he calls walk away, as in walk away from the democratic party and into the arms of donald trump. now, in january straka was indicted on three charges related to his actions at the capitol, including impeding a law enforcement officer and disorderly conduct. he later entered into a plea agreement, promising to cooperate with prosecutors by turning over evidence and being interviewed. now, straka was scheduled to be sentenced next week, but instead today prosecutors and straka s lawyers jointly filed this motion. and that motion asks for a 30-day delay because straka has turned over new potentially significant information. quote, on december 8th the defendant provided counsel for the government with information that may impact the government s sentencing recommendation. additional will i the government is requesting additional time to investigate information provided in the final pre-sentence report. brandon straka is one of the few people involved in the insurrection who is of interest
the threat from antifa, starting in the summer of 2020, when he talked about them as a terrorist organization, one thing i just went back and revisited recently is, on january 6th, the day before the insurrection, trump released several things about antifa. he tweeted about them and he released a memo urging the government to step up its efforts against antifa. this is when he s supposed to be packing up the white house to go to mar-a-lago but he s still focusing on antifa and i think he was trying to pump them up. there had been leftist and right wing protesters as recently as december 12th in d.c. and they had the expectation that would happen again. what was a turning point on january 6th is what didn t happen, a big campaign on the left, even a hashtag, don t take the bait. and no leftist protesters at all stayed up that day. showed up that day and the clashes they expected didn t happen and the national guard
go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy. laura ingram wrote. please get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished, ryan kilne texted. quote, can he make a statement, ask people to leave the capitol, sean hannity urged. now, that really craven duplicitous have it both ways attitude extends all the way to the top of the republican party, for instance, senator minority leader mitch mcconnell who both reporting suggests and just, oh, my shunch is, i think i have a nagging feeling is a taco, who privately loathes the former president. here he is twice this week speaking approvingly of the committee investigating the insurrection, a committee i should note he lobbied fellow republicans against. were you personally in contact with mark meadows that day, and other white house officials to urge trump to do more? i was not.
conspiracy laced special about the january 6th insurrection. the two men quit their contracts rather than remain complicit in the disinformation campaign. one of them, jonagoldberg is out with a new piece explaining his departure, laying the blame on fox personalities who privately disparage trump while publicly singing his praises. i know that a huge share of the people you saw on tv praising trump were being dishonest. i don t merely suspect it, i know it, because they would say one thing to my face or in my presence and another thing when the cameras and microphones were flipped on. while some of fox s more prominent opinion hosts are true believers, the duplicity was on display this week when laura ingram and sean hannity were frantically texting mark meadows during the insurrection to get trump to call off the violence even as they defended his conduct on the air. quote, mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to
including meadows, were contemplating the scenario in which the mob marches to the capitol and pro-trump insurrectionists might be clashing with counterprotest es in the streets, hence the protect the pro trump people and now we ve got a guy who was there, who was involved in the lead-up to the insurrection, on stage at the rally the day before, who breaks into the capitol and who s cooperating with federal government, and who says, and has said on tape, the plan all along was to go to the capitol. yesterday, a lot of us got up very, very early. we went to this event in which donald trump spoke. the plan was always to go to the capitol. we were going to march from that event, which was at the ellipse, the plan was always to march from the ellipse to the capitol. and there was going to be another rally. i was one of the speakers slated to speak at the capitol. well, turned into a rally inside the capitol. and, of course, leaves open key