Blaze News investigative writer Steve Baker — who’s been reporting on January 6 — handcuffed, charged

Updated: 12:37 PM ET: BlazeTV Contributor Jill Savage I got it. She emerged from the courtroom with Mr Baker, who said: “He was able to put on a dress but was shackled around his wrists and ankles. He is scheduled to be released today. His next… A hearing is scheduled for March 14th in Washington, DC.

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Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker, who has long sought the truth of January 6, 2021 and believes the U.S. government is after it, reported on Friday that He was charged with four misdemeanors related to. After he turned himself in to the FBI in Dallas, he went to the Capitol.

The prices are as follows:

• knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority;
• Disorderly and disruptive behavior in restricted buildings or grounds
• Acts that disrupt the order inside the National Diet Building
• Parades, demonstrations, and picketing inside the Capitol

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Baker first learned of the charges on Friday and told Blaze News earlier this week that she would not tell her attorney about the charges because authorities believed Baker would post them on social media.

James Lee Bright, Baker’s Dallas attorney, told Blaze News that withholding the charges against his client was a “highly unusual” move.

Mr Bright told Blaze News he was “upset” by what was happening to his client, especially given Mr Baker had been “fully compliant” all along. Bright also said that the fact that the federal government is “still pursuing people who were lawfully working as journalists that day, more than three years later,” was designed to have an “absolute chilling effect.” He said that it seems that

Baker said he asked another attorney, William Shipley, why the federal government was treating him this way, and Shipley said, “You know why. You spent three years in their care.” He stabbed me in the eye,” he added.

What is your background?

Earlier this week, Baker said the FBI directed him to turn himself in on Friday morning, and he did just that.

Baker said he was told by authorities to come to the field office in “shorts and sandals,” which usually means authorities want to make it easier for individuals to prepare for a “humiliating” assault. Mr. Baker remained dignified as always. He arrived in a suit and tie.

He was then handcuffed and walked to his car by two investigators and transported to court.

Blaze Media Editor-in-Chief Matthew Peterson — who accompanied Baker to the FBI field office — Posted “It’s painful to watch. It’s completely unnecessary. There was no reason to take him into custody and have the U.S. Marshals transport him to court. We look forward to seeing him on the other side of this matter within a few hours.” I want it.”

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck said in an op-ed Friday morning that Baker’s First Amendment battle is also our problem, saying, “When the U.S. government can corner individuals, that’s when our “You will see that the republic is falling apart. I am.” “They’ve always said that if they can go after Donald Trump, they’ll go after people like you and me. And now they are. But Steve Baker doesn’t flinch, and So are we.”

Beck asked Baker on Thursday how he was holding up. Mr. Baker replied:

what else?

Baker announced in December that the FBI announced that the U.S. Department of Justice would indict him for his Jan. 6 report, but two days later, Baker announced that the FBI had delayed his surrender until after Christmas. He pointed out that it was announced.

This is the game I’ve been waiting for ever since.

Lawyers representing Baker told Blaze News in January that the Justice Department may be plotting “retaliation” against Baker over the Jan. 6 report.

“Steve’s actions on January 6 have been known to the Department of Justice for three years,” Baker’s attorneys said in a January filing. news release. “But only now, after Steve has told two major stories that are extremely embarrassing to the Department of Justice, is he potentially subject to arrest and possibly felony charges. They handcuffed him and Any action taken to detain and detain him and bring him to court by federal law enforcement will be nothing but retaliation for his recent publicity.”

Mr. Baker discussed his legal issues in two October commentaries for Blaze News (here and here) and announced his independent journalistic career on January 6, which began before joining Blaze News. He then detailed the ongoing federal investigation. .

What did Baker’s investigation reveal?

Mr. Baker first analyzed Jan. 6 for Blaze News after spending countless hours in his House subcommittee office observing the closed-circuit video of Jan. 6 frame by frame. It was announced last October — and it left Baker wondering: Did Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus lie? Trial of the Oath Keepers?

Shortly thereafter, Blaze Media Editor-in-Chief Matthew Peterson appealed to House Speaker Mike Johnson to release all videos due to the slow pace at which everything recorded on video can be viewed without restriction. . On November 17, Mr. Johnson did just that.

Mr. Baker’s investigative work also led to two additional analyzes focusing on Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn. “January 6th and the N-word it wasn’t” and “Harry Dunn’s description of January 6th doesn’t add up. At all.”

In December, Baker claimed to have discovered significant misconduct involving Dunn, the Capitol Police, the media and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).

In January, Mr. Baker claimed that Mr. Lazarus had given false testimony in the Oath Keepers trial in a newly released Jan. 6 closed-circuit television video clip from the U.S. Capitol.

Proof of perjury | The truth of January 6thyoutube.be

Also in January, Baker and others asked what the U.S. government had to hide about the pipe bomb discovered at Democratic National Committee headquarters on January 6th. Baker wrote another analysis in February titled, “Capitol Police diverted all but one CCTV cameras from DNC pipe bomb investigation.”

Baker wrote an updated analysis last week asking why Kamala Harris was at the DNC instead of at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

This story has been updated.

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