Four Years Later, Here's What J6 Political Prisoners Like Me Have Been Through

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Tim Hale, an Army Reserve Veteran who spent nearly 3 years incarcerated for nonviolent offenses related to Jan. 6, joins The Federalist's Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss his time as a political prisoner. Hale describes in detail how he, a nonviolent offender, was subjected to solitary confinement, what other defendants are currently experiencing, and what needs to be done going forward for the remaining political prisoners.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:20.4	I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections Correspondent at The Federalist, and your experience
0:25.0	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:28.3	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
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0:36.3	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the
0:41.3	premium version of our website as well. Our guest today on this special edition of the Federalist
0:48.4	Radio Hour is Tim Hale. Tim is an Army Reserve veteran who spent nearly three years incarcerated for nonviolent offenses related to the January 6th,
0:59.2	2,021 riots at the Capitol. Let's put this where it stands. Tim was a political prisoner
1:08.0	in one of the darkest chapters of government abuse in this republic's
1:12.5	history. Four years later, the nation has yet to reckon with the damage done to the people
1:19.1	falsely labeled as insurrectionist and to the idea of blind justice free of political interference.
1:27.6	Tim, thank you so much for joining us today on the Federalist Radio Hour.
1:31.6	Absolutely, sir.
1:32.5	Thank you so much for having me back on.
1:34.2	I can't wait to talk.
1:35.6	You bet.
1:36.2	Well, we were talking before we began recording.
1:40.8	I asked you about your holidays and you said,
1:43.7	boring the way you would like them to be.
1:47.8	You spent some holidays behind bars and it's in isolation at one point.
1:57.3	Give us a sense of how others who have been swept up into these political prosecutions,
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