DC Rioter Who Arrived On Bus Paid For By Charlie Kirk Gets Sentenced To Over Four Years For Assaulting Cop

April 11, 2023 Crime, Republicans

NBC News reports:

A retired firefighter who went to a “cult deprogramming” expert to figure out how he came to believe Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison on Tuesday for chucking a fire extinguisher at police officers as they protected the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Robert Sanford, wearing prison orange, told Senior Judge Paul L. Friedman that he was embarrassed, ashamed and disgusted by his behavior on Jan. 6. Sanford, who worked as a firefighter in Chester, Pennsylvania, was arrested in mid-Jan. 2021, and has already spent roughly eight months in custody, which will be shaved off his 52-month sentence.

Former U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, whom Sanford struck with a traffic cone, gave a victim impact statement in court on Tuesday. If “the former guy” — Trump — were to call upon Sanford to go to the Capitol again, Gonell said, he had not doubt that Sanford would be there.

Read the full article. In March 2021, I reported that Sanford had traveled to Washington DC on one of the buses paid for by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. After the riot, Kirk deleted his tweet which boasted about sending 80 buses.



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