January 6 Defendants Succeed in Proving They Were Treated Better than Other DC Detainees

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As I’ve noted, because of Christopher Worrell’s claims he has been denied medical treatment (many claims of which don’t match his own medical record), Royce Lamberth held the Warden and the Director of the DC jail in contempt, leading to a Civil Rights Division investigation.

I’ve also noted Nate DeGrave’s fantastic complaints about jail conditions, including that he has to eat baloney sandwiches.

Yesterday, the Marshal Service revealed that, seemingly in response to Lamberth’s Worrell order, it did unannounced visits at several DC jail facilities. It determined that one DC jail facility was not fit to house inmates.

But that was the other DC jail facility — not the more modern one where all the January 6 defendants are housed.

The USMS inspection was prompted by recent and historical concerns raised regarding conditions at the DC DOC facilities, including those recently raised by various members of the judiciary.

The inspection encompassed two DC DOC housing facilities – the Central Treatment Facility (CTF) and the Central Detention Facility (CDF). During the unannounced inspection, the U.S. Marshal reviewed both housing facilities and conducted more than 300 voluntary interviews with detainees.

The U.S. Marshal’s inspection of CTF did not identify conditions that would necessitate the transfer of inmates from that facility at this time. CTF houses approximately 120 detainees in the custody of the USMS, including all the defendants in pre-trial custody related to alleged offenses stemming from events that took place on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol, as well as other federal detainees. Housing assignments for detainees are determined by the DC DOC.

The U.S. Marshal’s inspection of CDF revealed that conditions there do not meet the minimum standards of confinement as prescribed by the Federal Performance-Based Detention Standards. CDF houses approximately 400 detainees in the custody of the USMS.

Too be clear: The conditions the January 6 defendants are held in are still inadequate, at least with respect to their access to discovery and the limits on video conference rooms (which limit how quickly judges can schedule hearings, one of Judge Lamberth’s underlying complaints).

But as Judge Mehta has said in response to such claims, the conditions January 6 defendants are experiencing are the same that a number of other predominantly brown defendants, some of them who’ve been jailed significantly longer than the January 6 defendants, have been experiencing.

Or, in some cases, those other detainees were experiencing significantly worse conditions.

Update: Judge Lamberth ordered Worrell moved to Alexandria jail immediately, and released to home detention in Florida once Pre-trial services vets someone to take over his custody.

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  2. Peterr says:

    Kudos to the January 6ers for using their privilege to speak up for and help those in even worse conditions! Such a thoughtful, social justice-y thing to do.

    /s

  3. bmaz says:

    “Too be clear: The conditions the January 6 defendants are held in are still inadequate, at least with respect to their access to discovery and the limits on video conference rooms (which limit how quickly judges can schedule hearings, one of Judge Lamberth’s underlying complaints).”

    Sure. But you should see state level jails. None are good. And they are not anywhere. Including the UK.

    • gmoke says:

      I have read that the Federal prisons are better* than State prisons and deduce that County lock-ups are probably the bottom of the barrel.

      *relative term

      Where’s Alexis De Toqueville and his prison fact-finding team when you need them?

      • Silly but True says:

        This just hit Lamberth’s last nerve: he just ordered Worrell released to home detention to start chemo immediately, stating:” This court has zero confidence that the DC jail will provide the treatment correctly and not retaliate against Worrell.”

        Worrell got what he wanted with this (needed?).

      • bmaz says:

        Yeah, I have the distinct pleasure of having been in all of the categories. None are good. As a general rule, yes the federal ones are usually better than state and local ones. There must also be the distinction between jails and prisons, and, yes, there is a real difference. If you have to do time, it is generally better in actual prison than jail.

        FWIW, I used to get walked into quads to see clients, so really got to see what was going on. Even a couple of times into CB6, which was the state death row block at the time. That was long ago, It has changed now.

        Trust me, you do not ever want to be in any of these places, even the so called “Club Feds”. You would need a bath after even visiting the depths of any of them. Here is the thing, as bad as it is, is this worse than other countries? My only experience outside of the US is Mexico, and the US is far better than that.

        • Frank Anon says:

          I had to visit Otisville not that long ago, with a reputation for being an “easy” bit. It looked and felt like a twenty year unwashed bus station.

        • Ten Bears says:

          It has been my limited experience that while the conditions may be better federal-time is all-the-time, there’s little to no “time off for good behavior,” while at the state and county, in particular the county level there’s a high likelihood of getting matrixed out in a month.

          It’s been a long time, but I still have a hard time getting warm …

        • Leoghann says:

          In Arizona, an inmate does day-for-day, with the maximum of credit for good behavior and completed programs being 15% of the total sentence.

        • WilliamOckham says:

          One exception to the better off in prison than in jail is Texas during the summer time. County jails (mostly folks who haven’t been convicted of anything) have to be cooled to 85 degrees. And if you’re thinking 85 degrees indoors is pretty unbearable, you’re right. Except Texas prison cells, on the other hand, are mostly not air conditioned at all. And that means temperatures constantly over 100 degrees (even at night due to the way they are constructed) for weeks at a time. In 2011 there was a heat wave that killed 10 inmates from heat exhaustion.
          Let’s be honest. Most of Texas was and is uninhabitable without air conditioning. This problem is going to get worse with climate change. To me, this is the very definition of cruel and unusual punishment.

    • Nord Dakota says:

      A few years ago, the warden for the North Dakota state pen took trips to Norway to learn about their model for incarceration and, as I understand, has made progress in applying the model. I’d forgotten about that, and don’t have any direct knowledge. It’s a small enough state that when horrible things happen in jails (and there have been a good number of deaths from medical issues in county lockups that could have been prevented, and some sanctions) it makes the news, but doesn’t seem to happen much.

      • bmaz says:

        The American jail/prison system can be much better, and should be much better. There is no question about that. There are better models of it, and Norway may be one.

        Unfortunately, doing it to scale in a place with different things is hard. Any progress is good progress though. Out on a limb maybe, but this needs to start with less incarceration, both pre-trial and post conviction.

        • Spencer Dawkins says:

          This is prison? Maybe. It depends on what you’re trying to do.

          Bmaz mentioned “less incarceration”, and I think (please correct me) that he includes “shorter” when he says “less”. My Lovely Wife is active in prison ministry, and I’ve had the privilege of seeing a guy who was released from the Texas prison system after 23 years, who had never used a cell phone – much less used (for instance) Google Maps on a cell phone to figure out what buses to ride. He was an excellent electrician – he worked on electrical systems at more than one Texas prison – but when he was released, he couldn’t be a licensed electrician because he’s an ex-felon. I’m pretty sure what we’re doing in Texas is warehousing people who have been convicted.

          If you think people in prison are ever going to get OUT of prison, you have to do things differently. I don’t know everything that needs to change, but my friend needed something between “life skills (what’s changed since you went inside)” and “shorter terms (so less changes while you’re inside)”.

          I happened to flip past one of the “behind bars” reality shows that toured (if I remember correctly) Belgian prisons, and at least some prisoners there were released every Friday to spend the weekend “outside”, so that they could recognize the world outside when their terms ended, including their families (especially children). The film crew said they were told that the prisoners come back (I have no idea whether they are wearing ankle bracelets), which makes sense if they miss the world outside and think they can make it.

          That’s … different from Texas. And probably not warehousing.

          “Less incarceration” can also mean “fewer people being incarcerated”, which would also be an improvement, considering where we are with prison overcrowding, but that’s another story.

  4. subtropolis says:

    That’s quite a large movement of prisoners. No small task, and I hope the massive disruption is worth it to those involved.

    I’ve just learned that Mr. DeGrave 1) claimed that his “battle rattle” getup at the Capitol was a mere costume for a documentary; 2) had sent out a request on the crazy-people’s forums, in the days leading up to the big show, for a former SEAL or FBI agent to teach him how to shoot; 3) was coy about whether or not he was going to carry a weapon into the Capitol during a video he made on the way there; 4) is planning to run for mayor of Las Vegas.

  7. harpie says:

    Of course, I was away for a few days when The Washington Post published
    this AMAZING chronicle of the INSURRECTION:

    THE ATTACK: Before, During and After A @washingtonpost investigative series
    about the causes, cost and aftermath of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/
    October 31, 2021

    Chapter 1: Before > RED FLAGS

    Law enforcement officials failed to heed mounting warnings about Jan. 6 violence as Trump propelled his supporters to Washington.

    Chapter 2: During > BLOODSHED

    For 187 harrowing minutes, Trump watched his supporters attack the Capitol – and resisted pleas to stop them.

    Chapter 3: After > CONTAGION

    Threats and disinformation spread across the country in the wake of the Capitol siege, shaking the underpinnings of American democracy.

    • Rayne says:

      Looking forward to hearing what you think about that WaPo piece. I’m really unhappy with parts of it I think are skewed around/by key persons, wondering if it’s based on sourcing.

      • harpie says:

        I agree with that. I’ve mostly read for timing hints, so far, [some interesting additions and clarifications] but definitely had that feeling…like some of it is spun by interested parties.

        [Could you please TAG the top comment with #J6TL?]

        • harpie says:

          Yeah. The discussion in the first section, of what Bowser, Milley and McCarthy were thinking, beginning with:

          [quote]
          [Bowser] was also reluctant to request the National Guard, concerned that the troops could be given orders by the president and abandon their posts. […]
          Milley was worried that once troops were activated and on the streets of the nation’s capital, it would be much easier for Trump to redirect them as he wished. […]
          McCarthy, the Army secretary, wasn’t sure he could rule out such a scenario, either […]
          [end quote]

      • harpie says:

        About this story This project is based on interviews with more than 230 people and thousands of pages of court documents and internal law enforcement reports, as well as hundreds of videos, photographs and audio clips.

  8. harpie says:

    #J6TL

    In introductory section of Chapter 2 of the WaPo series [During: BLOODSHED] there’s a pretty powerful paragraph which gives pinpoint descriptions of ACTIONs happening at the Capitol in relation to TRUMP’s NON-action:

    During the 187 minutes that Trump stood by, harrowing scenes of violence played out in and around the Capitol. […]

    [Footnote 1] 187 minutes is the length of time between 1:10 p.m., when Trump called on his followers to march on the Capitol, and 4:17 p.m., when he released a video telling them to go home. Descriptions of these incidents are drawn from court documents and other public records.

    1:35 PM Twenty-five minutes into Trump’s silence, a news photographer was dragged down a flight of stairs and thrown over a wall.
    2:02 PM Fifty-two minutes in, a police officer was kicked in the chest and surrounded by a mob.
    2:10 PM Within the first hour, two rioters died as a result of cardiac events.
    2:14 PM Sixty-four minutes in, a rioter paraded a Confederate battle flag through the Capitol.
    2:23 PM Seventy-three minutes in, another police officer was sprayed in the face with chemicals.
    2:28 PM Seventy-eight minutes in, yet another police officer was assaulted with a flagpole.
    2:33 PM Eighty-three minutes in, rioters broke into and began looting the House speaker’s office.
    2:43 PM Ninety-three minutes in, another news photographer was surrounded, pushed down and robbed of a camera.
    2:44 PM Ninety-four minutes in, a rioter was shot and killed.
    2:52 PM One hundred two minutes in, rioters stormed the Senate chamber, stealing papers and posing for photographs around the dais.
    3:06 PM One hundred sixteen minutes in, a fourth police officer was crushed in a doorway and beaten with his own baton.
    3:10 PM All in the first two hours. [One hundred twenty minutes in]

    • harpie says:

      Trump watched the attack play out on television and resisted acting, neither to coordinate a federal response nor to instruct his supporters to disperse. He all but abdicated his responsibilities as commander in chief — a president reduced to mere bystander. The tweets Trump sent during the first two hours of rioting were muddled at best. He disavowed violence but encouraged his supporters to press on with their fight at the Capitol. And throughout, he repeated the lie that the election was stolen.2

      [fn2 Trump’s actions were described by several senior administration officials and other advisers, including first-hand witnesses.]

      From our Timeline, to integrate with the above TL:

      2:24 PM TRUMP tweets:

      Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!
      [Twitter: This claim about election fraud is disputed]

      2:25 PM Kaitlan Collins tweets:

      I’ve asked the White House for a comment from President Trump on the chaos unfolding on Capitol Hill right now by a mob wearing MAGA sweatshirts and waving Trump flags. No response yet.

      2:26 PM TRUMP calls TUBERVILLE to delay certification

      2:38 PM TRUMP tweets:

      Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our country. Stay peaceful! [VIDEO]

      • harpie says:

        ^^^^ TRUMP did ACT,
        just not in the way one expects a president would.

        […to “resist” to act IS an act…]

        • Rayne says:

          Incitement and sedition are acts. Just not lawful ones taken by a legitimate president acting with the authority conferred by the Constitution.

      • harpie says:

        From this article, about
        TRUMP’s 2:26 PM ACT of calling TUBERVILLE:

        TRUMP: Coach, how’s it going?
        TUBERVILLE: Not very good, Mr. President
        As a matter of fact, they’re about to evacuate us.
        TRUMP: I know we’ve got problems.
        TUBERVILLE: Mr. President, they just took our vice president out.
        They’re getting ready to drag me out of here. I got to go.

        [footnote5: The dialogue between Trump and Tuberville is based on accounts Tuberville shared with The Post and other news organizations. [links]]

        • harpie says:

          How that ACT of the President fits in [I know we’ve got problems.]:

          2:25 PM The central east doors are breached for about 3 minutes with help from intruders INSIDE
          2:26 PM Trump-Tuberville call
          2:28 PM West Plaza fully breached

  9. harpie says:

    Rayne, in regard to what we were discussing last week, this is how this WaPo piece describes the IED situation [I added the numbers]:

    12:45 PM Capitol Police officers, along with agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, were dispatched to investigate
    1] reports of a pipe bomb with a timer found outside the Republican National Committee headquarters [really the CAPITOL HILL CLUB] and
    2] suspicious packages at the Supreme Court and
    3] near the Democratic National Committee headquarters — all offices close to the Capitol.

  10. harpie says:

    11:57 AM TRUMP BEGINS SPEECH
    12:00 PM “Dozens upon dozens” of Republican members of Congress are lining up in the cloakroom to register as co-sponsors to contest Biden’s victory in six key states
    12:29 PM CP officer reports hearing a Taser weapon fired near the Senate
    12:33 PM Park Police report that they detained a person with a rifle on 17th Street, near the World War II Memorial [that’s between Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial]
    12:36 PM PENCE arrives at the Capitol with his wife and daughter
    His office releases the letter to Congress they had drafted: “As a student of history … I do not believe that the Founders of our country intended to invest the Vice President with unilateral authority to decide which electoral votes should be counted during the Joint Session Congress…”
    12:45 PM Capitol Police officers, along with agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, are dispatched to investigate reports of a pipe bomb with a timer found outside the Republican National Committee headquarters and suspicious packages at the Supreme Court and near the Democratic National Committee headquarters — all offices close to the Capitol. […] proved a distraction for officers guarding the Capitol
    12:46 PM Capitol Police begin executing protocols to keep the peace. Officers are dispatched to block side streets as a precaution against possible vehicle rammings. This essentially creates a protected funnel for the protesters, straight toward the Capitol.
    1:03 PM Capitol Police find an unoccupied red pickup truck with Alabama tags containing a trove of weapons, including an M4 carbine assault rifle, loaded magazines of ammunition, and components to make 11 molotov cocktails.
    1:0X PM Douglas JENSEN’s friend texts that PENCE had just “banged the gavel” to open the joint session. JENSEN replies with photographs of Trump supporters streaming past the WASHINGTON Monument en route to the CAPITOL and texts: “That’s all about to change ;-)”
    1:10 PM TRUMP finishes speech

  11. harpie says:

    WaPo THE ATTACK: Chapter 2 During: BLOODSHED https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/

    7:11 AM CHENEY tweets:

    We have sworn an oath under God to defend the Constitution. We uphold that oath at all times, not only when it is politically convenient.
    Congress has no authority to overturn elections by objecting to electors. Doing so steals power from the states & violates the Constitution.

    8:06 AM An internal SECRET SERVICE alert says that roughly 10,000 people were waiting to go through magnetometers and some were “wearing ballistic helmets, body armor and carrying radio equipment and military-grade backpacks.”
    8:17 AM TRUMP tweets:

    States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!

    9:00 AM PENCE meets with Chief of Staff Marc SHORT, Legislative Affairs Director Chris HODGSON, counsel Greg JACOB and press secretary Devin O’MALLEY at his Naval Observatory residence. They review for the last time the formal letter they had drafted for Pence to send to members of Congress notifying them of his intention to follow his constitutional duty and oversee certification of the electoral college results
    9:00 AM Employees from D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency fan out from the White House to the Capitol in “mobile situational awareness teams.” Teams near the WHITE HOUSE report hundreds of backpacks piled up
    9:00 AM At the WASHINGTON Monument, a mob of Trump supporters overrun Park Police “We have about 300 people up here, they’re all refusing to leave.” [] “There’s a large crowd that’s following us. We’re going back into the monument with the individual that’s under arrest. They’re breaking through the bike fence.” [] “Units are backed into the monument. Everyone’s breaking through the bike racks.”
    9:46 AM At the LINCOLN Memorial, Park Police officers radio in to say there were 500 to 800 people gathered “113, we have individuals with shields and gas masks at the statue.” [] “OK, they’re at the Lincoln statue with shields and masks?” [] “10-4, and taking pictures right now with a flag that says ‘F—antifa.’”
    9:46 AM Park Police at WASHINGTON Monument: “Just for safety, there’s a guy, a White male, walking around the flag circle with a pitchfork.”
    9:46 AM INSTRUCTIONS for Park Police officers: “A direct for the units at 141: Monitor only. Do not take any type of enforcement action. Let it happen.” [] “Yeah, we’re waiting on y’all.” [] “Even when react gets there, monitor only. Let it happen unless we have major, major issues.” An officer explained the strategy of restraint: “We’re not going to agitate them.”
    THAT MORNING TRUMP and PENCE speak by phone. PENCE, from the Naval Observatory explains that the vice president’s duty was ceremonial and that his authority was limited, no matter how badly Pence may have wanted them to serve a second term.
    TRUMP: “You don’t have the courage to make a hard decision.”
    LATER THAT MORNING Trump is with family members and aides at the WH, monitoring the crowd size and reviewing the speech with Stephen MILLER GUILFOYLE: [The growing crowd is] “just reflecting the will of the people. This is the will of the people.”
    10:58 AM Police recover two firearms from an unattended vehicle north of the Mall
    11:11 AM Police find a vehicle near L’Enfant Plaza with a rifle and scope in plain view. U.S. Department of Homeland Security soon reports that the vehicle also contains two handguns
    11:30 AM Large contingent of PROUD BOYS arrive at the CAPITOL, “dozens moving in semi-organized formation — loose columns of five across”
    11:39 AM TRUMP departs the White House by motorcade for the quick drive to the Ellipse, where he gathers with aides, allies and family members beneath a white tent before taking the rally stage at 12:00 PM.
    Between 11:45 AM and 12:00 PM D.C. police respond to reports of a man with a rifle nearby at 15th Street and Constitution Avenue

    [#J6TL]

    • harpie says:

      11:57 AM TRUMP BEGINS SPEECH
      12:00 PM “Dozens upon dozens” of Republican members of Congress are lining up in the cloakroom to register as co-sponsors to contest Biden’s victory in six key states
      12:29 PM CP officer reports hearing a Taser weapon fired near the Senate
      12:33 PM Park Police report that they detained a person with a rifle on 17th Street, near the World War II Memorial [that’s between Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial]
      12:36 PM PENCE arrives at the Capitol with his wife and daughter
      PENCE’s office releases the letter to Congress they had drafted: “As a student of history … I do not believe that the Founders of our country intended to invest the Vice President with unilateral authority to decide which electoral votes should be counted during the Joint Session Congress…”
      12:45 PM Capitol Police officers, along with agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, are dispatched to investigate reports of a pipe bomb with a timer found outside the Republican National Committee headquarters and suspicious packages at the Supreme Court and near the Democratic National Committee headquarters — all offices close to the Capitol. […] proved a distraction for officers guarding the Capitol
      12:46 PM Capitol Police begin executing protocols to keep the peace. Officers are dispatched to block side streets as a precaution against possible vehicle rammings. This essentially creates a protected funnel for the protesters, straight toward the Capitol.
      1:03 PM Capitol Police find an unoccupied red pickup truck with Alabama tags containing a trove of weapons, including an M4 carbine assault rifle, loaded magazines of ammunition, and components to make 11 molotov cocktails.
      1:0X PM Douglas JENSEN’s friend texts that PENCE had just “banged the gavel” to open the joint session. JENSEN replies with photographs of Trump supporters streaming past the WASHINGTON Monument en route to the CAPITOL and texts: “That’s all about to change ;-)”
      1:10 PM TRUMP finishes speech

      [#J6TL]

    • harpie says:

      1:19 PM TRUMP returns to the White House
      1:28 PM Rep. Pramila JAYAPAL (D-Wash.) texts her husband, Steve Williamson: This is seriously crazy. Police have been breached. Chaos is going to break out and violence too.
      1:35 PM Twenty-five minutes into Trump’s silence, a news photographer is dragged down a flight of stairs and thrown over a wall.
      1:45 PM Rioters discover that the path leading to the Senate side of the Capitol is unguarded. Men in militia-style gear helped direct people toward that entrance, pushing through at least three more layers of flimsy portable barriers. A lone Black officer in a Capitol Police uniform walked toward the scene. His radio crackled. “Oh, it’s blocked off,” he muttered in surprise, shaking his head. He took one look at the amped-up White mob before him and left.
      1:50 PM D.C. police commander declares a RIOT at the Capitol
      1:59 PM The first rioters reach the Capitol’s windows and doors and attempt to break inside
      2:02 PM A police officer is kicked in the chest and surrounded by a mob
      2:05 PM The first fatality is declared: Kevin Greeson, a Trump supporter from Alabama, suffered a heart attack just outside the building on the Capitol grounds
      2:10 PM Two rioters have died as a result of cardiac events
      2:11 PM The first rioters gain access to the building by using lumber and a police shield to break a window
      2:12 PM ROMNEY, who had walked off the floor heading toward his hideaway office, encounters CP Officer Eugene GOODMAN, who had been running down a second-floor hallway outside the Senate chamber. Goodman motions for Romney to turn around to avoid rioters. “There are people not far. You’ll be safer inside,” Goodman ells Romney, who returns to the Senate floor
      2:13 PM PENCE and family are moved by Secret Service to his ceremonial office nearby
      2:13 PM Officer GOODMAN encounters JENSEN and the crowd
      2:14 PM A rioter parades a Confederate battle flag through the Capitol.
      2:15 PM CP call of last resort alerts that officers are in trouble at the ROTUNDA
      2:19 PM Capitol Police emails an urgent bulletin to all congressional staff:

      Capitol staff: Due to a security threat inside the building, immediately:
      – Move inside your office or the nearest office.
      – Take emergency equipment and visitors.
      – Close, lock and stay away from external doors and windows.
      – If you are in a public space, find a place to hide or seek cover.
      – Remain quiet and silence electronics.
      – Once you are in a safe location, immediately check in with your OEC.
      – No one will be permitted to enter or exit the building until directed by USCP.
      – If you are in a building outside of the affected area, remain clear of the police activity.
      – Await further direction.

      2:20 PM PELOSI is removed from House Chamber

      [#J6TL]

    • harpie says:

      2:23 PM A police officer is sprayed in the face with chemicals
      2:24 PM TRUMP tweets:

      Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!

      2:24 PM Secret Service is scrambling to keep PENCE safe [CONVERSATION]
      2:26 PM TRUMP calls TUBERVILLE

      TRUMP: Coach, how’s it going?
      TUBERVILLE: Not very good, Mr. President. As a matter of fact, they’re about to evacuate us.
      TRUMP: I know we’ve got problems.
      TUBERVILLE: Mr. President, they just took our vice president out. They’re getting ready to drag me out of here. I got to go.

      2:26 PM [approx.] EASTMAN [from the WILLARD] emails PENCE Counsel JACOB, [hiding with PENCE] accusing PENCE of “causing the violence by refusing to block certification of Biden’s victory” “The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened.”
      Eastman said his message was a response to an email in which Jacob told him that his “bull—-” legal advice was why Pence’s team was “under siege.”
      2:28 PM Yet another police officer is assaulted with a flagpole
      2:30 PM Discussions ongoing at the PENTAGON
      2:33 PM Rioters break into and begin looting the House speaker’s office
      2:38 PM TRUMP tweets:

      Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!

      2:43 PM Another news photographer is surrounded, pushed down and robbed of a camera
      2:44 PM Ashli BABBITT is shot and killed
      xx:xx PM [after 2:44 PM] McCARTHY calls TRUMP:

      McCARTHY: “I just got evacuated [2:39 PM] from the Capitol! There were shots fired [2:44 PM] right off the House floor. You need to make this stop.” “You have to denounce this.”
      TRUMP: “You know what I see, Kevin? I see people who are more upset about the election than you are. They like Trump more than you do.”
      McCARTHY: “You’ve got to hold them.” “You need to get on TV right now, you need to get on Twitter, you need to call these people off.”
      TRUMP: “Kevin, they’re not my people.”
      McCARTHY: “Yes they are, they just came through my windows and my staff is running for cover. Yeah, they’re your people. Call them off.”

      [#J6TL]

    • harpie says:

      2:52 PM There are “about two dozen” TRUMP supporters in the Senate Chamber [Police had locked the doors, but mistakenly left one in the gallery unlocked, which some of the rioters used to enter]
      2:52 PM Units of reinforcements from federal and neighboring law enforcement agencies arrive to help CP
      3:04 or 3:11 PM With MILLER’s assent, McCARTHY verbally approves a full mobilization of the DC NG
      3:06 PM A fourth police officer is crushed in a doorway and beaten with his own baton
      3:13 PM TRUMP tweets:

      I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!

      3:15 PM IVANKA retweets TRUMP’s 3:13 PM tweet, adding:

      American Patriots – any security breach or disrespect to our law enforcement is unacceptable.
      The violence must stop immediately. Please be peaceful.

      [This tweet is criticized, and she then deletes it]
      3:15 PM Police clear the Senate Chamber
      X:XX PM Jason MILLER drafts two tweets for TRUMP to send, but TRUMP sends neither:
      Draft 1]

      Bad apples, like ANTIFA or other crazed leftists, infiltrated today’s peaceful protest over the fraudulent vote count. Violence is never acceptable! MAGA supporters embrace our police and the rule of law and should leave the Capitol now! // Draft

      Draft 2]

      The fake news media who encouraged this summer’s violent and radical riots are now trying to blame peaceful and innocent MAGA supporters for violent actions. This isn’t who we are! Our people should head home and let the criminals suffer the consequences! // Draft

      X:XX PM CHENEY to [Hakeem] JEFFRIES [the highest ranking House members still on Capitol grounds]:
      “Look, we have to move articles [of impeachment] immediately.”

      [#J6TL]

    • harpie says:

      4:05 PM President-elect BIDEN addresses the Nation on TV from Delaware
      4:17 PM TRUMP tweets [VIDEO] During the videotaping, Trump did not stick to the script his speechwriters had composed and had to record at least three takes to get one that his aides felt was palatable enough to share with the public. “That was actually the best one,” a senior White House official said.
      4:27 PM [Description of TUNNEL fighting] “a wave of rioters attacked police who were standing guard inside the Capitol’s West Terrace archway”
      4:30 PM [approx.]

      PENCE remained secure in his underground hideaway, accompanied by SHORT, who called MEADOWS late that afternoon to alert the WHITE HOUSE chief of staff that the vice president planned to push through with certifying the election results as soon as the Capitol could be cleared and Congress could reconvene.
      “I think that’s the right thing to do,” MEADOWS told SHORT.
      Neither PENCE nor SHORT spoke to TRUMP that day, and Rep. Kevin McCARTHY, the House minority leader, was the only congressional leader to communicate with the president. “What would have been the point?” an adviser to then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCONNELL (R-Ky.) said, adding, “Trump wasn’t going to be helpful.”

      4:32 PM ARMY receives approval from MILLER to deploy the NG to the CAPITOL
      5:02 PM 154 members of the DC NG leave the DC Armory
      5:40 PM 154 members of the DC NG arrive at the CAPITOL
      6:01 PM TRUMP tweets:

      These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!

      6:14 PM Police and National Guard troops establish a security perimeter around the west side of the Capitol
      7:00 PM FBI and ATF agents complete their sweep of the Capitol, going room to room looking for rioters, weapons or other security threats. BOWDICH leads the FBI team on one end of the building while DONOGHUE, of the Justice Department, leads the ATF agents at the other. When they meet in the middle, they have a quick conference CALL with PENCE, MILLER and Congressional leaders
      8:06 PM PENCE gavels the SENATE into session
      9:00 PM EASTMAN emails PENCE counsel JACOB “to try to convince the vice president to move to not certify the election results” JACOB does not respond
      9:02 PM PELOSI gavels the House into session
      3:24 AM [1/7/21] Congress votes to confirm the election results.
      PENCE formally declares BIDEN the next president of the United States
      3:41 AM Senate Chaplain Barry BLACK closes the Joint Session with a prayer

      [#J6TL]

      • harpie says:

        Here’s a transcript of that 4:17 PM TRUMP VIDEO tweet:
        [QUOTE]
        I know your pain. I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side, but you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt. It’s a very tough period of time. There’s never been a time like this where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country. This was a fraudulent election, but we can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home and go home at peace.
        [END QUOTE]

        [insert into #J6TL]

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