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Jan 25, 2022, 7 tweets

Immediate candidate for the top ten list of Jan. 6 case footnotes.

Feds want Jeramiah Caplinger to serve three months behind bars. He’s set to be sentenced in a week, on Feb. 1. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

DOJ’s sentencing memo cites Caplinger’s quote tweet of @haleytalbotnbc in July in which Caplinger called members of Congress huddled in the balcony during the Capitol attack "worthless cowards.”

"Caplinger re-tweeted conspiracy theories about FBI involvement with, and cover-up of, January 6.”

"you were on CNN”

"Lmfao ik mom called to tell me that.”

In a new filing, Jeramiah Caplinger’s attorneys claim he’s "learned from his mistake” and "understands the danger of blindly following the crowd, both figuratively and literally.”

"Rightly or wrongly, Mr. Caplinger blamed the breakup of his family, in part, on their dependence on government aid... This distrust drew him to the anti-establishment agenda of President Donald J. Trump.” documentcloud.org/documents/2118…

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