January 6 started as a chance for Trump supporters to innocently protest and quickly turned into a day that would change their lives forever.
Now, however, things might be taking a turn for the better.
“One J-sixer is seeing a reversal of fate,” Jill Savage of “Blaze New Tonight” explains.
“John Strand is actually one of the more, let’s call it, infamous stories, certainly one of the more high-profile cases of all the January 6 defendants,” Steve Baker tells Savage.
Strand was friend and bodyguard of Simone Gold — a doctor and attorney who was the deplatformed founder of the Frontline American Doctors. Gold had been accused of “disinformation” for recommending alternative therapies that were not part of what Baker calls the “approved narrative” regarding COVID-19.
Gold was scheduled to speak on January 6 at one of the six legally permitted events scheduled on the Capitol property that day.
“By the time they got to the Capitol, everything had gone to hell in a handbasket, and so there was nothing but chaos by the time they arrived. The breaches had already taken place. John Strand and Simone Gold did not participate in violence, they did not participate in breaching the Capitol building whatsoever,” Baker explains.
However, their fatal flaw was going inside the Capitol peacefully.
“She actually decided to deliver her prepared remarks there in the Rotunda. She climbed up on the Eisenhower statue, with John standing guard beside her, she delivered her remarks there in the great Rotunda of the Capitol, and then they peacefully left, just as so many other hundreds and thousands of people did,” Baker says.
Both Strand and Gold were “handed that infamous 1512 obstruction of an official proceeding felony.”
The felony carried up to 20 years of imprisonment.
Gold ended up taking a plea deal and pled down to a single misdemeanor. Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced her to 60 days in prison.
“John Strand decided he was not going to take this lying down, that he was going to be a warrior, and he, despite the odds being horribly stacked against him, he was going to go to trial and he did that,” Baker explains.
He was convicted on all counts, and he was sentenced to 32 months in prison.
“Now what’s happening is that because of the Supreme Court’s overturning the 1512 obstruction of an official proceeding charge against 355 defendants, him being one of those,” Baker says, “they’re shortening their sentences or letting them go.”
If they haven’t gone to trial yet, they’re not charging them with it.
“It’s especially a good sign because the Department of Justice has already announced that they want to figure out how to continue with that charge,” Baker explains. “But the point being, is it appears that the judges are pushing back against the DOJ.”
“We’ll take this as a good sign,” he adds.
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