Several videos posted on social media on Friday showed Steve Baker, a Blaze Media journalist, being handcuffed and led away by FBI agents. The reason for the reported arrest is currently unknown. Georgia Senator Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to one of the videos by blaming the arrest on the ‘Biden regime’.
“The Biden regime just arrested journalist Steve Baker for covering Jan6,” MTG, a staunch Trump supporter, tweeted on Friday. Blaze Media posted a video on X, formerly Twitter, that showed Baker handcuffed and being led into a car by two men.
Who is Steve Baker?
The former lead singer of a David Bowie tribute band, who entered the Capitol on January 6, licensed his footage to media outlets, and now works as a writer for Glenn Beck’s “The Blaze” website, was arrested on misdemeanor Capitol attack charges after surrendering to federal authorities in Texas.
Steve Baker, a musician and libertarian writer who was frequently present at the federal courthouse in Washington during the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial and other Jan. 6 cases, is charged with four standard misdemeanors, the same as many lower-level Capitol riot defendants.
According to a copy of an FBI affidavit provided to NBC News by defense attorney William Shipley, federal prosecutors will focus on Baker’s comments that show he was sympathetic to the mob, such as referring to Nancy Pelosi as a “b—-” after discussing the mob raiding the former House speaker’s office and saying he regretted not stealing government property during the attack.
“Look out your windows, bitches, look what’s coming,” Baker allegedly said as he filmed himself approaching the Capitol on January 6.
“They got Pelosi’s office, and, you know, it couldn’t happen to a better deserving b—-,” Baker said in a video after the attack, according to the FBI affidavit.
Baker previously posted video footage showing him approaching two officers inside the Capitol and asking if they intended to use their weapons on protesters. “You gonna use that thing on us?” Baker asked one of the officers. “Are you going to use that on us?” Baker asked another. He later asked the same question to two other officers following the shooting of Ashli Babbitt, according to video.