Jan 6 Breach of the Capitol: Consequences & Repercussions III

[essentialsaltes]

Jan. 6 'chaos agent' John Earle Sullivan sentenced to 6 years in prison​

Sullivan, known online as "Jayden X" and "Activist John," was convicted of multiple felonies for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Sullivan himself took the stand in his own defense, only to face damning cross-examination from Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebekah Lederer. In a series of questions, Leder dismantled Sullivan’s claims of being a member of the Black Lives Matter movement and a journalist.

The judge, a Reagan nominee who has overseen dozens of Jan. 6 cases, said Sullivan was unique among other Capitol riot defendants in that he came to D.C. not to support former President Donald Trump but rather to advance his own agendas of personal profit and anti-government agitating.

“For Mr. Sullivan, violence was an end in and of itself,” Lamberth said.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Army Guard MP who sprayed police with pepper spray during Jan. 6 riots pleads guilty

Gregory Yetman, 47, entered the plea Thursday to one felony charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with physical contact, according to records filed in federal court for the District of Columbia.

“I don’t think i’ll be backing the blue after this,” one post by the New Jersey heavy equipment operator said after the riot, investigators said.

Yetman told investigators in 2021 that during the attack he was just helping people exposed to tear gas by pouring water in their eyes, that he supports law enforcement and that anyone assaulting police officers should be prosecuted, a 2023 criminal complaint said. But in his guilty plea Wednesday, Yetman conceded that he used an MK-46H pepper spray cannister on a group of police officers for 12 to 14 seconds, causing them to retreat, the court document said.

Previously in Yetman, he fled authorities for a couple days before turning himself in.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Appeals court denies Peter Navarro’s bid to avoid reporting to prison next week​

Navarro, the judges said, “has not shown that his appeal presents substantial questions of law or fact likely to result in reversal, a new trial, a sentence that does not include a term of imprisonment, or a reduced sentence of imprisonment.”

Peter Navarro’s get-out-of-jail request is again rejected by the Supreme Court​

The Supreme Court on Monday for a second time shot down a request from former Trump adviser Peter Navarro to avoid further prison time over his contempt of Congress conviction.

In an emergency request last month, Navarro asked the Supreme Court to let him remain free while he challenged his conviction at the federal appeals court in Washington, DC. Chief Justice John Roberts denied that request on March 18, and Navarro reported to prison the following day.

Attempting a procedural maneuver that has not worked in decades, Navarro then resubmitted the request to Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s first high-court nominee. [Full court said no without comment.]

 

[essentialsaltes]

Recommendation accepted.

JUST IN: Ex-Trump Election Lawyer John Eastman Has Been Disbarred​

URGENT REQUEST TO DELAY RULING: denied

The judge "cites the gravity of his misconduct and his refusal to acknowledge any wrongdoing."

Furthermore, the judge wrote, "Eastman's motion fails to demonstrate that he no longer presents a threat to the public."

 

[essentialsaltes]

Make Attorneys Get Another Avocation​

Justice official Clark violated ethics in aiding Trump, D.C. Bar panel finds​

DISCIPLINARY COUNSEL’S PROPOSED FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

It is not enough that the efforts of these lawyers ultimately failed. As a profession, we must do what we can to ensure that this conduct is never repeated. The a profession, we must do what we can to ensure that this conduct is never repeated. The way to accomplish that goal is to remove from the profession lawyers who betrayed their constitutional obligations and their country. It is important that other lawyers who might be tempted to engage in similar misconduct be aware that doing so will cost them their privilege to practice law. It is also important for the courts and the legal profession to state clearly that the ends do not justify the means; that process matters; and that this is a society of laws, not men. Jeffrey Clark betrayed his oath to support the Constitution of the United States of America. He is not fit to be a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

--

During closing argument, the Chair asked Disciplinary Counsel to address what lesser sanction would be appropriate if the Hearing Committee rejects the recommendation of disbarment. While we recognize an obligation generally to assist the Committee, for two reasons we cannot comply with this request—other than to list the factors the Court has said should be taken into consideration, which we have done. First, the practical reason that we cannot help the Committee further is that, with the exceptions of Mr. Giuliani in this jurisdiction and Mr. Eastman in California, no lawyer of whom we are aware has engaged in comparable misconduct. The recommended discipline for Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Eastman, although charged with violation of different rules, was disbarment. Second, we believe it would be inconsistent with our duty to the disciplinary system and the profession to even suggest that a sanction other than disbarment should be contemplated for this respondent. Mr. Clark’s misconduct was part of a concerted effort to overturn the will of the voters in the 2020 presidential election.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Man who bragged that he ‘fed’ an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison​

Jack Wade Whitton struck an officer with a metal crutch and dragged him — head first and face down — into the crowd on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Ryan Nichols, Jan. 6 rioter who confessed on video in the third person, pleads guilty to two felonies including assaulting a police officer​

“So if you want to know where Ryan Nichols stands, Ryan Nichols stands for violence,” he said [on Jan 6].

So if you want to know how much time Ryan Nichols will serve, Ryan Nichols will serve five years.

Also a $200,000 fine!

The $200,000 fine is among the highest set yet in a Jan. 6 case. It was imposed because Nichols did not cooperate with a financial evaluation, and so there is no evidence that he could not pay, Lamberth said. A crowdfunding account launched on behalf of Nichols and his family has raised more than $235,000 since 2021.

Nichols, in his 2021 FBI interview, "stated he no longer trusted [Trump] or other prominent legal leaders because he felt they had led him in the wrong direction," mentioning “statements made by President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, General Michael Flynn, and Lin Wood that helped him form his opinion.”

 

[Hans Blaster]

Lest anyone think that it is OK to create false stories about participation in Jan 6th...

Ex-government employee charged with submitting false tips alleging coworkers' involvement in Capitol riot

Miguel Zapata was arrested Thursday in Chantilly, Virginia, in connection with providing materially false statements to law enforcement, according to an arrest warrant.


Zapata submitted at least seven anonymous tips via the FBI's tip portal from February to April of 2021 that accused former government co-workers of playing a role in the attack on the Capitol, according to an FBI affidavit. The affidavit doesn’t identify Zapata’s government employment history.

 

[Pommer]

Lest anyone think that it is OK to create false stories about participation in Jan 6th...

Ex-government employee charged with submitting false tips alleging coworkers' involvement in Capitol riot

Miguel Zapata was arrested Thursday in Chantilly, Virginia, in connection with providing materially false statements to law enforcement, according to an arrest warrant.


Zapata submitted at least seven anonymous tips via the FBI's tip portal from February to April of 2021 that accused former government co-workers of playing a role in the attack on the Capitol, according to an FBI affidavit. The affidavit doesn’t identify Zapata’s government employment history.

He’s got the makings of a fine politician!

 

[essentialsaltes]

In other trial news...
L. Brent "Zeeker" Bozell IV might be completely unknown to the general public and even most followers of the Jan6 cases, but his family sure isn't. His father "Brent III" is a well known conservative activist and commentator. His main schtick is "liberal media bias" about which he has written several books (including one called "Weapons of Mass Distortion") and started the Media Research Center to hunt "liberal media bias" and its offshoot the Parents Television and Media Council which tried to ruin several good TV shows (and some lousy ones)...

Guilty on all 10 counts. Judge says Zeeker was a very bad boy.

DOJ seeks 11 years for conservative scion Brent Bozell IV, saying he 'led the charge' on Jan. 6​

Bozell, also known as "Zeeker," smashed windows at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and was convicted of a host of charges in September, including five felonies. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 17. Federal prosecutors, in a sentencing memo filed late Friday, sought a terrorism sentencing enhancement for Bozell, saying that his actions were intended to affect the conduct of the government and that he made preparations for Jan. 6 because he "believed that the presidential election had been 'stolen' and thus planned to respond through violence."

Few Jan. 6 rioters, federal prosecutors said, "were involved in as many pivotal breaches" as Brent Bozell IV during the Jan. 6 attack. Bozell IV, they said, "is not similarly situated to any other defendant given his relentless and sustained attacks on law enforcement in multiple locations inside and outside the Capitol" on Jan. 6.

[We've heard of dad (III), but grandpa (Jr.) was a fanboy of Franco who moved to live in fascist Spain, and also has a great DC criminal record. He organized "the "first violent anti-abortion protest" in Washington in 1970, for which he was "convicted of assaulting a police officer with a five-foot wooden cross," according to his 1997 obituary."]

 

[essentialsaltes]

RFK Jr.'s new hire who downplayed Jan. 6 appears to have been at the Capitol during the attack​

A right-wing social media influencer hired by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign who previously said Jan. 6 was “Democrat misdirection” appears to have himself been on the restricted grounds of the U.S. Capitol during the attack.

NBC News first reported that Kennedy’s campaign hired Zach Henry’s firm, Total Virality, for “influencer engagement” in March. Henry had worked as deputy communications director for Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s presidential campaign, as well as for Blake Masters during his Senate run in Arizona.

There is no indication that Henry entered the Capitol or that he engaged in assaults on police officers or in destruction of property.

Henry acknowledged in a phone call that he was in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, but declined to discuss his precise location. “I was in D.C. on January 6, but I’m not going to confirm where I was on the day or, you know, how close I got to the Capitol,” he said.Henry asked to see images of himself outside the Capitol before he would comment further, and NBC News provided him with screenshots. He stopped responding to further messages or phone calls.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Steve Bannon's lawyers argue his contempt of Congress conviction should be overturned​

Federal appeals court upholds Steve Bannon’s contempt-of-Congress conviction​

 

[essentialsaltes]

Peter Navarro’s get-out-of-jail request is again rejected by the Supreme Court​

Imprisoned Trump advisor Peter Navarro files emergency motion for release​

Republican political consultant Mike Madrid flagged the motion online, noting that "Peter Navarro is scared silly in that prison cell."

Hopefully, he will be scared straight. Law and order!

 

[Pommer]

Imprisoned Trump advisor Peter Navarro files emergency motion for release​

Republican political consultant Mike Madrid flagged the motion online, noting that "Peter Navarro is scared silly in that prison cell."

Hopefully, he will be scared straight. Law and order!

120 days in the hole?
Well he’s got 52 in, (I wonder if his wife will “wait” for him?)

 

[essentialsaltes]

One man was a Capitol Police officer. The other rioted on Jan. 6. They’re both running for Congress​

“I’m running for Congress because the forces that spurred that violent attack on January 6th are still at work in our country today, and as a patriotic American, I believe it is my duty to step up and defend our democracy,” Dunn said.

The other guy is Derrick Evans.

 

[essentialsaltes]

One man was a Capitol Police officer. The other rioted on Jan. 6. They’re both running for Congress​

The other guy is Derrick Evans.

Candidate who filmed himself in the Capitol on Jan. 6 seeks House seat​

Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia state lawmaker who served three months in prison for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, is challenging Rep. Carol Miller (R-W.Va.) in Tuesday’s Republican primary. [Miller herself is pretty Trumpy, but not Jan 6 Trumpy]

His campaign website touts him as a “J6 prisoner running for U.S. Congress.”

On the site, he promises to work with MyPillow founder and election denier Mike Lindell “to fight for election integrity.”

 

[essentialsaltes]

White House Situation Room went into "continuity of government" mode on Jan 6th, for the only time other than 9/11.

“It Was Horrific”: A Situation Room Officer’s Harrowing Account of an American Insurrection​

In an excerpt of George Stephanopoulos’s new book, The Situation Room, Mike Stiegler recalls how Donald Trump whipped up a “surreal” storm that put the White House’s emergency protocols into action: “We went into a continuity-of-government situation.”

Back in the Oval Office, President Trump sipped Diet Coke as he watched the spectacle on television. Aides and allies implored him to condemn the riot and call off the mob. Instead, at 2:24, with the violence raging, he sent out a tweet calling out Mike Pence for lacking “the courage to do what should have been done.”

With reports coming in from the Secret Service and other officials on Capitol Hill, the Situation Room scrambled into action. “Things got very chaotic,” Stiegler told me. “We went into a continuity-of-government situation.”

Stop there. Take that phrase in: “continuity-of-government situation.” That bland bit of bureaucratic jargon masks a deadly serious set of policies and actions first ordered by President Eisenhower at the height of the Cold War. “COG” was designed to ensure the government would still function after a disaster such as nuclear war. It involves secret command centers—the Sit Room being a critical one—elaborate chains of command, the relocation of Congress and the replacement of executive branch officials killed in attacks. It had been activated only once before, in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.

The most harrowing part?

“How close we came to losing the vice president,” he told me. He paused, then looked up at the ceiling, struggling to compose himself. “The screams, the yelling. The different things that we heard that day.”

“It was horrific,” he said quietly. “There’s a group of us that were on duty that day, and we don’t know how to process it still…We don’t know how to talk about it. And we don’t know who to talk about it with. There are a lot of things we witnessed that day that we can’t talk about. And how do you deal with that?”

The Situation Room staff was on alert, monitoring events, synthesizing public information and private intelligence, and preparing to report to the president—as they did with all crises, domestic or foreign, that might require his attention. But on this day, they never called him. He didn’t call them. The president himself was the cause of the crisis.

 

[Pommer]

White House Situation Room went into "continuity of government" mode on Jan 6th, for the only time other than 9/11.

“It Was Horrific”: A Situation Room Officer’s Harrowing Account of an American Insurrection​

In an excerpt of George Stephanopoulos’s new book, The Situation Room, Mike Stiegler recalls how Donald Trump whipped up a “surreal” storm that put the White House’s emergency protocols into action: “We went into a continuity-of-government situation.”

Back in the Oval Office, President Trump sipped Diet Coke as he watched the spectacle on television. Aides and allies implored him to condemn the riot and call off the mob. Instead, at 2:24, with the violence raging, he sent out a tweet calling out Mike Pence for lacking “the courage to do what should have been done.”

With reports coming in from the Secret Service and other officials on Capitol Hill, the Situation Room scrambled into action. “Things got very chaotic,” Stiegler told me. “We went into a continuity-of-government situation.”

Stop there. Take that phrase in: “continuity-of-government situation.” That bland bit of bureaucratic jargon masks a deadly serious set of policies and actions first ordered by President Eisenhower at the height of the Cold War. “COG” was designed to ensure the government would still function after a disaster such as nuclear war. It involves secret command centers—the Sit Room being a critical one—elaborate chains of command, the relocation of Congress and the replacement of executive branch officials killed in attacks. It had been activated only once before, in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.

The most harrowing part?

“How close we came to losing the vice president,” he told me. He paused, then looked up at the ceiling, struggling to compose himself. “The screams, the yelling. The different things that we heard that day.”

“It was horrific,” he said quietly. “There’s a group of us that were on duty that day, and we don’t know how to process it still…We don’t know how to talk about it. And we don’t know who to talk about it with. There are a lot of things we witnessed that day that we can’t talk about. And how do you deal with that?”

The Situation Room staff was on alert, monitoring events, synthesizing public information and private intelligence, and preparing to report to the president—as they did with all crises, domestic or foreign, that might require his attention. But on this day, they never called him. He didn’t call them. The president himself was the cause of the crisis.

If the Vice President had been captured by the mob, and wasn’t able to perform his duties on January 6th, the process would have gone forward with Chuck Grassley running “the show”, and the certification of Joesph R Biden (as the next POTUS) would have ended.

The coup would have “worked”.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Candidate who filmed himself in the Capitol on Jan. 6 seeks House seat​

Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia state lawmaker who served three months in prison for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, is challenging Rep. Carol Miller (R-W.Va.) in Tuesday’s Republican primary. [Miller herself is pretty Trumpy, but not Jan 6 Trumpy]

His campaign website touts him as a “J6 prisoner running for U.S. Congress.”

Jan. 6 felony rioter Derrick Evans loses GOP House primary in West Virginia​

Rep. Carol Miller fended off a challenge from Evans, who was sentenced to three months in prison for his role in the Capitol attack.

[Evans still got about 37% of the GOP vote.]

 

[essentialsaltes]

Peter Navarro’s get-out-of-jail request is again rejected by the Supreme Court​

At least he's keeping busy inside.

Judge rejects another Peter Navarro request to cut prison sentence short​

Last week, Navarro asked district Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, DC, to allow him to cut 30 days off his prison sentence in exchange for 30 days of supervised release, citing the First Step Act. Mehta said no.