Trump Wanted So Stay In Office. Long Live Trump.

A retired New York police officer who was also a Marine veteranwas sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for assaulting police in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 – the longest sentence yet from the riot.

Thomas Webster, 56, of Goshen, New York, was convicted in a federal jury trial in May of all six charges against him, including assaulting a police officer and engaging in violence on restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon.

Webster said he was swept up in politics and former President Donald Trump's rhetoric about a stolen election but wished he'd never come to Washington.

“I should have not been there on Jan. 6 to protest the election, and I wish the events of that horrible day had never happened," Webster said through sniffles. "People would still be alive. People would not have gotten hurt. And families would not be torn apart.”

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Webster apologized to D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Noah Rathbun, whom he was convicted of attacking and choking.

“I want to apologize to you and most importantly your family," Webster said. "I’m sorry."

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said Webster threw away a lifetime of respect for 20 years as a police officer and for his Marine service because of 46 seconds of violence recorded outside the Capitol. Mehta said the case reflected aberrant behavior that continues to tear at the country's fabric.


 

Trump Wanted To Stay In Office.​

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The American electorate wanted Trump to go away.

It made him go away.

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"AHHHHHH, PHOOEY!"
 
[ Congress People with something to fear from what happened on January 6 ]

 
A text exchange between Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff Julie Radford and White House aide Hope Hicks reveals their anger over then-President Donald Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, hurting them professionally, according to newly released documents collected by the House select committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection.

“In one day he ended every future opportunity that doesn’t include speaking engagements at the local Proud Boys chapter,” Hicks wrote to Radford on January 6, 2021. “And all of us that didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed. I’m so mad and upset. We all look like domestic terrorists now.”

Hicks added: “This made us all unemployable. Like untouchable. God I’m so f***ing mad.”

Radford responded by texting, “I know, like there isn’t a chance of finding a job,” and indicating she already lost a job opportunity from Visa, which sent her a “blow off email.”

The new release is part of a steady stream of documents from the committee, complementing the release of its sweeping 845-page report. The latest comes as the panel winds down its work with the House majority set to change hands from Democrats to Republicans on Tuesday at the start of the new Congress.


(full article online)


 

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