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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Slavery, the Holocaust — and January 6? Sunny Hostin's jaw-dropping Capitol protest comparison
On the anniversary of the “day Democracy almost died,” liberals across the country showed they’re still suffering from severe delusions regarding the January 6 protestors and what really happened that day.
One of those liberals, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, compared the day to Pearl Harbor. “January 6, 2021, is a day that will forever live in infamy,” Jeffries said, somehow with a straight face — but he is not alone in his delusions.
Unsurprisingly, Sunny Hostin of "The View" also took the time to rant about the infamous day.
“I think we need to find moral clarity, you know, in this country. And I just remember after January 6, you had someone like Mitch McConnell placing the blame on January 6 where it belonged: squarely on Donald Trump’s shoulders,” Hostin told the rest of "The View" panel.
“And then you started seeing people backtrack and losing their moral center. You had Lisa Rice, I believe on this very show, saying, ‘We need to move on from January 6.’ I say, no. You don’t move on. January 6 was an atrocity,” Hostin continued.
“One of the worst moments in American history. And when you think about the worst moments in American history, you know like World War II, things that happened, like the Holocaust, slavery, we need to never forget,” Hostin added.
Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” is horrified.
“American history doesn’t include the Holocaust. Now, the Holocaust is horrific, one of the worst events in world history — didn’t happen in America,” he explains. “And she’s talking about American history. I mean, what a moron.”
Not only is Hostin’s inability to understand the difference between American events and global events unfortunate, but her comparison is absurd, to say the least.
“You’re comparing the Holocaust and slavery to January 6,” Gray says, astonished. “Where no one died except for Ashli Babbitt and one other protester who was trampled and beaten to death.”
“There are no words to express the outrage I feel from these people,” he adds.
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