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Because I I thought I was going to lose my life when I came in she wanted to hug me and I told her no because I was called if I was covered in pepper spray my hands were bleeding still and I even I couldn’t even sleep because
I went took a shower and instead of helping that reinflamed the chemicals it had soak through your clothes took a bath with milk that’ll help wow here’s another cut I too was being crushed by the Riders I could feel my myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself
This is how I’m going to die defending this entrance stop I that is um pretty hard to hear pretty hard to hear now Julie Kelly is a journalist and she’s been given analysis and commentary related to the weaponization of the US Department of Justice he writes on the
Sub stack Declassified with Julie Kelly she also is giving us some really unique looks at January 6th and the pending criminal indictments of Donald Trump and Julie has uh just tweeted out earlier this week that that story doesn’t seem to fit do I have that right Julie
You do have that right Glenn and thank you so much for having me on and sharing my work um so officer equilino ganell who you heard there hasab story has been one of what I call January 6 celebrity cop so he was one of four police officers security guards
Um who testified during the very first January 6th select committee televised hearing the idea of that hearing was to make it sound like Trump supporters tried to kill police officers that day and Canal has been now for two and a half years telling his sob story his near-death experience that he almost
Died injuries to his head his hands his shoulder that his foot was crushed well footage that was obtained by johanneman at Epic times I have to credit him when I was looking at his coverage of what happened actually happened to Roseanne Boyland the first person who popped up
In my view was officer ganell and so I I zoomed in it’s like well I can’t believe this is him and there he is for seven minutes as I should have in my piece and on Twitter walking around no indication of any injury no sign of pain he’s
Actually kicking things aside with his feet his hands are visible there’s no bleeding there’s no abrasions on his hands his shoulders both shoulders are mobile he’s taking off gear he’s bending up and down he’s moving things around uh he’s putting on his uh a surgical face mask
No apparent size of pain or injury for seven minutes but yet here he has been a key figure in promoting the idea that police were almost killed on January 6 and that he was so grievously injured Glenn that he had to take medical leave for at least a year
And then only went back to partial Judy due to his injuries and surgeries he claimed that he had because of those injuries what else do you know about him Julie um I don’t know much I know he is a veteran I know he’s an immigrant I believe from maybe the Dominican Republic
Um that’s really all that I know but Glenn I also want to underscore his words and his his claims are not without consequence he has been a government witness in Trials of January 6 defendants where he’s taken the stand under oath and talked about his injuries that he suffered he has filed Victim
Impact statements and sentencing hearings for January 6 defendants talking about these serious injuries that were inflicted by Trump supporters and he specifically says Trump supporters he does not say protesters writers Trump supporters this has helped judges in uh impose very long harsh sentences against January 6 defendants
And in fact in fact Glenn one federal judge Tremor McFadden specifically called out officer canal in his testimony in one trial and said that his testimony about his injuries were not credible and that he did not believe when officer Canal said he had been beaten with a stolen baton so it’s not
Just that he’s talking on you know CNN Jake Tapper or he’s posting this garbage on Twitter he is he has said these things under oath uh as I said with with dire consequences for defendants do you know because I I know you’ve been following all of the cases and I would
Assume you know some of the attorneys um just by following it are they looking into uh retrying their their cases I mean this is information that the government had and didn’t release that seems like a miscarriage of Justice so well said Glenn and this has been a criticism of defendants now for more
Than two years that this Department of Justice and Capitol Police by the way have designated all of this footage as highly sensitive government material all of it has been under strict protective orders in court and the government is really only turning over footage to defendants that is case specific so say
In the case of Pat McCoy where ganell testified they only saw footage of the defendant uh the security video of that particular defendant they didn’t turn over or produce the video of officer canel and this is only what we One Clip that we’ve seen I’m sure there’s other footage of him
Walking through the Capitol and keep in mind this is around five o’clock that day this isn’t before the violence between protesters and police began this is after it ended so it’s not like he went back to another area of the capital and got beaten up by protesters the
Building had been evacuated the grounds were being evacuated um so yes I believe that the two defendants where officer ganell testified and filed Victim Impact statements they are on appeal so I’m sure that this footage will be part of their appeal as to what the government was hiding not just from descent not
Just from the public but from defendants and their attorneys right so the um you’re you’re following uh greatly the weaponization of uh of the government um hearings that are going on do you believe that those move forward uh into anything of significance I’m not sure Glenn I was really hoping
That there would be a separate January 6 committee and we really need one for two reasons to expose all of the lies and falsehoods that were promoted by the first select committee and also to tell the American people the truth to show them this video I mean I post this on
Twitter and Truth social and I post it obviously in my work and and thanks to interviews like this it’s reaching a broader audience that they need televised hearings they need to fight back with what the January 6 select committee because this is the Crux of the weaponization of the
Department of Justice and this Administration January 6 is Ground Zero for turning the war on terror that once was against Isis and Al Qaeda against conservatives Republicans Trump supporters so that you can’t talk about weaponizing government without fully exposing the truth about January 6. what the Department of
Justice is doing concealing evidence the lies that the Congress has told to the American people and how the FBI is using its counter-terrorism unit to continue even this week glance two and a half years later arrest people related to even minimal participation in the events of January 6. unbelievable unbelievable
So Julie I I think you could make a case that this is even more important than the Hunter and Joe Biden selling their country out for well their fellow countrymen I think they got 30 cents ahead for us um can you compare the two um I guess but I would argue that this
Is more important because everyone sort of knows nothing is really going to happen to Hunter Biden I think it’s extremely useful what James Comer and the oversight committee and of course Louise and Means Committee and these courageous whistleblowers from the IRS and FBI are talking about uh with these investigations
But January 6 is it’s going to be a key issue in the 2024 presidential race but it is still is this department of justice is still collecting victims they’re still collecting Scouts um and so there’s no it is far in my view of course far more important the
American people need to know what is happening not just department of justice but in this Courthouse which is where Donald Trump’s lawyers are today as Jack Smith is now preparing a multi-count felony criminal indictment against Donald Trump for January 6 and could rope in attorneys White House officials
And maybe even a few Republican members of the House this is crazy um thank you so much for everything that you do I appreciate that you have just zeroed in on this and not let it go Julie thank you thanks for having me on Glenn sub stack Declassified with Julie Kelly
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