1/6 Insurrection Investigation

[Rick Plant]

Time-lapse video shows Jan. 6 mob surge 4 minutes after Trump tweeted attack on Pence



The House select committee has blamed Donald Trump's tweet for putting a target on Mike Pence's back, and a time-lapse video shows that appears to be true.

The former president attacked Pence because he "didn't have the courage" to halt or delay certification of Joe Biden's election win on Jan. 6, 2021, and the surveillance video recorded from high above the Capitol grounds show a crowd of Trump supporters surge toward the police barrier less than four minutes after that tweet.

Trump's tweet came at 2:24 p.m. and Secret Service agents whisked Pence to a secure location in the Capitol two minutes later, and the video shows the mob surge just seconds before 2:28 p.m.

Some of the rioters had already broken into the building at 2:11 p.m. and made their way inside, and the crowd came 15 minutes before Oath Keepers and Proud Boys to use a tactical "stack" formation to push their way through and then forcibly enter the Rotunda.

More than 800 people have been arrested in connection with the storming of Congress by Trump supporters, according to the Justice Department.

The assault on the Capitol left at least five people dead and 140 police officers injured and followed a fiery speech by Trump to thousands of his supporters near the White House.

Trump was impeached for a historic second time by the House after the Capitol riot -- he was charged with inciting an insurrection -- but was acquitted by the Senate, where only seven members of his own Republican party voted against him.

Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly

Hadn't realized this before. This surge of the mob came just minutes after Trump's tweet about Mike Pence.

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1562127586817368064


Edgar @EdBonillaB

4 min after Trump tweets about Mike pence, the crowd rallies and breaks the line.

Watch Video Here: https://twitter.com/EdBonillaB/status/1562126814864183297

[Rick Plant]

Feds announce yet another Jan 6 arrest

Kaleb Dillard, 26, of Alabama

Charging document says Dillard grabbed Capitol Police officer from behind and threw him to the ground

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Karol Chwiesiuk, a Chicago police officer arrested in Jan 6 case, has declined the Justice Dept's plea offer and is scheduled for trial on May 1, 2023.

[Rick Plant]

Trump aides grilled about alleged secret talks to remove him under the 25th Amendment at J6 hearing: report

On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that investigators on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are interviewing former Trump administration officials about alleged secret talks to remove the former president under the 25th Amendment in the wake of the attack.

The 25th Amendment is the part of the Constitution that allows a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president unfit to exercise the duties of office and remove him from the position.

"The panel has been holding closed-door interviews with senior Trump administration officials in an effort to uncover more about the period between Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Mr. Trump’s supporters attacked Congress, and Jan. 20, when President Biden was sworn in, including talks about invoking the 25th Amendment," reported Luke Broadwater and Maggie Haberman. "On Tuesday, the panel interviewed Robert O’Brien, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, for several hours, according to two people familiar with the committee’s work."

"Investigators asked Mr. O’Brien about discussions inside the cabinet about whether to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office; about whether he considered resigning; and about the access that Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist, had to Mr. Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter," said the report.

Experts had previously suggested such a line of questioning was likely weeks ago. Trump himself has raged against the prospect, claiming that people wanted to invoke the 25th Amendment every time he had a "great idea."

"The committee’s investigators have also taken testimony privately from Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, about the former president’s state of mind around the time of the attack and his fitness for office. They also questioned him about discussions that he reportedly had with Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, about the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment after the attack," noted the report. "Mr. Pompeo was evasive in response to the committee’s questioning, according to a person familiar with his interview."

Read More Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/politics/trump-cabinet-25th-amendment.html

[Rick Plant]

Plea deal is reached in Jan 6 case of Kurt Peterson of Kentucky.  Feds alleged there's video of Peterson in which "a man wearing a camouflage baseball hat, eye protection & camouflage vest over a black sweatshirt used wooden sticks and his fist to smash an exterior window pane."

[Rick Plant]

Feds want 17 years for J6 ‘eye gouger’ who bludgeoned cop with flagpole: report



The United States Department of Justice is asking for a 17.5-year prison sentence for former New York Police Department Officer Thomas Webster, who was convicted in May of assaulting a police officer during the attack.

"Webster, 56, of Goshen, N.Y., assaulted D.C. police officer Noah Rathbun with an aluminum Marine Corps flagpole, jurors found. The panel of eight women and four men also found Webster guilty of interfering with police in a riot and trespassing, disorderly conduct and violent conduct while carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon on Capitol grounds," The Washington Post reported on May 2. "Webster, who previously served on the protective security detail of former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, was the first of about 150 defendants charged with assaulting an officer to take his case to a jury and the first to argue self-defense."

Webster's lawyer had complained the victim was "mocking" the rioters and his legal team said he did not deserve to be incarcerated with people who committed "inner-city crimes."

"DOJ seeking 210 month (17.5 year) sentence — which would be by far the longest — for Jan. 6 defendant Thomas Webster, a former NYPD officer convicted of assaulted a cop at the Capitol," Politico's Kyle Cheney reported.

The previous record was set by Texan Guy Reffitt earlier in the month. Reffitt was sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison.

Watch DOJ video of Webster on Jan. 6 here: https://twitter.com/i/status/1405642058853928960

Read more on Webster here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/02/webster-guilty-police-assault-jan6/

[Rick Plant]

Newly released video shows J6 rioters inside Democrat’s Capitol Hill office

Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly

This newly-released video given to the media coalition at the request of NBC News shows rioters inside of Sen. Merkley's office on Jan. 6.

Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1562550783488339968

Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1562551081296572423

[Rick Plant]

New footage from the Justice Department shows 2-minute surge on the Capitol



In a new video released by the United States Department of Justice, Trump supporters are seen breaking into the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6.

CBS News Congressional Correspondent Scott Macfarlane shared the video on Twitter on Thursday. The footage shows a mob of insurrectionists breaching the doors of the Senate wing in two minutes. Members of the United States Capitol Police are seen trying to stop the angry mob carrying Trump flags from entering the building.

One officer grabbed one of the flags and tossed it to the side before they are overpowered by the crowd incited by former president Donald Trump.

"A 2-minute surge. Newly released US Justice video court exhibit shows an instant in which the Senate wing doors are breached on Jan 6. And the mob flooding in... in just 2 minutes."

Trump incited the violence on the Capitol which resulted in the death of several people, including Capitol Police Officer, Brian D. Sicknick. Two other police officers died of suicide following the attack and at least 140 were injured.

Trump reportedly watched the attack from his dining room and did nothing to stop it, despite the pleas from his staff, according to a summary of witness testmony by Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA).

"President Trump sat in his dining room and watched the attack on television while his senior-most staff closest advisers and family members begged him to do what is expected of any American president," said Luria. "When lives and our democracy hung in the balance, President Trump refused to act because of his selfish desire to stay in power."

Watch video below.:

A 2-minute surge. Newly released US Justice video court exhibit shows an instant in which the Senate wing doors are breached on Jan 6. And the mob flooding in... in just 2 minutes

Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1562775620626825218