(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s militarized Department of Justice has threatened to prosecute an independent journalist for his coverage of the January 6, 2021 rally in Washington, DC, the Epoch Times reported.
Steve Baker, the journalist in question, was served a subpoena demanding the full footage of a video that he shot on the day of the rally. According to Baker, this subpoena indicates that the DOJ is investigating him for potential felonies.
“They want to silence me,” Baker said Monday, noting that the DOJ gave him the option to either show up in person to turn over the footage on August 16, or hand it over to his local FBI chapter in North Carolina.
In Baker’s account of his own actions that day, he observed, but did not participate in any chants or large crowd movements.
According to the journalist, one of his friends received a call from a high-profile DC journalist, warning him that he was on the radar of the feds.
‘Your friend in Raleigh, tell him to be careful,’” the message said. “‘He has awakened a couple of people’s attention to his work, and they’re not happy about it at all.’”
Baker, however, has found himself in the crosshairs of the DOJ before. In 2021, the DOJ attempted to threaten him with interstate racketeering charges. He was told that he would be “charged within the week.”
Now, 20 months later, the DOJ is back at his throat.
“Fact is … ‘they’ know the story I’ve been working on for ten months and am about to drop,” Baker noted. “They are not going to stop it from coming out. Their timing for this action is fully transparent.”
He also said that he does not plan to “go gentle into that good night.”
