A jury in Washington D.C., sentenced this Thursday four supporters of Donald Trump and members of the far-right group Proud Boys, including its former leader, Enrique Tarrio, for seditious conspiracy in planning the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The crime of sedition is very rarely applied in the United States, although it was already used to convict in two previous trials, last November and January, the leaders of the other large ultra group of 6-E, the Oath Keepers. The charge is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Defendants Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Enrique Tarrio, and Dominic Pezzola faced a dozen charges that, in addition to sedition conspiracy, included evidence tampering and obstruction of a Congressional Electoral College vote: which, despite his violent coup attempt, ended up being held on January 6 at the Capitol.
Jurors failed to reach a decision on the sedition charge for the defendant, Dominic Pezzola, who was nevertheless convicted of other felonies.
At the same time that the verdict against the Proud Boys was published, now pending the determination of their sentences by the court, The Washington Post revealed the striking and enthusiastic way in which Trump is supporting and glorifying the prisoners for the bloody assault on the seat of the US Parliament.
And it is that the former president has decided to lend his voice in a recording of the singing of the national anthem by the so-called "J6 Prison Choir", a choir made up of convicts of the insurrection that he instigated.
According to the Post, many nights at 9 o'clock, the inmates of 6-E turn on the lights in their cells in the Washington D.C. jail. to signal to supporters outside that it's time to sing the anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner together. The recital "has become a sacred ritual for a group of Trump supporters dedicated to making heroes of insurgents," the newspaper says.
The nocturnal singing inside the jail was captured in a video that was shared online despite the fact that inmates are prohibited from doing so.
In February, and with the help of Trump collaborators, a recording edited with the best voices among the singing prisoners was used to produce the song Justice for all, to which Trump joined in pronouncing the Pledge of Allegiance, according to the newspaper from the capital
The former president presented the recording at the first rally of his 2024 presidential campaign. And then, alluding to the imprisoned coup leaders, he said: "Ours love those people. What is happening in that prison is hell... These People shouldn't be there."
The Prosecutor's Office is investigating Trump's participation in the assault on the Capitol. But, despite the time that has elapsed and the accumulation of evidence and testimonies against the ex-president presented last year by the 6-E investigation commission in Congress, the special prosecutor appointed in the case, Jack Smith, does not finish turning the tables. case.
The courts continue to judge the executors of the attempt, and Trump has already been charged in a case that has nothing to do with it, that of his bribing the actress Stormy Daniels, but today is the day that nothing allows even venturing if his Responsibility for the events of that January 6 will be purged or not by the United States justice system. He, meanwhile, has no problem publicly supporting the violent men who invaded the highest democratic institution in the country.
