Posted on 08/20/2021 5:44:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Zoe Tillman Fri, August 20, 2021, 4:11 PM·4 min read WASHINGTON — Infowars host Owen Shroyer is facing criminal charges in connection with the Jan. 6 riots at the US Capitol.
In a new complaint filed on Friday, the US attorney’s office in Washington charged Shroyer with illegally going into a restricted area on the Capitol grounds and disorderly conduct. He’s one of the highest profile right-wing media personalities to be prosecuted in connection with the insurrection so far.
Shroyer, who is based in Texas, had been photographed on a stage outside the Capitol with right-wing activist and Infowars founder Alex Jones, and the FBI said they received an anonymous tip from someone noting another video that appeared to show Shroyer at the top of a set of stairs on the east side of the Capitol. Jones has not been charged.
Shroyer hosts the Infowars program “War Room with Owen Shroyer,” and has talked at length on his show over the past eight months about the Jan. 6 riots and the subsequent investigation. A Utah man charged with illegally going into the Capitol, John Earle Sullivan, even briefly landed in trouble with the government after he appeared on Shroyer’s program after he’d been arrested and then allowed to go home subject to a set of court-imposed restrictions on his internet use and other activities.
On Friday, Shroyer commented on air about the charges.
"A couple hours ago, I was informed by my attorney that there is a warrant out for my arrest with allegations involving Jan. 6, and I will have to turn myself in Monday morning," he said. "There's a lot of questions, some I have answers to, some I don't. I'm not going to be getting into more of this today on the air. And I plan on...
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Total BS. What about arson in Seattle OR Portland?
Just saw it on Tucker. Unreal.
Or Minneapolis
Mostly peaceful protests /CNN
Welcome to North Mexico.
Has anyone heard a peep from the Assistant Democrats about any of this?
If you murder someone inside the capitol building? Exonerated.
If you freely assemble outside the capitol building? Hoooooooo boy! You are in big trouble now.
I grieve for our country.
He’s one of the highest level right wing media people charged ….. what a weasely way of saying something. It implies that a other right wing media people have been charged and b the number has to be at least 5 for that statement to make sense. I think he is the ONLY right wing media person charged.
Yep, Black Capital Cop shoots unarmed white woman who posed no threat; goes scot free.
For feloniously reporting on what felons were doing while they were storming the Capital Building and disrupting congress. </s>
Man, this is bad. I hope some people don’t do something.
A misdemeanor is a criminal charge.
So they dropped charges against Stone and Alex and went ofter Owen?
Trying to pressure him into “flipping” on Alex.
I’m thankful we have that Merrick Garland as AG; he’s such a moderate and the Republican Senate leaders told us they needed to vote for his confirmation bc we could get “worse”. Strange.
We must not consent to being governed in such a manner. We must utterly rejected the progressive-corportist alliance and it’s representatives that have aborted our Constitution.
Today they come for Owen...
This is a kangaroo court joke! What a weak charge—trying to get someone in the “right wing” media. I hope Owen live-streams the proceedings against him!
Does he have press credentials?
The criminal democrat “taliban” party government using lawfare in their war against their enemies.
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