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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VIDEO PROOF: Nancy Pelosi's head of security LIED about January 6



David Lazarus was Nancy Pelosi’s head of security on January 6, 2021, and his testimony was key in the prosecution of several defendants.

However, Capitol CCTV footage can now be released to the public that appears to prove Lazarus lied in court about where he was on that fateful day.

Lazarus was initially brought in to corroborate the account of another Capitol police officer, Harry Dunn.

“So, Lazarus was brought in to corroborate Harry Dunn’s perjury,” Sara Gonzales says, noting that his lies “were used to put innocent people in prison, ruin their lives, ruin their family’s lives.”

Investigative journalist Steve Baker has been leading the charge in exposing what really happened on January 6, and at this point, he believes that this was all “allowed to happen.”

“I’ve harvested a day in the life of Harry Dunn from the Capitol CCTV video, and I can’t corroborate anything that he has said that he did that day that made him the hero of the day, that gave him the privilege of earning a Congressional Medal,” Baker explains.

“And now he’s running for Congress,” he adds.

As for whether or not Baker believes the “insurrection” was orchestrated, he definitely doesn’t believe it was all spontaneous.

“There were absolutely, irrefutably, agents provocateur in the crowd. They were there. Who were they working for? I don’t know,” Baker explains.

While the Capitol Police didn’t “draw first blood,” the provocateurs did. Then, the police allowed them in the building.

“There’s the video of the cop squirting a little tear gas canister at the first two guys coming through the window instead of drawing her weapon. I have never quite reconciled myself with that,” Baker says.

“It was allowed to go too far.”


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Speaker vows to release the J6 tapes, but what does that process actually look like?



It’s about time the public hears the truth about what happened on January 6, 2021, and according to House Speaker Mike Johnson, that time is nearing.

Investigative journalist Steve Baker, who has seen and analyzed the tapes himself, joins Steve Deace to explain how this process will likely play out.

“How much footage is the speaker vowing to release, and under what kind of a timetable are we talking about here?” Deace inquires.

“He's talking about releasing about 95% of [the footage],” says Baker. “Now what's the other 5%, and what makes that nefarious? Nothing – it's the secure areas of the Capitol,” such as the hidden staircases, doors, and passageways where “members under threat of an emergency would … escape.”

As for the timeline, Baker says that “there's a lot of misconceptions “ about an “early release” floating around.

As of last Friday, “only 90 hours” of footage were posted on the House Administration Committee's website, and the reason for that is because “that is the 90 hours that have already been cleared by security review.”

As for the rest of the 40,000 hours of footage, it will be a “monumental task on behalf of these congressional staffers and aides,” says Baker.

According to one senior aide Baker spoke to, “they're thinking about hiring a company to come in and handle this for them.”

“So this is going to take many months for the speaker's promise to release this to the public to finally be fulfilled.”

“How confident are you that they're going to follow through with this to the end?” asks Deace.

“I am confident because, as you know, I've had direct communications with Speaker Johnson” and other “congressional contacts,” says Baker, “and we know that this is going to happen.”

To hear their full conversation, watch the clip below.


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