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Sebastian Gorka: “January 6th defendants who committed no real crime, who…”

Featuring: Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Counterterrorism | National

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Published | Video Starts at 26:15

Otherwise, the average American is going to say, oh, they could do that to a former president. Well, then they can do it to me. And they did it to January 6th defendants who committed no real crime, who walked peacefully through the halls of the Congress. I'm not talking about the ones who were violent, but grandmothers who were praying peacefully and who got a custodial sentence for, quote, unquote, trespass that day. (26:15–26:22)

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Claims that some January 6th defendants did not commit any real crime and were peaceful.

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