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1) Rachel Powell aka Rachel Marie Powell, Pennsylvania, sold cheese at a farmers’ market and worked in a book store, used a bullhorn during the riot to direct the crowd trying to gain control of the Capitol. Wearing a pink toque and a hooded black jacket with fur trim, Powell is seen on video giving very detailed instructions about the need to coordinate and the layout of the building; Powell on bullhorn tells rioters: "coordinate together if you are going to take this building" and they "have another window to break." Also carried an ice axe and wooden pole into the Capitol. Oct 2020 Powell posted: "I agree with the possibility of civil war happening. I can see that too. Unfortunately, the only way this is probably capable of being fixed is bloodshed because I’m not so sure our government can be fixed the political way anymore…"
Obstruction; Depredation of Government Property; Restricted Building or Grounds with a Dangerous Weapon; Restricted Building or Grounds; Violent Entry or Disorderly Conduct. She was seen using a large pipe as a ramming device to breach windows to gain access.
In a search of Powell’s home and car, agents found three "go bags" containing, among other things, ammunition, zip ties, rope, duct tape, knives, throwing stars, and two loaded magazines for an AK-47. They also turned up a number of cell phones that appeared to have been smashed to pieces in what prosecutors believe may have been an attempt by Powell to destroy evidence.
2) Full charges in indictment: Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; Destruction of Government Property; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building Remains on personal recognizance with location monitoring. https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/case-multi-defendant/file/1377741/download
**Indicted on eight (8) counts She pleaded not guilty to counts 1-8 and remains on personal recognizance with location monitoring. https://www.justice.gov/opa/case-multi-defendant/file/1364896/download Trial November 15 Delayed. 15 Rachel Powell was found guilty on a variety of charges, including felony counts of interfering with officers performing their duties and obstruction of an official proceeding. Her bench trial was held in May, and U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth presiding and gave her verdict July 18, 2023 - guilty of nine federal charges. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/bullhorn-lady-capitol-found-guilty-jan-6-case-rcna94733
3) More on Rachel Powell … in court it was revealed that…she left her 8 kids home alone!! “The defendant abandoned her children and traveled to the District of Columbia to participate in an act of insurrection,” prosecutors wrote. “She came prepared, armed with earmuffs designed to muffle gunfire and wearing a jacket designed to conceal a weapon. Not content to peacefully demonstrate, she used a battering ram to break into the U.S. Capitol. In doing so, she put the lives of both law enforcement and rioters in jeopardy. Then, she directed her fellow rioters on how best to penetrate the Capitol. “coordinate together if you are going to take this building." By directly encouraging violence and destruction, the defendant fueled a situation that threatened the peaceful transfer of power in the United States.” She was still ***released to her home… https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-tells-bullhorn-mom-rachel-powell-shes-so-unpatriotic-it-makes-my-straight-hair-curl Video of pink hat lady with coat hood up…
RELEASED to home… as this insurrectionist has 8 kids… but, they are in husband’s custody https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-tells-bullhorn-mom-rachel-powell-shes-so-unpatriotic-it-makes-my-straight-hair-curl
4) Powell wants out of her mask requirement. Last year, she wore a mesh mask, thinking she was a smart ass… and took a selfie. She apologized, but the court flet it was not genuine. https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1499525477639335937
Rachel Powell could give a shit about children or public health. Not even her own...
5) Filed to Powell’s case as she seeks more lenient release conditions: "In 2021, (Powell) shared custody of six minor children with her ex-husband. When the defendant left for Washington, D.C. to attend the events of January 6, 2021, she left her minor children at home, unattended." https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1533886372657889282
6) Oct 2020, Powell, 40 year old Mother of 8 who left her 6 minor children unattended to be at Jan 6 insurrection, posted she is basically famous… https://twitter.com/8w8h8y8/status/1533841382225620994
7) Rachel Powell has raised $12,118 on a right-wing crowdfunding site that says she "got caught up in the moment". Mother of 8 has issues with restraint!! https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1538657628666138625
8) Powell lawyer says she is having difficulty understanding the law and its implications in her case, yet, she is a mother of 8 who homeschooled her children … https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1582870724351787008
9) In the courtrooom for her verdict, "Powell was accompanied to court by her children, one of whom was wearing a red "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" hat in the courtroom. Powell had posted on social media that former President Donald Trump had given her child a MAGA hat." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/bullhorn-lady-capitol-found-guilty-jan-6-case-rcna94733
10) I had forgotten that she gave an interview to The New Yorker well before she was arrested and indicted, "She said that Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, had been a significant source of information, and that she had watched remarks he gave in Gettysburg, on November 25th, during a widely discredited state-senate committee hearing in which he and several witnesses made baseless claims of voter fraud. “That was pretty moving to me,” she said. “I learned a lot from Giuliani and people’s testimonies.” https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-pennsylvania-mothers-path-to-insurrection-capitol-riot
UPDATE 4
MAGA moron Rachel Powell is about to report to prison. She spoke to CNN last week. (I want to boycott then but this is what Americans are up against this year... morons who will 'crawl through glass' for LOSER45)
She says she was set-up and January 6 was a set-up and that she only broke that window because it was a set-up and someone put that climber's pick in her hand...
No, you ignorant insurrectionist lying bitch...NO!
Feel free to skip her little sob story and whininess and go straight to 6:45, where she is helping other "duped" insurrectionists use another weapon to break unto the Capitol.
UPDATE 3 - The last supper...
They did already round her up... as a January 6 insurrectionist who broke the law and helped smash windows to break into the Capitol But hey, she is the victim about to face her jail time (finally!)
A reminder... Powell 40 is a Mother of 8 who left her 6 minor children unattended to be at Jan 6 insurrection, and posted she is basically famous… https://twitter.com/8w8h8y8/status/1533841382225620994
She told the judge at her sentencing hearing that she will have to leave her 15 tear old at home to attend to the kids. Why? Her husband got sole custody when on house arrest initially. I am sure he is going to get that again... https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-tells-bullhorn-mom-rachel-powell-shes-so-unpatriotic-it-makes-my-straight-hair-curl
Trapped in a cell? She already got the court's sympathy with half the recommended time and a tiny fraction of the total ACTUAL jail time she faced! She also for away scit free agter violating her release confirions FFS! What a whiney bitch.
UPDATE 2
Royce Lamberth, Reagan appointee and sucker for woman's blubbering surrounded by the minor kids she left unattended on Jan 6! BLEAH!
(Seriously, he has been tough on the men and yet lenient on women, WTF. The charges were severe and she was armed and one of the leaders)
A federal judge ordered "Bullhorn Lady" Rachel Powell to serve nearly 5 years in prison today, saying her belated words of remorse weren't enough to offset smashing a window or encouraging other rioters to "take the building" on Jan. 6. https://twitter.com/JordanOnRecord/status/1714352690124239088
Powell received 4.75 years in prison plus three years of supervised release, a $5,000 fine, and she must pay $2,753 in restitution.
UPDATE 1
Powell has been anything but remorseful about her actions on January 6, but she is becoming more so as sentencing nears... today.
I just learned that the mother of eight (8) is now a grandmother of six (6) and...that she violated her release conditions THREE times before they confined her to her home...
Here she is talking to Bannon, insisting that she can’t believe the govt is asking for 8 years. "It doesn’t make any sense to me... It was a mistake and I’m sorry.... I had no plan," she says in a long string of lies. She bragged online that she carried knives, wasp spray and she held a bullhorn into which she instructed people how to navigate into the Capitol while calling for more people to enter via the window she broke.
No plan...
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I only broke the window "so that people had somewhere to go.” Why is this happening to me... police brutality!
Remorse, MAGA style...
PS: She not only works for her 70 year old MAGA boss, she lives on property owned by BF Joe Jenkins, who 'runs a slate roofing consulting company in the Grove City area.' (Need a subscription to access the local area source)
I guarantee that is he is still alive, Joe is going to wait for her! He authored the award-winning first edition of the Slate Roof Bible and many other such important works... (Nope, not kidding ... only 49.99!) https://www.theslateroofexperts.com/
She also had 6 minor kids at the time of the insurrection, whom she left alone to fend for themselves. Her husband was able to get full custody likely because of that but she has been using her children as shield regardless. Being she homeschooled them as well as the grandkids...
that is a lot of MAGA being groomed.
Mommy of 8, grandmother of 6...
SHIT! I guess being she was home bound, Daddy gave her the kids to homeschool again. Groomed and doomed. This is from May 2023:
Thank you for updating status of this MAGAdonian. She is clearly a high-octane sociopath who deserves whatever the court decided upon.
No beats missed ...thx for all the hard work
Ya. I remember her. Back when I was involved with #seditionhunters, folks were sure she was Boebert's mother! (She's not.) Powell had a bad history long before J6; she was a virulent antimasker, and also a squatter who refused to pay rent, etc. Nasty. I was super annoyed when that Ronan Farrow fluff piece in the New Yorker came out, and she was falsely portrayed as some suburban minvan driving sweetheart. Nope.
She homeschooled her children and grandchildren and yet writes, "“It isn’t to late to wake up...” She literally doesn't know the difference between "to" and "too". That's definately who who I'd want teaching my kids. Imbecile.
I totally forgot about this! Rachel Powell gave an interview to the New Yorker before she "went on the lam " and was arrested. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-pennsylvania-mothers-path-to-insurrection-capitol-riot
She is just so "normal! Or not; see 1) to 9) above...
A good read but I'm confused. Was she convicted today or sentenced? Both?