‘Unprecedented, unreasonable, unconstitutional, and wrong’
During a status hearing Friday afternoon for Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, an Army reservist arrested on January 15 for his involvement in the January 6 protest in Washington, D.C., an assistant U.S. attorney admitted the government will not meet its discovery obligations for all Capitol defendants until early 2022.
Kathyrn Fifield, the lead attorney representing the Justice Department, informed Judge Trevor McFadden that the “incalculable” volume of video collected by the government related to the Capitol breach investigation will prevent defendants and their lawyers from accessing the full body of evidence against them for several more months. “No system exists to wrap its arms around [all this evidence],” Fifield told McFadden. This includes at least 14,000 hours of surveillance video plus thousands of hours of body-worn camera footage from law enforcement.
Fifield resisted setting a 2021 trial date for Hale; McFadden and Jonathan Crisp, Hale’s court-appointed attorney, told the government last month that unless a plea arrangement was agreed upon, a trial would be set for later this year because Hale already has been incarcerated for more than six months. “If we do set a trial date, the government cannot meet discovery obligations until early 2022. That’s a conservative estimate,” Fifield said.
Despite arresting more than 550 people since January 6, the government still has no platform for posting, sharing, and transferring digital evidence. …
McFadden scolded the government for its backwards process. “You would not arrest [someone] then gather evidence later. That’s not how this works.” When Fifield said full discovery is in the best interest of the defendant, McFadden shot back: “Freedom also is important to the defendant.” The Trump-appointed judge raised concerns over Sixth Amendment violations. “This does not feel what the Constitution [and] the Speedy Trial Act envisions.”
Our January article “America’s Reichstag Fire” explains how the radical left have taken advantage of what happened on January 6. By slow-walking the trial, they can delay any exposure of what really happened, and continue to push their false narrative.
The Capitol riot—and how it has been manipulated over the past three weeks—reminds a lot of people of what happened at the Reichstag in 1933. Someone (we still don’t know who) burned the Reichstag, seat of the national legislature, virtually gutting it. For Germans, this was a national tragedy—but nothing like the national tragedy that followed as a result. Despite reports that he himself might have been connected to the arson, the new leader of Germany clamped down on those reports, used the destruction at the nation’s capitol building to target his enemies, and empowered his own radical movement. Those enemies were largely Jews. That leader was Adolf Hitler. His manipulation of the Reichstag fire consolidated his power over the nation.
Immediately after the Capitol riot, some Democrats claimed it was “America’s Reichstag fire.” But they stopped saying that when they realized what that implied about them.
Back to the United States. And back to December 2. It was a month after the fraudulent presidential election had taken place. President Trump delivered what he said “may be the most important speech I’ve ever made.” In that 46-minute speech, he denounced “tremendous voter fraud and irregularities, which took place during the ridiculously long November 3 elections,” both through unverified mail-in ballots and through digital election rigging.
After this speech, a Quinnipiac University poll of 978 registered voters nationwide found that 77 percent of Republicans believed there was widespread voter fraud during the election, and 34 percent of registered voters thought Biden’s win was illegitimate. That is over 70 million who believe the election was stolen. …
What happened next was ugly and dishonorable. Some in the crowd are guilty of being insurrectionists (but not how you think). Those who perpetrated it should be punished. In spite of the coordinated Democrat media-Big Tech narrative, the world knows it was not an insurrection attempt by Trump supporters, and the president did not incite it. …
Liberal mainstream media outlets quickly harmonized in characterizing the riot as an insurrection. And they all seemed to conspicuously censor the fact that one of the worst “insurrectionists” caught on camera is a radical liberal who literally founded a group called Insurrection USA!
But that’s not the point for radical leftists. The point is that the violence occurred and therefore provides them a pretext to portray the violence at the Capitol as an “insurrection” and to try to put the blame on President Trump. This, in spite of the fact that those same executives designed their coverage of the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter riots to portray it as “mostly peaceful.” This, in spite of the fact that President Trump told demonstrators to be peaceful, and told them to go home as soon as violence broke out.
Everyone ought to oppose violence and destruction and the dishonoring of our Capitol. The scenes stir our emotions, and they should. But don’t let those who have manipulated everything else in this election manipulate this as well!
Whoever is responsible, this does not change the facts about the election. It was still stolen!
