I admire @SteveBakerUSA and the truth he has embraced-at great risk. My heart breaks for @FreeBrianCole . It is an honor to pray for him. You are incredible parents and family.

Any remaining hope for the J6 defendants evaporated the second Todd Blanche started talking at his confirmation hearing. Jeanine Pirro was never their advocate. In January 2021 she called the people who entered the Capitol “deplorable, reprehensible, and outright criminal,” a “bunch of freaks,” and said they acted of their own will and would be held accountable. She rejected the idea that the election being stolen was any justification and told viewers to stop blaming Antifa. That is the record. Later she adopted the “hostages” and “weaponized prosecution” language and, as U.S. Attorney for D.C., moved to dismiss some remaining convictions. That does not erase the original framing or the fact that she treated January 6 as criminal violence that required accountability. Todd Blanche sold the rest of it for the job. At his July 2026 Attorney General confirmation hearing he repeatedly said he was “not celebrating” the mass pardons, that people who assaulted officers “should have been prosecuted and they were,” and that Capitol Police officers were victims of heinous crimes. He distanced himself from any appearance of celebrating the clemency to satisfy senators like Thom Tillis who wanted a clear line against violence at the Capitol. That is how you get confirmed in Washington: you tell the committee what it needs to hear. The earlier CPAC remarks about everything being done by 5 p.m. on January 20 became “I was merely stating a fact.” Pardons and commutations already happened. What was left, civil claims, records, remaining cases, any broader “make them whole” effort now runs through an Attorney General who just testified under oath that the violent actors deserved prosecution and that he does not celebrate what the President did. Combined with a D.C. U.S. Attorney whose first public instinct in 2021 was to treat the event as an inexcusable criminal breach, there is no institutional champion left inside the Justice Department for treating the J6 defendants as a unified class of political prisoners who deserve more than the clemency already granted. That is the transaction. Confirmation first. Everything and everyone else second. @Jon_Gross @HelpStopHate

@OneRealPOV isn’t free from his J6 nightmare and @EdMartinDOJ is leaving him stranded. Pardon application still pending. F’d up.