DC jail ‘holding out’ on releasing J6ers after Trump issues pardons: Julie Kelly

Kelly told Bannon that in the wake of those pardons, "J6ers are gradually being released from federal prisons across the country. Of course, DC gulag is holding out because that’s what they do, because this is a political gulag, so they’re going to do whatever they can to extend the torment of Trump supporters in custody there."

She added that she has seen "really moving videos and photographs of men and women who are being released from federal prison who are cutting off their ankle bracelets. You know, this is really such a joyous moment."

Outside the DC jail, Ben Bergquam spoke with William Sarsfield, who had been released from the Philadelphia Detention Center at around 3 in the morning on Tuesday and traveled to DC to join the protest outside the jail.

Sarsfield told Bergquam, "We got to stick together. Where we go one, we go all. It don’t matter who’s in front of us and who’s going to stop us. We’ll just walk right over them. We’re here to say we’re free and the rest of us need to be freed."

One of those who is reportedly being prevented from being released is Rachel Powell.

Cynthia Hughes, founder of the Patriot Freedom Project, wrote that she had received a call at 3 am to pick up Powell. She and others went to DC to pick her up, waiting until 4:30 am, but the jail was not releasing her. "They said come back at 7 AM and here it is 10:20 and they are still refusing to release her," Hughes said. Powell had been held at FCI Hazelton in West Virginia but in the DC jail because of a sentencing hearing.

"We are in a 98% Democratic district where they hate Trump and his supporters. The officer literally said they had to verify the President's executive order, like WHAT!! This low level broken and corrupt jail needs a thorough investigation immediately," she added.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk wrote in response, "Outrageous!! They’re refusing to release J6 prisoners just pardoned by President Trump. There must be very severe accountability for DC if they refuse to comply with the law."

Tim Hale, who went to DC with Hughes, said that they had tried calling a number from 3 different phones and were hung up on, transferred, and "given the runaround repeatedly."

Hale included a recording of William Pope, who had also traveled to pick up Powell, on the phone with an employee, in which he was transferred multiple times to find out her release time after she wasn’t let out at the previously scheduled time.

"It would be one thing if these fat lazy slobs were kicking the can down the road earlier this morning because they wanted the next shift to process her release. But the overnight shift has come and gone. Now the morning shift refuses to act," Hale wrote.