WorldNetDaily — no stranger to whitewashing the crimes and violence of Capitol rioters — is still at it. In February, Bob Unruh declared it a “stunner” that the rioters were investigated by the FBI:
In a report that has left critics of Washington’s Deep State radicalism gasping, it has been confirmed that the FBI used 5,000 agents – of its 13,000 total – to go after J6ers and President Donald Trump.
Unruh claimed the rioters were merely “trespassers,” once again censoring the violence and mayhem they caused. But Unruh got a key fact wrong — as a real news outlet reported, that 5,000 number includes non-agents as well, and the FBI has 38,000 total employees.
Chief whitewasher Alicia Powe dishonestly whitewashed another rioter with a sob story in a March 14 article:
For the hundreds of January 6 prisoners pardoned by President Donald Trump – surveilled, hunted down and terrorized by the FBI and designated as insurrectionists and criminals under the Biden administration, incarcerated for years in pretrial detention alongside murderers and terrorists, sentenced to decades in prison by federal judges for crimes that would normally amount to misdemeanor offenses if anything – many are not going “silently into the night” after being released.
In fact, many pardoned political prisoners are now working tirelessly to seek justice and expose to the American people exactly how the U.S. government operated as a criminal organization, conspiring to entrap good Americans at the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
Upon his release from prison, Chris Quaglin, 39, who spent two of his four years in pretrial detention in solitary confinement, has nothing left.
His son was 2 months old on April 7, 2021, when Chris walked outside his New Jersey home to an FBI SWAT team deploying flashbang grenades and hauling him off to jail for what turned out to be four years.
If not for Trump’s pardon, he would still be serving a 12-year prison sentence.
As an electrician, Quaglin earned a good living. However, returning to the life he once knew after enduring hell on earth is not an option for him.
Then Powe’s real whitewashing job began:
Quaglin was among protesters who demonstrated on the restricted grounds on the Capitol during the first breach on Jan. 6, 2021, when police began indiscriminately shooting demonstrators in the face with rubber bullets and throwing flashbang grenades into the crowd.
After Joshua Black was struck in the cheek with a munition fired by a cop, Quaglin began yelling at police, demanding they cease fire.
As Quaglin confronted the cops for using excessive force against the moderately peaceful crowd, Landon Copeland, a known member of Antifa, is seen in footage repeatedly shoving Quaglin into the police line.
Quaglin was convicted of 12 felonies and two misdemeanors related to his actions at the Capitol riot.
The battle for his freedom has destroyed his family and his life.
In reality, Quaglin tackled and choked a police officer, then assaulted other police with shields stolen from them, as well as metal bike racks and pepper spray. Upion his sentencing, Quaglin sneered at the Trump-appointed judge, “You’re Trump’s worst mistake of 2016” (the judge was actually nominated in 2017) and whined that it was a “kangaroo court.”
Powe’s whitewashing continued in a March 28 article:
President Donald Trump delivered on his promise, granting clemency to hundreds of January 6 prisoners and defendants via an executive order on Day One of his new administration, offering survivors of Biden’s weaponized Justice Department a second chance.
But for Proud Boys leaders – Marine Corps veteran Zachary Rehl, decorated Army veteran Joseph Biggs and Marine Corps veteran Dominic Pezzola – the fight for justice continues.
With their sentences commuted to time served, but not being fully pardoned like all the others, these men remain branded insurrectionists and even terrorists, saddled with nearly a dozen felony convictions each.
In bombshell court filings awaiting U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly’s ruling, the trio alleges federal prosecutors and the FBI broke laws to frame them with “seditious conspiracy” during their six-month trial.
Their attorney, Roger Roots, claims the Biden-led government knew the Proud Boys had no plan to “overthrow the U.S.” on Jan. 6, 2021, yet it orchestrated an informant-driven entrapment operation to “impose a one-party, slave-plantation-style government wherein political dissidents would be jailed, tormented and silenced” with wrongful convictions for merely trespassing while walking through the U.S. Capitol building.
His 19-page motion to dismiss accuses the feds of planting undercover agents among the group – some even within the group’s defense team – and barring any trial mention of them.
Powe made no apparent attempt to verify anything claimed in the motion, instead smearing alleged government agents in the crowd as “spooks.”
Unruh used an April 1 article to cite the highly unreliable Gateway Pundit issuing a similar complaint that the Department of Justice “threatened and punished” riot participants if they didn’t implicate Trump in “insurrection.” Unruh whined that “Biden’s DOJ spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars tracking down every single person who appeared on any video that day and arrested them, sometimes using SWAT tactics, for offenses that included trespassing,” but didn’t explain why criminals should be allowed to evade justice.