Utah’s John Sullivan convicted of Jan. 6 crimes, report says

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Notice the prosecutors made a point of trying to distance Sullivan from the Black Lives Matter movement... oddly enough by smearing him with his brother who wasn’t even in DC on Jan 6 because they claim his brother is affiliated with Proud Boys.

I am guess I guessing the US Attorneys are lying Soros puppets, and they are essentially trying to say BLM has some kind of formal membership which is odd for a bunch of liberals who claim -without evidence- that everyone they don’t like to be a formal member of some rightwing racist white extremist group (even if they are black or Hispanic.) :

“....In their own closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Rebekah Lederer and Michael Barclay said that’s exactly what Sullivan would do if – as jurors heard him saying himself on Sacker’s footage – it was a “ploy” to avoid being arrested.

“The only thing more offensive than the story the defendant is telling you is the request to believe it,” Lederer said.

During cross-examination, Leder worked to dismantle Sullivan’s claims of being a member of the Black Lives Matter movement and a journalist. She noted he’d been run out of the Utah and Portland activists communities and quoted a November 2020 message to the Seattle protest community warning others about his “grifting/profiteering, self-promotion/clout chasing, sabotage of community actions” and his brother’s ties to the Proud Boys.

Lederer also played jurors a clip Sullivan recorded of himself inside a D.C. hotel room on Dec. 14, 2020. In the clip, Sullivan responds to a question from someone watching his stream about whether he is a journalist.

“I don’t make money off of it so I don’t consider myself a journalist,” Sullivan said....”