Guy Reffitt is a high-profile Capitol riot defendant who threatened to kill his own family if they turned him in. He was a militia recruiter; and on the day of the riot, had a gun with him on the Capitol steps, and brazenly spoke about committing physical violence against leaders of Congress. Convic[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Insurrection’
August 1st, 2022 - 4:24 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Gun-toting Capitol rioter gets 7 years 3 months
Will Trump go to prison?
Trump lied about election fraud, but that’s not a crime, it’s free speech. And while he’s engaged in shady business practices and dodged taxes, many Americans don’t see those actions as real crimes, just “smart business” — and hating paying taxes as much as [...]
July 26th, 2022 - 3:29 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Capitol rioter gets 5 years for attacking cops
Mark Ponder, 52, of Washington D.C., a black Trumper who was detained on Jan. 6, 2021, for assaulting cops guarding the Capitol, and after being released resumed attacking cops, was sentenced to 63 months in prison and 3 years of parole by a federal judge on Monday, July 26, 2022 (read story here).�[...]
July 22nd, 2022 - 9:25 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The sprint seen around the world
This segment of the Jan. 6 hearings probably was gratuitous. By that I mean showing Josh Hawley fleeing for his life from the mob isn’t necessary to explain to the American people that Trump was derelict during the violent attack on the Capitol. But it’s understandably too juicy to ignor[...]
A very brief primer on hearsay
After Cassidy Hutchinson’s sensational testimony on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, Trump and his defenders badly want to discredit her, and they’re throwing everything they can think of at the wall, hoping something will stick. “One of the common themes of the smear campaign [against her][...]
Witness tampering is what criminals do
When someone mentions witness tampering, I think of Mafia hoods bribing or threatening witnesses, or, in Russia, Putin’s goons killing them and dumping their bodies in the river that flowing through Moscow. It looks like Trump’s gang has joined the party. Cassidy Hutchinson, who testifie[...]
June 30th, 2022 - 5:50 pm § in Donald Trump
Could Secret Service official who disputed limo testimony pass a lie detector test?
Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump’s chief of staff, testified that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and when his Secret Service escort told him they were taking him to the White House, he tried to grab the driver and wheel. This was immediately disputed by Tony Ornato, [...]
June 29th, 2022 - 2:14 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Who is Cassidy Hutchison?
Besides the witness who shredded the last remnants of whatever illusions of respectability and legality still clung to the Trump gang of seditionists who tried to violently overthrow our government? She’s not a lawyer. Not a Democrat agent, either. Hutchison (bio here) is 25 years old. SheR[...]
Why should anyone take Fox seriously?
Parsing today’s dramatic Jan. 6 testimony, Fox News commentator Martha MacCallum remarked (story here), “I’m not sure that it really shocks anybody that the president, just knowing what we’ve seen, observing him over the years if he got angry, that he might throw his lunch.” While [...]
June 25th, 2022 - 5:08 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Are the Jan. 6 hearings having any impact?
The public hearings by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot aren’t over, they’re just taking a break until after July 4. These hearings have already revealed that Trump was at the center of a wide-ranging conspiracy to overthrow our government that culminated in the violent[...]