r/CapitolConsequences • u/Jordan_WUSA9 Verified Journalist • Aug 11 '22

Ex-police officer who saw himself as pro-Trump 'counter insurgency' sentenced to 87 months in prison in Jan. 6 case Sentenced

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/ex-virginia-police-officer-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-in-capitol-riot-case-thomas-robertson-rocky-mount-trump-jacob-fracker/65-4325e02a-5e48-49a5-aad6-a39d3373a312
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u/eganvay Aug 11 '22

will the military want to talk with him about his false claims, something like that may change someones discharge status?

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u/Q-burt Aug 11 '22

So, he really was in the military, just faked his rank and accomplishments?

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u/ConstantPi Aug 12 '22

Everything is exaggerated x100. He was kicked out of basic for "lack of motivation," was in the Virginia Nation Guard much later, and was injured as a contractor. Nobody will say how he was injured, so I can assume he threw out his back lifting a beer.

But says he was career military, tons of combat time, a sniper, a Ranger, and received a whole Purple Heart.

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u/Q-burt Aug 12 '22

Wow. Like Frank Burns putting himself in for the purple heart for getting a shell fragment near his eye during a mortar attack. He was peeling a hard boiled egg. What a douchecanoe.

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u/JustaRandomOldGuy Aug 12 '22

I thought falsely stating you have a Medal of Honor was still a crime?

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u/evilspawn_usmc Aug 12 '22

The SVA of 2005 was struck down. A revised version was signed by Obama in 2013. It's much more limited in scope, but this dingleberry could potentially have violated it.
It comes down to if his lies led to receiving some form of benefit.