Number of Undercovers in Jan. 6 Crowd Now up to At Least 40, Court Filings Says

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Number of Undercovers in Jan. 6 Crowd Now up to At Least 40, Court Filings Says

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A defense attorney in the ongoing Proud Boys sedition trial said in a Wednesday filing that the number of identified undercover agents, informants and police officers in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest crowd is now at least 40.

Attorney Roger Roots, who is representing Jan. 6 defendant Dominic Pezzola, said DOJ prosecutors recently informed the defense team that there were “additional” undercover DC Metropolitan Police Department officers than what was previously disclosed.

“At least two law enforcement agencies each outnumbered the FBI in terms of running undercover agents, informants, and [informants] on Jan. 6. First, the DC Metro Police had at least 13 undercover plain-clothes agents among the Proud Boys and other patriots on Jan. 6. Next, there appear to have been some 19 [informants] on Jan. 6 belonging to an agency called HIS (Homeland Security Investigations),” Roots said.

“When added to the eight FBI [informants] now acknowledged by the prosecutors, this means that there were at least forty (40) undercover informants or agents doing surveillance among defendants on January 6.”

Roots credited Jan. 6 defendant William Pope, who is standing trial in a separate case, for exposing additional undercovers in the crowd. In response to court filings made by Pope, prosecutors admitted last month that some of the Jan. 6 footage under seal includes body camera recordings from undercover police officers who were urging protestors inside the Capitol building.

The day after this admission, prosecutors in the Proud Boys trial also admitted to there being more undercover feds and officers in the Jan. 6 crowd, according to Roots.

“Federal prosecutors in this case pulled defense lawyers aside and revealed that the United States possessed previously undisclosed information regarding MPD officers working undercover on Jan. 6,” Roots said. “Specifically, there are previously undisclosed text messages between the undercover officers and Proud Boy supporters which evidence very close, familial and/or intimate contact and relationships.”

Roots is seeking a court order compelling the government to provide the names, identities, and reports of all HSI confidential informants operating at or near the Capitol or around the Proud Boys on January 6, 2021. The DOJ has yet to respond to the attorney’s motion.

Pezzola is one of the defendants in the ongoing Proud Boys sedition conspiracy trial, along with Zachary Rehl, Enrique Tarrio, Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs.

The trial is ongoing.

On Thursday, the judge presiding over the case reportedly ordered a closed hearing to investigate allegations by a juror that he was being followed by someone. This matter was not resolved before the publication of this article.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Protesters Heckle ‘Warmonger’ Pelosi as a ‘Sad Old Drunk’

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Protesters Heckle ‘Warmonger’ Pelosi as a ‘Sad Old Drunk’

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Security had its hands full on Monday during a Manhattan event featuring former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on the eve of former President Donald Trump’s sham arrest at the hands of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

The San Francisco Democrat was the featured speaker at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center in a public session on Monday evening moderated by far-left New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.

That’s when freewheeling free speech broke out according to a video posted to Twitter by conservative influencer Ian Miles Chong.

Before they were removed, hecklers interrupted the proceeding several times. That included one them shouting, “Hey congresswoman, I came to see a warmonger but you’re a sad old drunk…You g**d**n war criminal. How many people have died in your f**k**g name?”

The same heckler, alluding to the Trump indictment, wondered out loud if Pelosi might also have traveled to New York to get indicted for her transgressions involving endless war.

In the first interruption, a heckler yelled, “You know Pelosi, that’s a very good place for you in the depths of hell. For some reason, you have a very bad obsession of getting us into war. Hey, why is it that you did not admit that there were no WMDs in Iraq? You lied us into a war in Iraq…”

Hecklers, who were booed by most of the audience, also took Pelosi to task for the war in Afghanistan, the Nord Stream pipeline explosion “leaving millions of Germans without energy,” tensions between China and Taiwan, and Wall Street corruption.

One of the other hecklers even referred the late Lyndon LaRouche, a fringe Democrat presidential candidate and conspiracy theorist who had amassed a sizeable cult following prior to his 2019 death.

“By the way, Lyndon LaRouche is back in a big way, and I’m here on behalf of everybody who loves peace and not war with Russia, war with China…”

The incident was reminiscent of a 2022 encounter when anti-war protesters shouted down Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-N.Y., for selling out her constituents by voting to send billions of taxpayer dollars to Ukraine in the ongoing war between that country and Russia—a conflict that could drag the world into nuclear war.

The Left in America was traditionally anti-war, pro-free-speech, and skeptical of—if not hostile to—big corporations and especially the U.S. government intelligence agencies.

Among establishment, globalist Democrats and most of their followers, the script has totally flipped—although these incidents suggest that some small pockets of progressive resistance exist.

In 2021, the Democrat Socialists of America lauded AOC as the organization’s “foremost socialist superstar” even as she has morphed into more of a conventional politician.

The publicity-loving AOC hinted this week that she might primary Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2024, and it’s quite likely that she could unseat the incumbent  and go on to win a general election in the blue state.

Pelosi, meanwhile, recently prompted ridicule on social media for seemingly failing to understand a fundamental principle in the U.S. judicial system that a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Fmr. Bush Press Sec. Calls for Conservative DAs to Target Corrupt Left

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Fmr. Bush Press Sec. Calls for Conservative DAs to Target Corrupt Left

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Ari Fleischer, former press secretary of President George W. Bush, argued that the Left will not cease its “lawfare” war on the Right and its elected officials until the Right does the same thing in return, the RealClear Politics reported.

Fleischer made the argument during an appearance Tuesday on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s show, noting that if the Left is willing to violate all of the prior rules—written and unwritten—then the Right is left with no choice.

“One of the raps against Donald Trump is that he violates the norms and, as a result, the Democrats had no choice—prosecutors had no choice,” Fleischer said.

“What’s happened to Donald Trump is actually the real violation of the norms,” Fleischer continued. “He was impeached the first time by a process that did not even go through the Judiciary Committee.”

According to Fleischer, the select House Intelligence Committee, which is tasked with safeguarding some of the country’s most sensitive national-security secrets, was wrecked in “the hands of Adam Schiff to get Donald Trump.”

Fleischer also brought up the George Soros-backed New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is behind the current prosecution of Trump for his alleged hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

“Now you have a prosecutor in an overwhelmingly lopsidedly ideologically Democrat, 85-15 Democrat-to-Republican Manhattan going after Donald Trump,” he said, alluding to Bragg.

Ultimately, Fleischer said, the Left will not stop hassling the Right with legal difficulties until the latter adopts the same tactics. “I earnestly hope that conservative prosecutors in rural areas of America indict Bill Clinton, indict Hillary Clinton, indict Hunter Biden,” he said.

If Republicans refuse, they may risk their very existence as a party in the country given the direction of recent elections.

“Republicans cannot unilaterally disarm,” Fleischer said, suggesting that the only path to political armistice was the threat of mutually assured destruction. “You can’t let them try to interfere in the 2024 election by doing to Donald Trump what they’re doing.”

ABC Blurs Number to Text Trump for Donations During Post-Arrest Speech

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ABC Blurs Number to Text Trump for Donations During Post-Arrest Speech

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) As former President Donald Trump delivered remarks Tuesday night, the ABC state media blurred out the number to text from Trump’s podium during its broadcast of the event, the Gateway Pundit reported.

Trump’s remarks came after he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges in New York City, supported by George Soros-funded District Attorney, Alvin Bragg.

The podium, which featured the message “TEXT TRUMP AT 88022,” could not be read during the broadcast of his Mar-a-Lago speech. Such advertisements are generally used for the raising of campaign funds.

Trump is the current frontrunner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary race and one of only three declared candidates. That alone has fueled questions about whether Bragg’s politically motivated prosecution might constitute election interference.

Predictably, the corporate media has refrained from blurring out the same type of message from President Joe Biden’s addresses as he has campaigned in the past.

Trump, during his speech, addressed the ongoing drama surrounding his recent arrest in New York City as he is investigated for charges that previously had been ruled out by both the state and federal government.

Trump in his speech slammed the lack of election integrity in the United States, noting that as his chances are undermined, DAs like Bragg have been permitted to run entirely partisan campaigns.

“Our elections were like those of a Third World country,” Trump said. “And now, this massive election interference at a scale never seen before in our country, beginning with the radical left to George Soros backed prosecutor Alvin Bragg of New York, who campaigned on the fact that he would get President Trump.”

Trump also emphasized his innocence in the case, citing that our globalist leaders have sought to excise him because he stood up for American interests.

“The only crime I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” he said.

The corporate media hacks at The Atlantic and Rolling Stone, among others, rushed to condemn the former president for spreading conspiracy theories from the podium.

According to Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickonson, “Trump’s delivery was drained as he rattled through an endless litany of conspiracy and complaint, not only about the day’s criminal proceedings but about the ‘onslaught of fraudulent investigations’ he claims are unfairly targeting him.”

Vax Realist RFK Jr. Files for POTUS Bid under Assault from Regime Media

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Vax Realist RFK Jr. Files for POTUS Bid under Assault from Regime Media

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Vaccine realist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., triggered a tremor around the political spectrum and threw mainstream media into a panic on Wednesday, when the Democrat Party scion filed the requisite paperwork for a 2024 presidential run.

Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of his brother President John F. Kennedy, has long been a thorn in the establishment’s side for his outspoken views on vaccines and Big Pharma and his criticisms of the deep state uniparty.

In a March 10 tweet exploring a possible presidential bid, Kennedy said his “top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms. Together we can restore America’s democracy.”

Kennedy’s realist approach to vaccines, including work with his charity Children’s Health Defense, has helped him garner support from unlikely quarters for a Democrat, and his criticisms of the Biden administration have been an ongoing concern for party operatives.

Last month, Kennedy and his Children’s Health Defense organization sued the Biden administration and myriad officials for violating the First Amendment, filing a massive class-action lawsuit for using censorship to deprive the public of accurate news during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 presidential election.

Despite uniformly claiming that Kennedy posed little threat in a primary challenge to President Joe Biden, mainstream media regime collaborators launched a furious and orchestrated attack against Kennedy.

CNN shill Jake Tapper led the pack, with the news anchor quickly dispelling any notion of the network’s pledge for unbiased coverage, smearing Kennedy as an “anti-vaccine quack” who was a “healthcare menace.”

The Associated Press came close to topping Tapper, implying that Kennedy’s vaccine views made him a racist and a killer. The questioning of vaccine orthodoxy made groups like mothers and black Americans more prone to distrust the vaccine, “which could have resulted in deaths during the pandemic,” the AP warned, citing unnamed “experts.”

Politico added to the hit job, painting Kennedy as conspiracy theorist, while The Hill labeled him “a longtime anti-vaccine activist.”

“Legacy Media doesn’t even pretend to be objective,” tweeted popular political commentator ALX. “Instead of just publishing a straightforward headline announcing that RFK Jr. is running, they of course have to ascribe the label ‘Anti-Vaccine Activist’ to him, as if people have never heard of the Kennedy family.”

The media backlash might have played into the hands of Kennedy if he decides to run as a “chaos agent,” something that Trump ally Steve Bannon has reportedly been encouraging for months.

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could jump into the Republican primary for president, and only DeSantis and Trump, I think, would do better,” Bannon said earlier this year.

“It’s a great thing that @RobertKennedyJr is running for President as a Democrat because it’ll be the final straw for old JFK Democrats when they see how the new Democratic Party treats RFK Jr.,” tweeted Robby Starbuck. “By the end they’ll all be voting Republican when they see how insane the woke Dems are!”

DOJ: Self-Described Communist Provocateur Participated in J6 Protest

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DOJ: Self-Described Communist Provocateur Participated in J6 Protest

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A man who rioted during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest told the FBI that he was a “communist” who wanted to provoke law enforcement into shooting Trump supporters.

This is according to a Tuesday court filing by the DOJ, which seeks an 88-month prison sentence for Jan. 6 participant Josiah Kenyon for allegedly damaging a Capitol window, entering the building and assaulting police officers. Kenyon was prominent among the Jan. 6 crowd for his “Jack Skellington” costume from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

When he was arrested, Kenyon told FBI agents he was an anti-Trumper, according to the DOJ.

“He told agents that he hated Trump and that he was at the Capitol on January 6 because he was ‘trying to raise the violence level.’ He claimed to be a ‘Communist; and that he wanted law enforcement ‘to shoot [the Trumpers] all down,’” the DOJ said Tuesday in its sentencing memorandum.

“He admitted to striking an officer with a table leg, first in the knee and again in the foot. His idea was to have ‘the Trumpers’ charge the police.”

NBC News reporter Ryan Reilly speculated that the reason the DOJ is seeking to incarcerate Kenyon longer than the typical Jan. 6 participant was to publicly show that it’s also cracking down on any undercover leftists who may have been fomenting violence.

“Feds are seeking what would be one of the harshest Jan. 6 sentences to date, which would have the added benefit of allowing them to go ‘See?!? SEE?!?’” Reilly said on Twitter.

Reilly also noted discrepancies between Kenyon’s claim of being a communist and reports that he is, in fact, a sovereign citizen. Kenyon was reportedly living in an off-the-grid trailer near Reno when he was arrested, and spoke in “sovereign citizen, anti-government rhetoric.”

Additionally, a Go Fund Me page for Kenyon describes him as someone who protested because government COVID policies destroyed his business.

“Josiah went to the capital on January 6th to stand because he had once again lost all he had, except for his family, due to losing his business during covid lockdowns,” states the Go Fund Me post, which says it was created by “a friend of several J6 defendants.”

“He had gone from the streets, where he had been off and on since the age of 14 to a new business owner in Nevada performing custom work and repairs on guns, producing leather accessories, and making knives. In this manner he was hoping to support his family on 40 acres that he had owner-financed in Nevada.”

Kenyon is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Even John Bolton Admits Bragg’s Charges Against Trump Are Extremely Weak

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Even John Bolton Admits Bragg’s Charges Against Trump Are Extremely Weak

(Headline USA) Former national security adviser John Bolton, a longstanding foe of former President Donald Trump, admitted this week that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump is an “overreach” and “weak.”

Bolton noted that he is someone “who very strongly does not want Donald Trump to get the Republican presidential nomination,” but told CNN that he is “extraordinarily distressed” by Bragg’s unsealed indictment.

“I think this is even weaker than I feared it would be,” he said, “and I think it’s easily subject to being dismissed or a quick acquittal for Trump.” 

Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records — charges that stem from a hush-money payment Trump’s former campaign manager Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Bolton said that there “is no basis in the statutory language to say that Trump’s behavior forms either a contribution or an expenditure under federal law.”

“If you can construe the statute to cover this behavior, then I think it violates the First Amendment,” he added.

Bolton isn’t the only Trump-hater to rail against Bragg’s case. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, also issued a statement condemning the charges.

“I believe President Trump’s character and conduct make him unfit for office. Even so, I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda,” Romney said.

“No one is above the law, not even former presidents, but everyone is entitled to equal treatment under the law. The prosecutor’s overreach sets a dangerous precedent for criminalizing political opponents and damages the public’s faith in our justice system,” Romney continued.

Republicans have rallied around Trump in the wake of the indictment, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., vowing on Tuesday to use his congressional powers to scrutinize Bragg’s abuse of office.

“Alvin Bragg is attempting to interfere in our democratic process by invoking federal law to bring politicized charges against President Trump, admittedly using federal funds, while at the same time arguing that the peoples’ representatives in Congress lack jurisdiction to investigate this farce,” McCarthy tweeted.

Oregon Denies Woman Right to Adopt Based on Her Belief in Jesus

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Oregon Denies Woman Right to Adopt Based on Her Belief in Jesus

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) The Oregon Department of Human Services denied the application of a mother of five seeking to adopt children because of her religious beliefs.

According to Oregon’s policy regarding adoption, a family looking to adopt a child must “respect, accept, and support” the sexual orientation and gender identity of that child. The Alliance Defending Freedom noted, however, that the department denied Jessica Bates’s application because she was a Christian who refused the idea of Oregon’s gender ideology. 

A lawsuit filed by ADF attorneys Monday on Bates’s behalf stated that ODHS refused her application, though she noted that she was willing to love and accept any child but could not act against her Christian faith. 

ADF’s report noted that the state’s policy excludes people who only believe in the biological reality regarding gender. In this regard, ADF Senior Counsel Jonathan Scruggs, director of the ADF Center for Conscience initiatives, expressed displeasure, noting that such a policy only reduced the number of families able to provide loving homes. 

“Oregon’s policy amounts to an ideological litmus test: people who hold secular or ‘progressive’ views on sexual orientation and gender identity are eligible to participate in child welfare programs, while people of faith with religiously informed views are disqualified because they don’t agree with the state’s orthodoxy,” said Scruggs.

“The government can’t exclude certain faith communities from foster care and adoption services because the state doesn’t like their particular religious beliefs,” Scruggs said.

In the press release, ADF legal counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse asserted that Oregon’s criteria about parents fit to adopt children is unjust.

“Oregon is putting its political agenda above the needs of countless children who would be happy to grow up in a loving, Christian home like Jessica’s,” the legal counsel said.

“We urge the court to remind the state of its constitutional and moral obligations and reaffirm Jessica’s First Amendment right to live out her faith without being penalized by the government.”

Howard Uni. Hires Stacey Abrams to Push Racial Politics

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Howard Uni. Hires Stacey Abrams to Push Racial Politics

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Stacey Abrams, a Democrat politician who lost both Georgia‘s 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial races, will join the faculty of historically black Howard University where she will be the inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics.

“The work she has been doing on voter registration and voting irregularities, especially in Georgia but across the country, speaks to a lot of what Ronald Walters embodied,” Howard President Wayne A.I. Frederick said about Abrams, according to Breitbart.

“This appointment is extremely important for our students.”

The university president also went on to say that when it comes to topics of black politics and the role politics plays in the lives of black people, “Stacey Abrams epitomizes that in our contemporary experience, in our society.”

Abrams, who is supposed to start working for the university in September, also commented on her multiyear appointment.

“We are entering an inflection point in American politics where the conversation of race and black politics will be a central facet,” the twice-failed gubernatorial candidate said.

“And having the chance to help guide part of the conversation for young people who are studying at Howard University is an exceptional opportunity.”

She also pointed out the importance of the university’s location.

“Washington, D.C. is an essential part of how we protect democracy, how we think about social policy, how we challenge norms,” she said.

“And Howard University is a crucible for how we can engage all of those pieces. And so when they approached me, I was excited.”

However, Abrams is not the only person who was hired by the woke university. New York Times writer and author of the “1619 Project” that distorts American history Nikole Hannah-Jones accepted a role at Howard in 2021, rejecting a tenured position at the University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Slavery reparations advocate, author and Marvel comic book writer Ta-Nehisi Coates joined the university’s faculty the same year as well.

Alvin Bragg’s Top Prosecutor Boasted about Helping Violent Criminals Avoid Jail

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Alvin Bragg’s Top Prosecutor Boasted about Helping Violent Criminals Avoid Jail

(Headline USA) A top prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, Meg Reiss, bragged about assisting criminals, including one convicted for murder, avoid incarceration.

Reiss, who serves as Bragg’s chief assistant district attorney, is on record defending criminals as “not bad dudes” and calling for a “restorative” justice system. This form of justice apparently involves helping criminals avoid justice altogether.

“We know incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems,” Reiss said during a Peace Institute event in May 2021, according to Fox News.

She went on to describe a case in which a man who was facing a manslaughter charge for killing another person during a violent altercation was able to get off without any prison time.

“It was an incident between two people that knew each other very well. And it was sort of… a fight that ended up with one person dying and the person who was charged had substance misuse issues and other things. And going through the outcome in the case, it just seemed appropriate for restorative practice rather than a carceral sentence,” she said.

Reiss went on to claim that she has helped refer many violent criminals away from incarceration.

“So we’re really trying to shift to restorative outcomes being the really default to the work that we do,” Reiss said. “So there’s some things where that already happens… for people that are charged with causing harm, actual violence… where they actually cause actual harm to another person.”

To accomplish this, Reiss said she “screens” cases with a leftist organization called Common Justice, which says on its website that its mission is to “develop and advance solutions to violence that … foster racial equity without relying on incarceration.”

Reiss has also advocated for critical race theory within the criminal justice system.

“One conclusion seems inescapable,” she said. “The path towards accountability… must… confront the injustices that arise from systematic racism, both past and present.”

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