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A new poll reveals that Americans, a majority of 57%, want former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., investigated by the FBI for her role in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's partisan Jan. 6 riot-investigating committee.
The results, from Rasmussen, cited in the Florida Capital Star, follow a report from House Republicans that accused Cheney of witness tampering.
"Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney," the report said.
According to the report, House members recommended the FBI investigation over allegations of procuring another person to commit perjury.
"In the report, the House GOP said Cheney tampered with January 6 Select Committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson by secretly communicating with the former Trump administration worker without telling her attorney," the Capital Star said.
"Hutchinson committed perjury when she lied under oath to the Select Committee. Additionally, Hutchinson was interviewed by the FBI as part of its investigation into President Trump," the report detailed.
WND reported when the House report came out that members of Congress concluded Cheney "likely" violated federal law during her work to pin the blame for the Jan. 6, 2021, events in Washington on President Trump.
The report, from the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, and chairman Barry Loudermilk, was released and concluded the riot was preventable.
Cheney decided to join in the Democrats' organized lawfare against President Donald Trump, and their allegations of his responsibility for the riot, even though he had told his supporters to protest peacefully.
Further, he had volunteered to have thousands of National Guard troops at the Capitol complex that day in order to prevent any disruption, but was refused by Democrats in Washington.
"Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, the former Vice Chair of the January 6 Select Committee, and these violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation," charged the report.
The report continued, "Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson's attorney's knowledge. This secret communication with a witness is improper and likely violates (the law). Such action is outside the due functioning of the legislative process and therefore not protected by the Speech and Debate clause."
The criminal law that prohibits tampering with witnesses could subject a defendant to a penalty of 20 years in prison.
The report also faulted Hutchinson, described as Cheney's "star witness at the nationally televised hearings, alleging that Cheney encouraged false testimony about a handwritten document and noting her sensational claim that former President Donald Trump tried to commandeer his presidential limousine that day to take it to the Capitol," a claim that was debunked by the Secret Service itself.
Loudermilk's report explains evidence obtained by his subcommittee suggests "Hutchinson committed perjury when she lied under oath to the Select Committee." Cheney's fault likes with "violating 18 U.S.C. 1622, which prohibits any person from procuring another person to commit perjury."
The report explained the report further charges that there is "evidence of collusion" between the J6 committee, led by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Cheney, who shortly after was thrown out of her congressional seat by her own voters.
The other side of the colluding parties would be special counsel Jack Smith, who had created a number of lawfare cases against Trump, all of which now have collapsed and been dismissed.
The report said, "When Smith released a trove of documents in October that were used in his filings in the Trump case, present in the batch was an unredacted transcript from one Jan. 6 Select Committee interview with a witness."
The report said the only way for Smith to have gotten that document was "from one of the two institutions which did not cooperate" with the subcommittee's investigation.
It also confirmed Pelosi's committee refused to preserve significant evidence, Hutchinson made "significant material changes" in her testimony "with the help of Vice Chair Cheney," and Pelosi "took some responsibility for not ensuring adequate Capitol security in unaired footage recorded" for a documentary.
Loudermilk also addressed a letter to colleagues with a warning: "Americans expect and deserve a government that is small in size, limited in scope, and fully accountable to the people, as our Founders intended. The actions of some elected officials and certain government bureaucrats in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, are evidence of how we have ventured far away from those basic principles of our constitutional republic. Transparency, accountability, and equal application of the law are the only solutions to return our nation to one that is free, safe, and full of opportunity."
Cheney has been one of the names suggested for Joe Biden to protect with "preemptive" presidential pardons.
That topic came up as Biden pardoned his son Hunter, who was convicted of multiple gun felonies and pleaded guilty to multiple tax felonies and could have spent decades in prison.
Biden followed that up with hundreds and hundreds of commutations.
Shocking video footage rocked the New York prison system last week after it was revealed that New York prison guards beat a handcuffed inmate to death.
According to the New York Post, the fatal attack, which is now under investigation by Attorney General Letitia James, shows the guards beating the inmate unconscious before stripping him to his underwear.
He was ultimately killed after three corrections officers punched, kicked, and stomped inmate Robert Brooks while he was handcuffed.
The fatal attack took place on Dec. 9 in an examination room at upstate prison Marcy Correctional Facility.
New York AG Letitia James released a statement after making the video public, saying, "I do not take lightly the release of this video especially in the middle of the holiday season.'
"My deepest condolences go out to Mr. Brooks’ family," the New York AG said.
The video of the beating, which eventually led to Brooks' death the next day, is difficult to watch and went viral over the Christmas holiday, sparking massive backlash and many calling for the immediate prosecution of the officers.
Warning, the video may disturb some readers:
NEW: Body-cam footage released showing New York correctional officers smirking as they "fatally beat" a man in handcuffs.
Sickening.
43-year-old Robert Brooks passed away on Dec 10 at Wynn Hospital in Utica, NY.
The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations… pic.twitter.com/BwLPnOS9fH
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 27, 2024
The NY Post added:
The videos, taken from four jail guards, show the officers surrounding Brooks, who was handcuffed from behind, in the exam room before three of them begin punching him in the face and stomach and even stomping him in his lower torso area.
The outlet added:
Brooks was eventually taken to Wynn Hospital in Utica and declared dead from “asphyxia due to compression of the neck,” in the early morning of Dec. 10, Syracuse.com reported, citing the Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s Office.
AG James reportedly met with the Brooks' family to personally show them the footage of the incident.
She vowed to investigate the case "thoroughly" and has already ensured the investigation is happening.
Many on social media have called for the firing and prosecution of the correctional officers allegedly involved in the fatal incident. Only time will tell what happens to them.
Joe Biden's callous decision to spare the lives of brutal killers just before Christmas has reopened old wounds for the families of the victims.
The families of Katie Skeen and Donna Major are speaking out after Biden spared the man who killed the two women during a 2017 bank robbery.
38-year-old Brandon Council murdered Skeen, 36, and Major, 59, at CresCom Bank in Conway, South Carolina, in a callous act captured on surveillance footage.
"She was shown no mercy at all. This man walked into the bank, never said two words to her. Shot her three times in total. He went and shot her coworker, Katie Skeen as well, who was totally defenseless and unaware of anything happening,” Major’s husband, Danny Jenkins, told Fox and Friends.
“I can’t even believe that this is actually happening…”
A jury took just 32 minutes to find Council guilty. But in one stroke of a pen, Biden wiped away the jury's decision and snatched justice from the victims.
"He's a low life. Both Biden and Council, they're both low lifes," Skeen's mother, 78-year-old Betty Davis, told the Daily Mail.
The timing of Biden's pardons, which came just before Christmas, has been criticized with many calling it cruel to the victims.
"I just felt heart-sick when they told us. It was like my world had just fallen apart all over again," Davis said.
Most of the people Biden spared from capital punishment are little known to the public. Biden has been accused of moral hypocrisy for excluding those individuals who are the most infamous: Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tree of Life synagogue shooter Robert Bowers and white supremacist shooter Dylann Roof.
Biden said he could not "in good conscience" allow President-elect Trump to carry out death sentences for 37 different individuals after Biden issued a moratorium on federal executions.
But Biden said he was making exceptions for those convicted of terrorism or acts of "hate," which conveniently left out the three most notorious individuals on the list.
"Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss," Biden said.
Of course, to the families victimized by the 37 people Biden spared, his definition of "hate" is arbitrary and does nothing to mitigate the pain of loss - or the thirst for justice.
A retired Metropolitan Police Department officer was found guilty Monday of lying to authorities about tipping off Proud Boys then-national chair, Enrique Tarrio, that he was under investigation, The Hill reported. Lt. Shane Lamond will be sentenced on April 3.
Another Jan. 6 bombshell verdict came after Lamond was found guilty on three counts of making false statements to federal law enforcement officials and one count of obstructing justice. He had leaked to Tarrio that there was a warrant out for his arrest and lied to authorities about doing so.
The former officer was privy to the information as the supervisor of the police department's Homeland Security Bureau intelligence arm. Lamond had met Tarrio in 2019 in the course of investigating the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner.
However, prosecutors say Lamond would "surreptitiously provide information to Tarrio about law enforcement activity relating to Proud Boys’ activities in Washington, D.C." after the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021 incursion at the U.S. Capitol. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson found Lamond guilty of this reverse arrangement.
The court found that Lamond's role was the opposite of what it should have been. "As proven at trial, Lamond turned his job on its head — providing confidential information to a source, rather than getting information from him — lied about the conduct, and obstructed an investigation into the source," a statement from U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves said.
"The intelligence gathering role that Lamond was supposed to play is critical to keeping our community safe. His violation of the trust placed in him put our community more at risk and cannot be ignored," he added.
Both Lamond and Tarrio testified at the trial and denied that the officer was feeding the subject of the investigation any information. Lamond was tasked with questioning Tarrio about a BLM banner that went missing and was burned from a Black church.
Tarrio was the department's main suspect in the incident. However, the judge believes that instead of finding out whether Tarrio was involved in the December 2020 incident, Lamond was tipping him off about the investigation and continued to do so.
"It was the other way around," the judge decided after hearing their testimony. According to the Associated Press, Tarrio eventually pleaded guilty to burning the banner.
Evidence submitted at the trial proved that Lamond provided Tarrio with information, including news of his imminent arrest. "Similarly, the defendant affirmatively advised Mr. Tarrio in a written message that he was being asked to identify him for a warrant, a warning obviously in contemplation of the subsequent prosecution and with obvious ramifications for it," prosecutors claimed.
Later, after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, Lamond continued to tip off Tarrio. "Of course I can’t say it officially, but personally I support you all and don’t want to see your group’s name and reputation dragged through the mud," he said in a message.
The men were discussing whether the Proud Boys would be implicated in the incursion at the Capitol. Tarrio was not in Washington, D.C., during the incident. Still, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his part in organizing the uprising, which prosecutors claimed was an effort to keep then-President Donald Trump in office despite the outcome of the 2020 election.
For his part, Lamond claims this friendliness was an effort to ingratiate himself with Tarrio to receive information. "I don’t support the Proud Boys, and I’m not a Proud Boys sympathizer," Lamond insisted.
Regardless of how Lamond felt about the Proud Boys or Tarrio, his job was to carry out the mission of his police department. He failed to do his job and then lied about it to officials, which makes his convicted justified.
The Justice Department will likely conclude its investigation into special counsel Jack Smith sometime next year, the Washington Examiner reported. The agency launched a probe into how his office handled President-elect Donald Trump's criminal investigations.
The update came from a letter the Examiner obtained that was sent to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH). It covered details of a meeting between the committee and Jeffrey Ragsdale, head of the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility.
Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriante penned the letter and noted Ragsdale's expected end date. "While he cannot guarantee a specific time frame to complete a thorough investigation of the matter, his office is moving expeditiously, and he expects that the review will conclude in 2025," Uriarte wrote.
He added that Ragsdale "would expect that the Department would likely be willing to provide the final report [on the misconduct investigation] to Congress" when it's finished. However, many believe that Smith will resign once Trump takes office whether he's guilty or not.
Jordan and his committee will be privy to the findings of the investigation launched during the run-up to the 2024 presidential campaign. The Washington Post reported that the Justice Department typically doesn't conduct these reviews until pending cases are resolved.
“Such a practice ensures that the OPR process is not inappropriately used to disrupt an ongoing prosecution and avoids interference with the court’s own supervision of the case. The policy also allows OPR to consider the allegations as a whole, after the record is complete, and in the context of the full litigation," the letter to Jordan said.
Smith has been wrapping up his two federal cases since Trump was elected president. Both the classified documents case and a case involving Trump's supposed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election are moot since the Justice Department won't prosecute a sitting president.
This opens the door to an internal review into allegations levied by Trump and his team. It will look into whether the FBI tampered with evidence after it raided Trump's Florida Mar-a-Lago residence, as some GOP lawmakers have charged.
It will also examine a complaint involving Jay Bratt, a member of the special counsel and veteran prosecutor, who may have leveraged a job for an attorney who represented one of Trump's co-defendants. Bratt allegedly mentioned Stanley Woodward's application for judgeship while trying to get the attorney's client to testify.
Whether or not there is any provable misconduct, the fact remains that Smith is guilty of wasting taxpayer money. According to Fox News, it cost taxpayers at least $50 million to go after Trump, and he came up empty in the end.
Smith was appointed in November 2022 by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate the election interference and classified documents allegations the same month Trump announced his candidacy for president. Once the cost was made clear last month, Trump unleashed against Smith and the rest of the partisan hacks who tried to jail him.
"These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought. Over $100 Million Dollars of Taxpayer Dollars has been wasted in the Democrat Party’s fight against their Political Opponent, ME," Trump wrote last month. "Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before."
Smith will likely slink away into obscurity before Trump can fire him. However, the investigation, the mug shot he forced Trump to pose for, and Trump's eventual vindication will forever be embedded in the story of his incredible comeback against his foes.
Authorities in the field of aviation stated on Thursday that it is highly likely that Russian air defense systems were responsible for the crash of an Azerbaijani airplane that occurred in Kazakhstan.
Various news outlets have gathered information about the crash that resulted in 38 of the 67 individuals that were on board, but much is still unknown, as Breitbart News reported.
On Wednesday, an Embraer 190 belonging to Azerbaijan Airlines was rerouted from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny, a city in Russia located in the North Caucasus. The reasons for the reroute are not yet completely understood.
After traveling in an easterly direction across the Caspian Sea, it was attempting to land at Aktau, Kazakhstan, when it crashed.
It was approximately three kilometers (or about two miles) from Aktau when the plane crashed close to the coast. The video footage from the cellphone that was being shared on the internet appeared to show the airplane making a sharp drop before it crashed into the ground and exploded in a fiery inferno.
All 29 survivors were transported to hospitals by the rescuers.
Thursday was designated as a day of mourning for the whole nation of Azerbaijan.
The national flags were lowered to half-staff, all traffic across the country came to a complete halt at noon, and sirens were sounded from ships and trains.
During a press conference that took place on Wednesday, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, stated that the jet had to deviate from its intended path due to the weather conditions.
The accident is under investigation by Kazakhstani, Azerbaijani, and Russian authorities. Embraer noted in a statement to The Associated Press that the company is "prepared to provide assistance to all pertinent authorities.
According to Rosaviatsia, the civil aviation authority of Russia, the pilots diverted to Aktau following an emergency on board as a result of a bird incident.
An Azerbaijani lawmaker explicitly pointed the finger at Russia, while officials remained silent. The Azerbaijani news agency Turan was informed by Rasim Musabekov that the aircraft was fired upon in the skies over Grozny. He also urged Russia to issue an official apology.
Some aviation experts believe that the holes observed in the plane's tail section following the accident suggest that it may have been the target of Russian air defense systems attempting to repel a Ukrainian drone attack.
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A report that Democrats insisted be released on former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who resigned from Congress when President-elect Donald Trump nominated him to be attorney general, but actually was re-elected, tries to tarnish the flamboyant former and potentially future member of Congress.
But the allegations, investigative reporter Mollie Hemingway confirmed, come from a woman who already is in prison for making similar, and false, claims about another person.
The report from the House Ethics Committee claims Gaetz was involved with multiple women over recent years, and even gave some of them money.
However, Joe Biden's "corrupt" Department of Justice reviewed the evidence and found there was no substance on which to charge Gaetz with anything.
A majority of Republicans on the committee dissented from releasing the report, stating, "Representative Gaetz resigned from Congress, withdrew from consideration to serve in the next administration, and declared that he would not seek to be seated in the 119th Congress. The decision to publish a report after his resignation breaks from the Committee's long-standing practice opens the Committee to undue criticism, and will be viewed by some as an attempt to weaponize the Committee's process."
They wrote, "We believe that operating outside the jurisdictional bounds set forth by House Rules and Committee standards, especially when making public disclosures, is a dangerous departure with potentially catastrophic consequences."
The report alleges Gaetz paid women for sexual favors or illicit drugs, including a 17-year-old girl.
Only two Republicans on the panel sided with Democrats to release the report.
Gaetz has rejected the report's claims. And he pointed out, "The Biden/Garland DOJ spent years reviewing allegations that I committed various crimes. I was charged with nothing: FULLY EXONERATED. Not even a campaign finance violation. And the people investigating me hated me."
Hemingway reported that the witness used by the committee as the basis for the report was found by the "corrupt DOJ" to be lacking "any credibility whatsoever."
She added, "Sometimes I feel like I was the only reporter to look into the details of the Gaetz allegations. That's how I learned the accuser is in prison for making the same false sex-with-minors accusation against someone else."
A commentary at Twitchy said, "Whether or not you like a person should not impact or influence their innocence or guilt. Even if you dislike Gaetz, the fact they released this report the day before Christmas Eve, a report Biden's own corrupt DOJ considered a nothing-burger, tells us all this was sneaky, dirty, and likely all too personal. To Hemingway's point, it's INSANE that they'd take seriously any sort of testimony from a witness who is currently in prison for making the same false sex-with-minors accusations against someone else. While we're certainly not experts, this sounds like a red flag."
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JERUSALEM – Saturday night was one of high drama as U.S. Air Force jets took off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, and were joined by Royal Air Force fighters based out of Cyprus to attack Houthi strongholds in Yemen.
According to a statement from CENTCOM, "U.S. forces conducted precision airstrikes against a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis within Houthi-controlled territory in Sana'a, Yemen, on Dec. 21 Yemen time."
The statement added the target of the missions was to "disrupt and degrade Houthi operations, such as attacks against U.S. Navy warships and merchant vessels in the Southern Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb, and Gulf of Aden."
American forces also downed a number of drones and an anti-ship cruise missile over the Red Sea, which only goes to prove the U.S. military is capable of downing unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, far from home.
The night's high tension, however, was not limited only to the skies directly above the Yemeni capital Sana'a. Reports emerged of the downing of a USAF F/A-18F "Super Hornet" over the Red Sea after the USS Gettysburg, a guided missile cruiser within the USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group fired at the airplane.
CENTCOM reports both the pilot and the navigator managed to eject safely, with one sustaining only minor injuries, and the incident was due to critical failures in coordination.
The mishap is indeed curious because unless aircraft are on covert missions, they are supposed to fly with Identification Friend or Foe, or IFF, transponders activated to prevent exactly this type of incident.
The action by coalition forces came less than 24 hours after the Houthi fired a ballistic missile at central Israel at approximately 3:45 a.m. local time, which struck Tel Aviv wounding at least 16 people.
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WASHINGTON – For the first time in months, having recently been released from another nightmarish stint in solitary confinement, Jan. 6 political prisoner Zachary Rehl reached out to WorldNetDaily … with good news.
With President-elect Donald Trump slated to take office on Jan. 20, Rehl says he no longer fears the prospect of a decade or more behind bars for what was essentially a "thought crime."
In an email from FCI Petersburg, the medium-security correctional facility in Virginia where Rehl is serving a 15-year sentence, he details how the other inmates incarcerated there cheered and congratulated him on the night of Nov. 5, amid the prospects of his release and exoneration by presidential pardon.
Many of the other prisoners he is housed with are doing time for murder, rape, robberies and other felony offenses that warrant incarceration in a medium-security facility. Nearly all the inmates in the prison resoundingly agree that Rehl is no criminal and is being held captive as a political prisoner, the Marine veteran explained.
"Even ones who wanted [Trump] to lose, they still shook my hand and congratulated me on my pending release," Rehl wrote in an email exclusively to WND.
"At the end of the day," he said, "no one likes to see another person suffer behind these walls that don't deserve it, and I think it's a nod to my character that all people I encountered felt that I shouldn't be here and were happy for me that I get to go home."
Trump's survival of the two assassination attempts was due to divine intervention, Rehl contends, a sign from God that the torturous incarceration he is enduring will soon come to an end.
"I had some worries of fraud, but after I saw God was on our side and saved him from that shooting, all doubt in my mind left and I was 100% sure he would win," he wrote.
Holidays, especially Christmas, have been dreadful for the past four years since the government confiscated Rehl's freedom and upturned his life. But this Christmas, the weight of the world is no longer on his shoulders as it had been.
"With Trump on his way back to the White House, I surprisingly enjoy the Christmas music being played again. Even though I'm not home with my wife and daughters, I'm going to be soon and it's a priceless feeling," he wrote. "I'm mentally home with them right now. This prison only has my physical self, and they only have it for about another month and some change."
Rehl says his "message to President Trump is simple": "I look forward to meeting him and shaking his hand. He's clearly the best president in our history as a nation; I can't think of a bigger honor than to meet him. I hope I can somehow contribute to the success of the next four years and beyond as well. There is nothing I have ever been so passionate about and that is fighting for America and everyone in it. I just hope there is a role for me to help out one way or the other! I will continue to listen to God and keep walking the path set out for me though, which I'm sure I will be successful with no matter what that is."
The government has done a number on Jan. 6 prisoner Zachary Rehl that would understandably leave most without faith and in a state of near-insanity.
The father of two, a Marine vet and former leader of the Pennsylvania Proud Boys chapter, was convicted or multiple felonies for trespassing in the U.S. Capitol building.
As WND has reported, at the Jan. 6, 2021 "Save America" rally, Rehl was shot multiple times with rubber bullets as the police indiscriminately gassed and threw flashbang grenades into the moderately peaceful crowd. He then walked through the building for approximately 12 minutes and took a few selfies.
Rehl's wife was six months pregnant when the FBI barged into their home and dragged him away at gunpoint in a predawn raid. He and his co-defendants Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Dominic Pezzola and Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys national chairman, and were locked in solitary confinement, or the "hole," for nearly 18 months in six-by-eight-foot cells at the Alexandria Detention Facility in northern Virginia.
In Alexandria, they reported that they were practically starved to death, usually served small portions of rotten food and permitted out of their windowless cage for just 15 minutes a day to use the shower, use the microwave and use the surveilled phone.
While Rehl, Nordean, Biggs, Pezzola and Tarrio were segregated in torturous isolation alongside serial pedophiles and murderers, the Lockerbie Bomber was being detained in the same facility in general population.
The bomber, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, was a Libyan intelligence official who bombed a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground.
'Seditious conspiracy'
On May 4, 2023, Rehl and his co-defendants were convicted by a jury of "Seditious Conspiracy, Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting, Destruction of Government Property and Aiding and Abetting, Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds, Disorderly Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds."
Immediately being found guilty of seditious conspiracy, the Marine vet was stripped of his military service benefits and forced to pay back every dollar of benefits he received after the Capitol riot.
In January 2023, jury selection of the Proud Boys leadership trial was what defense attorneys claim was a complete mockery which obliterated the rule of law.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump-appointed judge, gave jurors a litmus test asking them each if they were employed or had a relationship with the government, whether they attended a Black Lives Matter rally and/or a women's march and their view of the Proud Boys.
Each D.C. resident that qualified to sit on the jury resoundingly affirmed that were ardent Democrats and leftwing activists. Also, each juror echoed propaganda disseminated by the mainstream media claiming the Proud Boys were a group of "white supremacists," "insurrectionists" and "seditionists."
The defense counsel for the five defendants repeatedly objected to admitting these clearly far-left activists on to the jury and insisted endlessly that the trial should be relocated to a jurisdiction that did not have a 92-percent voting rate for Joe Biden.
For the duration of the nearly 7-month-long trial, only the jurors wore masks in adherence with government recommended COVID protocols throughout the entire day. Prosecutors complied with the mask mandate, until the second the jurors left the room, when they would take them off practically gasping for air, a charade emblematic of the entire kangaroo trial.
Despite GOP members of Congress sitting across the street from the courthouse where every Jan. 6 defendant, including President-elect Donald Trump, has been tried, there was no one to turn to for remedy. The conclusion was known from the start, and throughout the trial the only hope for justice was an appeal or a pardon, if Trump would somehow overcome all the obstacles against him and win in November 2024.
On Aug. 31, 2021, Judge Kelly viscerally took glee in sentencing Rehl to 15 years in prison. Weeks after he was sentenced, the U.S. Department of Justice appealed the sentences of Rehl and his co-defendants … demanding even more prison time.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason McCullough filed a motion on Sept. 15, 2023, asking for Rehl to be sentenced to 30 years in prison.
As WND has previously reported, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Treasury Department then gave Rehl and his family notice that he would be forced to pay back every dollar of military benefits he had received after the Capitol riot, amounting to approximately $100,000.
Rehl's wife continues to struggle to make ends meet while raising their now 3-year-old daughter. Association with individuals who are deemed "domestic terrorists" by the federal government has made it tough for a now-single mother to secure employment, while the expense of legal representation for nearly 4 years easily costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But Rehl has remained steadfast, with faith in God throughout this whole tragic ordeal, assured miracles would materialize, and that Trump would secure a victory that would eventually turn the horror he and his loved ones have endured into just a bad memory.
Rehl doubled down on his support of Trump over the summer, permanently etching the words "Hold the line" on his right arm alongside a jail-tattooed sketch of Donald Trump, and rested assured that the good guys would soon take back power and restore the rule of law.
And he was right.
READ J6 PRISONER ZACHARY REHL'S FULL LETTER:
I'm doing great. I was good before the election. I was certain Trump would win.
I had some worries of fraud, but after I saw God was on our side and saved him from that shooting, all doubt in my mind left and I was 100% sure he would win.
We get such bad news in here. I don't know how many people asked me if I was worried about him losing because he was down in all the polls. I would reply every time, "Don't worry about that trash, it's all a scam, the polls, he's going to win in a landslide! No way that idiot [Kamala Harris], who can barely string two sentences together, has any shot to beat him!"
Then I would tell them to "Have some faith, it's going to be alright!"
I gave a lot of people hope and it paid off when he won. It's a good feeling being right, especially when you are so certain of something, when so many others think you are delusional for thinking it.
What I mean is, like all actions, there is an equal and opposite reaction, so for every person hoping Trump would win that talked to me, there was another who would laugh at mentioning the mere prospect of him winning. Who is the "delusional" one now?
Seems I was the only one in the whole prison complex that actually "knew."
Everyone turned out to be a good sport over him winning though, the haters anyway.
Even ones who wanted him to lose, they still shook my hand and congratulated me on my pending release.
At the end of the day, no one likes to see another person suffer behind these walls that don't deserve it, and I think it's a nod to my character that all people I encountered felt that I shouldn't be here and were happy for me that I get to go home.
I obviously sat up all night and waited for the election results, but CNN, which was all that was on here, sort of slipped up and gave away who won at around 11 pm when they "checked in" with the Harris camp and reported that it was eerily quiet.
CNN then checked into the Trump camp where the venue just started blasting "YMCA" by the Village People.
At that moment the election was confirmed for me, so as the states started rolling in with results as the night went on, it was only more and more exciting.
The icing on the cake was obviously when Pennsylvania was called – my home state, which ended all speculation for the night over who won.
Thank you, Pennsylvania, and job well done for showing up to vote in such convincing numbers!
It's an amazing feeling though, after everything I have been through, that it's finally over.
I couldn't stomach the holidays the last three years.
It was gut wrenching listening to happy music this time of year, so I avoided TV and the radio so I didn't have to hear it.
With Trump on his way back to the White House, I surprisingly enjoy the Christmas music being played again.
Even though I'm not home with my wife and daughters, I'm going to be soon and it's a priceless feeling.
I'm mentally home with them right now. This prison only has my physical self and they only have it for about another month and some change.
I'm extremely excited to see where this next chapter of life takes me, and I'm thrilled I get to walk back into a world with President Trump back in charge. The world is going to be much better off, and I have high hopes for his second term – not just for myself and my family and friends, but for everyone.
Elon Musk is my other favorite billionaire, other than President Trump. I wrote so many papers on his companies in college and read two biographies on him, so seeing these two men team up to save America is the most amazing thing for me.
I love it.
I don't have any doubt in my mind that he will do a great job cleaning up the budgets with the DOGE! I just hope they can overcome the biggest obstacle with his proposed cuts, Congress. If I had anything to say to him, though, it would be to give him a heads-up about X, which still has issues with bad actors within the company that are shadow banning, or flat-out suspending conservative accounts, like the account made for and operated by my wife, for raising awareness to my plight. Other than that, good luck with the DOGE and keep kicking ass in the world! Next up, MARS!
My message to President Trump is simple, I look forward to meeting him and shaking his hand, he's clearly the best President in our history as a nation, I can't think of a bigger honor than to meet him. I hope I can somehow contribute to the success of the next 4 years and beyond as well. There has nothing I have ever been so passionate about and that is fighting for America and everyone in it, I just hope there is a role for me to help one way or the other! I will continue to listen to God and keep walking the path set out for me though, which I'm sure I will be successful with no matter what that is.
The tattoo aging like fine wine, I hope Trump has seen it or will get to see it. A couple months ago I was around a few people who were talking about the tat before the election, and someone asked me if I would regret it if he lost. Some people were like, oh damn, and laughed. So, I thought about it for a second and said, "He won't lose, I'm not worried about it." No regrets!
Next month we are out of here!
Merry Christmas!
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The FBI has been at the pinnacle of the years-long scandal over the Biden-Harris administration's weaponization of the federal government against Republicans, conservatives and Christians.
And Christopher Wray has been at the top of the FBI's power structure over that time.
Now he's departing his government position, according to an announcement he made when incoming President-elect Donald Trump promised he would be fired immediately.
And a legal team that has fought Wray's agenda over the years, and continues to do so even now, has assembled a top five list of his "most horrifying abuses."
It is the American Center for Law and Justice that explained in a new report, "The nightmarish reign of FBI Director Christopher Wray is over. With his firing imminent, Wray offered his resignation before President Trump could do the honors. No longer will Wray's lawless FBI trample the Constitution or target Christians and conservatives."
In honor of his "being shown the door," the organization, the list was produced.
First is the FBI's "shocking abuse of authority" when 20 agents "brazenly arrested – with guns drawn – Mark Houck, the co-founder of a men's ministry."
That happened back in 2022, and he was arrested because he "protected his son from a radical pro-abortion activist outside a Planned Parenthood" abortion business.
Local police said there was no case, but the DOJ, under Biden and Harris, launched a full-scale attack on him.
Then came the Senate hearing when Wray was asked, by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., whether Americans' rights were being violated.
"Wray outrageously declared that he couldn't 'be sure' that the FBI was unconstitutionally intercepting private email messages. The exchange between Wray and Paul also occurred when the FBI was caught lying about using spy software (Pegasus) on Americans," the ACLJ documented.
Then Wray's words got him into trouble again. This was when he "lied about undercover agents in churches."
The ACLJ said, "Most would lose their jobs if caught lying before Congress, but not Wray. After the Deep State FBI was exposed in April 2023 for putting undercover agents in churches to spy on Christians, Wray testified that a field office had gone rogue. Of course, the truth came out that multiple field offices across America had undercover agents keeping tabs on what pastors were teaching their congregations."
At No. 2 on the list was the FBI's 2020 election interference.
That happened when the FBI told media organizations to suppress details about Biden family scandals documented in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop computer.
A subsequent survey showed that suppression likely cost Trump his re-election bid at that point.
The suppression agenda was confirmed by none other than Mark Zuckerberg, who confirmed that Facebook quashed the scandals "at the FBI's request."
And atop the list of Wray wrongdoings, according to the ACLJ, was the decision to authorize the use of "deadly force" when agents raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in a SWAT-type stack.
"Even though the FBI knew from the onset that the Russian hoax was completely fabricated, it never stopped trying to take down President Trump. And during the DOJ's endless political prosecution of Trump, the FBI flexed its muscles while raiding Mar-a-Lago, with agents showing up fully armed and using highly questionable tactics as it searched the property for government records," the report said.
It suggested comparing that to the "search" the FBI conducted at Joe Biden's home when he was found to have similar government documents in his possession.
The agenda went beyond the FBI in that situation, as Biden was given a free pass on possible criminal actions, while the DOJ went to a full-court press pursuing criminal counts against Trump, a case that only recently collapsed on Trump's election.
"And the FBI's shenanigans haven't stopped in the days since the 2024 presidential election. Just last week, the FBI recognized a 'State of Palestine' at the FBI National Academy graduation ceremony. And we found out the FBI tried to cover up the incident by deleting the video of the ceremony and quickly filed two FOIA requests. We can't let Biden's Deep State FBI delete records before the Trump team takes office," the report said.
The ACLJ noted it right now has almost 25 lawsuits pending against the Biden-Harris regime, including the "Deep State FBI."