By Jason Sullivan & Patricia Tolson, Guest Contributor for The Gateway Pundit
Source: UNLEASHED.NEWS
Date: January 3, 2025

On January 6, 2025, a J6 political prisoner will be hosting a pardon press conference in Washington, D.C., to tell “the other side” of the January 6, 2021, protest story and to make a direct appeal to President-elect Donald Trump that “no man should be left behind.”

The event—dubbed as the “Official J6 Pardon Press Conference”—will be held in the Hyatt Regency Grand Ballroom in Washington, D.C., just miles from the United States Capitol where the protests took place four years earlier. On Jan. 20, Donald J. Trump will be at the same location, where he will place his hand on the Bible to swear the oath of office before returning to the White House for another four years as the nation’s 47th president.

BREAKING: Dozens of Jan 6 Patriots are being DENIED by their PO’s from attending the Official J6 Pardon Press Conference in DC on Monday January 6, 2025!!!!

ONLY 18 DAYS AWAY from EVERYONE getting pardoned & these soul sucking Probation Officers are acting like Petty Tyrants… pic.twitter.com/WK83Pdkx0Y

— Jake Lang – January 6 Political Prisoner (@JakeLangJ6) January 2, 2025

Trump has vowed that he will pardon J6 political prisoners. The question remains, will it be some or all of them?

Those in the J6 community are praying for the latter.

The organizer of the event is Edward “Jake” Lang, a J6 protester who has been incarcerated for the past four years—without a trial.

During a phone interview from the Washington D.C. Jail, Lang told Unleashed News that the purpose of the event is to tell the other side of the J6 story to counter the biased perspective told to the world by the January 6 Select Committee.

Liz Cheney, the former Republican representative from Wyoming who served as vice chair on the Committee, communicated with Cassidy Hutchinson—a disgruntled, first-term White House aide to then-President Donald Trump—via the encrypted Signal app without the knowledge of Hutchinson’s attorney. The communications, including an exchange of messages to arrange calls, were made just prior to Hutchinson’s explosive and subsequently debunked public June 2022 testimony before the Select Committee, according to a report released March 11, 2024, by House Republicans.

Detailed evidence of the correspondence, which began in April of 2022, was released by Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil Oct. 15, 2024.

The March House report also alleges that a forensics team found that 117 files had been either deleted or encrypted on January 1, 2023—just days before Republicans took control of the House—and that the January 6 Select Committee neglected or withheld evidence from its Final Report.

The appointment of Cheney as Vice Chair of the Committee was also highly unusual. That position is typically reserved for a member of the same party as the committee chair, who was Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss).

House Republicans have called for an investigation into the proceedings of the Jan. 6 Select Committee and its members.

On Jan. 2, outgoing President Joe Biden awarded Cheney and Thompson the Presidential Citizens Medal for their contributions to the Select Committee. The award is typically bestowed to Americans who have “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.”

Cheney is among those being considered by Biden to be a recipient of a preemptive pardon before he leaves office. According to US News and World Report, “issuing blanket pardons could leave the impression to some that crimes were committed.”

“No Man Left Behind.”

Lang is excited about his event, and hopeful that Americans will finally hear their story and realize that “a great injustice has been done.”

“This is going to be the antithesis of the J-6 Select Committee sham,” Lang told Unleashed. “It’s going to be a place where our family members, our community leaders, our organizers and our advocates are going to be able to speak out on behalf of the J-6 prisoners, the hostages, and tell all of the people in President Trump’s administration, why we all should come home. There should be no delay. Justice delayed is justice denied, and we deserve to come home on day one.”

Among the many guest speakers at the event will be Jim Hoft (the Editor and Founder of The Gateway Pundit), Lara Logan (former Host of 60 Minutes and J6 Investigator), and Sari Lang, Jake Lang’s mother.
Other speakers will include investigative journalist Ann Vandersteel, and Gateway Pundit lead reporter Cara Castronuova.

Social media influencers Isabella Maria Deluca, Matt Wallace, and Behizy will also be in attendance.
Lang said he will “be there” as well.

“I will be there,” he said. “I mean virtually. I will get a video feed in there somewhere, somehow. It’s going to be a beautiful event.”

The event will be live-streamed, starting at 10 AM on January 6, through Gateway Pundit’s accounts on X and Rumble.

“Hoping Beyond Hope”

Lang was arrested on January 16, 2021 and faces 13 charges, including “Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon” (Count 6), “Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon, Inflicting Bodily Injury” (Count 7), “Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds, with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon” (Count 10), and “Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds, with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon” (Count 12).

A video posted on X also shows Lang wielding an aluminum bat, which he used to strike the shields of the officers. The bat never came in contact with the officers.

Asked about the incident, Lang says he was trying to get the police to back up to prevent more protesters from being hurt or killed. Having been denied a trial for four years, Lang has been unable to present his defense against the many charges stacked against him.

Lang pleaded not guilty to all counts on Feb. 9, 2021. While offered a plea deal—which would have limited his incarceration to nine years—Lang refused.

It was during the protests on Jan. 6, 2021, that Lang tried to save the life of Roseanne Boyland, who died after being crushed beneath a pile of bodies as police shoved them on top of each other. Lang repeatedly pleaded with the officers to stop, to no avail. Lang did manage to help a fellow protester named Phillip Anderson. A video posted on X shows Lang dragging Anderson’s body from the pile. Anderson credits Lang with saving his life.

While Trump has said the pardons will be granted on a case-by-case basis, Lang insists that Trump’s pardons should be based to the principle of “No man left behind.”

“I don’t know if ‘demand’ is the right word, but it’s hoping for beyond hope, and we will not be satisfied until no man is left behind in the gulag, and every man comes home, regardless if they have violent charges or not,” Lang said.

“They Had No Choice”

During a Dec. 8 interview with Kristen Welker on Meet The Press, Trump was asked if he planned to follow through with his promise to pardon January 6 prisoners.

“We’re looking at that right now,” Mr. Trump replied. “Most likely, yeah.”

“Those people have suffered long and hard,” he explained.

While January 6 prisoners have “suffered” and had their lives ‘destroyed,” Trump noted that people like “the scaffold man” and Ray Epps were never prosecuted for their efforts to incite the crowds to riot.

Black Lives Matter protesters, who burned down half of Minneapolis—including a police station—and took over a large portion of Seattle following the death of George Floyd, suffered no consequences.

“They destroyed the beautiful limestone exterior of the courthouse in Portland,” Trump added, reminding Welker that the BLM protesters killed people in Portland and Seattle.

While the BLM protesters suffered no consequences, Trump noted that the January 6 prisoners “are living in hell.”

“And I think it’s very unfair,” he said. “So yeah, most likely, I’ll do it very quickly.”

Welker pointed out that 169 of the January 6 prisoners “have pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers.

“Because they had no choice,” Trump said.

Ultimately, Trump told Welker that he would be “acting very quickly” to pardon the January 6 prisoners, saying they were prosecuted by a “corrupt system,” given sentences spanning decades, and have already been incarcerated for years in squalid conditions.

He vowed he would act on “the first day.”

In a Dec. 12, 2024, interview with Time Magazine, after being chosen as TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year, Trump indicated a sense of urgency with the promised pardons. While saying he’s going “to look at eachindividual case,” he made it clear he would “do it very quickly,” and that “it’s going to start in the first hour” that he’s in office.

“Has the law been equally applied?”

While Trump acknowledged the disparate treatment between Jan-6 protesters and the BLM/ANTIFA protesters who burned cities and were responsible for the deaths of others, Lang also noted the imbalance in how they “were given leniency and kid-glove treatment” while Jan-6 protesters—who burned nothing and killed no one—were arrested by swat teams, given a laundry list of charges, had their bank accounts drained by legal fees, with many being given decades of prison time.

In the meantime, people like Montez Terriel Lee, Jr.—who broke into a business called Max It Pawn on May 28, 2020, during the “mostly peaceful” protest in Minneapolis, poured accelerant, set it ablaze, and intentionally burned it to the ground—received leniency.

On July 20, 2020, the charred remains of 30-year-old Oscar Lee Stewart were discovered in the rubble.

Despite the death of Stewart in the fire set by Lee—and Lee’s prior convictions of burglary, assault, violation of no contact order, and theft of property—court documents show that the government argued that leniency should be shown to Lee in sentencing because he was simply “caught up in the fury of the mob.”

In addition, while Lee burned down a small business and was responsible for the fiery death of Stewart, he was granted a trial within roughly 578 days.

Lang has been sitting in prison for 1,447 days—including than 180 cumulative days being forced to sit in solitary confinement—without a trial.

“Has the law been equally applied?” Lang asked rhetorically. “We have a 14th Amendment right to equal application of the law. We believe that because nobody has been afforded a fair trial, we’ve all been cruelly and unusually punished. We’ve been collectively prosecuted.”

Lang’s biggest grievance is that he and many others in the Jan-6 community believe they were set up by the federal government” in an orchestrated event to paint Donald Trump and his supporters as domestic terrorists.”

“We were all entrapped,” he insisted. “So, all of the convictions, prosecution, witch-hunts and arrests have been fruit of a poison tree, and therefore no Jan-6ers deserve to remain in prison, whether they have assault charges or not.”

The DC Bias

Lady Justice holding a sword and scales – public domain image

There is credibility to Lang’s charge that January 6 prisoners have not received fair trials in Washington, D.C. While many have filed motions in court to have their trials moved to another district, all have been denied.

As of December, around 1,265 people had been arrested in connection with the Jan-6 protests. They have been charged with crimes ranging from misdemeanor trespassing to felony charges like seditious conspiracy.

So far, around 170 Jan-6 protesters have been convicted, and about 710 have pleaded guilty. Only two have been acquitted.

While many have refuted claims that the D.C. juries are biased, proof came out in January of last year to put those denials to rest.

A survey—commissioned by Lang and conducted by Triton Polling and Research between Jan. 1-8 2024—reveals the extreme level of bias among potential jurors living in Washington DC toward anyone who participated in the Jan. 6 protests at the Capitol. Funding came from the J-6 Legal Fund, which Lang started to help cover the legal expenses of J6 prisoners.

Of the 422 “jury eligible residents” surveyed, nearly 70% described Jan-6 protesters as “insurrectionists” (27.5%), “criminals” (13%), “domestic terrorists” (14.9%), or “traitors” (11.6%).

Asked if they thought the Jan-6 protest was “an act of terrorism,” 63.6% said they “strongly agree.” Just 8% said they “strongly disagree.”

Nearly half agree or somewhat agreed that the punishment for terrorism, “imprisonment or death,” would “be a fair punishment,” and nearly 70% said they strongly or somewhat agree that anyone who participated in the protest “should serve prison time,” regardless of what they did.

Over 80% said they would serve as a juror if called, and almost 40% said they “strongly” (26.1 percent) or “somewhat” agree (13 percent) that they wanted to be on that jury “to make sure the defendant is found guilty and held accountable for the events of that day.”

Jonathan Gross is a defense attorney who is representing many of the January 6th defendants. In an interview with Unleased, Gross said, “These trials should not be held in DC.”

“Hundreds of January 6 defendants filed motions to transfer venue arguing that someone perceived as a Trump supporter cannot get a fair trial in DC where 95% of the jury pool voted for Biden and Harris in 2020 and 2024,” Gross asserted. “All Americans should be concerned because whether you’re Republican or Democrat, you don’t want to be tried in a district where the majority of the jury pool believes that you’re deplorable because of your political beliefs.”

“God Willing”

While the entire Jan-6 community waits, and hopes, that they will all find freedom on January 20th, Unleashed asked Lang what he personally envisioned happening on that day.

He imagines two scenarios. The first is where he sees himself walking out of the prison to the waiting arms of family, friends, some supporters, and perhaps a few members of the press.

The second possibility is the one he prays for the most.

“I have what my heart is telling me for a long time, that we are being liberated on day one, and Trump is going to have us as one of the main components of the inauguration celebration,” Lang reflected with hope.

“I believe the Bible is going to be in his right hand, and a pen signing our pardon is going to be in his left hand, and we will make an appearance,” he described of his dream further. “If you guys are looking for me at the inauguration, I’ll be the guy in the orange jumpsuit, hugging Trump, hanging on to his side just crying tears of joy from the instrument that God’s using to liberate me and my brothers, who have suffered four long years of incredible oppression, and sensory deprivation and estrangement from our families and communities and all the horrible tortures we’ve endured.”

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