The first sentence of the perpetrators of the attack on the US Congress building Capitol was issued.
Six months after the attack on the US Capitol, instigated by former US President Donald Trump, the first sentence was finally handed down to one of dozens of defendants in the incident, and a Florida man was sentenced to life in prison. The criminal role was sentenced to eight months in prison.
“Today, Paul Hodgkins, a native of Florida, was fined 2,000 for his role in the attack on the Congress building on January 6, 2021,” USA Today reported. He was sentenced to eight months in prison.
USA Today wrote: Hadickins, 38, who had been holding a flag in support of Donald Trump for 15 minutes in the courtyard of the mansion and took a photo; He was convicted of disrupting the counting of votes in the US House of Representatives.
Thus, a report by Judge Randolph Moss, who sentenced the offender, said that waving the flag to Trump was in fact a false sign of loyalty to one person rather than a loyalty to another. The country and its ruling democracy.
According to IRNA, on January 6, 2016, when the last round of the 2020 US presidential election was taking place in the presence of then Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a group of white Americans after Donald Trump’s speech that In the election fraud, they stormed the congressional building and seized it for hours. Many experts and analysts called the move an attack on democracy in the United States, Donald Trump for inciting these people for the second time, but after the end. His presidency was ousted and he was acquitted for the first time.