Interrogated, abused & tortured J6 prisoner released just 5 days ago tells his harrowing story of jail time: 'Like a scene out of a movie'



If you haven’t heard the name John Strand, here is a brief recap of his story:

Strand attended the Capitol on January 6 as the friend and bodyguard of Dr. Simone Gold, who was scheduled — and legally permitted — to speak on Capitol grounds that day. However, when the Oathkeepers and Strand escorted Dr. Gold to her speaking location, the chaos at the Capitol had already begun.

While Strand and Gold were uninvolved in the breaching of the Capitol building and never once participated in violence, they made the mistake of entering the building along with the crowd. They entered and departed peacefully like so many thousands of others, but this was enough to land both of them in hot water with the DOJ.

Both Stand and Gold were some of the first to be arrested and charged with four misdemeanors as well as the 1512 felony. While Gold took a plea deal, involving 60 days in prison, Strand, outraged by the obvious injustice, fought the charges. For his resistance, he was convicted on all charges and sentenced to 32 months in prison.

However, now that 1512 has been overturned by SCOTUS, Strand has been freed.

Just days out of prison, he joins Jill Savage and the “Blaze News Tonight” panel to recount his grueling experience behind bars.

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For Strand, jail was “a very painful, miserable place.”

“God did a lot of great things, but it was terrible,” he tells Jill.

“My time in prison was actually split between two facilities — the first half in Miami, where I was actually viciously abused in an isolation environment for about four straight months, which was essentially like being waterboarded, and when I was released from there and transferred to another location, where it was a little less oppressive, it felt like I was trying to breathe the oxygen of freedom through a straw from underneath the swamp,” he recounts.

“You were being held in solitary confinement, which is essentially torture,” says investigative journalist and Blaze Media correspondent Steve Baker, adding that when Dr. Gold tried to sound the alarm on Strand’s abusive treatment, “There was a problem getting this message out” because “they tend to punish you more.”

“That’s exactly what happened to me,” Strand confirms. “They fabricated a whole series of ridiculous circumstances to put me in isolation for a couple of weeks basically to say, ‘Watch out, we'll crush you if you look sideways.”’

“They pulled me out for a couple days and then a story that I had nothing to do with went viral on media. Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene reported on me being tortured and abused, and they put me in this interrogation room and grilled me about this, like I had something to do with it — like a scene out of a movie. And then they threw me back in, and I wasn't seen again for three and a half months.”

“How did you mentally make it through that time?” asks Jill.

To hear Strand’s answer, watch the clip above.

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COVER-UP: The phony Jan 6 committee deleted encrypted files



The truth about January 6 continues to be exposed.

Over 100 encrypted files relating to the January 6 Capitol riot probe were mysteriously deleted — and have now been recovered and password-protected.

The evidence is considered public information by Representative Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, who says it contains interviews and depositions that could prove crucial to making the case against the government.

Loudermilk believes that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intentionally obstructed the subcommittee by failing to preserve critical information and videos as required by house rules.

“Now, this isn’t the first time they’ve been accused of this, because obviously, they did it,” Sara Gonzales comments.

Donald Trump made the same accusation in a January 2024 Truth Social post:

“Why did American Disaster Liz Cheney, who suffers from TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), and was defeated for Congress by the largest margin for a sitting Congressman or Congresswoman in the history of our Country, ILLEGALLY DELETE & DESTROY most of the evidence, and related items, from the January 6th Committee of Political Thugs and Misfits,” Trump wrote.

Loudermilk also claimed that the FBI, Secret Service, and the Department of Defense had intelligence regarding the January 6 attack before it happened.

“That’s called a false flag,” Eric July explains.


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Harry Dunn's history of 'mental health issues' was on 'full display' on January 6



Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn – the “hero,” the “martyr” who President Biden says “acted with remarkable courage and valor to defend both our institutions and our people” during the January 6 Capitol riots … well, frankly, his account of what happened has serious issues.

Dunn has been hailed by the media as a hero for his courage in the face of violence on January 6, for “the persistent emotional trauma” he suffered that day.

“Make no mistake about it – there were a lot of officers injured that day,” says investigative journalist Steve Baker, who has access to the J6 tapes. “I have reviewed hundreds and hundreds of hours of video, and there was violence. I saw violence there that day with my own eyes.”

The only thing is, Harry Dunn wasn’t impacted by any of it, although his copious testimonies, his interviews, and his lucrative new book, "Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer’s Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th," say otherwise.

“In his memoir published in October, Dunn described how he was the target of vicious racial abuse, claiming that ‘20, 30, 40, 50 people’ crowded around him and chanted the N-word during the chaos of the afternoon,” writes Baker.

And yet, in hundreds upon hundreds of hours of tapes, there is nothing showing anything of that nature happening to or even around Dunn.

The truth is, “Dunn spent most of the day avoiding direct conflict with protesters,” Baker explains, but unfortunately, the majority of the public doesn’t know this because the tapes have yet to be released.

As a result, the public has largely bought into Dunn’s faux sob story, but what’s worse is that his testimony has landed many people, including several of the Oath Keepers, behind bars.

So what do the tapes actually show of Dunn’s experience on January 6?

That’s exactly what Steve Baker explores in his latest report: “Harry Dunn’s account of January 6 does not add up. At all.”

He also dives into Dunn’s past, which includes a long history of “anger issues” and “struggles with mental health,” which, as the tapes show, were undoubtedly on “full display” during the riots.

To learn the truth about what Dunn actually encountered on January 6, check out Steve Baker’s in-depth article here and watch the video below.


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What the GUARDED January 6 footage REALLY holds, according to a journalist with access to the tapes



Steve Baker is a lifelong musician and music industry professional, but he’s known for something far different now.

What started as a fun pastime writing about politics turned into something much bigger.

Baker is now a full-blown investigative journalist, and he’s found himself in a bit of hot water after his coverage of the January 6 protest — which he believes goes much deeper than the mainstream media is telling us.

His footage has been used in several January 6 documentaries, including ones made by the New York Times and HBO, as well as news agencies all over the world.

“Fast-forward two and a half years, and I just got a grand jury subpoena for it,” Baker tells James Poulos. “According to what the FBI told me and my lawyer back 21 months ago, they told me that I was going to be prosecuted for interstate racketeering.”

As no other journalists or peaceful protesters that Baker is aware of have been threatened with the same charge, Baker says “the only thing that we’ve been able to surmise is that they want to charge me with, I guess, the preconceived notion that I knew something was going to happen of an illegal nature, and therefore I traveled across state lines to get to D.C.”

Despite the accusations, Baker is one of only five journalists who have been granted access to over 41,000 hours of footage from the protest.

He notes that he became suspicious of what was really going on during one of the trials last year.

“There was a moment where I felt like that I saw something untoward or something suspicious happening between the lead prosecuting attorney, his name is Jeffrey Nestler, an assistant U.S. attorney, and Judge Amit Mehta, who was sitting on the bench in this particular trial.”

According to Baker, his “antennas went up” when he saw what he believed to be “suppression of evidence” and “collusion.”

That’s when he began digging.

“I backdoored my way into the Capitol to see these videos” as well as “into seeing some of this evidence that was under court seal,” he tells Poulos.

He was able to verify that what he saw in court was in fact a suppression of evidence “that would quite likely be exculpatory evidence for these defendants.”

However, that’s not all Baker has found.

“What we have discovered is not only suppression of evidence, but also the creation out of thin air of evidence that did not exist for the purpose of convicting,” Baker tells Poulos, adding that “there are people who have been scapegoated who have become the patsies, who have become the anointed leaders of the insurrection.”

Those “anointers leaders” were in fact “not at all” and “have been falsely accused.”

While Baker cannot currently release the names of these scapegoats, he will soon be able to take a few Blaze reporters with him into the video room, where he says he will finally be able to “get this off my chest.”


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You won't believe THIS SHOCKING TRUTH buried in the Jan. 6 video archives



House Republicans have announced that members of the media and other qualified individuals will now have access to view footage from January 6.

According to the strict criteria required to view the footage, you have to be a qualifying non-profit organization or a news outlet, among other things.

Sara Gonzales believes that “this obviously is backtracking on the promise that Speaker McCarthy made to the American people when he said we will make all of the footage public.”

Investigative journalist Steve Baker has combed through the 41,000 hours of video, which he says is “a daunting and impossible task” if he wanted to get through all of it.

Baker also says that as he has gone through the footage, he’s found that in footage from certain cameras, there were “three or four hours missing in the middle of the riot itself.”

Some of the cameras have no footage whatsoever, which Baker believes is strange, as the Capitol Police “told us that all of their cameras were functional that day.”

Sara Gonzales finds it all fascinating.

“We are still seeing the FBI and the DOJ put so much concentration on January 6, oftentimes non-violent people who didn’t – they didn’t break anything in the Capitol, they didn’t vandalize anything, they didn’t hit anyone,” Gonzales says.

Baker says that it’s frightening, because the people who are being convicted of some sort of conspiracy to overthrow the government simply used “the words of a founding father,” which he calls “revolutionary-style rhetoric.”

In one of the particular stories that Baker is working on in order to exonerate and find evidence for people who are innocent yet being accused, he believes he saw clear collusion.

“I was sitting in one of the trials back last fall, and in that trial I saw something that did not ring true. It was one of those moments between the judge and the lead prosecuting attorney that I, just by instinct, thought I saw collusion,” he says.

“Body language, the connection didn’t work. I saw the panic of the prosecutor, I saw the panic of the judge in suppressing evidence, and then I started the process of digging myself,” he adds.

In that digging, Baker believes he’s found “evidence tampering, evidence suppression,” and the “creating of evidence that did not exist out of whole cloth.”


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COINCIDENCE? Investigative journalist SUBPOENAED while preparing BOMBSHELL January 6 report



Investigative journalist Steve Baker is one of only five journalists with access to the full 41,000 hours of January 6 tapes.

However, while he was working on a story with Blaze Media to expose his findings, a grand jury subpoenaed his own tapes filmed inside the Capitol during the riot. He was there as a journalist.

Baker believes this is another attempt by the government to intimidate and entrap him, and Glenn Beck thinks he just might be right.

“They’re trying to entrap me in a process crime,” Baker tells Glenn.

“And they will keep your mouth shut, and if you don’t, if you do what you’re doing right now, they’re going to charge you with obstruction of justice because you were impeding the law enforcement just doing what it was trying to do,” Glenn says.

Baker warns Glenn that the “most dangerous aspect of nearly all of these J6 cases is the Department of Justice’s focus on speech and the limiting of speech.”

“It’s those words that are being used to establish these incredibly ominous precedents in hundreds and hundreds of federal court cases against political expression by those who dare to think, act, speak against the approved narrative,” he adds.

Glenn notes that he is also being targeted for his political expression as well, adding that his “family is being targeted.”

“It will not stand, and when we are ready to expose we will,” Glenn says. “Thank God you are brave enough to do this. A man who will not go gently into the good night, a man who is being threatened now with prosecution because of his January 6 videos.”

Baker then drops a bombshell on what he saw and captured through his video.

“I was seeing the Department of Justice and the FBI colluding in creating evidence that didn’t exist out of whole cloth and then also of course suppressing exculpatory evidence that should have been allowed into those trials,” Baker says.

“I had this eureka moment and I went ‘Oh my God, this is a conspiracy under the part of the Department of Justice to convict these men,’” he adds.


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Beck: The January 6 committee lied to us



For over two years now, the narrative that the January 6 committee has been pushing has dominated our television screens.

Cherry-picked clips have been flashed daily to demonize the men and women who attended the rally.

And finally, the truth is coming out.

Tucker Carlson has received the clips that the left and its allies in the media didn’t want you to see and has begun airing them to the public.

And let’s just say that those who knew we were being lied to about what really happened on January 6 have been vindicated.

One of the most famous clips circulating was that of Senator Josh Hawley running out of the Capitol building. Mainstream media blasted him, calling him a “coward.” However, the clip had been heavily edited.

Carlson says the clip was “propaganda, not evidence,” before showing the rest of the clip. The clip showed more lawmakers running before Hawley — who was at the back of the pack — all being escorted out of the building by Capitol police.

Glenn Beck is not amused. He responds to the now released clip: “Our flag is supposed to stand for justice for all. Josh Hawley didn’t get any justice, but he’s the least of your worries. Will the people on the January 6 committee, led by Adam Schiff, a guy we already know lied about Russian collusion — is that man going to face impeachment? Is there justice for all?”

As Glenn said, Hawley’s story is the least of our worries.

The famous Shaman from the January 6 riot, who has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison, was helped by Capitol police.

That’s right. He was escorted around the Capitol building by police, who even tried to open locked doors for him.

Beck responds, “They were clearly assisting him. Now how did that guy get four years in prison, when he was being escorted by police?”


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