While there is considerable evidence of violent pro-Trump rioters breaking windows and viciously assaulting police officers at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, there has always been a question about the main Columbus Doors to the Capitol Rotunda being opened from the inside.
As part of the case involving Kelly Meggs and other members of the Oath Keepers charged, among other things, with breaching the Capitol using a ‘tactical stack’ military formation, defense attorneys argue it was impossible to break into the Capitol at those massive 17 foot-high doors.
The Epoch Times (ET) reports that defense attorney Jonathon Moseley wrote in an eight-page memo to federal prosecutors that “the 20,000-pound Columbus Doors that lead into the Rotunda on the east side of the U.S. Capitol are secured by magnetic locks that can only be opened from the inside using a security code controlled by Capitol Police.”
Only Capitol Police could open those massive doors.
Yet, the federal indictment accuses the defendants of “breaching” the Rotunda entrance around 2:39 p.m. on January 6.
Mosley added:
The outer doors cast from solid bronze would require a bazooka, an artillery shell or C4 military-grade explosives to breach. That of course did not happen. You would sooner break into a bank vault than to break the bronze outer Columbus Doors.
The Epoch Times continues:
Moseley said he and an assistant took a tour of the Capitol on Jan. 22, along with other attorneys and investigators. The U.S. Capitol Police officers on duty were emphatic, he said, that the doors could not be opened from the outside.
… video from outside the entrance shows a group of Oath Keepers near the Columbus Doors, which are clearly open at the time the men got near the threshold. By the time they entered the Capitol, dozens if not more than 100 people had flowed into the building, the video shows.
According to ET, “Moseley proposed a stipulation that both sides in the case agree none of the demonstrators or the defendants opened the Columbus Doors on Jan. 6 and that the government strike three paragraphs of the indictment that refer to defendants entering the Capitol because they are “untrue and withdrawn.” Prosecutors refused that proposal, he said.”
Mosley also savaged federal prosecutors for holding back vital information and “dishonestly trying to deceive the public” for eight months by concealing that a total of six permits had been issued for demonstrations at the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6.
He explains that those permits implicitly give permission for people to enter, exit and cross the Capitol grounds to reach each event.
Altogether, Moseley accused prosecutors of crafting a “fabricated case” against the Oath Keepers that is “false and reprehensible.” He added:
This baseless prosecution is the greatest threat to the Republic since 1812. This prosecution is not about an attack on our Republic. This prosecution IS the attack on our Republic, seeking to criminalize political dissent, free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of political association, and the right to petition [the] government for the redress of grievances.
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Where is the “considerable evidence of violent pro-Trump rioters breaking windows and viciously assaulting police officers”?
Why is this misleading assertion still being paraded as “fact”?
People dressed as and purporting to be “Trump supporters” did attack the Capitol, but there is now “considerable evidence” that they were not “Trump supporters” at all, but that many were “sgents provocateur”, deliberately trying to mislead the MSM into believing that the violence was the fault of “Trump supporters”. The MSM fell for this untruth and the Democrats (about whom there is now “considerable evidence” that they colluded with the agents provocateur) have reinforce this falsehood, at every opportunity.
Well said!
Gullible libtard dummies
Damn I just commented above and I missed this point. The writer is spreading lies too as I also believe it. The fbi set this up following the bisses of biden. Oh and biden didn’t win this election either. Not only very stasticaally improbable but there many thhings comming out now, which should have been out from the beginning. The point, all of this is related, the parents being called domestic terrrorist, all of the covid crap, the boarder crises, Afghanistan withdrawl, anything biden and corruption and that list is too long to enumerate, and on and on. This is about control, about having division, about instilling hate with lies, again all for control, for power. These super rich are better than all of us so how ever they achieve their goals is immaterial just that their goals are achieved because they know better than us pions.
Thanks. I thought I was one of the few that believe as you do——-Grampa
Why is it Ray Ebbs was never arrested, people want to know.
The left has used our freedoms of speech as threats against government. If that were true they could have sized the president. wit this many people little could have been done to stop them. He was still president until Biden was sworn in. Because this didn’t happen the intent to over through government was never the intent.——–Grampa
This entire fiasco trumped up by crazy Nancy Pelosi and repeated by the MSM is nothing but a public lynching. There is only one person that failed America that is the wicked, lying witch Pelosi. It is the responsible of the speaker of the House to protect the Capital and she failed. She meds to be held accountable for the root and needs to be condensed for depriving those held in prison for violating their rights under the 6th amendment of our Constitution. She meds prison time.
It was Pelosi, Bowser that set this up. Why weren’t they called in from of January 6th fake commission??? They wanted to get even with Trump. All the Trump rallies and many people, I have never heard of any riots. Pelosi planted Antifa, and and probably FBI to incite people. Those locked up don’t deserve to be treated the way they are. It’s disgusting and inhumane
Nancy goal is not to get to the truth on what happen or why it happen. The goal is to find Trump guilty and keep Trump from running in 2024.
That is an extreme problem for the capital police, we can see on videos of the capital police letting people in past barricades, and into the capital. Inside job,plain and simple.
Let’s not forget the published pictures of Capital Guards opening another set of doors and waving people in! The Capital Police would only have opened the bronze doors and the second ser of doors to wave people in unless they were told by Queen Pelisibto do so. What happened after this was a trap set by Pelosi to discredit the protesters the vast majority of which were peaceful. AND kept we forget the real assault on the Capital in the 1980’s was completed by leftist with the apparent support of Demicrats that used bombs to blow up the Republican office area. Thankfully no one was murdered that day. But the two ladies found guilty of this REAL attack on the Capital were released by Clinton years before their sentences were completed.
if we don’t get rid of Biden and this Democrats administration now we won’t have a country anymore all need to go NOW!
It’s a little late but the truth is seeping out:
Piglosi is a snake, liar, self serving, ego maniac, sorry excuse for a human, low life, cover up
artist, and as evil as they come!!! Just look at what she has tried to do!!! Having her crew
bringing all these people in to try and trap them and intimidate them and throw them in her
private capital and taking away their rights as citizens and torturing them !!! She should be
taken right away and slammed in one of those cells!!!!!
LISTEN UP…GOD wants the CAPITOL PROTESTERS Released from JAIL. HE wants THEM to be FREED just like HIS Servant the APOSTLE PAUL. The DARK CLOUD Stays on the WHITE HOUSE. Only GOD’S Hand Can REM OVE it. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄😇😇😇
No shit.. these federal prosecutors and the fbi are the domestic terrorist that biden is not only covering but allowing bidens bosses to pay off. I think and investgation should be open into these criminals and they are punished appropriately which I think should be hangings…
WHO gave orders to Open CH doors?
Pelosi, Schumer, Other
Why has the attention been focused upon President Trump and a speech that clearly called for peaceful demonstration to make the voice of the people heard. Within a million people we can find many that want more than their voice heard. with so many that have had organized and openly destructive actions against the president, why haven’t these paths of destructive intent been investigated. We see the assumption that the entire assembly that went to hear the president speak was turned into a raging mob intent on overthrowing the government. We see the other branches of government trying to prove it. The more they try the more the citizen sees that it is something they are hiding. They use the magicians tricks of holding one hand high with proof of President Trumps actions to distract from what their other hand is doing. This but a fraction of their entire magic act. When will our attorneys general follow our laws that incarcerate people against our laws. Why haven’t media covered this action? What is this hand of government doing? Remember, who will help you when government comes for you and keeps you without charges filed. Denied our right to a speedy trial. Pay attention how government is changing. We still have some rights, rights eroded when opposition isn’t present or fails. The time is now to act. fail and accept a government that will rule not serve.———-Grampa
We will never forget that the dumbacrats are trying to control the world and they are all a big bunch of liers and criminals who have never gotten any trouble for any reason or another that has been going on with our country and we need to get rid of all of them now because we the people are getting very tired of the bull shit that is going on in the government now