January 6th legal proceedings and investigations megathread

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

US Capitol rioter gets 5 years in jail after throwing fire extinguisher at police

A Florida man who enthusiastically attacked police at the US Capitol on January 6 with a fire extinguisher, a wooden plank and a pole was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Friday, the longest sentence for a Capitol rioter thus far.

Robert Scott Palmer is the first person to be sentenced for the felony of assaulting an officer with a dangerous weapon. His 63-month sentence could set a benchmark for the more than 140 others who face the same charge.

"Every day we are hearing about reports of antidemocratic factions, people plotting potential violence in 2024," District Judge Tanya Chutkan said as she handed down the sentence. "It has to be made clear that trying to stop the peaceful transition of power, assaulting law enforcement, is going to be met with certain punishment. Not staying at home, not watching Netflix, not doing what you were doing before you got arrested."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/robert-scott-palmer-capitol/index.html

A perfectly fair punishment. People who committed violent acts on 1/6 deserve to have the book thrown at them.

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

Maddow just played a tape on air of Kevin McCarthy very clearly telling Liz Cheney that he was thinking about calling Trump (Jan 10) and recommending that he resign. McCarthy denied today that he ever said he was going to tell Trump to resign.

If they held the vote the morning of January 7th Trump would have been gone. That obviously couldn't have happened for basic practical reasons, but the delay meant that there was time for Republicans to rationalize away their initial justified disgust at the events of the 6th.

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

I can’t really answer either question before I see which charges they’re going with, though that matters much more for “will he” than “should he”.

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

I can’t really answer either question before I see which charges they’re going with, though that matters much more for “will he” than “should he”.

It's a 7 day poll, so you should have time to see the indictment and read it if you wish.

I just saw that the indictment is expected today, poll makes more sense now lol

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

We should have a separate thread for each of the four cases. The state and federal charges are different and the trials will be happening at different times.

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

https://nypost.com/2023/08/26/judge-in-trump-jan-6-case-is-scion-of-marxists/

The judge assigned to [Trump’s Jan 6th case] is the scion of a family of revolutionary Marxists in her native Jamaica.

Judge Tanya S. Chutkan … is the granddaughter of Frank Hill, a Jamaican communist revolutionary, who along with his brother Ken were briefly jailed by the island’s British governor during World War II over suspicions of “subversive activities.”

Hill is the father of Noelle Hill, Judge Chutkan’s mother, public records show.

Frank, along with his brother Ken Hill, and fellow comrades Richard Hart and Arthur Henry, were expelled from the People’s National Party of Jamaica for espousing communist views, according to local Jamaican media.

So what?

She might bite Donald Trump at the trial and give him the communism. It's not only hereditary— it's also contagious!

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

Clay Higgins continues to contend for the most insane member of Congress:

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1724810588155793715

Isn’t he the one who believes that his wife has the gift of prophecy and who had a prophetic dream about a woke goon squad raiding their house for illegal food? I swear I’m not making this up.

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

Trump just won the election.

This is the 500th time Trump has won the election according to you.