"Hodgkins’ team asked for a probationary sentence, saying that the court should bring the country together by showing leniency and forgiveness."
The left has hate for Trump supporters and those on the right in general, there is not bringing this country together and in fact it was never intended to be together in the way this lawyer is implying.
We are not one nation, we are 50 sovereign States United in the form of a Union.
"Hodgkins’ lawyer said in a filing that the court should follow the path that former President Abraham Lincoln had planned before his assassination and seek to bring the country together.
Follow the path of Abraham Lincoln? This man played a huge role in why the country is the way it is today, we are an empire in which we were never intended to be. We used to be a Union under the original United States constitution, but Lincoln decided to hell with the Union were going to be an empire with the States as territory of the United States and the People as its subjects.
If Lincoln was president when these rioters went inside the capitol he would have ordered them all shot and their homes burned to the ground, he also would not allow any congressmen to show sympathy for those Trump supporters. Republicans need to get away from Lincoln he was not a conservative and if anything he was a progressive, he saw the constitution as something that can be changed by a presidents decree not something to preserve.
"More than 500 people have been arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and hundreds more arrests are still in the works."
The crazy thing is some detainees are being held in rough conditions as was argued by Edward Lang from Newburgh, so we can only imagine the conditions they are in. Reports say they are all being isolated and held in solitary confinement and are restricting their abilities to prepare their defense.
these Rioters should not be held by the United States government and instead should be sent back to their local jurisdictions and to be held there until their trials.
"Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Sedky said that Hodgkins participated in the grave danger to our democracy, and that both Capitol staffers and law enforcement personnel who fought off rioters will “bear emotional scars for many years, if not forever.”
They want to act like what happened in the Capitol was equivalent to a war it was not, the only people harmed were one of the rioters. While one guard was harmed he did not die due to the riots in the Capitol. This is straight propaganda.
"Hodgkins said he does “realize that my involvement did still contribute to the greater problem that took place.” He also said he recognizes that President Joe Biden is “rightfully and respectfully the president of the United States.”
This is coming from a man who is about to go to prison, I don't take his words to be anything more than saying what you need to say so you don't face political backlash and get charged longer. The election has some questions and I don't think its unreasonable to question who actually won the election.
References
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-hodgkins-capitol-attack-felony-trump_n_60f5857ee4b0a771e806bfc5