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A federal judge on Thursday handed down the longest sentence to date in a prosecution stemming from the January 6 attack on the Capitol, ordering former New York City cop Thomas Webster to spend 10 years years behind bars for assaulting a police officer during the insurrection. Judge Amit Mehta issued the sentence four months after a jury in Washington, DC, readily rejected Webster's claims that he acted in self-defense on January 6. During the weeklong trial, prosecutors played bodycam footage and other video that showed Webster confronting a police officer along bike racks outside the Capitol and then repeatedly...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson shreds the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' And goes on to list a number of Trump lawyers and supporters who have been persecuted and prosecuted for their role in helping or defending Trump.

For carrying a “large wooden stick” on January 6 -- and for things the ex-officer said and believed.. Former police officer Thomas Robertson, who according to CBS News, “stormed the U.S. Capitol” on January 6, 2021, will spend more than seven years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Robertson, 49, was charged with interfering with police officers and “entering a restricted area with a dangerous weapon, a large wooden stick.” The seven-year sentence, handed down last Thursday, matches the longest prison term among the Jan. 6 cases to date. Its severity was not entirely the result of...

(CNN)The FBI executed a search warrant today at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, the former President confirms to CNN.

With great gravitas Rep. Benedict Kinzinger sent out this tweet todayWe the people must demand more of our politicians and ourselves. Oaths matter. Character matters. Truth matters. If we do not renew our faith and commitment to these principles, this great experiment of ours, our shining beacon on a hill, will not endure. pic.twitter.com/uexdc0Inwv — Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) July 22, 2022Truth matters. Oaths matter. Character matters. Bullsh*t matters too, Kinzinger. This thing began as sh*t show right from the outset when, for the first time in the country's history, Pelosi denied Republicans the right to choose their members of a...

Prosecution team rested its case Wednesday after two days, in federal court in Washington, D.C. Defense lawyers for Steve Bannon in closing arguments Thursday for the former Trump White House adviser argued their client is being deprived of his constitutional right to confront witnesses against him. The argument follows U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols denying Bannon access to House Democrats associated with the chamber's Jan. 6 committee including Chairman Bennie Thompson and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who organized the committee. "I do think we would be entitled to have the whole committee here, quite frankly," defense lawyer David Schoen argued....

July 19, 2022 at 12:08 pm PDT A Multnomah County circuit judge has dropped charges against Joey Gibson, the founder of Patriot Prayer, and Russell Schultz for their role in a 2019 street brawl outside a cider bar in Northeast Portland. A trial in the case of a third defendant, Mackenzie Lewis, will continue. Judge Benjamin Souede threw out the charges in court this morning, saying that prosecutors had failed to demonstrate that Gibson and Russell Schultz had engaged in “tumultuous and violent conduct,” one of the requirements for conviction on riot charges. “The state is trying to convict Mr....

FORENOTES: Peter Navarro is a plain spoken American who holds a PhD from Harvard in Economics. He was the architect for President Trump's trade and economic goal to restructure American supply chains where Americans make things again. He was also behind making China pay Tariffs to finance the economic overhaul of manufacturing inside the United States. Dr. Navarro is an author of numerous books including "In Trump Time". He is a frequent guest and occasional cohost of Steve Bannon’s War Room. Dr. Navarro was summoned by the J6 committee, but declined to testify citing Executive Privilege under President Trump. After...

@RepMTG Pamela Hemphill, 69 yr old cancer patient, going to jail for one misdemeanor count of demonstrating, picketing, or parading in a Capitol building. I’m appalled beyond words. How many rioters whose criminal charges were eventually dropped did Kamala & Omar bail out of jail? Clip...

The Department of Justice is well aware that the Proud Boys who attended the Stop the Steal rally on January 6 were not violent and did not conspire to enter the Capitol—yet are prosecuting them on conspiracy charges anyway, FBI documents obtained by Gateway Pundit reveal. Five members of the group are currently in pre-trial detention on federal charges: Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Dominic Pezzola and Zachary Rehl. A whistleblower leaked “a treasure trove” of exculpatory documents, and text messages—some marked “Highly Sensitive”—to the Gateway Pundit reporter Cara Castronuova. “These documents would be buried forever and never see...

Trump White House aide’s bid to delay case due to Jan. 6 panel hearings is denied. A federal judge on Monday eviscerated nearly all of Steve Bannon’s defenses against a charge that he criminally defied a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee, leaving the longtime Donald Trump ally with few options to fight the contempt of Congress case against him. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols also denied Bannon’s bid to postpone for three months the jury trial set to open next Monday, rejecting defense arguments that such a delay was warranted due to intense media coverage around the ongoing...

Among those most intently following the House Jan. 6 committee hearings is Stewart Rhodes, the jailed leader of the Oath Keepers militia group, which was on the scene at the Capitol riot. The former Army paratrooper and Yale Law School graduate turned militia leader now spends 22 hours a day in solitary confinement and has had little contact with the outside world since he was jailed in January on charges of seditious conspiracy. He has not been deprived, however, of the panel’s highly publicized hearings, which echo in his otherwise spartan cell. “I’ve watched or listened to all of them,”...

Just when the wife of one incarcerated Jan. 6 prisoner believed things couldn’t get worse, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) informed her they are going to suspend all of her husband’s benefits. According to United States Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), “this is what you have when vindictive leftists get in charge of major parts of the government.” In an unsigned letter from the VA—dated June 13 and appearing to originate from the “Director Regional Office,”—Angel and Kenneth Harrelson were notified that the administration “received information from the United States Department of Justice” that Kenneth had been “indicted and charged...

What’s a Cassidy Hutchinson? A nobody?Until this week.She was a cypher in the administration of President Donald Trump and apparently didn’t get anything she wanted after its demise. Now she’s telling some tall tales.The January 6 Committee Hearings continue to give a lot of very unimportant people airtime as they pretend to be saving democracy and rescuing the nation’s liberties from a man who hasn’t even declared whether or not he’s running for the presidency in 2024. And you know that’s what this is all about. Cooking Donald Trump. It’s deja vu all over again as the legendary New York...

DOJ Has VA Suspend All Benefits of Jan. 6 Political Prisoner by Kari Donovan June 30, 2022 https://republicbrief.com/doj-has-va-suspend-all-benefits-of-jan-6-political-prisoner/ Page two of the letter explains that: “if convicted,” the change in his benefits “may mean” the VA had paid “too much,” in which case they will send another letter letting them “know if the changes go through.” If so, the “VA’s Debt Management Center will send a letter explaining how much” they’ve “been overpaid, as well as how to repay this debt

Trump-linked lawyer John Eastman excoriated the Justice Department for searching him and seizing his cellphone last week, decrying the department's power as being akin to that of a British monarch. Eastman contended the search warrant he received "is invalid on its face" and undermines his ethical obligation to safeguard attorney-client privileges during an appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight. TRUMP-LINKED LAWYER JOHN EASTMAN CLAIMS FEDS 'FRISKED' HIM AND CONFISCATED PHONE "The authority to seize all of my information in modern smartphones — that’s access to all my private financial records. It’s all my privileged communications with nearly a hundred different clients...

The January 6 Committee sent the feds after Trump lawyer John Eastman because he dared to take action against the Democrats and their massive election fraud operation in 2020. Trump’s election lawyer John Eastman said the FBI searched and seized his phone last week, according to a new court filing. Eastman filed a federal lawsuit in New Mexico on Monday and asked a judge to order the feds to return his property and block the January 6 investigators from accessing his phone. According to the court filing, John Eastman was exiting a restaurant with his wife and friend last week...

A retired Texas couple says FBI agents on June 22 broke through the gate of their rural home, threw flash-bangs, handcuffed them, and trained lasers on them before searching their home for evidence connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol. Lora DeWolfe and Darrel Kennemer, who live on seven acres near San Marcos, Texas, told The Epoch Times they attended the Jan. 6 rally at the Capitol but did nothing wrong. They believe the FBI mistakenly identified Kennemer as someone else. The FBI didn’t arrest them, they said. Agents eventually produced a search warrant saying Kennemer was...

The Democrats used their constitutional remedies against President Trump by impeaching him twice. Now they want to throw him and his supporters in jail. This week, Adam Schiff and his friends on the Jan. 6 Select Committee have been pushing a new "Big Lie" on America, that President Trump conspired with state GOP leaders to present "fake Trump electors" on January 6, 2021, whose votes would be substituted for the "real" Biden electors during the ceremonial public count of the votes by the vice president in the Capitol. According to the breathless committee script, it was a classic switcheroo, conducted...

Beyond the January 6 committee hearings, Stalinism advances on other fronts. As Thaddeus McCotter contends, the reproduction of a “Stalinist show trial” is now live in Washington. That invites a look at the original production of 1936-1937, from one of the keenest observers at the time. “The Moscow trials, and the purges that followed them, were a turning point in the history of American liberalism, for it was irrevocably polarized by the controversies to which the trials gave rise,” explains the late philosopher Sidney Hook in Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the Twentieth Century, published in 1987. As...