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NEW: In his letter to the judge, violent Jan. 6 rioter Robert Scott Palmer says he now realizes Trump supporters "were lied to by… the sitting President, as well as those acting on his behalf.”
"They kept spitting out the false narative about a stolen election and how it was 'our duty' to stand up to tyranny. Little did I realize that they were the tyrannical ones…"
"I am one of the Capitol riot people. A lot if not most of the defendants I have been incarcerated with would object to me saying that we were rioting.”

Posted here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
"Mr. Palmer went to the Capitol at the behest of the former president. Like many others who participated in the Capitol riot, Mr. Palmer blindly followed the many figures who falsely but persistently claimed that the election had been stolen from the president.”
"As distorted as his mindset was at that time, his heart was set on doing what he believed was right. He knows now that he was wrong. He also accepts that the election was legitimate and that he had no right to attempt to interfere with the governance of our nation.”
Mr. Palmer was exposed to a barrage of media that convinced him that the election had been “stolen” from the former president. On the day in question, the former president himself led Mr. Palmer into that mindset.”
The defense sentencing memo concedes that Robert Scott Palmer spun a false narrative on a donation website after he was locked up, but that he removed the website and returned the money after "realizing the idiocy of his decision.” LINK: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
The feds are seeking 5+ years — the longest Jan. 6 sentence to date — for Robert Scott Palmer, who lawyered up and turned himself in after he got a call from HuffPost in March. huffpost.com/entry/trump-ca…

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He doesn’t count for any “law enforcement officers who stormed the Capitol” stats, but he’s certainly played a cop a bunch! nbcnews.com/politics/justi…



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