Williams, her defense argued, “ wanted to be somebody.”Īt the hearing ahead of her sentencing, Williams said she is embarrassed watching the actions of the “young and stupid girl” she now sees in all of those videos. Williams’ federal public defender Lori Ulrich said that while Williams might have “distasteful” beliefs, she was a young woman equipped with only a “cell phone and her fuzzy zebra bag” who even posted at one point that she was “STORMING THE WHITE HOUSE” when she was, in fact, in the legislative branch. In delivering her sentence, federal judge Amy Berman said what Williams did was “utterly reprehensible”. Ron DeSantis walked back his comment that Russia’s invasions of Ukraine was a “territorial dispute”.Ī rightwing extremist who was convicted on charges related to breaching the Capitol on January 6 and directing the mob towards Nancy Pelosi has been sentenced to three years in prison, NBC News reports.įederal prosecutors argued that Riley Williams “led an army” of rioters to Pelosi’s office after they breached the Capitol, and stood by as one stole a laptop the House speaker used for her Zoom meetings. The parents of a student killed in the Parkland school shooting were removed by police after disrupting a hearing on gun control convened by House Republicans. Special prosecutor Jack Smith’s next prize may be getting Mike Pence to testify as part of his investigations into Trump.Ī new book pulls back the curtain at the supreme court, focusing on the months when the new conservative bloc flexed its muscles. TikTok’s CEO is getting grilled by House lawmakers. But district attorney Alvin Bragg did find time to respond to House Republicans who had earlier this week issued a flurry of demands of his office, after Trump alleged that he would soon be arrested. The answer to whether a Manhattan grand jury is going to indict Donald Trump will have to wait until next week, at least, after prosecutors opted against bringing up the case before jurors today.
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