Tag Archives: Capitol Riots

NBC News reports: A retired firefighter who went to a “cult deprogramming” expert to figure out how he came to believe Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison on Tuesday for chucking a fire extinguisher at police officers as they protected the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Robert Sanford, …

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys are appealing an order for former Vice President Mike Pence to testify before the special counsel investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources familiar with the matter confirm to ABC News. Trump has previously sought to assert executive privilege in an attempt to block Pence’s testimony, but late last month …

Politico reports: Prosecutors are seeking nearly 16 years in prison for Patrick McCaughey, a Jan. 6 defendant who pinned a police officer in a Capitol doorway amid some of the most chaotic moments of violence that day. The Justice Department called for the sentence — which would be more than five years longer than the longest sentence handed down in …

The Florida Phoenix reports: Jeremy Brown, a self-described Oath Keepers member and lauded 20-year U.S. Army Special Forces soldier, was sentenced on Friday in Tampa to more than seven years in federal prison on weapons charges related to a federal investigation into his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot in the U.S. Capitol. The 48-year old Brown was found …

NBC News reports: A federal appeals court panel has affirmed the government’s use of an obstruction charge used against hundreds of defendants arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, though the complex opinion appears likely to result in additional litigation and leaves questions about the future of the use of the statute. A three-judge panel, …

CNN Business reports: Fox asked a judge in court filings made public Thursday to prohibit references to the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, as well as threats directed at employees of Dominion Voting Systems, when the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit it faces from the election technology company goes to trial later this month. “Dominion’s defamation claim has nothing …

CNN reports: A juror in the federal trial of five Proud Boys members accused of plotting to stop Congress’ certification of the 2020 presidential election has raised fears that she was being followed, according to multiple people familiar with the matter – the latest incident to delay the already monthslong trial. A juror told the court an individual came up …

The New York Times reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence will not appeal a federal judge’s ruling forcing him to testify in front of a grand jury investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to thwart the transfer of power after the 2020 election, an aide said Wednesday. The decision by Mr. Pence could clear the way for what could …

Axios reports: Former President Trump is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him and two others by Sandra Garza, the longtime partner of fallen U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, per Law 360. In the complaint obtained by Law 360, Trump’s legal time claims he has “absolute immunity” for actions taken while he was in office. “Officer Sicknick’s death …

The Hill reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the indictment of former president Trump by a New York grand jury on Thursday was a bigger assault on the American system of government than the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by the former president’s supporters. “If you believe in our system and you want it to continue, …

NBC News reports: A former Boston Police K-9 officer was arrested on Thursday and charged with attacking a Capitol Police officer with a chair during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Joseph Fisher was arrested Thursday morning. He faces felony charges of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers. One video, …

The New York Post reports: The “QAnon Shaman” — known for storming the US Capitol shirtless in a horned coyote-fur headdress — was released from prison 14 months early and moved to a halfway house, prison officials said Thursday. Jacob Chansley, 35, who became the notorious poster boy of the Jan. 6 riot, had been sentenced to 3 1/2 years …

“Democrats believe that old ladies walking through the halls of Congress taking selfies are a bigger threat than murderers and repeat violent offenders. Americans deserve the straight facts, not hidden agendas, on all of the challenges we face: crime, the economy, our schools, China, our mental health crisis. If we are going to make any progress on any of these …

The Huffington Post reports: Mike Pence on Wednesday hinted that he may not pursue a legal battle to avoid testifying in the Justice Department’s criminal probe into Donald Trump’s attempts to steal the 2020 election. “I have nothing to hide. I have written and spoken extensively about that day,” Trump’s ex-vice president, who is now considering his own bid for …

CNN reports: A federal judge has decided that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, 2021, according to multiple sources familiar with a recent federal court ruling. But the judge said – in a ruling that remains under seal – that Pence can still …

Congress Minutes reports: Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said that replaying scenes from the riot is “not where the majority of the American people are.” “It may be popular with certain constituencies, but it’s a big country out there, and I think most people have moved on,” he told POLITICO. Even Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), often a staunch supporter …

The Hill reports: House Democrats said their visit as part of a GOP-led trip to the Washington, D.C. jail where rioters from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection are being held showed they had no remorse for their actions. The comments came after the trip, which was organized by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), following criticism from some Republicans about the …

ABC News reports: A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege and has ordered Mark Meadows and other former top aides to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the election leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. …

The New York Times reports: A Pennsylvania woman who steered a group of rioters toward Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6, 2021, and directed others inside the Capitol to steal a laptop computer was sentenced in Federal District Court in Washington on Thursday to three years in prison. The woman, Riley June Williams, 24, was convicted in November of …

The Associated Press reports: Federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that a witness expected to testify for the defense at the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four associates was secretly acting as a government informant for nearly two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a defense lawyer said in a court …