'We will take it no more!': MAGA erupts over Jan. 6 arrest of conservative journalist
MAGA is making noise over the FBI's Friday arrest of Blaze Media's Steve Baker.
The investigative reporter who worked at the conservative site founded by Glenn Beck since 2003, was in federal custody on Friday based on his covering the Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021.
A copy of a FBI affidavit suggests prosecutors are taking aim at Baker showing solidarity with the pro-Trump mob that had sieged the Capitol in an effort to thwart the certification of the 2020 election results to President Joe Biden fueled by their belief there was widespread fraud.
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According to the papers a tipster informed the feds the day after the riot that he was in the Capitol building.
And Baker himself had publicly documented him being looked at over the summer.
"Turns out it is a Grand Jury subpoena for all my #Jan6 video," he posted on Twitter/X.
The papers have Baker admitting to venturing into former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and rejoicing over its destruction.
"They got Pelosi's office and you know it couldn't have happened to a better deserving b----," reads the complaint charging him with misdemeanors including disorderly conduct.
And aside from a variety of CCTV and public photos of that deadly day, Baker allegedly "antagonized" Capitol Police officers asking, "Are you going to use that [gun] on us?!"
After he was released, Baker said his treatment was over the top.
"I'm actually still shaking," he said to some reporters. "I don't like what I just went through."
MAGA supporters didn't like it either.
"Standing with Steve Baker," posted @EyesOpn. "Enough is enough and we will take no more!"
@Tarab72 also empathized, "Leg chains for a misdemeanor?? Good lord."
"The process is your punishment," tweeted Yvonne Rogers. "You've sinned against the regime. By telling the truth."
"Share the HELL out of this everyone. when we have a corrupt government that thinks it's okay to attack and accuse Americans of acts that are against our rights," writes @gracie023865977. "STAND UP...SPEAK OUT. RISE UP!"
They also added the hashtag: #IstandwithSteveBaker.