Steve Baker is a journalist for TheBlaze.com (Blaze Media) & was formally charged by the FBI for documenting the protest and unrest across the Capitol Constructing on January 6, 2021.
This isn’t the primary journalist the Biden DOJ has tried to prosecute, as Owen Shroyer of Info Wars was lately incarcerated for 47 days based mostly on feedback he made throughout his nightly information broadcast. There have been a number of different reporters who’ve been investigated and charged.
Nonetheless, Steve Baker’s case is drastically completely different than Shroyer’s scenario. Steve was a properly established reporter (not even a Trump supporter on the time) who attended the Trump rally with the intent of documenting the switch of energy throughout an essential day in American historical past.
The FBI harassed him in July of 2021, however left him alone after turning into conscious of his standing as a longtime reporter. The one subject is, Steve ultimately started investigating the federal authorities’s position within the occasions of January sixth and uncovered corruption on the highest ranges of legislation enforcement. This apparently upset federal prosecutors who are actually formally charging Baker regardless of him working actively as a credentialed journalist for TheBlaze.com.
This units a horrible precedent for each the Biden DOJ and FBI who are actually focusing on respectable members of the press purely based mostly on their political bias. This will likely find yourself on the Supreme Courtroom at some point (case currently pending at SCOTUS to combat the abuse of the DOJ in opposition to attendees of Trump’s January sixth rally)
Steve Baker appeared on Elijah Schaffer’s podcast, Barely Offensive, to debate this rising story (watch beneath)
