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The Suicide of a January 6 Defendant: ‘They Broke Him’
American Greatness ^ | 28 Feb, 2022 | Julie Kelly

Posted on 02/28/2022 4:43:52 AM PST by MtnClimber

Matthew Perna was failed by the country he loved.

atthew Perna did nothing wrong on January 6, 2021.

The Pennsylvania man walked through an open door on the Senate side of the building shortly before 3 p.m. that afternoon. Capitol police, shown in surveillance video, stood by as hundreds of Americans entered the Capitol. Wearing a “Make America Great Again” sweatshirt, Perna, 37, left after about 20 minutes.

Less than two weeks later, Perna was ensnared in what the former top U.S. prosecutor called a “shock and awe” campaign to round up Trump supporters and deter them from demonstrating at Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021. After he discovered his image on the FBI’s most wanted list for January 6, Perna immediately contacted his local FBI office and voluntarily submitted to questioning; on January 18, six FBI agents arrested Perna at his home.

His life from that point turned into a nightmare. Perna was indicted by a grand jury in February 2021 on four counts including obstruction of an official proceeding and trespassing misdemeanors. Despite his nonviolent participation in the events of that day—he did not assault anyone, carry a weapon, or vandalize property—Biden’s Justice Department and local news media nonetheless made his life pure hell.

Whenever his hometown paper, the Sharon Herald, published an article on its social media account about Perna, the majority of replies were “horrible and brutal,” his aunt, Geri Perna, told me on the phone Sunday. After more than a year of legal and public torture, Perna saw no way out.

On Friday night, Matthew Perna hung himself in his garage.

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


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To: Flavious_Maximus

Sure it is. Do you honestly think these Deep State a##holes went through all the machinations they did, just to let Trump waltz back in to the Oval in January 2025? This is going to be a bloody fight..


21 posted on 02/28/2022 5:18:27 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: MtnClimber

Desperate for help, Perna and his family reached out to numerous political leaders including Donald Trump.

Are we going to talk about thi?


22 posted on 02/28/2022 5:22:57 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: MtnClimber

So many heartless evil corrupt amoral people have so much blood on their hands


23 posted on 02/28/2022 5:24:06 AM PST by dkGba
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To: Flavious_Maximus
Those scumabags will wish they were never involved with the Biden regime.

It’s not that simple. Lots of these people, including this guy, were arrested by Trump’s DOJ.

24 posted on 02/28/2022 5:24:55 AM PST by semimojo
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To: MtnClimber

Re: Matthew Perna hung himself in his garage.

....Or maybe he was suicided.


25 posted on 02/28/2022 5:27:45 AM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: rbmillerjr
Trump is going to pardon them all.

What kind of champion is going to sit on his hands for years like this and what kind of supporters just let him do that?

If Trump were the hero he is held up to be, why is he waiting four years and allowing all of these people to suffer without support? What about all the money raised for their defense? Where's the rallies for their defense? Where are the politicians demanding answers about the millions of dollars and thousands of man hours spent pursuing people for trespassing charges? Why are thousands of hours of videotape of a public space still being withheld from defendants?

Much more could be done by officials in the public sphere to counteract this narrative of January 6th being an unprecidented attempt at overthrowing the government and not a four hour, largely nonviolent, civil disturbance.

26 posted on 02/28/2022 5:32:11 AM PST by jz638
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To: jz638

Trump can do nothing until he is President.


27 posted on 02/28/2022 5:33:46 AM PST by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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To: dkGba

RE: So many heartless evil corrupt amoral have blood on their hands...

Read ISAIAH 59. The LORD takes care of them.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+59&version=NLT


28 posted on 02/28/2022 5:35:17 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: rbmillerjr

So why didn’t Trump pardon them all at the time? Frankly, if anything, his country didn’t abandon him. Trump did.


29 posted on 02/28/2022 5:36:25 AM PST by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

Fine you can vote for Bidet or Hillary, you have it all figured out.


30 posted on 02/28/2022 5:38:18 AM PST by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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To: rbmillerjr

So explain to me why Trump didn’t issue a blanket pardon at the time? Otherwise, without rational explanation, he abandoned them.


31 posted on 02/28/2022 5:42:02 AM PST by joesbucks
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To: MtnClimber

Sounds like the Soviet Union.


32 posted on 02/28/2022 5:46:17 AM PST by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: rlmorel

You and me, both.
I no longer trust or believe in the gov’t, at any level.
Between the Covid lies and Jan 6th persecutions, among many others, the gov’t is totally corrupt, out of control, and the Tree of Liberty needs serious watering.


33 posted on 02/28/2022 5:47:55 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: rbmillerjr

I hope they can hold on. Trump is going to pardon them all. But that is a long time from now.

I’m going to research them and start writing letters to encourage them.


Patriot Freedom Project would be the place to start


34 posted on 02/28/2022 5:57:36 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: FlingWingFlyer
"When the people lose control of their government, the Third Reich and the Soviet Union is what you get."

“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.”

– Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787

35 posted on 02/28/2022 6:00:30 AM PST by unread (Everything you ever thought was right, fair and just is completely wrong..... I think..(?))
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To: joesbucks

“So explain to me why Trump didn’t issue a blanket pardon at the time? Otherwise, without rational explanation, he abandoned them.”

Perhaps he was listening to you and he thought as you did in the post below. FRAUD!

1/21/2022, 6:10:54 PM · 63 of 74
joesbucks to lodi90
I have acquired many “clues”. I have no love for violence, riots or destruction. I have no love for those who disobey law enforcement. The “patriots” acted like BLM and ANTIFA. Other than not burning the building, virtually everything else was the same.


36 posted on 02/28/2022 6:06:07 AM PST by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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To: MtnClimber

https://www.flynnfuneralhome.com/obituary/matthew-perna


37 posted on 02/28/2022 6:06:44 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: joesbucks

“So why didn’t Trump pardon them all at the time? Frankly, if anything, his country didn’t abandon him. Trump did.”

Good grief! Is that you Joy Behar?? Stop that nonsense... Trump was being impeached and torn to pieces... you’re talking about 2 damn weeks that he had after this! NO ONE knew who was innocent then. Hell we still don’t.


38 posted on 02/28/2022 6:06:47 AM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: MtnClimber

Too bad he didn’t ask me about whether attendance at the rally was a good idea.

Rest in peace, Matthew.


39 posted on 02/28/2022 6:10:31 AM PST by Scarlett156 (Vaping is for homosexuals. )
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To: AuntB

According to some here. any Jan 6th participant was innocent and more importantly, a patriot. All he had to do was turn to Mark Meadows and tell him to get it done, 2 weeks or not. Preparation of a document such as that would have taken hours at most. So again, if this chap was abandoned, then it was Trump who abandoned him.


40 posted on 02/28/2022 6:15:23 AM PST by joesbucks
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