At the Monday sentencing hearing for Capitol rioter David Judd, who was hit with 32 months in the joint after he was caught on tape throwing a lit firecracker into a tunnel entrance of the Capitol during the January 6th, 2021 MAGA insurrection and then convicted in August on charges of civil disorder and assaulting/impeding police, Judd’s lawyer told Judge Trevor McFadden that her client’s actions “were completely out of character” and that he’s getting more involved in his church, according to a thread by workaholic CBS News Capitol correspondent Scott MacFarlane.

What sticks out here is – if MacFarlane’s reporting is to be credited and no reason not to – the usage of the present tense “getting more involved with his church” in an ex post facto act of contrition for his crime. It’s obviously a contrast to a number of his fellow insurrectionists who subsequent to the attack got caught doing things like selling fake COVID vax cards, planting a hidden camera in a tanning booth to spy on a woman while she was naked, and assaulting a woman in a bar, threatening FBI agents or even their own kids, or killing a woman in a head-on DWI crash. Judd is at least pretending to behave himself (if his lawyer is telling the truth here). Still, like we’ve said again and again, we’ve still yet to see an example of one who lived a life of sincere virtue prior to January 2021.

Well actually we could have also led with the Judd’s lawyer, Elizabeth Mullin, telling the judge she’s “an Obama supporter. If Obama told me to be in the streets to protest in 2008, I’d have been out there in the streets.” That might make the rounds on other sites. And then there’s that the judge said Judd was “slightly exculpated because he was ‘there at the behest of the president.'” That’s probably kind of significant when a judge rules that Trump bears responsibility for the attack.