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Ocelot II

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7. The rebuttal:
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 01:03 PM
Nov 2021

“‘Time’s up, motherfuckers’ is not peaceful, your honor,” the prosecutor argued, with respect to what he yelled in the Senate chamber. “That’s chilling.” She noted the letter he left on Pence’s desk ― “It’s only a matter of time. Justice is coming.” ― was “not peaceful,” but threatening. The prosecutor argued further: “The world watched the actions of this defendant and others on January 6, 2021 shake one of the foundations of our democracy ― the peaceful transfer of power after free and fair elections ― and has made us all question the safety and security of the country in which we live. “Those enormous harms, borne out of the acts of this defendant, must be deterred so that we never see a similar assault on our democracy again.”

The doofus actually received the minimum sentence under the sentencing guidelines.

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