As Gandalf once said, “You shall not pass!”
And the same thing was told to J6ers at 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) ?!
Now that’s something you wouldn’t expect to hear.
Are RINOs running that operation?
Is this more exposure on those that aren’t truly for the people?
There’s also an exhibition hall features a January 6th-themed pinball machine.
So that’s allowed but not the actual J6ers?
Is CPAC just a grift?
CPAC is representative of the ‘old guard’.. the ones that got US into this mess.
— Cynthia Holt (@Ghostofcynthia) February 19, 2025
I just went down to pick up my preapproved #CPAC credentials and was kicked out. #J6ers are being denied entry! Here is the video @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/X6OMHm7RFe
— Richard Bigo Barnett (@BigoBarnett) February 20, 2025
Daily Mail reports:
There was fury at CPAC as January 6 defendants say a handful of then got turned away weeks after getting pardoned by President Trump – only to have the conservative conference turn into a virtual reunion for them.
Among those blowing up about the initial exclusion was Richard Barnett, who was famously photographed with his feet on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s inside her Capitol office as rioters ransacked the building.
‘They are targeting pre-registered J6,’ he fumed online, while saying his valid credentials weren’t accepted. ‘They escorted me out of CPAC this morning,’ he told DailyMail.com.
But he says event officials later permitted him to enter.
Former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio said he, too, was turned away Wednesday night – but the situation has now been resolved. ‘It’s already been lifted. I can go get my ticket,’ he told DailyMail.com by phone from the Capitol. His 22-year sentence was wiped away by the pardon.
After Barnett’s posts started circulating online, the group denied there was any such policy in place and celebrated their cause.
‘It is untrue that we are not allowing people to come to CPAC because of their involvement with J6. In fact, CPAC has been a constant supporter of this persecuted community and we support wholeheartedly President Trump’s pardons of the J6 victims. The registration link is active,’ CPAC posted.
ADVERTISEMENTOn Thursday morning inside the convention center of the Gaylord Hotel in National Harbor Maryland, it was clear there was no such ban in place.
Among those formerly incarcerated who made it to the huge venue on the Potomac River was Michael Curzio – who calls himself a member of the ‘J6 OG’ as one of the first locked up.
On Thursday, he posed inside CPAC’s exhibit hall in front of a fake ‘Deportation Center’ that had images of President Trump and border czar Tom Homan.
Curzio served a six month sentence after pleading guilty to shooting his ex girlfriend’s new boyfriend. He pleaded guilty to unlawfully protesting inside the Capitol when lawmakers met to count the electoral votes for president.
Asked about pardons for those who were captured on video battling with police, sometimes with sticks and poles, he countered: ‘You don’t know what those cops did.’
He said he was thrilled to have received a pardon for federal crimes from President Trump, although he still does not have his voting rights restored from a prior conviction in Florida.
“Kick ’em out!”
Jake Lang has had his credentials revoked from @CPAC while he was walking up to claim the 22 tickets he bought for fellow J6ers.
Jake Lang was held for 1,467 days, more than 900 of them in solitaire confinement, with NO TRIAL. @mercedesschlapp and @mschlapp need to provide an… pic.twitter.com/t4GJpUrZd0
— CannCon (@CannConActual) February 19, 2025
“But…but… its not true!” says CPAC.
Explain this then @BigoBarnett pic.twitter.com/rdLPkT4vJV
— itsme_JD_ (@its_me_jd_again) February 20, 2025
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