January 6th began as an innocent opportunity for Trump supporters to protest, but it quickly became a day that would change their lives forever.
But now, things may be changing for the better.
“One J-60 passenger witnessed a reversal of fortune,” explains Jill Savage of “Blaze New Tonight.”
“John Strand is actually one of the most notorious cases of the defendants on January 6th and certainly one of the most high-profile cases,” Steve Baker told Savage.
Strand was a friend and bodyguard for Simone Gold, the founder of Frontline American Doctors, a physician and lawyer who was deplatformed and accused of “misinformation” for promoting alternative treatments that were not part of what Baker called the “approved narrative” about COVID-19.
Gold was scheduled to speak on Jan. 6 at one of six legally permitted events scheduled on the Capitol grounds that day.
“By the time they got to the Capitol, everything had gone horribly wrong and it was chaos when they arrived. The breach had already occurred. John Strand and Simone Gold did not participate in any violent acts and were not involved in the breach of the Capitol in any way,” Baker explained.
But their fatal flaw was that they entered the Capitol peacefully.
“She actually decided to give the speech that she had prepared in the Rotunda. She climbed up on the Eisenhower statue, John stood guard nearby, she spoke in the great rotunda of the Capitol, and then they peacefully left, as did hundreds and thousands of other people,” Baker said.
Both Strand and Gold were “charged with the notorious felony Section 1512 Criminal Procedure Act.”
This felony is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Gold ultimately took a plea deal that reduced the charge to one misdemeanor. Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced her to 60 days in jail.
“John Strand wasn’t going to take it lying down. He decided to be a warrior. And despite the terrible odds being stacked against him, he decided to stand trial, which he did,” Baker explains.
He was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to 32 months in prison.
“Now, because the Supreme Court has overturned Section 1512, which was an obstruction of justice charge against 355 defendants, he is one of them and will either get a reduced sentence or be released,” Baker said.
If they haven’t been tried yet, they won’t be prosecuted.
“This is a particularly good sign because the Department of Justice has already announced that it wants to consider how to proceed with this case,” Baker explains, “but the point is that the judges appear to be pushing back against the Department of Justice.”
“We’re going to take this as a good sign,” he added.
