{"id":15778,"date":"2024-11-13T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/?p=14555"},"modified":"2024-12-06T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:11:53","slug":"kol-will-we-see-justice-for-j6ers-guest-steve-baker-ep-305","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/kol-will-we-see-justice-for-j6ers-guest-steve-baker-ep-305\/","title":{"rendered":"Will We See Justice for J6ers? | Guest: Steve Baker | Ep 305"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last four years, the media has persisted in characterizing January 6 protesters as a violent mob intent on overthrowing a legitimately elected government. However, many of the people now being prosecuted were innocent bystanders or journalists simply trying to cover the event. One such man is investigative journalist and BlazeTV contributor Steve Baker, who came straight from the courthouse to talk to Matt Kibbe about how he was forced to enter a guilty plea for a crime he didn\u2019t commit and how his life has been turned upside down by a twisted justice system bent on locking him away. With the re-election of President Trump, there is now some hope that he and his fellow journalists can finally be liberated from these politically motivated prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Kibbe on Liberty on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/kibbe-on-liberty\/id1452905037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5qdAKla1GhQVYTi7O7gHiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL36_JCmmBwZrrsXd0VIMJXHBSuWfUm57k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com\/s\/kibbe-on-liberty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Substack<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/get.blazetv.com\/kibbe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlazeTV<\/a>, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlazeTV contributor Steve Baker came straight from the courthouse to talk to Matt Kibbe about how he was forced to enter a guilty plea for a crime he didn\u2019t commit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3234,774],"tags":[3560,362,265,1724,1411,3112,1723,726,1885,511,3419],"content-type":[3489,3488],"coauthors":[157],"class_list":["post-15778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kibbe-on-liberty","category-podcast","tag-blazetv","tag-censorship","tag-free-speech","tag-january-6","tag-journalism","tag-justice","tag-justice-system","tag-kibbe-on-liberty","tag-kol-s2","tag-matt-kibbe","tag-steve-baker","post_format-post-format-video","content-type-podcast","content-type-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.1 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Will We See Justice for J6ers? 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He is also co-founder and partner at Fight the Power Productions, a video and strategic communications company. Kibbe is the host of BlazeTV\u2019s Kibbe on Liberty, a popular podcast that insists that you think for yourself. He was senior advisor for a Rand Paul Presidential Super PAC in 2016, and later co-founded AlternativePAC to promote libertarian values. In 2004 Kibbe founded FreedomWorks, a national grassroots advocacy organization, and served as President until his departure in 2015. Steve Forbes said: \u201cKibbe has been to FreedomWorks what Steve Jobs was to Apple.\u201d Newsweek pronounced Kibbe \u201cone of the masterminds\u201d of tea party politics. MSNBC\u2019s Keith Olbermann called Kibbe \u201cThe second worst person in the world.\u201d \u00a0 Dubbed \u201cthe scribe\u201d by the New York Daily News, Kibbe is the author of the #2 New York Times bestseller Don\u2019t Hurt People and Don\u2019t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto (HarperCollins 2014), and Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America (HarperCollins 2012). He coauthored Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (HarperCollins 2010). Kibbe has appeared frequently on national television, including FOX News, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS. Before launching FreedomWorks, Kibbe served as a congressional Chief of Staff and House Budget Committee Associate. He was also Budget Director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Senior Economist for the RNC under Lee Atwater. Kibbe did graduate work in economics at George Mason University and received his B.A. in economics from Grove City College. 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