Guy Reffitt, first Capitol rioter convicted at trial, gets a January 6 record of over 7 years behind bars

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Reffitt's trial featured dramatic testimony from his teenage son, Jackson Reffitt, who recounted reporting his father to law enforcement on Christmas Eve in 2020 after growing alarmed about his incendiary rhetoric and plans to do "something big."
40% : Judge Dabney Friedrich handed down the sentence five months after a jury convicted Reffitt on all five charges he faced following the Capitol siege, including obstruction of an official proceeding and threatening his own children to prevent them from reporting him to law enforcement.
35% : In a key portion of his testimony, Jackson Reffitt detailed a conversation in which his father told him and his younger sister that they would be traitors if they turned him in to law enforcement -- and that "traitors get shot."

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