Nearly three years after the federal uprising on January 6, 2021, Blaze reporter Steve Baker reported in December that he would be indicted for his actions on the day he live-reported the event.
Steve wrote in October 2023 that he had been under investigation for the past two years by Chris Wray's FBI for his reporting on historic protests in Washington, D.C.
Even journalists are not safe from this authoritarian regime. Steve expected that the Biden regime would accuse him.
BREAKING My attorney has just been notified before @FBI For which I will be held accountable @TheJusticeDept For my journalistic efforts #6 Jan. I have to give up on Tuesday. The charges are not yet known. Stay tuned for more information to follow this afternoon.
— Steve Baker – TPC (@TPC4USA) December 14, 2023
Steve Baker detailed his experiences that day in a previous report. Then, in February 2021, he began to wonder what role others might have played in the protests and riots that day. This was clearly out of bounds.
Left-wing “sedition hunters” have compiled a rather impressive spreadsheet listing all types of journalists, assigning the labels “Interior (hack),” “Interior (press corps),” and “banned causes” to 160 different “confirmed” journalists. , and an additional spreadsheet tab lists 45 “unconfirmed” reporters and videographers.
When I first looked at the Discord Hunters spreadsheet over a year ago, I wasn't on the list. So I contacted them and asked to be added. They did not respond to me directly. Instead, they blocked me from their Twitter page. A more recent search shows they've added my name, along with a link to my Locals blog, my Twitter account, and my Rumble page, with the “Interior (Breach)” label under the “Confirmed” tab.
(My journalistic activities on January 6 took place before I became a Blaze Media contributor.)
I made no effort to hide what I was doing on January 6th. I conducted two different interviews on the same day with WUSA, a CBS News affiliate in Washington, D.C., and also uploaded a short video commentary to YouTube later that same evening.
Back home in Raleigh, North Carolina, I spent five days away, analyzing my videos frame by frame. I then wrote and published on January 13, 2021, a 9,500-word article on my blog detailing what I experienced that day, titled “What I Saw on January 6th in Washington, D.C.”
This piece, and its follow-up on February 24, 2021, “Who Was ‘Up the Chain’ on January 6?” It has been viewed and read by hundreds of thousands of readers on my blog and various social media pages.
Clearly this was not acceptable to the regime.
Steve Baker announced Wednesday that he had been instructed to turn himself in on Friday — wearing shorts and sandals.
Al Hareeq newspaper reported:
Baker told Blaze News that he was instructed to turn himself in at the agency's field office at 7 a.m. wearing “shorts and sandals” — which he said indicated the plan was likely to “humiliate” him and place him in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffed. him, and carry out the “prisoner transfer routine”.
The regime will arrest this reporter after he questioned the government's role on January 6.
Blaze News investigative writer Steve Baker says the FBI wants him to turn himself in on Friday in Dallas over his Jan. 6 report https://t.co/YgPOGgO4aP pic.twitter.com/4DdJakAVFT
– The Blaze (@TheBlaze) February 28, 2024
