Days before the election, DOJ continues to prosecute new Jan. 6 cases
Reporting from Washington, D.C.
Standing inside a sparsely filled federal courtroom in Washington yesterday afternoon, another Trump supporter who committed crimes on Jan. 6, 2021, because he believed the then-president’s election lies was sentenced to prison for participating in what his sentencing judge described as “a direct attack on the nation’s democracy.”
Wearing a blue suit as he shook, sniffled and fought back tears, 38-year-old Troy Weeks talked extensively about his rough childhood, bragged that he refused to take part in a walkout when he was in high school, quoted scripture and apologized to one of the few people in the courtroom gallery: former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, a military veteran who was repeatedly assaulted while protecting the Capitol nearly four years ago.
