Riot Judge Predicts Trump Won’t Accept 2024 Result

February 22, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies

The Huffington Post reports:

A federal judge on Thursday said the United States was “in trouble” if Americans don’t accept the results of legitimate elections, as was the case with Donald Trump and many of his supporters following the 2020 election. Separately, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said he was sure “there won’t be an acceptance of a defeat” if Trump loses again in 2024.

Speaking during a sentencing hearing for a Capitol attack defendant, Walton also said that unlike Trump, Al Gore “was a man about it” when he conceded the contested 2000 election. Walton sentenced Jacob Zerkle, an Arizona pistachio farmer, to 24 months in prison for the two felonies to which Zerkle previously agreed to plead guilty.

From the Justice Department:



Jacob Zerkle, 51, of Bowie, Arizona, pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and civil disorder, both felonies, before U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton. Zerkle is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 22, 2024.

According to court documents, on Jan. 6, 2021, Zerkle traveled to Washington, D.C., where Congress was scheduled to convene to certify the results of the 2020 election and where related protests were scheduled to occur in the surrounding area.

Mr. Zerkle entered the restricted area of the Capitol Grounds near the Peace Circle and walked to an area near the base of the Northwest Staircase, even though the Grounds were closed to the public that day. While there, Mr. Zerkle repeated the chants of other protestors, including chants like “hang ‘em high.”

At approximately 2:00 p.m., Mr. Zerkle assaulted a line of Metropolitan Police Department officers who had arrived at the Northwest edge of the grounds in order to assist and reinforce U.S. Capitol Police (USCP), who were outnumbered by the amassing crowd on the West Plaza of the Capitol.

Between 1:59 and 2:04 p.m., as the officers attempted to navigate through the crowd to the West Plaza, Zerkle, as well as other individuals in the crowd, physically engaged with the officers and intentionally made physical contact with at least three officers, which included placing his hands on the officers and forcibly pushing. Zerkle also yelled at the officers that they were “traitors.”

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