The U.S. Bureau of Prisons acts as the coercion arm of the politically weaponized Department of Justice, torturing J6 political hostages to coerce them into flipping on Trump in exchange for their freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Viral photographs of Samsel allegedly locked in a \u201chard cell\u201d in FDC Philadelphia are a glimpse of the cruel and unusual treatment he\u2019s endured in a series of assaults by correctional officers in pretrial custody and attempts by dirty cops to manipulate him with enhanced interrogation to cooperate in a plea agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During multiple interrogations, FBI agents allegedly pressured Samsel into taking a deal that entailed affirming their bogus narrative claiming the January 6 \u201cinsurrection\u201d was conspired by the Proud Boys and President Trump to go home or pay the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The feds also tried to bribe Samsel into framing Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs with having a gun on January 6. Biggs was wrongfully convicted of sedition conspiracy \u201cfor his role in the Capitol riot\u201d during which he committed no violent crimes and is serving 17 years in prison in an FCI Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Choosing to die on his feet rather than live on his knees, Samsel refused to comply to go home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2018They said, \u2018There was a man with a gun.\u2019 They kept asking me, \u2018Did you see him around the Proud Boys? Did they hand him the gun?\u2019 I just said, \u2018I don\u2019t know. I am not sure. I don\u2019t know!\u201d Samsel told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview, describing the multiple attempts by the Justice Department to strong-arm him into cooperating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere was an article posted in the New York Times claiming that I was going to be the \u2018smoking gun\u2019 and I was going to testify against the Proud Boys during their trial \u2014 and I wasn\u2019t. So, I was locked in a room in DC,\u201d he said. \u201cInside, the cops asked me if I was going to testify. I said, \u2018No.\u2019 People began spreading these lies and all these rumors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m not testifying!\u2019 That\u2019s when they ended up beating the shit out of me and telling me that I \u2018better start learning to cooperate\u2019 and I \u2018better start doing what the government tells me to do or times will get real tough.\u2019 That\u2019s when I was assaulted, the first time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FBI allegedly employed the same intimidation tactics against Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio,\u2002<\/a>who was not even in DC during the Capitol riot yet serving a 22-year prison sentence in FCI Manchester<\/a> in Kentucky. Before the judge handed Tarrio the longest sentence of any J6 defendant to date, he was caged in solitary confinement in a 6 by 8-foot freezing-cold cell reserved for serial killers in the Alexandria Detention Facility for 17 months, along with his co-defendants, where they were served inedible rotten food or nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey told me to LIE about President Trump in order to indict him. I told them to pound sand and because I refused to lie about President Trump it cost me twenty-two years of my life,\u201d Tarrio told\u2002TGP<\/a> after he was sentenced in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samsel has been transferred to 17 jails since his Jan. 30, 2021 arrest for protesting at the Capitol and moved from jail to jail 25 times while pleading with correctional officers and the judge presiding over his case to allow him the life-saving surgery he requires after the beatdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2021, while detained in the hole the DC gulag for refusing COVID, Samsel awoke to the correctional officers zip-tying his hands. Then they walked him to an unoccupied cell and smashed his face into the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was then transferred to the Lewisburg, Virginia correctional facility, and severely beaten again, this time the assault left him with no vision in one eye, a broken eye socket, and the inability to move his left arm. Doctors in Lewisburg told Samsel he required surgery and he was transferred to FDC Philadephia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was moved to Central Virginia Regional Jail<\/a>. At that jail, they were unable to provide me medical so they sent me off to Northern\u2002Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw<\/a>, Virginia. In Warsaw, I was assaulted during the legal video visitations,\u201d Samsel said. \u201cAfter I was beaten there, I started suffering from all these health conditions \u2014 that\u2019s when I started developing bad blood clots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen I was finally able to see a doctor in Warsaw, the doctor wrote a letter to the judge saying, \u2018This guy needed to be released. He has way too many medical issues, and we can\u2019t operate on him here, his blood clots are serious and he needs treatment immediately.\u2019 He sent me to Geissinger, a local hospital. They scheduled surgery, rehab and all kinds of treatments that the jail couldn\u2019t provide. But [Judge Jia Cobb] refused to allow me to get the surgery. She said, \u2018I\u2019m not giving him bond. I\u2019ll ship him to Philadelphia and we\u2019ll get a second opinion at the University of Pennsylvania.’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When he finally was transferred to Philadelphia he did not get surgery, treatment, or see a doctor. Instead, he was on the brink of starving to death for over five months on the cell block where inmates notoriously die or get killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Locked in the hole on the 8th floor, not only was Samsel in pain from the injuries he sustained from all the assaults, but almost two weeks had gone by and he wasn\u2019t given a single meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOnce I arrived in FDC Philadelphia, I was placed in solitary confinement on the 8th floor, locked in 24\/7, with no windows, no books \u2014 no nothing. The lights are never turned off. I could not store food and they fed little to nothing. The COs in Philadelphia are extremely<\/em> liberal and hated me because I am a J6er. So they were going to torture me and get away with it,\u201d Samsel said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samsel credits fellow J6 hostage and Marine Corps veteran Zachary Rehl<\/a> with saving his life. Rehl, Tarrio and Biggs\u2019 co-defendant, was also found guilty of seditious conspiracy, committed no violent crimes on J6, and is now serving a 15-year sentence in FCI Petersburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The guards kept serving him empty trays and the hunger pains became unbearable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEverything is surveilled,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen they come to feed you, they would give me an empty tray. So, on camera, it looks like they\u2019re feeding me, but there\u2019s no food in the tray. I was going days without food because this C.O. hated me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n After starving for 12 days, barred from all communication, Samsel came to a breaking point. In what he considers \u201ca miracle,\u201d he managed to get help from an inmate housed on the floor below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn that cell, I thought and thought, alone for hours. Finally, I said, \u2018That\u2019s it!\u2019 and I emptied my toilet. Then I made pressure bubbles, I made a cup with paper and used it to scream down the hole,\u201d Samsel explained. \u201cPeople started to hear me \u2014 I would do it during count time when I knew people would be in their cells. So, they emptied their toilet and we would talk. Once I realized Zach was in the jail, I knew he would look out for me, if I could somehow just get to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA few days later, Zach yelled up from the cell 93 feet below me. I said, \u2018Dude, I\u2019m not testifying against you!\u2019 He said, \u2018You\u2019re not on any of my paperwork! I am sorry everybody is lying about you \u2014 I know you\u2019re not a fed,\u2019 and we became friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I told him, \u2018Check on me every at 6 pm right after meals! I told him, \u2018I will cut my sheet and a piece of laundry bag\u2019 and how to send me food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cZach, on the 5th floor, was allowed food and coffee. So, I said, \u2018Brother, roll the food up small and make a slip knot.\u2019 I knew he was a Marine and knew how to use a slip knot. He said, \u2018Okay, I got you. no worry.\u2019 So, every day I would do that. And he would feed me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n For months, Rehl managed to send Samsel a meal from a rope through the toilet. Samsel also attached letters Rehl would send to Samsel\u2019s family, letting them know he is alive<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then one day, Samsel was finally permitted to leave his cell to attend a court hearing via Zoom. A correctional officer searching his room found the cellophane they used to contain coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe slammed me against the wall and said, \u2018Motherfucker! Where did this come from?\u2019 My wise mouth said, \u2018Your mother\u2019 and he punched me in the face. As punishment, to make an example, they put me in their new punishment room, another cell where there was no toilet,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey called it the \u2018hard\u2019 cell because your time is hard. They put you in a paper outfit, if they even have one, or they just keep all your clothes, take a mattress throw it down, and lock you in the closet as a form of punishment\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was able to help the other guys survive by teaching them how to \u2018fish\u2019 food because we all were always starving and had nothing, not even a toothbrush, nothing. So, despite the repercussions, I\u2019m proud I was able to figure out how to make sure we were all able to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am forever grateful to Zach for saving my life. The only way I\u2019ll be able to eat anything was because of Zach\u2013 because there\u2019s no way to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recovering from the assault and locked in the hard cell where he was forced to use the mop bucket as a toilet, jail guards disregarded Samsel\u2019s court and the judge\u2019s clerk grew suspicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn the hard cell, I was now only allowed on the phone for court,\u201d he said. \u201cMy judge\u2019s clerk, Ms. Franklin, could not get me on the call for court because I was so badly beaten. When I finally was able to call into court, I told the judge, \u2018Your Honor, I\u2019m in living a hole the size of a broom closet, and surgery is not scheduled for three months, get me the hell out of here! Can I please be allowed in general population?\u2019 She said, \u2018No\u2019 and kept in the hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe clerk said, \u2018Something is not right.\u2019 Three hours after I described the situation to the judge, the clerk sent somebody to check on me and that man was shocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He took pictures of how I was living and said, \u2018I\u2019m going to get you to fuck out of here. Just be patient and work with me.\u2019 He sent the pictures to my family and requested for me to be transferred to a different facility because of how fucked up that place was and I was out of there in about a week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n After photos of Samsel on the floor of the hard cell went viral, shared by members of Congress he was transferred back to Lewisburg where he shared a cell with Dominic Pezzola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pezzola, a Marine Corps veteran who joined the Proud Boys 30 days before the January 6 riot, is serving a 10-year sentence<\/a> in FCI Butner in North Carolina for walking around the Capitol building and breaking a window of the building with a police shield he also used to shield himself from bullets fired by police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen I got back to Lewisburg, Dominic was my celly. He nursed me back to life feeding me and making me laugh again telling me, \u2018We will get through this.\u2019 I never got the surgery I needed, to this day, and my judge refuses to allow me medical treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Judge Jia Cobb is slated to announce a verdict in Samsel\u2019s case on January 4 following a month-long bench trial that was not attended by a single reporter and blacked out by the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now in the hole of the DC Gulag, Samsel is temporarily able to stay in communication with TGP and has obtained new counsel to assist him with access to a surgeon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n