After a heated battle between federal prosecutors and defendant William Pope on Jan. 6, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras said the possibility of a pardon being issued by President-elect Donald J. Trump could be a waste of resources. The court agreed to postpone Pope's trial because of the sexual nature of the case.
Pope, 38, of Topeka, Kansas, was scheduled to go on trial in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2 on five criminal charges, including a felony count of insurrection and four misdemeanor counts.
“I'm relieved that our four-year battle with the government is almost over,” Pope told Blaze News. “I'm going to win.”
“The circumstances in my case are inseparable from the election of President Trump.”
Mr. Contreras adopted Mr. Pope's reasoning. Filed on November 13th He said a lengthy trial would be a waste of court resources given the post-election realities in Washington, D.C.
“Unfortunately, the prosecutor's expression will not be recorded in the court record,” Pope wrote of X after the court's ruling.
Regarding Contreras' decision to postpone Pope's trial, Justice Department public affairs specialist Daniel Ball told Blaze News he had “no comment.”
Pope, publisher of the news site Free State Kansas, has been moving through government for more than 45 months. He dropped three of the original eight charges, exposing a potentially far-reaching presence. FBI agents and informants In the crowd.
Pope also exposed the illegal activities of undercover detectives at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, leading prosecutors to admit them in March 2023. Police Officer Nicholas Tomasula He acted as a provocateur among the crowd gathered on the west side of the Capitol.
In his Nov. 13 response to the court, Pope said the continued prosecution of his case ignores the political realities created by Trump's landslide reelection victory on Nov. 5.
“The government's continued prosecution of me is also a continued prosecution of President Trump's elected office, which is an indictment of the will of the people,” the Pope wrote. “The government must stop its attacks on democracy immediately!”
“They were reported to be in possession of weapons.”
Mr. Pope used the same standard that Special Counsel Jack Smith used when he asked the judge in Mr. Trump's case on January 6 to void all scheduled court dates. The Ministry of Justice has refused to apply it. The Justice Department said the “unprecedented circumstances” cited by Smith should not apply to all members of the January Sixers.
“To make this discussion interesting, we must first ignore the will of the American people, who just elected President Trump to carry out his mandate to end the January 6 prosecutions,” the Pope wrote. . “But these facts cannot be ignored. The circumstances in my case are inseparable from the election of President Trump.”
The Pope obtained a court order to tour the U.S. Capitol as part of trial preparations. The Oct. 20 tour included three FBI agents, two federal prosecutors and a lawyer for the U.S. Capitol Police.
In addition to dozens of fights on his own docket, Mr. Pope defended fellow defendants in Jan. 6 and provided material cited in numerous other defense cases.
Undercover Metropolitan Police Department agents Ricardo Leyva (left) and Michael Callahan watch over a crowd in West Plaza on January 6, 2021. Defendant William Pope exposed their and other undercover agents' activities at the U.S. Capitol.Metropolitan Police Department via William Pope/U.S. District Court
He identified an undercover police detective. ryan lowapparently encountered the suspect known only as #FenceCutterBulwark while cutting a temporary green plastic fencing on the Capitol grounds. “Thank you, brother,” Roe can be heard saying to #FenceCutterBulwark in the video.
In an earlier filing, Pope described several self-proclaimed Antifa supporters who were allegedly intercepted by undercover law enforcement officers, including one who was carrying a gun.
Metropolitan Police Department employee reportedly At 10:15 a.m. on January 6, police conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle carrying three Antifa operatives: Jonathan Kelly, Logan Grimes, and Dempsey Mikula.
“The undercover agents who stopped their vehicle stated they had received a report that they were carrying weapons,” Pope wrote. “The footage of this incident was not discovered and produced by the government. However, Kelly livestreamed portions of the police stop to Facebook.”
The Metropolitan Police arrested Grimes, who identified himself as Leslie, on suspicion of possessing a handgun without a license and possessing a high-capacity magazine and unregistered ammunition. The charges were dropped on January 7, 2021.
The Pope also drew attention to dozens of members of the Ohio-based Salt and Light Brigades. Reverend William Dunphy. Dunphy used a bullhorn in East Plaza to urge demonstrators to storm the Capitol. Video shows him celebrating outside the historic Columbus Doors after protesters stormed the Capitol.
The FBI arrested Dunphy in October 2022 after his activities were exposed. Mr. Dunphy was indicted in early 2023 and found guilty of three charges at a court hearing in January 2024. One of them was later dismissed based on a Supreme Court ruling. Fisher v. United States. Judge Reggie Walton sentenced Dunphy to: 30 months imprisonment September 19, 2024.
The incitement of the crowd by Ohio-based Salt and Light Brigade pastor Bill Dunphy was revealed by defendant William Pope during his investigation into the January 6 incident. Dunphy was ultimately sentenced to 30 months in prison.U.S. Department of Justice Photo
Pope tried to force the government to release more Capitol security video than former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his successor Mike Johnson released.
He posted dozens of hours of body camera footage on his blog rumble page It was not restricted as “secret” by the government. He pointed to dozens of security cameras whose footage was apparently missing from the Capitol Police database held by Congress.
The Pope had the prosecutor admit that:paradeMisdemeanor charges were filed against him on Jan. 6 after he displayed an American flag “in support of or disapproval of certain views.”
“Biden has criminalized the Star-Spangled Banner and wrong ideas!” the Pope said in May 2024.
Under Title 40, United States Code §5104, persons may not “parade, stand, or move in procession or mass upon the premises.” or “display on premises any flag, banner, or device designed or modified to publicly announce a political party, organization, or movement.”
The Pope said he fully expects President-elect Trump to grant a pardon on January 6, but that his case would be easier to resolve.
“In my case, I believe the government should be able to drop the charges against me,” he said.
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