Former La Habra, California police chief and Capitol rioter Alan Hostetter’s plea for leniency – one in which he said his January 6th conspiracy bullshit about “crisis actors” and “an obvious set-up” by police are “no longer fringe theories” because asshole Vivek Ramaswamy talked about it during his unhinged performance at Wednesday night’s GOP debate – did not work on DC Circuit Judge Royce Lamberth who sentenced Hostetter to 135 months in prison, just slightly shy of the 12 years federal prosecutors had sought in their recommendation, CBS News’s Scott MacFarlane reports.
“The First Amendment doesn’t give anybody the right to obstruct, impede [Congress]… or carry weapons into restricted areas,” Lamberth said after handing down the sentence to the self-represented Capitol rioter who just might’ve saved himself a few years if he hadn’t told the judge that Ashli Babbitt’s death was a “psy-op” and that she’s secretly still alive. Babbitt’s mother was sitting in court too, per MacFarlane. Hostetter probably also could’ve skipped the “really dark forces that set up a matrix” and that the riot was the FBI, CIA, and DHS’s “crowning achievement” parts too.