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A federal judge on Friday appeared to draw a comparison between Nazi Germany and the period leading up to January 6, 2021 — in which former President Donald Trump and his allies falsely claimed the election had been stolen — saying that both involved large swaths of the public being swayed by a "demagogue."
Judge Reggie Walton made the remark at the sentencing of Dustin Thompson, a Capitol rioter who blamed Trump for his involvement in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. As he sentenced Thompson to 3 years in prison, Walton said he was struck that the college-educated Capitol rioter fell into a self-described "rabbit hole" of conspiracy theories and came to believe false claims — spread by Trump and his political allies — that the 2020 election had been stolen.
"It makes for a very difficult situation because I'm not unsympathetic to people...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is in "good health" and suffered only minor injuries during the February 28 strikes, senior Iranian officials said on Friday, dismissing mounting speculation...