As I stood in a sparsely packed federal courtroom in Washington yesterday afternoon, Another Trump supporter who committed a crime on January 6, 2021 because he believed the then-president’s election lies earned him a prison sentence for participating in what the sentencing judge described as a “direct assault on the nation’s democracy.”

Wearing a blue suit, shivering, sniffling and fighting back tears, Troy Weeks, 38, spoke extensively about his difficult childhood, boasted that he refused to join a strike in high school, quoted scripture and apologized. one of several in the courtroom gallery: old Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino GonellHe is a military veteran who was attacked repeatedly while protecting the Capitol nearly four years ago.

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