion efforts

Former U.S. Department of Justice attorney Jeffrey Clark will face disciplinary proceedings in January 2024 over his efforts to help Donald Trump overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the board overseeing his professional misconduct case ruled Tuesday.

The specification of charges said that Clark violated D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct 8.4(a) and (c) (“in that respondent attempted to engage in conduct involving dishonesty, by sending the proof of concept letter containing false statements”) and Rules 8.4(a) and (d) (“in that respondent attempted to engage in conduct that would seriously interfere with the administration of justice”). The so-called “proof of concept letter” is the draft Clark compiled that would have urged legislatures in states where Trump lost to “send an unauthorized slate of electors to Congress,” according to the ethics charges.
 
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(Bannon has appealed his conviction, as will Navarro)

Steve Bannon's lawyers argue his contempt of Congress conviction should be overturned

Bannon was originally sentenced to months in prison, but Judge Carl Nichols agreed to suspend the sentence — which also included $6,500 in financial penalties — to allow Bannon to appeal the conviction, due to what the judge said were unresolved constitutional questions.

The judges appeared skeptical Thursday that they could overrule the lower court's ruling based on arguments over Bannon's state of mind. Judge Cornelia Pillard questioned whether it was up to Bannon himself to seek accommodations from the Jan. 6 committee to avoid being held in contempt.

Prosecutors pushed back on Schoen's arguments, telling the court Bannon "deliberately and intentionally" ignored the subpoena, and the law he is accused of breaking does not allow for the reason behind the decision to be considered.

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And in related hypothetical subpoena-ignoring news...

Republican Representative Greg Murphy said he would vote to hold members of the Biden family in contempt if they didn’t respond to congressional subpoenas, a complete 180 from his position on subpoenas a few years ago.

Berman then pointed out that Murphy had voted against holding former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt when Bannon refused to testify before the House January 6 investigative committee.

Murphy tried to argue that the circumstances were different this time. “It’s a little bit higher, different standards, John, when you have someone who’s in elected office versus someone who’s not in elected office,” he said.

“Who are you saying is in elected office here when you’re talking about holding people in contempt of Congress for being nonresponsive?” Berman pressed.

“Well, tell me what office Steve Bannon was in?” Murphy demanded.

“Well, tell me what office Hunter Biden was in?” Berman replied.
 
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Jan. 6 suspect Gregory Yetman surrenders to police after widespread manhunt, FBI says

Yetman turned himself in to Monroe Township police Friday morning, officials said.

"We're thankful this ended without incident," the FBI said in a statement while thanking the public for assistance in the search.

At the time of the Capitol attack, Yetman was a military police sergeant in the New Jersey Army National Guard, a spokesperson for the New Jersey National Guard confirmed to ABC News.
 
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Former FOX NEWS Capitol Hill Reporter/Producer Jason Donner Sues Fox Claiming he was fired for opposing the Fox coverage of the 2020 election and Jan 6.

“I’m your Capitol Hill Producer inside the Capitol where tear gas is going off on the second floor in the Ohio clock corridor, rioters are storming the building, reports of shots fired outside the House Chamber,” he claims he told the Fox News control room at the time. “I don’t want to hear any of this [doggone] [poop] on our air ever again because you're gonna get us all killed.”
 
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Republican goes on wild rant to push FBI Jan. 6 "ghost buses" conspiracy theory at hearing

“Your day is coming!” Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., told FBI Director Christopher Wray​

Higgins then went on to ask about “ghost buses” filled with alleged informants. “Well, it’s pretty common in law enforcement, it is a vehicle that’s used for secret purposes,” he said. “It’s painted over. There’s two buses in the middle here. There were the first to arrive at Union Station on January 6th, zero-five-hundred. I have all this evidence, I’m showing you the tip of this iceberg.”
 
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Republican goes on wild rant to push FBI Jan. 6 "ghost buses" conspiracy theory at hearing

“Your day is coming!” Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., told FBI Director Christopher Wray​

Higgins then went on to ask about “ghost buses” filled with alleged informants. “Well, it’s pretty common in law enforcement, it is a vehicle that’s used for secret purposes,” he said. “It’s painted over. There’s two buses in the middle here. There were the first to arrive at Union Station on January 6th, zero-five-hundred. I have all this evidence, I’m showing you the tip of this iceberg.”
It’s odd how the very same people who are convinced that government agencies can’t do anything correctly, are the same ones who seemingly invent these wild scenarios where the government agency involved has a nefarious plan that goes off without a hitch.
 
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‘MAGA caravan’ organizer known as ‘Pi Anon’ gets years behind bars for assaulting cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6

Kenneth Joseph Owen “Joe” Thomas, 41, of East Liverpool, was sentenced to 58 months in prison on Thursday. He was convicted in June of civil disorder, assaulting law enforcement, trespassing and disorderly conduct.

Although Thomas was convicted on seven counts, the jury acquitted him of witness tampering, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. It deadlocked on additional assault and violent entry, and disorderly conduct counts.
 
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After being found guilty on 11 counts related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol that briefly delayed the certification of President Joe Biden's victory in 2020, 44-year-old Brian Mock allowed the The New York Times' Eli Saslow to sit in as he tried to justify his actions to his son.

"He looked at his son for affirmation, but A.J. was staring back down at his phone, disengaged, not giving anything away," Saslow wrote, which led Mock to to confront his son, "Earth to A.J. I’m not some lunatic frothing at the mouth. I got in a bad situation for about five minutes. Do you see where I’m coming from?”
 
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National Guardsman who feds say went AWOL after Biden’s election is charged with assaulting officers on Jan. 6

Matthew Honigford said he "did not trust the current state of the country" before he attacked officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the FBI said.

Matthew Honigford, 31, of Delphos, Ohio, was arrested in his home state Tuesday and faces three felony counts — two of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and one of civil disorder — along with several misdemeanor counts.

The man identified as Honigford, one video cited by the government shows, told officers he wanted to pray for them before, seconds later, he attacked the police line.
 
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House Republicans ratchet up focus on Jan. 6 amid Greene, Trump loyalist pressure

A number of House conservatives, including Greene, have continued to defend those prosecuted after they entered the Capitol illegally on Jan. 6, characterizing them as “political prisoners” who’ve been targeted unfairly by partisan prosecutors

Still other GOP lawmakers continue to broadcast unfounded accusations that the violence of Jan. 6 was fomented, not by Trump supporters, but by undercover federal agents

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) this month announced he was posting online video clips from around the Capitol complex on Jan. 6, 2021

One clip that circulated questioned whether a rioter was flashing a federal badge. That gained the attention of Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) — who said that he planned to ask FBI Director Christopher Wray about it at the next oversight hearing. But that clip actually showed a man holding up a vape device; he was sentenced to 51 months in prison, according to NBC News.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) confronted Wray about “ghost buses” he claimed were “filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on Jan. 6.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), one of Trump’s top supporters in Congress, is calling for a new select committee aimed at investigating the members of the bipartisan panel that conducted an extensive probe into the attack

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House Republicans ratchet up focus on Jan. 6 amid Greene, Trump loyalist pressure

A number of House conservatives, including Greene, have continued to defend those prosecuted after they entered the Capitol illegally on Jan. 6, characterizing them as “political prisoners” who’ve been targeted unfairly by partisan prosecutors

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), one of Trump’s top supporters in Congress, is calling for a new select committee aimed at investigating the members of the bipartisan panel that conducted an extensive probe into the attack

This is what they're hearing in their echo chamber (and Trump is happy to re-echo).

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Liz Cheney's book will be out soon. CNN has a peek. Here's some Jan 6th-related bits.

Exclusive: Liz Cheney’s new book blasts GOP as ‘enablers and collaborators’ of Trump

The book, “Oath and Honor,” which was obtained exclusively by CNN ahead of its Dec. 5 release, is an unflinching account of what Cheney calls the GOP’s “cowardice,” and how so many were willing to support former President Donald Trump, who she calls “the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office.”

The book serves both as a roadmap laying out how Cheney realized in the days and weeks following the election the dangers of what Trump and his allies were trying to do to overturn the 2020 election

Cheney discloses for the first time that on Jan. 4, she was accidentally included on a White House surrogate call. She was alarmed as she listened in as Trump’s allies detailed specific plans to try to overturn the election by getting then-Vice President Mike Pence to obstruct or delay the counting of electoral votes.

On Jan. 6, before the attack on the Capitol, Cheney describes a scene in the GOP cloakroom, where members were encouraged to sign their names on electoral vote objection sheets, lined up on a table, one for each of the states Republicans were contesting. Cheney writes most members knew “it was a farce” and “another public display of fealty to Donald Trump.”

“Among them was Republican Congressman Mark Green of Tennessee,” Cheney writes. “As he moved down the line, signing his name to the pieces of paper, Green said sheepishly to no one in particular, ‘The things we do for the Orange Jesus.’”

In the aftermath of Jan. 6, Cheney writes there were “a few days of clarity where most of the House Republican Conference was ready to either impeach or censure Donald Trump.”

It wouldn’t last, she notes ruefully.

The book also includes new revelations about Cheney’s time as vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee.

Surrounded by Democrats at the panel’s first meeting, Cheney writes, “I couldn’t shake the feeling of being a visitor from another planet.”
 
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This Jan 6 conspiracy nonsense is definitely a hot topic at the moment.

Lara Logan has slid considerably down the journalism ladder. Most recently she was "dumped" [her word] by Fox News and banned from appearing on NewsMax.

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