Jan. 6 rioter who Tucker Carlson guest said was a fed is arrested by the FBI
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump fan who participated in the Jan. 6 attack and then was the subject of a conspiracy theory on Tucker Carlson's former Fox News show was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday.
Rally Runner, formerly known as Daniel Donnelly Jr., was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri, according to court records. Runner faces five federal charges, including obstructing, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement officers during a civil disorder.
Back in 2021, Joseph McBride, a lawyer who was then representing several Jan. 6 defendants, said on Carlson's show that Runner was "clearly a law enforcement officer" and an "agent provocateur" who had only dressed up as a Trump fan as part of a scheme to make Trump fans look bad. In fact, Runner was a real Trump fan, as well as a St. Louis Cardinals fanatic who ran around the stadium during home games, thus his name change. He was also a big admirer of Tucker Carlson and said in an interview last year that he was disappointed that Carlson would spread false information.
"Disappointed is an understatement," Runner said. "For years I believed Trucker was a responsible reporter focused on stopping 'Fake News' just to be hit with this story."
McBride, when first informed of Runner's real identity in late 2021, said he did not “need to be right" in everything he claimed, and that he was “theorizing things” and trying to win the public relations battle.
“If I’m wrong, so be it, bro. I don’t care,” McBride said. “I don’t give a s— about being wrong.”
I'd bet this trumpian lawyer is in with the other, probably biased, arm chair, fox legal scholars, currently trying to spin the blame for the attempted coup
Trump not only GOP official facing new election interference charges this week
Hours before the former president was indicted on Tuesday, two Michigan GOP officials were arraigned after an investigation into allegations of attempting to tamper with election equipment. Matt DePerno, who ran as a Republican for state attorney general in 2022, and former state Rep. Daire Rendon are close Trump allies and face charges that include undue possession of a voting machine, willfully damaging a voting machine, conspiracy to commit undue possession of a voting machine and false pretenses.
Those are only the latest charges for the Michigan GOP. Last month, the state attorney general's office charged 16 Republican officials for their role in an attempt to overturn Biden’s victory. Each faces eight charges tied to forgery and conspiracy for acting as a fake elector for Trump. Additionally, Ryan Kelley, a real estate broker who finished fourth in the 2022 Republican gubernatorial primary, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of illegally entering a restricted area on Jan. 6 after he participated in the Capitol riot.
While Trump loyalists are trying to spin the indictment as the weaponization of the Department of Justice against Trump, legal analyst George Conway noted on CNN tonight: "All the evidence comes from Republicans. If you go through this indictment and you annotate the paragraphs to figure out who are the witnesses the [special counsel] would use to prove particular points, they're all Republicans. Those are the people who were having the discussions, telling [Trump], 'You lost.'”
“It has to be made clear that trying to stop the peaceful transition of power, assaulting law enforcement, is going to be met with certain punishment.”
“The attack on our nation’s capital on January 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy,” Special Counsel Jack Smith said in his statement about the indictment.
“The men and women of law enforcement who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6 are heroes. They’re patriots, and they are the very best of us. They did not just defend a building or the people sheltering in it. They put their lives on the line to defend who we are as a country and as a people. They defended the very institutions and principles that define the United States.”
The prosecution of former president Trump for trying to destroy those institutions and principles, including our right to consent to the government under which we live—a right the Founders articulated in the Declaration of Independence—should deter others from trying to do the same. Moreover, it will defend the rights of the victims—those who gave their lives as well as all of us whose votes were attacked—by establishing the truth in place of lies. That realistic view should enable us to recommit to the principles on which we want our nation to rest.
Such a prosecution will reaffirm the institutions of democracy. Donald Trump tried to destroy “the free exercise and enjoyment of a right and privilege secured…by the Constitution and laws of the United States—that is, the right to vote, and to have one’s vote counted.” Such an effort must be addressed, and doing it within the parameters of our legal system should reestablish the very institutions Trump loyalists are trying to undermine.
As former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said this evening: “Like every criminal defendant, the former President is innocent until proven guilty…. The charges…must play out through the legal process, peacefully and without any outside interference…. As this case proceeds through the courts, justice must be done according to the facts and the law.”
i think this was a little bigger and worse than jan 6..
More than 60 Secret Service officers and special agents sustained multiple injuries in three days worth of violent clashes stemming from protests demanding justice for George Floyd in Washington, D.C.
The uprisings overflowed from Lafayette Park and continued near the White House on Saturday night and early into Sunday morning. Protesters in the area had taken to the streets since Friday to condemn police brutality.
Some demonstrators repeatedly attempted to knock over security barriers and vandalized six Secret Service vehicles, the agency said in a statement on Sunday.
Protesters threw bricks, rocks, bottles, fireworks and other items at officers and some Secret Service personnel were also “directly physically assaulted as they were kicked, punched and exposed to bodily fluids,” the statement added.
At least 11 employees were treated at local hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries.
“No individuals crossed the White House fence and no Secret Service protesters were ever in any danger,” the agency said.
President Trump said he “couldn’t have felt more safe,” from inside the White House on Saturday as agitated protesters defaced property and burned flags nearby.
D.C. police helped equip Secret Service agents with riot gear, including helmets, which are not a usual part of their protective gear, Chief of Police Peter Newsham said on Sunday.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser pleaded for protesters to remain peaceful and not attack law enforcement.
“We certainly recognize and empathize with the outrage people feel following the killing in Minneapolis last week. The killing of George Floyd wasn’t the first. People are expressing outrage and demanding action,” she said. “We also recognize that we are proud of our city and do not want our city to be destroyed.”
“The Secret Service respects the right to assemble, and we ask that individuals do so peacefully for the safety of all,” the agency said.
Well, we do know of an event that happened in late May of 2020, when tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter supporters tried to rush into the White House (for who knows what purpose) and overwhelm Secret Service agents, all in the name of honoring a career criminal named George Floyd.
Remember Mr. Floyd? He once engaged in a home invasion in 2009, pointing a gun at a pregnant woman during this robbery.
So what happened that fateful night in Washington D.C. back on May 31? A full-blown insurrection in the name of a black career criminal…
These insurrectionists set fire to the 205-year-old St. John’s Church right across from the White House as well, all part of a true uprising in the name of a black career criminal.
So more than 60 Secret Service agents were injured in an event completely forgotten from the summer of 2020. What happened next? Corporate America gave Black Lives Matter $10 billion as tribute to the shock troops of establishment.
Yes, there was an attempted siege of the White House in late May of 2020, but it’s an event we aren’t supposed to remember.
It’s all about who/whom when it comes to perceived acts of insurrection or literal attempts to invade the White House injuring scores of Secret Service agents.
Oh, and Chris Evans: not one Secret Service agent opened fire on the massive crowd of black people during the Black Lives Matter siege of the White House in late May of 2020… so we already know of the ‘perceived’ carnage if they hadn’t been white. It adds up to scores of injured Secret Service agents, because shooting one black protester would have only enraged the conflict to the nth degree.
Meanwhile, a white woman was gunned down by an agent of the state on January 6, 2021…
i mostly don't post in the politics. but i thought hey they forgot about this.
My therapist says I am a habitual liar and an attention seeker, therefore nothing I say/write is true and under no circumstances should I be believed nor held accountable for anything I say. all photo's are paintings
People are born with the instinct to fight against their own death, to struggle with their last breath against even the most unavoidable and uncompromising ends.
i don't really watch vids but i watched.
got to love spin dr's.
so the D's can trash shit but the R's can't got it.
My therapist says I am a habitual liar and an attention seeker, therefore nothing I say/write is true and under no circumstances should I be believed nor held accountable for anything I say. all photo's are paintings
People are born with the instinct to fight against their own death, to struggle with their last breath against even the most unavoidable and uncompromising ends.
i don't really watch vids but i watched.
got to love spin dr's.
so the D's can trash shit but the R's can't got it.
I would say that sitting presidents can't invoke mobs to attempt to stop congress by violence, and then sit around for hours, stoking the flames, while the violence ensues.
Quite the contradiction between Trump’s responses to BLM protesters, and his maga mob on 1/6/21...like night and day I'm afraid.
The protests that were violent in DC in May 20 over Floyd, were spur of the moment reactions to a continued perceived injustice resulting in a death. Nobody planned all that though, and that's a major difference between the two events you mention.
The protests in DC lasted for three weeks and were mostly peaceful after the tragic start in May. On the other hand, Trump is still threatening to upend the constitution and become dictator, and his followers are still calling for violence towards that end.
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Donald Trump Could be Disqualified From Running in 2024 by Supreme Court
By James Bickerton On 8/11/23 at 6:57 AM EDT
The argument is made by law professors William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, from the University of Chicago and the University of St. Thomas respectively, in a 126-page report. They argue Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amount to "insurrection" thus making it unconstitutional for him to run for the White House again under the 14th Amendment, unless he receives permission from two-thirds of both the Senate and House of Representatives.
Trump's a serial rakist
Even a broken clock...