J6 defendants Casey Cusick, his elderly father James Cusick, and David Lesperance, a family friend who is also elderly, are facing up to three years in prison for walking into the Capitol building on January 6 for nine minutes to use the bathroom.
When they entered the Capitol building, a cop told them how to get to the bathroom while other surrounding law enforcement officials waved the massive crowd of peaceful demonstrators into the building as lawmakers certified the stolen 2020 election results.
Police are documented in videos of the “crime scene” taking selfies with the protesters who would be later listed on the FBI’s Most Wanted List as “domestic terrorists” for stepping foot in the building.
Casey, a father of three, James, a 74-year-old pastor and purple heart recipient and David, a 70-year old grandfather, are charged with four federal felonies for stopping to use the bathroom in the Capitol building, including Knowingly Entering or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds Without Lawful Authority, Disorderly or Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building, and Violent Entry and Disorderly Conduct on Capitol Grounds, according to the Department of Justice.
To everyday Americans, the government’s charges against Casey, James and David are bogus, absurd and preposterous. But the litigation will not be an open and shut case.
The odds are stacked against J6 defendants on trial in the District of Columbia, where the pool of potential jurors has a 92 percent rate of voting for Joe Biden in the District of Columbia. District federal judges have almost resoundingly sided with the government against so-called insurrectionists, resulting in an overwhelming, unprecedently high conviction rate for J6 defendants.
The Justice Department’s U.S. Attorney’s offices have secured a 99.8% conviction rate on at least one charge in each case, including half through guilty pleas.
The Casey, Lesperance trial began Monday. At the time of this publication, Casey, James, and David are litigating their case in US District Federal Court.
“We are going to have to fight for fair jurors,” defense attorney John Pierce, representing the Cusicks and Lesperance, told The Gateway Pundit ahead of jury selection. “This is outright intimidation tactics.
“They don’t really care about throwing these guys in jail. What they care about are the millions of people, who will not simply bow to tyrants, that will hear about them being thrown in jail for going to the Capitol to raise their voices. I mean, that’s what it’s about.”
Casey Cusick described the trauma he and his family have endured after being terrorized by the FBI, surveilled and stalked by the bureau’s agents for two and half years, the financial burdens of being deemed a “domestic terrorist” by the federal government while facing the prospect of years in prison for the few minutes he spent in the bathroom.
“I believe, beyond a shadow of any doubt in my mind, this is political persecution,” Casey told TGP in an exclusive interview. “They are threatening every patriot.
“They’re going after our country — they’re coming after us because there’s one thing they’re trying to prove: Don’t you ever support Donald Trump ever again,” he said. “They’re are coming after all conservatives, but it’s mainly to send a message: ‘Don’t you ever support Donald Trump. Don’t you ever buck the system. Don’t you ever protest against the government because we’re in charge of you. You have no rights, You have no privileges, unless we tell you.’”
……”We went to the rally because Trump wanted us to come up there to support him. We had no intention to go into the Capitol. That was something that just happened the day of. We waited an hour and a half in the Secret Service line in to get to the front of the stage, to be able to get up close to President Trump. He said at the end of the rally, ‘Now we’re gonna go down to the Capitol, peacefully protest our right to to protest an election and we wanted to go down.’
……”The wind was blowing really hard. My dad was freezing, and I ended up having to go the bathroom after a while. I saw an open door on the left of the Capitol steps. It was open.”
“I saw the one-hundredth Grandma and child walk out of the Capitol. I’m like, ‘Hey, I gotta go the bathroom, maybe we could go inside.’ We walked inside and people were just walking around — people of every race, every ethnicity, you name, it anybody and everybody was in there– it wasn’t just white males like they the government and the media tried to portray.
There were about six cops with helmets on standing to left when we walked in. People were talking to them. I have video of them taking pictures with people.
I eventually went up to a police officer and said, ‘Is there a bathroom I can use? He pointed me towards it. I went into towards the restroom, the line was like 60 deep, I mean, it was so deep. I was just overwhelmed.”
……As Casey, James and David made their way away from the Capitol grounds, they witnessed police beating protesters with nightsticks. Law enforcement officials were also seen during the same timeframe indiscriminately shooting at people’s heads with rubber bullets and throwing canisters of tear gas and flash grenades at the crowd.
“Riot police with shields were brutally assaulting Trump supporters. I saw a cop busting a guy’s head wide open. I have a picture of it — the man had his head split wide open — I mean, he had a two or three inches gash in the side of his head,” he said. “We weren’t there to fight the cops. There were people that started pushing and shoving, which, to this day, I don’t know if they were even Trump supporters because we now know how infiltrated the crowd was.”
Cops dress as civilians are seen in newly released police cam footage committing crimes and provoking others to follow suit.
……Days later, David received a visit from the feds:
“Someone called the FBI and left a tip on David, personally. On January 20, an agent went to David’s house and interrogated him. He was scared. I told David, ‘I would have said I’m not talking to you without a lawyer.’ But David told him he went to the January 6 protest with his pastor. They asked for his name. He told them, ‘I can’t give you any names. His wife then asked if it was a volunteer interview, they said, ‘Yes,’ and she then told them to, ‘Get the hell out of here. We don’t want anything to do with you.’ And so they left.
They started following Dave. They followed David to my father’s house and found out who my dad was. I don’t know if they got permission to or not, but they somehow hacked into his phone and got a picture of me and my dad standing in front of the Trump International Hotel in DC on January 5.
They stalked us for six months, from January 2021 until June 25 when they showed up at my house at 7:45 In the morning. Nine or ten cops with AR-15s drawn — every one of them had pistols or AR-15s on me, my little girl who was three years old at the time, my one-year-old and my wife — scared the living daylights out of them.
They cuff me and throw me in the car. I’m like, ‘What the heck is going on?’ An agent asked me, ‘Where’s your dad?” I have no idea or I guess he’s at home. My dad’s house was being raided at the same time.
The agent could tell I was pretty pissed. He told me, ‘Look, man, we are not doing this because we want to do it. It’s orders from DC.’ He showed me a warrant from Washington, DC, and said, ‘We’re just following orders.’ I thought, ‘This sounds all too familiar, just like the Gestapo.’
They drove away with me and he told me that they were going to let us out of jail that night. They did, which I am thankful for. I was scared, though, because my wife and my two little girls were at the house and the SWAT team wouldn’t even let them back inside while there were eight men armed there. I had no idea — I’ve heard horror stories about what some of the these police officers have done.”
The FBI framed the 6 January MAGA protesters by inserting undercover agents and informants in the crowd to encourage violence. It backfired, but that’s not stopping the Feds from persecuting people who simply wandered the hallways, stood outside the building, and peacefully protested.
The corrupt FBI sewer rats have committed egregious crimes against civil liberties to intimidate and suppress dissent. Since 6 January, FBI gestapo targeted an innocent man for attending President Trump’s 6 January rally, raided the wrong home in Alaska looking for Nancy Pelosi’s laptop, arrested a man for standing inside the capitol and waving a Trump banner, confiscated a Lego set from an “insurrectionist” and asked that citizens turn in their “extremist friends and relatives“.
Jan 6 protesters are being held without due process. They have been beaten and isolated by the guards. Lawyers for one, a man called Ryan Samsel, say he was beaten so badly he has a skull fracture and is now blind in one eye.
One of them died awaiting trial.
Whistleblowers have come forward to say Christopher Wray has lost control of the agency; that the same FBI boss who shut down the probe into Hunter Biden’s laptop also pressured agents to inflate the number of “domestic extremists”, and how the agency suppresses evidence of Biden family crimes.
The focus of the weaponized FBI and DOJ is to target the people designated by the DNC and the Biden regime. They are no longer in the business of law enforcement.
Now, they engage in violating civil liberties, suppressing evidence of Biden family crimes, destroying exculpatory evidence, targeting Catholics, suppressing free speech, encouraging citizens to turn in their “extremist” relatives, violating the right to privacy, and rounding up dissidents.
All in the name of “national security”.
Meanwhile, Antifa and BLM thugs rampage across the U.S. committing arson, murder, assault, and vandalism of property. They even set fire to the FBI’s main territory in DC. None of them were tracked down and hauled off to Biden’s Gulag.
The FBI and the DOJ need to be dismantled from the top down. The criminal malfeasants in both agencies should be indicted and prosecuted. We know that won’t happen because Dem regimes trample all over the Constitution while Congress does nothing. All the hot air and indignation during oversight hearings are a dog and pony show.