Thursday, May 25, 2023

I am not even remotely sympathetic - 25 May 2023

The founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group was sentenced [today] to 18 years in prison for orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a bid to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House after the 2020 election.

It was one of the most consequential cases brought by the Justice Department, which has sought to prove that the riot by right-wing extremists like the Oath Keepers was not a spur-of-the-moment protest but the culmination of weeks of plotting to overturn Biden's election victory.

Reported by ABC News.

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