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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Mar 2, 2022, 03:12 PM Mar 2022

An accused Capitol rioter is making the first January 6 trial 'easy' for the Justice Department, pro

prosecutor says

The first accused Capitol rioter to stand trial on charges related to the January 6 insurrection "made it easy" for the Justice Department to prove its case, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday, telling jurors that the "defendant went to the Capitol and did exactly what he said he was going to do."

In a half-hour opening argument, assistant US attorney Jeffrey Nestler pointed to statements Guy Reffitt made to friends and family ahead of the January 6 attack that foreshadowed the violence of that day.

Nestler said the statements offered convincing evidence that Reffitt, an alleged member of the far-right Three Percenters militia, went to the Capitol with the intent of preventing Congress from certifying now-President Joe Biden's electoral victory.

Nestler said Reffitt told his family and members of the Three Percenters in advance of his plans to drag elected lawmakers out of the Capitol. Reffitt's comments so concerned his son, Jackson Reffitt, that the teenager contacted the FBI on Christmas Eve in 2020 — just weeks before the Capitol breach — to warn that his father was planning to do "something big."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/an-accused-capitol-rioter-is-making-the-first-january-6-trial-easy-for-the-justice-department-prosecutor-says/ar-AAUwtyP

Guy sounds like a major dumbass.
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An accused Capitol rioter is making the first January 6 trial 'easy' for the Justice Department, pro (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 OP
I'm glad his family members called the FBI. Too bad the FBI did nothing to stop him. nt SunSeeker Mar 2022 #1
"Guy sounds like a major dumbass." MyOwnPeace Mar 2022 #2
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