Tag: Jan. 6 Coverage

With Untested Cases Challenging Trump, Legal Experts Weigh In

Former President Donald Trump currently faces four lawsuits and investigations with potential criminal liabilities. As the leading Republican presidential candidate for 2024, Trump has characterized these legal challenges as part of a political “witch hunt” and attempts to hurt his candidacy. Across the aisle, Trump’s critics describe the investigations as the proper application of the…


Prosecutor Admits DC Police Officers Acted as Provocateurs at US Capitol on Jan. 6

A federal prosecutor admitted in court papers that three D.C. Metropolitan Police Department undercover officers acted as provocateurs at the northwest steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The admission came in a March 24 filing before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras that seeks to keep video footage shot by the officers under…


Trump Fires Back at DOJ, Accuses Agency of Creating ‘Unprecedented’ Situation Over Jan. 6 Lawsuits

Former President Donald Trump asserted the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is creating an “unprecedented” situation in arguing that he’s not immune to Jan. 6-connected lawsuits, according to a court filing submitted in a federal court on Thursday. Earlier this month, the DOJ wrote that the former president cannot be immune to lawsuits if it…


Jan. 6 Defendant Accused of Stealing Pelosi’s Laptop Receives 3-year Prison Sentence

A woman who was accused of stealing then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop computer and other criminal actions at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to three years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson handed down a sentence on Thursday against Riley Williams, whom a jury had convicted in…


Speaker Kevin McCarthy Has Not Seen Video of Fatal Ashli Babbitt Shooting on Jan. 6, Her Mother Says

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Ashli Babbitt’s mother that he has yet to watch video of the Jan. 6 shooting that led to Babbitt’s death at age 35. During a 30-minute Capitol Hill meeting, McCarthy (R-Calif.) promised to watch the videos Micki Witthoeft left with him, she said. “I said, ‘Well, I want to talk…


Accusation That FBI Spied on Proud Boys Jan. 6 Defense Team Is ‘Baseless,’ Prosecutors Say

An FBI special agent and federal prosecutors deny allegations from defense attorneys in the Jan. 6 Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial that a paid informant spied on the defendants and their attorneys. In a declaration filed on March 23 in U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly’s court, FBI Special Agent Kristina Spindel said the bureau never…


FBI Denies Former Informant Spied on Proud Boys or Their Attorneys in Jan. 6 Case

WASHINGTON—An FBI special agent and federal prosecutors deny allegations from defense attorneys in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial that a paid informant spied on the defendants and their attorneys. In a declaration filed on March 23 in U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly’s court, FBI Special Agent Kristina Spindel said the bureau never asked the…


Did FBI Informant Spy on Proud Boys Defendants and Their Jan. 6 Trial Attorneys?

Defense attorneys in the Proud Boys seditious-conspiracy trial in Washington D.C. learned late March 22 that one of their own defense witnesses who was about to testify had worked as an FBI informant for at least 22 months. They asked for an emergency hearing before U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly and filed a motion to…


Defense Attorneys in Jan. 6 Case Allege FBI Informant Spied on Legal Team

Defense attorneys in the Proud Boys seditious-conspiracy trial in Washington D.C. learned late March 22 that one of their own defense witnesses who was about to testify had worked as an FBI informant for at least 22 months. They asked for an emergency hearing before U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly and filed a motion to…


EXCLUSIVE: From Jail, Oath Keepers Founder Responds to Guilty Verdict for Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy

Four months after he was found guilty of seditious conspiracy and two other charges related to the U.S. Capitol incursion on Jan. 6, 2021, Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III decried the verdicts as “pre-ordained” results from a “guaranteed-conviction zone.” He also warned conservatives that Jan. 6 was “only the beginning of a political…