January 6th Combatants are not “Hostages”

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: