By Patriot Legal Defense
In a nation where truth is too often a casualty of narrative, one man stands defiant.
James Grant, a pardoned January 6 defendant, endured nearly four years behind bars for little more than shaking a bike rack and walking the Capitol grounds.
Now, as he fights to reclaim his future, Grant is a man on a mission. He’s suing the Goliath: the mainstream media.
After surviving what he calls “three years of my youth stolen” in federal custody, he’s been battling for months to clear his name, slandered by a corporate press he accuses of acting as an arm of the Democrat Party.
“The media just lies,” Grant, laced with frustration, told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview, “They say I was found guilty of charges I was acquitted of, and now I’ve gotten like, six rejection letters from law schools. I know that they’re using this against me, and these media lies are going to prevent me from getting into law school.”
Grant’s ordeal began on January 6, 2021, when he joined thousands protesting at the U.S. Capitol.
His actions—pushing a bike rack and walking the grounds—were hardly the stuff of “insurrection.”
Yet, he faced a staggering 101 years in prison, charged with crimes like assaulting a Capitol Police officer, despite being acquitted of any injury-related charges.
“I went to trial, risked everything, and won, rightfully so,” he says. “And these media companies just lie anyway, and they’re refusing to take it down.”
The mainstream media, Grant argues, has operated as state-run propaganda, particularly under what he calls the “unprecedentedly corrupt Biden administration.”
Outlets like CBS, the Charlotte Observer, and the Tampa Bay Herald published articles falsely claiming he was convicted of assaulting an officer, ignoring his acquittal on five of nine charges.
One CBS article, published seven months after his not-guilty verdict, claimed he “was found guilty of assaulting an officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon and inflicting bodily injury,” a charge U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb explicitly rejected following a bench trial.
“They published something false and provably false,” Grant says. “They’ve lied. And the damage and what’s at stake and what they’re responsible for my law school future.”
The impact has been devastating. Before January 6, Grant was a rising star, armed with a 166 LSAT score and a $99,000 scholarship to a top 25 ranked law school.
Now, he’s been rejected by schools ranked as low as 120.
“I scored 90th percentile on the LSAT,” he says. “These schools should be throwing money at me and accepting me. They’re saying no because of these media lies out there, there’s so much slander.”
The rejections, costing him over $3,000 in application fees, have left him shell-shocked and depressed.
“I’m just shell shocked after three years,” he admits. “I really have anxiety now. I’m really depressed lately because I feel so helpless I can’t do anything about this media slander.”
Grant’s fight isn’t just personal—it’s a potential turning point for over 1,500 January 6 defendants whose reputations have been railroaded by “lying media.”
He’s suing CBS 42 in Alabama, CBS 17 in North Carolina, the Charlotte Observer, and the Tampa Bay Herald, alleging defamation for their false reports.
A particularly egregious example is a Charlotte Observer photo caption claiming “James Grant battles with police at the start of the Capitol riot,” when he was actually pulling a protester off an officer and got sucker-punched for it.
“I was attempting to pull the guy off the police officer, and I was totally sucker-punched for it, knocked unconscious,” he says. “They lied about that, and then they all say I was found guilty of this charge I was acquitted of.”
His legal battle has been fraught with setbacks.
Grant raised $10,000 to hire a lawyer, only to be betrayed.
“He was absolutely worthless,” Grant says. “He sent out five letters to the media companies, but I wrote the letters. He didn’t do anything.”
Now, with the statute of limitations looming in late September, Grant is preparing to represent himself pro se, needing just a few thousand dollars to cover court costs.
“It’s about $150 to file each motion,” he explains. “I’m not going to pay a lawyer thousands and thousands of dollars. I’m going to do it myself. They’re going to have to pay their lawyers tens of thousands every time to show up, whereas I’m going to be doing it for $150 a pop.”
If Grant wins, the impact could be seismic.
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“I could help other J6ers,” he says. “Any settlements that anyone gets, that’s good for everyone, because it starts the ball rolling. This could do that for defamation cases.”
A victory could set a precedent, forcing media outlets to think twice before smearing conservatives. But time is running out.
“I’ve got to get these motions in,” he urges. “These schools are making their decisions right now.”
Grant’s struggle to rebuild is a stark reminder of the broader persecution faced by January 6 defendants.
Branded “white supremacists” and “insurrectionists” by the Biden regime, many are now untouchable, their lives upended by a narrative-driven press.
Grant himself is scraping by, selling clothes and books on eBay to survive.
“It’s really hard to get a job because these charges still show up,” he says. “Employers see ‘parading and picketing on Capitol grounds,’ they see ‘January 6,’ and they think I’m a domestic terrorist and believe the media’s lies. They’ve made us almost untouchable.”
Yet, Grant’s resolve is unbreakable.
As a lawyer, I want to go against the government, and I want to give people the best defense they’ve ever gotten,” he says. “I know what it feels like to be in there and you can’t contact your lawyer, and you’re scared. I know I’m built for this. I really think this is the skill God gave me.”
Grant’s story exposes the rot at the core of a media that serves as the Democrat Party’s mouthpiece, peddling lies to crush dissent.
Over 1,500 Americans have been vilified for standing up on January 6, their lives shattered by a press that thrives on distortion.
But Grant’s courage could spark a reckoning. If he wins, the dominoes will begin to fall, and the slandered will rise. Stop what you’re doing right now and donate to his legal defense: HELP JAMES GRANT SUE THE MEDIA HERE
Your support isn’t just for James—it’s for every American who refuses to bow to a corrupt system.
Let’s make the media pay, clear his name, and restore his dream.
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