This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
WASHINGTON – 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.
Not only did the undercover informants influence protesters to commit crimes during the riot, but the government embedded them within the Proud Boys' defense counsel, like the confidential human source, or CHS, named "J.K." who used the alias "Aaron" when he took the stand.
"It was FBI informant 'Aaron' himself who placed furniture in a doorway area to keep the entry open for demonstrators to stream into the Capitol," the filing states. "'Aaron' also admitted that it was he – a paid undercover FBI CHS – who invited the scariest and most heavily armored marcher (Robert Geiswein) to join the Proud Boy march on the morning of January 6."
Each informant repeatedly confirmed with law enforcement officials that no plan had ever been devised by Rehl, Biggs, Pezzola, or any member of the Proud Boys organization to carry out a terror attack or violently overthrow the government.
Yet, the intel from the spooks deployed by the government to entrap the group did not stop prosecutors from advancing a fictitious conspiracy narrative, Roots says.
"[Aaron] texted his FBI handlers in real-time informing them that the Proud Boy defendants had no plan or intention of breaching the Capitol Grounds," the defense argued. "Thus, the FBI knew through the entire case that there was no plan, no seditious conspiracy, and no organized effort to riot or unlawfully obstruct the proceedings of January 6."
In addition, during the FBI's bid to attempt to entrap "Trump's army" with allegations of sedition, the Metropolitan Police Department deployed more than two dozen undercover plainclothes officers among the Proud Boys on Jan. 6, 2021.
"One of these [undercover] officers is heard on camera urging protestors to 'Go! Go! Go!' and 'Push forward!' up the steps toward the Capitol building. The defendants still have not been provided with all the body-worn camera footage of all these undercover MPD officers," the motion states. "Even with entire squadrons of informants among the defendants and the Proud Boy organization, not a single informant was able to report any plans of sedition being made by Proud Boys."
The government's key evidence, the "1776 Returns/Winter Palace" document outlining a Capitol takeover, was a fraud, Roots asserts.
