I felt like you did (that this in fact a true idiot brought it upon himself to receive a 4 year (in total) sentence until reading the documents sourced below.
This loser’s coworkers were interviewed and about 2/3rds said that he had made disparaging remarks against Jews, women, and white supremist remarks. So, this is enough to tell you where this person is “coming from”, but let’s look first at what he wasn’t charged with: participating in the planning of 1/6 incitement, vandalism or destruction of property, nor an assault charge. So, no violence against another individual (CP or otherwise), not involved in any planning, did not have a weapon (read more about when he stated a flag pole could be used as a weapon but didn’t act on it) the entrance he used to gain entry was already open/breached before he entered, and he didn’t destroy property.
So let’s look exactly what this self-identified loser did do: he gave others verbal and physical directives inside of the US Capitol such as hand motioning “move forward” and verbal prompts. From reading the evidence it seems like his biggest mistake was his entire self incrimination that he made prior to January 6 with his coworkers and his social media pro-Nazi stance. A despicable human being, in other words. His choice of a Hitler looking stach-big mistake. He relayed to his attorney that it was because of the government forced shut down and it was his response to those events. I don’t claim to know either way but idiots tend to do idiotic things.
I guess I would’ve at least thought to read that he was charged with one of the three crimes but he wasn’t, because he didn’t commit them. They made an example of him and they picked a very good one, but it was because of his history of hateful remarks that had zero to do with January 6th events. This photo alone will spread the justification for his lengthy prison sentence.
I am coming back shortly with my source and apologize for the delay. I’m on my phone and if I leave this post now, I’m good at zapping it completely, cussing a lot, and then having to start over lol brb