Steve Baker, an investigative journalist from Blaze Media, recently disclosed that he is currently confronted with federal charges by the FBI for his coverage of the incidents that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In a Twitter/X post on Thursday, Baker initially unveiled the charges and has since been diligently sharing subsequent developments throughout the weekend.
Baker has disclosed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has brought forth charges against him, which remain undisclosed at this time. These charges are said to be connected to his journalistic endeavors during the events that unfolded at the Capitol nearly three years ago.
“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 on X.
“Charges are yet unknown.”
He was then ordered to turn himself in on Friday.
🚨BREAKING🚨 My attorney has just been notified by @FBI that I am going to be charged by @TheJusticeDept for my journalistic efforts on #Jan6. I have to self-surrender on Tuesday. Charges are yet unknown. Stay tuned for more information to follow this afternoon.
— Steve Baker – TPC (@TPC4USA) December 14, 2023
🚨Temporary Reprieve🚨
Just after 5pm yesterday my Raleigh attorney received a call from @FBI Special Agent Craig Noyes informing us that my self-surrender would be postponed until “after Christmas” and that @TheJusticeDept has assigned a new AUSA to my case. (Adam Dreher) Quite…
— Steve Baker – TPC (@TPC4USA) December 16, 2023
Baker took to social media to show the suspicious timing of the charges:
“They put me through this emotional rollercoaster exactly two years ago when [Assistant U.S. Attorney] Anita Eve informed my attorney that I’d be ‘charged within the week.’
“Then, they went silent for 20 months.”
Ever since the events of January 6th he’s been living in fear.
I was one of about 60 journalists who followed the story into the Capitol on #Jan6 – independents and otherwise. None of those who submitted their stories and videos to the regime’s approved outlets have been charged. You do the math. https://t.co/lLqTKHRkbC
— Steve Baker – TPC (@TPC4USA) December 15, 2023
“Baker said his attorney got a Nov. 17, 2021, email from assistant U.S. attorney Anita Eve saying that Baker could expect to be ‘charged within the week’ — and that the charges would be interstate racketeering and property damage, which Baker said were bogus,” The Blaze reported Thursday.
“Despite the threat of charges ‘within the week,’ Baker said he didn’t hear from Eve’s office for nearly two years — and in August 2023, his attorney accepted service of a grand jury subpoena, signed by Eve, for all the Jan. 6 videos Baker personally recorded,” the outlet noted.
He fully admits that while he entered the building, he did not commit any crimes.
Did you enter the Capitol and/or damage any property?
— Roger Williams (@PIAccount1) December 14, 2023
Steve….lawyer up, Cowboy. Something tells me your “Journalistic efforts” BS isn’t going to hold up in court. You participated in an insurrection. By your own admission you were INSIDE THE CAPITOL.
— Jack Hopkins (@thejackhopkins) December 14, 2023
This is outrageous retaliation on the part of the federal government against a journalist. @TPC4USA was an independent journalist on J6; he's now investigating the events of that day for @theblaze.
We must all rally and end this totalitarian madness.https://t.co/WN22wYq0To https://t.co/xrrqQMdhy1
— Matthew J. Peterson (@docMJP) December 14, 2023