Arrested Lawyer Bragged of 'Hostile Takeover' of Capitol, FBI Says
"We overran multiple police barricades and swarmed the building," wrote W. McCall Calhoun, according to an FBI affidavit. Calhoun is represented by the federal defender office in Macon.
January 15, 2021 at 08:29 PM
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The Georgia lawyer arrested Friday for his part in the riots at the U.S. Capitol faces only charges about entering a restricted building and disrupting the orderly business of Congress. But an affidavit by an FBI agent suggests that W. McCall Calhoun at least contemplated much more violent activities and reveled in what he called the "hostile takeover" of the national legislature by supporters of President Donald Trump.
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