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@NBCNews Justice reporter. 📚Author of SEDITION HUNTERS, one of Publishers Weekly’s best books of 2023 SIGNAL: ryanjreilly.62 🚲

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Publishers Weekly has named “Sedition Hunters” one of the best books of 2023. “Reilly paints a vivid and urgent portrait of a justice system and country in disarray.”
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Jim Jordan: “Do you know what a quid pro quo is?” Guy appointed as an ambassador after donating $1M to Trump’s inauguration: “I do.”
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One of the best photos I’ve even taken, from 12 years ago this week.
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BREAKING: Former NYPD Officer Thomas Webster sentenced to 10 YEARS in federal prison. A new Jan. 6 record.
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BREAKING: law enforcement officials have seized thousands of cloth masks that were mailed to four different cities to protect Black Lives Matter protesters from COVID-19:
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Sen. Mitch McConnell correctly noted today that there's "very little election fraud" in the United States, a fact that perhaps would've been useful to publicly and forcefully articulate, say, between Nov. 4, 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021.
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"The FBI digital team will be arresting all who illegally entered the DC [Capitol]." TrumpIsYourPresident1776: "Lmao yaaaaaaaaaa sure thing buddy!” The FBI arrested Debra Maimone in New Castle, PA, today.
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So strange how early in the process there was a two-thirds vote to find Trump guilty and then they just kept “finding” all these other senators to vote not guilty.
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The scene at UVA. Wow. #Charlotteville
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NEW: Former Oath Keeper testifies that Stewart Rhodes informed him that he was in contact with a Secret Service agent.
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Steve Bannon being defeated by a whistle.
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NEW: Guy Reffitt is guilty on all five counts. Clean sweep for DOJ.
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One of the best humans I know had some thoughts on watching U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman face down that mob of Trump-loving insurrectionists that was steps away from the floor of the Senate. Sharing here, with his permission.
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BREAKING: Jan. 6 defendant Jenna Ryan — who tweeted that she’s “definitely not going to jail” — has been sentenced to prison.
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NEW: federal prosecutor in Steve Bannon trial opening: “It wasn’t optional. It wasn’t a request, and it wasn’t an invitation. It was mandatory... The defendant decided he was above the law… and that’s why we’re here today.”
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The Daily Show has a truck going around the Capitol playing clips of Trump insulting senators sitting in his impeachment trial.
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The fate of Steve Bannon, who once said that people should wear it as a “badge of honor” when someone calls them a racist, will be in the hands of a majority non-white jury.
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FBI Director Chris Wray on Antifa: It’s not a group or an organization, it’s a movement or an ideology.
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BREAKING: Active-duty Marine Major Christopher Warnagiris, based at Quantico, was arrested in Virginia for assaulting federal officers at the Capitol.
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"Six Jones Day lawyers said that given the small number of late-arriving ballots involved in the litigation, and the fact that they already had been segregated, the main goal of the litigation seemed to be to erode public confidence in the election...”
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You can spend months reviewing Jan. 6 footage and still come across visuals that just hit you like a bus.
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This is astonishing to watch.
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The attack on the Capitol was coordinated and planned. Here are the insurrectionists talking about the plan, including detailed schematics of the Capitol building.
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NEW: DOJ is asking for Riley Williams to be taken into custody immediately following her conviction on six counts.
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The feds don’t tend to tread lightly when a cop dies as the result of a criminal conspiracy.
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Attorney for Capitol defendant Anthony Antonio said his client had “Foxitus” and “Foxmania” from watching six months of Fox News and started “believing what was being fed to him” by Fox News and the president.
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In which Hunter Biden suggests that Matt Gaetz is maybe not the best person to be asking about drug use.
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Yet another Capitol defendant done in by his wife’s Facebook posts.
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NEW: Dramatic new Jan. 6 video shows two GOP representatives speaking with Capitol rioters through the broken windows of the House chamber doors as officers point weapons at the mob attempting to breach the floor. This evidence was released in response to a request by @NBCNews .
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If "(Hitler Gassed Millions)" is in a fact-check chyron under your face, you aren't having a great day.
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We have 22 jurors qualified in the Steve Bannon trial. We’re set for openings tomorrow. Reporting with @dnlbrns .
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“She had named it ‘Dennis Reynolds,’ after a character from the comedy series ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.’”
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A marble bust was sold for $34.99 at a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas, in 2018. Turns out, it was an actual Roman bust from the late 1st century BC or early 1st century AD. How it got to Texas remains a mystery.
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If anyone received an award for cinematography in 2021 they should give it back, because the proper recipient is whoever was remotely operating this Senate floor camera feed on Jan. 6. From a newly released court exhibit, in the Bruna Cua case:
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Judge Amy Berman Jackson at a Jan. 6 sentencing today: "People need to understand that they can't do this… They can't try to force their will on the American people once the American people have already spoken at the ballot box. That's the opposite of democracy, it's tyranny.”
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Remember that Jan. 6 rioter turned into the FBI by his ex-girlfriend after he texted her that she was a "moron" because she didn't believe in Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election? He was just sentenced to nine months in federal prison.
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Let’s dispense with this notion that the Jan. 6 committee doesn’t know what they’re doing with that Josh Hawley video, the Jan. 6 committee knows exactly what they’re doing with that Josh Hawley video.
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“We broke into the Capitol…we got inside, we did our part. We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain but we didn’t find her.” — Dawn Bancroft, arrested in Pennsylvania today, along with Diana Santos-Smith.
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NEW: DOJ sues Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott over executive order that gave state troopers cover to make unlawful stops, ostensibly because of COVID.
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NEW: Members of the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Operations Division heckled former Officer Mike Fanone at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony, Fanone tells me. “They called me a piece of shit and mockingly called me a great fucking hero while clapping," he said.
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BREAKING: judge tosses jury's conviction of woman arrested after laughing at Jeff Sessions hearing
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BREAKING: The FBI arrested three Jan. 6 fugitives at a ranch in Groveland, Florida, in an early morning operation. Now in custody: Jonathan Daniel Pollock Olivia Michele Pollock Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III
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🚨🚨🚨 Robert Sanford, the ex firefighter who chucked a fire extinguisher at cops on Jan. 6, sentenced to 4+ years (52 months) in federal prison. He went to a cult deprogrammer to figure out how he came to actually believe Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
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BREAKING: Taylor Taranto had guns, 400 rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested near Barack Obama’s home. Donald Trump posted Obama’s address on social media. Taranto reposted it, then showed up. Story with @FionaGlisson . #AstroNOT
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In case you missed it: Newly surfaced footage shows a Donald Trump supporter (who later stabbed a man to death) firing a gun into the air outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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NEW: “The FBI is seeking information that will assist in identifying individuals who are actively instigating violence in Washington, DC.”
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NEW: The FBI arrested 25-year-old Anton Lunyk in Brooklyn this morning. The bureau received a tip about him after he appeared in the background of a screenshot of Baked Alaska’s livestream.
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Mark Middleton and Jalise Middleton of Texas have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack. The feds say both assaulted police officers while wearing Trump hats.
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NEW: Two law enforcement officials have confirmed to NBC News that Ricky Walter Shiffer, the suspect in the attack on the FBI field office in Cincinnati, is dead. Shiffer was present at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Reporting with @jonathan4ny .
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John Richter, who yelled “JOHN RICHTER! JOHN RICHTER!” on the Senate floor Steve Holt-style on Jan. 6, has been arrested by the FBI.
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WASHINGTON —
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NEW: Jay Johnston — of Mr. Show, Arrested Development, The Sarah Silverman Show, Bob's Burger's, and Anchorman fame — has been arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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NEW: Feds arrested Duke Wilson, a Capitol rioter who they say assaulted a police line while wearing a "CNN FAKE NEWS” hat.
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how it started…. how its going
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BREAKING: A Trump fanatic who fired two gunshots during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is in custody. Sedition Hunters IDed him three years ago. NBC News named him two years ago. Last month, another J6 rioter published footage of the gunshots. Now he's been arrested and charged.
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Maddow segment on the beef John Cornyn has with Vanita Gupta:
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Still not convinced this isn’t a SNL character. (A judge previously declared this Trump supporter /freelance contract IT worker’s testimony “simply not credible.”)
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“How long you been a Nats fan for?” “Since today!”
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BREAKING: DOJ files voting rights lawsuit against Texas.
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NEW: “Their plan is to literally kill people. Please please take this tip seriously and investigate further.” — tip about the Proud Boys received by the FBI and relayed to Secret Service in the days before the Jan. 6 attack.
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Gina Bisignano, the California business owner previously charged in connection with the Capitol insurrection, has now been indicted on seven counts (Indictment was returned Friday but posted today.)
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Quite stunning to see the COVID death toll represented like this.
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BREAKING: The Jan. 6 rioter known as #ChairGuy has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison, with a Trump-appointed judge saying that blindside tackling an officer over a wall was “a truly cowardly and despicable thing to do.”
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“I believed that was how my life was going to end that day,” Officer Ellis said. “You’re not a patriot,” Ellis told #ChairGuy . “You’re a coward.”
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Was worth a shot! (Also this isn’t a denial!)
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News from the past 30 mins: - Rudy Giuliani subpoenaed. - WSJ: Mike Pompeo was on Trump’s Ukraine call. - NYT: Trump pushed Australian prime minister to help with probe he wants to undermine the Russia investigation. Happy Monday!
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BIG: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ordered the public release of Danny Rodriguez’s FBI interview in which he confesses to electroshocking D.C. Officer Mike Fanone. It’s a must-watch.
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Bold move not to stay at the Trump Hotel and still hope for a pardon.
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The official WH turkeys have arrived! 🦃🦃 They are currently staying at the @WillardHotel before the pardon by @realDonaldTrump on Tuesday.
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Holy smokes the sequel is even better! Rudy Giuliani tries to shush her to calm her down and the Republican even tries to reel her in! She treats this Republican* like he’s a Chick-fil-A employee and the milkshake machine went down. *corrected
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DOJ employees delivered a standing ovation after a former FBI agent read a statement from Matthew Shepard’s parents calling AG William Barr a hypocrite.
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So this newly discovered image from Jan. 6 might not look very important. But it is. Let me explain why. (Thread warning.)
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Tucker: "To this day, there is dispute over how Chansley got into the Capitol building." False. You can literally see QAnon Shaman entering in footage he aired moments earlier. He wasn't snuck in some back door, he came in moments after the door was kicked in.
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NEW: Attorney General Merrick Garland will update Americans on the Jan. 6 investigation and "reaffirm the department's unwavering commitment to defend Americans and American democracy from violence and threats of violence” in a speech on Wednesday, according to a DOJ official.
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Four Seasons Total Landscaping wants in on this merch bonanza.
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BREAKING: Long Island funeral home owner Peter Moloney has (finally) been arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. #SeditionHunters have been waiting on this one for nearly two years. Story with @jonathan4ny :
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Donald Trump recently posted a screenshot featuring Barack Obama’s DC address. A Jan. 6 participant who has been living in a van by the DC jail and has creeped out other J6 supporters saw it. “Got them surrounded!” he reposted. Arrested near the home.
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“Boy, this is a diverse group.” — Bruce Castor to the United States Senate, which is not.
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“Do you ever consider that the folks behind the idea that the election was stolen, of which there isn’t any evidence, may have targeted and taken advantage of folks like you, for whom a message of patriotism might appeal?” — Judge to Jan. 6 defendant today (via @JordanOnRecord )
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In extremely unsurprising news, a racist Donald Trump fan has been charged with threatening Judge Chutkan.
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I came across an interesting unreported case in Texas today. The great reporting crew at BLaw wrote it up. (Also has my first Bloomberg contribution line too, very excited)
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BIG news in the Jan. 6 investigation. Oath Keepers member William Todd Wilson says he was in a suite at the Phoenix Park Hotel with Stewart Rhodes on Jan. 6 when Rhodes put an unidentified Trump intermediary on speakerphone, and unsuccessfully tried to talk to Trump.
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Another former Oath Keepers member testifies that he tried to tip off the FBI and other officials after he recorded an Oath Keepers call he was concerned about in Nov. 2020, before Jan. 6. “Did anyone call you back?” “Yeah, after it all happened.”
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A time lapse of the western side of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6:
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“If we’re got to hang a bunch of crooked congressmen, we’ll do that, okay?”
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FBI Director Chris Wray, nearly four months after the election and nearly two months after the Capitol insurrection: “We are not aware of any widespread evidence of voter fraud, much less that would have effected the outcome in the presidential election.”
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Just before Christmas 2021, David Elizalde was stationed at Naval Station Rota, in Rota, Spain, when the FBI and NCIS came to interview him about how he stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. He was re-approached in 2022. He was just arrested.
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Florida Man Daniel Ball, charged with setting off an explosive device inside the lower west tunnel at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, has now been indicted on 12 counts:
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NEW: Some actually newsworthy footage that was just released in connection with a Jan. 6 trial of Ed Badalian, the InfoWars superfan whose buddy drove a stun gun into Mike Fanone's neck during the Capitol siege. From inside a trashed suite of Senate hideaway offices:
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BREAKING: Robert Keith Packer — who wore a "CAMP AUSCHWITZ STAFF" sweatshirt when he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 — has been sentenced to 75 days in federal prison.
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BREAKING: Jan. 6 defendant Matthew Martin acquitted on all charges at a beach trial by Judge Trevor McFadden.
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A Defense Department contractor with a secret security clearance charged in connection with Jan. 6 used his work computer to search “Capitol building layout, guns, rifle scopes, lasers, Trump protests, FBI Capitol,” feds say.
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NEW: An ex-FBI supervisory special agent has been arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. “Kill ‘em!" Jared Wise yelled as the mob attacked officers he called Nazis, per FBI. "Kill ‘em! Kill ‘em! Kill ‘em!”
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BREAKING: Trump supporters are targeting members of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and his 18 codefendants. One post on a fringe website even featured their home addresses. Story with @ReporterBlayne :
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Happy two year anniversary to the best headline I ever wrote (it kind of wrote itself).
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Jeanine Pirro says the FBI should’ve gotten to the bottom of “who Nicholas Cage is.”
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THREAD: A lot of people probably thought Jan. 6 rioter #CapitolSmoker was a Hill staffer when they first saw his image, but he wasn't. Jonathan Humphreys was arrested in California.
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NEW: The feds have arrested and charged two Virginia police officers who took a selfie in the U.S. Capitol during an attack that killed a Capitol Police officer.
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Thread: Feds seek eight years in federal prison for Mike Fanone assailant Albuquerque Head, who was wearing a knife on his belt when he dragged Fanone into the mob after yelling “I got one!”
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THREAD Donald Trump keeps calling Jan. 6 defendants "hostages." He did so again last night. But an @NBCNews review of J6 cases identified just 15 current pretrial detainees ordered held by a judge. Among them are defendants who (allegedly): - set off an explosive device -…
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