Two Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 while wearing costume attire received federal prison sentences Friday, the same day prosecutors secured a string of guilty pleas from other rioters.
on Jan. 6 while wearing costume attire received federal prison sentences Friday, the same day prosecutors secured a string of guilty pleas from other rioters.
in February to a felony charge of civil disorder and misdemeanor charges of theft and entering a restricted building. Video showed Mostofsky joining others pushing against a police line outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, and that he was roughly the 12th person to enter into the building after rioters smashed windows to gain entry.
Nathan Entrekin, a 49-year-old Arizona man who wore a gladiator costume to portray Captain Moroni from the Book of Mormon, was sentenced to 45 days in prison and three years of probation. Judge Florence Y. Pan said that the gravity of Jan. 6 "cannot be overstated," and that the mob stormed the building to "subvert the will of the American people, and to essentially overthrow the democratically elected government.
"I was there, with the others, to protest the election results, which I still believe were tampered with," Entrekin said.Trump has continued to promote the lie that a second term was stolen from him and that Joe Biden is not the legitimate president
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