By Jason Sullivan & Patricia Tolson, Visitor Contributor for The Gateway Pundit
Supply: UNLEASHED.NEWS
Date: January 3, 2025
On January 6, 2025, a J6 political prisoner shall be internet hosting a pardon press convention in Washington, D.C., to inform “the opposite aspect” of the January 6, 2021, protest story and to make a direct enchantment to President-elect Donald Trump that “no man needs to be left behind.”
The occasion—dubbed because the “Official J6 Pardon Press Convention”—shall be held within the Hyatt Regency Grand Ballroom in Washington, D.C., simply miles from the USA Capitol the place the protests happened 4 years earlier. On Jan. 20, Donald J. Trump shall be on the similar location, the place he’ll place his hand on the Bible to swear the oath of workplace earlier than returning to the White Home for an additional 4 years because the nation’s forty seventh president.
BREAKING: Dozens of Jan 6 Patriots are being DENIED by their PO’s from attending the Official J6 Pardon Press Convention in DC on Monday January 6, 2025!!!!
ONLY 18 DAYS AWAY from EVERYONE getting pardoned & these soul sucking Probation Officers are performing like Petty Tyrants… pic.twitter.com/WK83Pdkx0Y
— Jake Lang – January 6 Political Prisoner (@JakeLangJ6) January 2, 2025
Trump has vowed that he’ll pardon J6 political prisoners. The query stays, will or not it’s some or all of them?
These within the J6 neighborhood are praying for the latter.
The organizer of the occasion is Edward “Jake” Lang, a J6 protester who has been incarcerated for the previous 4 years—and not using a trial.
Throughout a telephone interview from the Washington D.C. Jail, Lang instructed Unleashed Information that the aim of the occasion is to inform the opposite aspect of the J6 story to counter the biased perspective instructed to the world by the January 6 Choose Committee.
Liz Cheney, the previous Republican consultant from Wyoming who served as vice chair on the Committee, communicated with Cassidy Hutchinson—a disgruntled, first-term White Home aide to then-President Donald Trump—through the encrypted Sign app with out the data of Hutchinson’s lawyer. The communications, together with an trade of messages to rearrange calls, had been made simply previous to Hutchinson’s explosive and subsequently debunked public June 2022 testimony earlier than the Choose Committee, in line with a report launched March 11, 2024, by Home Republicans.
Detailed evidence of the correspondence, which started in April of 2022, was launched by Committee on Home Administration Chairman Bryan Steil Oct. 15, 2024.
The March Home report additionally alleges {that a} forensics workforce discovered that 117 information had been both deleted or encrypted on January 1, 2023—simply days earlier than Republicans took management of the Home—and that the January 6 Choose Committee uncared for or withheld proof from its Remaining Report.
The appointment of Cheney as Vice Chair of the Committee was additionally extremely uncommon. That place is often reserved for a member of the identical social gathering because the committee chair, who was Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss).
Home Republicans have referred to as for an investigation into the proceedings of the Jan. 6 Choose Committee and its members.
On Jan. 2, outgoing President Joe Biden awarded Cheney and Thompson the Presidential Residents Medal for his or her contributions to the Choose Committee. The award is typically bestowed to Individuals who’ve “carried out exemplary deeds of service for his or her nation or their fellow residents.”
Cheney is amongst these being thought-about by Biden to be a recipient of a preemptive pardon earlier than he leaves workplace. According to US News and World Report, “issuing blanket pardons may go away the impression to some that crimes had been dedicated.”
“No Man Left Behind.”
Lang is happy about his occasion, and hopeful that Individuals will lastly hear their story and understand that “an awesome injustice has been accomplished.”
“That is going to be the antithesis of the J-6 Choose Committee sham,” Lang instructed Unleashed. “It’s going to be a spot the place our relations, our neighborhood leaders, our organizers and our advocates are going to have the ability to converse out on behalf of the J-6 prisoners, the hostages, and inform all the individuals in President Trump’s administration, why all of us ought to come residence. There needs to be no delay. Justice delayed is justice denied, and we deserve to return residence on day one.”
Among the many many visitor audio system on the occasion shall be Jim Hoft (the Editor and Founding father of The Gateway Pundit), Lara Logan (former Host of 60 Minutes and J6 Investigator), and Sari Lang, Jake Lang’s mom.
Different audio system will embody investigative journalist Ann Vandersteel, and Gateway Pundit lead reporter Cara Castronuova.
Social media influencers Isabella Maria Deluca, Matt Wallace, and Behizy will even be in attendance.
Lang mentioned he’ll “be there” as properly.
“I shall be there,” he mentioned. “I imply just about. I’ll get a video feed in there someplace, someway. It’s going to be a phenomenal occasion.”
The occasion shall be live-streamed, beginning at 10 AM on January 6, by Gateway Pundit’s accounts on X and Rumble.
“Hoping Past Hope”
Lang was arrested on January 16, 2021 and faces 13 charges, together with “Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Sure Officers Utilizing a Harmful Weapon” (Depend 6), “Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Sure Officers Utilizing a Harmful Weapon, Inflicting Bodily Harm” (Depend 7), “Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Constructing or Grounds, with a Lethal or Harmful Weapon” (Depend 10), and “Participating in Bodily Violence in a Restricted Constructing or Grounds, with a Lethal or Harmful Weapon” (Depend 12).
A video posted on X additionally reveals Lang wielding an aluminum bat, which he used to strike the shields of the officers. The bat by no means got here involved with the officers.
Requested concerning the incident, Lang says he was attempting to get the police to again as much as forestall extra protesters from being damage or killed. Having been denied a trial for 4 years, Lang has been unable to current his protection in opposition to the various costs stacked in opposition to him.
Lang pleaded not responsible to all counts on Feb. 9, 2021. Whereas supplied a plea deal—which might have restricted his incarceration to 9 years—Lang refused.
It was in the course of the protests on Jan. 6, 2021, that Lang tried to save lots of the lifetime of Roseanne Boyland, who died after being crushed beneath a pile of our bodies as police shoved them on prime of one another. Lang repeatedly pleaded with the officers to cease, to no avail. Lang did handle to assist a fellow protester named Phillip Anderson. A video posted on X reveals Lang dragging Anderson’s physique from the pile. Anderson credit Lang with saving his life.
Whereas Trump has mentioned the pardons shall be granted on a case-by-case foundation, Lang insists that Trump’s pardons needs to be primarily based to the precept of “No man left behind.”
“I don’t know if ‘demand’ is the appropriate phrase, but it surely’s hoping for past hope, and we is not going to be glad till no man is left behind within the gulag, and each man comes residence, regardless if they’ve violent costs or not,” Lang mentioned.
“They Had No Alternative”
Throughout a Dec. 8 interview with Kristen Welker on Meet The Press, Trump was requested if he deliberate to observe by together with his promise to pardon January 6 prisoners.
“We’re taking a look at that proper now,” Mr. Trump replied. “Almost definitely, yeah.”
“These individuals have suffered lengthy and onerous,” he defined.
Whereas January 6 prisoners have “suffered” and had their lives ‘destroyed,” Trump famous that individuals like “the scaffold man” and Ray Epps had been by no means prosecuted for his or her efforts to incite the crowds to riot.
Black Lives Matter protesters, who burned down half of Minneapolis—together with a police station—and took over a big portion of Seattle following the demise of George Floyd, suffered no penalties.
“They destroyed the attractive limestone exterior of the courthouse in Portland,” Trump added, reminding Welker that the BLM protesters killed individuals in Portland and Seattle.
Whereas the BLM protesters suffered no penalties, Trump famous that the January 6 prisoners “live in hell.”
“And I feel it’s very unfair,” he mentioned. “So yeah, most probably, I’ll do it in a short time.”
Welker identified that 169 of the January 6 prisoners “have pleaded responsible to assaulting cops.
“As a result of that they had no alternative,” Trump mentioned.
In the end, Trump instructed Welker that he can be “performing in a short time” to pardon the January 6 prisoners, saying they had been prosecuted by a “corrupt system,” given sentences spanning many years, and have already been incarcerated for years in squalid circumstances.
He vowed he would act on “the primary day.”
In a Dec. 12, 2024, interview with Time Journal, after being chosen as TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year, Trump indicated a way of urgency with the promised pardons. Whereas saying he’s going “to have a look at eachindividual case,” he made it clear he would “do it in a short time,” and that “it’s going to start out within the first hour” that he’s in workplace.
“Has the regulation been equally utilized?”
Whereas Trump acknowledged the disparate remedy between Jan-6 protesters and the BLM/ANTIFA protesters who burned cities and had been liable for the deaths of others, Lang additionally famous the imbalance in how they “got leniency and kid-glove remedy” whereas Jan-6 protesters—who burned nothing and killed nobody—had been arrested by swat groups, given a laundry record of costs, had their financial institution accounts drained by authorized charges, with many being given many years of jail time.
Within the meantime, individuals like Montez Terriel Lee, Jr.—who broke right into a enterprise referred to as Max It Pawn on Could 28, 2020, in the course of the “largely peaceable” protest in Minneapolis, poured accelerant, set it ablaze, and deliberately burned it to the bottom—obtained leniency.
On July 20, 2020, the charred stays of 30-year-old Oscar Lee Stewart had been found within the rubble.
Regardless of the demise of Stewart within the hearth set by Lee—and Lee’s prior convictions of housebreaking, assault, violation of no contact order, and theft of property—courtroom paperwork present that the federal government argued that leniency needs to be proven to Lee in sentencing as a result of he was merely “caught up within the fury of the mob.”
As well as, whereas Lee burned down a small enterprise and was liable for the fiery demise of Stewart, he was granted a trial inside roughly 578 days.
Lang has been sitting in jail for 1,447 days—together with than 180 cumulative days being compelled to sit down in solitary confinement—and not using a trial.
“Has the regulation been equally utilized?” Lang requested rhetorically. “We have now a 14th Modification proper to equal software of the regulation. We imagine that as a result of no one has been afforded a good trial, we’ve all been cruelly and unusually punished. We’ve been collectively prosecuted.”
Lang’s greatest grievance is that he and lots of others within the Jan-6 neighborhood imagine they had been arrange by the federal authorities” in an orchestrated occasion to color Donald Trump and his supporters as home terrorists.”
“We had been all entrapped,” he insisted. “So, all the convictions, prosecution, witch-hunts and arrests have been fruit of a poison tree, and due to this fact no Jan-6ers deserve to stay in jail, whether or not they have assault costs or not.”
The DC Bias
There may be credibility to Lang’s cost that January 6 prisoners haven’t obtained truthful trials in Washington, D.C. Whereas many have filed motions in courtroom to have their trials moved to a different district, all have been denied.
As of December, round 1,265 individuals had been arrested in reference to the Jan-6 protests. They’ve been charged with crimes starting from misdemeanor trespassing to felony costs like seditious conspiracy.
Up to now, round 170 Jan-6 protesters have been convicted, and about 710 have pleaded responsible. Solely two have been acquitted.
Whereas many have refuted claims that the D.C. juries are biased, proof got here out in January of final yr to place these denials to relaxation.
A survey—commissioned by Lang and carried out by Triton Polling and Research between Jan. 1-8 2024—reveals the acute degree of bias amongst potential jurors residing in Washington DC towards anybody who participated within the Jan. 6 protests on the Capitol. Funding got here from the J-6 Legal Fund, which Lang began to assist cowl the authorized bills of J6 prisoners.
Of the 422 “jury eligible residents” surveyed, practically 70% described Jan-6 protesters as “insurrectionists” (27.5%), “criminals” (13%), “home terrorists” (14.9%), or “traitors” (11.6%).
Requested in the event that they thought the Jan-6 protest was “an act of terrorism,” 63.6% mentioned they “strongly agree.” Simply 8% mentioned they “strongly disagree.”
Almost half agree or considerably agreed that the punishment for terrorism, “imprisonment or demise,” would “be a good punishment,” and practically 70% mentioned they strongly or considerably agree that anybody who participated within the protest “ought to serve jail time,” no matter what they did.
Over 80% mentioned they’d function a juror if referred to as, and nearly 40% mentioned they “strongly” (26.1 %) or “considerably” agree (13 %) that they wished to be on that jury “to verify the defendant is discovered responsible and held accountable for the occasions of that day.”
Jonathan Gross is a protection lawyer who’s representing most of the January sixth defendants. In an interview with Unleased, Gross mentioned, “These trials shouldn’t be held in DC.”
“Tons of of January 6 defendants filed motions to switch venue arguing that somebody perceived as a Trump supporter can not get a good trial in DC the place 95% of the jury pool voted for Biden and Harris in 2020 and 2024,” Gross asserted. “All Individuals needs to be involved as a result of whether or not you’re Republican or Democrat, you don’t need to be tried in a district the place the vast majority of the jury pool believes that you just’re deplorable due to your political views.”
“God Keen”
Whereas the whole Jan-6 neighborhood waits, and hopes, that they are going to all discover freedom on January twentieth, Unleashed requested Lang what he personally envisioned occurring on that day.
He imagines two situations. The primary is the place he sees himself strolling out of the jail to the ready arms of household, mates, some supporters, and maybe just a few members of the press.
The second risk is the one he prays for essentially the most.
“I’ve what my coronary heart is telling me for a very long time, that we’re being liberated on day one, and Trump goes to have us as one of many essential parts of the inauguration celebration,” Lang mirrored with hope.
“I imagine the Bible goes to be in his proper hand, and a pen signing our pardon goes to be in his left hand, and we’ll make an look,” he described of his dream additional. “For those who guys are searching for me on the inauguration, I’ll be the man within the orange jumpsuit, hugging Trump, hanging on to his aspect simply crying tears of pleasure from the instrument that God’s utilizing to liberate me and my brothers, who’ve suffered 4 lengthy years of unbelievable oppression, and sensory deprivation and estrangement from our households and communities and all of the horrible tortures we’ve endured.”
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