Insurrectionist tells judge her elite credentials should keep her out of prison

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Ahead of her sentencing, scheduled for Thursday, Insurrectionist Simone Gold tells judge her elite credentials should keep her out of prison https://motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/simone-gold-insurrectionist-tells-judge-her-elite-credentials-should-keep-her-out-of-prison/… via @MotherJones

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Insurrectionist tells judge her elite credentials should keep her out of prison
Stanford-educated lawyer and Covid misinformation spreader Dr. Simone Gold will be sentenced Thursday.
12:14 PM · Jun 15, 2022

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/simone-gold-insurrectionist-tells-judge-her-elite-credentials-should-keep-her-out-of-prison/


When Simone Gold was making her meteoric rise in the right-wing ecosphere, she never failed to mention in public appearances that she was both an emergency room doctor and a Stanford-educated lawyer. The credentials made her popular among anti-vaxxers, evangelicals, and others who supported her nonprofit, America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), which she launched in opposition to pandemic lockdowns in 2020. Even after she pushed her way into the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, she yelled in the Rotunda, “I am a Stanford-educated attorney!” before giving speeches to passing rioters complaining about vaccine mandates and urging the use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for Covid treatment. She spent an hour in the Capitol that day, pushing her way to the door of the House chamber as members of Congress fled the violent mob.

In March this year, even as Gold pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor for illegally entering a restricted building during the insurrection, she demanded that the judge refer to her as “doctor.” And now, as she awaits sentencing this week, she’s arguing that her elite professional credentials should keep her out of jail. The Justice Department disagrees. A sentencing memo filed by the government in the US District Court for the District of Columbia last week indicates that prosecutors are asking the judge to sentence Gold to 90 days in jail because of, not in spite of, her gold-plated resume. “The Court should reject any contention by Gold that her previous career as a doctor and her legal education are mitigating factors,” prosecutors wrote. “They are not.”

Far from mitigating her crime, they argue, Gold’s professional credentials indicate that of all the people who joined in the mob at the insurrection that day, she should have known better. Not only did she fail to use her medical skills to help a Capitol police officer who had been pushed to the ground by the mob right in front of her as she entered the building, prosecutors write, but:

“Gold, having attended a premier law school, could be expected to have been amply aware that entering the US Capitol with a forceful mob, and rushing past broken windows to do so, was illegal. Gold could be expected to have had an understanding that breaking into the House Chamber on the very day that, under established law, the United States Congress certifies the results of the presidential election, would have particularly harmful consequences for our democracy. Yet Gold joined a mob that attempted to do exactly that.”

In pushing for jail time, prosecutors also argue that Gold doesn’t seem the least bit sorry for her participation in what occurred at the Capitol. “Gold refuses to take responsibility for her crime and, worse yet, she is actively using her crime to tarnish law enforcement, enrich herself, and cause harm through misinformation and vitriol.” The memo goes on to detail Gold’s use of her prosecution for fundraising purposes for AFLDS, which it notes, pays her a staggering $20,000 a month. The group’s website describes Gold’s case as the “political persecution of a law-abiding emergency physician,” and includes a video depicting her bound and gagged as a political prisoner. The website indicates that she’s raised more than $430,000 for legal fees. Prosecutors write in the sentencing memo that “Gold’s public insistence that she is the victim here—despite her deliberate participation in a violent riot—bespeaks a disturbing lack of remorse.”

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[Shrike47]

1. 6 months in jail would be good.

[spanone]

2. Well, isn't she special

[Deuxcents]

4. BFD..give her her due

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. Typical Republican playing victim and upside-downism.

In a just world, her credentials would extend her sentence.....


Judge, how about tacking on a fine of $430,000?.....

[Trueblue1968]

7. I WOULD GIVE HER 10 YEARS IN THE SLAMMER

LOCK UP EVERYONE. Hanging judge TrueBlue says put 10 in the same cell!!!

LOTS AND LOTS OF YEARS..... BREAD AND WATER.

Lets get back to the pillory too.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Only a TFG supporter would think that this defense would work

TFG supporters are all very stupid people who are clueless as to how the real world works

[GoodRaisin]

9. Could be she's the smartest stupid person of the bunch.

When someone has so much it’s mind boggling she would direct her energies to involvement in this shit.

If she’s an ER doctor and refused medical aid to a downed police officer then she should lose her license to practice medicine.

[GoldandSilver]

10. Well, Doctor.....step right this way

Your cell is ready, your jumpsuit is ready and the rest of us are ready for you to chill out in jail for a couple of months.

We’re coming for your licenses too sweetie, get yourself ready.

[ZonkerHarris]

11. 90 months, not 90 days

[Rhiannon12866]

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[Aussie105]

14. She is basically saying . . .

I don't acknowledge the legitimacy of any legal system that thinks I've done something wrong.

We all know how that goes down in any court. Judge, ears, steam!

[librechik]

15. nut case--with all due respect.

let her rant her credentials in prison.

[Buns_of_Fire]

16. "But who would make my tofu smoothies just the way I like them?"

At least she hasn't pulled out "I'm too pretty to go to jail" yet. Yet.

My kinfolk up in the hills calls all this "puttin' on airs". And they don't like it.

[captain queeg]

17. Being a professional grifter should not earn any points with a judge

If I was the judge I’d have a hard time trying to be impartial. If anything this kind of attitude ought to earn her a long sentence. With unvaxxed inmates. She used her “credentials” to further her own position with the other criminals.

It would be interesting to see how various insurrections’ sentences are panning out. I’d like to see a list.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. Not going through all those Twitter pages, but seems...

like her qualifications should get her to the head of the line.

[Liberal In Texas]

19. She can become a prison doctor. Otherwise, what a waste of an education.

Although she seems to be using it criminally and in ways that harm people rather than do good.

Put her in prison. Make an example of this "elite."

[demtenjeep]

20. so she did not take in her education????

she paid money for a degree and learned NOTHING



I guess when I go to doctors in the future, I will have to ask them how they believe in Covid 19 and if Joe Biden is the DULY ELECTED president.




I already dropped my chiropractor because he said covid could be taken care of by Zinc and vitamins and such

[Samrob]

21. Doesn't speak well of Stanford Law School.

With her "credentials" she should have known better. Throw her in jail. An uneducated, poor, minority person would get the max!

[onethatcares]

22. has she asked tfg for a pardon yet?

that application form should giver her a hint of her "eliteism".

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. This lady is an idiot

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[Emile]

24. If I were to judge her I would say, with your education you should have known better!

[mn9driver]

25. Lock. Her. Up.

She has no excuse.

[Baked Potato]

26. Part of her brain passes the tests, the other part grifts off the test-taker. Nt