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"My message right now goes to Sheriff War of Harney County...Sheriff David Ward you could have prevented the Hammonds from going to prison. They had to suffer for two and a half years because you would not look at the evidence, you would not look at the facts. The same facts that President Trump looked at and pardoned the Hammonds upon.... You wouldn't look at the abuses and you allowed federal agencies to come, the FBI and other agencies to come and influence you and convince you that we somehow were dangeorus and the Hammonds had to suffer for that....

Citing a recently publicized audio recording involving a conversation by Idaho III Percent leader Brandon Curtiss and blogger Gary Hunt, along with pictures of him along with Jon Ritzheimer and Ammon Bundy taken at Bundy Ranch in December, US District Judge Anna J. Brown came down with a three year and one month sentence for Ryan Payne today. Payne was convicted in the second rigged Oregon Standoff trial, rigged by federal prosecutors adding misdemeanor charges to felony ones and by Judge Brown limiting the defense case and having a bench trial where she decided the misdemeanor charges. With Payne already...