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On Pardon Eve, I want to share texts to me recently from a J6 public defender. She attended the Women’s March in 2017 and is a lifelong Dem as are most public defenders.

“My reaction to these prosecutions is not political. DOJ is out of control when prosecuting J6 and police…

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) January 19, 2025

On Pardon Eve, I want to share texts to me recently from a J6 public defender. She attended the Women’s March in 2017 and is a lifelong Dem as are most public defenders.

“My reaction to these prosecutions is not political. DOJ is out of control when prosecuting J6 and police officers. They’ve turned me into a Trump supporter.”

More on DOJ abuses.

“The whole theory of prosecution was the ‘raindrop’ theory by Judge Kollar Kotelly. If you were present you contributed to everything that happened. Judges let cops who had no contact with individual defendant testify about how they were impeded or obstructed generally without tying it to particular defendant.

Gov theory of prosecution in most cases is not individualized. It’s as if in a drug case, you allowed testimony generally about scourges of drugs without tying it to particular defendant. Just because fentanyl kills doesn’t mean someone should be able to testify about effect if fentanyl that the defendant didn’t sell. Compounds the problem of jurors who hate J6 defendants.

Disparate & selective enforcement is a real problem. No recognition of First Amendment interests. And the imprisonment of defendants charged merely with misdemeanors is disgraceful.

So many people entered Capitol after others had opened doors. Or when cops stepped aside.

Big issue is how they use texts & social media posts as evidence of conspiracy, of violent intent, of intent to interfere. No recognition that people post or resend a lot of stuff on social media without giving much thought. Even anti-masking statements are used as evidence of guilty intent.

Statements questioning election security or commenting on irregularities or critical of mail-in ballots get admitted as evidence of guilt. These statements are at the core of First Amendment protection.

You cannot get a fair trial in a district that votes 90%+ liberal DEM even in 2024.

Also, some Capitol Police Officers were allowed to testify how they felt that day; that they feared they wouldn’t get home to their spouses. Just playing to jurors’ sympathies where jurors were already unsympathetic; a few of them even teared up. Cops never do that. IMHO gov also played the race card whenever they could; or insinuated it.”