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Hundreds of men and women are staring down a gaping hole of uncertainty and danger, surviving in prison and serving extremely lengthy sentences for crimes they did not commit, alongside murderers, gangsters, rapists, and child sex offenders, for protesting.

Prior to the Biden administration’s unprecedented and brazen weaponization of the intelligence agencies against its political opposition, never had Americans faced the wrath of the federal government for trespassing in the U.S. Capitol building or demonstrating on the Capitol grounds while committing no violent crimes.

Jonathan Mellis endured the brunt of the physical and psychological torture leveled by Biden’s Department of Justices while incarcerated for nearly 3 years in unconstitutional pretrial detention in the Washington DC Correctional Facility, now famously known as the DC Gulag.

After 51 months of incarceration, the government still has its foot on Mellis’ neck.

Now the state of Virginia is threatening the January 6er, who sought to stop the police from beating a woman to death that fateful day, with more prison time.

Mellis, a member of the Proud Boys organization, was finally released from federal custody on September 30. He planned to turn over a new leaf, launch a new career, stay on the straight and narrow, and never look back at the nightmare he just suffered.

Instead, the mental torture of what his future may hold persists as he awaits a decision to be made by President-elect Donald Trump that will determine his fate.

Weeks after his release, an army of local police ransacked his Virginia home. Mellis was out with friends when he returned home a few hours later; the house he just moved into with his longtime friend was left in shambles after the raid.

Mellis had no idea what he may have done to warrant another torpedo by the feds.

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It turns out the state of Virginia decided to prosecute the January 6er for allegedly violating a stipulation of a 2008 charge he received in Virginia, a clause that was evidently hidden in fine print that he had never even heard of.

“I was rearrested on state charges about a month after I was released from federal prison for protesting on January 6 on state charges — I’m not sure this charge will go away after the pardon,” Mellis told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview.

“The local police raided the house that I was living at with my friend. With guns drawn, automatic weapons, they surrounded the house. I wasn’t there that night. I turned myself in the next night.”

Mellis had no idea what he could have possibly done to warrant another raid.

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“In court, days after I turned myself, was the first time I ever heard of this stipulation that was allegedly a part of my prior probation known as ‘Lifetime of Good Behavior.’”

‘Lifetime of good behavior probation’ is a type of probation sentence that requires an individual to maintain good behavior for the rest of their life, meaning there is no set end date to their probation period and they are subject to monitoring and potential consequences for any criminal activity they may commit throughout their lives.

This sort of probation is reportedly reserved specifically for offenses like sex crimes or cases involving repeat offenders. But for Mellis, one brush with the law for a nonviolent crime, prior to January 6, allegedly required him to be on probation for life.

For selling drugs as a young college student in 2008, Mellis was handed a decade in prison. After a 10-year bid in a Virginia prison, he was released in 2018. In 2020, he was told he had completed his sentence including probation.

“I was released from probation two years before January 6 – I served my time, served my probation, completely turned my life around and was living in Nashville, Tennessee.”

Suddenly, the government contends he violated Virginia’s “lifetime of good behavior” stipulation for his role in the Capitol riot.

In 2021, Virginia reformed its law mandating lifetime probation in 2021. Unbeknownst to Mellis, the regulation was still applicable in January 2021, when he traveled from his then home in Nashville, Tennessee to Washington DC to protest the fraudulent election results, and the government is still subjecting him to the outdated regulation.

Punishment for violating the lifetime probation is up to 10 years in prison.

After the 51-month January 6 ordeal, “I was incarcerated for two weeks in Williamsburg, Virginia until I was able get a bond hearing,” Mellis explained. “I wasn’t aware of the ‘Good Behavior for Life’ law.”

“Only when they rearrested me did I learn that my original sentence in Virginia included a stipulation of ‘good behavior for life,’ and it keeps 10 years in prison over my head for the rest of my life.”

Now, every day is trapped with daunting suspense about what the future may hold.

Trump vows to grant pardons to the political hostages on day one. But without superb or at least adequate legal representation, it remains unclear whether a presidential pardon can save him from the state charges.

Chances of a good outcome are less about the truth of the matter vs. a defendant’s ability to lawyer up to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars in a system apparently designed to serve the wealthy rather than the innocent.

“A presidential pardon only affects the federal January 6 charge. The state of Virginia is the jurisdiction in charge of this new violation of ‘good behavior for life,’” he said.

Frightened by the prospect of being subjected to another army of federal agents pointing red lasers at his head, Mellis’ roommate kicked him out.

The roommate was also the employer for the job he was slated to begin and warned Mellis that he is unwilling to risk the liability of hiring a man who is still being targeted by the federal government.

“My friend that I lived with was going to put me to work full-time with the company he owns,” he said. “Now he no longer wants to do that because the government raided his house in the middle of the night with gun straw and automatic weapons.”

“I was also delivering with Uber Eats, and they did a background check on me, and they booted me off.”

Mellis has already spent a staggering $100,000 in legal fees following his February 16, 2021, arrest for protesting to save America in the nation’s capital. Without divine intervention, left up to the court-appointed lawyer currently representing him, the government would likely get away with stealing away another ten years of his life.

“The public defender is not effective at all – he is lazy, he doesn’t return my calls, and he doesn’t have any strategy for court,” he said. “Now I am scrambling to come up with another $15,000 for a lawyer on top of the nearly $100,000 I paid to a federal lawyer for my January 6 case.”

“The President could get rid of the federal case, and with a private attorney in the state, I could leverage the presidential pardon to get a better deal with my state case or, hopefully, get it thrown out. I need a lawyer who’s willing to fight for me for that to happen. It’s my only option.”

“I have faith the charge will get it thrown out when we are pardoned, but Virginia is notorious for treating people badly in the justice system. That’s why I need a good lawyer.”

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While detained, Mellis steadfastly assisted over a hundred January 6 defendants with exposing the truth about their cases to the American public, assisting them with authoring scores of detailed articles to be featured in news publications.

“It was the greatest honor of my life to not only suffer alongside these great men in the DC Jail but to be able to help them get their voices heard and help them fundraise directly into their own bank accounts. I love my brothers.”

Raising public awareness about what was happening to the Americans who were arrested for protesting Joe Biden’s election theft, Mellis spearheaded an effort from inside the jail to raise funds for the legal defenses of his fellow J6ers.

He also managed to produce a documentary series featuring interviews with his “J6 brothers,” creating a platform for the others held hostage in the DC Gulag under the Biden regime.

On January 6, 2021, Mellis’ became irate as he was confronted by police indiscriminately clubbing people to death, bashing them with direct blows to the head remorselessly with nightsticks.

Mellis alongside men he would go on to be caged beside in solitary confinement, sought to save the life of Roseanne Boyland, a young women that was mercilessly clubbed to death by the cops.

“I went to January 6 to support President Trump and to protest a stolen election. While I was there, the police started firing into a peaceful crowd, and in the area that I was in,” he recalled. “On the other side of the building, the police opened the doors and were escorting people into the building. But on the part of the building that I was in, the police started launching flash grenades and people were getting shot in the face.”

“After watching women and old people getting hit in the heads with batons, tased, shot with rubber bullets, shot with flash bangs, people broke the police line.”

Officer Lila Morris is seen in footage ruthlessly beating Boyland’s unconscious body. A month after the murder, on February 7, 2021, Morris was awarded recognition at the Super Bowl LV for her actions during the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

“I witnessed the trampling and beating to death of Roseanne Boyland at the mouth of the hallway, and I intervened, as well as about a dozen other men, and we all went to prison it, for ‘assaulting officers,’” Mellis said. “Roseanne Boyland died that day right in front of us.”

Mellis contends the excessive force employed by police against non-violent demonstrators on January 6 was the hot war waged by the left against the American people following the invisible police state instituted throughout every aspect of the United States government and culture leading up to the protest of the fraudulent election results that fateful day:

It was a day that the American people were abused for peacefully protesting after a stolen election – and that didn’t even happen in a vacuum. It was a year of COVID restrictions; ripping up our Constitution; confiscating our church, taking our jobs, taking our right to assemble, and then forcing us online; isolating us from hanging out with our family and friends, which was the only public square; and silencing us conservatives and censoring our speech online.

We dealt with multiple abuses of the federal government in the year leading up to the stolen election. January 6 was a day where We The People showed up in DC to protest the swamp and the corruption, and were fired upon by police when we were peacefully protesting. So we didn’t take it anymore.

People spiraled out of control, and it became what we know of it as now, but it was truly the voice of the unheard, screaming out to be recognized.

The rally was used by tyrannical government to round up American citizens and smear every political opponent of the Uni-party in Washington and torture us, literally torture us in the DC jail and in other jails around the country.

About 6 weeks after I watched police murder innocent people, the FBI raided my house with dozens of militarized FBI agents, automatic weapons and armored truck in a pre-dawn Raid, like I was Al Qaeda.

The first 13 months of Mellis’s bid in the DC Gulag were consecutively in solitary confinement. The men held in the cell block that would become known as the Patriot Pod were permitted out of the “concrete box” for less than an hour a day, if at all.

“My J6s brothers and I were regularly injured by hateful and abusive jail guards. Our cells were covered in black mold,” Mellis said, describing the torture that will likely spell a lifetime of post-traumatic stress. “The smell of feces reeked across the cell block with only brown water pouring out of the sinks.”

Propaganda disseminated by the mainstream media assured the “jailers” in the city of Biden voters viewed the J6ers as ‘Nazis’ and ‘terrorists.’

“They would pop open the doors in the middle of the night, zip tie them and beat them, spray mace in men’s faces.”

“Anytime that we brought attention about the torture to the jail or court, we faced retaliation: our food would be spiked with cleaning chemicals the next day; the bit of [recreation] we were permitted would be restricted.”

“I’m so grateful that President Trump has come back and made the greatest American political comeback in history and to hopefully bring justice to the people who tortured us, American citizens, for years while depriving us of a fair trial.”

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The Biden regime claimed today that an actor from our nation’s most formidable foreign adversary hacked the Treasury Department and gained access to workstations of government employees and unclassified documents.

In a letter to the Senate Banking Committee leadership, which Agence France-Presse obtained, the Treasury Department alleged the following:

“Based on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor.”

The letter states that a third-party software service company, BeyondTrust, informed the Treasury Department on December 8th that the ‘Chinese’ hacker had acquired a security key to infiltrate specific Treasury workstations and documents remotely.

The Treasury Department went on to claim that it had partnered with the F.B.I., the intelligence community, and other investigators to determine the impact of the breach. The compromised service had been taken offline.

If one believes the regime, there is reportedly no evidence that the Chinese state actor still has access to Treasury materials.

“The compromised BeyondTrust service has been taken offline, and there is no evidence indicating the threat actor has continued access to Treasury systems or information.” a Treasury Department spokesperson stated.

Newsmax reports that the Treasury Department refused to provide additional details regarding the incident. The agency did claim they would be releasing a supplemental report at a later date.

As TGP readers know, the PRC has been linked to one of the most significant cyber espionage incidents in history. These breaches have infiltrated at least eight U.S. telecom companies and impacted dozens of other countries over at least two years.

This operation, labeled “Salt Typhoon,” compromised private communications and customer call records, primarily targeting government and political figures, including President Trump. As The New York Times reports, Microsoft’s cybersecurity team discovered the hacking gave China access to conversations held by Trump and incoming Vice-President JD Vance, among other Americans.

The hackers copied information requested by U.S. law enforcement through court orders.

However, despite ongoing efforts to address the attack, breaches remain active in U.S. telecom networks. Chalk that up to more Biden regime incompetence.

Moreover, Chinese hackers have been implicated in a long history of cyberattacks targeting U.S. government entities, critical infrastructure, and private companies. TGP notes recent breaches in U.S. telecommunications providers underscore China’s evolving cyber strategy, which has shifted from espionage to preparing for potentially disruptive or destructive attacks, particularly in the event of a crisis over Taiwan.

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Team Trump has ordered all Cabinet nominees to stop posting on social media ahead of the senate confirmation hearings.

According to a memo obtained by The New York Post, Trump’s incoming Chief of Staff Susan Wiles ordered the president-elect’s Cabinet picks refrain from posting on social media without approval from counsel.

The Senate confirmation hearings are set to begin next week.

A Trump transition source told The New York Post that Wiles’ memo is not in response to the H-1B Visa debate.

The New York Post reported:

President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles sent a message Sunday ordering nominees to refrain from any posting on social media as Senate confirmation hearings are scheduled to start next week.

“While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of the incoming administration or Transition speaks for the United States or the President-elect himself,” Wiles wrote in a memo obtained by The Post.

“Accordingly, all intended nominees should refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming White House counsel,” she said in the Dec. 29 missive.

The first-ever female chief of staff, nicknamed the “Ice Maiden,” also noted that she appreciates “how enthusiastic everyone is” about joining the second Trump term in her otherwise frank directive.

Trump’s nominees have been silent ahead of what is expected to be a fraught process for some in the GOP-controlled Senate. If Democrats band together against any nominee’s confirmation, Republicans can’t afford to lose any more than three votes from their own conference.

The Wiles memo, according to a Trump transition source, is not in response to the recent social media ruckus caused by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chairs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over H-1B visas that had MAGA world spinning.

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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon went off on Trump supporters in a profanity-laced tirade this weekend.

Lemon weighed in on the H-1B Visa debate that heated up over the weekend between Trump supporters.

The controversy centered on the appointment of Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-American entrepreneur, as a senior policy advisor on artificial intelligence in Trump’s administration.

Krishnan’s selection drew criticism from the MAGA movement, notably Laura Loomer, who accused Indian immigrants of “stealing jobs” and labeled them as “third-world invaders.”

Elon Musk weighed in and said: “Yes. And those contemptible fools must be removed from the Republican Party, root and stem.”

Musk clarified his comments, adding, “The “contemptible fools” I’m referring to are those in the Republican Party who are hateful, unrepentant racists. They will absolutely be the downfall of the Republican Party if they are not removed.”

The “contemptible fools” I’m referring to are those in the Republican Party who are hateful, unrepentant racists.

They will absolutely be the downfall of the Republican Party if they are not removed.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2024

On Saturday, Trump weighed in on the debate over the controversial H-1B visa worker program and said he supports the foreign worker program.

Don Lemon attacked Trump supporters for engaging in political discourse.

The former CNN anchor opened up his YouTube show by claiming Trump supporters are angry over losing ‘white jobs’ to foreigners.

“You’re so f*cking stupid and you deserve it. You f*cking deserve it because you’re so dumb,” Lemon said of the H-1B Visa debate. “Yes, I am gloating over your stupidity.”

Don Lemon said Trump supporters are in a ‘cult.’

“You’ve been co-opted because you’re in a f*cking cult and you don’t even realize it because you have stupid MAGA brain and you don’t get it,” Lemon said. “How stupid and dumb are you?”

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Maricopa County public health officials say they’ve detected “an influenza subtype associated with avian flu in local wastewater” in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe, Arizona. 

Officials say the risk to the general population remains low.

The Gateway Pundit has reported on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fear-mongering about a new potential pandemic of avian flu as if the public hasn’t been subjected to enough panic and virus hoaxes in recent years.

In a move reminiscent of his overreaching COVID-19 policies, California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in California this month in response to the first human case of bird flu, which was in Louisiana.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Dr. Leana Wen, the Communist doctor who demanded Americans lose all their rights during the Covid pandemic, appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday to discuss the Bird Flu outbreak. She called for the Biden Regime to get millions of doses of vaccines to the American people as soon as possible, claiming that Trump may “hold up vaccine authorization” and “withhold testing.” She added, “We should’ve learned our lesson from COVID” to justify even stricter measures.

HERE WE GO: Covid Tyrant Dr. Leana Wen Says Biden Regime Needs to Get Millions of Doses of Bird Flu Vaccines to the American People ASAP (VIDEO)

Maricopa County is the fourth largest county in the United States, according to 2024 census data. This news of a potential outbreak discovered in wastewater comes at a suspicious time as President Trump is about to take office next month, and leftists are pushing fear porn and calling for lockdowns and potential mandates, as we saw with COVID.

If we learned anything from COVID, it's that you can't always trust the "science."

The Maricopa County Department of Public Health issued the following news release:

As part of routine wastewater surveillance in Maricopa County, Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) is reporting the detection of an influenza subtype associated with avian flu in local wastewater. No human cases of avian flu have been detected in Maricopa County, and the risk to the general population remains low.

 Wastewater monitoring is a tool used to detect genetic material from microbes, like influenza A and its subtypes, in untreated wastewater, helping inform public health and partners on changing disease activity. The influenza A(H5) subtype, which can include H5N1 that is associated with avian influenza (also known as bird flu), was detected by all three cities within Maricopa County that conduct wastewater monitoring—Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe—but it is not currently possible to confirm a precise source location of the viral detection.

Avian influenza has been detected in Arizona, including a commercial poultry farm in Pinal County, and a backyard flock and animals at a zoo in Maricopa County. The H5N1 detections in Pinal and Maricopa counties where further genomic testing was done are the same strain of H5N1 that is occurring in wild birds. Tests with other samples are pending. The same strain-specific testing in wastewater samples is not available so this link cannot be confirmed. There have been no detections of H5N1 in dairy cattle in Arizona.

“Wastewater monitoring is one of multiple tools we have to proactively monitor for avian flu in our community,” said Dr. Nick Staab, assistant medical director at MCDPH. “Given that no human cases have been identified in Maricopa County through our other disease detection methods and there is no recent documented spread of H5N1 influenza from human to human, the overall risk of avian flu to people remains low.”

Avian flu is most often seen in wild and domestic birds; human cases have been rare and primarily in people with close, unprotected contact with sick or dead animals, their bedding, or their droppings. While wastewater monitoring may provide limited details, it provides important information about the presence of the H5 subtype, so that people can take appropriate precautions. This includes avoiding contact with sick or dead birds and wearing appropriate protective gear when handling sick or dead animals, their droppings, or their bedding. It is also advised to avoid consuming unpasteurized (raw) dairy products. Pasteurization kills viruses, including H5 influenza strains, that could come from infected dairy cows.

There is currently an increase in seasonal respiratory viruses, such as COVID-19 and seasonal flu strains, making it more likely that people in the community will come into contact with those viruses than avian flu. “To prevent illness, we want residents and visitors to focus on taking general respiratory virus prevention measures,” said Dr. Staab.

This comes after poultry in a backyard flock tested positive for avian flu last month, and animals at the Wildlife World Zoo west of Phoenix in Litchfield Park "were likely ill from H5N1 avian flu" earlier this month, according to Maricopa County. Additionally, the Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory says it detected avian influenza in a free-ranging domestic goose and a Canada goose in Scottsdale, Arizona. 

This is a developing story.

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