The Biden Department of Justice intends to file criminal charges against The Blaze reporter Steven Baker, who covered the January 6 Capitol protests on the ground as they unfolded. He has continued to cover the event for The Blaze and has released a number of stories that refute key claims from Capitol Police officers and federal prosecutors.
“My attorney has just been notified by @FBI that I am going to be charged by @TheJusticeDept for my journalistic efforts on Jan 6,” Baker wrote in an X post Thursday. “I have to self-surrender on Tuesday. Charges are yet unknown. Stay tuned for more information to follow this afternoon.”
The charges are unclear as of this report.
Baker recently released a story that contradicts sworn testimony given by U.S. Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus, whose testimony was key to the “seditious conspiracy” conviction of several Oath Keepers members.
In a previous report, Baker examined a key component of the “Oath Keepers” trials that took place last year. Multiple members of the group were convicted of “seditious conspiracy” after federal prosecutors branded them as the “the leaders” of “the insurrection” in a trial that has alarmed civil liberties advocates. Several Oath Keepers were