r/CapitolConsequences • u/cnn Verified Journalist • 7d ago
Judge sentences Oath Keeper who cooperated in January 6 prosecution to probation and warns democracy is ‘fragile’
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/politics/joshua-james-oath-keeper-sentenced-january-6/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit9
u/cnn Verified Journalist 7d ago
Nearly four years after the US Capitol was overtaken by Donald Trump’s supporters, the first defendant in the January 6, 2021, attack to plead guilty to seditious conspiracy was sentenced Friday to three years of probation.
Joshua James, a military vet and a former leader in the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group, was part of the brutal assault on police that day, facing off with a line of officers inside the Rotunda, where he shouted, “This is my Capitol,” and demanded that officers leave as he pushed and shoved.
“What I did at the Capitol, to those police officers, that’s not who I am,” James told the judge before sentencing. James said he would regret that day “for the rest of my life.”
Federal Judge Amit Mehta, in an apparent reference to Trump’s promise to pardon some of the January 6 defendants, said he didn’t “know how long we’ll keep doing these sentencings in the next weeks and months,” and noted that it was important for people to not forget the lawmakers, staff and police officers who were there that day.
The United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. was breached by thousands of protesters during a "Stop The Steal" rally in support of President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021.
The attack, Mehta said, showed “how fragile democracy really is.”
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u/TrollTollTony 7d ago
Remind me, what was the first news network to re-platform Trump after the insurrection?
(besides the obvious right wing mouthpieces that fueled it)
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u/Champagne_of_piss 7d ago
Nah it's doing fine, daddy Trump sent it to a farm out in the countryside