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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15 Dec
BREAKING: Judge Tanya Chutkan sentences Brandon Miller to 20 days behind bars. Stephanie Miller gets 14 days incarceration.

DOJ had asked for home confinement.

“They climbed through a broken window,” Chutkan emphasizes. “I’m not sure there’s any remorse." Image
“There have to be consequences for participating in an attempted violent overthrow of the government beyond sitting at home,” Judge Tanya Chutkan previously said. huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
Judge Chutkan said Brandon Miller came to D.C. to "help a political faction,” not to "help the country.”
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15 Dec
The Jan. 6er who fell for a Bumble sting wants to come back to DC again. huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
“Patriots ready and willing to head back.” huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
He still needs to check out those beer gardens. huffpost.com/entry/capitol-… Image
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14 Dec
The FBI has arrested Jan. 6 defendant Avery MacCracken, and the feds are once again crediting @SeditionHunters. #CoveredDragon

Court records don’t yet reflect DOJ’s position on the question of whether the court should, until trial, release MacCracken. ImageImage
"MacCracken punched Officer J.G. with his closed fist in the right cheek, causing a cut to the face under his right eye. Officer J.G. took a selfie-pic of his injuries and provided self-aid; he did not seek other medical care.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Image
The arrest warrant indicates that the defendant was arrested Saturday, which suggests that a local federal magistrate judge may have already released MacCracken.
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14 Dec
"The lie that the election was stolen and illegitimate is still being perpetrated… Worse, it’s become heresy for a member of the [former] president’s party to say otherwise.”

Judge Amy Berman Jackson at a sentencing today: huffpost.com/entry/qanon-tr…
“Canceling out the votes of others at the point of a gun is the utter anthesis of what America stands for. It is the definition of tyranny and of authoritarianism.” huffpost.com/entry/qanon-tr…
In an exercise of her discretion, Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced the QAnon believer to 28 months in prison, and recommend he serve somewhere where he could get “intensive” mental health treatment. huffpost.com/entry/qanon-tr…
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14 Dec
Sentencing hearing underway for Trump fan Cleveland Meredith, who threatened Nancy Pelosi but arrived in D.C. after the Capitol attack due to car trouble.

Some of the hearing may be under seal (to discuss specific mental health issues). Judge Amy Berman Jackson presiding. ImageImage
“I think Trump wants you to go home peacefully!!”

“Bullshit, he wants HEADS and I’m gonna deliver.” Image
DOJ says Meredith set out to attend Trump’s rally on Jan. 4, but had car issues on his way to DC. He arrived late in the afternoon on Jan. 6.

DOJ attorney quotes Meredith text: "someone has to take the TRASH out, FK THESE MTHRFKRS.”
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13 Dec
A college senior who stormed the Capitol and then bragged about her “infamy” on Instagram didn’t even vote in 2020, her lawyer said. huffpost.com/entry/gracyn-c…
Gracyn Courtright told the feds she started looking for somewhere to charge her phone once she stormed the Capitol. huffpost.com/entry/gracyn-c…
The “reality of the situation set in and she was back home with her family in West Virginia” and she “was totally embarrassed by her actions and was full of remorse,” her lawyer wrote.

“Her parents were furious with her.”

huffpost.com/entry/gracyn-c…
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