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Anti-Trump Capitol rioter sold footage for $35K to NBC and CNN: court papers
New York Post ^ | February 17, 2021 | Ben Feuerherd

Posted on 02/17/2021 8:14:50 PM PST by nickcarraway

Accused Capitol rioter John Sullivan sold video footage he recorded at the Jan. 6 siege to NBC and CNN for $35,000 each, according to new court papers.

The news came as prosecutors on Tuesday tried to ban the Utah provocateur — a self-styled anti-Trump activist who they allege infiltrates protests to cause chaos and record video footage — from accessing social media, according to Politico.

Sullivan maintains that he is a journalist for his website Insurgence USA — and his defense attorney filed invoices for the $35,000 that NBC News and CNN each apparently paid for rights to use the videos.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 20210106; agentprovocateur; antifa; bidenvoters; blm; cnn; insurgence; insurgenceusa; johnearlesullivan; johnsullivan; nbc; provocateur; shieldlaw
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1 posted on 02/17/2021 8:14:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

The Capitol “ Riot “ was a hoax.

Just like everything else this year, that the Fake News conglomerate has sold to the brain dead elements of the populace.


2 posted on 02/17/2021 8:20:08 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: nickcarraway

And this is the real problem with journalism today.

“Activist/Journalists” start shit, film it and then monetize it.

They are neither activists or journalists. They are parasitic grifters.


3 posted on 02/17/2021 8:26:28 PM PST by Valpal1
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To: nickcarraway
Anti-Trump Capitol rioter sold footage for $35K to NBC and CNN: court papers

He wasn't paid for the film.

He was HIRED to film his (and his cohorts') infiltration and violence. CNN and MSNBC might want to call it payments, but they knew before-hand what to expect from their 'hired hand'.

Very likely, the 'payment' was for a lot more than the published amounts of $35,000, because the real amounts would have set off a lot of inquiries. The DNC, and democrats in general, including Soros, likely contributed to make the payments higher than what's mentioned.
4 posted on 02/17/2021 8:34:02 PM PST by adorno
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To: nickcarraway

L’agent provocateur I believe they called them back in the day.


5 posted on 02/17/2021 8:38:21 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: nickcarraway

So anti and blm terrorists get paid while Trump supporters do time.


6 posted on 02/17/2021 8:39:34 PM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: nickcarraway

For more commentary on this:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3935432/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3935420/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3935381/posts

Different reports, different sources, different comments.

:-)


7 posted on 02/17/2021 8:39:47 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: BrexitBen

***The Capitol “ Riot “ was a hoax.***

But the news media has been trying to portray it as an American version of the “Storming of the Tuileuries” in 1792.


8 posted on 02/17/2021 8:40:32 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: nickcarraway

Perhaps he can testify where Ashli was taken after she was “shot”. Who declared her dead? This is silence money over a fake shooting.


9 posted on 02/17/2021 8:40:56 PM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: BrexitBen

Haha. Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.


10 posted on 02/17/2021 8:46:17 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Valpal1

Rush called it “Drive by Media”


11 posted on 02/17/2021 8:48:06 PM PST by Arones (People say "this is not who we are." Have you not turned on the tv since Memorial Day? -Mark Steyn)
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To: nickcarraway

Or another way to look at it is CNN and NBC paid him tens of thousands of dollars to incite a riot.


12 posted on 02/17/2021 8:58:24 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: nickcarraway

Bookmark


13 posted on 02/17/2021 8:59:37 PM PST by Chgogal (Hey Biden, I am a loyal supporter of the Biden's Banana Republic!)
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To: nickcarraway

He wants to claim he was a journalist to take advantage of that no-good journalist shield law that John McCain and the rats supported.


14 posted on 02/17/2021 8:59:48 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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This makes me sick.


15 posted on 02/17/2021 9:00:35 PM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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Personally, I believe that he wasn’t paid by the stations for the video... I believe that they just laundered the money from the Deep State to a paid instigator.


16 posted on 02/17/2021 9:01:29 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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There’s a video out now of his actually inciting the riot, by his words and his actions encouraging people to riot.


17 posted on 02/17/2021 9:06:02 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: nickcarraway

By claiming to be a journalist and by getting paid for his footage, Sullivan can refuse to reveal backers, etc. :

Exclusive: John Cornyn Rips Chuck Schumer’s Media ‘Shield Law’
Breitbart ^ | 3/27/2014 | Matthew Boyle
Posted on 3/27/2014, 8:58:34 AM by Servant of the Cross

The number two Republican in the Senate is lambasting a media “shield law” proposed by New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer, potentially imperiling its shot at passage.

“This is a bad idea and one whose time has not come,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the Senate minority whip, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. “Believe me, we will not be rolled over.”

Schumer’s “Free Flow of Information Act” passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in September, and he recently said he already has the 60 votes needed to pass the bill on the floor. “We’ll get a few more Republicans, not many more, but we have the 60 votes,” Schumer told reporters in New York last week.

He’s bluffing, Cornyn retorts.

“If he had the votes to pass it, it already would have been passed,” Cornyn says, adding, “This isn’t about passing legislation, this is about distracting the public’s attention and changing the subject from the failed policies of this administration. I think you could put this in that same category.”

Schumer’s proposal would exempt a “covered journalist” from subpoenas and other legal requirements to expose their confidential sources in leak investigations and other areas. Other lawmakers have proposed similar ideas in the past, but the effort gained new momentum after a series of revelations about controversial tactics the Justice Department was using to target journalists.

For instance, the Department of Justice secretly monitored Fox News reporter James Rosen in the course of a leak investigation, even claiming in a court filing he was a subject of investigation himself. In another instance, the government had secretly monitored numerous phone lines used by the Associated Press, including one in the U.S. Capitol.

Cornyn says Schumer’s proposal is fatally flawed and may be an unworkable idea altogether.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


18 posted on 02/17/2021 9:08:15 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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>>Sullivan maintains that he is a journalist for his website Insurgence USA

Sullivan LED the insurgency and by his own website name admits his agenda.


19 posted on 02/17/2021 10:02:42 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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So an ANTIFA ring leader was up on the capital steps screaming encouragement at the demonstrators to break the law and taping it so he could make $70,000.

What a guy. I am thinking that all of his ANTIFA terrorist buddies are so proud of him. Lets hold a big meeting and let them all celibate.

Of course we have to pass out the meeting address to all who care to respond.


20 posted on 02/17/2021 10:58:34 PM PST by oldenuff35
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