Posted on 03/13/2023 5:52:05 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
The DOJ today responded to Tucker Carlson’s report last Monday on the Q-Anon Shaman Jacob Chansley being escorted by Capitol Police through the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Chansley committed no violence. He said a prayer in the Senate chamber thanking the police for their service. He asked for permission to enter the US Capitol shortly after he entered the building.
Chansley pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding – a new charge that is only used on Trump supporters
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ABC News reported:
The Justice Department in a new filing put forward its most direct response yet to footage aired last week by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that sought to downplay the actions of the self-described “QAnon Shaman,” who was convicted and sentenced to prison for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6.
In a response to a filing from a defendant charged with seditious conspiracy alongside other members of the Proud Boys currently on trial — who has sought to have his case dismissed in part over the newly-aired footage — prosecutors argued the roughly four minutes aired by Carlson of Jacob Chansley’s movements “lacks the context” of what Chansley actually did during the roughly hour-long period he was inside the building.
They revealed the video aired by Carlson was captured on internal CCTV cameras “only from approximately 2:56 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.,” after Chansley had already breached a police line with the mob and “faced off with members of the U.S. Capitol Police for more than thirty minutes in front of the Senate Chamber doors while elected officials, including the Vice President of the United States, were fleeing from the chamber.”
Let’s hope FOX News brass allow Tucker Carlson to refute the latest lies by the DOJ and fake news.
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Nunes spent 20 years in Congress and saw lots of standard security procedure there, so he brings an excellent perspective on normal security practices used for all sorts of Congressional meetings, Supreme Court sessions, and Presidential Inaugurations. He is appalled by the complete lack of security on J6 which is HIGLY SUSPECT.
I HIGHLY recommend this podcast: Episode 250. Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Tapes
“lacks context”
Well, duh:
It lacks the DOJ context used to coerce a guilty plea.
Free the US political prisoners already.
I think Tucker dropped the story before the bank failed.
you would think so, bet the judge is not very happy either.
dont know. i just remember listening the the attorney and getting a bad vibe..
If that was all he showed, they might have a complaint - but what he did show is completely at odds from what they alleged and said. It’s a ‘you can’t get there from here’ disconnect. It gets even worse when you have some of the other recently released videos.
There is no way to un-hear the interview that Mr Carlson did with former Capitol police office Tarik Johnson, who said that he received no guidance when he called his superiors, terrified, as the Capitol was breached, to ask for direction.
That situation is anomalous.
There is always a security chain of command in the Capitol, at the Rayburn Building, at the White House of course, and so on, which is part of a rock-solid “security plan.”
There are usually, indeed, multiple snipers standing on the steps of the Capitol, facing outward. I made note of this when I was researching and writing The End of America. There is never improvisation, or any confusion in security practices or in what is expected of “the security plan”, involving “principals” such as Members of Congress, or staff at the White House. I know this as a former political consultant and former White House spouse.
The reason for a tightly scripted chain of command and an absolutely ironclad security plan in these buildings, is so that security crises such as the events of Jan 6 can never happen.
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