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Investigative journalist and Blaze Media contributor Steve Baker has reviewed thousands of hours of video footage from the Capitol on January 6 — and it’s starting to pay off.
Baker has found that the Capitol Police agent assigned to the protective detail of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to have given false testimony regarding his whereabouts during a key encounter with members of the Oath Keepers.
“We have a high-ranking Capitol Police special agent with that designation who was the head of Nancy Pelosi’s security detail, who was brought in specifically to corroborate the testimony of another Capitol Police officer,” Baker tells Sara Gonzales.
That Capitol Police officer had a “shaky testimony himself,” he adds.
“They essentially created a script for him and put him in a place with a tale to tell that never happened, because he was a half a mile away in another part of the building, in the tunnels, when this event that he was supposed to be an eyewitness to took place. And it’s just no more complicated than that,” Baker explains.
Baker had noticed early on in a trial related to January 6 that Judge Mehta and the federal prosecutor, lead assistant U.S. attorney Jeffrey Nestler, had an “interesting dynamic between them.”
“There was an obvious attempt to suppress some evidence, and the evidence that was being suppressed was the potential release of two FBI interviews,” Baker says.
Baker explains that one officer previously claimed his encounter with the Oath Keepers was positive and that they had protected him.
"Except that when they started putting together the case against the Oath Keepers, that had to be changed. So they brought him in for a second interview about four months later. That testimony was not only changed to a contentious encounter with the Oath Keepers, but then they also created another event, in another part of the building, to say that he misremembered and that he was confusing the two,” Baker tells Gonzales.
Baker says that because there was potential for the testimony to leak, they brought in another high-ranking officer with more credibility.
“He came in and basically read from a script, because there’s no way that this guy just of his own accord risked himself by committing perjury in a trial for the benefit of somebody he barely knew,” Baker says.
Baker believes that because of this information, the “trial itself should be declared a mistrial” and “the sentences should be vacated.”
“The overriding aspect that’s happening in these January 6 trials is a chilling of speech. It is an evisceration of the First Amendment, and not only that but due process,” he adds.
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By the looks of it, Pelosi's head of security put the Oath Keepers in prison with FALSE TESTIMONY
Investigative journalist and Blaze Media contributor Steve Baker has reviewed thousands of hours of video footage from the Capitol on January 6 — and it’s starting to pay off.
Baker has found that the Capitol Police agent assigned to the protective detail of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to have given false testimony regarding his whereabouts during a key encounter with members of the Oath Keepers.
“We have a high-ranking Capitol Police special agent with that designation who was the head of Nancy Pelosi’s security detail, who was brought in specifically to corroborate the testimony of another Capitol Police officer,” Baker tells Sara Gonzales.
That Capitol Police officer had a “shaky testimony himself,” he adds.
“They essentially created a script for him and put him in a place with a tale to tell that never happened, because he was a half a mile away in another part of the building, in the tunnels, when this event that he was supposed to be an eyewitness to took place. And it’s just no more complicated than that,” Baker explains.
Baker had noticed early on in a trial related to January 6 that Judge Mehta and the federal prosecutor, lead assistant U.S. attorney Jeffrey Nestler, had an “interesting dynamic between them.”
“There was an obvious attempt to suppress some evidence, and the evidence that was being suppressed was the potential release of two FBI interviews,” Baker says.
Baker explains that one officer previously claimed his encounter with the Oath Keepers was positive and that they had protected him.
"Except that when they started putting together the case against the Oath Keepers, that had to be changed. So they brought him in for a second interview about four months later. That testimony was not only changed to a contentious encounter with the Oath Keepers, but then they also created another event, in another part of the building, to say that he misremembered and that he was confusing the two,” Baker tells Gonzales.
Baker says that because there was potential for the testimony to leak, they brought in another high-ranking officer with more credibility.
“He came in and basically read from a script, because there’s no way that this guy just of his own accord risked himself by committing perjury in a trial for the benefit of somebody he barely knew,” Baker says.
Baker believes that because of this information, the “trial itself should be declared a mistrial” and “the sentences should be vacated.”
“The overriding aspect that’s happening in these January 6 trials is a chilling of speech. It is an evisceration of the First Amendment, and not only that but due process,” he adds.
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