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Carolyn's avatar

He's lucky. I would have arrested him and placed him in the DC gulag for an extended period of time.

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Julie Kelly's avatar

Notice how the media didn't bother to interview any of his victims. Luckily they are weighing in on X and he's worse than I thought.

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Don Reed's avatar

07/27/25: Let's hope that the DOJ has second thoughts and that's where he'll end up.

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Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

Spectacular account of DOJ starting, slowly, to right the scales of justice.

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NothingButNet's avatar

Excellent news, though I’d be much happier if these persecutors/prosecutors were given the opportunity to spend a few years in prison.

Would also be interesting to see how these knuckleheads view the Russiagate attempted overthrow of an administration compared to the mostly peaceful J6 demonstration where many were prosecuted for parading. Gee, I guess you never know when parading can turn into a threat to the nation 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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Julie Kelly's avatar

Since they all share the same hivemind--Orange Man Bad--I am certain they view Russiagate as legit, the perps as honorable, and the revelations as nothing more than vindicating the bad guys. I would love to see some of the worse J6 prosecutors in jail but that is unlikely. Civil suits appear more likely.

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Pat Smith's avatar

Could you imagine hiring this preening blowhard in private practice? This guy is successful in a DC courtroom that is full of fellow travelers while representing a client with infinite resources. The real world doesn't work that way as he is about to find out. Good riddance.

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Julie Kelly's avatar

Pat, that is what I LOVE about these blowhards bragging about their success in J6 cases. Complicit judges and Trump-hating Democrats on every jury--which is why DOJ consistently showed photos of the defendants in MAGA hats or carrying Trump flags, only to gin up contempt for the defendants. Sick stuff.

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Pat Smith's avatar

I would be a great lawyer too with the judge and jury in my pocket going against a public defense attorney who has no interest in defending his client.

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Ernie Rockwell's avatar

Guy like this will learn nothing until he has a “life review” as part of an NDE (Near Death Experience) or when he passes. From what others have reported they feel very intensely the harms they did to others from the others perspective.

He is clearly at fault for what he’s done, but so are all those who set up the J6 trap and its aftermath. For all I know he has actually brainwashed himself into believing in the righteousness of his actions, instead of just being one of a disturbingly large number of people, especially during “Covid” Psyop, who are willing to cause serious harm or death to people they don’t know, for money.

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Julie Kelly's avatar

Ernie, I know a handful of J6 prosecutors who did not want to do this but had to (I guess) to keep the job. Remember, many law school grads dream of working for US govt.

Gordon, like so many, volunteered for the gig. He left his home in Florida and relocated to DC so he could throw Trump supporting trespassers in federal prison. That is a sick person.

And you are right--many others are complicit. I have always said, and believe to this day, the real villains are the judges who allowed this travesty to continue.

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Harrison Bergeron's avatar

In the future, maybe 100 years (maybe more!) when TDS is officially in the DSM (once the med schools are back to normal) all of the horrible prosecutorial and judicial misconduct and overreach and bias will be listed as examples and people will be astounded. I hope. In the meantime let's enjoy the drip drip drip of these guys getting dumped.

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WI Patriot's avatar

Will these lifetime gov employees just end up at Elias Law or Law Forward? Or, will the NGO $ cuts to USAID show up in pink slips for them also. Karma's a b......

Thanks Julie !!

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Julie Kelly's avatar

I used to say ALL THE TIME when covering J6 proceedings--karma is a bitch.

Now they understand. Yes, they'll get hired but they love what they perceive to be the prestige of working for DOJ. We will see how they do in the real world.

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WI Patriot's avatar

Marc Elias has spent so much time in Wisconsin I think he maybe able to claim residency. The State Supremes about a month ago denied to hear one of his cases regarding re-districting. The lawfare has gotten out of control. Thank you Julie for all your hard work exposing these creeps. 'Keep On Truckin' !!

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Rev. Karlan Fairchild, MDiv's avatar

Thanks, Julie, for this interesting piece pertaining to the firing of M. Gordon and P. Hartman. I applaud Attorney General Pam Bondi for firing these execrable people. I agree that the audacity of Hartman to bitch about "psychological terrorism" after she excelled in doing precisely that to the unlawfully targeted J6 protestors is jaw-dropping. And, of course, that Marxist-Wearing-a-Black-Robe inside DC named Boasberg had to fulfill his obligation to become a star of the Soviet-Style-Show-Trials, didn't he? I believe the proper punishment for Gordon is to be put in solitary confinement inside that DC gulag where far too many innocent J6'ers were imprisoned. One can only be hopeful that something similar will occur to him in retribution for his behavior.

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Julie Kelly's avatar

I wish! But I am glad AG Bondi is giving them a small taste of their own medicine. Gordon will land on his feet of course but just like Russiagate--the truth about Jan 6 and the travesty of what happened to those people will at one point in life catch up with him. Hopefully he will be branded with the same description--terrorist--as he assigned to others.

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Rev. Karlan Fairchild, MDiv's avatar

Well, I suppose he will escape any type of punishment. However, in the best of all possible worlds he would be a pariah. And perhaps karma will make an unwanted visit to him sometime in the future. One can only be hopedul...

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Ken D.'s avatar

I tried a few months ago to get some liberal friends to watch the J6 timeline documentary (link below) and not one of them would watch it. A few got mad at me for asking. Why? They knew Trump was evil. Why? The believed Obama's Russia hoax.

J6 timeline video:

https://www.counterframe.com/p/j6-a-true-timeline

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Julie Kelly's avatar

Yes, Ken, no disabusing them of what they believe. And you are right about Russia collusion hoax--no amount of documents and revelations will persuade them of the criminality, or at least corruption, behind the operation.

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Stay Strong USA's avatar

I had same reaction when I proposed to liberal friends that they consume information about J6 from sources/media other than CNN etc.. they wouldn't watch.

Today's left doesn't want to challenge their feelings/beliefs/desires about people and events. They want to happily demonize and hate.

Yet, they also want to portray themselves as informed, woke, educated etc. ...

and shockingly their little biased brains cant even face and accept the obvious that cutting yourself off from info, tunnel vision, not consuming information from wide/broad sources by definition will make you not fully informed and will make you ill suited for rendering fair/accurate appraisals.

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Stay Strong USA's avatar

@Julie in all these J6 cases didn't lawyers ever have opportunity to share video/audio on adjacent screens showing all the video/audio of Ray Epps gaslighting, using megaphone to tell crowds about how they needed to enter the Capitol?? And breaking thru the barriers .....

Have Epps on one screen and then whatever overblown prosecution on an adjacent screen of a J6er wandering into Capitol w door held open for him. ??

How would judge Boasberg and these other prosecutor lefty suits defend their cases w all the video/audio evidence of Epps right there for all to see??

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Julie Kelly's avatar

This is why they enticed Epps into a sweet plea deal. Had he not accepted a single low level misdemeanor instead of being charged with obstruction, civil disorder, and interfering with police--as many who committed far less were--he would have gone to trial. And who knows what truth bombs would have gone off in the courtroom? Boasberg refused to send him to prison despite all his misconduct because he wanted to piss off the Right. Mission accomplished.

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Randy Hill's avatar

Maybe Kash and Dan will uncover Epps’ actual role.

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JC's avatar

Judge Boasberg...enough said! He is the paragon of virtue; just ask him!

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Susan G's avatar

Judge Boasberg would rule Epps' acts irrelevant to his vision of justice.

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Petey Kay's avatar

We can’t hate them enough.

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Julie Kelly's avatar

That is why I prefer mocking them. They are pathetic people with no soul who are clearly missing many things in life. Mockery is a better weapon than contempt (although I have that too.)

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Dude's avatar

outstanding! However, firing seems too soft for these li’l bitch whiner’s.

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Julie Kelly's avatar

Agreed.

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Ernie Rockwell's avatar

Julie, question if you don’t mind: what ever happened to the black guy who led all the “stop the steal” rallies?

Thanks for another great report.

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Julie Kelly's avatar

If you are referring to Kash Kelly, he is out of jail and started a podcast.

He was the first person to send me his videos showing police attacking the crowd outside. I thought it was doctored footage because I had never seen it (this was roughly April 2021.)

That gave me a whole new perspective on what happened that day.

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John O'Neill's avatar

Gordon like Alger Hiss will live in infamy and will someday answer to God for the evil he wrought. Disgraceful cowardly leftwing hatchet man.

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Julie Kelly's avatar

John, I think at some point they will branded as the real terrorists who brazenly abused their unchecked power to throw their fellow countrymen in federal prison (and destroy their lives) because they disagreed with their politics. Gordon is a perfect example--can't ignore his social media activity and demonstrated proof of bias. I hope he gets sued.

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John O'Neill's avatar

Boasberg a faux chameleon judge should likewise be impeached.

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Cara Wakefield's avatar

Julie brings great news this Saturday! The downfall of a disgusting tool! Good riddance!

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Julie Kelly's avatar

With more to come, Cara. Still waiting for some of my least favorite prosecutors to get the ax

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david's avatar

The corruption and anti-GOP bias runs very deep at the DOJ and other agencies. Hopefully, these firings send the message to the disloyal opposition: there is no place for politics at the DOJ.

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Julie Kelly's avatar

They have a long way to go but this is an excellent start.

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Lentinim's avatar

Thank you Julie. Great work as always. These people need to be held accountable, and I truly believe that we have the right people in place.

Keep up the great work.

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Julie Kelly's avatar

And thank YOU for your support!

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