Report: Journalist Steve Baker to Plead Guilty in J6 Case on Tuesday

Blaze journalist Scott Baker

Steve Baker, opinion contributor for Blaze News and an investigative journalist, announced Monday that he will be pleading guilty on Tuesday in a DC district court to four misdemeanor charges for being present at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“I’m going to walk into the court tomorrow morning, I’m going to plead guilty to all four charges,” Baker said on Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.

Baker said he is relying on president-elect Donald Trump to fulfill his campaign promise once entering the Oval Office in January to pardon January 6 defendants.

“I’m going to preserve my right to appeal, and I’m rolling the dice if President Trump is going to honor his campaign promise and make this all go away before my sentencing hearing in February,” Baker said.

Baker is a part of a small handful of journalists charged for being present at the Capitol on January 6, to which he says is due to his right-of-center political leanings.

“What the government has done is selectively decide to prosecute a very small handful of journalists, and guess what our political leanings are? A little bit to the right of center. That’s the only ones who have been charged,” Baker said, noting how 80-100 journalists present at the Capitol that day were not prosecuted.

While Baker was charged earlier this year with four misdemeanors, which include trespassing and disorderly conduct charges, stemming from his presence at the Capitol three years earlier, the criminal process against him has been engaged since 2021, Baker previously told The Tennessee Star.

On March 1, 2024, Baker self-surrendered to an FBI field office in Texas, where he was processed, handcuffed, and then transported to the federal courthouse in downtown Dallas.

Baker was then handed over to the U.S. Marshals, who proceeded to put him in a belly chain, box cuffs, and leg shackles before placing him in a cell with a meth dealer and then marching him in front of a magistrate judge.

At the time, Baker said the way he was treated was a “clear abuse of power,” especially considering his charges are misdemeanors.

As of this month, the U.S. Department of Justice says more than 1,561 individuals have been “charged in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol.”

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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.

 

 

 

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