He was adamant that he was an innocent man.
Until he changed his plea to guilty.
The plea agreement reads: “Your client agrees to allow law enforcement agents to review any social media accounts operated by your client for statements and postings in and around January 6, 2021, prior to sentencing.”
Of course this comes even as Alex Jones’ sidekick Owen Shroyer, first charged a year and a half ago, is now cutting a cooperating plea deal of his own. This gives Jack Smith and the DOJ access to his communications with everyone involved in the 2020 election plot. It also places pressure on people like Jones to consider swiftly cutting deals of their own. We’re now just a matter of days before we start finding out who decided to flip, and who decided to get indicted and go down with the ship.
Updated June 23, 2023 at 9:58 p.m. EDT|Published June 23, 2023 at 4:28 p.m. EDT
A host for Alex Jones’s Infowars.com pleaded guilty Friday to trespassing in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, and, in a separate case, a Colorado man who marched with the Proud Boys in paramilitary gear that day was sentenced to four years in prison for attacking police.
He reversed course Friday, admitting that he entered and remained on restricted Capitol grounds knowing it was unlawful to do so.
According to the House Jan. 6 committee, Shroyer was in frequent text communication between Jan. 4 and Jan. 6 with three Proud Boys leaders convicted last month of seditious conspiracy: Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, Ethan Nordean and Joe Biggs, a former Infowars employee.
In a plea agreement, Shroyer acknowledged that he faces up to six months in prison under advisory federal guidelines, but that a final decision was up to U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly of Washington at sentencing Sept. 12.
Prosecutors agreed to drop a 2020 misdemeanor case pending against Shroyer in D.C. Superior Court. Shroyer admitted his conduct on Jan. 6 violated an agreement he had made in that case.
And while Owen may not have communicated directly with “the big boys,” he was definitely talking to his boss Alex Jones, and by proximity, likely Stone and Giuliani.
Please break out the smelling salts for the attendees of the Willard Hotel on Jan5 & Jan6:
Steve Bannon, John Eastman, Bernard Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, Boris Epshteyn, Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, Christina Bobb…….
Jason Miller - communications strategist. Testified to the Jan6 Committee that President Trump dictated a statement over the phone in response to a New York Times report on January 5 that the president and vice president were at odds over the latter's role in Electoral College certification. In the statement, President Trump called the New York Times story "false" and said the two men were in agreement that the vice president could act. "He dictated most of it...and ultimately, this came out the way that he wanted to," Miller says.
Phil Waldron - a retired Army colonel with a background in information warfare who had circulated a detailed and extreme plan to overturn the 2020 election.
Russell Ramsland, Jr. - co-owner of Allied Security Operations Group, a cybersecurity outfit he has used to push election fraud conspiracy theories, going back to 2018
Philip Luelsdorff - the director of Business Development for 1st Amendment Praetorian (1AP), a fascist paramilitary security group that has provided “security” for far-right politicians and fascist rallies
Joe Oltmann - the founder of FEC United (Faith, Education, Commerce United), a reactionary Colorado group, which Abramson writes is “closely linked to the United American Defense Force (UADF), a far-right militia.”
Robert Hyde - involved in the Ukraine extortion attempt by Trump, claims election was stolen
And of course, for Defendant Trump:
"On the evening of January 5 Trump reportedly made separate calls to his legal and non-legal aides to discuss avenues to stop the next day's vote certification and delay the process until Congress received a new slate of electors.
The report claims the calls were separate on Giuliani's insistence it would maintain attorney-client privilege. It also cites 'multiple sources' without going into further detail on whether they were even present.
The calls, which would directly link the former president to his associates' efforts to overturn a democratic election, reportedly took place a day after Eastman unveiled a memo outlining a theory of how then-Vice President Mike Pence could reject the existing results."