Justice, Political Persecution, and the Call for a “Pardon of Innocence”
Connecting the Dots Audio
Connecting the Dots Video
Guest Host David Sumrall
Founder of StopHate and co-creator of Capitol Punishment
🔗 StopHate.com
🔗 CapitolPunishmentTheMovie.com
Guest: Tamara Lee
Advocate for January 6 defendants, co-founder of the Pardon of Innocence Project
🔗 PardonTheFourteen.com
Guest: Tim Rivers
Author of The American Gulag Chronicles and founder of Letters from Prison
🔗 LettersFromPrison.us
🔗 TheAmericanGulagChronicles.org
This week on Connecting the Dots, we tackled one of the most grotesque abuses of American justice I’ve ever witnessed — the criminalization of patriots and the weaponization of government against its own people. I had the honor of handing the mic to guest host David Sumrall, founder of StopHate.com and the man behind the eye-opening documentary Capitol Punishment. David sat down with Tamara Lee and Tim Rivers, two tireless warriors in the fight to expose the truth about January 6th and the hundreds of Americans rotting in a political gulag for daring to exercise their God-given rights.
The title of this episode — Fruit of the Poisonous Tree — couldn’t be more appropriate. In legal terms, it means that if the roots of a case are tainted, everything that springs from it is illegitimate. That’s exactly what happened to the January 6 political prisoners. They’ve been convicted not by the facts, but by a rigged system — a JUST-US system — where innocence is irrelevant, due process is denied, and “guilt” is determined by political narrative and media propaganda.
These folks weren’t insurrectionists. They were concerned Americans who walked into a trap set by a corrupt bureaucracy that fears truth more than treason. They’ve lost their homes, families, rights, and dignity — not for breaking windows, but for daring to question a stolen election. And what’s worse, many were only given commuted sentences instead of a full pardon of innocence, leaving them forever tethered to a criminal record that never should’ve existed.
Tamara Lee and Tim Rivers didn’t just talk facts — they exposed a coordinated plan to erase dissent and dismantle constitutional protections. They brought the receipts. Tim’s Letters from Prison and The American Gulag Chronicles document firsthand accounts of abuse that read like stories from the Soviet Union, not the United States of America.
Let’s be clear: if President Trump truly wants to vindicate these patriots — and himself — he must issue a retroactive pardon of innocence, not just political clemency. As long as these men and women remain branded as felons, the Deep State gets away with redefining patriotism as extremism and protest as terrorism. A pardon of innocence would cut the rot at the root, exposing the poisonous tree and redeeming the fruit it destroyed.
We aren’t just fighting for a few hundred prisoners — we’re fighting for the soul of this nation. If we let this go unanswered, the precedent will be clear: speak up, and you will be silenced. Protest, and you will be imprisoned. Question authority, and you will be erased.
Folks, I say this with all the conviction I’ve got: we are at war — not with bombs and bullets, but with lies, lawfare, and spiritual deception. The only weapons that will save us now are truth, prayer, and an uncompromising return to the principles that made America great in the first place. God’s law. Natural rights. And constitutional accountability.
Stand with Tamara. Stand with Tim. Stand with every J6er still behind bars or fighting for justice. And if President Trump truly wants to be the people's president again, he must finish what he started and pardon the innocent — fully, without compromise, and without apology.
Because if the fruit is rotten, it's time to dig up the tree.
