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John Sullivan, a BLM rioter who was charged for his participation in the Jan. 6 riots, was paid $35,000 apiece from CNN and NBC for his footage inside the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/zhEsOFpx70
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CNN, NBC Paid Antifa Activist for Footage From Capitol Breach
By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times, February 17, 2021:
Story continues below advertisementThree news agencies paid an activist who identifies as Antifa and was charged for allegedly committing crimes during the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol for footage he captured during the mayhem.
CNN, NBC, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) paid John Earle Sullivan thousands of dollars to use video clips he shot inside the building, according to a new court filing.
CNN paid $35,000, NBC paid $35,000, and ABC paid $2,375, according to invoices that were filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Sullivan, 26, was arrested and charged last month for allegedly committing multiple crimes on Jan. 6, including violent entry, civil disorder, and disorderly conduct.CNN and NBC didn’t return requests for comment.
Video footage, some of which was filmed by Sullivan, showed the Utah man illegally entering the Capitol building and urging others to go inside and burn the structure down.
CNN also hosted Sullivan for an on-air interview later on Jan. 6, along with Jade Sacker, a freelancer who has had work published by various outlets.
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Sullivan has told The Epoch Times that he’s apolitical but has told other news outlets that he is Antifa, or anti-fascist. Antifa is a far-left, anarcho-communist network that has engaged in violence across the country in recent years. Sullivan has also been linked to the Black Lives Matter movement, though he’s been disavowed by the leader of Black Lives Matter Utah.
Sullivan was released conditionally shortly after being charged and remains free, despite violating conditions of his release. A federal judge on Tuesday declined to block him from using Twitter and Facebook but said he must stop working for Insurgence USA, an organization he founded to help advocate for the empowerment and uplifting of “black and indigenous voices.”
Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather, an Obama appointee, also decreed Sullivan’s 24-hour monitoring be stopped, reported Politico, but said his Internet use will be checked by probation officers. Sullivan cannot use social media platforms to incite riots or violent protests. He is being forced to remain home as the case moves forward.
Sullivan’s attorney had argued in a memorandum that the government’s attempts would “limit defendant’s ability to communicate the way the vast majority of Americans communicate is oppressive, overbroad, and unconstitional [sic].”
“The entirely overboard request by the government would effectively ban hm [sic] from communicating with friends, interacting, with his family, writing his thoughts, keeping up with the news, checking on the weather, reading a newspaper outline or any of the typical reasons why the vast majority of the [population] uses these social media platforms,” the attorney wrote.
Sullivan was already banned from using Twitter and Facebook, along with 11 other websites, by a judge in Utah in a separate case. Sullivan was arrested last year for allegedly rioting and other crimes in the state. His primary Twitter account has been suspended; a search of Facebook didn’t turn up a profile. He has claimed to be a journalist as a defense for what he did in Washington, but authorities say that was a front.
“Under the guise of journalism … he is engaged in and incited violent activity, including the kind of destructive society we saw on Jan. 6,” prosecutor Candice Wong told the court.
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26 Comments
3 years ago
Repulsive. So he is profiting off his lawbreaking.
3 years ago
Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh has died, age 70 – and his enemies are already dancing on his grave. Figures.
3 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
Well many more of us loved him than hated him – and they hated him because they knew he was RIGHT!
3 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
I do believe the “Left” had someone doctor Rush’s expensive cigars over the yrs at the source with a known carcinogen if not radiation.
It is in the realm of possibility for he had alot of yrs left like his grandfather whom Rush interviewed at 92 yrs old and lived to be 102…!
3 years ago
I’m sure the Treasonous Monkey won’t be prosecuted either, and most Republicans won’t say a word.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
Pretending to be a Trump supporter and with a quick change to a fake journalist.
Unarmed, Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt was murdered and no one has been charged. Can you image the rage if it had been a BLM or ANTIFA male or female murdered like that? I bet she was egged on and mistakenly took the bait….She was a patriot!
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Philadelphia Antifa operative (yellow shirt) and AZ Antifa (horn boy) inside U.S. Capitol
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Several video’s show this.
Moreover there were two heavily armed police right by her as she was supposedly shot(you don’t hear much about it anywhere + almost mo blood).
If in fact she actually was shot and not a false flag set up how could it be “justified” with two cops standing right by her doing nothing to her?
The idiot who supposedly shot her easily could have hit the cops in a “reckless discharge of a firearm”.
In reality pepperspray would’ve been adequate = not a death sentence.
FAR WORSE is the fact Peelosi had to know if CNN was involved and in the bldg = just like they “happened to be” at Roger Stones house in the dark when he was SWAT Teamed.
That whole situation is a set up and if Nan Pee knew or was in on it she and all else should be charged with conspiracy to cause a riot resulting in 5 deaths…!
3 years ago
Perhaps they just felt bad,….. after all,… IT’S BLACK HISTORY MONTH Y’ALL !!!
3 years ago
So hypocritical. They claim to despise capitalism and look what he does…
$ells his tape to the highest bidder. It was a total set up. Odd how they can’t seem to
identify who murdered unarmed, military vet, 35-year-old Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt. They probably don’t consider her death a crime. They probably consider it an act of (perverted) patriotism.
3 years ago
This is the thug those idiot democrats should have impeached.
3 years ago
In a sane world, we’d be jailing these “executives” instead of writing about them.
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3 years ago
he should have been taken out.
3 years ago
And we KNOW there will be no accountability!
3 years ago
Reply to
Dorrie_
But from the side of the Supreme Court, most likely,CNN, NBC will not be brought to trial.
3 years ago
And this is why I canceled cable. I’m not paying for government propaganda!
3 years ago
The far left leaning ABC AUSTRALIA also added $AU2,500 to his coffers, causing a storm over here!
3 years ago
Reply to
Bikinis not Burkas
The ABC (Aboriginal Broadcasting C**t’s) has AUD$1.4billion to splash around. They don’t employ Journalists, just Hack Reporters on huge salaries to do nothing!
3 years ago
I would not be at all surprised if its found out that this wee piece of dog turd is a paid lackey of Soros-Clinton to stir up trouble.
3 years ago
You really have to be a lost soul to listen to anything this bum is saying.
3 years ago
After Taxes and a EXPENSIVE & LENGTHY DEFENSE he should be left VERY UNEMPLOYABLE and POOR and LOCKED UP!!!!!
3 years ago
Hey man,Those diamond ear studs anint cheap!
And just like Clintons and the obama’s books that netted them millions even though little were sold.
