Posted on 02/25/2022 10:42:57 AM PST by Don@VB
WASHINGTON — A Florida man who bragged he "broke the internet" when he was photographed carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's podium during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 75 days in prison on Friday.
Adam Johnson, a stay-at-home father of five boys, traveled to D.C. in support of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to President Joe Biden. U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton sentenced Johnson to prison on Friday, saying Johnson made "a mockery" of the events by grabbing Pelosi's lectern and played an active role in the attack. Walton said he just couldn't overlook Johnson's behavior, which he said was deserving of a period of incarceration. Johnson will get credit for some time he's already served, and will also pay a $5,000 fine.
"We're on a dangerous slide in America," Walton said Friday, calling what happened on Jan. 6 something you'd expect to "see in banana republics." Walton asked Johnson how he could hold himself out as a good role model.
Johnson said he recognized that if he did what he did in another country, he'd be "on a firing wall instead of a courtroom." He claimed he had no intent to harm Pelosi.
"If I did find her, I would ask for a selfie with her, if anything," Johnson said.
Johnson pleaded guilty to a criminal count of entering and remained in a restricted building or grounds, admitting that he unlawfully entered the Capitol after witnessing battles with police outside the building, and then grabbed Pelosi's podium "because he believed it would make a good prop for a picture." Johnson also admitted that he shouted that a bust of George Washington would be "a great battering ram" as rioters attempted to break into the floor of the U.S. House, where members of Congress were still present.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica Arco told the court Friday that Johnson's conduct deserves prison time. She played a video of Johnson jiggling the door of what he thought was Pelosi's office. There can be no question, Arco said, that Johnson knew he was part of a violent mob.
"Mr. Johnson was part of a mob," Arco said. "He knew that.”
Justice Department prosecutors argued in a memo ahead of his sentencing that Johnson's actions illustrated his "sense of entitlement and privilege" and that he appeared "defiant and righteous in his trespassing, which he celebrated by posting this photo to Facebook." Federal prosecutors had requested a sentence of 90 days behind bars.
Johnson's attorneys claimed in their own filing that Johnson "deeply regrets his participation in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6" and that the "damage and violence inflicted on that date by others is contrary to everything he believes in." They argued that his five children would be negatively impacted by his imprisonment, and that Johnson received extra scrutiny because the lectern he grabbed belonged to the speaker of House.
"Unfortunately, he received considerable attention simply because the lectern belonged to Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi," they wrote. "Arguably, if he latched onto some other piece of government furniture for his photo opportunity jail time would not even be a consideration."
The FBI has arrested more than 740 people in connection with the U.S. Capitol attack, out of more than 2,500 individuals who engaged in chargeable criminal conduct that day. Sentences have ranged from probationary sentences and fines for misdemeanor defendants to five years in federal prison for Robert Scott Palmer, who attacked officers with a fire extinguisher and received the longest sentence of any Capitol rioter so far.
On Thursday, a judge sentenced Jeffrey Register — who helped lead the mob towards the doors to the House Speaker's lobby, where Ashli Babbitt was shot — to 75 days in prison. Earlier in the week, Mariposa Castro received 45 days in prison.
Lectern, you stand on a podium.
I had trouble copying this link, but it is from the NBC News.
Dubya stooge Reggie Walton is something we're seeing in the American banana republic.
He should have stole her ice cream freezer...
“U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 75 days in prison on Friday”
75 days for leading an insurrection? We need to toughen our laws! </s>
podium /ˈpoʊdijəm/ noun
plural podiums
Britannica Dictionary definition of PODIUM
[count]
1
: a raised platform for a speaker, performer, or the leader of an orchestra
2
US : a stand with a slanted surface that holds a book, notes, etc., for someone who is reading, speaking, or teaching : lectern
The “election” was a mockery.
He's still a hack, Jack
"United States v. Libby Main article: United States v. Libby Walton also presided over the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Scooter Libby.
On March 6, 2007, the jury convicted Libby of four of the five counts with which he was charged: two counts of perjury, one of obstruction of justice, and one of making false statements to federal investigators.[6]
On June 5, 2007, Walton sentenced Libby to 30 months in federal prison and a fine of US$250,000, and, subsequently, he ordered that Libby report to jail without bail pending any appeals.[7] On June 20, 2007, Libby appealed Walton's ruling in federal appeals court.[8] The next day, Walton filed a 30-page expanded ruling, in which he explained his decision to deny Libby bail in more detail.[9]
Further information: United States v. Libby § Sentencing, and United States v. Libby § Libby ordered to jail pending appeal
Walton received several threatening letters after pronouncing sentence on Libby.[10] "
November 4, 2020 is what we’d expect to see in banana republics where the results of election night are reversed.
Why not time served because hasn’t he been held for over a year without a trial?
“He should have stole her ice cream freezer...“
It would take a convoy of 18 wheelers to carry all of that equipment .
“ which Trump lost to President Joe Biden. ”…………hahahahaha!
“ which Trump lost to President Joe Biden. ”…………hahahahaha!
No……he didn’t.
It’s NOT PELOSI’S ANYTHING!...................
If there was ever a time to wear a mask I think that was it.
LOL. How doubly topical...
This Johnson guy steals Pelosi’s lectern and only gets 75 days in prison. The Q-Shamen guy with the horn hat got much more jail time...IIRC, Possibly 1 to 2 years. No rhyme nor reason except MAGA people get the shaft, Antifa types get a pass.
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