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Report: Many ‘Unlikely’ to Face Jail Time for Capitol Riot, ‘Could Embarrass Biden Administration’
Breitbart ^ | 3/31/2021 | KRISTINA WONG

Posted on 03/30/2021 9:33:35 PM PDT by bitt

Many who entered the Capitol building during January 6 protests of the 2020 election outcome are “unlikely” to face jail time — a “jarring reality check” for Americans “outraged by the storming of Capitol Hill,” according to a Politico report on Tuesday.

“What about somebody who has no criminal record who got jazzed up by the president, walked in, spends 15 minutes in Statuary Hall and leaves? What happens to that person? They’re not going to get a jail sentence for that,” a defense attorney, who asked not to be named, told the outlet.

“There is a natural cycle to an event like this,” the defense attorney added. “People will say it was the end of the world, then things will calm down, and they’ll begin looking at cases back on what people actually did.”

The report’s sub-headline noted that the cases “could embarrass the Biden administration, which has portrayed the Jan. 6 siege as a dire threat to democracy.”

The report said there have been high-profile conspiracy cases involving members of “right-wing, paramilitary groups” but the most urgent decisions for prosecutors involve resolving “scores of lower-level cases” clogging the D.C. federal district court.

Politico reported that, so far, almost a quarter of the more than 230 defendants formally and publicly charged — about 57 — face only misdemeanors, and in recent days, judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys have all indicated that they expect few to face harsh sentences.

The report said the actions of many often boiled down to “trespassing”:

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 20210106; biden; capitolriot; gettrump; lies; reichstagfire; setup
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1 posted on 03/30/2021 9:33:35 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 03/30/2021 9:33:45 PM PDT by bitt (America is the Home of the Brave, not the regime of the silenced.)
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To: bitt

It’s not trespassing when they open the doors and guide you in!

Fight every misdemeanor!


3 posted on 03/30/2021 9:36:13 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: bitt

When Burn, Loot, Murder burns cities, it’s not a riot.

Isaiah 5:20


4 posted on 03/30/2021 9:37:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: bitt

This is the Democrats’ Reichstag Fire, a clumsy excuse to jail the opposition and eliminate democracy

The pre-determined narrative was all set and ready to go, and the Dems, the Deep State, and Big Media were all in on it ... anything to GET TRUMP and his supporters

Soviet Amerika has arrived


5 posted on 03/30/2021 9:39:10 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: bitt
who got jazzed up by the president


6 posted on 03/30/2021 9:42:55 PM PDT by Rastus
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Creepy Joe Tells Letterman About Getting Arrested For Breaking Into The United States Capitol
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7556WZuciACX/


7 posted on 03/30/2021 9:45:06 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: ConservativeMind

YOu are more than correct-—The day is coming when the intelligent democrats will will see what a Socialist country looks like’ and they will think about their children and grandchildren. HOPEFULLY not too late


8 posted on 03/30/2021 9:45:33 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: bitt

They can get all the mileage they need by lodging vague accusations of incitement to violence and murder against Donald Trump, which the MSM will echo-chamber, making it sounds like anyone who is at all informed understands the fake accusations to be proven fact. They’ll repeat this over and over whilst suppressing any information that contradicts the narrative.


9 posted on 03/30/2021 9:46:44 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: bitt

trespassing? in the people’s house?

how is this possible under the universal right to *peacefully* protest and request a redress of grievances?

or do *peaceful* protestors all get tarred by the same brush used on the agent provocateur attackers like antifa and blm?

that doesn’t sound much at all like the system our founders gave us.


10 posted on 03/30/2021 9:50:30 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: bitt

Sounds to me like Fake News/Propaganda...

The communists need to keep this pot boiling over as a distraction until they have built & opened camps and started to fill them up with deplorables...

IMHO, that should be early next fall...

By then another 25-million migrant vermin should have been added to the 45-million already here giving them a clear communist majority (70-million + 150-million American communist citizens) to cement, permanently, the tyranny they have planned and created over the past 100-years...

We are only 6-to-9 months away from better understanding the reasons that Obama purchased and stored billions of rounds of ammo and hundreds of thousands of guns for the government’s highly weaponized federal employees plus the “Huns” now, and soon to be, within the gates...


11 posted on 03/30/2021 9:52:15 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another John Brown now that we desperately need him?)
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To: bitt

So, an anonymous defense attorney chimes in on the charges for hundreds of people. Let’s see


12 posted on 03/30/2021 9:52:29 PM PDT by ready2brd
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To: bitt

There’s no way this embarrasses the Biden admin because the media simply won’t report it.


13 posted on 03/30/2021 10:03:12 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Kevmo

bingo. and the hysterical narrative will be perpetuated by the media way beyond the court cases.

Once the narrative is set, it never goes away.

Hands up, dont shoot lives to this day.


14 posted on 03/30/2021 10:17:15 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: bitt

They mock us when they call it “the peoples house”! AND how is that whole investigation into ASHLI BABBITTS MURDER IN THE “PEOPLES HOUSE” going? I can explain that for you. It will go the same way as a fbi sniper shooting an unarmed woman in the back who was simply holding a baby. The scumbag was given a medal and a pension. OH, BUT IT”S “OUR GOVERNMENT”... THE HELL IT IS!!!


15 posted on 03/30/2021 10:37:13 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: bitt

If Joe himself doesn’t embarrass the Biden maladministration I don’t think there is much else that could.


16 posted on 03/30/2021 10:39:44 PM PDT by TigersEye (Will the Younger Dryas Impact you? )
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To: bitt

‘Could Embarrass Biden Administration’ ??

Not possible.


17 posted on 03/30/2021 10:40:02 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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‘Could Embarrass Biden Administration’

I seriously doubt it. The damage has already been done politically...hence why holding that rally in Washington was politically a disaster - that was the Left's last opportunity to strike a blow against President Trump and seemingly "prove" every outrageous, slanderous comment directing toward his supporters was "true." Only a fraction of a percent of those there did anything violent, but in a crowd of many thousands, the actions of that small handful provided the press the visuals they needed to perfectly paint the picture Republicans are unhinged maniacs / terrorists - however dishonest such a sweeping caricature that is.

18 posted on 03/30/2021 11:14:23 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: bitt

This whole idea that these were some sort of insurrectionists,
was embarrassing as hell, for the DOiJ.

I’m going to love it when their lies don’t stand up in court.


19 posted on 03/30/2021 11:19:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: canuck_conservative

There was an actual fire at the Reichstag. The so called insurrection was a lie.


20 posted on 03/30/2021 11:27:54 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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