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Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro will be sentenced on Thursday for defying a congressional subpoena to cooperate with the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Navarro was convicted in September on one count of contempt of Congress over his refusal to appear for a deposition in front of the committee, and on a second count for refusing to produce documents.

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Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro sentenced to 4 months for defying Jan. 6 committee subpoena

Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced to four months Thursday for defying a congressional subpoena to cooperate with the House Jan. 6 committee.
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Talked smack about Jan 6 and acted like he was someone special, like he was above the law. He ain't talking shit today.

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Navarro made a last-ditch appeal for leniency to Mehta, addressing the court even after his lawyers had initially said he wouldn’t. He said he grew confused about the thicket of precedents and rules around executive privilege and believed he didn’t have to comply with Congress’ subpoena.

“I’m a Harvard-educated gentleman, but the learning curve when they come at you with the biggest law firm in the world is very, very steep,” Navarro said.

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Peter Navarro sentenced to four months in prison for defying Jan. 6 committee

The former Trump trade adviser's refusal to testify to Congress hindered the investigation of the Jan. 6 attack, a federal judge said.
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Longest Serving Federal Judge is FED UP at Trump and FIRES BACK​

The longest serving DC federal judge and a Republican has fired back at Trump and Elise Stefanik and any efforts to call Jan6 convicted criminals “hostages” or “political prisoners”. Michael Popok of Legal AF breaks a down the Judge’s powerful new order and what impact it will have on its intended audience—the US Supreme Court considering Trump’s criminality.

 

Claims that Jan. 6 rioters are ‘political prisoners’ endure. Judges want to set the record straight​

WASHINGTON (AP) — While sentencing a North Carolina man to prison for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, a Republican-appointed judge issued a stark warning: Efforts to portray the mob of Donald Trump’s supporters as heroes and play down the violence that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, pose a serious threat to the nation.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth condemned the depiction by Trump and Republican allies of Jan. 6 defendants as “political prisoners” and “hostages.” Lamberth also denounced attempts to undermine the legitimacy of the justice system for punishing rioters who broke the law when they invaded the Capitol.

“In my 37 years on the bench, I cannot recall a time when such meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream,” Lamberth, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, wrote in a recent ruling. The judge added he “fears that such destructive, misguided rhetoric could presage further danger to our country.”

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Talked smack about Jan 6 and acted like he was someone special, like he was above the law. He ain't talking shit today.

From the link:

Navarro made a last-ditch appeal for leniency to Mehta, addressing the court even after his lawyers had initially said he wouldn’t. He said he grew confused about the thicket of precedents and rules around executive privilege and believed he didn’t have to comply with Congress’ subpoena.

“I’m a Harvard-educated gentleman, but the learning curve when they come at you with the biggest law firm in the world is very, very steep,” Navarro said.

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Peter Navarro sentenced to four months in prison for defying Jan. 6 committee

The former Trump trade adviser's refusal to testify to Congress hindered the investigation of the Jan. 6 attack, a federal judge said.
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Judge denies Peter Navarro’s bid to remain out of prison while appealing contempt of Congress case​


WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday denied Trump White House official Peter Navarro’s bid to remain out of prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction for refusing to cooperate with an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Navarro was sentenced last month to four months behind bars after being found guilty of defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House Jan. 6 Committee. He had asked to be free while he fights that conviction in higher courts.

But U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta denied that request, saying Navarro must report to serve his sentence on the date ordered by the Bureau of Prisons, unless the federal appeals court steps in to block Mehta’s order.

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Judge denies Peter Navarro's bid to remain out of prison while appealing contempt of Congress case

A federal judge has denied Trump White House official Peter Navarro’s bid to remain out of prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
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Jan. 6 defendant arrested at Obama's home hit with new felony charges​

WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 defendant who was arrested near the Washington home of former President Barack Obama over the summer after former President Donald Trump posted a screenshot that included the address has been hit with five new charges.

A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment against Taylor Taranto, who as NBC News reported was first identified by online sleuths back in 2021, but wasn't arrested until June 2023 when he showed up near Obama's home.

Three of the new charges relate to guns and ammunition that were allegedly found in Taranto's van when he was arrested. Taranto also faces a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding for his conduct on Jan. 6. He also faces a charge of false information and hoaxes for allegedly falsely threatening that he was going to set off an explosive at the National Institute of Standards and Technology before his eventual arrest.After he was identified by online “sedition hunters” but before his arrest, Taranto and another man, David Walls-Kaufman, were sued by the widow of the late Officer Jeffrey Smith. Smith was assaulted on Jan. 6 and died by suicide days after the Capitol attack. His death was ruled to have occurred in the line of duty.

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Some Jan. 6 sentences were improperly enhanced, appeals court rules​

The decision could force trial judges to recalculate sentences for Jan. 6 rioters who were convicted of obstruction.

03/01/2024 11:30 AM EST

A federal appeals court panel ruled Friday that Jan. 6 defendants who obstructed Congress’ work had their sentences improperly lengthened by judges who determined that they had interfered with the “administration of justice.”

The decision could force district court judges in Washington, D.C. to recalculate, and perhaps reduce, the sentences for a slew of Jan. 6 rioters convicted of felony obstruction for their roles in the attack on the Capitol that threatened the transfer of power three years ago.

Federal sentencing guidelines encourage judges to apply the “administration of justice” enhancement to defendants who disrupt judicial proceedings like grand jury investigations or court hearings. The enhancement can increase recommended sentences by more than a year.

The Justice Department has routinely asked judges to apply the enhancement to defendants who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, arguing that the session of Congress that day — meant to count electoral votes and certify the results of the 2020 election — should be considered the equivalent of a judicial proceeding.

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Judge denies Peter Navarro’s bid to remain out of prison while appealing contempt of Congress case​


WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday denied Trump White House official Peter Navarro’s bid to remain out of prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction for refusing to cooperate with an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Navarro was sentenced last month to four months behind bars after being found guilty of defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House Jan. 6 Committee. He had asked to be free while he fights that conviction in higher courts.

But U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta denied that request, saying Navarro must report to serve his sentence on the date ordered by the Bureau of Prisons, unless the federal appeals court steps in to block Mehta’s order.

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Judge denies Peter Navarro's bid to remain out of prison while appealing contempt of Congress case

A federal judge has denied Trump White House official Peter Navarro’s bid to remain out of prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
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SCOTUS denies stay of sentence for ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro

Navarro had been ordered to report to prison in Miami on March 19 to begin serving a four-month sentence for defying a Jan. 6 committee subpoena.
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LIVE: Former Trump adviser Navarro begins prison sentence​

Streamed live 75 minutes ago

U.S. President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro, who was found guilty in September of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena, begins his prison sentence in Miami.


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Michael Cohen on how former Trump aide Peter Navarro's life will change in prison​

Mar 19, 2024
Former Trump fixer and attorney Michael Cohen weighs in on Peter Navarro, an ex-White House aide to former President Donald Trump, reporting to a federal prison


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Ex-Trump DOJ Lawyer "Ambushed" at Disbarment Hearing, "You're Shameless"​

Former Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey Clark, who is accused of violating ethics rules by allegedly helping then-president Donald Trump attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, attended the first day of his disciplinary hearing on Tuesday. A three-member panel of the D.C. Bar's Board of Professional Responsibility will determine whether Clark should face sanctions, which could include disbarment.

[NOTE: Other lawyers working in the private sector on the alleged election subversion, including John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani have faced similar disciplinary charges — Giuliani had his law license revoked in New York and Washington, D.C.. Attorneys Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty to criminal charges.]

The Clark hearing is focused on a December 28, 2020 letter in which Clark claimed that the DOJ had "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election" in Georgia and other states, and suggested that state lawmakers should void President Biden’s electoral win.

Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton "Phil" Fox III, who is leading the attorney discipline case against Clark said, “What Mr. Clark was attempting to do was essentially a coup at the Justice Department.”

Clark’s lawyer, Harry MacDougald, argued at the hearing that Clark "at all times attempted to do the right thing."

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John Eastman, architect of Trump’s 2020 election plot, should be disbarred, judge rules​

A California judge on Wednesday recommended the disbarment of John Eastman, calling to revoke the law license of one of former President Donald Trump’s top allies in his failed last-ditch gambit to subvert the 2020 election.

Judge Yvette Roland, who presided over months of testimony and argument about the basis of Eastman’s fringe legal theories, ruled that the veteran conservative attorney violated ethics rules — and even potentially criminal law — when he advanced Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results based on weak or discredited claims of fraud.

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Ex-Trump DOJ Lawyer "Ambushed" at Disbarment Hearing, "You're Shameless"​

Former Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey Clark, who is accused of violating ethics rules by allegedly helping then-president Donald Trump attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, attended the first day of his disciplinary hearing on Tuesday. A three-member panel of the D.C. Bar's Board of Professional Responsibility will determine whether Clark should face sanctions, which could include disbarment.

[NOTE: Other lawyers working in the private sector on the alleged election subversion, including John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani have faced similar disciplinary charges — Giuliani had his law license revoked in New York and Washington, D.C.. Attorneys Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty to criminal charges.]

The Clark hearing is focused on a December 28, 2020 letter in which Clark claimed that the DOJ had "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election" in Georgia and other states, and suggested that state lawmakers should void President Biden’s electoral win.

Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton "Phil" Fox III, who is leading the attorney discipline case against Clark said, “What Mr. Clark was attempting to do was essentially a coup at the Justice Department.”

Clark’s lawyer, Harry MacDougald, argued at the hearing that Clark "at all times attempted to do the right thing."

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It's really amazing how they twist the rule of law to fit their agenda.
 

Federal judge condemns ‘normalization’ of January 6 while sentencing defiant rioter​

Afederal judge on Wednesday blasted a convicted January 6 rioter for downplaying the US Capitol attack and using the kind of revisionist rhetoric that former President Donald Trump often uses on the campaign trial.

“This cannot become normal… We cannot condone the normalization of the January 6 US Capitol riot,” US District Judge Royce Lamberth said while sentencing Taylor James Johnatakis to more than seven years in prison.

The judge warned of a “vicious cycle … that could imperil our institutions” if Americans, upset with future election results, resort to the “vigilantism, lawlessness and anarchy” that occurred on January 6, 2021.

He did not reference Trump by name while sentencing Johnatakis, but the comparisons were clear. After Johnatakis’ conviction in November, he has mirrored Trump’s rhetoric in interviews about the insurrection, saying “everything about January 6 is just overblown,” and referring to the jail in Washington, DC, as a “gulag.”

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Meet some of the violent Jan. 6 rioters Donald Trump keeps calling 'hostages'

Trump has made his defense of those incarcerated in Capitol attack cases a central piece of his 2024 campaign. Many are accused of assaulting police. Some others fled.
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Trump’s DANGEROUS CODED MESSAGE Finally Gets EXPOSED…​

Apr 4, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the analysis compiled by Just Security of the 29 people Donald Trump praises in all of his speeches.


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John Eastman, architect of Trump’s 2020 election plot, should be disbarred, judge rules​

A California judge on Wednesday recommended the disbarment of John Eastman, calling to revoke the law license of one of former President Donald Trump’s top allies in his failed last-ditch gambit to subvert the 2020 election.

Judge Yvette Roland, who presided over months of testimony and argument about the basis of Eastman’s fringe legal theories, ruled that the veteran conservative attorney violated ethics rules — and even potentially criminal law — when he advanced Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results based on weak or discredited claims of fraud.

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The Burly Texas-Born Judge Fighting Efforts to Play Down Jan. 6​

WASHINGTON—In a handwritten letter, the mother of Taylor James Johnatakis declared him “absolutely not a criminal,” despite his conviction on a raft of charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

For Judge Royce Lamberth, there was just one problem with the letter and others praising Johnatakis: The portrayals didn’t square with the evidence. So when the judge sentenced Johnatakis earlier this month to more than seven years in prison, he took some time to explain his thinking—and then went a step further. Lamberth published a written version of his remarks in an unusual public court filing he styled as “Notes for Sentencing,” and ordered the court clerk to send a copy to those who had written in support of Johnatakis.

“In any angry mob, there are leaders and there are followers. Mr. Johnatakis was a leader,” Lamberth said. “He knew what he was doing that day.”

At 80, the Reagan-appointed federal district judge has emerged as a leading voice pushing back against attempts by Republican politicians to play down the Jan. 6 attack by Donald Trump supporters as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory. While other judges routinely excoriate these defendants at sentencing and condemn the Capitol attack, Lamberth’s notes have created a more enduring record, amplifying full remarks that would otherwise be available only to those present in his courtroom or who bothered to obtain an expensive transcript.

Packaged in an easily shared court document, the notes have found traction online. YouTube personalities have devoted videos to reading his notes aloud. A video posted Monday has received more than 400,000 views. On social media, he has been treated as something of a judicial folk hero.

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National Guard Captain Blows Up J6 Narrative, Accuses U.S. Govt of Lying to the American People

"I'm here today to aid the subcommittee in resolving factual errors in the official record of what happened on January 6th, 2021, specifically regarding the alleged District of Columbia National Guard delayed response caused by a critical presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed Pentagon senior officials," Captain Timothy Nick testified under oath on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. [...]

"First, I want to explain my role on January 6th. I was assigned as aid to camp the personal assistant to Major General William Walker, the commanding General of DC National Guard. It was my only second day on the job (!). Please focus on alleged facts found in the November 16th, 2021 Department of Defense Inspector General's multidisciplinary review into the DC National Guard response and Department of Defense's role that day."

"I can say unequivocally that the Inspector General's Review is riddled with inaccuracies, misstatements, and perhaps false flags and narratives regarding how critical Pentagon senior officials responded when our republic was under great stress (!!)."

"For instance, during a conference call at 2:31 PM with members of United States Army, US Capitol Police, Metropolitan Police Department, District of Columbia Government, and US Secret Service Uniform Division, the US Army's Lieutenant General Walter Piatt, Director of Army staff and the Army's Lieutenant General Charles Flynn, Director of Chief of Staff of Operations were on the call." Also was Colonel John Lubas, executive officer to the Secretary of the Army."

"The Army FALSELEY DENIED that General Flynn was ever on the call. This is false and material on its face. Lieutenant Flynn was on the call and even participated in discussions. The defense inspector's review also rounds language papering over the fact that Lieutenant General Piatt, Lieutenant General Flynn, while on the call discussed how they did not like the OPTICS."

"That is a direct quote, and they stated it would be in their best military advice to recommend to the Secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy, to deny the request from Command General William Walker to deploy the DC National Guard and aid US Capitol Police in restoring restoration of Order Liberty on Capitol Hill."

"In addition, former [Army] Secretary Ryan McCarthy claims he was on a two three 1:00 PM call and spoke on that call. This is FALSE, unless he was in the room shadowing the call and he did not speak nor identify himself."

"He was not on the call. He was en route to Washington, DC Regional office at the Federal Bureau of Investigation to support that agent's concept of operations plan for January 6th."

"He went on the claim that he called and spoke to Major General Walker at least twice, ordering the deployment of the DC National Guard. This is also FALSE. At no time did General Walker take any calls, nor did we ever hear from the secretary on any of the ongoing conference calls or the secure video teleconferencing throughout the day."

"This I know because I was with the Command General the entire time recording events throughout the day. Major General Walker told by staff officers to stand by with respect to deploying to the Capitol Hill. Only at 5:09 PM in the early evening, which I wrote down in my wheel book, was the DC Guard given an order to deploy and move to the Capitol to assist Capitol Police."

"We arrived too late. One American laid dead with other sisters and brothers injured, including federal and local law enforcement officers. We were ready and standing by. I know if we were able to deploy immediately, when General Walker made the request, the National Guard could have helped and civil disturbance and restored public order quickly."

"The Army National Guard motto was always ready, always there. The DC National Guard was ready to help and assist Capitol Police, but we were NOT ALLOWED to do our job due to paralyzed decision-making by acting Secretary of Defense,Chris Miller and Secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy..."

"This led to a crisis in federal leadership at the Pentagon and delayed the DC response by 3 hours and 19 minutes."

This is critical testimony exposing the U.S. government as perpetrating a false narrative of events for January 6 to frame Donald Trump as participating in a treasonous "insurrection" when the opposite was true.

The President of the United States had pre-authorized the deployment of 10,000 National Guard troops and delegated this responsibility to the Secretary of the Army.

But instead of deploying National Guard troops to secure the capitol during the election challenges in the Electoral College, the Pentagon delayed dispatching troops over an alleged concern for "optics," even as the same government would later call January 6 'an existential threat to democracy.'

The U.S. government allowed the January 6 riots to happen in order to frame Donald Trump and his supporters as 'insurrectionists.' It is simple as that.
 

The Midnight Rider Rides Again​

Paperback – January 19, 2024​

by Derek Johnson

'The Midnight Rider Rides Again' is the Part One Blueprint of how Donald John Trump is Commander-in-Chief by Military and Federal Laws and Orders in chronological order along with Military Regulations, Customs, Optics, and Comms, typically overlooked by majority.

This piece is a historical document all Americans should add to their bookshelves for generations to come as we live through what is becoming the most monumental, historical, and Biblical world operation to date.

Derek Johnson known to many as RattleTrap1776, roared onto the scene and forever changed the status quo of the "political spectrum". His globally viral 'Rant' one early fall afternoon in the middle of nowhere, on the side of an Alabama backroad connected the dots for what was amiss in our great nation.

With the left-wing media painting one picture, and the right-wing media painting another... majority of Podcasters, independent media, independent journalists and Americans were simply floundering and spewing the obvious of the "2020 Stolen Election" and riling people up about J6 to countless other predictions that never came true. What 'they' thought was the obvious... wasn't.
 
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Discusses the book above

Derek Johnson and JACO updates -​

April 17, 2024​

You're watching a Military Occupation and Continuity of Operations Plan.

If people would understand and comprehend the Military, Military Laws, Military Orders, Military Regulations, Military Publications, Special Operations, Unconventional Warfare, and Subterranean Warfare, and how they pair with Federal Laws and Orders and Executive Orders... it'll make a lot more sense.

Our Nation runs on Legislation via Laws and Orders and a Military separate but protecting the Constitution... it hasn't always looked the way it should hence what you're witnessing 45-47, Wartime President.

That's also why my book is #1 Best Seller on Amazon right now showing how the Generals pulled this off.

"The Midnight Rider Rides Again" is the #1 seller in its category on Amazon; available in Print and Kindle (International as well):
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Crib Notes for the Trial of the Century​

JH Kunstler

“Once someone determined Trump was so bad it was okay to lie about him, it set the precedent that the only thing that mattered was a subject’s politics.” — Matt Taibbi

What fascinates us about sex, I suppose, is that most everyone wants it and seeks it, driven by irresistible natural impulses, and yet the act itself is such an affront to civilized decorum that it inspires both comedy and horror, two states of consciousness that are themselves irresistibly compelling. Add lawyers to all that and you find yourself entering the realm of opera bouffe, which is to say, kitsch, human expression reduced to its most self-consciously ridiculous.

Enter Stormy Daniels, that notorious pair of cumulus clouds attached to a person, who made a career in the sex industry and later on, at the age when sex workers generally face retirement, had a fresh start as a political gadfly buzzing around the mystifying hair-do of President Donald Trump. Stormy first encountered Mr. Trump in 2006 when he was a mere TV star who played in a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe. She was hanging out there with two porn-star girlfriends. Golf nuts all, must’ve been.

Stormy managed to blow into Mr. Trump’s hotel room there, so her story goes, where she apparently teased him into a state of florid desire, while mocking him, and then obliged his advances, even developing a sort of friendship that, over a few years, included more hotel room meet-ups and promises of revamped stardom on his “The Apprentice” TV show, alas, never consummated. Strange to relate, around that time Stormy launched her own political career way before Mr. Trump made the leap into government.

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‘It can happen again’: Judge set to preside over Trump trial delivers her toughest Jan. 6 sentence to date​

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has handed down her harshest Jan. 6 sentence to date — five-and-a-half years — to Scott Miller, a Maryland man and former Proud Boys leader who assaulted multiple officers in a violent attempt to breach the Capitol.

Chutkan based her sentence, delivered on Friday, in part on Miller’s “aggressive” actions at the Capitol but also on his private writings that called for racial and religious violence against minorities and Jews. She said the evidence of his “violent ideology” — his embrace of Nazism and his purported belief that Washington, D.C., residents should be executed — troubled her despite Miller’s insistence that he had disavowed those beliefs soon after Jan. 6.

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