Thread by @ryanjreilly

Kevin Cordon — who the feds says hung the flag he wore to the Capitol on Jan. 6 above his bed "like a trophy” — is due in court for sentencing at in five minutes. The feds want him locked up for 30 days.

Judge Trevor McFadden was upset that the government said that then-Vice President Elect Kamala Harris was at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack when she wasn’t. Chewed out the prosecutor a bit about it, said they could’ve learned that had they read the Washington Post.

After saying that Kevin Cordon went into the Capitol through a “broken window, like a thief,” Judge McFadden said he thought he heard “real remorse” from Cordon. He rejected the government’s request for incarceration and sentences Cordon to 12 months probation.

Cordon hugged his mother and father, who were in court with him, after the hearing. He apologized for his “foolish action” and said it was a “lapse in judgement.” He said his actions were disrespectful to the country.

Kevin Cordon also apologized to the Trump supporters who didn’t enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, saying their “voices were essentially silenced and trampled upon” because the actions of Trump supporters like him who stormed the Capitol “took their voice away.”

Kevin Cordon’s lawyer Brian McDaniel said his 34-year-old client was not a “young, young man” but that he was a “young man” who did believe in Trump’s voter fraud conspiracy theories but had no intention of storming the Capitol. Said his client was only inside for four minutes.

Here’s Kevin Cordon leaving court with his mom and dad. I asked him if he still thinks the election was stolen.

“No comment,” he replied.