FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
NOT INDICTED
The peaceful transfer of power was ignored by Trump. He wanted to stay in power so he and his cohorts devised a plan. The DOJ wrote a letter asking the Republican Governors of swing states to LIE about the winner by not certifying the votes for Biden. Trump was recorded on tape asking the Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to find 11,780 votes. His request was denied because it was against the law.
Trump did not win Georgia, which went Democratic for the first time since 1992. Although THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (DOJ) AND congressional lawmakers believe Trump’s request WAS CRIMINAL, HE WAS NOT INDICTED.
The footmen of the coup are indicted while the planners remain free!
Many insurrectionists used social media to celebrate the violence or spew hateful rhetoric. Others used it to spread misinformation, promote baseless conspiracy theories or play down their actions.
Much of the evidence has come from rioters’ own words and videos, as many used social media to celebrate the violence The US AG [ Merit Garland] found the mob to be a 3-ring circus: rioters, insurrectionists, and conspirators. Since the coup failed, the insurrectionists were penalized lightly. About 150 pleaded guilty.
Dona Sue Bissey
Indiana hair salon owner sentenced to two weeks because “When Ms. Bissey got home, she was not struck with remorse or regret for what she had done. She’s celebrating and bragging about her participation in what amounted to an attempted overthrow of the government.”
Andrew Ryan Bennett
This Maryland Howard County man was sentenced to house arrest. The judge found his post of 1/4/2021 to be aggravating. He told Bennett “What you and others did on January 6th was nothing less than an attempt to undermine that system of government.”
Scott Fairlamb
A New Jersey gym owner was punching a police officer outside the Capitol. His Facebook and Instagram posts showed he was prepared to commit violence there and had no remorse for his actions, prosecutors said. “You couldn’t have beat this if you went to trial on the evidence that I saw,” Lamberth said before sentencing Fairlamb to 41 months in prison.
Robert Scott Palmer
Sentenced for 63 months. The Florida man who hurled wooden boards and a fire extinguisher at police officers guarding the Lower West Terrace tunnel of the Capitol
Devlyn Thompson
Jailed for 46 months.
Washington man 28-year old is jailed for nearly four years for hitting a cop with a metal baton and hurling a speaker at officers during ‘hours-long’ involvement in January 6 riots
Jacob Anthony Chansley: 41 months in prison
Chansley—a self-described shaman and a follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory—is one of the most recognizable Jan. 6 rioters, thanks to viral photographs of his outlandish getup.
Per the judge, “What you did was terrible. You made yourself the epitome of the riot,” Lamberth said Nov. 17. “You didn’t slug anybody, but what you did here was actually obstruct the functioning of the whole government. It’s a serious crime.”
Chansley, age 34 at his sentencing, pleaded guilty to one charge: obstruction of an official proceeding. He was sentenced to 41 months in prison.
Cleveland Meredith, Jr.: 28 months in prison
Meredith traveled from Colorado to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally that led to the attempted insurrection at the Capitol, but later told investigators that he arrived too late in the evening. The day afterward, on Jan. 7, he sent a family member in Georgia a text message threatening to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Meredith’s mother contacted the FBI, and members located him at a Holiday Inn a mile from the Capitol.
Meredith gave investigators consent to search his phone, along with his truck and trailer outside. The FBI discovered texts in which he threatened to assassinate Pelosi and District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser. He had sent a text earlier that day that said, “Calm before the STORM,” seemingly referring to a cataclysmic event in which QAnon followers believed that Donald Trump would expose a cabal of satanic pedophiles. In the search of Meredith’s trailer, the FBI found an assault rifle, a nine-millimeter pistol, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Meredith, age 53 at his sentencing, pleaded guilty to communicating a threat across state lines. In December, he received a sentence of 28 months in prison with credit for time served.
Gracyn Dawn Courtright: 1 month in prison
While she was inside the Capitol, Courtright, then age 23 and a senior at the University of Kentucky, took a photo of herself in a mirror and afterward posted it to Instagram, along with the words, “INFAMY IS JUST AS GOOD AS FAME.” She shared her participation in the riot on Instagram multiple times, and someone took a screenshot and reported her.
Footage from Jan. 6 shows Courtright on the second floor of the Capitol building, holding up a “Members Only” sign. Authorities arrested her two weeks later and she faced multiple charges, including for theft of the sign.
Courtright pleaded guilty to a charge of entering a restricted building in August, at which point other charges against her were dropped. In December, she was sentenced to one month in prison. In addition, she has a year of supervised release following her sentence, will need to complete 60 hours of community service, and must pay $500 in restitution for damages to the Capitol.
Following her arrest, Courtright withdrew from the college.
Richard Barnett: Awaiting sentencing
Barnett was photographed with his foot on a desk in Pelosi’s office during the violence at the Capitol.
He was released in April while he awaits his trial, after spending nearly four months in jail on charges including obstructing an official proceeding, entering the Capitol while armed with a deadly or dangerous weapon (a stun gun), and theft of government property (for stealing a piece of government mail).
Barnett, age 61, will appear in federal court again on Feb. 1 and could face sentencing of up to 87 months in prison if he is found guilty on all charges.
Matthew Greene: Awaiting sentencing
Greene is the first self-identified member of the Proud Boys—a far-right extremist group—to plead guilty to obstructing Congress and conspiring to obstruct law enforcement during the Capitol attack.
Court documents indicate Greene, age 34 at the time of his plea, was “among the first wave” to rush up the Capitol steps after the police line was breached. He faces up to 25 years in prison, although prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of 41 to 50 months because he agreed to cooperate with law enforcement. His hearing is scheduled for March 10.
Robert Chapman: Awaiting sentencing
The chief clause of the Insurrection Act, in its original 1807 wording (which has been thoroughly updated since to reflect modern legalese), reads:[7]
An Act authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces of the United States, in cases of insurrections Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the United States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the pre-requisites of the law in that respect.[8][9]
References: The Guardian, The Guadian (2), TIME
