Biden administration brazenly persecuting journalists making his corrupt regime look bad.
Conservative journalists are finding themselves the targets of oppressive lawfare tactics evidently for exposing Joe Biden’s corruption.
On Friday, footage showed Blaze journalist Steve Baker being made to do a perp walk as he was taken into custody to face charges over his reporting involving the Jan. 6 debacle.
Blaze Media Investigative Journalist @TPC4USA has now been taken into FBI custody for his J6 reporting
Watch: pic.twitter.com/OF9WVh26ER
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) March 1, 2024
Baker, who attended J6 as an independent journalist, has been reporting on the anomalies surrounding the government’s official narrative of what happened that day, including dispelling false narratives spewed by Capitol Police regarding the timeline of events and the mysterious pipe bomb found at the DNC.
?BREAKING?- This time, it’s really happening.
Unlike the two previous threats my attorneys received from @FBI / @thejusticedept (Nov. 21 and Dec. 23), my self-surrender for alleged J6 crimes is set for this Friday morning in Dallas, TX. There is now a signed arrest warrant.⬇️
— Steve Baker – TPC (@TPC4USA) February 28, 2024
On Friday, after reporting to a federal courthouse in handcuffs, Baker was charged with:
- Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority
- Disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds
- Disorderly conduct in a capitol building
- Parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a capitol building
The arrest was roundly criticized on social media, with many noting the Biden regime’s so-called preservation of democracy appears to include jailing opposition journalists.
I guess now they’re arresting journalists to preserve democracy or something??? https://t.co/z2YTEOlKiz
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 1, 2024
This is a very dark day for this country. Hard to imagine the DOJ is so blatant about prosecuting a journalist simply for doing his job. Every journalist in this country should be outraged. The message sent is chilling. Journalists will self-censor as a result. This is meant to… https://t.co/Vadvd330vy
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) March 1, 2024
They are jailing journalists.
I am begging those with any dignity on the Left to set aside their bias and speak up. You will not be spared from this snare. https://t.co/ZsOdsS7BcX
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) March 1, 2024
Fortunately, Baker was released shortly after appearing in court.
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Steve Baker @TPC4USA has been released from the federal courthouse pic.twitter.com/QXBeIMuCvm
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) March 1, 2024
Likewise, recently ousted CBS News investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, who was fired by her network last month, was held in contempt in federal court on Thursday after refusing to reveal her sources pertaining to reports she wrote for Fox News in 2017 alleging Chinese-American scientist Yanping Chen was under FBI investigation.
CBS seized her files so they could give them to the corrupt FBI and its surveillance state cronies to help them hunt down and punish her sources. The American Stasi simply will not allow any criticism of its tyranny. https://t.co/OqQGLPh0gE
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 22, 2024
Of course, safeguarding sources in order to pursue news stories that benefit the public interest is part and parcel of the press freedom protections enshrined in the First Amendment.
As noted by former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, freedom of the press is ironically under attack by the very administration which claims to champion democracy.
Blaze Media investigative journalist Steve Baker being taken into FBI custody for his J6 reporting.
Ex-Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge being held in contempt yesterday for refusing to reveal her sources about a Chinese-American scientist investigated by the FBI but never… https://t.co/nlQV589S14
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) March 1, 2024
“Those who pontificate about ‘threats to our democracy’ should take a hard look at the threats to freedom of the press,” Ramaswamy stated on X Friday.
