Straka pleaded responsible in October to a single misdemeanor cost and was set to be sentenced subsequent week. However prosecutors have requested for a 30-day sentencing delay in order that his new proof “will be correctly evaluated.”
Straka was amongst a protracted record of pro-Trump figures that the Jan. 6 choose committee within the Home has inquired about. He seems on an inventory the panel despatched to the Nationwide Archives searching for information from the Trump White Home.
In an FBI affidavit filed in January, investigators stated he posted a 58-minute video on Jan. 7 describing his actions the day earlier than.
“The plan was all the time to go to the Capitol. We have been going to march from that occasion … to the Capitol, and there was going to be one other rally. I used to be one of many audio system slated to talk on the Capitol,” Straka stated within the video.
Trump inspired his supporters in his personal Jan. 6 remarks to go to the Capitol and vowed to affix them there, remarks that inspired lots of the attendees on the rally to march to the Capitol. Trump’s former chief of employees Mark Meadows wrote in a brand new ebook that Trump advised him afterward that he by no means supposed to go to the Capitol and meant his phrases “metaphorically.” Meadows has refused to testify to congressional investigators, who lately referred him to the Justice Division for felony contempt of Congress expenses.
In one other eight-minute video prosecutors obtained, Straka will be seen approaching the Capitol on Jan. 6, saying “We’re getting in.”
“As the gang in entrance of him tried to push their method into the doorway of the U.S. Capitol, STRAKA yelled, ‘Go! Go!'” prosecutors stated in an outline of the video. Straka later urged members of the gang to take a riot protect from a close-by police officer. The video ends with Straka on the high of the Capitol steps.