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UpInArms

(51,281 posts)
Thu Sep 2, 2021, 07:45 PM Sep 2021

US Capitol riot defendant jailed after watching MyPillow CEO's conspiracy symposium while prohibited

US Capitol riot defendant jailed after watching MyPillow CEO's conspiracy symposium while prohibited from going online

(CNN)The QAnon supporter who chased Officer Eugene Goodman near the Senate chamber during the US Capitol insurrection was sent back to jail Thursday, in part because he violated the rules of his release by going online to access conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

The unusual turn of events means Doug Jensen of Iowa is headed back to jail a mere seven weeks after he was released. He was arrested shortly after the January 6 insurrection and was kept in jail until July, when a federal judge released him to his home under strict conditions.

Those conditions included a prohibition on using the internet -- to keep Jensen away from the QAnon conspiracy, which he previously admitted to investigators was the reason he breached the Capitol. But when court officials made their first unannounced visit to check on Jensen at his home last month, they found him in his garage, using a cell phone to stream a right-wing news outlet.

According to court filings, Jensen admitted to the court officials that he also used the phone to stream a conspiracy-filled symposium held by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a diehard supporter of former President Donald Trump who has repeatedly pushed debunked claims and haywire theories about foreign countries switching millions of votes to steal the election from Trump.

More at:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/politics/doug-jensen-mike-lindell-insurrection-jail/index.html

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He probably doesn’t understand that a smart phone is a computer
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US Capitol riot defendant jailed after watching MyPillow CEO's conspiracy symposium while prohibited (Original Post) UpInArms Sep 2021 OP
He probably thought all the microchips from phones had been transferred to the vaccines. LonePirate Sep 2021 #1
They are mocking Corgigal Sep 2021 #2
How would he even know that the UpInArms Sep 2021 #3

LonePirate

(13,417 posts)
1. He probably thought all the microchips from phones had been transferred to the vaccines.
Thu Sep 2, 2021, 07:52 PM
Sep 2021

These people are remarkably dumb and unfortunately for the rest of us, they vote and spread their pathogens to us.

UpInArms

(51,281 posts)
3. How would he even know that the
Thu Sep 2, 2021, 08:45 PM
Sep 2021

Stupid bad pillow scam guy was having a symposium if he had not accessed the internet?

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