Having been in Grand Junction, last October, I can tell you it is a redneck town. Trucks driving up and down streets with trump flags.
'Smoke the Capitol' rioter pleads guilty to ten charges, three of them felonies. 'Smoke Out the Capitol, Baby': Long Island Man Who Lit Up in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6 Pleads Guilty excerpt: "A New York man who recorded himself smoking what appeared to be marijuana inside the Capitol Rotunda after having breached the building on Jan. 6, 2021, has pleaded guilty to ten charges. Greg Rubenacker, 26, appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday and pleaded guilty to all ten counts against him. Three are felonies; seven are misdemeanors. The list includes a guilty plea to a federal obstruction charge that carries a potential 20-year prison sentence. At Friday’s plea agreement hearing, Rubenacker admitted that he entered the U.S. Capitol while knowing he wasn’t allowed to be there. He also admitted to swinging a plastic bottle at a cop and spraying water on multiple police officers who were trying to regain control of the crowd of Donald Trump supporters that had breached the building to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden‘s win in the 2020 presidential election."
'Trump's coming back': Jan. 6 rioter regrets plea deal, is sorry she got in trouble excerpt: "WASHINGTON — A Beverly Hills cosmetologist who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in support of the man she calls "Trumpy Bear," recently told fellow supporters that she only pleaded guilty "to stay out of jail," that she didn't read the plea deal she signed, and that she doesn't think Capitol defendants will get locked away for a long time because former President Donald Trump is "coming back." Gina Bisignano is a Trump supporter who wore a Louis Vuitton sweater as she used a bullhorn to call for “strong, angry patriots” in the mob to help fight police at the Capitol. “We the people are not going to take it anymore!” Bisignano said on the bullhorn. “You are not going to take away our Trumpy Bear! You are not going to take away our votes!”"
'Trump's coming back': Jan. 6 rioter regrets plea deal, is sorry she got in trouble excerpt: “I still know the election was stolen, there’s no doubt,” Bisignano said. “No doubt.”
A detailed article from September 2021 about Durham's prosecution of Sussman. On the Special Counsel’s Weird Prosecution of Michael Sussmann
Sussman's case is scheduled to go to trial in late spring 2022. A former Clinton campaign lawyer will go to trial in late spring 2022 against Trump-era prosecutor John Durham
Florida currently has 79 arrests. Arrests in the Capitol riot: where Florida leads the nation By Michael Wilner and Rosmery Izaguirre February 13, 2022 12:00 AM https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article258311883.html excerpt: "The final tally isn’t in. One of the largest federal investigations in history is still ongoing, and arrests continue to be made in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, siege of the U.S. Capitol as suspects get identified from terabytes of photos and video footage from the attack. But Florida is, at least for now, No. 1 when it comes to residents rounded up and charged in connection with the siege on Jan. 6, 2021. As of today, the Justice Department has brought 733 cases forward in a sprawling probe involving all 56 FBI field offices across the country. Up until now, most of the charges have related to direct acts by individuals that day: mostly misdemeanor charges like parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, but also felonies such as assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon."
PA is the worst on a per capita basis. Its population is about half that of FL and TX, yet it has a similar number of arrests.
Clearwater seems like an impressionable area. Today it would be an image of Trump materializing on the glass panes, heralding his second coming. VINTAGE ST. PETE: Our Lady of Clearwater By Bill DeYoung January 29, 2021 https://stpetecatalyst.com/vintage-st-pete-our-lady-of-clearwater/
As expected, 'law and order' Trump endorsed the truckers illegally blocking the bridge. 'Zero tolerance': Police towing trucks away, arresting protesters from US-Canadian bridge excerpt: "On Saturday, officers wearing neon yellow vests over their uniforms had warned demonstrators over a public address system that they would be arrested if they didn't leave. Many protesters in pickups left voluntarily, honking their horns as they drove away. The larger trucks pulled away a short time later, blasting their air horns as they went. Police warned in a statement that vehicles could be seized. "Once a vehicle is seized, it may be detained and, following a conviction, possibly forfeited," the statement said."
When Black Lives Matter was doing protest marches, The Government of Indiana passed a law which gave the state police blanket authority to disperse /stop any march by any means. When the Republicans want to stop it, it's a very different treatment. When it's their own crowd, they praise the protesters.
Trump defended rioters who threatened to ‘hang Mike Pence’, audio reveals excerpt: "Karl asked Trump if he was worried about Pence during the attack on the Capitol by rioters who aimed to stop the certification of electoral college results and thereby overturn Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden. “No,” Trump said. “I thought he was well-protected, and I had heard that he was in good shape. No. Because I had heard he was in very good shape. But, but, no, I think – ” Karl interjected: “Because you heard those chants – that was terrible. I mean – ” Trump said: “He could have – well, the people were very angry.” Karl said: “They were saying ‘hang Mike Pence’.” “Because it’s common sense, Jon,” Trump said, repeating baseless claims about election fraud. “It’s common sense that you’re supposed to protect. How can you – if you know a vote is fraudulent, right? – how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress? How can you do that?”"
Republican senator won’t condemn Trump for defending chants of ‘Hang Mike Pence’ excerpt: "John Barrasso of Wyoming, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, appeared on ABC’s This Week. He was asked: “Can your party tolerate a leader who defends murderous chants against his own vice-president?” “Well,” said Barrasso. “Let me just say, the Republican party is incredibly united right now and … I think the more that the Democrats and the press becomes obsessed with President Trump, I think the better it is for the Republican party. President Trump brings lots of energy to the party, he’s an enduring force.” He also said the party was focused on elections and policy debate, not the past. His host, George Stephanopoulos, said: “So you have no problem with the president saying, ‘Hang Mike Pence’ is common sense?” “I was with Mike Pence in the Senate chamber during 6 January,” Barrasso said. “And what happened was they quickly got Vice-President Pence out of there, certainly a lot faster than they removed the senators. I believe he was safe the whole time. “I didn’t hear any of those chants. I don’t believe that he did either. And Vice-President Pence came back into the chamber that night and certified the election.”"
'Zero tolerance': Police towing trucks away, arresting protesters from US-Canadian bridge excerpt: "In New Zealand, authorities blared Barry Manilow music through loudspeakers in an effort to drive off protesters."
Another opportunity for Trump to endorse the protesters (or blame it on secret government agents allegedly doing it to make the protesters look bad). Convoy protesters tear down fence protecting National War Memorial - National | Globalnews.ca excerpt: "Protesters from the so-called “freedom convoy” in Ottawa have torn down a fence that had been put around the National War Memorial to protect it from further desecration. The fence was first erected after multiple incidents were reported in the early days of the demonstration, including protesters urinating on the site and dancing on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier."