Free press under fire: Steve Baker’s battle ... and ours

Steve Baker is an investigative reporter for Blaze News. He's been working on investigating the holes in the narrative of what happened on January 6. He's mild-mannered and a sweetheart of a guy. And on Friday morning, he turned himself in to the FBI. They told him he should come in shorts and flip-flops because it would be easier for them to put on the orange jumpsuit and ankle irons. Suffice it to say, he wore a suit and tie.

When I had him on the radio program Thursday, he didn’t know what he was being charged with. We do know it has something to do with January 6, but the FBI refused to tell him what his charges are because he might "tweet it out." Heaven forbid he exercise his First Amendment right and defend himself in the public square.

There are lots of people who have reported on January 6. Why is the Blaze News reporter the one they put in cuffs?

Let that sink in for a minute. The Sixth Amendment says every citizen has the right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation" when charges are brought against him. That's the same amendment that guarantees the right to a speedy, fair, impartial trial. I missed the exception in that amendment for reporters investigating January 6. I missed the exception in the First Amendment that ensures freedom of the press to everyone except reporters investigating the government's narrative.

Steve was in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, as a reporter. Why aren't other reporters being arrested? Or is it just that he's reporting the truth, using the actual tapes and videos, to show America what really happened? Why is the FBI after him?

When you do investigative work, it isn’t usually just one guy doing all the work. It is a team. You have to go and vet every single thing that they come back with. Some independent person on our staff has to go through Steve's work line by line, and then it goes through attorneys to make sure the legal language is accurate. We are very buttoned up.

Baker is the guy who has gotten a lot of the tape out about January 6, the guy who has been putting the pieces together before anybody else was putting them together. This man is a journalist — and an excellent one. And that's why they're after him. On Friday, the FBI arrested this journalist and put him in handcuffs without even telling him what he's charged with in advance. He could serve prison time — because he is a journalist doing his job.

I don't think it's a coincidence that it's a reporter with Blaze News whom they are arresting. There are lots of people who have reported on January 6. Why is the Blaze News reporter the one they put in cuffs? Is it because we are on to something? Are we getting closer to the truth of what happened that day? Are the elites afraid that their house of cards will come tumbling down?

When the United States government can come after individuals, that's when you know our republic is crumbling. I've always said that if they can go after Donald Trump, they will go after people like you and me. And now they are. But Steve Baker is not deterred, and neither are we.

This is what Steve said on my show Thursday as he was preparing to turn himself in to the FBI: “I'm going to pray, and then I'm going to put on my suit and tie and walk in with my head up.”

This is the type of journalist America needs right now. This is the kind of man America needs right now. And this is why your support of Blaze Media is so important to us. You make Steve Baker's work possible, and as long as you enable us, we will never compromise on the truth, we will not be deterred by the powers who want to silence us, and most of all, we will not back down. I stand with Steve Baker.

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