School board member bragged of drinking Fireball and Coors Light in Capitol on Jan. 6, FBI says
“Miles Adkins, a member of the Frederick County School Board in Virginia, was charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack after he was identified by online sleuths.”
Judge slams “preposterous” claims by some in GOP on Jan. 6 “hostages”
“The big picture: U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth was referring to comments by former President Trump and other Republicans including Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) who have described imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters as “hostages.”
What he’s saying: “The Court is accustomed to defendants who refuse to accept that they did anything wrong. But in my thirty-seven years on the bench, I cannot recall a time when such meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream,” Lamberth said during sentencing proceedings in D.C., without naming those who’ve used such language.
- “I have been dismayed to see distortions and outright falsehoods seep into the public consciousness,” the judge added.
Of note: Lamberth noted some had claimed that “rioters behaved ‘in an orderly fashion’ like ordinary tourists, or martyrizing convicted January 6 defendants as ‘political prisoners’ or even, incredibly, ‘hostages.’
- “That is all preposterous,” Lamberth added during the proceedings for James Little, a Jan. 6 misdemeanor defendant.”
People are going to prison
This tweet did not age well
GOPers embrace a crazy new term to refer to jailed Jan. 6ers
“After trying to portray Jan. 6 rioters as “tourists” and “political prisoners,” Republicans have a new absurd term: “hostages.””
Stefanik hiding from the future hostages,
It was COMBAT!
People have been sent to prison
The Jan. 6 attack: The cases behind the biggest criminal investigation in U.S. history
“An overview of the cases so far
- Number of people charged, federal: 1,234
- Number of people who have pleaded guilty: 736
- Number of individuals who have had jury, bench, or stipulated bench trials: 170
- Number with mixed verdicts: 46
- Number convicted on all charges: 121
- Number acquitted of all charges: 3
- Number of people sentenced: 749
- Percentage of people sentenced who have received prison time: 64
- Median sentence for those who received prison time, in days: 150
- Number of cases dismissed, federal: 10“
Here are the longest Jan. 6 prison sentences handed down so far
“Enrique Tarrio: 22 years
Stewart Rhodes: 18 years
Joe Biggs: 17 years
Zach Rehl: 15 years
Peter Schwartz: 14 years
Daniel “D.J.” Rodriguez: 12 years
Dominic Pezzola: 10 years
Thomas Webster: 10 years“
It WAS an Insurrection:
People died
The GOP has tried to whitewash it away.
Someone had a plan:
