College Senior Who Bragged About Her Jan. 6 'Infamy' Didn't Vote In 2020, Lawyer Says

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A college senior who stormed the Capitol and then bragged about her “infamy” on Instagram didn’t even vote in 2020, her lawyer said.

College Senior Who Bragged About Her Jan. 6 'Infamy' Didn't Vote In 2020, Lawyer Says
The Justice Department wants Gracyn Courtright to spend six months behind bars. Her attorney asked for just 30 days.
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9:16 AM · Dec 13, 2021

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gracyn-courtright-capitol-riot-trump-vote_n_61b66bd5e4b0b50268a79f4d

A Donald Trump supporter who bragged about her “infamy” after storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 didn’t even vote in the 2020 election, her lawyer said in a filing ahead of her sentencing on Friday.

Gracyn Courtright, who went around the Capitol holding a wooden “Members Only” sign she swiped, was “caught up in the hysteria of the day” and responded on social media “without thinking about what she was saying” when she wrote on social media that “Infamy is just as good as fame. Either way I end up more known. XOXO” and that she couldn’t wait to “tell my grandkids” she was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, her lawyer wrote.

Federal prosecutors are asking Judge Christopher Cooper to send Courtright to prison for six months at her sentencing on Friday, writing that she would have likely faced felony charges had the Justice Department discovered footage confirming Courtright’s presence on the Senate floor (another non-violent defendant who went on the Senate floor received a felony conviction and eight months in prison, while the man known as the “QAnon Shaman” received 41 months).

“Just as troubling as her entry into the Capitol, her posts and statements after she left the Capitol appear to show a near total lack of remorse,” they wrote. “As noted above, she falsely portrayed the level of violence and destruction inside the Capitol; posted that ‘infamy is just as good as fame’; and ‘thought it was cool.’”

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[struggle4progress]

1. I act like a jack-ass and I'm proud

I use to feel alone in a crowd

But now you look around these days
and it seems there's a jack-ass craze

I'm an a-hole!
He's an a-hole!
She's an a-hole!
We're all a-holes!

Wouldn't you like to be an a-hole too?

[Aristus]

6. German tank crewmen were issued a chocolate-coated version of Pervetin.

They called it 'Panzerschokolade'.

Hard-core shit, hopping your troops up on meth. When I was in the Army, it was just "have another cup of coffee."

[Aristus]

8. I have no doubt.

The feral, feverish behavior of a lot of these people points to a frightening level of suicidal, and certainly homicidal, fanaticism.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Insurrectionists who work to overthrow a democracy probably don't believe in voting.

[mainer]

4. Just went inside to "charge her phone"

“As she went inside, she claimed that she was focused on turning her phone on and did not pay attention to what was going on around her. She did remember seeing a circle of law enforcement officers, people chanting, people trying to break things, and others telling them not to break things,” they wrote. “According to the defendant, after she entered she started looking for a place to charge her phone.”

Well, there's some excuse for breaking and entering. "I just went into that house to charge my phone. Honest!"

[Taylor Picker]

13. She thought that "Members Only" sign was a portable phone charger?

[brewens]

5. I wonder how many others didn't vote. There were a lot of deadbeat types involved. Child support and

tax problems. Bankruptcies and whatever. I'd love to see an analysis of their work histories. I bet not many working class heroes among them. I'd guess piss poor work histories compared to average Americans.

[Grins]

9. Name names!

From the links she is from West Virginia and a student - a senior - at the U. of Kentucky.

A lot of good that degree (if she gets it) will do when it comes with conviction for a felony….

[nuxvomica]

11. Lack of impulse control is not a good argument

In fact, lack of impulse control is one of the main reasons people need to be locked up.

[Javaman]

14. it's amazing how this cult literally removes all empathy from these people.

it's like invasion of the body snatchers.