If you still don’t see it was an attempted coup

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5 hours ago, CoffeeTiger said:

Says: "Not Everything" 

Proceeds to explain how everything I listed "really it" is against Republican's. 

The GOP "choices" were denied because they had already publicly come out in opposition to the committee and declared that they supported the Jan 6 rioters...of course they weren't allowed. They were already admitting they wouldn't be impartial and would only try to sabotage the committee and obstruct it. 

If the GOP had at least tried to promote some who could even "pretend" to be serious and impartial about the committee then they would have been accepted. 

LOL. Impartial. 

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19 hours ago, I_M4_AU said:

I am cynical of an organizations that are more politically motivated than finding the truth.

When the DOJ weaponizes the FBI to go after parents in school board meeting as domestic terrorists, when a Synagogue is attacked by a UK citizen yelling anti-Semitic terms yet can’t determine if they attacked the Jewish community, when there are so many unanswered questions about Jan. 6th after a year and gins backup in a midterm election year, yeah I feel I’m being lied to.

Otherwise I would be in the same cult you are.

"Weaponized the FBI to go after parents in school board meetings?"

What BS. 

MAGA terrorists plotted to kidnap the Michigan governor.  It's not inappropriate for the FBI look into the people who acted out and made overt online threats during school board meetings.   These idiots brought attention on to themselves.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/fbi-plot-michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/death-threats-online-abuse-police-protection-school-board-members-face-dark-new-reality/2021/11/09/db007706-37fe-11ec-9bc4-86107e7b0ab1_story.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/back-to-school-live-updates/2021/09/30/1041870027/school-boards-federal-help-threats-violence

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/education/school-board-leader-tells-of-death-threats-after-vaccine-mandate-vote-2435629/

 

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Defense: Whitmer 'kidnapping plot' deteriorating as FBI loses credibility

https://www.iosconews.com/news/state/article_ae02df11-6300-5363-8157-53e7cb7ac809.html

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FBI, informants drove plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer, charges should be dropped, defendants say

 

 

“When the government was faced with evidence showing that the defendants had no interest in a kidnapping plot, it refused to accept failure and continued to push its plan. Eventually, the government initiated this case, despite the fact that it knew there was no plan to kidnap, no operational plan, and no details about how a kidnapping would occur or what would happen afterward.”

 

 

Federal prosecutors have not yet responded to the filing.

 

 

Related: Men accused in Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot want entrapment evidence admitted at trial

 

 

The defense attorneys also said that “because the government overreached and committed serious acts of misconduct against defendants who had repudiated the government’s suggested wrongdoing, the defense can establish entrapment as a matter of law.”

 

 

The defendants are Brandon Michael-Ray Caserta of Canton, Michigan, Barry Croft Jr. of Bear, Delaware, Adam Fox of Wyoming, Michigan, Kaleb Franks of Waterford, and Daniel Harris of Lake Orion. They are scheduled to stand trial March 8 before U.S. Chief District Judge Robert Jonker in Grand Rapids

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2 hours ago, homersapien said:

MAGA terrorists plotted to kidnap the Michigan governor

Thanks to @DKW 86, I rest my case.  The FBI have been weaponized against the American citizenry for a while now.  The school board meetings were not a thing until the Nation School Board Association penned that letter to Brandon, written by his wife, and 5 days later Merrick Garland gets the FBI on the case.

One of the prime examples of *unrest* sited was the father of the rape victim in Loudoun County.  It was and still is a sham.

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3 hours ago, I_M4_AU said:

Thanks to @DKW 86, I rest my case.  The FBI have been weaponized against the American citizenry for a while now.  The school board meetings were not a thing until the Nation School Board Association penned that letter to Brandon, written by his wife, and 5 days later Merrick Garland gets the FBI on the case.

One of the prime examples of *unrest* sited was the father of the rape victim in Loudoun County.  It was and still is a sham.

NSBA head got Biden administration role after calling parents 'domestic terrorists'

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nsba-head-got-biden-administration-role-after-calling-parents-domestic-terrorists

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday found that a New Mexico man “reasonably believed” that police officers let him into the US Capitol during the Jan. 6 breach, finding defendant Matthew Martin not guilty of all charges.

Announcing his decision from the bench, US District Judge Trevor McFadden said that although prosecutors argued there were numerous instances when Martin would have been aware that he wasn’t allowed on Capitol grounds or inside the building — as he walked past fences with signs saying “AREA CLOSED” and recorded video of a broken window, blaring alarms, police in riot gear, and people who appeared to have encountered tear gas — those were outweighed by Martin’s “plausible” belief that he had permission because officers didn’t try to stop him from entering.

The verdict represented an early test of efforts by some Jan. 6 defendants to argue that police allowed them to enter the Capitol, or that they believed they had permission because no officer told them to stop. It’s the third trial related to Jan. 6 to finish since the insurrection. Other judges presiding over Jan. 6 cases aren’t bound by McFadden’s findings, but other defendants could now point to his analysis of what it would take to find a nonviolent participant in the breach of the Capitol guilty of federal crimes.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-riot-verdict-matthew-martin-not-guilty

 

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2 hours ago, I_M4_AU said:

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday found that a New Mexico man “reasonably believed” that police officers let him into the US Capitol during the Jan. 6 breach, finding defendant Matthew Martin not guilty of all charges.

Announcing his decision from the bench, US District Judge Trevor McFadden said that although prosecutors argued there were numerous instances when Martin would have been aware that he wasn’t allowed on Capitol grounds or inside the building — as he walked past fences with signs saying “AREA CLOSED” and recorded video of a broken window, blaring alarms, police in riot gear, and people who appeared to have encountered tear gas — those were outweighed by Martin’s “plausible” belief that he had permission because officers didn’t try to stop him from entering.

The verdict represented an early test of efforts by some Jan. 6 defendants to argue that police allowed them to enter the Capitol, or that they believed they had permission because no officer told them to stop. It’s the third trial related to Jan. 6 to finish since the insurrection. Other judges presiding over Jan. 6 cases aren’t bound by McFadden’s findings, but other defendants could now point to his analysis of what it would take to find a nonviolent participant in the breach of the Capitol guilty of federal crimes.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-riot-verdict-matthew-martin-not-guilty

 

Finally sanity.

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On 4/6/2022 at 4:48 PM, I_M4_AU said:

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday found that a New Mexico man “reasonably believed” that police officers let him into the US Capitol during the Jan. 6 breach, finding defendant Matthew Martin not guilty of all charges.

Announcing his decision from the bench, US District Judge Trevor McFadden said that although prosecutors argued there were numerous instances when Martin would have been aware that he wasn’t allowed on Capitol grounds or inside the building — as he walked past fences with signs saying “AREA CLOSED” and recorded video of a broken window, blaring alarms, police in riot gear, and people who appeared to have encountered tear gas — those were outweighed by Martin’s “plausible” belief that he had permission because officers didn’t try to stop him from entering.

The verdict represented an early test of efforts by some Jan. 6 defendants to argue that police allowed them to enter the Capitol, or that they believed they had permission because no officer told them to stop. It’s the third trial related to Jan. 6 to finish since the insurrection. Other judges presiding over Jan. 6 cases aren’t bound by McFadden’s findings, but other defendants could now point to his analysis of what it would take to find a nonviolent participant in the breach of the Capitol guilty of federal crimes.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-riot-verdict-matthew-martin-not-guilty

 

Proud Boys leader admits plan to storm Capitol, will testify against others

Charles Donohoe pleaded guilty to conspiracy, acknowledging an attempt to stop congressional confirmation of the electoral college vote

A North Carolina man who was one of the leaders of the far-right Proud Boys as they assaulted the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Friday to two felony counts with a minimum sentence of nearly six years in prison, but agreed to cooperate against his co-defendants in hopes of getting a lighter sentence.

Court records filed Friday show he has already provided numerous insights into the group’s plans and their intention to disrupt the congressional electoral vote confirmation.

Charles Donohoe, 34, of Kernersville, N.C., admitted to both organizing the pro-Trump attack on Congress and assaulting law enforcement officers. Donohoe is the first charged among six of the Proud Boys’ leaders, including longtime chairman Enrique Tarrio, to admit to both organizing an attack on Congress and assaulting law enforcement officers.

Tarrio pleaded not guilty earlier this week to charges of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and six other felonies. He has been ordered held in jail until trial along with six other defendants.

Those other defendants include Donohoe, who has been jailed since March of last year. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and assaulting police officers.

In December 2020, according to court documents filed Friday, Tarrio appointed Donohue as one of the members of the “Ministry of Self Defense,” a leadership group within the Proud Boys making preparations for Jan. 6.

In a newly filed statement of offense, prosecutors said that “Donohoe understood that the purpose of the rally in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, was to stop the certification of the Electoral College vote.” The “MOSD” leadership was broken into a three-person “marketing” council, to recruit more members, and an “operations” group. Donohoe was part of the marketing group, the statement of offense says, and it soon expanded to at least 65 members.

As early as Jan. 4, prosecutors said, “Donohoe was aware that members of MOSD leadership were discussing the possibility of storming the Capitol. Donohoe believed that storming the Capitol would achieve the group’s goal of stopping the government from carrying out the transfer of presidential power. Donohoe understood that storming the Capitol would be illegal.”

Donohoe hadn’t planned to be in D.C. on Jan. 6, the statement of offense says. But after Tarrio was arrested on Jan. 4, 2021, for burning a Black Lives Matter banner stolen from a D.C. church, Donohoe decided to travel to Washington because he “believed that Tarrio’s arrest could create a leadership void for the MOSD,” according to the filing, which is also signed by Donohoe.

On the morning of Jan. 6, the Proud Boys marched away from the Ellipse before President Donald Trump began his speech, and did not return. Instead, they went to the Capitol shortly after 10 a.m., the statement of offense says, and Donohoe posted that his group numbered “200-300 PBs.” Co-defendants Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs mustered the group, the statement says, and “Donohoe understood that Nordean and Biggs were searching for an opportunity to storm the Capitol.”

By 1 p.m., the Proud Boys were being instructed in messages to “Push inside!” Donohoe reposted the message to other group leaders. Donohoe admitted throwing two water bottles at police trying to prevent the mob’s advance. At 1:37 p.m., Donohoe took a picture of co-defendant Dominic Pezzola holding a riot shield that had been snatched from police.

Donohoe then found another Proud Boy who “initiated an altercation at the front of the crowd,” the statement says. “Donohoe pushed forward to advance up the concrete stairs toward the Capitol. The crowd overwhelmed law enforcement who were attempting to stop their advance.” About 140 police officers were injured during the onslaught, and five people died in the attack or immediate aftermath.r to skip to end of carousel

Donohoe was struck by pepper balls fired by police and had to back off, but he later celebrated the storming of the Capitol, the statement says, writing in the MOSD message group, “we stormed the capitol unarmed” and “took it over unarmed.”

Nordean, Biggs and Pezzola have all pleaded not guilty.

Donohoe is the third member of the Proud Boys group to plead guilty. On Wednesday, Jeffery Finley, president of the West Virginia Proud Boys chapter, acknowledged being part of an effort to help Trump supporters overwhelm police outside the Capitol, and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of trespassing on restricted grounds, but did not agree to cooperate with the government.

Donohoe is the second Proud Boy to agree to testify against his co-defendants. In January, Matthew Greene of Syracuse, N.Y., admitted coordinating with other New York-based members of the extremist group at the front of the Capitol mob and pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy, also hoping for a reduced sentence in exchange for his cooperation. As a result of their deals, no sentencing dates were set for Donohoe or Greene, pending the outcome of their testimony in both trials and grand jury hearings.

The conspiracy charge Donohoe pleaded to carries a sentencing range of 97 to 121 months, but given credit for acceptance of responsibility and entering an early plea reduced Donohoe’s sentencing ranges from 70 to 87 months. If Donohoe supplies additional cooperation, prosecutors may ask U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly to reduce his sentence further. The longest sentence issued so far in the Capitol breach investigation has been 63 months, to Robert S. Palmer, for assaulting police.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/08/donohoe-pleads-guilty-proud-boys-jan6/

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Two Men Acquitted of Plotting to Kidnap Michigan Governor in High-Profile Trial

The other two are about to get a hung jury....so much for that BS theory...

Edited April 9, 2022 by DKW 86

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