WASHINGTON — Former lead singer David Bowie, who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, licensed his footage to media outlets and now works as a writer for Glenn Beck’s The Blaze website, has been arrested on charges of assault on the Capitol. After becoming federal authorities in Texas.
Steve Baker, musician and libertarian writer, frequented the federal courthouse in Washington. Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial and the other Jan. 6 incidents face the same four standard felonies as many lower-level Capitol riot defendants.
copy a FBI testimonydefense attorney William Shipley told NBC News that federal prosecutors will focus on Baker’s mob-sympathizing comments, including referring to Nancy Pelosi as a “b—-” after talking about her. The mob that stormed the office of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives and the statement expressing regret for not stealing government property during the attack.
“Look out your windows, you scumbags, see what’s coming,” Baker allegedly said while marking himself as he approached the Capitol on January 6.
“They took Pelosi’s office and, you know, it couldn’t have been a more decent b—-,” Baker said in a video after the attack, according to FBI testimony.
“The only thing I regret is that I didn’t steal their computers because God knows what I would have found on their computers if I had,” Baker said.
“Do I approve of what happened today?” Baker said in another interview on Jan. 6, according to an FBI filing. “I agree 100 percent.”
Video footage previously released by Baker shows him approaching two officers inside the Capitol asking if they would use their weapons against the protesters. “Are you going to use that thing for us?” Baker he asked an officer. “Are you really going to use this for us?” Baker asked another. He later asked two other officers the same question after Ashley Babbitt was shot.
After witnessing the first responder trying to save the life of rioter Babbitt on Jan. 6, Baker said he “may have just seen the real first shot in this war.” said testament.
Baker is friendly with reporters in the media room during the hearings at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse, where his case will be opened on Jan. 6. An NBC News reporter met with Baker at the courthouse in August, when Baker released materials in response to a Jan. 6 grand jury subpoena for the videos. It gained access to thousands of hours of surveillance footage on January 6.
Baker explained in a podcast After January 6, as a full-time musician, he “suddenly found himself unemployed” after the Covid lockdown in 2020 and therefore decided to “improve” the project he started ten years ago: an online community known as “”. A Pragmatic Libertarian, which he later rebranded as a “Pragmatic Constitutionalist.”
Baker two days before January 6 he wrote he told Washington that “the powers that be” on all sides of the political equation must see WE THE PEOPLE, not because he thinks “a mob of any size will force the government to do a real investigation of the election results.” in effect, to let them know WE’RE WATCHING.”
“WE will not bow to any level of tyranny – whether it’s from the right or the left, from the Democrats or the GOP,” Baker said, adding that he hoped the video would document “anything special” happening and possibly from different voices. get some interviews.”
In his post after January 6, he he wrote he will admit that he was “truly inspired in the presence of so many patriots, a powerful visual statement for sworn criminals debating the validation of their electoral votes at that moment.”
After that January. On the 6 podcast, Baker said it was “no secret” that he was not a Trump fan in 2016, thinking that neither Trump nor Hillary Clinton were good candidates. He said he voted for Trump in 2020 and supported him at first because “The Bolshevik Democratic Party machine is now a fully realized, overtly neo-Marxist organization,” and its “for all Trump’s faults, (and perhaps because of them), Finally, it would expose and collapse the Deep State.”
In the more than three years since the attack on the Capitol, more than 1,300 people have been arrested and prosecutors have secured more than 900 convictions. Penalties ranged from short probation depending on the type of crime Baker was facing, 22 years in federal prison for Enrique Tarrio On charges of seditious conspiracy by the Proud Boys.
Other January 6 defendants have tried to avoid conviction by pointing to their media connections, but Baker is the first January 6 defendant to work for an established media company at the time of his arrest.
Elias Shafer, a former columnist for The Blaze, posted on social media during the riots that he was in Pelosi’s office and “with thousands of revolutionaries storming the Capitol.” was a member of a group”occupying” Pelosi’s office. Unlike Baker, Shaffer wore official Capitol press credentials and was not indicted.
On January 6, another defendant Stephen Horneafter presenting himself as an independent journalist, he was found guilty in court of four illegal articles.
“His journalism began when he needed an excuse for criminal responsibility,” the federal prosecutor said he said According to The Washington Post, the jury in this case. Prosecutors searched for In Horn’s case, 10 months in federal prison, but the judge sentenced Horn to one year of probation and a $2,000 fine.
John SullivanThe “anti-establishment” activist went with the Capitol, prosecutors said.its purpose is to incite the public,” was has been convicted in court after pleading guilty to various charges, including felonies. Sullivan also tried to pass himself off as a journalist, and news outlets (including NBC News) licensed footage of him after the attack. But jurors found him guilty after prosecutors presented evidence suggesting he encouraged the mob and was armed with a knife.