Stop the Steal' speaker Brandon Straka gave FBI in
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Posted On: 07/29/2022 7:47:55 AM
Stop the Steal' speaker Brandon Straka gave FBI info on rally organizers, more than a dozen others a
WASHINGTON — A right-wing activist who spoke at Freedom Plaza on Jan. 5 and then joined the assault on the Capitol the next day provided information to the FBI about rally organizers and more than a dozen other members of the “Stop the Steal” movement as part of a plea deal to avoid a felony charge, according to court filings newly unsealed this week.
Brandon Straka, 45, of Nebraska, pleaded guilty last fall to one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct and was sentenced in January to 90 days of home detention and $5,000 in fines. In charging documents, prosecutors said Straka headed to the U.S. Capitol after receiving texts that the building had already been breached. Once there, videos show him encouraging other members of the mob and discussing his desire to enter the building. Afterward, he posted messages encouraging rioters to “hold the line” and comparing January 6 to 1776.
“I’m completely confused. For 6-8 weeks everybody on the right has been saying ‘1776!” & that if congress [sic] moves forward it will mean a revolution! So congress moves forward. Patriots storm the Capitol – now everybody is virtue signaling their embarrassment that this happened,” Straka wrote in one tweet.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/c...889c040ffa
WASHINGTON — A right-wing activist who spoke at Freedom Plaza on Jan. 5 and then joined the assault on the Capitol the next day provided information to the FBI about rally organizers and more than a dozen other members of the “Stop the Steal” movement as part of a plea deal to avoid a felony charge, according to court filings newly unsealed this week.
Brandon Straka, 45, of Nebraska, pleaded guilty last fall to one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct and was sentenced in January to 90 days of home detention and $5,000 in fines. In charging documents, prosecutors said Straka headed to the U.S. Capitol after receiving texts that the building had already been breached. Once there, videos show him encouraging other members of the mob and discussing his desire to enter the building. Afterward, he posted messages encouraging rioters to “hold the line” and comparing January 6 to 1776.
“I’m completely confused. For 6-8 weeks everybody on the right has been saying ‘1776!” & that if congress [sic] moves forward it will mean a revolution! So congress moves forward. Patriots storm the Capitol – now everybody is virtue signaling their embarrassment that this happened,” Straka wrote in one tweet.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/c...889c040ffa
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