Cipollone defended Trump during his first impeachment.
The seventh hearing of the January 6 Committee is in the books. If Ex-President Blubber was watching, you know he has another name to add to his growing “Enemies of the People” list.
That would be: former White House Chief Counsel Pat Cipollone.
If he watched (and based on his rants after every hearing so far) he either does, or aides provide him with the Cliff Notes version, he had to have started boiling from the start. Rep. Liz Cheney, his nemesis in the Republican Party, announced to those in the hearing room or watching on TV that Mr. Cipollone’s testimony “met our expectations.”
(This blogger cans say he also met mine.)
Already, she explained, the hearings have forced Trump defenders to draw new lines. Now they try to claim that he wasn’t to blame for fomenting insurrection. Incompetent advisors were at fault. Mr. Trump was “badly served.” Rep. Cheney was having nothing of it. “The president,” she said, is “a 76-year-old man, not an impressionable child.” Although, if you’ve seen him in action, you might think he was. No. Trump knew his lies about a stolen election were lies. He tells those lies still. Millions put their “faith and their trust in Donald Trump,” she said. In many cases, he led them to personal ruin, including one of the witnesses for the day, and nearly ruined democracy itself.
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Once again, the Committee wove a powerful narrative, with major players fleshing out details, and Cipollone, who finally agreed last Friday to testify, as the hero of the tale. Eugene Scalia, former Labor Secretary in the Trump administration, had a cameo role. He testified, on tape, that by mid-December 2020, it was clear. “It was time,” he said of Trump, “for him to acknowledge that Biden had won.”
He still hasn’t.
“Everybody is obligated to abide by the rulings of the courts.”
Cipollone’s testimony had been taped. As White House Chief Counsel (I noticed on Fox News later that he was described only as a “White House lawyer”) was sometimes careful in what he said. He could not, for example, repeat anything he said directly to the president, or that the president said to him. Client-attorney privilege, after all, does prevail; and executive privilege for a President of the United States is real. So investigators asked him to comment on testimony from previous witnesses, like former Attorney General Bill Barr. Did Cipollone agree with Barr, who said that in November-December 2020, he had three times told Trump there was no significant evidence of voter fraud. Was Barr correct? “Yes,” Cipollone replied. “I agreed with that.”
In a brief conversation as early as November 23, 2020, Cipollone said he talked with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Meadows told him that he believed Trump should concede and “exit gracefully” from the White House.
Cipollone consistently bolstered the testimony of witnesses and the previous hearings. He, too, believed Trump should have conceded by that point. Which previous witnesses were being bolstered? Pretty much all of the 27 main witnesses who had come before. Cipollone was asked about Trump’s legal team – and their near-perfect record of defeats in 62 court cases challenging election results. Was Trump obligated to abide by the rulings of the courts? The former White House chief counsel seemed all too happy to respond. “Everybody,” he said. “Everybody is obligated to abide by the rulings of the courts.”
We already know that Barr had told Trump, three times, by December 13, that the Justice Department had found no evidence of serious voter fraud. He called such claims, made by Trump, pushed by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, “crazy stuff.” Yet these claims had been “made in such a sensational way” that millions of Americans believed them. Such repeated lies, Barr said (although he did not use the word “lies”) were, he told the president, “doing great, great disservice to the country.”
Again, Cipollone could not say what he told the president. Again, he made his position clear in other ways. “It is fair to say that I agreed with Attorney General Barr,” he explained.
Trump had suggested in a December 13 meeting with Barr, that he order the Justice Department to seize “suspect” voting machines.
The attorney general declined.
Yet, on December 16, Trump’s top enablers drafted a letter. This time, the idea was to have the Department of Defense seize the machines. Trump also suggested making Sidney Powell a “Special Counsel,” sort of his own Robert Mueller, except not interested in the truth. When asked what he thought of that harebrained idea, Cipollone did not hold back. “I was vehemently opposed,” he told investigators. “I did not think she should be appointed to anything.”
He was asked to elaborate on why he called Powell’s appointment a “terrible idea.” “I don’t even understand why we have to tell you that’s a bad idea for the country, it’s a terrible idea,” he said again.
Jason Miller (still a loyal sycophant employed by Trump World) appeared on screen next. Did Rudy and Sidney and other Trump outside lawyers really have evidence at that point to prove massive voter fraud? No, he admitted, they did not, and “to say that it was thin is probably an understatement.”
Cassidy Hutchinson, the star of the sixth hearing, was shown in pieces, adding detail to the story. By mid-December, commenting on Mark Meadows and his role, she said, “I perceived that his goal in all this was to keep Trump in office.”
She did not indicate that she believed that was a legitimate goal.
Screaming, profanity, and threats of violence.
A large portion of the hearing was devoted to dissecting an explosive meeting at the White House on the evening of December 18, 2020. The meeting was not on the official schedule, and Powell, Giuliani, General Michael T. Flynn, and Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock.com. simply showed up and gained entrance to the White House with the help of a junior staffer. What followed would be six hours of heated argument, punctuated by screaming, profanity, and threats of violence. None of the regular White House legal staff had been notified about the meeting. When asked about that, Powell grumbled that Cipollone “probably set a land speed record” getting down to the Oval Office to intervene.
Cipollone was backed up by two other members of the White House Counsel’s Office, Eric Herschmann and Derek Lyons. None of those three could testify as to what Mr. Trump said. They could say what they thought of the group of outsiders. Flynn, we know, has made no bones about where he stood. He was urging the President of the United States to declare martial law. Cipollone’s disdain was clear. “I don’t think any of these people were providing the president with good advice,” he testified. He scoffed at evidence Flynn said he had, proving voter fraud. He waved around a diagram that showed all kinds of links to foreign nations – and somehow proved that voting machines could be controlled by hacking thermostats. Participants in the meeting changed locations several times, and the meeting dragged on past midnight. At times the shouting was so loud, the entire West Wing was soon alerted. Hutchinson sent out a text at one point, stating simply, “The West Wing is UNHINGED.”
Powell finally left in a huff, but testified later that she would have fired Cipollone, Herschmann and Lyons on the spot. Then, had she been in charge, she would have had them escorted out of the White House – and probably thrown their personal belongings out after them.
A second message from Hutchinson was shown, up on the big screen the January 6 Committee employs. It was a photo of Mark Meadows leading Rudy Giuliani down a covered portico next to the Rose Garden and ushering him out into the night. The caption read: “I take one photo for Mark of each of his days. Tonight, it was him escorting Rudy off-campus to make sure he didn't wander back to the Mansion.”
It was that kind of meeting and that kind of day.
What about Powell – and her “evidence” of massive voter fraud – and was she someone a sane person would trust? We know U.S. District Judge Linda Parker ordered Powell and other Team Trump lawyers involved to pay seven-figure legal fees to the State of Michigan for filing what Parker referred to as a “frivolous” legal brief in a voter fraud case that she described as “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.” We know Powell’s being sued for defaming the Dominion Voting Systems company – and sued for $1.3 billion. And we know, since she has no real evidence, even now, to prove that the machines were fixed, that she has adopted an interesting line of defense. “No reasonable person,” her lawyers insist, “would conclude that [Powell’s] statements were truly statements of fact.”
Trump?
Yeah. He believed her.
Or he said he did because it served his selfish interest to keep spreading the “stolen election” lies.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, had testified in a previous hearing. As he put it on March 23, 2021, in response to another failed voter fraud claim filed by Team Trump in Georgia: “In the face of legal action, Sidney Powell admitted that her effort to make millions lying to the American people had no facts to begin with.” Raffensperger, of course, had explained to the Committee, in detail, how claims of voter fraud in Georgia, pushed by Powell and others, were repeatedly debunked.
In any case, by late December 2020, President Trump’s plans to gain a second term that most of his close advisors have testified they knew he did not deserve, had been thwarted in several ways.
PLAN A: This plan involved filing dozens of legal challenges in state and federal courts. That plan failed when, in 61 of 62 cases, judges ruled against Team Trump.
PLAN B: The second plan involved having the Department of Defense seize the voting machines. Then Trump could claim the election was rigged – and probably throw all the machines into the ocean.
DOD declined to be involved.
PLAN C: Okay, then – this plan hinged on having the Justice Department seize the machines, instead. Then Trump and his allies would demand some sort of “redo” of the election in several key states. Attorney General Barr refused to have any role and, effective December 14, 2020, resigned his post.
PLAN D: With the president growing ever more desperate, as laid out in a previous hearing, under this plan Trump would fire Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, after he also said there was no evidence of significant voter fraud. Rosen would be replaced by a sycophant at DOJ, who would do exactly as the president demanded. That plan was foiled when almost everyone at the top levels of Justice threatened to resign.
PLAN E: Trump would call on his supporters to descend on Washington D.C. on January 6. They would stir up so much chaos that either Congress would be cowed, or Trump would have cover to declare martial law.
Plan D was still percolating when Plan E, was set in motion in the early hours of December 19, soon after Mark Meadows led Rudy out into the chill Washington night. At 1:42 a.m., on the morning of December 19, a restless, angry president issued this fiery tweet:
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“‘Will be wild’ means we need volunteers for the firing squad.”
In the wake of that tweet, members of the January 6 panel explained, and evidence they had gathered showed, the president’s focus changed. The danger became more acute. Radical right-wing groups began to align. It was agreed that they would flood the capital on that day. “What are you wearing?” they began to ask each other. “What should we bring?” “Where do we meet up?” on that day.
Word quickly spread. At 10:22 a.m. that morning, Kelly Meggs, a leader of the Oath Keepers, announced on Facebook that he had cobbled together “an alliance between the Oath Keepers, Florida 3%ers, and Proud Boys. We have decided to work together and shut this shit down.” Kelly O’Brien, who would later show up and help storm the halls of Congress, put out this tweet the same day. “CALLING ALL PATRIOTS!” she wrote. “Be in Washington D.C. January 6. This wasn’t organized by any group. DJT has invited us and it’s going to be ‘wild.’” Alex Jones broadcast the same appeal, the same day to his Infowars fans. The president was calling them to be in D.C. on that day. Other right wing leaders picked up and put out the same call.
Violent rhetoric in chat rooms, and on social media platforms now ramped up. “Bring handcuffs and wait near the tunnels,” which led inside the Capitol Building, one person tweeted. “Body armor, knuckles, shields, bats, pepper spray, whatever it takes,” suggested another. “JOIN YOUR LOCAL PROUD BOYS ORGANIZATION AS WELL.” “Cops don’t have ‘standing’ if they are laying on the ground in a pool of their own blood,” howled another Trump fan. “Is this the 6th D-Day?” inquired another. “Is that why Trump wants everyone there?” “Trump just told us all to come armed. Fucking A, this is happening,” replied another. “It ‘will be wild’ means we need volunteers for the firing squad,” another supporter of the president explained.
Finally, we had Trump fans offering up their own versions of the “Final Solution” to be implemented on January 6. “Why don't we just kill them? Every last democrat, down to the last man, woman, and child? The average democrat is a traitor. They do not care about election fraud. The punishment for treason is death,” said one crazed right-winger. A second Trump supporter was equally anxious to clear the political field of Trump’s foes. “It’s time for the DAY OF THE ROPE! WHITE REVOLUTION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION!”
So the people who would be coming to Washington D.C. were primed. Revolution for some. Racism for others. Many of them had simply been fooled by all the stolen election lies. As Rep. Jamie Raskin explained, the Oath Keepers were clear. In a series of private messages, he said, they prepared to use “lethal force against anyone who tried to remove Trump from office, including the National Guard.”
On December 21, there was another planning meeting in the White House. This time eleven GOP congressmen and women met with President Trump, led by Rep. Mo Brooks. The others included: Rep. Andy Biggs, Rep. Paul Gosar, Rep. Brian Babin, Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Louis Gohmert, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Jody Hice, Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. Scott Perry, and Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene.
PLAN F was now discussed – that plan being for Vice President Mike Pence to agree not to count all the electoral votes on January 6. Pence and Meadows sat through the meeting, as did President Trump. What exactly was said, we still don’t know. We do know this. Pence later determined (or probably understood at that very moment) that the U.S. Constitution would have granted no one person unilateral power to overturn the certification of the state’s electoral votes.
We know now. On several occasions before January 6, on the morning of that day again, he made it clear to President Trump. He would open and count the electoral votes as they had been submitted by the 50 states and the District of Columbia. And he would not set any aside, in an effort to delay the final results, and help Trump out. Members of the panel had questioned Cipollone in regard to Mr. Pence. The vice president he had replied, “did what was legal.”
Then he asked to say more. “I think the vice president did the right thing. I think he did the courageous thing. I have great respect for the vice president…I think he did a great service for the country. I think I suggested to somebody that he should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his actions,” he added.
In the days leading up to the riot, concern was growing on many fronts. Katrina Pierson, who was helping organize the “Stop the Steal” events for that day, warned others that “very, very vicious” crazies were talking about showing up. She emailed Meadows to tell him plans were getting out of hand. Some “very suspect” groups, she said, were mobilizing and planning to show up in force. On January 2, she and Meadows talked on the phone. By that time, she had been told the President of the United States planned to march to the Capitol, after his big speech at the Ellipse. This question – of when Trump planned to march, and how much damage he was prepared to accept – will likely be a focus of the eight hearing, probably next week. Meadows, as we have said, claimed Trump never really planned to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6. But the Committee put up on the big screen for all to see, an official document, because the president had been shown it, which made it clear. The plan to march on January 6 was already afoot.
On January 4, another organizer of the “Stop the Steal” events sent a message to Mike Lindell, another one of the craziest supporters of President Trump. The plan to march to the Capitol was in the works – but had to remain secret.
“This stays only between us, we are having a second stage at the Supreme Court again after the ellipse. POTUS is going to have us march there/the Capitol,” Kylie Kremer explained. “It cannot get out about the second stage because people will try and set up another and Sabotage it,” she added. “It can also not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to just call for it “unexpectedly[.]”
And so the march was planned.
People close to the president, both inside and outside the White House, his own supporters, Trump himself knew. January 6 was going to be wild.
How “wild” was the only question.
The wilder the better, it seemed to President Trump. On the morning of January 5, White House call logs show that Steve Bannon talked with him for eleven minutes (8:57-9:08 a.m.) Later, Bannon announced almost gleefully on his podcast, “All hell is going to break loose tomorrow…Strap in.” That evening, angry Trump supporters, whipped up by people like General Flynn and Roger Stone, gathered not far from the White House. Stone warned the audience that they must prevail the following day. They had to stop Congress from certifying the vote, or “the United States will step off into a thousand years of darkness.” Alex Jones howled, “1776, 1776, 1776, 1776, 1776,” until the crowd began to chant back, “1776, 1776, 1776.” If anyone stopped to consider how much bloodshed was required in 1776, before the Thirteen Colonies could break away from British control, no one at the rally seemed to care.
Multiple White House aides testified to having been called into a meeting by President Trump at the same time. They could hear the shouts of the crowd and patriotic and rock music being blasted in the distance. According to one aide, Trump “was in a very, very good mood,” “a fantastic mood,” she said. He asked the aides to offer up any ideas they might have on how he could “make the RINOs do the right thing” on January 6. Even many of those aides knew the story of the stolen, rigged election was a lie.
Meanwhile, multiple drafts of the president’s speech for January 6 were being prepared. On the morning of the riot, we know Trump spoke with White House advisor Stephen Miller from 9:52 to 10:18.
Not long after, new language was inserted into the speech. Now it read:
Cooler heads soon prevailed. Those sentences were excised. Then, at 11:20 a.m. Pence made a last call to Trump for the day. He was firm. He would not set aside any state’s electoral votes.
The president was furious. He called Pence a “wimp” and a “pussy.”
A tweet from Robert Gabriel, who began his career in the Trump administration as an aide to Stephen Miller, went out to everyone working to finalize the speech. “REINSERT THE MIKE PENCE LINES. Confirm receipt,” it read.
In the end, Trump ad-libbed repeatedly during what became an incendiary January 6 speech. He attacked Pence or questioned his courage multiple times. He talked about “fighting like hell” – words not in the prepared speech. He ad-libbed again, shouting that if his people wouldn’t fight, they “might not have a country anymore.”
Then he called on everyone to march to Capitol Hill – which had been secretly planned. He shouted that he would march along. At that point, you could say, Trump’s allies had poured out all the gasoline they could find.
Now the 45th President of the United States – and possibly the last, had Trump had his way – lit the match.
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“I feel like I had horse blinders on.”
As with all the hearings, live witnesses also appeared, but this time testified only at the end, and only about their links to the riot. The first witness was Steven Ayres, an Ohio man who came to D.C. on January 6, joined the march, entered the Capitol Building, and was subsequently identified and arrested. He had come forward voluntarily to tell his story. Ayres described himself as a “family man,” “a working man, really.” He said he liked to go camping, and enjoyed “playing games” with his son.
How did he come to be in D.C. on January 6, 2021? “I was pretty hardcore” into social media, he said. He believed the stolen election lies, and “felt like I needed to be down there.”
“I was very upset,” he added.
Prior to the attack, Ayres had been clear about why he was going to Washington on that fateful day. On Facebook, on Jan. 4, he wrote:
“History is being made right in front of your eyes! When your grandchildren ask ‘Where were you when...........happened?’ What’s your answer going to be?” The post attaches an image of a poster stating, “January 6th Washington, DC, the president is calling on us to come back to Washington on January 6th for a big protest – ‘Be there, will be wild.’”
He was asked why he joined the march to Capitol Hill. Was he planning to march, to enter the building?
“Well, basically,” he replied, “the president, you know, got everybody riled up, told everybody to head on down. So we basically…just following what he said.” His decision, of course, has done grave damage to his family and overturned his life. He was fired from his job of twenty years. He had to sell his home. (I felt bad watching him testify, because his wife sat behind him – and for her it had to be incredibly hard.) Ayres sounded contrite. He sounded sincere. His cadences and accent made him sound like some of the people I know here in Ohio, some of whom still believe Trump’s lies.
A questioner on the panel asked Ayres what he would say to others who believed as he once did?
“I was hanging on every word [Trump] said,” he admitted. “I consider myself a family man, and I love my country…I feel like I had horse blinders on.” He thought a moment and added, “I would tell them to take the blinders off.”
Mr. Ayres plead guilty to one count of “disruptive or disorderly conduct in a restricted building,” on June 8. He awaits sentencing in his case. He could end up in jail for a year, and could be fined $100,000.
It’s more likely that he will get something in the range of 30 days’ home confinement, a year of probation, and a fine of $1,000, in line with similar cases, where no violence or property damage occurred.
After the hearing ended, Ayres went over to a group of police officers that had been badly injured in the attack, including Sgt. Aquilino Gonell. Officer Gonell had just learned that the injuries he sustained during the assault will never completely heal, and he will no longer be able to perform his duties. The panel pointed him out and highlighted his story (Iraq combat veteran, U.S. Army, sixteen years, now permanently disabled). The TV cameras focused on Gonell, wiping away a tear. Ayres shook his hand and apologized for his part in the disasters of that day.
Trump?
He still sits, unscathed, at Mar-a-Lago, goes golfing whenever the mood strikes, still lies about the stolen election. He’s still plotting his next move.
Trump at Mar-a-Lago this past Easter.
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“Language is the soil of thought.”
The final witness was Jason Van Tatenhove, former spokesman for the radical right-wing group, the Oath Keepers.
As noted in Part I of this massive series of posts, I have always liked a quote by James Russell Lowell, an abolitionist poet. “Language is the soil of thought,” he once wrote, and in the 1850s, abolitionists used language to stir the hearts of many Americans to join the fight against slavery.
From the moment he rode down the escalator in 2015, Donald Trump polluted the soil of American political discourse. He sprayed toxic pesticides of hate and fear on all our democratic crops.
Van Tatenhove explained the effects he felt. He was a journalist who went out to cover a standoff involving a rancher named Cliven Bundy and the federal government over land use in Nevada. He met a number of members of the Oath Keepers around that time, and admits he was “swept up” by the rhetoric of Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the group, who supported Bundy’s cause. Van Tatenhove was soon hired to do graphic design work for the Oath Keepers, to write about their cause – freedom from tyrannical federal control. He had a family to support; and now he had a steady income.
The more he delved into the message Rhodes was selling, the greater became his doubts. Fighting a tyrannical government? Yes. That would be a positive goal. One day, he stumbled into a conversation with four other members of the group. They were talking about the Holocaust being a hoax. He testified that he went home that day, told his wife he couldn’t continue, and resigned from his post.
Today, he warns, the Oath Keepers – who had such a large presence during the January 6 riot, and who had close connections with people like Roger Stone – has become a “violent militia.” Over time, he watched them become “radicalized,” “straight-up racist.” They had become a “white nationalist” organization. Their vision for this country, he warned, “doesn’t necessarily include the rule of law.”
Van Tatenhove was asked, specifically, about Stewart Rhodes’ interest in seeing President Trump invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 – an idea being floated by some of Trump’s most unhinged advisors. For one of the few times, since I’ve been watching hearings, I thought a witness was laying out his own theories and not hard evidence. Yet, what Van Tatenhove had to say still resonated. He said he believed Rhodes and his group would have seen that Act as validating their efforts, as cover for violence, opening a path toward their goals.
Had Trump invoked the Insurrection Act, he believed, it would have been “the spark of a civil war.”
“We got lucky,” he said, for on January 6, the bloodshed might have been far worse. Trump and a wide array of his enablers, from Alex Jones to Sidney Powell to Rep. Andy Biggs, had been dealing in “lies, deceit, and snake oil.” He said he feared a world in which Trump gained a second term.
He feared for the future of his three daughters and his granddaughter, and the nation, if the snake oil salesman ever saw the inside of the Oval Office again.
Records checked for 1,666 rioters, allies and enablers
who have lost jobs,
or been arrested for related reasons.
(LAST UPDATED: 8/16/2026.)
We include this guy:
The president polluted the soil after the election.
ORANGE ALERT:
1150. Donald Trump: We are thrilled to update our list of Capitol
Hill rioters, and several dozen of their pals. At long last, we add the “Big Enchilada” to the roster of shame.
(That’s a Watergate reference.)
Trying to steal the “Stolen Election” himself.
While not personally rioting, his chunky self, Donald
was there in spirit on January 6, 2021. On August 1, 2023, Special Prosecutor
Jack Smith announced that the former president had been indicted on four felony
charges.
Boiled down to its essence, we learned in the indictment
that Mr. Trump and six unindicted co-conspirators are accused of hatching a
wide-ranging conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Trump now joins our list of charged rioters – and rioter pals –
who supported their efforts to uproot democracy.
As of January 20, 2025, that list includes 15 “false electors”
charged in Michigan (a sixteenth has agreed to testify), six “fake electors”
indicted in Nevada, 18 “fake electors and associates in Arizona,” and 18
co-conspirators in Georgia. We include Tucker Carlson, who lost his job for
lying, as well as David DePape, who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a
hammer. Several Trump lawyers, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell,
and Dr. John Eastman also appear. We have also made the decision to add several
individuals who died of natural causes during the attack on the Capitol, as
well as the name of the alleged January 6 bomber. Brian Cole, Jr., was not
finally identified and arrested until December 2025.
Those dead of natural causes include:
Roseanne Boyland
Kevin Greeson
– and –
Benjamin Phillips
That gives us:
1,666 names.
At this editing:
2,112 days
have passed since the 2020 presidential election. No earthly proof
has been revealed in any court of law to indicate that Trump did anything on
November 3, 2020.
Except lose.
At Trump’s first court appearance regarding
this case, Capitol Hill Police Officer Harry Dunn was there to observe. He told reporters, “They should have arrested
him on January 7.”
UPDATE
(5/31/24): This is stretching our system a little; but per our usual
practice, we now underline Trump’s name – indicating he has been convicted of a
crime, as have so many of his riotous January 6 fans.
On
Friday, May 30, a New York jury convicted him on 34 felony counts, related to
his hush money payments to a porn star, and illegal efforts to cover up the
story during his first run for president. These crimes are not related to the
attack on January 6, but Trump is now a felon.
…34
times.
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Patriotic Lemmings.
WE NOW TURN to the
first 55 rioters charged, and the one killed during the Capitol Hill attack.
We also include the
three individuals who died of natural causes.
Who are or were they?
__________
“Language is the soil
of thought.”
James Russell Lowell
__________
THIS MASSIVE DOCUMENT – nearly 1,800 pages long
– grew out of a Facebook exchange with two of my former students. I taught
seventh and eighth grade history for 33 years, in Loveland, Ohio, and couldn’t name
five kids I didn’t like.
On Facebook, I was, in the years before Donald
Trump came along, friends with 1,500 former pupils. The Trump years proved hard.
Here in Ohio, the majority voted for Donald Trump in three elections.
Whereas I consider him the most dangerous politician of my lifetime.
(Update, as of 8/9/26: the most dangerous in
American history.)
In the wake of the attack on Capitol Hill on
January 6, I expressed my horror. One former student, Angie, a favorite of
mine, told me I should look into the attack further – insisting the rioters
were actually Antifa. Susie, another former student, one I remember as a lovely
young lady, suggested I watch a video about QAnon. She said it would explain a
great deal. I gave it a shot, to be polite.
I ended up telling her, as gently as possible,
that I found the whole QAnon story nothing but “nonsense.”
I decided to start pouring over the evidence.
If I dug into the story of the attack, would I learn that the attackers (who
looked exactly like Trump fans at a rally) were left-wing folks in disguise?
Or would my fears be upheld? Were the rioters
Trump fans? Were they intent on overturning the results of a fairly decided
election, because their false god had convinced them the vote had been rigged?
Here’s
what I’ve found.
PART I: “TRUMP
SENT US.”
__________
“Men’s minds, once unbalanced, are ready to believe
anything.”
Tacitus
__________
1664. (R.I.P.) Roseanne
Boyland,
34, who was trampled to death by the mob, was a “fervent Trump supporter,”
caught up in QAnon conspiracy thinking and “hatred for
Joe Biden.”
Her mother asked
why she felt a need to be in D.C. on January 6. “My
president has asked me to come support him,” she told her mom. “And I’ve done
so many stupid things in my life that I’m going to do something that I really
believe in.” After she was trampled, officers worked for ten minutes, trying to
revive her.
(Sedition Hunters by Ryan J. Reilly, p. 87.)
Her
brother-in-law, speaking to reporters the day after the melee, said he blamed
her death on then-President Trump, who “incited a riot.”
(Boyland is
not numbers on our list – because she never made it inside the Capitol.)
Trump “sent us,”
QAnon believer.
(NOT ANTIFA.)
(We decided to
number these dead only after five other January 6 rioters also committed
suicide.)
James Russell Lowell was right, of course: “Language is the soil of
thought.” In days and weeks after the 2020 election, President Trump laced the
soil of political discourse with toxins.
The crop he reaped was death and destruction.
UPDATE (8/9/26): In a search for details on the
deaths of all the individuals who died during or as a result of the riot (and
that would include five police officers, one by heart attack, four by suicide),
I found additional information regarding Ms. Boyland’s death. A month after she died,
the D.C. medical examiner’s office released its conclusion that Boyland had died accidentally of “acute amphetamine
intoxication.” According to the Washington Post, “The drug cited in Boyland’s death is addictive and can be prescribed
to treat attention-deficit disorder and narcolepsy.”
Boyland’s sister told the Associated Press that a police detective told the family that Boyland – an avid
Trump supporter who subscribed to Q Anon conspiracy theories – had collapsed
while standing off to the side in the Capitol rotunda.
*
1665. (R.I.P.) Kevin Greeson: Greeson, 55, had once supported
President Barack Obama. By the time of the riot, however, his allegiance had
shifted dramatically. Now an ardent supporter of Donald J. Trump, Greeson had traveled
all the way from Athens, Alabama, to take part in the protest on the day
scheduled. He believed, for example, that the election had been stolen – an idea
that President Trump had drummed into his head – and an idea that Trump has
drummed into millions of heads in all the years since. On social media, in
weeks prior to the riot, he had posted the kinds of messages that should have caused
alarm bells to ring inside the White House. “Let’s take this f***ing Country
BACK!!” he wrote. “Load your guns and take to the streets!”
In an interview on January 7, with The
New York Times, his wife, Kristi Greeson said her husband authorities had informed
her that her husband died of a heart attack in all the excitement.
Ms.
Greeson said her husband, who was a father of five, had left home on Tuesday,
spending the night in Virginia with a friend. She said her husband, who had
high blood pressure, was excited to attend the rally, believing the election
had been stolen.
“He felt
like it was a monumental event in his mind,” she said. “I didn’t want him to
go. I didn’t feel like it was safe.”
As the Times reported, “Mr. Greeson’s
family said Thursday that ‘he was not there to participate in violence or
rioting, nor did he condone such actions.’”
Trump supporter,believed the election was stolen.
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1666. (R.I.P.)
Benjamin Phillips: A computer programmer from Ringtown, Pennsylvania,
Mr. Phillips, 53, had organized a caravan of Trump supporters
to drive to Washington D.C., as Donald Trump had ordered.
So, he was there on January 6,
exactly as the President of the United States had wanted; but he had heart
problems and died during the rioting. There is no indication, however, that he
ever joined in any violence.
Trump supporter.
*
(R.I.P.) LAUREN WEGNER: Ms. Wegner was not a
January 6 rioter, but she was killed by Shane Jason Woods, who was.
She died when, Woods, distraught
over his role in the attack and all his resulting legal problems attempted to
commit suicide by driving the wrong way on Interstate 55, near Chicago – and
slammed into her vehicle, killing her, instead.
*
A LIST OF INDIVIDUALS ARRESTED as a result of alleged or proven involvement
in the violent events of January 6, 2021, follows. If an individual’s name is underlined,
that person has now pled guilty, or been convicted at trial. If underlined and CAPITALIZED,
they have been sentenced.
In this post we cover 56 names, including one
rioter who was killed by police during the attack on the Capitol.
*
“Here my Roar you fucking communist bastards.”
1. TOMMY FREDERICK ALLAN: The California gentleman was charged with “violent penetration” of the Capitol
Building, attempting to steal a flag, and stealing documents from Sen. Mitch
McConnell’s desk. According to a tipster, Allan destroyed those documents after
he returned home.
Allan, far left.
The tipster also noted that Allan had shown him “a disturbing
[social media] post that said ‘the next step of the Insurrection was to get rid
of Justice Roberts.’” The three charges he faced could have carried a combined
penalty of more than twenty years in prison.
In a section on “background” to the riots, the agent who
wrote up the charge against Allan notes that rioters:
…also confronted and terrorized members of
Congress, Congressional staff, and the media. The subjects carried weapons
including tire irons, sledgehammers, bear spray, and Tasers. They also took
police equipment from overrun police including shields and police batons. At
least one of the subjects carried a handgun with an extended magazine. These
actions by the unknown individuals resulted in the disruption and ultimate
delay of the vote Certification
Allan posted two photos to social media. One
showed members of the Three Percenters, in tactical gear. An individual facing
the camera has a name patch reading “Hound Dog” on his bulletproof vest. The
caption reads: “These are my people. PATRIOTS!”
The other photo is captioned, “You don’t want
to hear the evidence. Fine! Here my Roar you fucking communist bastards. Give
me freedom or give me death.”
The distinctive patch “Three Percenter” in the
image, identifies a right wing militia organization which claims to be a small
number of dedicated “patriots” protecting Americans from government tyranny,
just as the patriots of the American Revolution protected early Americans from
British tyranny. They draw their name from the inaccurate historical claim that
only three percent of Americans fought in the Revolutionary War against the
British.
(Allan agreed to a plea deal in August 2022; the following December he was
sentenced to 21 months in prison. He must also pay a fine of $2,000; and upon
his release he will have to complete three years’ probation.)
Trump supporter, believed in
“stolen election” myth.
*
“Spurred on by then-President
Donald Trump.”
2. FELIPE MARQUEZ: The Florida suspect, age 25, posted videos to Snapchat, showing himself and others
breaking into the Capitol Building, and later into a small conference room used
by a U.S. senator.
Marquez posted additional video from his drive
north to D.C. in a white Tesla automobile. He points out various cars on the
road with flags and signs of support for President Trump. Another clip shows
him arriving in the capital. He looks into the camera and mouths the words of a
song. On his noggin’ he wears the famous red “Keep America Great” hat.
On January 20, 2021, Marquez explained his decision to go to the Capitol and get caught up in the
riot. “I went on the 6th to D.C. to protest against communism and
prostitution,” he told CBS News.
So, we assume, Marquez had been listening to QAnon.
“How did you learn about going to
D.C.?” asked Ty Russell, a CBS reporter.
“Just through the president,” Marquez
answered.
“This is like a Rosa Parks, like Martin Luther King moment
for me,” he said. “As long as I’m peaceful and I can say, ‘Hey, let’s all come
together,’ I think that’s the most important thing.”
(This blogger is trying to remember the part of history where
Rosa Park clubbed the bus driver on the skull with a crowbar.)
Evidence from his phone eventually leads to the arrest of Henos Woldemichael (#938 on our list.
*
In December 2021, Marquez pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
three months of home confinement and eighteen months
of probation. As Coral Springs Talk reports:
Marquez’s lawyer said Marquez has severe mental
health issues and thought he had been going to the riots to protest communism.
“I was confused about why a lot of people were
there,” Marquez told U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras. “I didn’t
understand that people were going into the building to try to stop the
certifications. I didn’t realize the extent of my mental health issues. I want
to get help for this.”
“I wish I could take it back,” Marquez said of
his actions.
Contreras, citing a slate of previous Jan.
6 cases in which prosecutors sought probation-only sentences, said Marquez’s
case was “hard to distinguish” from the others. He said he hoped Marquez would
take a “hard look at himself,” blaming his actions on a “confluence of events
spurred on by then-President Donald Trump” and powerful pro-Trump voices.
To say Marquez “lucked out” at sentencing is an
understatement for sure.
More recently, Marquez ran “an end-run
around” around a judicial order to surrender his handguns by signing them over
to his roommate, prosecutors said.
He showed up on law enforcement’s radar again
on Aug. 6 at the Coral Square Mall when a Coral Springs Police Officer found
him toting around a black plastic firearms case with the word GLOCK written on
it.
“The police officer wrote that when he
‘encountered the subject [Marquez], subject confirmed that he has a weapon on
him and that his CCW (Concealed Carry Weapon) license was suspended,” according
to prosecutors. “Subject had admitted that carrying a weapon in a public place
such as a mall is inappropriate, but he did it as a sign of protest for
suspension of his CCW.’ Marquez then left the mall voluntarily.”
“Walking around a mall with an obvious firearm
in a case, while on pretrial release for a felony offense, demonstrates both
poor judgment and potential danger to the community,” prosecutors wrote. “There
is a need for specific deterrence here because Marquez’s actions even after
arrest do not indicate that he appreciates the severity of his criminal
conduct.”
But Contreras was not swayed to send Marquez to
prison.
Marquez is
sentenced to three months on home detention, ordered to pay $500 in
restitution, and placed on probation for an additional eighteen months.
Trump “sent us,” QAnon believer.
*
3. KENNETH GRAYSON: The
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette made it easy to get a fix on Mr. Grayson. He was wearing “a black
Pittsburgh Pirates cap, a black hooded sweatshirt with an American flag patch
on the arm, the insignia of the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flag on one lapel and a
yellow letter Q on his other lapel,” when he was pictured storming Capitol
Hill. “The Q stands for the conspiracy group QAnon, the FBI said.”
The suspect had
also attended pro-Trump rallies in D.C. in November and December. After
returning home in November, he bragged on social media: “I was beating commies
with a flag pole I picked up.” He also said, “I left one unconscious so I did
my little part and got the [expletive] out before I got arrested.”
On December 23,
2020, he wrote that he was “on the front line every time” in taking action as
opposed to “posers” on social media who talked tough but didn’t do anything.
He also made it
clear why he was heading to Washington for the January 6 electoral vote count:
I’m there for
the greatest celebration of all time after Pence leads the Senate flip!! OR IM
THERE IF TRUMP TELLS US TO STORM THE [expletive] CAPITAL IMA DO THAT THEN! We
don’t want any trouble but they are not going to steal this election that I
guarantee bro!!
Grayson
pleads guilty in September 2022. He is eventually sentenced to two months in jail,
fined $2,000, and placed on probation for an additional two years
Trump
supporter, QAnon believer,
believed in a “stolen election,” prepared for violence.
*
4. NOLAN COOKE: Used a GoPro camera to film scenes from
inside the Capitol during the riot; age 22, from Texas; said he went to D.C. because “he wanted to be heard.”
The long-haired young man might have looked
like the Antifa type, but he proudly posted on TikTok and Instagram about his reasons for
joining the attack. One picture, apparently directed to his girlfriend, bore
the caption: “I wouldn’t want anyone
other than you with me to take on the revolution.” Cooke added a kissy-face
emoji. The caption on another photo reads, “What a crazy [expletive] day.”
Even “better,”
Cooke admitted that he traveled with “one or more
firearms” in a car when he drove to D.C. with a relative and his girlfriend. He
claimed, however, that he left them in the vehicle when he went off to the
riot.
So – a Trump fan –
ready to start a revolution – to stop Congress from certifying the electoral
votes.
(Sentenced to one year and a day
in prison
for his role, fined $2,000, and will remain on supervised release for an
additional 36 months.)
Trump supporter.
*
5. WILLIAM VOGEL: the Dutchess County, N.Y. man was arrested and charged for his role in the January 6
riot. He allegedly posted videos of Capitol Hill police retreating in the face
of the mob. When federal agents searched his home they recovered an AR-15-type
rifle. Tipsters allegedly identified Vogel in videos taken during the attack on
Congress. One witness said Vogel was “very vocal” about being at
the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C.
He pled guilty in February 2023, to a single misdemeanor charge, and on
June 16, he was sentenced to 30 days in jail, hit with a
bill for $500 in restitution, and must spend an additional three years on
probation.
Trump supporter,
believed in a
“stolen election.”
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COVID-19 is non-fatal!
6. SIMONE MELISSA GOLD: This one is just funny. I’ll let the opening
paragraph of a story from MedPageToday speak for itself: “Simone
Gold, MD, JD, founder of the notorious pro-hydroxychloroquine, anti-vaccine
group America’s Frontline Doctors, was arrested Sunday for
participating in storming the U.S. Capitol earlier this month, according to the Department of Justice.”
You may recall
President Trump’s pro-hydroxychloroquine statements. At various times, he
called the drug “very encouraging,” “very powerful,” and even “a game changer.”
In a stroke of purest Trumpian genius, he ordered the federal government to buy
63 million
doses,
and then ended up being stuck with them last July.
The FDA reported
that there was “no reason to believe” hydroxychloroquine had any effect against
the coronavirus. Side effects include increased risks of heart problems.
Dr. Gold also spoke at
protests in Washington, D.C., leading up to the riot, as MedPage
notes, casting doubt on the vaccines and claiming that COVID-19 is non-fatal.
Gold stated that citizens must not comply with taking “an experimental,
biological agent deceptively named a vaccine.”
She
called on the audience that day to “march for freedom” and fight for the right
to maybe get smallpox, measles, or polio.
(Okay,
that last line is kind of a joke.)
Comments
at the end of the MedPage story are often amusing, with several
individuals expressing a hope that California will revoke Dr. Gold’s license.
Leslie Grabowski notes, I think accurately, “Doctors can be lunatics, too.”
(On
June 16, 2022, Dr. Gold learns her fate: 60
days in jail, a fine of $9,500, and a year of supervised release after that.)
Trump supporter.
*
A
former underwear model.
7. JOHN HERBERT STRAND: In the affidavit for his arrest, Strand admits he was there on Capitol Hill and participated
in the takeover. At one point, the F.B.I. alleges, he posted a picture with
this caption: “I am incredibly proud
to be a patriot today, to stand up tall in defense of liberty & the
Constitution, to support Trump & #MAGAforever, & to send the message:
WE ARE NEVER CONCEDING A STOLEN ELECTION.”
He and Gold
(above) apparently know one another.
He has been found
guilty on five charges after a jury trial, and awaits sentencing on four
misdemeanors and one felony. On June 1, 2023, he learns that he will be
spending 32 months in prison, another 36 on
probation.
And he is ordered
to pay $12,000 in fines and restitution.
The former
underwear model even managed to raise $17,300 online for his defense, although
he was using the services of a public defender. He and Gold are currently
living together in a $3.6 million mansion.
Trump supporter,
believed in a
“stolen election.”
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Trump supporter, believed in a
“stolen election.”
8. VAUGHN GORDON: The Louisiana man admitted he was inside the Capitol Building. He even described
events as a “riot.”
He insisted, however, that he was peaceful and
did no damage to property. He remained inside for 2-3 hours, taking pictures
and videos. Gordon told authorities he came to D.C. to attend a “Stop the Steal” rally with a friend.
Having pled guilty to a single charge, in
September 2022, Mr. Gordon was finally sentenced in February 2023.
Ninety days’ home confinement, three years on
probation, and $500 thrown down the Trump Lies toilet, by way of restitution.
*
We “will
return on January19,2021, carrying our weapons.”
9. TROY ANTHONY SMOCKS: Mr. Smocks was clear about why he was headed
for D.C., and clear that he was ready for violence.
Today, January
6,2021, we Patriots by the millions, have arrivedin Washington, D.C,
carrying banners of support for the greatest President the world has ever known.
Bit [sic]
if we must.…
Many of
us will return on January19,2021, carrying our weapons, in support or Our nation’s
resolve, towhich [sic] the world will never forget!!!
We will come
in numbers that no standing army or police agency can match. However, the
police are NOT Our enemy, unless they choose to be!
All who
will not stand with the American Patriots…or who cannot stand with Us.… then, that
would be a good time for YOU to take a Few vacation days.
The American
Patriot.
Smocks then joined the attack and on return home to Dallas, posted on Parler:
So over the next 24 hours, I would say lets get
our personal affairs in order. Prepare our weapons, and then go get’em. Lets
hunt these cowards down like the Traitors that each of them are. This includes
RINOS, Dems, and Tech Execs. We now have the green light. [All] who resist US
are enemies of Our Constitution, and must be treated as such. Today, the
cowards ran as We took the Capital. They have it back now, only because We
left. It wasn’t the building that We wanted. . . it was them!”
In October 2021, he reached a plea agreement
and was sentenced to 14 months in prison, and three years of supervised
release.
Trump supporter, ready for violence.
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10. ANDREW HATLEY:According to the affidavit in
Hatley’s case, the South Carolina man drove his “early 2000s” red mustang to
Washington to attend the Trump rally on Jan. 6. When it came time
to storm the Capitol, he wore a gas mask.
Hatley at first denied taking part in the riot,
despite a selfie he posted in front of the John C. Calhoun statue in the lower
floor of the building.
A post was seen on HATLEY’s account which
stated, “It has come to my attention that there was someone who looks like me
at the Capitol. I’d like to set the record straight. I don’t have that kind of
motivation for lost causes. I just don’t care enough anymore, certainly not
enough for all that.”
His denial was not helped, when the first
comment came from an individual identified as “SB Lamont” who stated, “Welcome
back.”
Even worse, for Hatley, GPS data indicated he
was right there on Capitol Hill at the time of the attack. Since that time,
three phone numbers associated with Hatley have been disconnected.
When a reporter for the CharlestonPost
and Courier called the number listed for his employer,
“A man who answered the phone at Senn Freight
Lines, the Newberry trucking company that Hatley lists as his employer on
Facebook, said ‘we will have no comment’ before hanging up.”
Hatley had informed a friend the day of the riot that he went to D.C. to
attend “the protests against the
certification of the election.”
Hatley’s lawyer announces on August 5, 2021 that his client will plead guilty to one of
four charges, stemming from his participation in the attack. He ends up with a
fine, community service, and three years on probation.)
Trump supporter,
believed in a
“stolen election.”
*
11. MATTHEW COUNCIL: In an affidavit, a Capitol Hill police
officer describes Council’s role in the riot. After a window was broken and an
emergency side door breached, he and other officers tried to form a wall to
keep rioters out.
In the course of this effort and while inside
the Capitol building, I encountered an adult male who was later identified as
Matthew Ross COUNCIL. He was part of a larger group, but was individually
pushing against the barrier to include an emergency door that is kept closed.
Once the door was forcibly opened he broke through along with others. All
during this time he was continually yelling at police officers that were trying
to contain the scene. When he was deterred from advancing further into the
building, COUNCIL pushed a uniformed officer of the United States Capitol
Police. COUNCIL was subsequently pepper sprayed by one or more other law
enforcement officers. The pepper spray also had an effect on me, but I was able
to respond and detain COUNCIL. While in custody, but prior to being advised of
his Miranda rights, COUNCIL spontaneously expressed remorse about pushing the
officer and indicated that he did not intend to injure her.
According to the Washington Post,
Council is a former football player at Liberty University “the conservative evangelical institution,” and “appears to have dabbled
in politics, as well. He worked on at least one unsuccessful Republican
campaign for the North Carolina House of Representatives roughly 10 years ago
and also pursued political science courses at Seminole State in 2011.”
His reward for being a Trump dupe: 180 days of home confinement, five more years reporting to his
probation officer, 100 hours of community service, and $2,000 thrown in the
toilet.
Trump supporter, he believed the
election was stolen.
*
“Infamy
is just as good as fame.”
12. GRACYN (GRACE) DAWN
COURTRIGHT: senior at the University of Kentucky, said on
social media that the attack was “cool.”
She posted a picture of herself leaping with
excitement, and captioned it, “Can’t wait to tell my grandkids I was here!”
At one
point, she wandered the halls of Congress, but admitted in one text “idk know what treason is[.]”
According to the affidavit for her arrest,
Courtright posted to Instagram, either the day of the attack or the day after. “INFAMY IS JUST AS GOOD AS FAME,” she wrote above a mirror
photo. “EITHER WAY I END UP MORE KNOWN. XOXO”
She earned an extra charge of theft
for taking a “Member’s Only” sign from the Capitol Building.
Soon after January 6, Courtright
realized infamy might not be as good as fame if it meant getting sent to the
slammer. She deleted all her Facebook, Instagram, and
Twitter posts.
UPDATE: She pleads guilty to a single misdemeanor on August 30, 2021. In another
story about her plea deal, we read,
Judge Christopher R. Cooper set sentencing for Nov. 16. It is
scheduled to take place in-person, but Courtright’s lawyer noted that the
Courtright family has not received any COVID-19 vaccination and has no plans to
do so. Courtright, asked by Judge Cooper whether her vaccination status would
change between now and sentencing, said “probably not.”
According to court documents, one
of her friends, on hearing she had been part of the mob invading the Capitol, called her
an “embarrassment” and “a moron.”
At sentencing in December, the
young woman gets 30 days in jail and a fine of $500. After she
serves her sentence, she must complete 60 hours of community service, and
remain on supervised release for a year.
The University of Kentucky also
suspended her.
Trump supporter.
*
“I f****** charged the Capitol today with
patriots.”
13. JENNY LOUISE CUDD: Cudd is a former mayoral candidate in Midland, Texas and flower shop owner. She
now faces up to 18 months in prison. On Facebook, she posted, “We did break down Nancy Pelosi’s office door and somebody
stole her gavel.”
She claimed later that she used the term “we” to refer to the
actions of the group, not her own.
Her media posts indicate she was being
disingenuous. In one video she exclaimed, “We just pushed, pushed and pushed,
and yelled go and yelled charge … and we got in.” In another: “F*** yes, I am
proud of my actions. I f****** charged the Capitol today with patriots. Hell
yes, I am proud of my actions.”
Asked by a TV reporter on January 8, if she had
any regrets, she replied, “I would absolutely do it again.”
Cudd has described herself as a “conservative diehard patriot.”
Like several other rioters, she was outraged by mask-mandates.
The judge didn’t believe her story that when
she used “we,” it was the royal “we.” She was convicted and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for rioting – or what this blogger paid for two tickets to
Super Bowl LVI.
Trump supporter.
*
14. ELIEL ROSA: A friend of Cudd; told a judge he did not
have legal representation; has not had a job since he was granted asylum from Brazil,
four-and-a-half years ago.
Last year, the news website
SanAngelolive.com described Rosa as a father and husband
with “aspirations to earn his PhD in Public Policy and Constitutional Law,” and
reported that he’d been tapped to serve as an immigration adviser to Jamie Berryhill, a Republican who would lose a GOP primary to represent a
West Texas congressional district.
(Plead guilty, October 12, 2021.
Ordered to perform 100 hours of community service, pay $500 in restitution, and
complete one year of probation.)
Trump supporter.
*
His fiancé dumped him.
Paul Davis: In a series of videos from January 6, the Texas attorney explained why he was in Washington D.C. and what he had
been up to. In one, he reports, “I just got teargassed. That was not
fun.”
In another, he claims, “If this was
a legitimate election, then let us inspect it. We’re all trying to get into the
Capitol to stop this, and this is what’s happening. They’re tear gassing us.
This is not acceptable.”
Before deleting all his social
media posts, a few days later, he defended his actions. “I already lost my job
because of the Twitter mob,” he said. “I’m not upset. I’m thankful to be
suffering for righteousness and freedom.”
His former employer, Goosehead
Insurance, announced his termination:
While we support our employees’ right to vote
and express themselves politically, we do not condone violent or illegal acts.
This one former employee’s actions are not reflective of our company culture or
values, and we are disappointed with his behavior. Thankfully, we have the
cherished rights of assembly and free speech, but those rights do not—and
cannot—extend to violence in any form.
UPDATES:
When I check again on September 1, 2021, I see no evidence that Mr. Davis has
been arrested. He is, however, the type of person that showed up that day and
decided to “fight like hell,” as then-President Trump urged.
Davis later tells a reporter that after it
became known he was at the Capitol, and involved in the melee, everything he
had “worked hard for 10 years evaporated overnight.” He lost his job – his home
– and his fiancé dumped him. For a time, he lost the will to live. To this day,
however, he says he doesn’t feel like he did anything wrong.
He still believes the election was stolen, and
in a story from February 2022, worries about being arrested.
Like every other lawsuit filed by fans of
Donald.
I check back again, in May 2023. Davis was
never arrested – and probably never will be. (He says he never entered the
Capitol; and that may be the case.) He did say later that his participation in the riot, as far as it went, turned out to be “a badge
of honor” among conservatives. He found a new line of legal work, “defending
patriots,” he said, in cases, for example, where individuals were fired for not
wearing masks during the COVID epidemic.
In February 2022, the ABA Journal had caught
up with Davis for an update. At that time, a Journal reporter noted that
Davis had filed an election lawsuit, “only weeks after the riot.” Like every
other lawsuit filed by fans of Donald, related to the 2020 election, Davis’s
suit went exactly nowhere.
The suit had claimed that voting changes made in response to
the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an illegal election and an “illegitimately
elected Congress.”
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of
Texas tossed the suit in September 2021 after a
magistrate judge recommended dismissal for lack of standing and failure to
state a claim. Davis did not file any objections to the magistrate’s
recommendation.
Davis “initially questioned his decision to march on the Capitol,”
but by February 2022, he no longer regretted his actions.
“I just feel like it was really part of God’s plan for my life,”
he told the ABA reporter.
And this might make sense – if we assumed God was an Idiot and He believed
in stolen election conspiracy nonsense.
As of November 16, 2023, we know, 1,108 days since the election,
that NO evidence has ever been found that would indicate the election was
stolen.
God wasn’t leading Davis that day. Trump was. And Trump was lying
– and still is lying. Mr. Davis was a chump.
Trump supporter,
believed in a
“stolen election.”
*
15. ANTOINE BRODNAX: If Davis has not been arrested, Brodnax, from
Sandston, Virginia has. Brodnax, who goes by @bugziethedon on Twitter, and raps as Bugzie the Don, could be seen sitting on the base of the
statue of Norman Borlaug in the United States Capitol Building's Statuary Hall.
(Borlaug was a famous agronomist from Iowa,
known as the “Father of the Green Revolution,” which helped improve crop yields
around the world, and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.)
Brodnax is African American and can be seen in
a photo from the day of the riot sitting atop the hood of a U.S. Capitol Police
SWAT truck, with a cigar in one hand, an American flag draped round his neck.
Normally, this might have gotten an African American man in shot dead.
When interviewed later, Brodnax admitted to federal agents that he
entered the Capitol. He said he had been in D.C. to shoot a music
video, heard about people marching to Congress, and followed along. He has been
charged with a single crime.
(The photo on the SWAT truck is now the cover
of Bugzie’s new album, titled, “The Capital.”)
*
Brodnax eventually pleads guilty to four charges and prosecutors recommend a sentence of 21
months behind bars. This sentence, they say, is merited due to his previous
criminal record, which includes multiple felonies.
16. MICHAEL SHANE DAUGHTRY: According to the F.B.I., the 58-year-old
Georgia man was arrested as a result of his participation in the Jan. 6
riot. The affidavit describes him as operating “Crazy Coon’s Armory” out of his
home. On social media he posts ads for the sale of guns and ammunition.
According to U.S. Marshals his guns are being held as part of his bond
conditions.
Daughtry’s political inclinations clearly lean
far right, as is apparent from his social media posts. On November 2, 2020, an ad for his business
read as follows: “Anyone needing an AR15 and some extra ammo before the
election, I’ve got a couple left in stock. . . It may be your last chance if
the election don’t go right tomorrow! Let me know if you are interested?”
If you still think he might lean left (because you can’t read
and interpret information), federal agents add:
In a Facebook post on December 26th, 2020, DAUGHTRY posted a
picture of a woman alongside an undetermined number of rounds of ammunition
which were partially coated in purple. In the background of the picture, a
machine used in the re-loading of ammunition can be partially seen. The post
reads as follows: “I love a woman in a housecoat reloading ammo. Ain’t our
Purple Anti-Liberal Bullets pretty. We finished up the first 500 rounds
tonight…500 more to go. My buddy ‘Machine Gun Mikey’ poured these powder-coated
bullets for me.”
Daughtry pled
guilty to a single misdemeanor charge in March 2022. At his sentencing, he
said, “I apologize to the court for my indiscretion. But does a person not get
to make at least one mistake in their entire life?”
Since it was not
shown that he entered the building – only that he helped push police back from
the first barricades, he got off with sixty days of home detention, and three
years’ probation.
Judge Randall Moss
might have cut Daughtry some slack, but he made his overall feelings
clear,
saying, “This was not a protest, it was not an everyday event, in fact it was a
singular event in U.S. history in which the peaceful transfer of power was
under assault in this country and that is, every time I think about it,
chilling to the core.”
Right-wing, ready for violence.
*
17. KEVIN STRONG: This particular rioter is described as 6' 7'', and a QAnon supporter from
California. No doubt he’s bummed that none of the “Q” prophecies came true on
Jan. 20, and the Biden inauguration went off as planned.
Strong works for the Federal Aviation
Administration when he’s not on the lookout for cannibalistic pedophile
liberals.
According to KTLA Channel 5 News:
The investigation began after someone told the
agency that Strong “had been showing signs of behavioral changes over the last
few months including stockpiling items and telling others to get ready for
martial law, rioting, and protesting,” the FBI affidavit said.
The FBI was told that Strong had claimed World
War III was going to occur on Jan. 6 and that the extremist group QAnon would
cover the debt for a new truck he recently had purchased.
The FBI also was told that Strong had hung a
flag at his home that said “WW1WGA,” which is a QAnon slogan standing for
“Where We Go One, We Go All,” according to the affidavit.
FBI agents went to Strong’s home east of Los
Angeles on Jan. 16 and seized two guns belonging to his uncle.
According to the affidavit in his case, Strong “adheres
strongly to QAnon ideology, admitting to having ‘Q Clearance,’ and said he
believed that “a new one-party system” called “the Patriot Party” was coming.
It wasn’t. Strong eventually pleads guilty, gets to spend 30 days on home confinement,
perform 60 hours of community service, and pay $500 in restitution. Add on two
years’ probation, as a bonus.
Right-wing, QAnon.
*
18. NICHOLAS DECARLO: This
Texas gentleman, and former Proud Boys member, listened to too much
President Trump.
He wore a t-shirt and a hat to the riot, both
emblazoned with the phrase, “MT Media,” short for “Murder the Media.’
You know: Like Trump has repeatedly said, the media is “the Enemy of the
American People.” DeCarlo, 30, appears in several pictures with Nick Ochs (#120
on our list), founder of the Hawaiian branch of the Proud Boys.
In fact, DeCarlo told investigators he worked for “Murder the
Media News,” and was there, Jan. 6, on…who knows…a reporter’s assignment? Ochs
and DeCarlo are seen in one picture standing in a spot where DeCarlo had
written “Murder the Media” in permanent marker on the Capitol Building
woodwork.
He pleads guilty in September 2022,
knowing he could be looking at more than four years behind bars.
In a plea for leniency, DeCarlo tells the judge, “I’m not a violent
person, I don’t even enjoy fighting or defending myself because I don’t like
hurting people. It’s no excuse for my actions and my role, but I was very much
swept up in the heat of things happening that day that mixed with my desire to
bring original content to my followers with a satyirical [sic] approach.”
The court doesn’t buy his apology and sentences him to four
years in prison. He will also spend time on probation, after he is released. In
addition, he is fined $2,500 for his little graffiti stunt, and another $2,000
for being a bonehead.
In fact, following sentencing DeCarlo and Ochs are filmed, shouting, “Four more
years, four more years, four more years!”
(Oh, yeah, the two dopes also threw smoke grenades at police,
although DeCarlo forgot to pull the pin on his.)
Trump supporter.
*
Arrested – at best – for being a sap.
19. PATRICK ALONZO STEDMAN: The 32-year-old New Jersey man described
himself in his Twitter profile as a “Dating + Relationship Strategist. I
read people like books and help them change their story.”
You could quickly deduce where Stedman stood, politically,
when you realized he posted about the “COVID/CABAL” on his account.
On December 30, 2020, he was already fired up
and ready to go. He called on followers to get in touch, because he was forming
a “team” to go to Washington D.C. on January 6. He explained:
“Highly, HIGHLY recommend all Patriots come to
DC on the 6th. This will be a turning point in our nation.
Will eventually be a national holiday akin to
the 4th of July. You want to tell your grandchildren you were there.”
Trump was never really a patriot.
As Ryan J. Reilly has written, many rioters, including
Stedman, “went mini-viral in their own social circles and ended up getting
turned in by people they knew.” With thousands of followers, it wasn’t long before someone tipped off the
feds, and they tracked him down and threw the book at him. In a video posted to his Twitter account on
the day of the riot, Stedman boasted, “I was pretty much in the first wave, and
we broke down the doors and climbed up the back part of the Capitol building
and got all the way into the chambers.”
In one of his first images posted from the day
of the riot, Stedman said he saw the Yeti! “Backwards hat (Antifa) right where
they were breaking into the main area of Congress.” The picture he included didn’t
really prove anything about who the person in the backwards hat was; in
fact…hell…I might be old, but I can’t tell which person he’s even talking
about. Nor is there any explanation of how Stedman knew the individual was
Antifa.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer,
other videos posted by Stedman showed him sitting in House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.
Stedman, who claimed to be an expert in
“female psychology” was apparently terrible when it came to predictions.
“Patriots took the hard drives from the Capitol,” he tweeted happily at one
point. Then he reported that President Trump had sent in the D.C. National
Guard to assist the rioters. “What did we tell you these last few months? The
storm is here,” he exclaimed.
As in “Q,” the storm is here.
In September 2021, Stedman landed in
trouble again after he engaged in a Twitter battle with an individual he believed
might have tipped off the feds to his participation in the riot. The judge in
his case admonished him not to have any further contact with anyone who might be a witness
against him.
You can even read about his
arrest – and his
commitment to the Lord – on his blog if you are inclined. He did say his family
secured the services of a “top-notch lawyer,” but went on to say his arrest saddened
him.
That night at dinner I cried
deep, uncontrollable tears. The impact of what had not only just happened to
me, but to the country began to sink in. My arrest warrant had been signed by
President Biden the day before about 3 hours after his inauguration. One of his
first decisions had been to arrest his political opponents. The grief was not
for myself, and not even for my family. But for the United States of America I
knew and loved.
Now, when I edit my blog, as I do
periodically, more than 1,149 days have passed since the 2020 election. And
still no proof in court that the voting was rigged. Stedman was arrested – at
best – for being a sap.
On December 27, I edited his entry. By
that time, Stedman had been sentenced to four years in the cooler and the judge had docked him
$22,000.
I edited it again, on September 4, 2024.
The judge in his case notes that new developments may make it necessary to
release Stedman from custody; but the defendant still insists he acted
correctly, because the election was stolen.
Trump supporter, believed in
QAnon.
(CLAIMED TO SEE ANTIFA.)
*
“If
the election is being stolen, what is it going to take?”
20. TYLER ETHRIDGE: Texas Monthlyprovides all the information you need to know on
Ethridge, a youth pastor in Florida. He was once called the “greatest six-man
football player” in Texas high school history. Ethridge starred as quarterback
for Richland Springs High School and set several state records, including most
touchdown passes.
In a video posted
to Parler, a man who identifies himself as a pastor speaks from inside the
Capitol as rioters in the background chant “Stop the steal.” “Just to let you
know, I’m not involved in this,” the man says. “I’m just observing. … I don’t
want to say that what we’re doing is right. But if the election is being stolen,
what is it going to take?”
In the aftermath of the
Capitol riot, Ethridge defended his actions on his YouTube channel. In one
video he said he had a “radical love for this nation,” adding that he believed
that the “prophets” said that Trump should be president for two terms. Meanwhile
on Twitter, where his account is now set to private, he wrote that he was
“willing to go to jail” for what he believed in and had turned himself into
federal authorities. “I don’t have a lawyer. I unlawfully entered the Capitol
(even though I was let in). That’s against the law so I turned myself in,” he
tweeted.
“I’m probably going to lose
my job as a pastor after this,” Ethridge said in the video from inside the
Capitol. Indeed, the church he worked at in Tampa announced on
January 19 that Ethridge was no longer part of its staff.
Etheridge was not arrested until July 8, 2022. However, it appears that he had been fired previously, as a number of these rioters were.
He opted for a bench trial in his case, but on
September 8, he got the bad news he deserved. Guilty on all counts.
(One particularly egregious crime involves “tampering
with a victim, witness, or informant.” Not a good look for a youth pastor.)
UPDATE (9/25/24): Pastor Tyler gets seven months in prison, where we pray he might lead the lost souls to
Jesus – including his cellmate. Also: two years on probation, including 210
days of location monitoring; also 60 hours of community service; also, $2,000
in restitution.
Pass the collection plate!
Trump supporter, believed in a
“stolen election.”
*
21. MELODY STEELE-SMITH: Ms. Steele admits that she was there on
Capitol Hill during the riot. She doesn’t admit there was a riot. In one social
media post she says, “I was there. I’m trying to figure out how I could be
there all day and miss all this violence and destruction I’m seeing on tv. I
think photos for the news were staged.”
She adds, “I hope they come for me my videos
will show the peace and the lies on the news.”
Admittedly, she sounds rather harmless, albeit
ill-informed. There doesn’t appear to be much other information about her.
USA Today does describe Steele-Smith as “a long-time Trump supporter who attended a rally in
Greenville North Carolina last July.” She also “posted photos on her Facebook
account of the inside of the offices for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her
staff during the Capitol riot.”
She pled guilty in
November 2022, and in the summer of 2023 received the bill for her stupidity.
Ninety days of home confinement, two years of visiting a probation officer, and
$500 in restitution.
Trump supporter.
*
22. JACOB LEWIS: The report on Kevin Strong (#17 on our list)
leads to another story from KTLA. A Victorville, California gym owner has also
been charged with participating in the riot. According to this report, Lewis
has defied lockdown orders several times during the pandemic.
According to one tipster, in December Lewis had
shown them photos of firearms he possessed and inquired about how to buy
ammunition, according to court filings. At the time, Lewis warned the person to
“watch what happens to the Capitol January 6,” prosecutors said.
According to the
affidavit, on Jan. 8, F.B.I. agents received a tip that Lewis had flown to
Washington, D.C. “to attack the Capitol along with many Trump supporters to
stop the certification of the electoral college.”
When questioned by agents at
his home, Lewis admitted he was inside the Capitol Building, said that he had
not participated in any violence, and, in fact – as far as facts go – “he
believed that some individuals involved in agitating were Antifa members in
disguise.”
(He is convicted in April 2022.
His fine is stiff: $3,000, plus $500 in restitution. He avoids jail, but gets
two years’ probation, sixty hours of community service.)
Trump supporter,
ready for violence.
(CLAIMED TO SEE
ANTIFA.)
*
“We found out
Pence f---ed us.”
23. MARISSA A. SUAREZ: The correctional officer from Monmouth
County, N.J. resigned from her job after being charged with invading
the Capitol Building.
Suarez took an “emergency holiday” from work to
attend the “Save America Rally” in Washington D.C.
After she and her friend, Patricia Todisco (see
next) listened to President Trump and other speakers on Jan. 6, they headed for the Capitol. Both are charged with “violent entry and
disorderly conduct” for their part in the riot. In one video clip filmed before
rioters broke into the building, Suarez can be heard shouting, “Stop the
Steal.” In another video, Suarez comments on the crowd smashing a way ahead:
“oh Trish, oh shit, oh shit, Yo,
this is what they fucking wanted, this is what they get.”
A text she sent
on Jan. 7 read: “When we found out Pence f---ed us, we all stormed the
Capitol building and everyone forced entry and started breaking s---. It was
like a scene out of a movie.”
Next movie scene
for Suarez: “Orange is the New Black?”
(In the end,
Suarez avoids jail time, but not a fine
of $2,000. In July 2022, She is ordered to pay another $500 in restitution,
complete 60 hours of community service, and report to a probation officer for
the next three years.)
Trump supporter, believed in a
“stolen election.”
*
24. PATRICIA TODISCO: The affidavit in Todisco’s case notes that
she traveled to D.C. with Suarez (above). Several times, while filming videos
from the attack, Suarez calls out to her friend, “Trish.” Todisco was carrying
an American flag, and wearing a red backpack when she entered the Capitol
Building.
In a series of text message and videos the
following day, Suarez essentially identifies her pal as a suspect. For example:
After I took this video, trish and I went all
the way up. We said fuck it and went to the front door
Everyone forcing in
Shit was crazy inside..everything was broken.
People were flipping out.
The smoke alarms were going off bc everyone was
smoking pot and then people started drinking
The metro police blocked off the statues and
tried pushing us out but most of them were cool. I had words with a dick cop..
Apparently they breached the chamber at one
point and stole the flags….A kid stole a coat hanger.. it was funny as shit
Then the cops showed up for riot control and
that’s when it got fucked. The governor issued a 6pm curfew
This is us going in.. (she included a video)
This is one of the antifa fucks we found.. lol
of course for some reason trish and I were around everytime the crowd found
one. I actually saw a kid getting ready to throw a jack daniels bottle with
some shit in at the cops and I started flipping out on him and then I informed
some of the military guys and they handled him.. (video also posted)
Trish took pictures and I took these shit
videos bc that’s all I could do lol
Once again, we have a Trump supporter insisting
they have seen the dread Antifa; but the proof is threadbare.
In any case, Senator Jeffrey Merkley (of
Oregon) posted to his Twitter account later that day, documenting damage done
to his office as a result of the breach. Todisco can be seen in one picture
taken during the riot, wearing a distinctive red backpack, and leaving
Merkley’s office.
Ms. Todisco pays the price for her
participation in the attack on Capitol Hill. That is: $2,500 in fines and
restitution, 60 hours of community service, and three long years on probation.
Trump supporter.
(CLAIMED TO SEE ANTIFA.)
*
“Donald
Trump is a cult leader.”
25. EDUARD FLOREA: The Queens, N.Y. software engineer was arrested by F.B.I. agents after a raid on his house
uncovered more than a thousand rounds of rifle ammunition. His wife, Joni, says
he has been “radicalized” by the Proud Boys.
Mrs. Florea says she voted for President Trump
twice. Now she says, “Donald Trump is a cult leader, and his legacy will
be the Capitol riots, the Proud Boys, and Parler.” The couple has an 8-year-old
daughter and a 4-year-old son. Mom says the agents were kind to her children.
Her daughter told her later, “It’s okay, Mom.
They gave us pizza.”
At first, Joni Florea supported Trump. She
wanted to keep peace with her husband. The longer Trump spent in office, the
worse it became. “Life wasn’t
enjoyable anymore, because my husband became somebody else,” she said.
“Anything I said or did against Donald Trump, it’s like I didn’t have a voice.”
She told
reporters, she was touched by President-Elect Biden’s inaugural speech, and
choked up talking about how he reached out to Trump supporters.
“I am ready to grab that hand of unity,” Florea
said, her eyes welling up with tears. “Even after what happened, [Biden] still
offered us that unity … Grab onto it guys, we don’t have to defend Donald Trump
anymore, because he’s not going to defend you. He just cares about himself, and
his legacy is now the storming of the Capitol.”
In August 2021, her husband pleads guilty to making threats to kill incoming U.S. Senator
Raphael Warnock.
His prize for listening to President Trump: 33
months in prison.
Trump supporter,
ready for violence.
*
Oldest rioter gets
probation.
26. ROBERT SNOW: The Heber Springs,
Arkansas man was busted, in part, on the basis of phone records. He spent
roughly three-quarters of an hour roaming the halls of the Capitol Building. At
one point he was stopped by Capitol Hill police, weapons drawn, who ordered Snow
and several others to lie down on the floor.
Snow then exited the
building, but soon returned. That earned the slow learner four federal charges, two of which he later
plead guilty to.
Snow told F.B.I. agents
he drove all the way from Arkansas in order to hear
President Trump speak on Jan. 6. Let’s hope it was worth it. The 79-year-old Trump fan was eventually
sentenced to a year on
probation, ordered to perform sixty hours of community service, and pay $500 in
restitution.
Trump
supporter.
*
“Feelin cute…might
start a revolution later, IDK.”
27. JACOB G. HILES: The Virginia Beach charter boat captain was arrested and charged with “knowingly entering” and remaining
in a restricted building “without lawful authority,” and “knowingly, with
intent to impede government business or official functions, engaging in
disorderly conduct” inside the Capitol.
“Feelin cute…might
start a revolution later, IDK – in Capitol Hill,” he posted on social media.
Feelin’ cute costs
him in the end. He pleads guilty to one misdemeanor, pays $500 in restitution,
and must perform sixty hours of community service, and visit his probation
officer for the next two years.
(During his
investigation, Hiles revealed that he had been in communication with a U.S.
Capitol Police officer, in the days after the attack. That officer, Michael Angelo
Riley,#1037 on our list, was eventually convicted of obstruction of justice,
and is likely to see serious time in prison.)
Trump supporter, right-winger.
*
Take it back
from whom?
28. BRADLEY WAYNE WEEKS: In a video he allegedly posted during the attack on Congress, Weeks shouts,
at various points,
We’ve reached
the steps. We’ve had to climb scaffolding. We’ve had to climb ladders. We’ve
had to break things to get through, but we’ve gotten through.”
We’ve gotten
through, and we are going to take back the Capitol! We’re taking back our
country! This is our 1776! This is where it’s gonna happen! This is where
Tyranny will fall! This is where America will rise! Look at this, America! Look
at this!
“Take back our
country!” It’s a phrase straight out of Donald J. Trump’s mouth and oft
repeated by his word-challenged fans.
What does that
simplistic statement mean? Take it back from whom?
And how? By violence? So it would seem. (See: #169, Jonathan Daniel Carlton)
On December 9, 2022, after a bench trial, Mr. Weeks is found guilty on five charges, including
one felony.
It takes another nine months, but on August 18, 2023, the hammer
falls. Ten months in prison for Weeks. Twenty-four
more months on probation, and $2,670 contributed to the federal government.
Trump supporter.
*
29-30. ISRAEL TUTROWand JOSHUA WAGNER: The two young
Indiana men rode to Washington D.C. together. Both ended up, in the wake of the
January 6 riot, charged with:
oKnowingly Entering
or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds
oDisorderly Conduct
Which Impedes the Conduct of Government Business
oDisruptive Conduct
in the Capitol Buildings
oParading,
Demonstrating, or Picketing in the Capitol Buildings
According to one tipster to the F.B.I., Wagner
“vehemently opposes Joseph Biden as
President.”
According to court documents, an image of a man with distinctive tattoos on his face,
including a crude cross on the forehead, and wearing a black beanie with white
lettering of “TRUMP,” was used to identify Tutrow as a participant in the
attack.
Wanger eventually pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 30
days in jail, and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. Tutrow also plead guilty.
He was sentenced to 36 months’ probation, the first sixty days on home
confinement, and also charged $500 in restitution for his riotous ways.
It could have been worse. Tutrow had a previous criminal record, including several
drug charges, and a conviction for giving alcohol to a sixteen-year-old girl.
The judge in his case admonished him, saying, “You can vote for whoever you want. But you and your friends do not get
to stop the count because you don’t like the results of the election.”
That sums up the whole riot.
Even Tutrow’s lawyer admitted her client was
“misinformed” on January 6 – but did not mention who misinformed him. He was
sentenced to sixty days of home confinement, three years on probation, and
ordered to pay $500 in restitution.
Trump supporters (both Wagner and Tutrow).
*
“Charlatans like our former
president.”
31-32. DUSTIN THOMPSON and ROBERT ANTHONY LYON: the two Ohio men, who
met in college, faced a number of charges for their roles in the Capitol Hill
riot.
Among other charges, Thompson stole a coat rack and then fled
when police ordered him to stop.
When Thompson made off, Lyon stopped and allowed police to search him. They
found marijuana, two pipes, and an open bottle of bourbon. Lyon at first denied
being in the Capitol Building; but pictures confiscated from his phone
indicated that the two men had been inside. At one point, Lyon texted his
friend, “We need to get
out with this trophy.” In another video, Thompson is seen inside a ransacked
office. “Woooooo! ‘Merica! Hey! This is our house!”
(It later turns
out that Thompson looted a bottle of bourbon from the office, during
the riot.)
“Trump and people that supported his presidency
would stop at absolutely nothing to keep him in power,” his lawyer said. “The
lie that was perpetuated endlessly by Trump and also members of the media that
were willing to support him had its desired effect — it sowed dissension, it
caused people to behave in ways that were just unimaginable.”
Lyon’s public defender did not comment.
*
April 2022: A jury convicts Thompson on all six charges he faced, including felony obstruction of
Congress.
Thompson himself had testified in his own defense – but the jury didn’t buy
it. As Politico noted:
“We’re going to lose our country today if we
don’t put a stop to these election results,” Thompson said he thought as Trump
addressed supporters on the morning of Jan. 6.
Thompson, who took the stand in his own
defense, admitted he broke multiple laws in service of overturning the 2020
election but said he wanted jurors to acquit him because he believed he was
acting on Trump’s orders. He spoke in a hushed, sheepish tone, his lawyer
repeatedly asking him to speak up so the jury could hear him.
“I think our democracy is in trouble because, unfortunately,” said
U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton on hearing the verdict, “we have
charlatans like our former president who doesn’t, in my view, really care about
democracy but only about power.” He also called poor Thompson, “weak-minded”
and “gullible.”
In other words: Perfect material for a charlatan to mold to his
purpose.
Lyon pleads guilty on March 14, 2022, and gets
hit with 40 days’ incarceration, $3,000 in fines and restitution, and must
complete one year of supervised release.
*
On November 18, 2022, a federal judge sentences Mr. Thompson to spend 36 months in prison. Judge Reggie Walton
expressed a degree of pity for the defendant, who, he
said, had tumbled down a “rabbit hole” of misinformation. “It makes for a very difficult situation
because I’m not unsympathetic to people being radicalized to engage in
abhorrent behavior. We saw it happen in Nazi Germany,” he said. “A very
educated, intelligent population was able to be swayed to engage in the
atrocities that took place in Germany based upon [the words of] a demagogue.”
According to court documents, Thompson spent
time with a cult deprogrammer, prior to sentencing. At one point, he told
the deprogrammer he had come to realize that Trump’s “ego won’t allow him to
admit” that he lost the 2020 election.
Asked about the idea that Trump might grant him a pardon if elected again, the defendant replied
astutely, “I’m
not holding my breath... he kind of just uses people, I don’t feel like he
cares.”
Trump “sent us,” he believed in a
“stolen election”– Thompson.
Trump supporter (Lyon).
*
“Encouraged
despicable behavior.”
33. ANDREW WILLIAMS: The Florida firefighter has been charged with
one count of unlawful entry. In a video of the melee, he appears, and can be heard discounting the idea that
rioters might be arrested. “They can’t arrest everyone,” he says. Following a
court appearance, his lawyer blamed President Trump because he “encouraged
despicable behavior.”
They might not be able to arrest “everyone.”
They did arrest him. Williams has been placed on administrative leave from his
job.
Williams has plead guilty. (Sentence: 60 hours of community service, two
years on probation, $500 in restitution.)
Trump “sent us.”
*
“Ms. Williams took the
president’s bait.”
34. RILEY JUNE WILLIAMS: A judge ordered Riley June to serve home
detention at her father’s house until trial, after she participatedin
the attack on January 6. She faced a battery of charges, including two
felonies, after helping ransack House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.
At first, it
seemed her political affiliation might be unknown – although I did find a post
that hinted she was a liberal type from
Vermont.
I checked to be
sure. Nope. The rioter, Ms. Williams is from Pennsylvania. So, just the
same last name.
I don’t like to
use YouTube videos, but one that seemed legit, from ITV News,
a British channel, showed a reporter talking to Williams’ mother. She said her
daughter started going to right-wing rallies.
I kept looking.
Then I found a detailed analysis of Williams’ social media accounts – at least
what can be learned before she deleted them all. She’s both a Trump fan and a white supremacist, neo-Nazi type.
If you’d like to
read some barf-worthy material, go to the story on Williams and the folks she
hangs with.
I also stumbled
upon this bit of information: At a hearing on Jan. 21, 2021, Williams’ lawyer blamed the president for her
client’s actions. It
was “regrettable that Ms. Williams took the president’s bait and went inside
the Capitol,” the lawyer told the judge.
As Reuters explained, most legal
experts questioned whether any client would be able to avoid conviction based
on a “Trump made me do it” defense. Still, admitted one, “These were people
acting in a way they have never acted before, and it begs the question, ‘Who
lit the fuse?’”
*
In August 2022, while still
awaiting trial, Williams caught a break when a judge granted her request for an eight-hour respite from house arrest. Riley got to
go to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire.
It’s probably the last Faire
she’ll be attending anytime soon. On November 22, a federal judge ordered the
young woman to be taken into custody immediately after a jury found her guilty of
six federal offenses, including two felonies.
Her lawyer had argued for
leniency, saying that Riley had been swayed by the influences of President Trump, Congressman Scott
Perry, who represents her district, and Nick Fuentes, the neo-Nazi.
Kind of the
Three Stooges of Election Denial and Hate.
The defense also played a recent Trump
video in which the former president called January 6 prosecutions a “giant lie
& radical left con job.”
“He’s still
putting out that message. It’s wrong.” Said her lawyer. And these “influential
men” deserved blame.
That’s true, of
course; but it won’t do Riley June much good; because on March 23, 2023, she was sentenced to spend three years in a
federal prison.
Williams fell for his bullshit.
Trump “sent us,” right-wing.
*
35-36. CHANCE ANTHONY UPTMOREandJAMES HERMAN “SONNY” UPTMORE:
The two men, Chance, the son, James, the father, have been arrested for their participation in the Capitol Hill riot.
According to Chance Uptmore, the visit to D.C. to
listen to President Trump speak (rant) about the election (that was stolen) was
part of a five-day birthday trip. When the attack on Congress began, he says
his father followed him into the Capitol, but only after advising him not to
enter.
The affidavit includes a response by
the son to a Facebook post by another person. He commented:
And that is exactly how the media wants you to feel.
If you saw it first hand you would have a different perspective. The violence
was minimal. When people tried to break windows they were confronted by 10+
trump supporters. When a painting was grabbed off the wall we helped the cops
recover it. The cops were saying Stuff like “we stand with you” “thanks for
being here” “you made your point now leave calmly”. I have it all on tape. Sure
there was pushing and shoving and there were some antifa agitators but there
will always be agitators infiltrating both sides. The overwhelming majority of
people were not being destructive they were just making their voice heard.
After years of media manipulation you fall for this one so easily. Tsk tsk
In any case, let’s hope the trip was a bonding
experience for both men. Chance plead guilty in March 2022, dad in June 2022.
FUN FACT: Chance
later gets nailed on drug and weapons charges. He tells the judge he’s a
“weedaholic” and spends $1,000 per month to make sure he has the materials at
hand to roll joints.
This amusing exchange takes place during the raid:
FBI: “Just to ask a
dumb, clarifying question, you know weed’s illegal, right?”
Jan. 6 suspect: “Yeah
in some states.”
FBI: “In Texas, the
State you live in.”
Uptmore later admits to the agents, “I don’t
think there’s been a day I haven’t got high all day in at least like, six
months, maybe even a year.”
He also had a five-shot .38 Taurus Special
revolver, located in the drawer of his nightstand, and a shitload of other drug
paraphernalia. According to one Texas newspaper, at the time of his arrest, young
Mr. Uptmore had 16 pounds of marijuana in his possession.
His lawyers in the January 6 case note, however, tell the judge that
Uptmore has turned his life around since the riot, added that he had a child on
the way, and convinced the court to give the young Mr. Uptmore a break.
Namely: three months on house arrest, five years on probation, and
the threat of ten years in prison if he broke the law again.
37. BRIAN GUNDERSEN: Brian was arrested after people identified him in videos and pictures of the riot. The tipoff
was his varsity jacket, and number “70” from the Byram Hills “Bobcats.”
According to the New York Post, “A person with a close
relationship to Gundersen described him to the FBI as “an avid supporter of
former President Trump and a follower of commentator Nick Fuentes, a far-right
commentator,” the court doc states.
The criminal complaint also includes “selfies”
of Gundersen with several conservative female media personalities.
At first, he told federal investigators he
wasn’t in the Capitol. Then he said he got “pushed” in by the crowd. Then a
search of his phone turned up a text that said he and others “might be able to bum rush the white
house and take it over.”
(Apparently,
he got his D.C. landmarks mixed up.)
The Post also reports:
The day after the riot, Gundersen allegedly
[crossed out by the blogger after his conviction] shared a photo of congress
members taking cover during the attack and wrote “Look at these scared little
bitches” in a message.
“We all stormed the us capital [sic] and tried
to take over the government,” he wrote on Jan. 8, according to the complaint.
(In
Sedition Hunters, by Ryan J. Reilly, after the words, “tried to take
over the government,” he includes Gundersen’s lament, “We failed but
fuck it.”)
On
November 10,2022, Gundersen was found guilty on felony charges. On July 25, 2023, he
learned he’ll be spending the next eighteen months in a federal lockup, and
won’t have a chance to vote for Trump in 2024.
FUN
FACT: In a court filing regarding the possibility
of a reduced sentence, Mr. Gundersen’s lawyer asked the judge to
consider the fact that the defendant is a “childlike man with stunted emotional
growth.”
Kind
of like Trump.
His
lawyer went on to claim, “vulnerable individuals like Mr. Gundersen had been fed lies
by other the [sic] President of the United States (and other powerful people)
arguing that democracy was at stake, that their vote had been stolen, and that
it was up to them to stand up for the ‘true President.’”
Trump supporter, he believed the
election was stolen.
*
“Robbed of what should have been a victory.”
38. CHRISTOPHER RAPHAEL SPENCER: He wasarrested in North Carolina on Jan. 19, 2021, but
he would battle against charges for more than three years.
In a statement of facts,
supporting his original indictment and arrest, law enforcement officials alleged,
in part, that:
As he walks through
Statuary Hall, SPENCER says, “Who would’ve knew the first time I ever come [to
the Capitol] would be to storm.” He then moves towards the entry doors to the
House of Representatives where a crowd is gathered chanting, “Stop the steal.
Stop the steal.” Later you can also hear screams of, “Open the door!” The video
[which the defendant is shooting] ends with chants of, “Break it down! Break it
down! Break it down!” At approximately 4:15 into the video, it appears that
SPENCER yells “kick that motherfucker open!” as others are shouting “push” and
attempting to push through the closed door. Another video shows SPENCER gathered with others, including
his companions [likely his wife and son], in a hallway. Law enforcement
officers are present as well. Male voices can be heard yelling at the officers
guarding a door nearby, “When’s the last time this happened in America?” “You
still believe Joe Biden won?” “Hey when’s the last time you dealt with this in
the Capitol? Never!” Individuals can be heard yelling vulgarities at police
officers and taunting the officers. SPENCER then turns the camera and said
“What up Alec? We done stormed the Capitol building, bro. They done teared us.”
The crowd yells at
police officers who are fighting their way through a doorway to get down the
hall. Men are heard calling them “fucking traitor,” “pig,” and “fascist.”
People began sliding furniture down the hallway towards the officers. SPENCER
yells, “Smile motherfucker! Smile bitch! Fucking traitor!”
For his stellar work in an effort to stop
the imaginary steal, he was charged with five counts, including one felony for civil disorder.
According to the Winston-Salem Journal, Spencer,
age 40, had at least one defender, his father. He said his son was in the crowd
gathered on the steps of the Capitol Building, but got pushed inside: “This has
been blown out of proportion,” Winton Spencer said. “When you are in a crowd
and they start moving forward, you better go with the crowd or get trampled.”
Federal investigators would obviously disagree.
Yes, dad admitted, his son probably “did run
his mouth.” But he said he believed his son was being unfairly portrayed in the
media.
“He is not a terrorist,” Spencer said. “He is
not a skinhead. Not a racist. He wasn’t raised to be like that. He was probably
in there 15 or 20 minutes. When he saw things starting to go down” he got out
of the building, the father said.
Spencer said his son has never been a member of
any organization that believes in white supremacy and in fact had never
previously participated in any sort of protest before going to Washington.
Chris Spencer decided to go because of his
support for Trump, which his father shares. Family members, like many Trump
supporters, believe that Trump was robbed of what should have been a victory by
forces opposed to Trump.
Winton Spencer said he also believes in the
debunked conspiracy theory that elites, including many Democrats, are involved
in a secret pedophilia ring. Spencer said the FBI is corrupt and that the media
refuse to tell the truth about Trump and his supporters.
So, more QAnon! Still no Antifa!!
Christopher’s wife, Virginia Marie “Jenny”
Spencer (#607 on our list) has already been sentenced to 90 days in jail. The
judge in her case faulted her and her husband for bringing their 14-year-old
son to the riot.
As for Christopher, it took 37 months, but in a
bench trial, he was finally convicted in February 2024, on all charges. So, you can assume that he’s soon headed for
jail.
Oh, no, wait! A felon may pardon another felon.
Barring that, Spencer faces nine months in jail, and a year on probation.
Trump supporter, QAnon, believed the election was stolen.
*
“A little
carried away.”
39. BARTON WADE SHIVELY: According to prosecutors, Shively “laid hands
on police officers on three occasions” during the attack on Capitol Hill. The danger was not only that he might
injure officers, but that he might also encourage harm of others by
“potentially inciting violence from those other individuals that were around
him.”
At his preliminary hearing, Shively’s
lawyer pointed out that his client hadn’t been in trouble “in a long time.” He
also has three dogs. Shively’s boss at a window cleaning company also appeared
at proceedings to offer support. “Mr. Shively is someone who obviously got a
little carried away,” his attorney added.
Such as striking
officers on three occasions! Shively admitted to grabbing one officer, punching
a second in the riot helmet, and trying to kick a can of mace out of the hand
of a third.
Charges against him included“aiding and abetting, civil disorder, violent entry, and
engaging in physical violence.”
Shively also served with the Marines from 1985 to 1992, and
received an honorable discharge.
He plead guilty to a single felony charge, in September 2022, and was facing
significant time behind bars. He was still awaiting sentencing when probation
officers visited his homein January 2023, and
found a shotgun, ammunition, and a sword, with the shotgun sheathed in a “Three
Percenters” sleeve.
His chances of spending a long time in jail were only
enhanced. Eventually, the bill came due: 18 months in prison, 36 months on
probation, and $2,000 in restitution.
Ready for violence.
*
“Armor of God.”
40. MICHAEL SPARKS: At least one person who knows Sparks described him as “a good guy who got caught up in a bad
moment.”
As for his motivation in joining the fight on January 6, Sparks
had explained in a social media post: “The votes were stolen. … As for me I
believe in the constitution so I’ll die fir [sic] it. Trump is my president.”
In fact, on the day of the riot, Sparks was the first man
through the broken window, into the Capitol.
In another video, Sparks is seen among a group
of men who have chased a lone Capitol Hill police officer, Eugene Goodman, up
several flights of steps. At one point, another rioter jabs at Officer Goodman,
a U.S. Army veteran, and an African America, with a Confederate flag on a pole.
Goodman can be seen placing his hand over his service revolver. When other
police finally form a line and halt their advance, they ask the intruders to
leave. Sparks can be heard answering, “We’re standing here for you, as well.
This is our America! This is our America.”
In a video shot several months before the riot,
Sparks talks about his phone being in his hand more than his Bible, and how
news events made him “angrier, and angrier.” At one point, he compares Black
Lives Matter to the Ku Klux Klan. He describes himself as a “Christian,” and
said the country “is under attack.”
In a superseding indictment, he was charged with nine crimes. (He was eventually tried on only six.)
Originally arrested just thirteen days after
the riot, the defendant can be seen in a booking photo. He’s wearing a T-shirt that reads “Armor of God” and cites a Bible verse,
Ephesians 6:11: “Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand
against the devil’s schemes.”
The problem being, of course, that Trump was the false god of
election denial.
UPDATE: Not sure why his trial is taking
so long; but in newly released court documents we learn that Sparks made clear
his goals and purposes on Jan. 5. At one point, he posted on social media, “we
want a civil war to be clear.” On January 3, 2021, he had posted, “It’s time to
drag them out of Congress. It’s tyranny[.]” Then, more hopefully, he posted,
Trump has a “Path to Victory, Starting Jan. 6 [.]”
We can also see Sparks entering the Capitol through a window and
being sprayed with a chemical irritant by police.
Sparks was expected to attempt to mount a defense, based on the
idea that “public authority” had told him to join the attack. Namely: Donald
Trump.
Even a year after the riot, Sparks was still posting hopefully
on social media, “I truly believe they are going to expose the fraudulent
election.”
So, let’s check the countdown clock: August 28, 2024: 1,394 days
have passed since the last presidential election. State or federal courts which
have found that serious voter fraud occurred:
0.
UPDATE #2: We keep learning more about poor, deluded Mr. Sparks. Prior to the 2020
election, he predicted, “Trump will win by
a landslide. It won’t even be close.” Even after it was clear that Trump had lost,
Sparks remained confident. “Trump will win when all
the dust settles,” he posted on social media. “Calm down everyone, Trump is
going to be your president!”
Sparks was like a right-wing sponge. If Mike Lindell, the
MyPillow guy, said there was proof the election was stolen, Sparks believed it.
He believed the false claims pushed by
Sidney Powell, and then amplified by Epoch Times, a right-wing news
site. In fact, after Trump told supporters they should rendezvous in D.C. on
January 6, and it would “be wild,” Sparks was primed.
Now he was talking about revolution. “How about we the people drag you out by your
face,” he said, in reference to members of Congress he deemed less than
loyal to President Trump.
But as evidence continued to build – that Donald lost – and lost
in recounts – and lost in court challenges – Sparks floated a new idea. “Wouldn’t it be
something if 70 million came to arms,” Sparks wrote. “We the people are with
you 70 million strong. Let us know if we need [to] bear arms,” he wrote, as if
addressing Trump himself. So. Sure. Great plan. Pit 70 million Trump supporters
– armed – against 81 million Biden supporters – armed. Throw in another 180
million Americans, caught in the crossfire. Mix in the U.S. military in some
fashion.
What could go wrong?
And Jesus f**king Christ, what kind of American
leader would ever fail to condemn this kind of talk out of hand?
Well, now Mr. Sparks knows. On March 1, 2024, the
defendant is found guilty by a jury on all six counts charged.
On August 27, 2024, he learns his fate: 53 months behind bars, a longer time in prison than Trump served in
the White House. At his sentencing, the defendant still says he believes Trump
was the rightful winner of the 2020 election.
He’ll have plenty of time to ponder that
question in prison.
Trump supporter, right-winger, he believed the election was
stolen.
“Former,” in the sense that he had to resign
his posts after bragging about his role in the riot.
On Jan. 5 the Sacramento,
California man, posted on Facebook, “Do you really not get what is going to
happen on the 6th? I absolutely am looking forward to that and NO MATTER WHAT
THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN STOP IT!!!!”, according to the complaint against him.
The morning of Jan. 6 he posted,
“I’m here to see what my President called me to DC for.”
“We breached over there, I think,” Riley says in a video
showing scenes of the mayhem. “We broke windows. We went into the door... We
pushed our way into Nancy Pelosi’s office. We just kept going further and
further... And then we were sitting in there, yelling, ‘F*** Nancy Pelosi.’”
Vanity Faircatches up with Riley at a “Justice
for Ashli Babbitt Rally,” where pro-Trump members of a group called Saviors of
Liberty clash (for real) with Antifa counter-protesters.
He invaded the Capitol with three white
feathers braided into his hair, three streaks of black paint running down each
cheek. In a video, he boasts: “I may or may not have rubbed my butt on Nasty
Pelosi’s desk.” Before January 6, Riley held positions in the local Republican
establishment. Two days after the insurrection, he posted his address on
Facebook: “Come take my life. I’m right here. You will all die.” The FBI, he
thinks, didn’t get it. The “joke,” the threat, was for antifa. “I got six
charges,” he crows. He says he likes cops, except the cop who shot Babbitt.
“No cops were hurt,” on January 6, he tells the
reporter, Jeff Sharlett.
Sharlet highlights others at the rally: Jamie
Allman, taken off the air by his ABC affiliate in St. Louis after tweeting
that he’d like to “ram a hot poker up the ass” of a Parkland shooting survivor.
Allman tells the crowd that January 6 was “one of the most beautiful days I’ve
seen in America.”
Riley talks about his own “suffering,” as a
result of the role he played, not like Babbitt’s, of course. He says he feels
like the survivor from the “300,” the Greek heroes who stood strong in the pass
at Thermopylae. At one point the pro-Trumpers cheer the name of Kyle
Rittenhouse. A speaker warns, “We live in bad times, in the eternal battle
between freedom and tyranny.” God sent an “angel like Ashli Babbitt” to remind
everyone that freedom “comes at a cost.”
That price is “blood.”
In March 2023, Riley pleads guilty to a single felony count. For some reason, he decides to inform the judge that he wore “his best Trump tie” to court on
the day he pleads out.
Any plea for leniency in his case is likely to
fall on deaf ears since he came to Washington ready to spill some liberal guts.
According to prosecutors, prior to traveling to D.C., the defendant “purchased
a 6-inch Ninja Tactical Combat Hunting Kunai Throwing Knife Set” and later
posted on Facebook, “I just bought new kanai throwing knives and am going to do
what my president asks[.]”
In a
memorandum, recommending a prison term of 21 months, authorities explain:
In his
own words, the defendant, Jorge Aaron Riley, did not plan to come from
California to Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, to “watch people talk.” He
was going “for the war.” He purchased throwing knives, left a will for someone,
and was prepared to “do what my president asks.” And, on the sixth, he wore
what he referred to as “war paint” and stormed the Capitol building, where he
remained for an hour – all to, again in his own words, “stop the steal” and
take “our country back.” He did all of this while on pretrial release in
another criminal case regarding his alleged child abuse.
The
wheels of justice grind on, slowly, but surely. In September 2023, Mr. Riley
earns eighteen months in prison. He’ll be looking out from behind the bars
when the next presidential election is held.
He
won’t be wearing his “best Trump tie” anytime soon, either. And he’s out
another $2,000 in restitution.
Trump “sent us,” right-winger,
believed the election was stolen,violent.
*
None
were heard to shout, “Hang Matt Gaetz!”
42. ANDREW C. ERICSON: The affidavit for his arrest reads: “A male
by the name of ANDREW ERICSON was in the United States Capitol building on
January 6, 2021.” It was believed that “ERICSON resided in Muskogee, Oklahoma.”
That affidavit further reads:
Witness 1 also saw ERICSON enter what witness
one thinks is Nancy Pelosi’s office and take what appeared to be a beer out of
a refrigerator in an office….Witness 1 stated IT did not see any violent acts
committed by Andrew Erickson but noted that IT (Witness 1) did hear Erickson
screaming and yelling during the live stream.
The tipster further explained that he or she
had known the suspect since high school. The witness also told an agent he or
she was “1,000% certain of the identity” of the suspect.
Ericson was soon arrested and made a first court appearance. He was released on bail, but had
to surrender his passport and any guns he owned.
No information seems to be available, regarding
his political affiliation. His desire to visit the office of Speaker Pelosi,
however, is a good “tell,” as they say in poker. There, he helped himself to a
beer from inside a small refrigerator.
This blogger has not found any evidence that
rioters stormed the office of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
None were heard to shout, “Hang Matt Gaetz!”
We do know one rioter could be heard on video
saying he thought Sen. Ted Cruz would approve of he and other rioters being in
the Senate chamber.
In any case, Mr. Ericson soon reached a plea
deal with prosecutors. In return for that one beer, he was sentenced to 20 days
in jail, on consecutive weekends, ordered to pay $500 in restitution, and spend
two years on probation.
He had also served four days in a county jail,
when first arrested.
At his final sentencing, his lawyer pointed out that he had been cooped up during the
pandemic, watched too much right-wing news, and fell for “false claims” about a “stolen election” and
an “election system that had been corrupted” peddled by President Donald Trump.
Trump supporter, he believed the election was
stolen.
*
“Start
a revolution and take all of these traitors down.”
43. DAMON MICHAEL BECKLEY: In the weeks after the 2020 election, Mr.
Beckley was increasingly angry. In December he
wrote, in a menacing tone, about going to D.C. on January 6, with violent
intent. “It’s not a slap in the face; it’s a DARE for hardened patriots,” he
wrote, “to Charlie Hebdo these traitors and end their audacious tyranny. Coups demand
revolutions. Congress should be pulled into the DC streets Khaddafi style!” (See:
Sedition Hunters, p. 185)
During the January riot Beckley took time to give an interview, explaining why he and others were there. “We aren’t putting up with this
tyrannical rule. If we’ve got to come back here and start a revolution and take
all of these traitors down, which is what should be done, then we will.”
At one point, he
could be seen in a video, trying to calm down a crowd of about a hundred,
before they entered Statuary Hall. “We can go into this room if we all
calm down. And if we commit to no violence, OK?” he said through a bullhorn.
Beckley later
told WDRB
News he deleted
his Facebook account and removed the SIM card from his phone out of fear the
F.B.I. could soon arrest and charge him. He was right. He was released on bail after his first
court appearance, but was ordered not use the internet to post about the rally
or “matters related to the U.S. government.” He was also prohibited from
attending any rallies, protests, or demonstrations.
He quickly entered a plea of “no
contest,” admitted to his “poor behavior choices,” and asked the court for
leniency.
(In March 2023,
he thinks better of it and asks the judge in his case to grant a new trial. In a new legal
filing, with a new lawyer, we assume: “Beckley argues he was suffering possible memory
loss, TMJ episode, experiencing impact of benadryl & ibuprofen when he
agreed to stipulated trial. Calls his [first] lawyer a Democrat[.]”)
Beckley also protested at the Georgia
capital, after Trump lost that state, because Beckley loved Donald.
At one point,
during the riot, Beckley says he was “knocked down violently from behind by
what I think was an Antifa operator.” So we have yet another false sighting to report.
In the end, the
poor sap gets sentenced to 18 months behind
bars, and he’s
ordered to pay $2,200.
Still no Antifa
people arrested for rioting on January 6.
And, as of
February 9, 2024, still no proof in any court that Donald J. Trump did anything
in the last election but lose, fair and square.
Trump supporter,
right-winger,ready for violence.
(CLAIMED TO SEE ANTIFA.)
*
44. CRAIG MICHAEL BINGERT: Authorities accused Bingert of working with other rioters to break police lines. In
scenes from January 6, he is seen carrying an American flag, and wearing a
stocking cap with the word “America” in white.
(Merchandise sales had to be good for this
rally.)
In one video, he turns around to look at the
crowd behind him. The chant, “F--- the police!” can be heard.
TNonline.comnotes, “According
to social media posts, Bingert is a graduate of the criminal justice program at
Lehigh Carbon Community College and attended the State Police Academy.”
In the
indictment against him, Bingert was charged with two counts of
violence
and eight counts altogether. Also charged with him: Isaac Steve Sturgeon (#258
on our list), and Taylor James Johnatakis (#486).
They, too, faced
eight counts each, including two for engaging in acts of violence on that day.
A check for additional
information, conducted by this hard-working,
possibly obsessive blogger, in November 2021, reveals that Bingert contacted a lawyer and
contacted the F.B.I. as soon as he saw his picture in the news.
His lawyer
explains:
“If you are
considering whether or not people are obeying the rule of law, the fact that he
got a lawyer and contacted the authorities when he saw his picture is certainly
indicative that he respects the rule of law,” [Richard J. Fuschino Jr.] said.
“One of the most important laws we have is the presumption of innocence, and
the fact that a person has to be proven guilty at trial. And we’re a long way
off from that.”
On May 25, Mr. Bingert is convicted in a bench
trial on all charges. He now faces a lengthy period in prison.
On September 27,
2023, he learns just how long that sentence will be: 96 months in prison, equal in
length to the one term Trump served in office, and the one he didn’t win, but
tried to steal – with the help of dopes like poor Mr. Bingert.
Trump supporter, violent.
*
“Watching
far too much Fox News.”
45. THOMAS GALLAGHER: CBS News in Boston describes Gallagher’s arrest and the reasons for it:
According to the criminal complaint,
Capitol Police say 61-year-old Thomas Gallagher was among those in a crowd,
“…making loud noises, and kicking chairs, throwing an unknown liquid substance
at officers, and spraying an unknown substance…” Police say he was at the front
of the group, and “…willfully refused the order to leave.”
FBI agents tracked Gallagher down in
the tiny picturesque town of Bridgewater, New Hampshire, and arrested him at
his home. The word spread through the peaceful Newfound Lake region, about its
link to the violent chaos hundreds of miles away.
“They’re good neighbors,” said Chris
Dyer. “Definitely surprised to hear the news.”
“I think it’s disgraceful that
somebody believes Trumpand consequently believes that gives them
empowerment to invade the capitol,” said another Bridgewater resident, Richard
Lobban. “It’s disgraceful.”
A friend later explained Gallagher’s
conduct this way:
John Azzo…told authorities that Gallagher
had traveled from New Hampshire to the Capitol to attend former President
Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally after he had been “watching far too much
Fox News” and “didn’t have anything else going on,” Courthouse News reported.
Gallagher pleads
guilty in October, and receives two years’ probation.
Trump supporter.
*
Guy
Berry: In bonus nuts, this 22-year-old Virginia man was arrested on
Sunday, Jan. 17, just days before the Biden inauguration. When D.C. police
stopped him at a checkpoint, he was carrying a Glock 22 pistol in a holster, a
high-capacity magazine, and 37 rounds of ammunition.
His
aunt told the Washington Post, “He’s one of
those open-carry people,” and added, “I keep telling him Black men can’t walk
around with guns on his hip, but he doesn’t believe me.” His aunt says he often
shares his pro-Trump views with her, and also on his Facebook page.
Still, the police didn’t shoot the African American guy in
the back, or kneel on his neck until he was dead.
So? Progress?
Trump supporter.
(Not counted; not part of the Jan. 6 rioter crew.)
*
Wesley Beeler: The
self-described “country boy” claimed he got lost in Washington D.C. on Jan. 15
(if you’ve ever tried to negotiate the weirdly configured streets of the
nation’s capital, you can believe that much).
He was, however, carrying a Glock pistol, without a permit
and had 500 rounds of ammunition in the back of his truck.
For some reason he allegedly presented a fake “inaugural
credential” which definitely raised the suspicions of Capitol Hill police.
Right-winger(likely).
(Not counted; not part of the riot.)
*
46. Chad
Barrett Jones: Jones was charged with assaulting an officer and could be
seen in one video, striking a window at least ten
times, in an effort to break into the Speaker’s Lobby.
The affidavit in
support of criminal complaint alleges that video footage from inside the events
at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, shows Jones in a red hooded jacket and
gray skullcap among an aggressive crowd trying to breach a barricaded door to the
Speaker’s Lobby, a hallway that connects to the House of Representatives
chambers. Members of the crowd were shouting and gesticulating at the
Capitol Police officers guarding the door. Seconds after the officers
began moving toward the adjacent wall as other officers in tactical gear
arrived, Jones forcefully struck the door’s glass panels at least 10 times with
a long, wood flagpole, the affidavit alleges. The affidavit also alleges
that chants of “Break it down!” could be heard, and that a U.S. Capitol Police
officer inside the Speakers’ Lobby, facing the door with a gun raised, can be
seen at the side of the video in the close vicinity of the doorway.
It’s probably no
surprise to learn that the flagpole Jones was wielding was wrapped in a rolled
up “Trump” flag.
Jones, who was
only feet away when Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed, went to trial eventually
– and got hammered.
He was convicted
on nine counts, including two
felonies, on July 26, 2023.
Violent.
*
47. NICOLAS
MONCADA: age 20, was taken into custody after he livestreamed
participation in the assault on the Capitol. A neighbor, commenting on his arrest,
after authorities showed up at his home, described him as “a wonderful kid.” Moncada
was photographed outside Speaker Pelosi’s office.
“For those still
thinking of employing violence to interfere with our Nation’s laws and
institutions,” a Department of Justice news release warned, “our message is
simple – don’t
do it.”
He was arrested
after former college classmates tipped off authorities, but released on $250,000
bail on January 20,
2021.
“Mr. Moncada
denies any participation in the effort to overthrow the Government,” his lawyer said, “and he looks
forward to defending his good name.”
*
On second thought,
in February 2023, Moncada decided to plead
guilty,
and told the judge he “took responsibility” for entering the Capitol.
“We
are hopeful that he will receive a non-jail sentence based on his lack of
criminal record and he did not conduct or condone any violent behavior while in
the Capitol. He simply admitted to entering the building and posting it on
Instagram. Mr. Moncada is happy to put this behind him and move on with his
life,” the defense lawyer said.
In November,
Moncada’s long and winding trip through the U.S. judicial system came to an
end. He will spend the next three years on probation and must pay a $500 fine
for being a dumb ass.
(See: Daniel
Christmann, #425 on our list; he, Edward Jacob Lang, #131, and Moncada were
apparently connected in their
roles in the riot.)
UPDATE (8/9/26): As a former
history teacher, I tried hard to get the facts on the rioters right. I could
not originally be sure that Moncada was a Trump supporter, so I listed him as a
“LIKELY TRUMP SUPPORTER.”
I decided to follow up on cases, during Trump’s
second term in office, and stumbled upon a TV report, regarding the young
rioter:
College student Nicholas Moncada, 20, like so
many other thousands of other passionate Trump supporters, described his Jan. 6
trip to the nation’s capital on social media: before, during and after.
Over the last week Moncada posted on Twitter
and Gab,” “So I stormed the f***ing capitol, been quiet the last few days since
gab was not particularly working. That’s all for now.”
On Twitter, he wrote, “Capitol Hill Raid had a
certain subject: Voter Fraud, Protecting Republic, Trump, etc.”
What Moncada and his distraught mother did not
count on, however, was the trip being treated — by the FBI, at least — as
trespassing.
So, we now list him as:
Trump supporter, he believed the election was
stolen.
*
“Once
we found out Pence turned on us.”
48. JOSHUA MATTHEW BLACK: Black can be seen in pictures and videos from
the riot, wearing a Trump/Pence 2020 hat. He also claimed “the spirit of God” moved him to join in the
attack.
You could call it ironic, since
court records note
that this is what he said in one of those videos: “Once we found out Pence
turned on us and that they had stolen the election, like officially, the crowd
went crazy. I mean, it became a mob. We crossed the gate.”
According to a report in Alabama Political
Reporter, Black admitted that he had been shot by an officer with some
kind of projectile, which went through his left cheek. Black was not there for
violence, however.
Black said on the video that he attempted to
help an officer who was alone and had been knocked down and was being beaten by
other rioters when he was shot.
“He was on the ground and there was boots
coming down,” Black said, referring to the officer being beaten.
Black stopped discussing what happened for a
moment to say he’d recently seen a video of Trump denouncing the rioters.
“I just saw a video from Trump, that said we
were heinous or something like that. I guess the hopes of getting a pardon are
out the window,” Black said.
According
to the affidavit filed against him, Black was also seen explaining his thinking
in a video from Jan. 6:
The
Individual [Black] later said, “We just wanted to get inside the building. I
wanted to get inside the building so I could plead the blood of Jesus over it.
That was my goal.”
…This
individual also said that, once inside the Capitol, he “found a little spot,
and there was a glass door, and it said ‘US Senate’ on it. I said I need to get
in there. I just felt like the spirit of God wanted me to go in the Senate
room, you know. So I was about to break the glass and I thought, no, this is
our house, we don’t act like that. I was tempted to, I’m not gonna lie. Cause
I’m pretty upset. You know? They stole my country.” Later, describing what he
did once inside the Senate chamber, the Individual stated, “I had accomplished
my goal. I pled the blood of Jesus on the Senate floor. You know. I praised the
name of Jesus on the Senate floor. That was my goal. I think that was God’s
goal.”
Black did admit that after he left D.C., he
shaved his beard in hopes of disguising himself a little. “I’ve actually been wearing a mask, and not for COVID but for
not going to jail,” he added.
As for his claim to have been opposed to violence,
authorities quote from another of Black’s own
videos in their detention memo, as he planned for his role in the attack:
We can’t kill nobody I mean that
ain’t gonna look right it’s all about PR, you know? I mean, it may come to
that. I hope it don’t but it’s a Democrat house, a crooked Democrat house,
crooked Republicans too, in a crooked Democrat senate, crooked Republicans,
too, and now there’s a straight up crooked lying cheating you know president
and I ain’t even gonna say nothing about Kamala Harris.
In January 2023, Mr. Black is
acquitted on one felony charge – though not for the kind of reasons most of us
would hope to gain acquittal. Judge Amy Berman Jackson rules that, given “a
unique stew in his mind,” she cannot determine if Black knew what he was doing
when he was charged with obstructing an official proceeding.
A finding of guilt in that matter
would require proof of “corrupt” intent – and the judge isn’t sure Black knew
what he was doing. That could be the epitaph for half these rioters – not to
mention President Trump himself.
Black was carrying a knife the
day of the riot, however, and he is found guilty on other charges, including one felony, for carrying a “deadly weapon.”
He believed he had “the Lord’s imprimatur” for his actions that day.
His final bill for believing in Trump: 22
months in prison, 24 months on probation and a $2,000 fine.
Trump supporter, believed in a
“stolen election,” violence.
*
“We can’t loose (sic) our America.”
49. JOSHUA R. LOLLAR: According to a Houston TV channel, Lollar was
arrested quickly in the wake of the riot, but released from jail on a $50,000 unsecured bond on January 19.
The terms of his release included the following
conditions:
Home detention – with GPS tracking – also with
provisions to see attorney, court visits, doctor’s office, pick up children on
weekends.
Travel restricted to Harris County and counties
that touch Harris County.
Can leave for travel to Washington, D.C. for
court appearances, but his probation officer must know.
He will have no access to firearms, gas masks,
body armor.
All such items are to be kept in possession of
his father, Grover Lollar, who appeared on his son’s behalf.
The younger Lollar explained [in a Zoom call]
that he lived at home with his father. He had served in the military, sustained
injuries in combat, and had been on disability since 2009. He also told the
judge he was being treated for PTSD. Federal prosecutors admitted Lollar had a
history of psychological issues.
Would it be feasible, the judge asked, that the
young man be kept away from any guns, since he lived with his father?
“Yes, ma’am,” Grover Lollar replied. He would
keep them in a place his son could never know about.
As for Joshua Lollar’s participation in the
attack on Capitol Hill, you could argue that the poor man had been incited to
act by the rhetoric of President Trump. Or perhaps he had listened to the
nightly preachments of Lou Dobbs, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson and Rush
Limbaugh, “patriots” all.
In a video he posted from the scene of the riot
on January 6, young Lollar, who had bled for his country, explained: “Just got
gassed and fought with cops that I never thought would happen ... I don’t know
what we can do, but I’m trying my best to get it done peaceful. We can’t loose
(sic) our America.”
Trump? He never bled for this country. Dobbs?
No. Ingraham? No. Carlson? You kidding? No.
Limbaugh?
F**k no.
The defendant eventually agreed to plead guilty
to one felony, with all other charges against him to be dropped. At sentencing the
judge admitted that given the trauma he had suffered in Iraq,
he “was a particularly vulnerable individual …
susceptible to calls to act” issued by then-President Trump.
On the other hand, he should have
known better. “You are a decorated military veteran … you took an oath to
defend the Constitution, not a particular candidate,” the judge correctly
noted.
It did not help Lollar’s defense to
learn that he had carried an AR-15 with him to D.C. in the days leading up to
the riot. Ultimately, he left it behind in his car at a hotel where he had been
staying. He did show up on Capitol Hill, however, wearing a bulletproof vest,
protective gloves, and a gas mask.
At one point, during the mayhem, he
posted excitedly on social media, “We’re on the
Capitol steps in the back, other patriots in the front, they shut down the vote.”
At best, Lollar
and the others were misguided patriots, fooled by the greatest liar ever
to have been seated in the Oval Office.
Trump remains free.
Lollar won’t even be voting in the
2024 election. He will serve the next 31 months in prison and has been ordered
to pay $2,000 in restitution.
Trump supporter, violent.
*
50. JESUS RIVERA (a.k.a J. D. RIVERA): The Pensacola News Journal pretty much
nails it in the first paragraph of a January 20 story:
Jesus Rivera, the Pensacola man arrested Wednesday for
his alleged part in the recent riot at the U.S. Capitol building, served in the
U.S. Marine Corps and had in the past six months amassed a large social
media following as he toured the country holding rallies for then-President
Donald Trump.
In addition,
Social media
accounts that appear to be owned by Rivera show he had steadily become
more vocal about pro-Trump viewpoints since July, when he started a page called
Chicano Patriot. He often would be seen wearing a “Latinos for Trump” hat
and talking about his military service.
As that page
gained traction – most recently with a Facebook follower count in excess of
7,000 users and a TikTok following of more than 65,000 – he developed a
business with another Pensacola man, Scott Brumfield, in September called We
the People 1776. The two would frequently post videos about patriotism and
their views on subjects like the Black Lives Matter movement and the Democratic
Party, in addition to supporting Trump.
Brumfield and Rivera created a “We the People 1776” PayPal
link. In their bio, they said they used the site to “fundraise their tour.”
They described their organization as a “group of veteran’s [sic] who had to
stand up and speak out.”
Apparently, they felt they had to “stand up” against other
Americans who tended to vote for Joe Biden.
Rivera was found guilty in a bench trial; and his award for
supporting then-President Trump was eight months in jail, a $500 penalty, and
an additional year on probation.
Trump supporter.
*
“My magazines will be fully loaded just in case
it’s not.”
51. JORDEN R. MINK: Mink used a baseball bat to break a window at the Capitol Building,
allowing others to enter. Mink was charged with “unlawful entry on restricted
building or grounds while carrying a weapon (the baseball bat); unlawful injury
to property on Capitol grounds; violent entry, disorderly conduct and physical
violence on Capitol grounds; destruction of government property; theft of
government property; and aiding and abetting.”
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
a person,
matching Mr. Mink’s description is seen
entering the Capitol through the broken window and removing chairs and other
property and delivering them to people in the crowd outside. Other people are
seen handing out property such as a lamp and drawers through the same window.
A post from Nov. 3, on Mr. Mink’s social media
page shows him holding a gun with a sticker saying, “I voted.” The caption
reads, “The ballot is stronger than the bullet – Abraham Lincoln. Well ... my
magazines will be fully loaded just in case it’s not.”
He pleads guilty to a felony charge, related to the riot, on
January 17, 2023. On June 2, his sentence is handed out.
Zero evidence, to that moment, that there was
any significant voter fraud during the 2020 election.
Violent.
*
Lapsed into depression and committed suicide.
52. (R.I.P) MATTHEW PERNA: according to his affidavit, one witness who
called the F.B.I. after recognizing Perna in scenes from the riot, told tells
authorities she has seen him post on social media in support of President Trump
and the conspiracy group QAnon.
Perna told authorities that he was “pushed into
the building by a crowd that had gathered behind him” and “it was not his
intention to enter the Capitol.”
In one of the lamest of all defenses, he
claimed he was only inside for five to ten minutes. “In a later interview, he
said that at one point he became frustrated, and, using a metal pole, tapped on
a window of the Capitol building.”
Sure, sure, he did. “Tapped” on a window.
Video evidence shows him repeatedly assaulting officers. At
one point he “throws a metal flagpole like a spear, seeming to hit a door.”
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Perna was far from chastened.
“It’s not over, trust me,” he predicted, hinting perhaps at more violence to
come. “The purpose of today was to expose Pence as a traitor.”
As for the attack itself, like others he blamed antifa.
Sadly, after pleading guilty to four charges,
including a felony, Perna lapsed into depression and committed suicide in February 2022. In his obituary his family said he died of a “broken heart”
and that his “community (which he loved), his country, and the justice system
killed his spirit and his zest for life.”
His family noted his love for reading – he was a Christian
who read the Bible daily – for dogs, but also for a sickly kitten he adopted, as
well as his acceptance in life of all kinds of people.
“He didn’t break, touch, or steal anything,” the obituary reads. “He did not harm anyone, as
he stayed within the velvet ropes [in Statuary Hall] taking pictures. For this
act he has been persecuted by many members of his community, friends,
relatives, and people who had never met him.”
After meeting Trump at a rally in September 2022, his aunt,
Geri, tweeted her renewed support for the president who unleashed people like
her nephew to make the attack. Trump, she said, told her, if he were reelected,
that he would grant Matthew a posthumous pardon.
He “told me himself,” she said.
(Sedition Hunters by Reilly, p. 299, 326.)
Trump supporter,
believed in
QAnon (according to tipster).
*
Hoping for a televised execution.
53. GARRETT MILLER:
According to Channel 5 News in Dallas-Fort Worth, Miller, 34, of Richardson,
Texas,
was arrested … on charges of knowingly entering or remaining in
any restricted buildings or grounds without lawful authority, violent entry and
disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, obstructing or impeding any official
proceeding and certain acts during civil disorder.
During a hearing Monday morning, Miller waived the right to a
preliminary hearing and he was ordered held without bond by Magistrate Judge
Rebecca Rutherford, according to our partner KRLD-AM.
In a Jan. 3 [2021] Facebook post included in the
federal documents, Miller stated he was bringing “a grappling hook and rope and
a level 3 vest. Helmets mouth guard and jump cap.” The documents also state
Miller said the last time he went to Washington D.C. for a rally in support of
President Donald Trump he had “a lot of guns.”
According to court documents, on the day of his arrest, Miller was
wearing a t-shirt that included “a photograph of
former President Donald Trump, and bearing the words, “Take America Back” and “I Was There, Washington D.C.,
January 6, 2021.” Miller had also threatened to assassinate Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and said that the officer who shot and killed one of the rioters
should get a televised execution.
So. A proud fan of then President Trump.
And a complete nut.
In December 2022, Mr. Miller pled guilty to
nine charges, including three felonies, and in February 2023, he got socked
with 38 months in prison. Then: another 36 months on probation
should do it.
He could still face trial involving his threat to
assassinate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Trump supporter, ready for violence.
When arrested, Miller was wearing this shirt, which read, "I was there."
*
“At the behest of then-President Trump.”
54. MATTHEW RYAN MILLER: Also known online as #BabyMachoMiller, the
22-year-old Maryland man faced four charges as a result of his participation in the Jan. 6
riot, including one for discharging a fire extinguisher in the face of police.
The judge in his initial hearing ordered him detained, describing the member of the Proud Boys’
actions as “quite severe and quite concerning.” Miller admitted he had lost his
job as a result of his arrest. He had a new job lined up, and also cared for an
elderly relative. So, could the nice judge please not lock his ass up?
At this point, a liberal, might remember all
the gleeful chanting at Trump rallies over the last few years: “Lock her up!”
“Lock him up!” “Lock up the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, while you’re at it!”
And that liberal might have to suppress an urge
to start mumbling, “Yeah, lock…”
Anyway!
Young Miller, who bills himself as one of the
“Patriotic American Cowboys,” faced one charge of assault with “a deadly and
dangerous weapon,” as his affidavit said, “to wit: the fire extinguisher.”
A check of that group’s Facebook page shows pictures of cows and horses, and people
that deal with cows and horses, as you’d expect. A picture posted to the page
at 6:54 a.m. on January 6 carries the following caption, which garnered 120
thumbs up and heart emojis.
Today is a day for history in the making! PAC
is showing up in DC to support stopping the steal of the electoral votes and
the presidency. Never has there ever been more voter fraud in history of our
country. If our Republic is going to survive, we must have fair elections!! We
are on the train headed to DC now!!!!
One man inquires, “So what is the plan? How are
the patriots going to stop the steal?” Good question, as it turns out.
In a statement to the judge, related to
Miller’s arrest, his lawyer offered this defense. His client was there, on Capitol Hill, he
said, “at the
behest of then-President Trump.” His client, he continued, “concedes he was on
the Capitol grounds to protest along with thousands of other protesters and was
merely following the directions of then-President Trump, the country’s chief
law enforcement officer, and other speakers to march to the Capitol.”
As a kind of “I’m stupid” bonus, he gets socked with a $2,000 fine.
Trump “sent us,”
believed in a
“stolen election.”
*
55. DAVID C. MISH JR.: Mr. Mish, 42, has admitted he was in the Capitol Building during the
riot, but told police he didn’t break anything, and objected when others
smashed a restroom mirror. He called police later to say he had information
related to the shooting of Ashli Babbitt, the protester killed during the riot.
The Wisconsin man has been charged with two crimes and released on a
recognizance bond. He is ordered not to attend any political demonstrations or
visit Washington D.C.
*
A little
more digging, in January 2022, shows that Mish had never been what you would
refer to as a “model citizen,” or even a decent human. “Mish has a lengthy court record,” According
to UrbanMilwaukee.com. “In 1998, he was found guilty of
felony child abuse in Milwaukee County. He’s been found guilty of drunken
driving and driving without a license. He’s been sued for failure to pay
insurance bills and tax delinquency.”
(As far as his participation in in the riot, Mish pleads
guilty and earns another 30 days behind bars.)
Trump supporter.
*
56. (R.I.P.) ASHLI BABBITT: Ms. Babbitt, 34, was a big Trump fan, a believer in “Q” and all his mysteries. An Air Force
veteran, who did admirable service, fourteen deployments, in Iraq and elsewhere, she was shot to death
by Capitol Hill police when she attempted to breach one of the last lines of
defense between the mob and members of Congress.
You could argue that she was led on to death by
right-wing conspiracy thinkers, such as Lin Wood and send-in-the-troops Gen.
Michael T. Flynn.
The Anti-Defamation League describes QAnon as a “wide-reaching
conspiracy theory popular among a range of right-wing extremists.” The movement
also has “marked undertones of antisemitism and xenophobia.”
Trump fans now see Babbitt as a martyr.
*
VANITY FAIR has an excellent
story about the thinking of the rioters – Babbitt included. In the moments
before she died, Jeff Sharlet writes, another rioter
films the scene.
“Gun!” the videographer yells. Two hands emerge
from behind a pillar on the other side, aiming.
Fourteen seconds left. Does she hear them shout
“gun”? Can she make out the warnings Michael Byrd, a plainclothes lieutenant in
the Capitol Police, will say he delivered? That the man standing beside her
will say, “She didn’t heed”? “Please,” Byrd will say he shouted. “Stop! Get
back!” She doesn’t. He aims.
There are more videos. There she is, bobbing up
and down, straining. Her long, smooth face, her dark golden hair, her golden
skin. She has come to this moment—seven seconds—from Ocean Beach, California,
where she lived in a bungalow beneath avocado and lime trees. Little woman.
Five foot two, 115 pounds, her mother will say. One hundred ten, according to
Representative Paul Gosar, the Arizona Republican who’ll make her name into a
martyr song, “#onemoreinthenameoflove.” She’s 35; or in her “20s,” one witness
will say; or “16, supposedly,” guesses another man, each aging her backward,
into the imagined innocence of girlhood.
Goose smashes the glass.
“Go!” she shouts. She’s boosted up. She
crouches on the sill, her Trump flag like a cape tucked under a red-white-
and-blue backpack, like some absurd American bird.
The gunshot sounds like a cannon. Glock 22, .40
caliber. Big gun. One boom.
She falls back. Her hands fly up, open, empty,
raised to her temples. As if rather than a bullet there’s an unsettling
thought.
Nobody tries to catch her.
Sharlet sets her
background – joined the Air Force at 17, served in two wars, eight deployments.
Her favorite movie was The Big Lebowski. Her last words, laying on the
hall floor: “It’s cool.”
She married
another member of the Air Force. They divorced. She voted for Obama. Then in
2016, she “fell hard” for Trump. Her second husband, Aaron Babbitt, was no fan
of the brash new politician.
Ashli thought
Trump was “one of gods greatest warriors.”
Sharlet writes
about, “The Trump dream,” the dream Ms. Babbitt believed.
“All I dream about and pray for,” she wrote;
“it is all connected,” “the pedos” and the “enslaved.” “You can’t sell your
soul to the devil without a price.” She retweeted the price deep-state traitors
will pay: “DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD.” She’d come to care deeply for the 800,000
children she incorrectly believed are stolen every year. She spoke with
hurtling indignation about immigration and drugs. She experienced her anger as
love: channeled it into belief; embraced the authority of her
president-redeemer.
...
“Mask Free
Autonomous Zone,” read a poster on the front door of Ashli’s pool cleaning
business, “Better known as AMERICA.” A place of “men” who “smile, laugh, shout,
and have a damn good time!”
In the end,
Sharlet may have hit on a fundamental point – the foundation of our problem as
a nation today. “You can’t fact-check a myth,” he says. You can’t make these
people believe in facts.
They cling to
the myth. The myth defines them. Warriors for America. Patriots. Defenders
against tyranny.
On Jan. 5, as
Ashli prepared to fly to D.C., her husband texted her. “Be safe,” he said. “I
cannot lose you.”
Trump supporter, QAnon.
*
Tim Arvidson: All kinds of fools showed up on January 6, 2021, called like Batman, only by the president, to defend the American way of life. Arvidson now may replace #1662, as the last fool arrested.
On the way to Washington, D.C., we know the man from Colorado Springs posted a selfie with the comment, “We may stay a while. We’re pissed. This isn’t going to happen! Stop The Steal!”
His description later that day, sums up the whole shitstorm touched off by the President of the United States.
Arvidson explained,
“So, after a few cocktails, [xxxxxxxx] and I have been processing what we experienced today. First and foremost, we have never ever, met so many wonderful patriotic Americans. Truly upset, demoralized and concerned for our country! Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, Gay! We even discussed with our new friends; how it inferioriated [sic] the left, how their attempts to divide us based on our differences did not work.”
“It was amazing! The love we shared as patriots! Our bond for our love of country; instant love for each other! There was an element of anger in the crowd today. People have had it: with the hypocrisy, the favoritism and corruption. I think what hurts the most is how corrupt Republicans have been exposed! And Fox News (they played us)!
“The election was stolen, I was an Election Judge in Colorado this current election; the election was stolen; my sworn oath will suffice! Antifa OR Anarchistic organizations infiltrated the events that transpired today! I WAS THERE, on-site all day with my wife. As soon as we got to the Capitol, we knew! This was bad. But, there was also a very deep undercurrent of disgust with our government! Everyone was pissed off! There were people there in Wheelchairs, Walkers and Oxygen Tanks; pissed! With their last breath, they were going to be there; having their voice heard. This Country is fractured, this is not over; it has just begun! Today made us realize that our greatest enemies are the Republicans, we thought we could count on! Look at tonight’s electoral college votes? Georgia was the same scam as Nov 3rd! Keep fighting, don’t stop, don’t give up! We are now DISENFRANCHISED! Our votes DO NOT COUNT! We are NOT FREE! Fight for you Constitutional rights!”
So Arvidson was there to save this country – from counting the votes in a fair election. He never entered the Capitol, so was never arrested.
He believed the election was stolen. Trump supporter.
THE
TALLY OF RIOTERS #1-1666.
__________
“I didn’t know if I was going to survive that day. I
was the most scared I had ever been in my life and I didn’t know if I was going
to make it home. Now I live with the anxiety of Jan. 6th.”
Victim
statement of one officer in a riot case.
__________
WE WERE COMMITTED to following the
stories of all the January 6 rioters to the bitter end. That end, the
bitterest, came on January 20, 2025, Donald Trump’s first day of his second
term as President of the United States.
With a stroke of a pen – or a flourish
of a Sharpie – he pardoned every rioter charged. Just eight days before, J.D.
Vance had told reporters, Trump wouldn’t do it. “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be
pardoned [emphasis added],” he said.
Obviously.
Trump pardoned every one of the
rioters – no exceptions. At least two have said they will not accept pardons.
My list also includes individuals who
were caught up in Trump’s epic scheme to overturn the results of a “stolen
election” that wasn’t stolen. We include the police officer who lost his job
after he was caught and convicted of covering for rioters, Tucker Carlson, who
lied about how the election was rigged, sixteen “false electors” charged in
Michigan with lying, three Team Trump lawyers convicted of lying about election
fraud, another disbarred for similar lying, and Rudy Giuliani, who has been destroyed
financially for defaming individuals he claimed stole tens of thousands of votes.
President Trump himself, made the list, as did his eighteen co-conspirators in
Georgia, who really did try to steal the 2020 election.
As of January 19, 2025, our list of
criminals and alleged criminals included 1,661 names. We have, since that time,
added one other rioter that we had missed, and other arrestee, who committed
suicide just a few days after the attack on democracy.
That includes Mr. Trump – four times
indicted – who made our list at #1150. He managed to stifle three
investigations, but in a fourth he was convicted of 34 felonies, with not one
juror dissenting on any of the 34 counts. In his honor, we mark his entry in
his favorite skin toner color.
Starting with #1129 on our list, in
this document we begin giving details on rioters in the order we were made
aware of their cases, up until the day Trump pardoned them all. On the last day
of President Biden’s time in office, we could report that one thousand, two hundred
and ninety-three rioters and friends had pleaded guilty, been convicted by
juries or in bench trials, lost jobs for supporting the rioters, or were dead.
1,293
(122 had
been sentenced to more time in jail than Trump spent in office, in his
first term.)
*
We should also knock down the
nonsensical argument that the rioters were “let in” by police – that all were
peaceful “patriots” – that Ashli Babbitt was “murdered” by a police officer
defending the Capitol.
In January 2024, a new video clip was released
from the point of view of a rioter banging on the doors of the House chamber.
Windows were broken, furniture piled up inside to keep the doors blocked, and
police officers or secret service agents have guns drawn and pointed at the men
and women outside.
Two GOP lawmakers, including Rep. Troy
Nehls, were seen and heard shouting at the attackers to pull back.
It was once possible to watch
the clip, which
lasted eight minutes, if you wanted to see the rioters being “let in” by
police.
In a book he
wrote Nehls described that moment: “You need to stop banging on these doors,”
he says. “Stop trying to breach these doors. If you don’t, and you try to come
in here, these gentlemen to my left and right with their guns drawn, they will
kill you.”
In years to follow, he became just
another Trump apologist.
Nehls is in the blue shirt, I believe.
Five police officers died.
A few details: At least 600 rioters were
charged with assaulting police or others during the January 6 fiasco.
41 rioters were known to have at
least one previous conviction for a violent crime.
88 were charged with destroying
government property, valued as high, in two cases, as $43,315.
68 were charged with theft of
government property.
0 rioters were proven to have been members
of Antifa.
1 police officer lost an eye as a
result of his injuries during the attack.
An indeterminate number were
permanently disabled by injuries, including Officer Aquilino Gonell.
5 police officers died, one
by heart attack, on January 7, six more by suicide in following weeks.
It was voted in March 2023, to put up
a plaque in memory of the officers who bravely defended the Capitol. As of
January 20, 2025, Republican lawmakers had managed to block installation.
Republicans in Congress have blocked installation of this plaque.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF RIOTERS
AND SECONDARY CASUALTIES
Underlined = convicted.
1a CAPITALIZED and underlined = sentenced.
Numbered, “1a,” etc. = how the blogger keeps track of the number convicted/sentenced
Names in GREEN and underlined – charges dismissed/found innocent.
Names in black and struck through – deceased.
NAMES IN PURPLE – CONVICTED OF SERIOUS CRIMES, POST-PARDON..
JOSEPH ABASCIANO – lost his job as a police officer
RICHARD ACKERMAN – time served, two years on probation, $2,000
DANIEL PAGE ADAMS – 26 months, 36 months on probation, $2,000
DENNIS GEORGE ADAMS JR. – 45 days
Dustin Adams
HOWARD BERTON ADAMS JR. – 8 mo., 3 yrs. prob., $4,000
Jared Hunter Adams – guilty, jury trial
Joseph Michael Adams
JUSTIN DEE ADAMS – 17 months behind bars, a year on probation
Karla Adams – has pleaded guilty, two misdemeanors
MICHAEL GARETH ADAMS – 60 days, $500
THOMAS B. ADAMS JR. – 14 months in jail, 3 yrs. probation, fined $2,000
MILES ADKINS: 12 days in jail, probation, fines and restitution
ZACHARY JORDAN ALAM – 8 years in prison, three more on probation, $5,114; soon after being pardoned, Alam was arrested again and charged with “felony residential burglary.”
CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL ALBERTS – seven years in prison, $2,000
CHRIS ALFONSO – probation, $500
RUSSELL DEAN ALFORD – 12 months, another 12 on probation, $500
TOMMY FREDERICK ALLAN – sentence: 21 mo., $2,000 fine, three yrs. probation
CHASE KEVIN ALLEN – 14 days, intermittent, 50 hrs. com. service, $500
Matthew Titus Allen – has pleaded guilty
TERRY L. ALLEN: 24 months, 24 on probation, $1,520
Luke Almond
EDUARDO NICOLAS ALVEAR GONZALEZ – fines & rest. $1,500, 200 hrs. com. serv. 2 yrs. pro.
Kevin Alstrup – has pleaded guilty
LAWRENCE AMBROSE – 45 days house arrest, $1,000 in fines & restitution, com. service
DANIEL AMSINI – 45 days, a year on probation, $749
EDWARD AMYOT – 60 days home detention, 60 hours of community service, probation, $5,500 in fines and restitution
(R.I.P.)
JOHN ANDERSON – died of natural causes, before going to trial
Michael Anderson
Philip Anderson
Joseph Michael Andrews
Keith Andrews
Richard Andrews
JOHN D. ANDRIES – 1 year and 1 day, three years’ supervised release, $2,000; post-pardon, he was sentenced to 60 days in jail for repeated violations of an order to stop harassing the mother of his child.
RONALD ANDRULONIS – 14 days, intermittent confinement, 60 days’ location monitoring, three years on probation, $500
VINCENT JAMES ARDOLINO – three years on probation, $4,100 in fines and restitution
Assorted Arizona fake electors (14); four others have already been charged in other indictments
Anthony Alexander Antonio – guilty, felony count
Ehsan Arbabi
KENNETH ARMSTRONG III – 14 days, three years on probation, $500
DAVID ARREDONDO – 33 months, three years’ supervised release, $2,000
MICHAEL ASBURY – 4 months behind bars, four months of home confinement, probation, $2,000
NEIL ASHCRAFT – 80 days, three years on probation, $2,000
RYAN ASHLOCK – 70 days in jail, $500 in restitution, one year of supervised release
JOSHUA LEE ATWOOD – guilty, felony assault with a dangerous weapon; he was also arrested in 2023 on charges of armed robbery and malicious assault at the Crazy Donkey restaurant. He serves part of his federal sentence before he is pardoned; and then gets at least six months in jail for the stabbing at the restaurant.
(R.I.P.) MARK RODERICK AUNGST – committed suicide
before trial
DANIEL AVERY – 14 days, a year and a half on probation, $1,500
JAIMEE AVERY – 18 months on probation, $1,500
RICHARD AVIRETT – 30 days in jail, $500
Carlos Ayala
STEPHEN MICHAEL AYRES – community service, 100 hrs. $500 restitution, 2 yrs. probation
FARBOD AZARI – 50 months in prison, 24 more on probation, $2,200
FARHAD AZARI – 30 months, 24 more on probation, $2,200
(R.I.P.) ASHLI BABBITT – killed during the riot
NOAH S. BACON – 1 year and 1 day in jail, two years’ supervised release, $2,000
EDWARD BADALIAN – 51 months in prison, probation, $2,000
NATHAN BAER – 4 months in jail, two years on probation, $2,000
STEPHANIE BAEZ – acquitted in a bench trial
MATTHEW BAGGOTT – 3 mo. in jail, one year probation, $500 in restitution, 60 hrs. com. serv.
STEPHEN MAURY BAKER – 9 days in jail, $500 in restitution, 24 mo. on probation
Stephen Michael Baker – has pleaded guilty to all charges
RONALD BALHORN – 100 days, a year on probation, 200 hours of community service, $2,500
Daniel Charles Ball – Ball remained in custody for a long time, due to his history of violent actions, and in January 2025, he was arrested again on weapons charges – namely, possession of firearms by a multi-time convicted felon. One previous felony: trying to strangle a woman.
DAVID A. BALL JR. – two years on probation, $1,000
THOMAS BALLARD – 54 months in prison, 3 yrs. probation, $2,000
ROBERT BALLESTEROS – community service, $500 in restitution, 3 yrs. on probation
Barbara Balmaseda
DAWN BANCROFT – 60 days in jail, 100 hours of community service, $500 in restitution
STEVE BANNON – four months in prison; refusal to testify
John Manuel Banuelos – in post-pardon news, the January 6 rioter was arrested again in November 2025 and charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault. Trump’s kind of guy.
JEREMY BAOUCHE – 30 days, $2,500 in fines and restitution, two years on probation
JULIO BAQUERO – 18 mo., $2,000
THOMAS BARANYI – 90 days, community service, $500, and a year of probation
ERIC GENE BARBER – 45 days, $500 in restitution, and must pay CNN for $52.95 in damages
STEPHEN BOYD BARBER – two years on probation, $500
KYLER JOSEPH BARD – a year and a day, two years’ probation, $2,000
JEROD THOMAS BARGAR – six months’ home confinement, five years’ probation, $6,000 in fines and restitution
RICHARD FRANKLIN BARNARD – 30 days home confinement, probation, $500, com. service
(R.I.P.) JOSEPH BARNES – died
in a motorcycle accident
– died in a motorcycle accident
Dennis Wayne Barnes
RICHARD “BIGO” BARNETT – 54 months in jail, $2,544
LOGAN BARNHART – 3 years, $5,688 in fines and restitution
Brandon Barnhill
Christine Barrello – has pleaded guilty, misdemeanors
Jason Barrett
NANCY BARRON – three years on probation
KATELYN BARTOW – a year on probation, $1,613 in fines and restitution, 90 days of location monitoring, 60 hrs. com. service
TRAVIS BARTOW – a year on probation, $1,242 in fines and restitution
DAVID MITCHELL BATES – three years on probation, $500
PAULINE BAUER – 27 months in prison, 24 more on probation, $2,170
ROBERT L. BAUER – 45 days, community service, $500 restitution
ROGER KENT BAUGH – one year and one day in jail, $2,000 fine, 2 yrs. supervised release
WILLIAM FREDERICK BEALS II – probation, location monitoring, community service, $500
DAMON MICHAEL BECKLEY – 18 months in jail, $2,200
MATTHEW JASON BEDDINGFIELD – 38 months, 24 more on prob., $2,000
Perry James Beebe
JAMES BEEKS – acquitted on all charges
MELANIE BELGER – three years on probation, $4,500 in fines and restitution
James Behymer – guilty to a felony charge
DANA JEAN BELL – 17 months behind bars, three yrs. probation, $2,000
Christopher Belliveau
Paul Belosic – he remains at large; fugitive
Celena Belton
LUKE WESLEY BENDER – 21 mo., 36 on probation, $2,000
ANDREW RYAN BENNETT – 3 mo. home confinement, 21 mo. probation, 80 hrs. com. service, $500 restitution
Bradley Stuart Bennett – guilty, all charges
TYLER QUINTIN BENSCH – 60 days’ home confinement, two years’ probation
Kathy Berden, et. al. (15 “false electors”)
JORDAN BERK – probation for two years, $1,598 in fines and restitution
CALEB BERRY – probation, 3 yrs., $500
Jeremy Bertino – awaiting sentencing, inc. felony
BRYAN BETANCUR BATTISTI – 4 months in jail, a year on probation, $500 restitution; post-pardon, he got arrested again and spent 4 more months in prison; then he got arrested again for stalking women on the D.C. Metro system. He’s also banned from riding.
Natalie Beyeler – guilty plea
Sohail Bhatti
Joseph Bierbrodt – guilty, assault
(R.I.P.) WILLIAM BIERBRODT –
died of natural causes
JOSEPH R. BIGGS – 17 years in prison, three more on supervised release, $600
STEVEN BILLINGSLEY – sentenced to perform com. service, pay $500 restitution, 2 yrs. probation
Lawrence Silas Billiter – guilty, bench trial, all nine charges
Todd Bills
AIDEN BILYARD – 40 months in prison, $3,500 in restitution, etc.
CRAIG MICHAEL BINGERT – eight years behind bars, $2,000
Brian Glenn Bingham – guilty, jury trial
FRANCIS BIONDO – a year on probation, 120 hours of community service, $500
FRANK BRATJAN JR. – community service, six months’ probation, $2,000 in fines & restitution
Jerry Braun – now guilty
Ethan Bray – has been convicted
Toney Sheldon Bray – has been convicted
Nathan Erik Breese
JAMES BREHENY – three years on probation, inc. six on home confinement, $2,000
Frederick Breitfelder
James Brett IV – has pleaded guilty
PAUL BRINSON – 30 days, a year on probation, $500
Tristan Broadrick
LARRY RENDALL BROCK – two years, two more on probation, $2,000
Michael Leon Brock
NICHOLAS JAMES BROCKHOFF – 36 months, 36 more on probation, $2,700
ANTOINE BRODNAX – sentenced to 5 mo. in jail, ordered to pay $500 in restitution
JOSEPH BRODY – 18 months, community service, $2,200 in fines and restitution
PHILIP ANDREW BROMLEY – 90 days, $4,000 in fines and restitution, one year on probation
TAMMY A. BRONSBURG (a.k.a. TAMMY A. BUTRY) – 20 days, 24 mo. probation, $500 restitution
GLENN ALLEN BROOKS – 6 months, community service, probation, $2,500’ Brooks tried to reject his pardon, saying he wanted to clear his name completely in the courts; the U.S. Supreme Court closed that route in a March 9, 2026, ruling
JAMES W. BROOKS – $500 restitution, 60 hrs. community service, one yr. probation
GABRIEL MORGAN BROWN – 20 days, one yr. probation, $500
JEFFREY SCOTT BROWN – 54 months, 36 more on probation, $2,500
JEREMY BROWN – sentenced to seven years, three months on illegal arms charges
KEITH BROWN – three years on probation, and $3,000
TERRY BROWN – 1 mo. home detention, 3 yrs. Probation, $500 restitution, 60 hrs. com. serv.
Trevor Brown
MARC ANTHONY BRU – six years in prison, three on probation, $10,226
Ronald Bryan – has pled guilty, felony assault
MATTHEW JOHN BUCKLER – 14 days, 60 hrs. com. serv., $500 restitution, probation
JANET WEST BUHLER – 30 days, 3 yrs. probation, $500
Benjamin Scott Burlew – guilty plea, assault
GABRIEL BURRESS – 45 days home arrest, 18 mo. probation, com. serv., $500
PAUL GRAY COLBATH – 30 days home detention, probation, com. service, $500
BENJAMIN COLE – four years on probation, community service, $2,000
Brian Cole Jr. – perhaps the last January 6 rioter who will ever ben arrested (and not yet pardoned); he planted the pipe bombs at the Democratic and Republican headquarters in D.C. that day
Antonio Colello – has pleaded guilty
Robert Colello – probation, community service, $500
JOSHUA COLGAN – 28 days, 90 home confinement, three years’ probation, $500
LOUIS ENRIQUE COLON – two years on probation, $2,000
KYLE TRAVIS COLTON – a Trump pardon saved Colton on January 6 charges, but he was later sentenced to six years, eight months, on charges of solicitation and possession of massive amounts of child pornography.
JOSIAH COLT – 15 months, $1,000, three years on probation
SCOTT COLUMBUS – 30 months on probation, $500
JASON MICHAEL COMEAU – two mo. home confinement, $871 in fines and restitution
Teresa Conemac – had pleaded guilty
PAULA ANN CONLON – a year on probation, $500 in restitution
CODY PAGE CONNELL – 26 months, 36 on probation, $2,000
KIM CONNOLLY – six months’ probation, $500
FRANCIS CONNOR – three months home confinement, nine months additional probation, community service, $871 in fines and restitution
THOMAS PAUL CONOVER – 30 days residential treatment, 36 mo. probation, $3,000 in fines and restitution
RICHARD COOK – 18 months in prison, $2,000
STEVEN PATRICK COOK – 28 months behind bars, 36 months on probation, and $2,000 in restitution.
CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM – 3 mo. home detention, fined $1,123, $500 restitution, probation for one year
Kristen Oliver Cunningham
JASON HEROLD CURL – probation, 50 hrs. community service, $1,500
MICHAEL THOMAS CURZIO – six months’ detention, $500 restitution
CASEY CUSICK – 10 days in jail, four years of supervised release and probation, $3,500 in fines and restitution
JAMES VARNELL CUSICK JR. – 10 days, four years on supervised release or probation, $3,500
Frank Dahlquist
JOSHUA RYAN DALE – 4 months, 12 on probation, $1,000
DAVID PAUL DANIEL – despite his pardon for assaulting police on January 6, Daniel remained in custody on charges of producing child pornography. In April 2026, he agreed to a plea deal and will be headed for prison, where he always belonged.
MICHAEL DANIELE – 30 days home confinement, two years on probation, $2,500.
MATTHEW DASILVA – 28 months behind bars
MICHAEL SHANE DAUGHTRY – 60 days home detention, three years’ probation, com. service, $500
CURTIS DAVIS – two year in jail, three on probation, $2,000
David Allan Davis – found guilty, three of four charges, bench trial
Jacob Davis – has pleaded guilty to felony assault
JAMES RUSSELL DAVIS – two months in prison, two years on probation, $2,000
NICHOLAS DECARLO – 48 mo. in jail, $4,500 in fines & restitution, 36 mo. supervised release
Jim DeGraffenreid – fake elector
Kim Eugene Decker II
NATHANIEL J. DEGRAVE – 37 months in prison, $25,000 fine, $2,000 restitution
Robert William Degregoris – has had bench trial; guilty, four charges
JOHNNY A. DELBRIDGE JR. – two years on probation, $1,000 in fines and restitution
1087a. JOHNNY A. DELBRIDGE III – two years on probation, $1,000 in fines and restitution
Maria DeLuca
Lincoln Deming
DAVID DEMPSEY – 20 years in prison, $2,200
Daniel Dustin Deneui
LUCAS DENNEY – 52 months in prison, three years on probation, restitution to be determined
ROBERT WAYNE DENNIS – 3 yrs., 2 extra on probation, $2,000
VICTOR SEAN DENNISON – 180 days, a year on probation
DAVID DEPAPE – 30 years for his hammer attack
TIMOTHY DESJARDINS – 18 years related to other gun incidents; in one case, Desjardins fired a gun at a man in a Walgreen parking lot, just grazing his head. In the second incident, he waved a gun at police officers, and fled into a barbershop, where a standoff followed.
Catholine DeVries
MICHAEL JAMES DICKINSON – 20 months behind bars, probation, $2,000 down the toilet
Adrienna DiCloccio
KIMBERLY DIFRANCESCO – $2,500 in fines and restitution, 30 mo. on probation
GINO DIGIOVANNI – ten days in jail, a year of supervised release, $500
BRANDON KELLY DILLARD – four months in jail, a year on probation, $500
KALEB DILLARD – 10 months, a year on probation, $41,238.55 in fines and restitution.
DAWN FRANKOWSKI – probation, $1,250 in fines and restitution, community service
Howard Raymond Freelove
Nolan Freeman – has pleaded guilty
LARRY FRELIGH – 4 months, a year on probation, $500
Caleb Fuller
Kenneth Fuller
NICHOLAS FULLER – probation, three years; location monitoring, 180 days, 80 hrs. com. service, $2,000
WILLIAM IRVIN FULLER – three years on probation, 60 days location monitoring, $500
LEVI GABLE – 45 days on house arrest, $1,500 in fines and restitution, com. service
BRIAN MICHAEL GAHERTY – 33 months in prison, $10,000 fine (for threatening to kill Maxine Waters)
KEVIN GALETTO – 27 months in prison, $2,000
James Gallagher
THOMAS GALLAGHER – must do 60 hrs. community service, $500 restitution, 2 yrs. probation
Thomas Gallagher
William Gallagher
JOEI LEANN GALLMAN – 18 months on probation, 50 hours of com. service, and $1,500 in fines and restitution
WILLIAM JOHN WYATT GALLMAN – same sentence as Joei
ANDREW GALLOWAY – 30 days, $1,500 in fines and restitution
August Raymond Garcia
Gabriel Augustin Garcia – guilty, two felonies
JACOB GARCIA – 30 days (intermittent), 2 yrs. probation, $500
MITCHELL TODD GARDNER II – 55 mo., 36 mo. probation, $3,500 in fines and restitution
Troy Vincent Garrett – has pleaded guilty
David Michael Gary – has pleaded guilty
Lowell Gates
Spencer Sidney Geller – currently a fugitive
RAECHEL GENCO – probation, community service, $500
Edward George Jr.
CHRISTINA GERDING – 2 years on probation, $500
JASON GERDING – 2 years on probation, $500
ERIC GERWATOWSKI – 30 days of home confinement, two years on probation, $2,000
JOHN HUBERT GETSINGER JR. – 60 days, 36 mo. prob., 100 hrs. com. serv., $500
Robert Giacchetti – pleaded guilty to assaulting an officer
MICHAEL GIANOS – 1 mo. home confinement, community service, $500
LARRY FIFE GIBERSON – two months in jail, $2,000
Isaiah Giddings – awaiting sentencing on one felony count
ROBERT GIESWEIN – four years in prison, three on probation, $2,000
DAVID JOSEPH GIETZEN – six years in prison, three additional on supervised release, $710
TONY LEE GILL – 45 days in jail, $1,500
VINCENT GILLESPIE – 68 mo., 36 supervised release, $2,000 restitution, $25,000 fine
Lee Giobbie
ANTHIME JOSEPH GIONET – 60 days, two years on probation, $2,500 fines and restitution.
Frank Peter Molinari Giorgi
RUDY GIULIANI, et. al. – the defendants in the Georgia election fraud case have already taken a few lumps; Rudy has lost a defamation case against two Georgia poll workers, and the jury awarded them $148.2 million. Rudy is also going to be disbarred in Washington D.C.
Kenneth Giusini – has pleaded guilty to one charge
FRANK R. GIUSTINO – 90 days, $500
MARCOS GLEFFE – 60 days’ home detention, 60 hours’ community service, $1,000
EARL GLOSSER – probation, $500 restitution, 100 hours community service
Billy Joe Gober
Darrell Wayne Goins
SIMONE MELISSA GOLD – sentence: 60 days, $9,500 fine, $500 in restitution, year on supervised release
George Gonzalez
Mario Gonzalez
DANIEL GOODWYN – 60 days in jail, a year of supervised release, $3,000 in fines and restitution.
JOHN THOMAS GORDON – 6 months in prison, $2,000
VAUGHN GORDON – 90 days home confinement, 3 yrs. probation, $500
Amy Nicole Gordon – opted for a jury trial; found guilty on all charges
Bart Gore
Patrick Gorski
Vitali Gossjankowski – awaiting sentence on multiple felonies
Caden Paul Gottfried
JOHN DAVID ROSS GOULD – 2 mo. home confinement, a year on probation, 60 hrs. com. serv., $500
JEFFREY GRACE – 75 days, and a bonus year on probation, $500
JEREMY GRACE – 21 days, community service, $500 restitution, probation for a year
JONATHAN GRACE – 24 months behind bars, 36 more on supervised release, $7,000
Daryl Steven Graham – has pleaded guilty
JAMES TATE GRANT – three years in prison, $2,000
DANIEL PAUL GRAY – 30 months, 36 more on probation, 200 hours of community service, $2,000
LESLIE GRAY – a year and a day behind bars, $2,000
LEAH EVA GREEN (a.k.a. Leah Gruppo) – 7 days, $500, three years on probation
Matthew Greene – awaiting sentencing on two serious charges
MICHAEL “WHIP” GREENE – probation and 60 hours of community service (mostly a win for the defendant)
CHRISTOPHER RAY GRIDER – 83 months, fined $5,044; he must also surrender $800 he raised on a Go Fund Me page
ANDREW KYLE GRIGSBY – Andrew got a pardon, which save him any troubles for his crimes on January 6. But in 2024, he pleaded guilty to possession of child sexual assault materials and was sentenced to three years behind bars.
COUY GRIFFIN – 14 days in jail, community service, $3,500 in fines and restitution
Jason Griffin – pleaded guilty, minor charge
ANTHONY A. GRIFFITH SR. – six months, twelve on probation, $500
JACK JESSE GRIFFITH (a.k.a. JUAN BABIANO) – 90 days of home confinement, plus 14 added for parole violations, 36 months’ probation, $500
PHILIP GRILLO – a year in jail
ANDREW WILLIAM GRISWOLD – 75 days in jail, two years’ supervised release, $2,000
MARK GRODS – three years’ probation, $2,000
THOMAS GRONEK – time served, $50 fine, arrested on Jan. 5 on a gun charge
JEREMY GROSECLOSE – 40 months behind bars, 24 on probation, $5,000
JULIANO GROSS – 45 days home confinement, and other typical “bonuses,” inc. $500
LOGAN GROVER – 30 days home arrest, 24 mo. probation, 100 hrs. com. serv., $500
LEONARD GRUPPO – 90 days, home confinement, $3,500 in fines and restitution, etc.
Daniel Guizio – guilty, two misdemeanors
DEREK GUNBY – 60 days, probation, $2,000
BRIAN GUNDERSEN – 18 months in jail, probation, $2,000
Leonard Guthrie Jr.
CHRIS GUTIERREZ – probation for three years, $2,000 owed in fines and restitution
Richard Gutowski
JOSEPH HACKETT – 42 months in prison, 36 months on probation
James Haffner
STACEY WADE HAGER – 7 months, $500
TIMOTHY LOUISE HALE-CUSANELLI – four years in jail, $2,000
JOSHUA HALL – a year on probation, $700 in fines and restitution
SCOTT HALL – five years on probation, $5,000
LUIS HALLON – two years on probation, $500
Michael Haltom
ZYLAS HAMILTON – probation for two years, location monitoring for 30 days, 60 hours of community service, $1,500 in fines and restitution
THOMAS PATRICK HAMNER – 30 months in prison, $2,000 fine, 3 years’ probation
CHARLES HAND III – 20 days, probation, community service and $500
ROBERT HANNA – 24 months on probation, $1,000 in fines and restitution
STEVEN HANNA – same sentence as Robert (above)
Theo Hanson
Rocky Hardie
MICHAEL LEE HARDIN – 30 days home det., $500, 60 hrs. com. serv., 18 months probation.
Peter J. Harding
STACIE ANN HARGIS-GETSINGER – 60 days, $500, probation, etc.
ALEX HARKRIDER – two years in prison, two more on probation, $2,000
KENNETH HARRELSON – 48 months in prison, 24 months on probation
DANIEL HARRINGTON – 45 days, probation, $500
DOUGLAS HARRINGTON – 40 months, 24 on probation, $2,295
DR. AUSTIN BRENDLEN HARRIS – fines and restitution in the sum of $5,500, and 400 hours of community service
JOHNNY HARRIS – 7 months, a year of probation, $500
RICHARD L. HARRIS – 41 months, 36 more on probation, $605
BRUCE J. HARRISON – community service, restitution, 2 yrs. probation, $500
JEREMY HARRISON – 30 days’ home confinement, probation, community service, $500
ERIC GLEN HARROWER – 10 days in the slammer, probation, etc., $500
Dean Robert Harshman – guilty plea, one misdemeanor
TIMOTHY ALLEN HART – 45 days on home confinement, three years’ probation, $2,000
Jarod Lee Hawks – was arrested and charged only in November of 2024, and charged with assaulting police. He has since been arrested several more times for crimes including burglary and assault, in Florida.
Uliyahu Hayah – has plead guilty to assault
JOSHUA DILLON HAYNES – sentence: 2 yrs., 8 mo. in prison, $2,000 in restitution, and $29,989.36 in euros restitution; he was also arrested again and charged with strangulation of a family member.
DONALD HAZARD – 4 years, 9 months, and probation, $2,000
STEPHANIE HAZELTON (a.k.a. Stephanie Wolf/Wolfe) – 10 days, three mo. home confinement, $2,000
ALBUQUERQUE COSPER HEAD – 90 months in prison, 3 yrs. pro., $2,000 restitution
BRIAN HEALION – 100 days in jail, three years on probation, $2,000
CHAD HEATHCOTE – 15 days, probation for three years, $500
Chad Hedgcock – guilty, misdemeanor charges
BENJAMIN HEFFELFINGER – two years on probation, $500
Brandon Heffner – has pleaded guilty, felony
JENNIFER HEINL – 14 days, two years on probation, $500
DODGE DALE HELLONEN – 279 hours of com. service, four yrs. probation, $500
EDWARD E. HEMENWAY II – 45 days, 60 hours community service, $500 in restitution
PAM HEMPHILL – 60 days, $500, 36 months’ probation – MS. HEMPHILL TURNS DOWN THE PARDON OFFER. “ACCEPTING A PARDON WOULD ONLY INSULT THE CAPITOL POLICE OFFICERS, RULE OF LAW, AND, OF COURSE, OUR NATION,” SHE EXPLAINS.
NICHOLAS PATRICK HENDRIX – 30 days, $500, 36 months on probation
JON NICHOLAS HENEGHAN – 20 days, one year on supervised release, $500
Michael Hennessey
TYLER HENSON – 6 months on probation, $1,000 in fines and restitution
CARA MAUREEN HENTSCHEL – 45 days in halfway house, $1,000 fines & rest., 36 mo. pro.
DANIEL HERENDEEN – 14 days behind bars, two months of house arrest, a $500 fine, and three years on probation
ANDREW ALAN HERNANDEZ – sentence: 18 mo., $2,000 fine, 3 yrs. probation
EMILY HERNANDEZ -30 days, one year probation, $500, 80 hours com. serv. – at the time of her pardon, she was serving ten years in prison for two DWI offenses, killing one person, injuring a second.
ERIK HERERRA – 4 yrs. in prison, 3 more on probation, $3,000 in fines and restitution.
DILLON COLBY HERRINGTON – 37 months in prison, 36 months on probation, $2,000; in January 2024, Herrington is indicted again, this time in Alabama, on charges of rape. The alleged crime is so heinous that he is denied bail and spends at least seventeen months in jail, awaiting trial. No record yet of the outcome is available.
Michael Hershberger-Davis
CAMERON EDWARD HESS – 9 months in jail, 36 on probation, $2,000.
JOSEPH KERRY HICKS – 24 months’ probation, 100 hours of community service, $500
Clayton Hildebrand – has pleaded guilty
DUSTY ALLAN HIGGINS – 14 days, three years on probation, $500
JACOB G. HILES – fined $500, ordered to complete 60 hrs. com. service, 3 yrs. probation.
Jim Hindle – fake elector
Charles Himber – has pled guilty
SANDRA HODGES – 10 days, three years on probation
PAUL ALLARD HODGKINS – 8 months in prison, $2,000 fine, 2 yrs. super. Release
Thomas Hodo
Judith Celese Hoekstra
Nicholas Hofer
LUKE HOFFMAN – 20 months, $2,000
Ryan Holden
BRENT HOLDRIDGE – 60 days, three years on probation, $500. He is pardoned; but in May 2025, he is arrested again on charges of burglary, theft, and possession of stolen property.
Brian Holmes
SARAH KATHLEEN HOLMES – a year on probation, $1,500 in fines and restitution
LISA ANNE HOMER – community service, probation, $500 restitution, $5,000 fine
(R.I.P.) DAVID KENNEDY HOMOL – death by suicide;
gunshot to the temple
DILLON PAUL HOMOL – 3 months’ home confinement, can go to work, 2 years’ probation
ADAM AVERY HONEYCUTT – 90 days, $500 restitution
MATTHEW HONIGFORD – 19 months in prison, probation, $2,000
KASEY VON OWEN HOPKINS – 4 months, 24 months’ probation, $500 – HAD A PREVIOUS CONVICTION FOR “FORCIBLE RAPE,” RESULTING IN A SEVEN-YEAR SENTENCE
COREY HORAN – three years’ probation, $500
STEPHEN ETHAN HORN – probation, $2,000
JAMES MATTHEW HORNING – 30 days, $500, probation
IAN ROSS HORVATH – probation for three years, $500
JENNIFER HORVATH – 14 days, 90 home confine, $500, 3 yrs. pro.
ALAN HOSTETTER – 11 years, 3 months in prison, $32,400 in fines and restitution, etc.
DAVID BRIAN HOWARD – probation for two years, $500, community service
JOSEPH HOWE – 50 months in jail, $2,000
ANNIE HOWELL – 60 days, 36 months on probation, $500
JASON HOWLAND – 3 months on home detention, three years on probation, $10,000
JEFFREY HUBBARD – 45 days, 36 mo. on probation, fines and fees of $1,000
Hal Ray Huddleston
JOSIAH PABLO HUESO – three years on probation, 50 hours of com. serv., $500
JEROD WADE HUGHES – three years, ten months, $2,000
JOSHUA CALVIN HUGHES – three years, two months in prison, $2,000, 3 yrs. pro.
BRYAN WAYNE IVEY – 60 days home confinement, three years’ probation, $500
Arthur Jackman – has pleaded guilty, misdemeanor charge
ADAM LEJAY JACKSON – 52 weekends in jail, a year of home confinement, $6,392 in fines and restitution
BRIAN SCOTT “SKOOTER” JACKSON – 37 months in prison
Emanuel Jackson
MICAJAH JOEL JACKSON – 90 days residential facility, $1,500 fines & rest., 36 mo. pro.
DOMINIC JAKUBOWSKI – two years on probation, the first 60 days to serve on home detention, community service, $5,500 in fines and restitution
Aaron James
JOSHUA JAMES – probation, $2,000
DEREK JANCART – 45 days, $500
Sergio Herrera Jaramillo
RAUL JARRIN – 14 days, three years on probation, $500.
YESENIA JAURE – probation, two years, $500
IRAJ JAVID – 90 days of home confinement, 24 months on probation, $500
SHANE JENKINS – seven years in prison, $5,896 in fines and restitution, and three extra years on probation
ALLAN JENNINGS – a year in jail, three on probation, $3,825.
DOUG JENSEN – five years in prison, $2,000 fine
JUSTIN JERSEY – 51 months, 36 months on probation, $32,165.65 in restitution.
TAYLOR JAMES JOHNATAKIS – 84 months in jail, 36 months on probation, $2,385
ADAM JOHNSON – 75 days, 200 hrs., fined $5,000, restitution, plus probation
Andrew Joshua Johnson
ANDREW PAUL JOHNSON – a year behind bars, a year more on probation, $2,836 in fines and restitution. Post-pardon, Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for a sustained history of sexually abusing two 12-year-olds, one boy, one girl.
DANIEL JOHNSON – 4 months, $2,000 in restitution, 1 year probation
DARYL JOHNSON – 30 days, one yr. super. release, $4,000 in fines & rest. He is later sentenced to six months in jail for secretly recording women who visited a tanning salon owned by his father.
JACK MITCHELL JOHNSON – 7 days, a year on probation, 60 hrs. com. service, $500
JOSHUA JOHNSON – 24 months in prison, $2,000
PAUL RUSSELL JOHNSON – five years on probation, 52 weekends in jail, two years of home confinement, $27,000 in fines and restitution
Steve Elijah Johnson Jr.
THADDIS JOHNSON JR. – 180 days’ house arrest, 60 hrs. com. serv., $500, 2 yrs. pro.
Whitney Johnson
ZACHARY JOHNSON – 42 months behind bars, 36 months of supervised release
Damian Johnston – has pleaded guilty, misdemeanor charges
DAVID CHARLES JOHNSTON – 21 days, 90 days’ house arrest, $3,000, 3 yrs. pro.
JAY JOHNSTON – a year and a day, $2,000
BRIAN RAYMOND JONES – probation, community service, $500
CALEB JONES - two months of home confinement, 100 hours com. serv., etc.
Chad Barrett Jones – guilty on nine counts
Clayton Jones
KAREN JANE JONES – 36 months’ probation, inc. 90 days location monitoring, $3,000
ROBERT WALTER JONES – same sentence as his lovely wife, Karen, above
Christopher Jordan
Earl Jordan
MICAIAH JOSEPH – 37 months, 36 on probation, $2,000
Predrag Jovanovic
Nicole Marie Joyner – found guilty, jury trial
David Michael Joynt
DAVID LEE JUDD – 32 months, 2 yrs. probation, $5,691.
JOHN JURAN – two mo. home confine., $1,000 fines & rest., probation
ZVONIMIR JURLINA – 14 days, two years’ probation, $500
RALPH KAHLER – probation, 30 days of location monitoring, $1,598 in fines and restitution, 40 hours of community service
SUZANNE KAHLER – probation, 30 days of location monitoring, $1,598 in fines and restitution, 40 hours of community service
RILEY KASPER – 37 months in prison, $2,000
Dr. Daphne Kasperek – pleaded guilty
Thomas Kasperek - pleaded guilty
JARED KASTNER – five months in jail, a year on probation
SUZANNE KAYE – 18 months in prison
WILLIAM GLYNN KEEN – probation for 18 months, $500
QUINN KEEN – two years, two more on probation, $2,000
KLETE KELLER – six months home incarceration, 36 months’ probation, 360 hours of community service, $2,000
EDWARD KELLEY – found guilty by a jury, pardoned; in July 2025, convicted in a plot to murder FBI agents, and sentenced to life in prison
KARI DAWN KELLEY – three years’ probation, $500
RYAN KELLEY – 60 days, a year on probation, $5,500 in fines and restitution
BRIAN LEO KELLY – 10 days in jail, two years’ probation, $500
Christopher M. Kelly (case dismissed)
KASH LEE KELLY – 60 days, $500
KENNETH KELLY – 60 days home confinement, $500, 12 months probation
LEO KELLY – 30 months in jail, $7,000 in fines and restitution
Thomas “Tommy” Joseph Kelly, Jr. – had pleaded guilty
Christina Kelso
CHRIS KENILEY: 10 days, a year on probation, $500
Nicholas L. Kennedy – guilty, pair of felonies
Michael Kenny – has pleaded guilty
Thomas Kenny – has pleaded guilty
Jay Matthew Kenyon – guilty, five charges
JOSIAH KENYON – six years, $43,315 in restitution
HEATHER KEPLEY – three years on probation, $2,000
JULIAN KHATER – sentenced to six years, eight months in federal detention, fines and restitution: $12,000.
CAROL KICINSKI – 20 days, probation, $500
NOLAN HAROLD KIDD – 45 days, $500
CLIVE M. KINCAID – home confinement, probation, $1,376
PATRICK JOHN KING – three years on probation, $500
DEREK KINNISON – 33 months, 36 more on probation, $2,000
WILLIAM STEPHON KIT – 30 days in jail, 40 hrs. com. service
FEDERICO KLEIN – 70 months, $5,000 in fines and restitution
JONATHANPETER KLEIN – 9 months in prison, three years’ probation, $3,000
MATTHEW LELAND KLEIN – 90 days’ incarceration, three years on supervised release
William George Knight
James Allen Knowles – guilty on one charge, innocent on three others
JOSHUA KNOWLES – 7 months in jail, one year on probation, $500
BRADY KNOWLTON – probation, $100,000 in fines and restitution
BILLY KNUTSON – six months in jail, $500, one year on probation
Troy Allen Koen – guilty of assault
MATTHEW KOHLER – three years on probation, 200 hours of community service, $5,500 in fines and restitution
CORY KONOLD – 30 days in prison, two years on probation
FELICIA KONOLD – 45 days in prison, two years on probation
BRIAN KORTE – 21 days, $500
JACKSON KOSTOLSKY – 30 days home confinement, $500, three years’ probation
PAUL KOVACIK – 90 days, $500, probation
ADAM KOVSKY – three years on probation, $500
Emil Kozeluh
PHILIP EDWARD KRAMER – 30 days, 100 hours com. serv., $3,000 in fines & restitution
DAVID KRAUSS – probation, 60 hours of community service, $1,500 in fines and restitution
NICHOLAS KRAUSS – same sentence as his dad, above
PETER MICHAEL KRILL – nine months in jail, $2,000
MATTHEW THOMAS KROL – five years, three more on probation, $2,980
Laura Daube Kronen
CARLY KRZYWICKI – 90 days home detention, three years on probation, $500
DEBORAH ANNE KUECKEN – three years on probation, $500 fine
CHRISTOPHER KUEHNE – 75 days, two years on probation, inc. 60 days home confinement
MARK KULAS JR. – 60 days home detention, six months’ probation
CHRISTIAN KULAS – 60 days home detention, six months’ probation
KYLE KUMER – ten months in prison, two years on probation, com. service, $2,000
David Scott Kuntz
Dianelle Lacy
TRICIA LaCOUNT – three years on probation, $500
JUSTIN LaGESSE – 11 months in jail, 12 more on probation, $43,315
JOHN LAMMONS – 30 days in the jug, three years on probation, $500
LT. SHANE M. LAMOND – sentenced to 18 months, in June 2025, after President Trump issued his blanet pardons
ANTONIO LAMOTTA – minimum of 11.5 months (on gun charges); also guilty on rioting charges; six months for his actions on January 6
Edward Jacob Lang – he was never formally convicted but spent many months in jail; since his pardon, he has been arrested multiple times, including for busting up an anti-ICE display in Minneapolis. He has also spent time bringing a whole roast pig to places where Jews and Muslims live – as an affront to their religions.
NICHOLAS LANGUERAND – 44 months in prison, $2,000 fine, probation, etc.
MELANIE LANHAM – sentenced to probation, 18 mo.
JOSEPH JULIUS LAPOINT\ – 19 days, a year on probation, $500
BENJAMIN LAROCCA – 60 days, one yr. supervised release, com. serv., $2,500
MICKI LARSON-OLSON – 180 days in jail
NICHOLAS LATTANZI – 14 days in jail, $500 fine, $500 restitution
JONATHAN DAVIS LAURENS – 60 days home confinement, $1,242 fines & rest., etc.
JEAN LAVIN – 10 days, 60 days home confinement, probation, $2,500 fine, $500 rest.
REBECCA LAVRENZ – no jail time, but $500 in restitution, and a fine of $103,000
Jesse Law – fake elector
SAMUEL LAZAR – spent at least 6 months in prison, possibly up to two years in a detention center; sentence under seal; it has finally been revealed, he took a secret plea deal, to spend 30 months in prison.
KENE BRIAN LAZO – 45 days, $500; at the same time, Lazo was arrested on a battery of sexual abuse charges (I have found no report on the outcome of that case.)
NHI NGOC MAI LE – 10 days in jail, $1,500 in fines and restitution
MATTHEW LeBRUN – 60 days of location monitoring, probation (one year), 40 hours of community service, $500
Deborah Lynn Lee
Tricia LeCount: – guilty, misdemeanor
JUSTIN LEE – 18 months, a year on probation, $7,500
Keith Lee – as of November 16, 2023, there is no evidence he has ever been charged
MARK LEFFINGWELL –six months, $2,000 in restitution, probation, 200 hours of community service
CHRISTINA LEGROS – six months of supervised release, time served, $500
RICHARD LEMKE – three years in prison, three additional on parole
NICHOLES J. LENTZ – 30 days home confinement, $500, com. serv., probation
DAVID JOHN LESPERANCE – 10 days, four years of supervised release/probation, $3,500
JACOB LEWIS – $3,000 fine, plus $500 in restitution, 2 years’ probation, 60 hrs. com. serv.
WILLIAM LEWIS – 37 months in prison, two years on probation, $3,761 in restitution
DANIEL LEYDEN – 38 months in prison, followed by a year of supervised release
JOSEPH LEYDEN – 6 months behind bars, followed by a year of supervised release
ANNA LICHNOWSKI – 45 days, three years’ probation, 200 hrs. com.service, $3,000
Lawrence Ligas
Lance Ligocki
TERRY LYNN LINDSEY – five months in prison, $500, 60 hrs. com. serv., 36 mo. pro.
LUKE MICHAEL LINTS – 4 mo., 36 mo. probation, inc. 4 mo. home detention, $2,000
JAMES LITTLE – 120 days, with credit for 60 already served, $500, 36 months on probation; sentence may be partially reversed; probation is thrown out, and the judge adds 90 more days in the can
JIA LIU – 4 months in prison, a year on probation, $500
John Michael Livingston – has pleaded guilty
JON LIZAK – three years’ probation, 50 hours of com. serv., $500
SAUL LLAMAS – 18 months on probation, 120 hrs. community service, $3,000
Leonard Lobianco – has pleaded guilty to one charge, a felony
MICHAEL LOCKWOOD – a year and a day, three years on supervised release, $2,000
Ronald Loehrke
KEVIN LOFTUS – $500 restitution, 60 hours community service, probation
Matthew Eugene Loganbill – guilty, all charges
CHRISTOPHER LOGSDON – 14 days, served intermittently, $500 restitution
TINA LOGSDON – 14 days, served intermittently, restitution and community service
JOSHUA R. LOLLAR – 31 months, $2,000
JAMES DOUGLAS LOLLIS JR. – 90 days home confinement, 3 years on probation, etc.
JOHN LOLOS – 14 days, $500
(R.I.P.) MICHAEL JOHN LOPATIC SR.
PAUL LOVLEY – 14 days, three years on probation, $500
CARSON LUCARD – 21 days, on weekends, 60 days home confinement, $500, 3 yrs. pro.
Larry John Lucas, Jr.
ANTON LUNYK – 2 mo. home confine., com. serv., $1,242 fines & rest., etc.
Anatoliy Anatolievich Lutsik
Duong Dai Luu
William Christopher Lyon – has pleaded guilty to two charges
KEVIN JAMES LYONS – 51 months in prison, 36 months on probation, $2,000
ROBERT ANTHONY LYON – 40 days, $3,000 in fines & restitution, 1 yr. of supervised release
DANEAN KIMBERLY MacANDREW - 3 months, 24 months more on probation
Ian Richard MacBride
AVERY MACCRACKEN – a year and a day in jail, three years on probation, $2,000
BRENNAN MACHACEK – a year on probation, $500
JOSHUA MACIAS – minimum of 11.5 months on unrelated gun charges
Brandon Mackie: guilty, misdemeanor offense
Nathan Mackie: guilty, misdemeanor offense
CLIFFORD MACKRELL – 27 months in prison, 36 on probation, $2,000
MICHAEL MACKRELL – 27 months, a year on probation, $2,000
DOUGLAS MACRAE – one year on probation, 120 hours of community service, $500
DOMINICK MADDEN – 20 days, $5000
SHAWN DANIEL MAHONEY – 45 days on home detention, 60 hours of community service, $500
DEBRA J. MAIMONE – 120 hours of location monitoring, two years on probation, 100 hours of com. service, $1,806 in restitution
Steve Omar Maldonado
KRISTINA MALIMON – probation, $500 restitution, 100 hours community service
Peter Malone
MARKUS MALY – six years in prison, three more on supervised release, $620 special assessment
GIORGI MAMULASHVILI – a year on probation, community service, $500
Adam Christopher Mancuso
Jeanette Mangia – failed to appear; arrested in July 2024
CHRISTIAN MATTHEW MANLEY – 50 months in prison, probation, $2,000
LANDON MANWARING – 30 days, 35 months on probation, $500
SUSAN MANWARING – 30 days home confinement, probation, $1,000 in fines and restitution
Mario Mares – convicted, was carrying a handgun
ANTHONY R. MARIOTTO – fines and restitution $5,500, 250 hours com. serv., probation
Richard Markey – has pleaded guilty to felony assault
ABRAM MARKOFSKI – fined $1,500, two years on probation
FELIPE MARQUEZ – three months home confinement; 18 mo. probation, $500
MICHAEL MARROQUIN – 6 months, a year on probation and $500
David A. Marshall
Rebecca Irene Marshburn
BENJAMIN MARTIN – guilty on five charges – at the time of the riot he was on probation for battering his girlfriend, choking her and dragging her back into the home after she tried to flee. He also had a battery conviction for striking his teenage daughter. That meant he was ineligible to own firearms. Pardoned for his actions on January 6, he was eventually sentenced to three years and two months in prison, related to gun charges, since he had eight in his home when it was searched.
Dustin Martin – has pleaded guilty
Kristopher Martin – charges dropped
MARCUS CLINT MARTIN – 32 months in prison, probation and $2,000
MATTHEW MARTIN – acquitted on all charges
ZACHARY MARTIN – fined $1,500, 60 hours community service, probation, 36 months
FELIPE ANTONIO MARTINEZ – 21 months, 36 more on probation, $2,000
VICTOR MARTINEZ – 14 days, a year of probation, $500
James Wayne Maryanski
Siaka Massaquoi
KENNETH D. MASSIE – 30 days of home confinement, two years on probation, $500
ANTHONY MASTANDUNO – 57 months, 24 more on probation, $630 special assessment
ISRAEL MATSON – a year on probation, community service, $500
MATTHEW MATULICH – 90 days, probation, community service, $500
CODY MATTICE – 44 months in prison, $2,000, three years’ supervised release
Ethan Mauck – guilty, two counts of four
JAMES PHILIP MAULT – 44 months in prison, $2,000, three years’ supervised release
CHRISTOPHER MAURER – 50 months, 24 more on probation, $2,000
Cylester Maxwell
JAKE MAXWELL – 18 months on probation, the first six on home detention, $1,500
MARK ANDREW MAZZA – five years in prison, $2,150 in restitution, probation
ANTHONY MICHAEL MAZZIO JR. – 60 days, $500, 3 years’ probation
MATTHEW MAZZOCCO – 45 days in jail. 60 hours of community service, $500
RONALD COLTON McABEE – 70 months behind bars, 24 on probation, $32,165.65 in restitution
EDWARD McALANIS – community service, $500 restitution, two years’ probation
Justin McAllister
JUSTIN McAULIFFE - 60 days home confinement, no use of social media, probation, $500
PATRICK EDWARD McCAUGHEY III – 90 months, 2 years supervised release, $2,000
MICHAEL McCORMICK – 14 days, $500 restitution, $1,000 fine
BRIAN McCREARY – 42 days of intermittent jail, 2 mo. home det., $3,000 fines, etc.
Michael McDonald – Nevada elector
SAVANNAH DANIELLE McDONALD – 21 days, $500
Darl McDorman
Kathryn McEvoy – guilty, two misdemeanors
TYRONE McFADDEN JR. – 30 days of home arrest, probation, $500
BRIAN SCOTT McGEE – 7 days in jail, probation for three years, $500
Jenna McGrath
Laura McGrath
JAMES BURTON McGREW – 78 months, 36 more on probation, $7,000
SEAN MICHAEL McHUGH – 78 months, $7,000 in fines and restitution
Jeffrey McKellop
KYLE DOUGLAS McMAHAN: 19 months behind bars, $2,000
JAMES McNAMARA – 12 months in jail, 24 on probation, $2,000
LOIS LYNN McNICOLL – probation, community service, $500
DEVIN McNULTY – a year and a day behind bars, two years on probation, $2,000
ODIN MEACHAM – 6 years in prison, 2 on probation
(R.I.P.) NEJOURDE MEACHAM – may have died by suicide, age 22
Clint Dow Medford
David Medina
Shawn Meehan – Nevada fake elector
CONNIE MEGGS – 15 months, $500, probation, had served 45 days, also
KELLY MEGGS – twelve years in prison
DAVID MEHAFFIE – 14 months in prison, 24 months’ probation, $2,000
Brent Meldrum – has pleaded guilty
RONALD MELE – 33 months, three more years on probation, $2,000
JONATHAN MELLIS – 51 months behind bars, three years’ probation, $22,000 in fines and restitution – HIS PARDON DOES NOT WIPE AWAY HIS PREVIOUS CONVICTION FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING (METHAPHETAMINES) - WHICH RESULTED IN A 20-YEAR SENTENCE
(R.I.P.) WILLIAM HENDRY MELLORS –
died on or about October 10, 2023
JAMES ALLEN MELS – 90 days home con., com. serv., 36 mo. pro., $500
Matthew James Melsen
CLEVELAND GROVER MEREDITH JR. – sentenced to 28 months in prison.
WILLIAM D. MERRY JR. – 45 days, $500 restitution
WALTER J. MESSER – two years on probation, and $500
CLIFFORD JAMES METEER – 60 days, community service, probation, etc.
Thomas J. Method – has reached plea deal
Matthew J. Mglej
RICHARD MICHETTI – 9 months incarceration, $2,000, 24 months on probation
Theodore Middendorf – guilty, destruction of government property – AT THE TIME OF HIS PARDON, HE WAS IN PRISON, SERVING A 19-YEAR SENTENCE FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD
JALISE MIDDLETON – 20 months in prison, 30 on probation, $2,000
MARK MIDDLETON – 30 months, 36 on probation, $2,000
Greg Mijares
Sally Ann Milavec – guilty, one misdemeanor
STEVEN MILES – two years in jail, one more on probation, $2,100
AARON JAMES MILEUR – probation, community service, $500
Andrew Thomas Millard
ADAM MILLER – 30 days, 36 months on probation, $1,000 in fines and restitution
Andrew Miller – has pleaded guilty, misdemeanors
BRANDON JAMES MILLER – 20 days, $500, 60 hours of community service
Jared Miller
Jeremy Michael Miller
JULIE MILLER – three years on probation, 50 hours of com. serv., $500
GARRETT MILLER – 38 months in prison, 36 additional months on probation, $605
MATTHEW RYAN MILLER – 33 mo. in prison, fined $2,000
SCOTT MILLER – 66 months in prison, 36 on probation, $2,000
Shane Kenneth Miller
STEPHANIE DANIELLE MILLER – 14 days, $500, 60 hours of com. serv.
RODNEY K. MILSTREED – five years behind bars, two years’ supervised release, $2,000
JORDEN R. MINK – 51 months, three yrs. probation, $2,000 in restitution, and a partridge in a pear tree
ROBERTO A. MINUTA – 54 months in prison, 36 months on probation
DAVID C. MISH JR. – 30 days in jail, $500 in restitution
Jennifer Mitchell – has pleaded guilty
LANDON MITCHELL – 27 mo., 36 on prob., $2,000
KYLE MLYNAREK – 100 days in jail, one year on probation, $1,000
ANTHONY RICHARD MOAT – 10 days, $500
BRIAN CHRISTOPHER MOCK – 33 months behind bars, 24 on probation, $2,710
PAUL MODRELL – 90 days of home detention, 36 months’ probation, $500
DAVID MOERSCHEL – 36 months behind bars, 36 more on probation, $400
Peter G. Moloney – has pleaded guilty to assault
Michael Mollo, Jr.
NICOLAS MONCADA – three years on probation, $500
AMANDA JEAN MONGELLI – probation, $500
MATTHEW MONTALVO – 90 days’ location monitoring, $5,500 in fines and restitution
Wilmar Jeovanny Montano Alvarado – guilty on all charges, inc. three felonies
PATRICK MONTGOMERY – 37 months for assaulting an officer, 36 on probation
CORRINE MONTONI – one month in the slammer, two years on prob., $2,000
SAMUEL CHRISTOPHER MONTOYA – 4 months’ home confinement, community service, three years on probation, $2,000 restitution
MARYANNE MOONEY-RONDON – one year, home confinement, $11,157.51 in fines and restitution
ANDREW JACKSON MORGAN JR. – 110 days behind bars, yr. on prob., $500
ANNA MORGAN-LLOYD – sentenced to probation, 120 hours of com. service, $500 restitution
Carol Moore
Craig Jackson Moore – two misdemeanors
Kevin Moore
KATHARINE MORRISON – 8 months, probation, $2,000
DANIEL MICHAEL MORRISSEY – 45 days in jail, $3,000 in fines and restitution
ROBERT MORSS – five-and-a-half years, $2,300, two years of supervised release
Donald Lee Moss – guilty to a felony charge; assault
AARON MOSTOFSKY – 8 mo. in prison, $2,000, 200 hrs. com. serv., one year probation
JON THOMAS MOTT – 30 days, 3 yrs. probation, $500
CHRISTOPHER PATRICK MOYNIHAN – sentence: 21 mo., $2,000 fine, three yrs. probation. In October 2025, he is arrested again and charged with threatening to kill Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.
Charles Lee Roy Mozingo III – guilty plea, misdemeanors
CLAYTON RAY MULLINS – 30 months in prison, 36 on supervised release, fines and restitution totaling $81,929
David Mullsteff – guilty, one misdemeanor
JONATHAN J. MUNAFO – 33 months in prison, $2,000
ERIC GAVELEK MUNCHEL – 57 months, probations, $2,000
JEFFREY L. MUNGER – placed on probation for 30 months, 60 hrs. com. service, $500
DAWN MUNN – 14 days, 90 days home confinement, 60 hrs., $500
JOSHUA MUNN – three years’ probation, 60 hrs., $500
KAYLI MUNN – three years’ probation, 60 hrs., $500
KRISTI MARIE MUNN – 90 days home confinement, probation, 60 hrs., $500
THOMAS MUNN – 14 days, 90 days home confinement, 60 hrs., $500
HENRY PHILLIP MUNTZER – two years behind bars, another on probation, $2,000
MARSHA MURPHY – pled guilty, case diverted
RACHEL MYERS – two years on probation, 60 hrs. of community service, $500
VERDEN ANDREW NALLEY – probation, two years, community service, $500
JOHN NASSIF – seven months, 12 months’ probation, $1,500
PETER NAVARRO – 4 months in prison
MARK NEALY – 14 days, $500
MARSHALL NEEFE – 41 months in prison, three years of supervised relief, $2,000
DARRELL NEELY – 28 months in prison, $844.93 in restitution
BRANDON NELSON – community service, two years’ probation, $3,000 fines & restitution
Bradley Scott Nelson – guilty, two misdemeanors
DEREK NELSON – 75 days in prison, and a year of supervised release, $500
LYNNWOOD NESTER – 10 months in jail, six more on probation, $1,000
Evan Neumann – flees to Belarus; granted “refugee status”
Jeffrey Newcomb
RYAN TAYLOR NICHOLS – 63 months, 36 on probation, $202,000
William Arthur Nichols Jr.
KIRSTYN NIEMELA – 11 months in prison, $1,500 in fines, etc.
GREGORY LAMAR NIX – 42 months, 24 more on probation, $2,000
Derek Noftsger
Rachel Nohle
ANTHONY NOLF – 3 months in the slammer, 5 months on home detention, 36 on probation, $2,000
ETHAN NORDEAN – 18 years in prison, and three more to grow on in probation
Clay Norris – has pleaded guilty to assault
William Robert Norwood III – guilty, one felony
Paul Marvin Nowell
Nathaniel Noyce
KELLY MCFADDEN O’BRIEN – 90 days, $1,000 fine, $500 restitution, year on probation
PATRICK O’BRIEN – three years on probation, $500
SCOTT ALAN O’BRIEN – two years on probation, 60 hours of com. service, fines and restitution, $1.500
Joel Linn O’Donnell
John O’Kelly
TIMOTHY EARL O’MALLEY – two years’ probation, 20 hours of com. service, $500
ADAM OBEST – 18 months, 36 on probation, $2,285
NICK OCHS – four years in prison, $7,000 in fines & restitution, 3 years’ probation
SPENCER OFFMAN – 45 days in jail, probation, community service, $500
Andy Steven Oliva-Lopez – has pleaded guilty, felony charges
Eric Oliver – pleaded guilty, misdemeanors
MICHAEL OLIVERAS – five years for assault, three more on probation, $2,000
STEPHEN ONDULICH – 45 days home detention, three years on probation, com. service, $1,500
MICHAEL ORANGIAS – 90 days home detention, three years on probation, $500
Ryan Orlando – has pleaded guilty
PAUL ORTA JR. – 6 months, a year on probation, $2,000
CHRISTOPHER W. ORTIZ – 2 mo. home detention, 10 months’ probation, $500, 100 hrs.
NICHOLAS ORTT – 27 months, probation for three years, $2,000
Thomas Paul Osborne
Stephen Oseen
GRADY DOUGLAS OWENS – 37 months in jail, 24 months on probation, $3,000
Jared Luther Owens
JASON DOUGLAS OWENS – 24 months, $4,000
ANGELO JUDE PACHECO – 30 days of home detention, community service, two years on probation, $500
ROBERT KEITH PACKER – 75 days, $500; after he is pardoned, Mr. Packer is arrested again after his dogs attack and injure at least four individuals.
JOSEPH PADILLA – six-and-a-half years in prison, $2,820 in fines and special assessment
ROBERT SCOTT PALMER – 63 months in jail, $2,000 down the drain, 3 yrs. probation
MARCUS PANAYIOTOU – 14 days, probation, $2,000
Megan Dawn Paradise
BENNIE PARKER – five years on probation
SANDRA PARKER – one year of home arrest, and four additional years on probation, 250 hours of community service, and a bill for $1,525
JENNIFER RUTH PARKS – probation, 60 hrs. community service, $500
STEWART PARKS – 8 months, 12 more on probation
JOSHUA SCOTT PARMENTER – five days in jail, a year on probation, a hundred hours of community service, $500
(R.I.P.) DR. TAMMY TOWERS PARRY – shot and killed
during eviction proceedings
JOSEPH PASTUCCI – 26 months, three years on probation, $2,000; in 2023, he is also charged with rape. Charges are dropped when the alleged victim refuses to testify.
Blake Patterson
JOSEPH PAVLIK – two months in jail, six home confinement, $8,000
CHRISTOPHER PEARCE – three years’ probation, $500
Zachary Pearlman
DANIEL PEARSTON – 10 days in jail, probation, $1,500
WILLARD JAKE PEART – 60 days home confine., 240 hrs. com. serv., $1,00 in fines and restitution, probation
BRANDON SCOTT PEERY – three years’ probation, $500
NATHAN PELHAM – pled
guilty to one misdemeanor, $500; but he also received two years in prison for
shooting at arresting officers, $500
LAURA PELLEGRINO – guilty of a misdemeanor, Arizona fake elector
(R.I.P.) MATTHEW PERNA – committed suicide
William Joseph Pepe – found guilty
MICHAEL PERKINS – four years in prison, three more on probation
NICHOLAS J. PERRETTA – 30 days, $500
Justin Daniel Perrou
KERRY PERSICK – 90 days home confinement, $5,500 in fines & restitution, probation
RACHAEL LYNN PERT – probation, 100 hours, $500
TINA PETERS – nine years behind bars
Eric Lee Peterson – guilty, misdemeanor
KURT PETERSON – 45 days, followed by two months on home arrest, $4,700 in restitution
RUSSELL JAMES PETERSON – 30 days, $500
ROBERT LEE PETROSH – 10 days in jail, $1,938 in fines & restitution, probation, etc.
MADISON PETTIT – 45 days house arrest, 18 months of probation, community service, $500 in restitution
Brandon Pettit – has pleaded guilty
DOMINIC PEZZOLA – 10 years, 3 more on probation, $700
T.D. PHAM – 45 days, $1,500
DANIEL D. PHIPPS – 27 months in prison, 36 additional on probation
Robert Piccirillo
Michael Picciuto
Edward Picquet
Levi Plumley – guilty, one charge
Jonathan Pollock – apprehended on January 6, 2024, after more than two years on the run
Olivia Pollock – apprehended on January 6, 2024, after ten months on the lam; spent more than a year in jail after bail was denied, before her pardon
MICHAEL POMEROY – 30 days in jail, $500
MARK PONDER – five years, three months behind bars, probation, $2,000
THOMAS POOLER – a year on probation, community service, $1,500
Michael Anthony Pope – has pleaded guilty
William Pope
Alexander Poplin
JOSHUA JAMES PORTLOCK – 20 months, 24 more on probation, $2,000
MASON PORTER – a year on probation, $500
Gerald Powell
RACHEL MARIE POWELL – 57 months in prison, 36 on supervised release, $7,753 in fines and restitution
SIDNEY POWELL – six years’ probation, $8,700 in fines and restitution
David Pracht
Kiera Pracht
NICOLE PRADO – probation, community service, $1,242 in fines and restitution
Christina Marie Praser-Fair
Roger Preacher
BRIAN PRELLER – eight months of location monitoring, community service, $2,000
BRANDON PRENZLIN – probation, 120 hrs., $3,000 in fines and restitution
RONNIE PRESLEY – 12 months in prison, $2,000, 26 months on probation
CHRISTOPHER JOHN PRICE – 45 days, probation, $500
SHAWN PRICE – one year and a day, $2,000 restitution
CHRISTINE PRIOLA – 15 months in prison, $2,000
JOSHUA PRUITT – four years, seven months in prison, three years’ probation, fined $2,000
MAHAILYA PRYER – 45 days, $500, three years on probation; jailed again on eight probation violations
CURTIS PULASKI – 24 months on probation, $500
ANTHONY MICHAEL PUMA – 9 months in prison, 24 months on probation, $2,500 in fines and restitution
Gregory Purdy – convicted by a jury, felony assault
Matthew Purdy – convicted by a jury, misdemeanors
COLBY PURKEL – 21 days in jail, probation, 100 hours of community service, $2,000
WILLARD PURKEL – 60 days, nine months on probation, $2,000
Matthew Thomas Purse
Biao Qu
CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH QUAGLIN – twelve years in prison, $3,220
MICHAEL QUICK – fines and restitution $1,500, 60 hours community service, 2 years’ probation
STEPHEN QUICK – fines and restitution $1,500, 60 hours community service, 2 years’ probation
Traci Quimby
Baptiste Quinternet
KENNETH RADER – 90 days, fines and restitution, $1,500, 36 months on probation
PAUL RAE – 14 months
JAMES DOUGLAS RAHM JR. – 12 months in prison, 36 months on probation, $2,000
JAMES DOUGLAS RAHM III – 45 days in the slammer, $500
Dion Rajewski
KARTHIK RAMAKRISHNAN – probation, six months, $1,000
BARRY RAMEY – five years in prison, after a trial lasting eleven days, found guilty, $2385
STEPHEN CHASE RANDOLPH – eight years in prison, three more on probation, $2,000
ZACH RASH – 27 months in prison, 36 additional on probation, $2,000
ERIK RAU – 45 days, $500
MARK ROGER REBEGILA– 30 days on home detention, two years of probation, 60 hours of community service, fines and restitution $2,500.
KENNETH JOHN REDA – 60 days home det., community service, $500 restitution, probation
BLAKE AUSTIN REED – 42 days, 3 mo. home confine., $3,000, etc.
JEFFREY DAVID REED – 30 months, two years additional on probation, $2,000
ROBERT MAURICE REEDER – 3 months, $500
Carson Lionell Rees – guilty, misdemeanors
GUY WESLEY REFFITT – 80 months in prison, $2,500, probation
JEFFREY REGISTER – 75 days, $500
ZACHARY REHL – 15 years in prison, 36 months on probation, $600 special assessment
WILLIAM ROGAN REID– 37 months in prison, 36 months on probation, $2,443 in fines and restitution
ROBIN REIERSON: 18 months, 36 on probation, $7,000
Kayla Reifschneider
NICHOLAS REIMLER– 1 mo. home detention, three yrs. probation, 60 hrs. com. serv. $500 restitution.
JAMES RENNER – all charges dropped, after he agrees to testify against others in the case of the Michigan fake electors
ELLIOTT RESNICK – four months in jail, two years’ probation, $10539 in fines and restitution
Sebastian Reveles
JORDAN T. REVLETT – 14 days, 80 hours of com. service, probation, $500
Trina Reyes
ARTHUR REYHER – 8 months, $2,000
JESSICA REYHER – 3 months, $2,000
REUBEN REYNA – 14 days in jail, a year on probation
NARAYANA RHEINER – 15 months, 36 more on probation, $2,000; in April 2021, she was also arrested, during a traffic stop, and charged with possession of cocaine.
DAVID CHARLES RHINE – 4 months in jail, probation, $7,376 in fines and restitution
ELMER STEWART RHODES III – 18 years in prison, 36 months on probation, $300
Eileen Rice – fake elector
HOWARD RICHARDSON – 46 months, 3 yrs. supervised release, $2,000 fine
EDWARD RICHMOND JR. – 51 months, had pleaded guilty, 3 yrs. supervised release – HIS PARDON DOES NOT WIPE AWAY PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS, INCLUDING FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, RESISTING ARREST, AND DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. HE WAS ALSO DISCHARGED DISHONORABLY, FOR SHOOTING A HANDCUFFED IRAQI PRISONER
John Richter – convicted, felony charges
JASON DANIEL RIDDLE – 90 days, $754, probation, etc.
THOMAS “COREY” RIDDLE – 60 days, a year on probation, and $500.
LEONARD PEARSON RIDGE IV – 14 days, $1,500 in fines & restitution, probation
JORGE A. RILEY – 18 months behind bars, 24 months on probation, $2,000
MICHAEL ANGELO RILEY – 120 days home confinement, 2 yrs. probation, fined $10,000
JESUS RIVERA (a.k.a. J.D. RIVERA) – 8 mo. in prison, $500 in restitution, 1 yr. on probation
Michael Tyler Roberts – pleaded guilty to felony assault
Terrell Andrew Roberts
THOMAS ROBERTSON – six years in prison, three years on probation, $2,510
GABRIEL RAYMOND ROBIN – 18 months on probation, $500
BENJAMIN SCOTT ROBINSON – four months in prison, $500
BRITTANY NICOLE ROBINSON – one month, $500
JAMES ROBINSON – 6 months, $1,500, got lucky on prosecutor’s mistake
LINWOOD ALAN ROBINSON II – two months, $500
LINWOOD ALAN ROBINSON SR. – two months, $500
MANDY ROBINSON-HAND – 20 days in jail, probation, $500
MICHAEL LEE ROCHE – 18 months, 36 more on probation, $2,180 in restitution
CHRIS ROCKEY – 18 months, 24 more on probation, $2,000
JONATHAN ALAN ROCKHOLT – 5 mo. in jail, 5 mo. home confine., two years’ probation, $2,000
NICHOLAS RODEAN – 240 days home detention, probation for five years, $2,048
Jeremy Rodgers – has been found guilty, felonies and misdemeanors
DANIEL JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ – twelve-and-half years behind bars, $99,397 in fines, etc.
EDWARD FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ – three years in jail, three more on probation
JUAN RODRIGUEZ – 30 days, $500
CHRISTOPHER ROE – 70 months in prison, two years’ probation, $2,300 in fines and assessments
Mike Roman – Trump lawyer
MOISES ROMERO – 1 year and 1 day in prison, $2,000, etc.
RAFAEL RONDON –14 months in prison, for possession of a sawed-off shotgun; for January 6 crimes, 18 months of home confinement, $2,000 and 350 hours of com. service.
ELIEL ROSA - sentence: 100 hrs. community service, $500 restitution, year on probation
PETER SCHWARTZ – 170 months in prison, 38 months on probation, fines and restitution: $2,920 – DESPITE HIS PARDON FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP, SCHWARTZ HAD 38 PRIOR CONVICTIONS, INCLUDING ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, TERRORISTIC THREATS, AND ASSAULTING HIS WIFE IN 2020, INCLUDING PUNCHING HER MULTIPE TIMES IN THE HEAD.
DOVID SCHWARTZBERG – 45 days, $500
ESTHER SCHWEMMER – probation, 60 hours community service, $500
ANTHONY JOSEPH SCIRICA – 15 days, $1,000 in fines and restitution
DANIEL LYONS SCOTT – five years in prison, three on probation, $2,000
Jarrett Carl Scott
Tighe John Scott
CHRISTIAN SECOR – 42 months in prison, three years on probation, $2,000
HUNTER SEEFRIED – two years behind bars, a year on probation, $2,000
KEVIN SEEFRIED – three years, $2,000, a year on probation
ETHAN C. SEITZ – 60 days’ home detention, probation for three years, $500
TANNER BRYCE SELLS – 90 days home confinement, $2,000, etc.
Andrew Trevor Settles
STEPHEN ROY SEXTON – 240 days’ incarceration, 365 days’ probation, $2,000
PAUL LEE SEYMOUR SR. – probation, $500, sixty hours community service
PAUL LEE SEYMOUR JR. – probation, $500, sixty hours community service
GEOFFREY SAMUEL SHOUGH – 6 mo., 12 mo. probation, $2,000
JONATHON OWEN SHROYER – 60 days behind bars, $500
Abigail Shry – guilty, felony threats
Ben Shuler
THOMAS F. SIBICK – 50 months, and a fine of $7,500.79
DENNIS SIDORSKI – 100 days, one year probation, $500
Boris Sidow – pleaded guilty, misdemeanors
JORDAN SIEMERS – 60 hrs. com. service, year on probation, $2,000
GEOFFREY WILLIAM SILLS – 52 months in prison, 36 months on supervised release, $2,000
BENJAMIN JOHN SILVA – 4 months in jail, 4 months on home detention, $2,000 in restitution
GLEN MITCHELL SIMON – eight months in jail, year on probation, $1,500 fines and restitution
MARK SIMON – 35 days in jail, $500
BERNARD SIRR – 60 days in jail, 180 days on house arrest, a year on probation, and $2,000.
BRIAN SIZER – a year on probation, $500
JULIA JEANETTE SIZER – a year on probation, $2,500
TYLER WELSH SLAEKER – 30 days on home confinement, 35 months on probation, $500, 240 hours of community service
Scott Alex Slater, Jr.
Scott Slater, Sr.
Richard Slaughter
Daniel Slinker
MIKHAIL EDWARD SLYE – 30 months, 18 mo. probation, $2,000
BRYAN SHAWN SMITH – 34 months in prison, 36 visiting his probation officer, $2,000
CHARLES BRADFORD SMITH – 41 months, $2,000, three years of supervised release
Donald Smith – case dismissed
GARY FRANCIS SMITH – three years on probation, $500
JEFFREY ALEXANDER SMITH – 90 days, 200 hours com. serv., $500, probation
JUSTIN MICHAEL SMITH – 36 months on probation, $500
Marcus Smith – guilty, felony destruction
Morton Irvine Smith – has pleaded guilty, misdemeanor
THOMAS HARLEN SMITH – nine years in prison, three years on supervised release, $38,005 in fines, etc.
DAVID SMITHER – probation, $1,225 in fines and restitution
TROY ANTHONY SMOCKS – 14 mo., three years’ supervised release
Nicholas Waldon Smotherman – has pleaded guilty to assault
Dylan Smyth
LEWIS WAYNE SNOOTS – 71 months in the slammer, 36 more on probation, $96.927.18 in restitution
ROBERT SNOW – placed on probation for 1 year, fined $500, 60 hours of community service
WESTON SOBOTKA – 15 days, to be served on weekends, 50 hours of community service, three years to visit his probation officer, $500
KELLY SoRELLE – 12 months in jail, three years’ prob., $2,000
Kim Sorgente
JEREMY RYAN SORVISTO SR. – 30 days, $500
AUDREY ANN SOUTHARD RUMSEY – six years behind bars, three more on probation, $700
Troy Spackman
EDWARD T. SPAIN JR. – probation, community service, $500
Aaron Spanier
MICHAEL SPARKS – 53 months in prison, 36 months on probation, $2,000
HATCHET SPEED – 7 years, inc. 3 years for illegal firearms, $12,000 in fines and restitution
CHRISTOPHER RAPHAEL SPENCER – 9 months, and a year on probation
VIRGINIA MARIE “JENNY” SPENCER – 90 days, $500
PAUL SPIGELMYER – 45 days home confinement, probation, restitution, com. service
Michael Sposite – has pleaded guilty to one count
YVONNE ST. CYR – 30 months in prison, $3,000, lengthy probation
ALAN MICHAEL ST. ONGE – 18 months, twice that on probation, $2,000; in December 2023, St. Onge was arrested after allegedly punching a woman in the throat, after she resisted his sexual advantages.
Michael J. St. Pierre – guilty, all charges, including assault
LAWRENCE STACKHOUSE – 14 days, 90 days home confinement, $500, 36 mo. probation
PETER STAGER – 52 months, probation, $2,000
SHELLY STALLINGS – 2 years, 3 years on probation, $2,000
Matthew Stallings
RICHARD ERIC STAPLES JR. – 24 months on probation, $500
David Stapp – guilty, two misdemeanors
DR. JACKIE STARER – 50 days in jail, probation, $4,000 in fines and restitution
EZEKIAL “ZEKE” STECHER – 60 days behind bars, two more years on probation, $2,000
Donald Charles Stedman Jr.
PATRICK ALONZO STEDMAN – a year in prison, $22,000 in fines and restitution
LAURA STEELE – one year and one day in prison, six months on home confinement, 3 yrs. on probation
Robert Turner – convicted by a jury, felony assault
ISRAEL TUTROW – 60 days home confinement, 34 additional mo. probation, $500 restitution
CHRISTIAN TYNER – three years on probation, $500
DAVID TYNER – three years on probation, fines and restitution $1,500
THOMAS UBERTO – 10 days behind bars, $500
BRIAN ULRICH – three years’ probation, six months’ home detention, 120 hrs. com. serv.
CHANCE ANTHONY UPTMORE – sentenced to 30 days, $500 in restitution, 36 mo. probation
JAMES HERMAN UPTMORE – 21 days home confinement, $500 in restitution, 3 yrs. probation
Stacey Lynne Urhammer
Joseph Vaglica
RAFAEL VALADEZ JR. – 30 days, $500
DANIEL VALDEZ – three years on probation, 50 hours of community service, $500
PAYTON VALDEZ – 60 days, probation, $500
ANDREW VALENTIN – 30 months in prison, 24 months on probation
LOUIS VALENTIN – 10 days, intermittent, one year on probation, $500
MATTHEW VALENTIN – 30 months in prison, 24 months on probation
David Valentine
EDWARD VALLEJO – three years behind bars, followed by three years of probation, inc. another year on home confinement
Daniel Van Oaks
Jennifer Inzuza Vargas Geller – currently a fugitive
HECTOR EMANUEL VARGAS SANTOS – 4 months in jail, 12 months on probation, $3,000
SHELLY VARNEY – 24 days behind bars, probation, $1,500 in fines and restitution
SALVATORE VASSALLO – 18 months in prison, 36 on probation, $5,000
RANDY PAUL VERDUN, Sr. – two years on probation, $2,000 in fines and restitution.
ANGEL VILLANUEVA – 4 months on home detention, two years on probation, community service, $500
Adam Villarreal - FUGITIVE
REVA VINCENT – $2,000 in fines and restitution, 2 yrs. on probation
LORI ANN VINSON (a.k.a. Lori Ann Utley) – five years’ probation, $5,500, 120 hrs.
THOMAS VINSON – five years’ probation, $5,500, 120 hours of community service
Francis Joseph Vitollo
ANTONY VO – nine months in prison, a year on probation, $1,000; he fled to Canada, but as of January 2025, was in Canadian custody
Annie Vo
PHILIP C. VOGEL – 30 days, probation, community service, $1,806 in restitution
WILLIAM VOGEL – 30 days, three yrs. on probation, $500
Reynold Voisine
Roger Voisine
CODY VOLLAN – placed on probation, ordered to pay restitution ($500), complete com. service
ERIC V. VON BERNEWITZ – 60 days home confinement, $1,500 in fines & restitution
PAUL H. VON BERNEWITZ – 30 days in jail, $500
NICHOLAS VON KEUDELL – two years on probation, $500, 100 hours of community service
Jeremy Vorous
Tom Vournas – assault with a deadly weapon, causing physical injury
MITCHELL PAUL VUKICH – 30 days, $500
ANTHONY VUKSANAJ – 42 days, intermittent, 3 mo. home det., $2,500, 3 yrs. pro.
FREEDOM VY – 50 days, probation, $1,000
JOSHUA WAGNER – 30 days, $500 in restitution
JEFFREY A. WAKEFORD – two years on probation, $500
CAREY JOHN WALDEN – 30 days home det., 3 yrs. pro., com. serv., $500 rest.
Jonathan Walden – guilty, one misdemeanor
David Walker
Donald Walker
Philip Walker
Jason William Wallis
DAVID WALLS-KAUFMAN – 60 days, $1,000 in fines and restitution; in January 2025, a jury awarded the widow of Officer Jeffrey Smith $500,000 in a civil case filed against Dr. Walls-Kaufman for damages
THOMAS WEBSTER – ten years, three more on probation, $2570
BRADLEY WAYNE WEEKS – 10 months, 2 years’ probation, $2,670
JAMES WEEKS – 27 months’ incarceration, 36 months’ probation, $7,774 in fines and restitution
TROY WEEKS – three years’ supervised release, $2,285
(R.I.P.) LAUREN WEGNER – Lauren Wegner
was not a January 6 rioter; but she was killed by Shane Jason Woods (see
below), who, distraught over his role in the attack attempted to commit suicide
by driving the wrong way on Interstate 55 – and slammed into her vehicle,
killing her, instead.
PHILIP WEISBECKER– 30 days, intermittent, $2,500 in fines & restitution, probation
Walter Joseph Wentland
Isaac Westbury
Jonah Westbury
Robert Westbury
TUCKER WESTON – two years, three additional on probation, $2,000
PAUL S. WESTOVER – 45 days in jail, $500 restitution
CONLIN WEYER – 18 months on probation, $1,000
SANDRA POMEROY WEYER – 14 months, 12 on probation, $2,000
LANCE DOUGLAS WHITE – 24 months’ probation, 60 days’ home confinement, 60 hours of community service, $500
VICTORIA WHITE – 8 days in jail, probation, $2,000
JACK WADE WHITTON – 57 months in jail, 36 on probation, $2,000
GARY WICKERSHAM – 90 days home detention, $2,500, probation
JACOB WIEDRICH – 3 mo. home detention, 100 hrs. com. serv., $500, probation
DAVID WIERSMA – probation, community service, $2,000 in fines & restitution
JOHN WILKERSON IV – probation, community service, $3,000 in fines & restitution
WILLIAM WILKERSON – probation, $500, 50 hrs. community service
ULISESE WILKINSON – a year on probation, $500
RICKY WILLDEN – two years in prison, three years’ supervised release, $2,000
Peter Willey – went to trial, innocent on two charges, guilty on two, inc. one felony
ANDREW WILLIAMS – 60 hours of community service, restitution and probation for two years, $500
ANTHONY ROBERT WILLIAMS – five years behind bars, three on probation, fined $7,000
CARRIE ANN WILLIAMS – 30 days location monitoring, 24 mo. probation, com. service, $500
DUSTIN RAY WILLIAMS – 22 months in prison, 36 months on probation, $2,000
ELIZABETH ROSE WILLIAMS – a year on probation
ELLIOT PATRICK WILLIAMS – 30 days in the jug, a year of supervised release, $500
Leander Antwione Williams
Michael Keith Williams
RILEY JUNE WILLIAMS – three years in prison, three on probation, $2,170
TIMOTHY WAYNE WILLIAMS – six months in prison, $500
TROY DYLAN WILLIAMS – 15 days, 60 hours of com. service, $500, 3 yrs. pro.
VIC DON WILLIAMS – 2 mo. home detention, $2,000, one year on probation
Amy Rebekah Willis
Patricia Marie Wills – has pleaded guilty
DANIEL WILSON – five years in prison; Wilson came to D.C. ready to kill people, and was later found to have six firearms and 4,800 rounds of ammunition in his home, a violation of law, since he was a felon. Trump pardoned him twice, once for his dangerous rioting antics, once on his federal gun charges.
DUKE EDWARD WILSON – 51 months behind bars, 36 months on probation, $2,000
GARY WILSON – 30 days, a year on probation, $500
JODI LYNN WILSON – 20 days, 36 months on probation, $500
KELSEY WILSON – 30 days home confinement, $500, community service, probation
Ryan Wilson – guilty, all charges
WILLIAM TODD WILSON – probation for three years, $2,000
ZACHARY WILSON – 45 days, $500, community service, two years’ probation
DOVA WINEGEART – 120 days, a year on probation, $1,000
DANA JOE WINN – 10 days, intermittent, 100 hrs. com. serv., 24 mo. pro., $500
Jared Wise
Lance Wisham
JEFFREY WITCHER – probation, 60 hours of community service, $500
SHAWN WITZEMANN – 7 days, $500, probation
PATRICK WOEHL – bench trial, 6 months, $500
Henos Woldemichael
MATTHEW MARK WOOD – one year home detention, two on probation, $2,000
SHANE JASON WOODS – 54 months in prison, 36 on probation, $2,000; a pardon may have saved Woods, but in August 2025, he gets seventeen years in prison for a wrong-way crash that killed a young woman. His accident was said to be a suicide attempt, as he was distraught over his role in the January 6 attack. See: Lauren Wegner, above.
CHRISTOPHER WORRELL – ten years in prison, $2,610
DONNIE DUANE WREN – a year and a day in prison, two years on probation, $2,725
Jamie Wright
JOHN DOUGLAS WRIGHT – 49 months in prison, 36 mo. probation, fine: $2,000
ANDREW WRIGLEY – probation, $2,500 in fines & restitution
Mark Christian Wroblewski – two misdemeanors
DOUGLAS WYATT – 46 months, 36 more on probation, $2,000
JAMES WYMAN – a year on probation, community service, $500
TYNG JING YANG – six days in jail, two years on probation, $3,000 in fines and restitution
RYAN K. YATES – six months, two years on probation, $2,000; arrested in 2026, during an investigation into prostitution and sex trafficking; he does not appear to have been involved in setting up the ring, only soliciting.
ANDREW MICHAEL YAVOICH – probation, community service, $500
ELIJAH YAZDANI (a.k.a. Loammi Yazdani-Isfehani) – 14 days, two years on probation, 100 hours, $500
ABIGAIL YAZDANI-ISFEHANI – two years on probation, 100 hours, $500
LORUHAMA YAZDANI-ISFEHANI – two years on probation, 100 hours, $500
GREGORY C. YETMAN – 30 months in prison, 18 more on probation, $2,000
ISAAC YODER – a year in the hoosegow, and $1,500 in fines/restitution
CINDY YOUNG – 120 days, probation, etc., $4,500
GRAYDON YOUNG – three years on probation, fined $2,000
KYLE J. YOUNG – seven years, two months in prison, three on probation, $2,000
PHILIP S. YOUNG – 8 mo., $2,000, 36 mo. probation
Joshua Kaleb Youngerman
DARRELL ALLAN YOUNGERS – fined $1,500, 36 months on probation
Miguel Zapata – submitted seven false tips
Eric Zeis
JACOB ZERKLE – two years in prison, three on supervised release, 200 hours of community service, $2,000
RYAN SCOTT ZINK – 3 months in jail
JOSEPH ELLIOTT ZLAB – $5,500 in fines & restitution, 200 hrs. com. serv., probation
ATHANASIOS ZOYGANELES – 10 days, nine months on probation, $500
Rioters held at gunpoint on third floor - after lawmakers' escape route was endangered.
Blogger’s Promise:
I will correct any errors as I become aware of
them and will continue to update this material as important new information
becomes available. My latest update on August 16, 2026, covers the first
502 rioters, and I have uncovered only one mistyped date, and I identified Gabe
Pollock as the “father” of several rioters.
He was, in fact, a brother.
In a different light, I realized recently that
I had missed one rioter’s story entirely, and he was added to the list, at
#1663.
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ON THE DATE I posted this note, 2,112 days had
passed since the 2020 election and no evidence of significant voter fraud has ever
been proven in court.
Indeed, I had forgotten that even Donald J.
Trump had admitted in September 2024 that he lost the election by “a whisker.”
I had mentioned that twice, after the story of Rioter #360, and again in a note
on the entry for rioters #464 and #465.
He was apparently trying to sound reasonable to
voters, in hopes that he could defeat Kamala Harris – which he did.
The blogger is a former history teacher, and a
devotee of facts. He has seen no facts that prove the 2024 election was stolen
for Trump (as some of my fellow liberal thinkers seem to believe). In fact, the
polls, which in aggregate are highly accurate, had predicted a sizeable win in
the popular vote for Joe Biden – although close tallies in several battleground
states made the race seem closer than it was.
He did win by 7,000,000.
The same polls had shown that Hillary Clinton
would probably win the popular vote by 3 points, but she won by only 2, and
lost in the electoral college.
Trump was expected to win almost every
battleground state in 2024, and did win most, and won handily.
(Those are the simple facts, as known at the
present.)
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