
Steve Baker
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🚨Additional video FBI edited from their $500,000 reward appeal for the J6 pipeb*mber. Clips that most obviously give away their scam … and that you were never intended to see.🚨 Anyone who has seen Brian Cole Jr. take as few as ten steps knows he is not the person in this video. (Nor the same gender.) No gait recognition software needed—just an honest FBI Director and US Attorney to put a stop to this farcical prosecution. More to come… *Video credit: Clallam County Sheriff, Port Angeles, WA #FreeBrianColeJr
Steve Baker1,063,623 görüntüleme • 22 gün önce

🚨Our original story about the J6 pipe bomber’s use of a smartwatch now comes with new validations and surprises🚨 *Stay tuned for the big surprise in the last minute of the short video below.* (Additional photos and links in the comment thread.🧵) As reported by Joe Hanneman 🇺🇸 and me, back on July 1st of this year, we now have an even higher degree of certainty that the FBI knew the January 5/6, 2021 pipe bomber (“Hoodie”) was wearing and using a smartwatch during the roughly 45-minute stroll around the RNC and DNC neighborhood near the Capitol in D.C. In that story (link below), we showed video of a light flashing on the inside of Hoodie’s left wrist while walking through the Rumsey Court alley behind the RNC. Some critics claimed it was probably just a light reflection off a regular watch or other jewelry flashing under the camera’s nighttime infrared function. But … no. I have come into possession of the FBI “Receipt of Property” form listing the items seized and collected as evidence from Brian Cole Jr’s family home. One of those items seized (image below) was Brian’s mother’s “Apple Watch with red band.” Taken from her bedroom by the FBI. This action strongly suggests the FBI knew Hoodie was wearing a smartwatch. As we previously reported, Brian has never owned or worn a watch of any kind. Family photos from many years back verify this. He is never seen wearing a watch or any type of jewelry. Family members all validate this particular peculiarity of Brian’s many unique peculiarities. (From the same property receipt, we can see the FBI also seized a pair of dark sunglasses from their home. Something else Brian has never owned or worn. Likely because of his poor eyesight and severe eyeglass prescription. But … that’s another story, coming later.) Not only do U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI want us to believe that Brian—who never wore a watch of any kind—not only kiped his mother’s watch on January 5, 2021, but also learned how to use it as a phone during that 45-minute b*mb-placement stroll. The joint Loudermilk–Massie report released in early January 2025, titled “Four Years Later: Examining the State of the Investigation into the RNC and DNC Pipe Bombs,” provided us with a very interesting revelation. (Image below.) The report states: “During its investigation, the FBI identified at least five different instances in which security camera footage revealed the suspect appearing to use a cellular device.” Note the wording: "a cellular device." Not a "phone" or "cell phone." Hoodie is never seen raising a phone to their ear. The first time Hoodie sits at the DNC bench, we do see him/her remove a phone from the back right pant pocket and look at the screen while holding it in their lap. Not talking directly into the phone. Ever. But we do see five different instances when Hoodie raises the left wrist to their masked face in a manner that appears to indicate they are speaking into the smartwatch we saw flashing in that Rumsey Court video. (Video and map, with timestamps, below.) Another interesting aspect of Hoodie using that smartwatch as a phone is how few people actually used smartwatches back in 2021. Grok estimates the percentage of U.S. adults using smartwatches to be roughly in the low-to-mid teens in 2020, rising toward about 20%+ by late 2021. Of that small percentage of adults who wore smartwatches in 2020/2021, an even smaller percentage used the phone feature to receive and make calls. Grok estimates that today only between 5-15% of smartwatch owners use them as phones. In January 2021, that 5–15% range was even lower for adults using a watch instead of a phone. More likely in the low- to high-single digits among all smartwatch users. *Which makes the surprise ending of the attached video all the more significant, in terms of probabilities." —— Just for fun, here’s a quick review and head-to-toe comparison of Brian Cole Jr. vs. Hoodie the Bomber: -Brian never owned or wore a ball cap. Hoodie has a ball cap under the hoodie. -Brian never owned or wore sunglasses, and wears a severe clear-lens prescription. Hoodie was wearing dark-lensed glasses. -Brian always wore his trademark headphones when walking. We can see that Hoodie had no headphone bulge or imprint under the hoodie. -Brian never wore N95-style masks during the COVID era, preferring only the more comfortable cloth masks his mother would make for him. Hoodie is seen wearing an N95 mask throughout the walk. -Brian always carried his keys on a lanyard around his neck, and family photography shows he has done so for many years. There is no imprint of a ring of keys seen under the flat chest of Hoodie’s hoodie. -Brian never owned or wore a watch of any kind. Hoodie is clearly wearing a smartwatch and using it as a phone, as shown by CCTV video, the FBI’s evidence seizure receipt, and the Loudermilk/Massie congressional report indicates a "cellular device." -Brian always changed into short pants for his long daily walks, even in extreme cold temps. This is attested to by both his family and neighbors who witnessed his walks hundreds and thousands of times over the years. Hoodie was wearing long trousers. -Brian has never owned or worn expensive shoes. Described as a wardrobe “minimalist” by family members, he prefers to wear Crocs on his long walks and Converse Chuck Taylors when at work. Family members swear that he never owned a pair of those limited-edition Nikes the FBI reports Hoodie was wearing on J5. -I have personally held every pair of Brian’s shoes in my hands. I have photographed every tag (as seen below), and all show he wears nothing but men’s “size 12.” We have measured Hoodie’s foot placement against the Rumsey Court brick pavement, wearing those specified Nikes, and determined Hoodie’s foot size to be between a men’s 9 and 9.5. -Brian walks with his toes pointed outward. Hoodie walks with a pigeon-toed right foot that frequently crosses in front of the left foot during the stride. They are not the same person. “Our” FBI and Department of Justice want all of us to suspend what we see with our own eyes and dismiss the known behaviors and habits of an autistic, highly OCD young man to believe he suddenly transformed into a criminal mastermind of disguises and feigned gait. (See: Usual Suspects/Keyser Soze.) A true chameleon. Master of spy tradecraft ... from head to toe ... on the eve of January 6, 2021. More in thread. ⬇️ #FreeBrianColeJr
Steve Baker780,421 görüntüleme • 20 gün önce

🚨EXCLUSIVE: The untold story of the FBI’s J6 pipe bomber “Person of Interest #2”🚨 If what the FBI’s January 6 pipe bomber “Person of Interest #2” (POI2) told me about his FBI interview is true, there is further proof that the Bureau has covered up, or “deleted,” additional video footage about what happened when the RNC pipe bomb was allegedly discovered by Karlin Younger on January 6, 2021. I will not reveal the identity or any other identifying information about the FBI’s POI2 in the January 6 pipe bomb saga. I also won't discuss the full five hours of personal interview time with POI2; instead, I will focus on two key pieces of information he gave me. As a primer for those not already following this story in detail, here is a brief rundown of the facts in POI2’s case and why the FBI was initially interested in him as a “person of interest”: -POI2 does not live in the Greater D.C. area. He lives in a large American city in a state that does not border D.C. -From news releases, congressional reports, FBI statements, and an FBI whistleblower disclosure, we know that POI2 was visiting a lifelong acquaintance (POI3) at his residence in Fall Church, VA, over the course of January 4 - 7, 2021. -POI2 used POI3’s Metrorail card for travel back and forth to the District on the 5th and 6th. -POI2 caught the attention of law enforcement investigators when he emerged from D.C.’s Metro South rail station on January 5, changed hats and put on dark sunglasses, then beelined straight across the street from the station into the Rumsey Court alley behind the Republican National Committee headquarters. It was in that alley that POI2 began taking photos of “numbers.” Numbers on trash cans, dumpsters, door addresses, and the like. According to the FBI, POI2 planned to use those photographs in a forthcoming book. (To date, that book has not been published.) Then, after walking around Capitol Hill all day long, and even attending some of the J5 protest events, POI2 ducked back into the same alley for a few minutes — after dark — before returning to the Metro South station across the street from the RNC. He returned to Falls Church via the train, where POI3 picked him up by car, and they went back to POI3’s home. POI2 then returned to DC the next morning to attend Trump’s speech at The Ellipse on the 6th. -POI2 was cleared of suspicion following two FBI interviews on January 19, 2021, at his residence in his home city. These interviews took place six days after the FBI pulled their Special Operations Group (SOG) surveillance team off POI3’s home on January 13, just two days after they were deployed to watch the infamous Falls Church, VA condominium address where we now know POI3 shared a firewall between his address and the then residence of former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff. The subject of our November 8, 2025 story published by Blaze Media. How I came to spend five hours with POI2 I met with POI2 twice, on December 11 and 12, 2025. On the 11th, a member of our team accompanied me: a retired FBI veteran of 25 years now working as a private investigator. That first interview lasted for three hours, and then the next day I met with POI2, just him and me, for another two hours. I arrived in POI2’s home city on the 10th to do some early recon. We had POI2’s name (which I’d acquired from a congressional source), and his address, but we didn’t have a current phone number. After running an extensive background on him, we learned a lot about his life and work, social media, friends and close associates, and even where he attends church, but we still didn't have a phone number to call him and ask for a meeting. Most interesting of all, POI2 is a prolific international traveler. In one recent year, he had logged over 40 international flights. So we didn’t even know if he’d be in the country, much less at home, if we knocked on this door. My recon of his address was a huge disappointment. His apartment building is one of those old inner-city manufacturing plants refitted into modern, upscale housing. The entire property is ringed by tall wrought-iron fencing, with electronic security for entry into the parking garage, foot traffic, and into the building itself. There was no visible way for us to just pay him a visit for a “knock and talk.” Perhaps we could have “buzzed” him from an exterior gate, but I didn’t get that far that day. Later that evening, I picked up my team member from the airport — the retired FBI guy — and we went to dinner for a long, late-night planning session. We identified a couple of strong local personal connections he had via his Facebook page, and we planned to visit them first, get more info about POI2, and maybe even get their help reaching out to him. At 9:00 a.m. the next morning, we arrived at the home of someone who seemed like they might be closest to him. We were lucky and hit a home run on the first swing. Without the long details, our “story” about why we were looking for POI2 — their close friend — worked like a charm, and we were invited into their home. Our host called POI2, and within two hours POI2 joined us at our new friend’s home. Luckily, POI2 had returned to the States from an overseas trip only the day before. For the next three hours, I asked most of the questions while my partner listened and observed. Based on my partner’s 25+ years of experience with the FBI, he believed POI2 answered everything truthfully … “Or, he’s a very, very good liar.” My partner had to fly back home the next morning, but I had many follow-up questions for POI2. I reached out again early in the morning, and he agreed to meet me at a coffee shop in his neighborhood. ***(On a personal timeline aside: during my second interview with POI2, I was only nine days away from my heart failure episode, and was already struggling to breath after the slightest of physical exertions.)*** The most significant reveal We met at 1:30 p.m., and spent another two full hours together. During this session, we had a detailed conversation about his two interviews with two FBI special agents. Both of those interviews were on the same day. January 19, 2021. POI2 had explained to the FBI agents that the reason he returned to the Rumsey Court alley behind the RNC was that he remembered there were several trash cans in the alley, and he wanted to dispose of an empty plastic water bottle before going back to the train station. I asked him why he didn’t simply throw the bottle away at the Metrotrain station. He shrugged. From our video review, POI2 only stayed in the alley for about three to four minutes. But if what he revealed to me is true, it is one of the most significant discoveries in our years-long pipe bomb investigation. POI2 shared with me that the FBI agents told him that he had thrown the empty water bottle away in the very trash container next to where the bomb would be placed a little over an hour and a half later. Why that is significant FIRST, it reveals that the FBI most likely had video of him depositing that empty bottle into that container. Yes … they could have taken DNA samples of every item in that trash can, but then they would also have needed DNA from POI2 in their database. POI2 didn’t offer that option as their explanation. He assumed they saw him on camera. I can personally attest that there is currently a camera in Rumsey Court that would cover the area where the bomb was placed, but I do not know if that same camera existed in January of 2021. But if they did observe POI2, on camera, tossing the bottle in the trash can immediately next to where the bomb was placed, then the FBI most certainly has video of Karlin Younger — the FirstNet employee — who discovered that device at approximately 12:35 p.m. the next day, January 6. Only 25 minutes before Vice President Mike Pence was to drop the gavel on the joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 Electoral College presidential vote. Only about 18 minutes before the first breach of that outer bike rack barricade on the west Capitol grounds, led by Ray Epps, Ryan Samsel, and other suspicious characters. Many investigators, including Congressman Loudermilk and his committee, have posited that the two devices placed by the gray hooded bomber on J5 were retrieved at some point in the early morning hours of J6, then replaced just before their “discovery” a few minutes either side of 1:00 p.m. The allegedly “deleted” video from the two DNC cameras that provided the footage of the gray hooded bomber placing a device on the evening of J5 would have also shown us what happened after midnight. Whether or not the two plainclothes Capitol Police counter-surveillance officers were the ones who replaced the device just before reporting its discovery to the Secret Service agents attending VP-Elect Kamala Harris’s presence inside the building at the time. (Article to that story linked in comments below.) A camera aimed at the RNC drop location would give us the same information about what happened during the night, and when Karlin Younger discovered that device while walking back and forth and doing her laundry. The FBI claims that the footage from the two DNC cameras — after that device was planted under a bench — was accidentally deleted. (No one buys that story.) Those two FBI agents may also have inadvertently revealed to POI2 that video footage exists from that dark corner of the RNC/Capitol Hill Club alley on J5 and J6. Both missing videos, if they were to surface, would either invalidate all conspiracy theories about the pipe bombs, or confirm the prevailing theories and circumstantial evidence pointing to law enforcement participation and a multi-agency conspiracy. SECOND, if the two FBI agents were telling POI2 the truth about that specific trash container, then it brings into question all of POI2’s own statements about why he returned to that alley after dark. That very trash can was in the furthest and darkest corner of the RNC/Capitol Hill Club side of Rumsey Court. He would have had to ignore several of the first and most clearly visible, well-lit trash bins upon his arrival into that alley by way of the walkway between the RNC and the Capitol Hill Club. Instead, he made a hard left behind the Capitol Hill Club and headed toward the darkest corner of the alley, from which the view of that trash can was also likely obstructed by one or more cars typically parked between him and what would be his line of sight to that dark corner. This implies POI2 was either on a recon mission to determine the best drop location for the second device, or, as one retired, formerly high-ranking law enforcement officer has theorized, he may have placed an AirTag or other electronic beacon to lead the bomber to the most advantageous location to deposit the bomb. Near the end of my second meeting with POI2, he shared with me several photos of “numbers” he took in that alley. He shared the “time and location” data from those original photos on his iPhone. He also gave me screenshots from his phone’s call history of the exact moment the two FBI agents phoned him for both interviews on January 19, 2021. He was very earnest, forthcoming, and eager to answer all my questions. (Photo examples in comments below.) As a person, I like POI2. We could be friends. But either he or the FBI is lying about what happened in that dark corner behind the Capitol Hill Club. (Maybe both?) Just as POI2 and I were about to say goodbye and shake hands, I opened my phone to show him one photo. It was the shot I took of the two side-by-side doors at the condo complex in Falls Church, VA. The door on the left was the home of his lifelong acquaintance, POI3. The door on the right was Shauni Kerkhoff's January 6 residence. I asked him: “Can you make this math work for me?” He replied: “No, man. That’s so weird.” We have stayed in contact and spoken many times since those two days in December. ⬇️
Steve Baker911,031 görüntüleme • 27 gün önce

🚨More EXCLUSIVE Video🚨 - Female vs. Autistic male arm swing According to decades' worth of published research, females are far more likely to exhibit longer arm swings than males. By contrast, autistic persons are more likely to display shorter, stiffer arm swings. We’ll allow the video to speak for itself, but as thousands of people have already commented across social media, the gray hooded J5/J6 distributor of fake, inert, boom-boom training devices is NOT a male human ... and most certainly not an autistic male person. Links to studies in comments below. ⬇️ (Video work by Armitas) #FreeBrianColeJr
Steve Baker204,735 görüntüleme • 9 gün önce

🚨NEW ENHANCED VIDEO🚨 - Over my lifetime, I have built personal friendships, various relationships, and casual acquaintances with thousands of people. All races, colors, and creeds. Many of those who became some of my closest friends see the world (politics and religion) through an entirely different lens than I do. I'm currently in the fight of my life -- a two-front war -- and one particular group is oddly silent. On the one side, the full weight of the federal government is bearing down on me through a laughably transparent civil lawsuit, using an "offended white intel community employee" proxy as the spear tip of their feint. On the other front, there is my battle for the freedom of an innocent black man falsely accused by the same government of being the January 6, 2021 pipe bomber. My enemy is the same on both fronts. The federal government. Despite the fact that I am standing for the innocence of a special needs black man -- from a family of lifelong Democrat voters -- who is being unjustly prosecuted by the Trump administration's U.S. Department of Justice and FBI -- my liberal, politically left-leaning, registered Democrat friends are remaining curiously silent. None are speaking out in support of either Brian Cole Jr. or me. Why do you think that is? Where are the voices of those who claim to care most about civil rights? Even those who are loudly antagonistic about the Trump presidency and his Cabinet appointees on their social media posts? The person in this video is not Brian Cole Jr. As revealed back in January of this year by Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), the FBI informed him and his committee that they had two eyewitnesses who identified the J5/J6 bomber as "white." Ummm ... meaning ... NOT "black." It's time for Attorney General Todd Blanche, US Attorney Pirro, and FBIDirectorKash to admit they got this wrong. Drop the charges against Cole. Send him back home to his family.
Steve Baker228,401 görüntüleme • 16 gün önce

🚨J6 Video You've Never Seen🚨 The much-feared media company-killing law firm, Clare Locke, that represents former The U.S. Capitol Police officer and current CIA asset Shauni Kerkhoff -- (Oh, let's be real ... they represent the CIA) -- sent a demand/preservation letter to TheBlaze, me, and Joe Hanneman 🇺🇸. Basically, a threat of a defamation lawsuit. In that letter, they stated: "Blaze Media’s analysis was also factually flawed. Ms. Kerkhoff’s 2015 soccer injury did not give her a 'slight limp' from which any reasonable 'analyst' could link her to the bombing suspect. Ms. Kerkhoff has fully recovered from her injury. In the interim, she has run multiple marathons." Given that Clare Locke has dedicated resources to monitoring every word we write and every one of our media appearances, they must know we have hours of video of Ms. Kerkhoff's unusual "circumduction gait." (A kind of limp.) Hours of video we've harvested from Capitol CCTV of her as a Capitol Police officer on January 5 and 6, 2021, and from her short professional soccer career. Almost all of which is readily available to any member of the public, press, or one of the law firm's taxpayer-funded paralegals. (Routed through some dark money conduit, foundation, or NGO. Kerkhoff cannot afford an $1,800 per hour law firm, well-known for not taking defamation cases on contingency.) Is Clare Locke incompetently representing their client, Ms. Kerkhoff (er ... CIA) -- by that easily disproved assertion -- or were they just trying to scare The Blaze into a quick settlement before their client would have to face the harsh reality of trial discovery? As for Ms. Kerkhoff being a marathon runner, we already knew that. Despite their best efforts to scrub her former internet history, we'd already captured many photos of her participation in marathon events from deep web scrapes. The most interesting little nugget about that is: The until-recently Congressional Liaison to The FBI, Marshall Yates, once told me -- while reviewing video of the J6 pipe bomber in the office of his former employer, Thomas Massie -- "We need to be looking for a marathon runner." Why? Because of distinct physical traits that are characteristic of marathon runners and exhibited by the bomber while on that 44-minute trek around the DNC and RNC on the night of J5. (More on that, later.) Clare Locke says, "No limp." Video evidence says otherwise. Joe and I launch our new endeavor on Monday -- free of corporate media censorship -- where we'll finally be able to tell the whole story and show you the videos FBI never wanted you to see.
Steve Baker2,225,062 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

🚨TWEETSTORM THREAD AHEAD🧵⬇️: Where Are They Now? “I'm telling you with every ounce of my integrity and my reputation on the line, it is the biggest scandal of our time.” -Daniel Bongino Daniel Bongino (Dan Bongino), Julie Kelly (Julie Kelly 🇺🇸), Mike Benz (Mike Benz), Darren Beattie (Darren J. Beattie 🌐), Glenn Beck (Glenn Beck), and President Trump (President Donald J. Trump) all had very important things to say about the January 6 pipe bomber. But they’re all curiously silent now. Dan gave us a quick overview of Julie’s, Mike’s, and Darren’s thoughts on one of his Sunday Specials, just a few days before Trump’s second inauguration in January of last year. That full episode link will be posted in the thread below. For now, here’s a short compilation video of some comments and thoughts from just Dan, Glenn, and me. ⬇️
Steve Baker101,528 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

🚨What is she carrying? Part 2⁉️ Depending on your AI platform preference … we get either a $40,000 handheld X-ray device or a $40 thermos-and-lunch-bag cooler combo? What was your conclusion, and which was right? When we first came across this video months ago, I immediately said it looked like she was “carrying a lunch bag,” or some kind of cooler. But for whatever reason, and what we were more focused on at the time, we didn’t spend the hours and hours and hours required to drill down on those few seconds of video. Not until this week. Tons of social media critics say I should “just release everything we know, and let the truth fall where it may.” But that’s how we get in trouble. And we HAVE gotten things wrong in this five-year-long investigation. EVERYONE has made mistakes. Left and right media, major legacy media, alternative media, and even the best of the independent journalists have made mistakes or misreported details of the January 6, 2021 event. Whether on purpose, by accident, or careless disregard of the truth … you can be the judge of each incident. I’ve explained on numerous occasions that we’ve spent more than a year researching, investigating, and preparing some stories before going public. In this case, when we finally started looking hard at it, the Brave New World of AI took us on a wild goose chase. We now have good reason to finally drill down on the timelines and available video leading up to the sequence of events on the night of January 5, 2021 … the night before the discovery of the two “devices” at the RNC and DNC headquarters. When inputting into AI that first video — which I posted last night — It began spitting out some shocking alternatives to my original “lunch bag” assumption. Unprompted, the AI drew its own conclusion about what Ms. Kerkhoff was carrying, probably because they were “cops” in the video. To be clear, UNPROMPTED, AI was initially adamant that the item in her hand was a portable X-ray device for sniffing out narcotics, weapons, and explosives. Even some The U.S. Capitol Police sources we shared the video with said the same thing. Other Capitol Police sources were more skeptical. Then, suddenly AI wasn’t so sure. As I mentioned last night, in my second post, X’s Grok and Google’s Gemini were arguing with each other. Gemini was shockingly specific: “The item being carried by the officer in that CCTV footage matches the exact structural form factor, top-handle position, and multi-point shoulder strap design of a Viken Detection HBI-120 Handheld Backscatter X-Ray Imager … Rather than being transported bare, it is housed in its specialized tactical, weather-resistant soft deployment carry case.” Wow. You can imagine how that hit like a bolt of lightning, considering whom we were looking at. Grok was less committed, offering varying possibilities ranging from a “paper takeout bag” to all manner of sophisticated law enforcement-used electronic devices. When I pitted Grok against Gemini — and vice versa — Gemini dug in its heels, saying: “Based on the visual evidence in the video and the analysis circulating in response to Steve Baker's query, the device carried by Officer Kerkhoff is almost certainly a Viken Detection (formerly Heuresis) HBI-120 in its tactical soft-carry case. While officially unconfirmed, the visual and structural match is highly specific.” Grok countered: “The competitor [Gemini] write-up describes that pouch as if it were a catalog item with a unique layout, then maps the CCTV blob onto it and calls it an ‘exact’ match. The citations in that text are HBI-120 product pages, not photos of a factory soft case that looks like this bag. That is overfit. Size class + top handle + ‘looks tactical’ is not an identification of an 8-pound 120 keV imager. Could an agency have put an HBI-120 in some aftermarket or unit-made padded bag? Yes. Does this video prove that? No.” But Grok was also an absolute mess in describing the basic video scene itself: “A gray-haired person in dark clothing walks in from the left carrying a dark bag by a single top handle. Papers or a light object in the other hand. Two uniformed officers come down the ramp. They meet. Later two officers walk the sidewalk; one has a light-colored item (bag or papers), and a dark bag is still in the scene. Someone else walks away across the lot with a bag.” Huh? Anyway… Gemini didn’t like what it called “The Thermos Theory”: “Soft Lunch Coolers typically use flexible nylon webbing straps or soft padded handles that pinch or deform when lifted. The handle in the video does not appear to ‘pinch’ like a soft strap; it remains an open loop. This structural rigidity strongly favors the Viken device (or a hard-shelled case) over a soft lunch bag.” Grok’s conclusion: “On evidence quality, the Viken ID is the weaker of the two. It is possible in the abstract and unsupported as a positive ID here. The honest read is: dark soft top-handle bag, lunch-cooler to small-kit size, contents unknown. Anything more specific needs a better frame, a still of the bag on the ground, or provenance outside this clip.” Gemini’s conclusion: “This single frame is ambiguous due to the blur and lighting (reflection). However, the rigid, non-deforming handle visible in the officer's grip is a mechanical characteristic of the Viken HBI-120 (or similar heavy equipment) and is inconsistent with the flexible straps of a standard soft lunch cooler. While the "silver" glint is a point for the thermos theory, it is plausibly explained by the Viken's glass screen or case window. Verdict: The structural analysis (rigid handle) still favors the heavier equipment (Viken) over a standard soft lunch bag.” So, depending on your AI preference … we get either a $40,000 handheld X-ray device or a $40 thermos-and-lunch-bag cooler combo? But there is more evidence in the alternate video angles available. (That I now present below.) They seem to confirm with the ‘human eye’ that Ms. Kerkhoff is carrying a metal cylinder (possibly a thermos) in the same hand as a soft-sided lunch bag cooler. Though the design conflicts with the common thermos handle configurations of most known cylinder thermoses. (Photos below.) And we've not been able to get an accurate hit on the so-called "lunch bag" with that specific handle and strap configuration. And THAT is why you don’t just “release what you know” without seeking every possible video angle and expert opinion. That is why we didn’t run to print with our original November 8 story on the OG topic without first taking it to a government intelligence agency and professional investigators for review. That is why so many bad theories about January 6 still abound — five and a half years later — because they were based on a single camera angle, when years later, the same scene was revealed to have been captured from multiple angles that change reality 180 degrees. This is exactly why all CCTV footage — not just from January 6, but also January 5 and 7 — still needs to be released to the public. When Speaker Mike Johnson authorized Rep. Barry Loudermilk's old investigative subcommittee to begin uploading CCTV footage to a Congressional Rumble channel, we were elated. I had already spent many weeks in the Capitol CCTV viewing room in D.C. The travel, the expense, and the scheduling hassles with the committee made it nearly impossible to spend the amount of time required to prepare any story correctly. Not only to view and harvest what you were looking for, but also to sift through far more than the infamous “41,000 hours” of footage. Congress made more than 1,800 cameras' worth of footage available, and ten total days of footage. That’s hundreds of thousands of hours of potentially useful footage to review. An impossible task for any one person or media organization to review if Congress didn’t make that footage directly available to the public. But they didn’t finish the project. Tens of thousands of vitally important hours from both January 5 and 6 were never uploaded to the Rumble page. Additionally, my team has made specific requests for curiously missing gaps in footage throughout that two-day timeline. In an arrangement made with the Committee, they had originally been very good about getting us the footage from the specific cameras and timestamps we requested. That suddenly stopped when the new Congress and Loudermilk’s new J6 investigative subcommittee took over in January of 2025. Joe Hanneman and I have made innumerable requests — REPEATEDLY — for missing and/or unreleased cameras and timestamps specifically related to the pipe bomb investigation. Despite being told — REPEATEDLY — that they would provide the requested footage, they never did. Something happened. As I’ve reported several times in the last few months, the Capitol Police were finally and successfully able to shut down Loudermilk’s subcommittee investigation into ALL THINGS related to the Capitol Police. They did this only with the complicity and surrender of Speaker Johnson and Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan to Capitol Police leadership’s demands. On that note, and in conclusion … there are eight full hours of missing footage from January 5, right in the middle of the day. ALL CAMERAS are missing. These are important hours for what we are tracking. We can see Ms. Kerkhoff arrive at Capitol Police HQ early in the morning to clock in for her shift, but she is not carrying her “lunch bag and thermos” when she arrives. Her car is parked two blocks away, and is in the same parking spot at the end of her day. We can see her leave HQ late in the day (as I’ve documented in the last several posts on this page) with other officers and go to the Fairchild Building. Only to return some half hour later carrying that … thing(?) … and only to spend 45 seconds in the HQ to “clock out” from her overtime shift. We’re still missing vital video footage that both Speakers McCarthy and Johnson promised the American people. Including certain cameras deliberately withheld at the RNC bomb drop location, and other cameras with mysterious gaps at the most important of moments. Do the other video angles here prove that either Grok or Gemini was right, or does the X hive mind have better theories on what Kerkhoff is carrying? How about that high-definition CCTV camera that is right inside that west side door at Capitol Police HQ, with good lighting? They should release that video to us. A $40,000 bomb detection device or a Walmart thermos and lunch bag? I’m good with either. The truth is what we seek. But we should be able to see ALL the footage. Including all Capitol CCTV cameras and footage from January 6, and the days immediately preceding and following. Including the 39,000 video files the FBI claims to have in the entire J5/J6 pipe bomb investigation. Conspiracy theories are born and fester precisely because the government isn’t transparent and purposefully keeps the People in the dark. Then the lawyers who control government make billions from the legal aftermath. (More Photos in the thread below.)
Steve Baker48,980 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

The only reason I was able to find the hidden gate in Rumsey Ct. (near where the J6 pipe bomb was found), is because the first time I visited the site there was snow on the ground. I could see the footprints of the locals disappearing into the fence. In this video, taken ten months later, I knew exactly where to go, but even then I struggled to find the hidden gate latch. But, FBI wants us to believe that Brian Cole Jr. was not only aware of this hidden gate, but also knew it opened into an area with no CCTV camera coverage, and was able to disappear into the night. Also, this gate is at the far end of the Rumsey Ct. alley. Quite a long distance from where “Hoodie” deposited the device. Hoodie knew exactly where to go, and beelined straight to the gate after making the drop. *Extra credit if you see the Rumsey Rat! #FreeBrianColeJr
Steve Baker63,541 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

🎵My Dolly Parton Story🎶 - (Video and additional photos in 🧵 below) Exactly one year before the government shut down the world because of the #CommieVirus — especially killing the live entertainment industry — my bands were firing on all cylinders. My private event band, Bull City Syndicate, was doing especially well. We’d been the headlining entertainment for the past two North Carolina Governor’s Inaugural Balls, and played hundreds of high-end corporate events, charity balls, and top-shelf weddings. On March 2, 2019, we were especially excited to be hired as the featured entertainment for a charity event where Dolly Parton would be the main attraction. Not as a musical performer herself, but to promote her own charity, Imagination Library (Imagination Library), and to do a live poetry reading from her own work. The event was the 25th Anniversary Smart Start Gala. Raleigh’s mayor, the governor of NC, and many other VIPs would be in attendance. While the event planner never suggested that we perform or back up Dolly on any of her tunes, it was, in the back of my mind, something I thought would have been really cool. But not something I’d dare suggest or insinuate on my own. My only preshow contact with Dolly’s organization was with her head of security. The Marble’s Kids Museum in Raleigh, NC is a fabulous venue for fun charity events, but it has only one “green room” next to the staging area. Security informed me that the band would have to completely evacuate that shared space at least 30-minutes before Dolly arrived for her portion of the evening’s proceedings. (Not an unusual or inappropriate request, given her enormous superstar status.) The entire 10-piece band was on stage when Dolly was escorted through the back entrance and into the green room. There was some back-and-forth between VIP speeches and live music, so the band stayed in place throughout. Since the event was completely sold out and standing room only, we knew we’d have the best vantage of Dolly if we just stayed on the stage. Dolly’s presentation was scheduled to be only about 10-15 minutes. While the governor and mayor were delivering remarks just in advance of Dolly taking the stage, I looked back at the green room door, off stage left, and I saw my son, Duncan, in full-on, intense conversation with Dolly! (WHAT?!) Duncan, who was only 20 years old at the time and already a freak-of-nature musician himself, was working on my stage crew that night. I’m the band leader, so I’m having to give full attention to the event host and what’s happening on the speaker’s side of the stage … but only 20 feet away, Duncan and Dolly are chatting away like long-lost friends. Finally, at one of my many glances in their direction, Dolly and Duncan catch my eye and both start waving me over to them. I silently point at my chest, then mouth, “Me?” They both nod, say yes, and wave more insistently. I dart off the stage, over to the dimly lit green room entrance corridor. Duncan, who is much taller than I am, puts his hand on my shoulder and introduces me to “Dolly Parton.” (You can imagine the look on my face. Ha!) He tells me that Dolly has a request. I lean down to put my ear close to Dolly, so that she wouldn’t have to speak too loudly while the governor was talking to the audience. (I can imitate her voice, and I wish you could hear it in her voice and Tennessee mountain accent right now.) She says to me: “I didn’t know there was going to be a band here tonight. If I’d known there would be a band, I’d have had you learn some of my songs.” Then she came right out with it. “Do y’all know any of my songs?” I straightened back up, and over the course of less than five seconds my mind raced through every Top-40 solo and duet hit single of hers I’d ever heard on the radio. Country, pop, and otherwise. I made an immediate band leader decision … and lied my ass off. “Yes, we can play ‘Jolene.’” We’d never performed or rehearsed “Jolene,” or any other Dolly Parton tune, in the 20 years I’d led that band. The conversation continued: DOLLY: “Y’all know ‘Jolene?!’” ME: “Yes, ma’am.” DOLLY: “That’s great! When I finish reading my poem, I’ll tell everyone we’re going to sing ‘Jolene.’” ME: “We’ll be ready. What key do you do ‘Jolene’ in?” DOLLY: “I don’t know.” Dolly’s personal assistant leaned over to me and whispered in my ear, “C minor.” (Cm) The original key for “Jolene” was C-sharp minor (C#m), but I assume at 73 years old she might be lowering keys, as many aging vocalists tend to do. I gave Dolly an assuring look and said, “Thank you.” I looked at Duncan with an eye-raised, “Oh, sh-t” look on my face, then ran to the stage and called an emergency huddle of my rhythm section as Governor Cooper droned on in the background. In whispered, panicked tones, I told them, “Guys, you have 10 minutes to learn ‘Jolene’ … Key of C minor … GO!” The guys immediately took out their phones and pulled up the song, each listening privately through their in-ear monitors or holding the phone speaker close to their heads. They started silently fingering around on the guitar and bass guitar frets, and the keyboards. Our drummer sat quietly and listened to the track on his phone. I darted over to our female lead singer, Danie Ward, and asked her if she knew the words and background harmonies to “Jolene.” She gave me “The Look.” Back story … Danie was with my band for over ten years. She was my all-time favorite female lead vocalist, and we became great friends. She and her husband were very active in their church as pastor and she as worship leader. She and her sisters also performed for many years as a family Gospel group. But Danie, as a Black gospel artist, was immensely versatile, able to sing anything from Aretha Franklin to Lady Gaga and leaving you wanting more. And although a Black Gospel artist, her secret desire and ambition was to be a Country music artist. (I kid you not.) So, when I asked her if she knew the words and harmonies to “Jolene,” THE LOOK she gave me was … “Seriously? You dare ask ME that question?” All I needed in response from Danie was “The Look.” No words spoken, and I slinked away appropriately chastised. My band members were all world-class pros, at every position. Especially that rhythm section. Most of whom had been with me for many years at this point. They ended up with more than 10 minutes to quietly and individually—with no rehearsal—learn “Jolene.” A few more minutes passed before Dolly was introduced and brought onstage; then she took another 20 minutes to deliver her remarks and poetry reading. The guys were ready. Dolly finished her poem to a round of applause and immediately announced she’d be performing “Jolene” for them. They cheered in approval. My drummer clicked a four count with his drumsticks, and they were off. As soon as Dolly began to sing the first words of the song, you can see me — in the video below — walking across the front of the stage with a huge smile on my face. Danie then got the thrill of her life. As soon as she’d finished singing the first round of harmonies behind Dolly’s lead, Dolly turned and looked toward Danie and said loudly into the mic, “Good job!” No one knew how or when Dolly wanted to end the song, so there was no real conclusion. They all just kinda stopped. But the audience was enthusiastically grateful they’d gotten more than what they paid for that night. I do wish the event planner had informed Dolly and her team that a band was at the event. I’d have loved to have learned a handful of her songs for the show. Maybe I’d have even been able to sing with her one of her chart-topping duets that she recorded with Kenny Rogers. Even though I never personally sang or performed a single musical note with Dolly, I’ll always be able to say “My band” performed with Dolly Parton. —— Postscript: A few days after that event, I received a call from Dolly’s personal assistant. (The same guy who whispered “C minor” into my ear.) He said he needed my son's address because Dolly had a gift she wanted to send him. Dolly’s PA explained that Duncan reminded her so much of her late brother, Floyd, when he was Duncan’s age. She wanted to send Duncan something special. For whatever reason, the package never arrived. Whether lost in the shuffle of Dolly’s or her staff’s busy life, or because some porch pirate pilfered it, Duncan never received that gift. But the very thought that was conveyed shows you what kind of person Dolly was. (Photos in thread below.) —— Post Postscript: Later that same year, I was attending the W.C. Handy Music Festival in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. At the time, I was managing a renowned Shoals songwriter and his band, James LeBlanc & The Winchesters. Some members of James’ band were performing a lunchtime show at one of the local Shoals area eateries as part of the 10-day festival’s scheduled events. I arrived a few minutes late, and the place was packed. Seated alone at a table near the stage was a woman with bleached Big Hair. She saw me looking for a spot and waved me over. Before I got to the table, I knew she had to be related to Dolly. Sure enough, it was Stella Parton, Dolly’s sister. Stella has had her own far less notable career in music, so I made sure not to gush over Dolly (just in case, and not knowing the family dynamics), but I did tell her about my band performing with Dolly earlier that year. I will forever and always have that story to tell. ⬇️
Steve Baker50,752 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

Who remembers when FBI Director Kash Patel perjured himself before his Senate confirmation committee, claiming he didn't know who Stew Peters is ... even though he'd appeared on Peters' show EIGHT times? Who remembers when Dan Bongino told Thomas Massie that he'd "personally write the check" for a particular former Capitol Police officer's lawsuit against me? Did you know that Kash Patel told Stew Peters that his organization, "Fight With Kash," would fund defamation lawsuits - even for Democrats - against members of the media? Things that make you go ....... Hmmmmmm.🤔
Steve Baker42,747 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

After dropping me off on the top of this mountain near the Relief, NC recovery site (operated by Adam Smith), these self-described "four old guys"—all former Army chopper pilots—make a badass pull away in their Huey to go get another load at the operations base in Swannanona. While they mostly participate in air shows with their "flying museum," they've been volunteering their time, skills, and bird here in WNC to get the Savage Freedoms volunteers where needed. American heroes.
Steve Baker224,743 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

The Rush reunion has made me very happy. It’s bittersweet, without Peart, but what a tribute it has become! Here are my kids at Rush’s May 2013 Clockwork Angels tour stop in Raleigh, NC. They were only 15 and 18 (14 and 17?) at that time, but they knew every lyric. I looked over and saw them singing along to a deep cut track from Clockwork (“The Wreckers”), and turned the camera on. I couldn’t believe they even knew the new stuff … not just the classic catalog hits. What can I say? That’s how much Rush’s music has meant to me and my family. “All I know is that sometimes you have to be wary Of a miracle too good to be true All I know is that sometimes the truth is contrary Everything in life you thought you knew All I know is that sometimes you have to be wary 'Cause sometimes the target is you” -Lyrics by Neil Peart (R.I.P.)
Steve Baker33,980 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

This is the hardest work here in WNC: human remains recovery. The odors can be horrific, coming from the debris piles. And most of the time, it's not human. Notice that the cadaver dog, "Gunner," did not "alert" on this pile. He followed his handler's command to check it out but did not "Stop/Sit/Bark/Stay." Unfortunately, Adam Smith' K9 Ops Supervisor, Chris Daley, took the unfortunate action of opening the fridge that had been sitting atop that pile for four weeks. On another note ... There are many deliberate "disinformation operations" taking place here. Just this week, an "influencer" posted a video claiming that "between 12,000 and 15,000 people are missing in Swannanoa." (The town has a total population of only 5,500. 🙄) Most of these reports are probably clickbait, but some are meant to divert attention and resources from where they are most needed. I took this video yesterday in Swannanoa. It's only a quarter mile off of I-40, yet the dog teams are just now searching this area. Hundreds, if not thousands, of debris piles—former homes—are still not searched. So many in far more remote locales. These are volunteers. Where are the government assets? The MSM is diverting its attention away from WNC, trying to rescue Kamala's failing campaign. Please don't forget about what's still happening here in NC, TN, GA, and VA.
Steve Baker126,044 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Again, for those of shorter attention span, here are the most pertinent highlights from our last TheBlaze feature on falsely accused J6 pipe bomber, Brian Cole Jr. (It was great to finally be back on with my friend, Sara Gonzales, after such a long hiatus. Can't wait until next time.)
Steve Baker43,734 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce