Slap on the wrist. What a joke of a sentence, especially considering he obstructed and destroyed evidence.
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Wonder if it might bolster the next horde of ne'er-do-wells, considering how little such infractions cost.
That's it?
THAT'S FUCKING NOTHING.
FOUR MORE YEARS!
Badalian’s efforts to cover up his Jan. 6 participation also included changing his phone number, prosecutors said.
Remember this example of tactical brilliance the next time you hear some right wing asshole talking about a second civil war.
That's why these people don't really scare me, they're huge idiots.
They should. They came alarmingly close to overturning democracy. Imagine a round 2 where there’s more organization.
They didn't though. They came alarmingly close to overturning a performative ceremony that has no actual bearing on the election. Do you really think Trump would have become president if they had succeeded in stopping the count? It had already been counted, just not officially. That's how stupid these people are.
Saddam Hussein seized power by essentially doing this. If they'd gone in, captured Congress and executed anyone who disagreed that's pretty much game over. I'm convinced the only reason we're not in a full civil war today is that Trump was too lazy to lead the march over to the Capitol.
The votes were already counted. No number of congresspeople executed would change the results of the election. It would just put Trump in far, far, far more legal jeopardy than he's in now and he's in a lot.
Sure. If they lost the takeover attempt.
But there's no magical authority that makes the election results matter. Coups happen all the time, and if they came correct and won, what then?
How would that have installed Trump as president? Who would recognize his authority? Certainly not the military.
What precise actions do you think would be taken if a sitting president successfully murders the president elect and the opposition party, and for that matter any judges who disagree with him.
I'd be interested in hearing how you think that plays out in reality opposed to this "just world" you seem to imagine yourself living in.
The President Elect wasn't there.
And you think in a real coup planned by people who are competent that the president elect would have just been left alone?
For those complaining about the short sentences many of these folks are getting, the silver lining is this is a felony on their records, forever. Decent jobs will be nearly unreachable, once they get out, and federal prison sentences has no (drastic) "released early for good behavior" crap like state ones. No "sentenced to ten years, out in 4" at the federal level.
Next GOP president is going to expunge all of the convictions.
I mean, 4 years might be on the lighter side, but it's honestly more than I expected for these scumbags. I'll take it.
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They’re so subtle.
How did they get his telegram messages?
he saved all his Telegram chats off to plain text files on his phone and PC for security
Lol gotcha
hope the stupid, selfish pig spends the rest of his life in and out of jail