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A Georgia lawyer boasted that he and fellow rioters "kicked in Nancy Pelosi's office door" and the House speaker dodged being "torn into little pieces," according to a criminal complaint.
William McCall Calhoun Jr., an attorney from Americus, Georgia, has been charged with entering a restricted building, violent or disorderly conduct and obstructing official proceedings of government, according to an FBI affidavit seeking his arrest.
The FBI's National Threat operation Center received a tip that Calhoun documented — in words and video on social media — his role in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building, according to the affidavit.
Calhoun said the "mob" searched through Pelosi's "inner sanctum," according to his Facebook post cited in the affidavit.
"And get this - the first of us who got upstairs kicked in Nancy Pelosi's office door and pushed down the hall towards her inner sanctum, the mob howling with rage," Calhoun wrote, according to the FBI.
"Crazy Nancy probably would have been torn into little pieces but she was nowhere to be seen."
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Calhoun's Facebook and Parler accounts, cited in the affidavit, appeared to be deleted by Tuesday afternoon.
The suspected rioter was taken into custody on Friday and will remain in jail until his bail hearing on Thursday, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Georgia.
An attorney for Calhoun did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
A spokesman for the association declined to discuss Calhoun on Tuesday afternoon but said in a statement: "The Bar only has jurisdiction over lawyers in their professional lives, so the rules do not cover personal conduct unless a member is convicted of a crime."
He's been licensed to practice law in Georgia since 1990.
Op Ed: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for treason. Like this 22-year-old piece of shit they sold information to the Russian. Riley June Williams deserves a trip to the firing squad and a bullet through her orange heart.
Riley June Williams is one of many MAGAts who should be executed for treason.
The 22-year-old accused of stealing Pelosi's laptop and planning to sell it to Russia has been given new charges that could see her jailed for 20 years
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Riley June Williams seen in a booking photograph obtained from the Dauphin County Prison in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. Dauphin County Prison/Handout via Reuters
Riley June Williams is accused of stealing Nancy Pelosi's laptop and trying to sell it to Russia.
The Justice Department charged her with breaking into the Capitol, and a new charge was added after a tip.
The laptop's whereabouts is still unknown. A Pelosi aide had said it was used for presentations only.
But in a Tuesday court appearance US Attorney Christian Haughsby also charged Williams with theft of government property and obstruction, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
If Williams is found guilty of those charges, she could be sentenced to 20 years in jail, The Inquirer added.
Haughsby did not say whether Williams intended to sell the laptop to Russia. The FBI had previously said in a Sunday affidavit that a witness identifying as Williams' former romantic partner told authorities that Williams planned to give the laptop to a friend in Russia, who would then try to sell the device to the country's intelligence service.
In a Tuesday update to the affidavit, an unnamed FBI agent said that security tape from inside the Capitol showed Williams entering and exiting Pelosi's office.
The agent added that a person with the username "Riley" posted on the message board site Discord: "I STOLE S--- FROM NANCY POLESI" and "I DOMT CARE I TOOK NANCY POLESIS HARD DRIVES I DONT CARE KILL ME."
Screenshots from Discord showing a person named "Riley" posting about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop. Justice Department
The location of the laptop, identified by the FBI agent as a Hewlett-Packard device, remains unknown.
Drew Hammill, deputy chief of staff to Pelosi, said on January 8 that the laptop was "only used for presentations."
According to the FBI's Sunday affidavit, Williams packed a bag and left her mother's home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, some time after the Capitol riot and deleted a number of social-media accounts.
Williams was arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday, the DOJ said. CNN reported that Williams had turned herself in.
The FBI began investigating whether Williams stole the laptop after receiving a tip from a person identifying themselves as Williams' former romantic partner.
A pro-Trump mob seen after breaching the Capitol building on January 6. John Minchillo/AP
The person called the FBI and said they had seen a video of Williams taking the laptop, and that she intended to sell it to Russia's intelligence agency, the FBI said.
But the transfer of the laptop to Russia "fell through for unknown reasons and Williams still has the computer device or destroyed it," the FBI wrote in its Sunday and Tuesday statement of facts, citing the testimony of the tipster.
"This matter remains under investigation," the FBI added.
Williams' attorney, Lori J. Ulrich, told The Inquirer: "A lot of these allegations are false," without specifying what allegations she was referring to.
A Trump supporter sits inside Pelosi's office during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
The FBI said that a woman wearing a green shirt and brown trench coat and carrying a zebra-print bag over her shoulders appeared to be Williams.
Williams' mother told ITV News in a subsequent interview that her daughter had become involved in "far-right message boards" and frequently attended "rallies" about "wanting America to get the correct information."
Williams' next hearing is scheduled for January 21.
She graduated from Mechanicsburg Area Senior High in 2017 and worked for the healthcare agency Keystone Human Services, the Inquirer said. The company has since fired Williams, ABC 27 reported Tuesday.
The Washington Post said Trump is trying to stiff Giuliani, who has spent the past months traveling the country and spreading wild conspiracy theories about the November election on behalf of the president.
Citing two unnamed officials, the newspaper said Trump has not only refused to pay Giuliani’s legal fees but has told aides that all reimbursement requests for travel and other expenses need to go through him.
The Post said Trump was unhappy with Giuliani’s demand for $20,000 a day in fees and “has privately expressed concern” with some of his attorney’s moves.
The former mayor last year denied seeking that specific amount, claiming a much more unusual fee structure instead.
“I never asked for $20,000,” he told The New York Times in November. “The arrangement is we’ll work it out at the end.”
The Times on Wednesday confirmed the latest Post report, adding that White House officials were blocking Giuliani’s calls to Trump.
Giuliani last week demanded “trial by combat” during a rally in Washington as Congress met to certify the election results that he had been challenging in courts on behalf of Trump, who later urged the crowd at the rally to march on the Capitol.
Shortly after, the Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in a deadly siege that disrupted the congressional proceedings for hours and forced lawmakers into hiding as the mob ransacked the building.
The president’s critics on Twitter took note of his growing feud with his attorney:
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
