Reuters Attack on U.S. Capitol caused $1.5 million in damage, prosecutors say By Jan Wolfe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol caused $1.5 million in damages and indicated that individuals accused of participating in the riot will be asked to foot the bill.
The Justice Department disclosed the $1.5 million figure in a letter to a defense lawyer for Paul Allard Hodgkins, a Florida man who pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of obstructing an official proceeding.
"Your client acknowledges that the riot that occurred on January 6, 2021, caused as of May 17, 2021, approximately $1,495,326.55 damage to the United States Capitol," stated the letter, sent on May 27 and made public on Wednesday.
Hodgkins' plea agreement calls for him to "pay restitution to the Department of Treasury in the amount of $2,000," according to the letter, which was first reported by the Washington Post.
The Justice Department letter did not indicate how investigators arrived at the $1.5 million figure.
A Justice Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
More than 440 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol riots, in which throngs of Republican former President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol in a failed bid to stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's presidential election victory.
Few guilty pleas have been entered so far since the Justice Department launched its sweeping investigation into the deadly attack on the Capitol, in a sign that prosecutors are driving a tough bargain.
The charge against Hodgkins can carry a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, though U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss said federal sentencing guidelines call for a sentence in the range of 15 to 21 months.
POLECAT
POLECAT is a motherfucking ferret
[my presentably immunised ammonification]
A CRIME MUST HAVE HARM TO BE A CRIME BUT OUR CONSTITUTION ALLOWS US TO REBELL IF WE DO NOT LIKE IT WHEN THE GOVERNMENT ACTS LIKE LORDS OVER US WHEN WE SHOULD ALREADY KNOW WE LORD OVER THEM AND IT IS OUR DUTY TO RENEW OUR GOVERNMENT WHEN IT DOES NOT FOLLOW OUR DIRECTION
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Reuters Attack on U.S. Capitol caused $1.5 million in damage, prosecutors say By Jan Wolfe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol caused $1.5 million in damages and indicated that individuals accused of participating in the riot will be asked to foot the bill.
The Justice Department disclosed the $1.5 million figure in a letter to a defense lawyer for Paul Allard Hodgkins, a Florida man who pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of obstructing an official proceeding.
"Your client acknowledges that the riot that occurred on January 6, 2021, caused as of May 17, 2021, approximately $1,495,326.55 damage to the United States Capitol," stated the letter, sent on May 27 and made public on Wednesday.
Hodgkins' plea agreement calls for him to "pay restitution to the Department of Treasury in the amount of $2,000," according to the letter, which was first reported by the Washington Post.
The Justice Department letter did not indicate how investigators arrived at the $1.5 million figure.
A Justice Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
More than 440 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol riots, in which throngs of Republican former President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol in a failed bid to stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's presidential election victory.
Few guilty pleas have been entered so far since the Justice Department launched its sweeping investigation into the deadly attack on the Capitol, in a sign that prosecutors are driving a tough bargain.
The charge against Hodgkins can carry a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, though U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss said federal sentencing guidelines call for a sentence in the range of 15 to 21 months.
New York Daily News ‘Trump man’ defecates on neighbors’ lawn because they’re Democrats Brian Niemietz
He dumps for Trump.
A Donald Trump-supporting serial pooper was cited with a misdemeanor in western Ohio for using his neighbors’ lawn as a toilet because of their politics, the Smoking Gun reports.
Jerry Detrick, a former high school teacher, was identified by a neighbor, who allegedly spotted the 70-year-old man in the act around 3:15 a.m. Sunday in the town of Greenville. When 59-year-old Matthew Guyette, approached Detrick in his yard, the MAGA man “got up” and walked away.
Guyette was able to give police a description, which led them to Detrick, who lives a few blocks from the scene of the event. Detrick reportedly confessed to urinating in the yard Guyette shares with his spouse, and also said that he has defecated on that property on “multiple” occasions.
“Jerry also stated he does it because the residents (at the address) are Democrats and support Joe Biden and he’s a ‘Trump man,’” reads an incident report from police. “This leads me to believe this incident is politically motivated.”
Michigan hotel owner calls woman ‘dumb Democrat’ after she complained her toilet had overflowed: report
Investigators also said they found a wet spot near the hedge where Detrick was seen squatting. He told police he was walking home from a bar when he cast his vote on his neighbors’ property.
According to Guyette’s Facebook page, he’s been finding piles of manure in his yard since the Obama era and he suspects Detrick is “the man who’s been shi--ing in our front yard for the past ten years.”
Detrick allegedly confessed to police that he had defecated in his neighbors yard several times on dates unknown.
Originally posted by POLECAT
A CRIME MUST HAVE HARM TO BE A CRIME BUT OUR CONSTITUTION ALLOWS US TO REBELL IF WE DO NOT LIKE IT WHEN THE GOVERNMENT ACTS LIKE LORDS OVER US WHEN WE SHOULD ALREADY KNOW WE LORD OVER THEM AND IT IS OUR DUTY TO RENEW OUR GOVERNMENT WHEN IT DOES NOT FOLLOW OUR DIRECTION
Let's see what happened the last time:
CIVIL WAR | ARTICLE Civil War Casualties The Cost of War: Killed, Wounded, Captured, and Missing
The Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict. The unprecedented violence of battles such as Shiloh, Antietam, Stones River, and Gettysburg shocked citizens and international observers alike. Nearly as many men died in captivity during the Civil War as were killed in the whole of the Vietnam War. Hundreds of thousands died of disease. Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty. Taken as a percentage of today's population, the toll would have risen as high as 6 million souls.
Business Insider Trump is said to be trying hard to recruit politicians and journalists to back the baseless theory he will be reinstated as president tcolson@businessinsider.com (Thomas Colson)
Donald Trump is said to "believe quite genuinely" that he will again be president this year.
The baseless idea has circulated among Trump supporters and some fringe media outlets for months.
Sources told National Review that Trump was trying to get influential figures to spread the theory.
Former President Donald Trump is said to be "trying hard" to recruit politicians and journalists to promote his baseless theory that he will be reinstated as president this year, National Review reported.
Charles C.W. Cooke, a senior reporter for National Review, said he had confirmed the New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman's reporting on the subject.
"Haberman's reporting was correct," he wrote. "I can attest, from speaking to an array of different sources, that Donald Trump does indeed believe quite genuinely that he - along with former senators David Perdue and Martha McSally - will be 'reinstated' to office this summer."
He added: "Trump is trying hard to recruit journalists, politicians, and other influential figures to promulgate this belief - not as a fundraising tool or an infantile bit of trolling or a trial balloon, but as a fact."
Haberman tweeted Tuesday that Trump had told others he believed he'd reenter the White House by August.
"Trump has been telling a number of people he's in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn't how it works but simply sharing the information)," Haberman tweeted.
The baseless theory has been circulating among Trump supporters and fringe conservative media outlets for months, Insider's Jake Lahut reported.
It is based on the belief that President Joe Biden's victory will be overturned following "audits" of last year's presidential election in states including Georgia and Arizona. Trump and his allies filed more than 40 legal challenges to last year's election result, all of which failed.
Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, has been a vocal proponent of the theory that Trump will be reinstalled to the White House in August. He told Trump's former advisor Steve Bannon that the theory was "100% real."
Lindell also took credit for Trump's reported belief in the August deadline, telling The Daily Beast: "If Trump is saying August, that is probably because he heard me say it."
Sidney Powell, a former attorney for Trump, also pushed the theory at a conference over the weekend.
Reuters Facebook suspends former U.S. President Trump's account until 2023 By Elizabeth Culliford
(Reuters) -Facebook Inc on Friday suspended former U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform until at least January 2023 and announced changes to how it will treat rule-breaking world leaders in the future.
Facebook's independent oversight board in May upheld the social media giant's block on Trump, which was enforced in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, because the company said his posts were inciting violence.
However, the board ruled it was wrong to make the ban indefinite and gave it six months to determine a "proportionate response."
Trump's two-year suspension was effective from the initial date he was he was blocked - Jan. 7 this year - and will only be reinstated if the risk of public safety had receded, Facebook said in a blog post. A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Facebook said it would work with experts to make this determination and would evaluate factors including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markers of civil unrest. It also said there would be a set of escalating sanctions that would be triggered if Trump broke further rules that could lead to his permanent removal.
"Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr. Trump's suspension, we believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols," Facebook's head of global affairs Nick Clegg said in the post.
The timing of Trump's suspension means Trump will not be able to use his accounts ahead of the November 2022 national midterm elections, when his party will be competing for Congressional seats, but may be able to return to social media well before the next presidential election in late 2024.
Social media companies have grappled in recent years with how to handle world leaders and politicians who violate their guidelines.
Trump's suspension was the first time Facebook had blocked a current president, prime minister or head of state.
Facebook has come under fire from those who think it should abandon its hands-off approach to political speech. But it has also been criticized by those, including Republican lawmakers and some free-expression advocates, who saw the Trump ban as a disturbing act of censorship.
The company also announced, in response to the board's recommendations, that it would make changes to how it handles world leaders on its site. In one reversal, it is ending its policy that shields politicians from some content moderation rules because their content is considered "newsworthy." It will also disclose when it does use this exemption.
