Jan 6. rioter who carried gun to US Capitol and threatened Nancy Pelosi gets more than 7 years in prison

[Scott]

 

(CNN)  A federal judge on Monday sentenced Guy Reffitt, who brought a gun to the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, riot and threatened House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to more than seven years in prison, the longest insurrection-related sentence to date.

Reffitt, a recruiter for a right-wing militia known as the Three Percenters, was the first Capitol rioter to go to trial rather than take a plea agreement.

 

"Mr. Reffitt's reluctance to admit early that his behavior is illegal is concerning," District Judge Dabney Friedrich said before handing down the 87-month sentence.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/01/politics/guy-reffitt-sentencing/index.html

[Chomper Higgot]

2022 is becoming a fabulous year for Justice.

 

More please.

[LarrySR]

He believed Trump.

Hard to comprehend there are people that stupid.

They walk amongst us.

[LarrySR]

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

2022 is becoming a fabulous year for Justice.

 

More please.

Trump legal staff preparing for charges.

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-lawyers-planning-for-charges-1390669/

[Berkshire]

I agree with Mr. Reffitt's daughters....

 

[Shortly after January 6th participant Guy Reffitt was sentenced to 87 months in prison for his role in the attack, his daughters reacted to his punishment by calling for former President Donald Trump to be jailed for the rest of his life.]

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-deserves-life-in-prison-daughters-of-sentenced-insurrection-participant/ar-AA10cle1?ocid=wispr&cvid=5260644fb964434f9f272f9ec9decb30

[ballpoint]

If Trump had really wanted to lock Hillary up, all he needed to do was to give her a job, or put her in his camp of followers.

[DezLez]

2 hours ago, LarrySR said:

They walk amongst us.

But have they learned how to walk upright yet?

[Bluespunk]

Good start, now let’s hope they work their way up the food chain…to the one, slightly orange, man truly responsible for the attempted coup. 

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, Bluespunk said:

Good start, now let’s hope they work their way up the food chain…to the one, slightly orange, man truly responsible for the attempted coup. 

There is no way that Trump would be found guilty of attempting a coup .

Trump making the Suggestion  that there was some cheating going on with some voters , isn't legally regarded as attempting a coup 

[Bluespunk]

4 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

There is no way that Trump would be found guilty of attempting a coup .

Trump making the Suggestion  that there was some cheating going on with some voters , isn't legally regarded as attempting a coup 

Yeah right, that’s all he did…for some reading I read your post and the words of the Hoagy Carmichael/Stuart Gorell classic “Georgia” comes to mind…

 

”I said Georgia
Oh Georgia, no peace I find (no peace I find)
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)”

[LarrySR]

9 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

There is no way that Trump would be found guilty of attempting a coup .

Trump making the Suggestion  that there was some cheating going on with some voters , isn't legally regarded as attempting a coup 

Clearly you haven't been paying attention or as I suspect, you dwell in the alternative reality of right wing propaganda disguised as news. 

[Mac Mickmanus]

7 minutes ago, LarrySR said:

Clearly you haven't been paying attention or as I suspect, you dwell in the alternative reality of right wing propaganda disguised as news. 

What are those facts that I am missing ?

It is a fact that Donald asked his supporters to remain  peaceful and to keep within the law and not to resort to any violence or anything else that would be unlawful .

  

[LarrySR]

11 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

What are those facts that I am missing ?

It is a fact that Donald asked his supporters to remain  peaceful and to keep within the law and not to resort to any violence or anything else that would be unlawful .

  

Let me quote the Department Homeland Security Election Chief, Attorney General, Campaign Manager, Senate Leader, WH Counselors: "Trump lost."

Now you know.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mac Mickmanus]

3 minutes ago, LarrySR said:

OK Hannity. 

I have no idea what you mean by that 

[Berkshire]

16 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

What are those facts that I am missing ?

It is a fact that Donald asked his supporters to remain  peaceful and to keep within the law and not to resort to any violence or anything else that would be unlawful .

  

It appears you've missed the J6 Hearings in its entirety.  But no worries, people that matter have been watching.  The investigations are ongoing, stay tuned.

[Mac Mickmanus]

3 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

It appears you've missed the J6 Hearings in its entirety.  But no worries, people that matter have been watching.  The investigations are ongoing, stay tuned.

The investigators really need to get a move on and come to a conclusion , the next elections will begin soon and if Donald gets elected again, it will be back to "We'll prosecute him as soon as he's no longer President" again

[Chomper Higgot]

31 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

The investigators really need to get a move on and come to a conclusion , the next elections will begin soon and if Donald gets elected again, it will be back to "We'll prosecute him as soon as he's no longer President" again

Trump isn’t going to be elected again.

 

The DoJ are getting a move on.

 

 

 

[heybruce]

12 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

What are those facts that I am missing ?

It is a fact that Donald asked his supporters to remain  peaceful and to keep within the law and not to resort to any violence or anything else that would be unlawful .

  

The fact that Trump could have called off the coup attempt with a tweet, but didn't ask his mob to leave the Capitol until after it was clear the coup had failed.

 

Anyone who condones that is putting Trump before country.

[ballpoint]

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Funny how that poster, and many others of his ilk, have been trying to tell us, repeatedly, that this was just a peaceful visit by some sightseers, intent on taking some selfies, grabbing some souvenirs, and lynching the vice president. Oops, slip of the tongue, definitely not the latter.  Now it seems that they were exercising their "constitutional right" to abolish the government and install a new one.  I can't wait for the next chapter of this story, when we'll be told that these people were actually presidentially appointed deputies, sent in to clean up the town, save the nation, and ride off into the sunset with the girl, rather than just presidentially riled up idiots, intent on violence.

 

Also funny that we are repeatedly told that one of the tenets of the right to bear arms is to be able to defend oneself against a tyrannical government, yet when the very section of society historically having most justification for pointing to such a government, namely Afro-Americans and other ethnic minorities, protests against said government, without even taking the step of bearing arms, those who spout the guns, guns guns mantra are the very same people who condemn said protests and demand the law use force and violence, with help from some gun wielding vigilantes to suppress them.  It would be laughable if it wasn't so funny.

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2 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

Funny how that poster, and many others of his ilk, have been trying to tell us, repeatedly, that this was just a peaceful visit by some sightseers, intent on taking some selfies, grabbing some souvenirs, and lynching the vice president. Oops, slip of the tongue, definitely not the latter.  Now it seems that they were exercising their "constitutional right" to abolish the government and install a new one.  I can't wait for the next chapter of this story, when we'll be told that these people were actually presidentially appointed deputies, sent in to clean up the town, save the nation, and ride off into the sunset with the girl, rather than just presidentially riled up idiots, intent on violence.

 

Also funny that we are repeatedly told that one of the tenets of the right to bear arms is to be able to defend oneself against a tyrannical government, yet when the very section of society historically having most justification for pointing to such a government, namely Afro-Americans and other ethnic minorities, protests against said government, without even taking the step of bearing arms, those who spout the guns, guns guns mantra are the very same people who condemn said protests and demand the law use force and violence, with help from some gun wielding vigilantes to suppress them.  It would be laughable if it wasn't so funny.

Well, to be fair, Kanchanaburiguy didn't invoke the Constitution but rather the Declaration of Independence. A document which has no legal force and the proposition of which that violence is an acceptable way to alter a government under certain circumstances was not adopted into the Constitution. And as for his claims about what we were taught in school about it, I remember in high school we were taught, among other things, that it was intended as a kind of propaganda piece, albeit a brilliant one, to persuade the world of the justice of the cause. It's obvious that it was so since slavery was legal in all 13 colonies when the document was written and signed.

[gamb00ler]

On 8/2/2022 at 7:30 AM, LarrySR said:

He believed Trump.

Hard to comprehend there are people that stupid.

They walk amongst us.

Some of them have begun to run (We're looking at you, Josh!)

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11 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

Some of them have begun to run (We're looking at you, Josh!)

It is, of course, obligatory for politicians to run for office. But to run from their office? That's a new one.