So far, it has been a very large array of trespassing and glorified trespassing prosecutions of people actually broke into the building. But it has not gone into the various rings that might have supported that or into the key fund-raisers and ringleaders behind the whole thing.
Sheldon Whitehouse: “So far, it has been a very large array of trespassing and glorified trespassing prosecutions of people actually broke…”
On the recordJanuary 5, 2022
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Sheldon Whitehouse critiques the focus of the prosecutions related to January 6, suggesting that they have not targeted the key figures behind the insurrection.
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