Let’s start with a bit of good news this weekend, shall we? First, earlier this week a federal judge acquitted a January 6 defendant on all charges, ruling that the defendant was allowed into the Capitol building by Capitol Police officers. The defendant was charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building. It turns out that two Capitol police officers ushered him through the door. It’s all on surveillance video tape. The very video tape that I have been demanding be released to the public for over a year. There was no unlawful entry, no vandalism, no disruptive conduct. How is this an insurrection when people are getting invited in by law enforcement? The jury saw right through this scheme. Sadly, hundreds more are still imprisoned and face similar charges for simply entering the Capitol building through open doors after being waved in.
Elsewhere, a federal jury on Friday acquitted two men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan's governor Gretchen Whitmer and failed to reach a verdict for two other defendants. Governor Whitmer had portrayed herself as a victim of a horribly dangerous potential kidnapping and blamed it all on President Trump during the 2020 presidential campaign. It turns out that the men had been entrapped by an undercover FBI operation in yet another attempt to interfere in an election and sabotage President Trump’s re-election campaign.
In both instances, all the defendants were facing many years in federal prison. Their lives have been ruined. And for what? Trumped up charges, pun intended. These two trials show what our legal system is capable and willing to do to destroy political enemies and represent major collapses for the United States Justice Department.
