Posted on 05/22/2021 10:04:24 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Police release tear gas into a crowd of pro-Trump protesters during clashes at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton U.S. authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings.
Prosecutors also have filed additional criminal charges against the man, John Earle Sullivan, a self-described political activist who is accused of entering the Capitol building and participating in the riot, the filings unsealed on Thursday showed. Sullivan now faces a total of eight criminal counts, including weapons charges, related to the riot. Sullivan's lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Prosecutors have charged more than 440 people in connection with the attack in which Trump supporters stormed the Capitol after he gave a speech to them repeating his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him through widespread voting fraud.
The mob smashed windows, fought police and sent lawmakers into hiding. Five people died. Many participants, including Sullivan, posted their actions on social media. read more According to the court filings, Sullivan portrayed himself as an independent journalist who was reporting on the chaos, but actually encouraged other participants to "burn" the building and engage in violence. Sullivan recorded video of the confrontation between rioters and police just outside the U.S. House of Representatives chamber that included the shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt and, according to court filings, boasted to an unnamed witness that "my footage is worth like a million of dollars, millions of dollars."
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He was already picked up twice by cops, after January 6th, and released. What kind of game is the Federal Bureau of Instigators playing here?
He has a brother James, who claimed he was working with the FBI in the days after Jan. 6th, to bring out Antifa’s role. The media has painted him as the opposite of his brother, but who knows what the truth actually is. They were adopted by a now retired Air Force officer.
Under what basis gives the government the authorization to sieze $90,000 from this man? To my thinking, this violates the Constitution, 4th Amendment.
Maybe the government paid him. They’ve paid plenty others to do their dirty work.
I remember seeing a video clip of that. I would bet that video and others are available and will be pushed into any Commission on Jan 6th.
Sullivan seems like a modern day Howard W Campbell.
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