A far-right internet personality has pleaded guilty to joining the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, where he streamed live video that incriminated him and other rioters.
A timeline of what transpired during the deadly Capitol riot on Jan. 6.stormed the U.S. Capitol,Anthime Gionet, known as "Baked Alaska" to his social media followers, faces a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing inside a Capitol building.The judge had scheduled a March 2023 trial for Gionet after he balked at pleading guilty during an earlier hearing.
"Come in. Let's go. Come on in. Make yourself at home," Gionet told other rioters, according to a court filing accompanying his guilty plea.The House Jan. 6 committee has aired a previously unseen video outtake of President Donald Trump saying, "I don’t want to say the election is over" the day after insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The committee showed outtakes from a speech that Trump recorded on Jan.
Gionet worked at BuzzFeed before he used social media to build an online following in far-right political circles. Defense attorney Zachary Thornley said Gionet "has long been a member of the press.""His actions on the day many folks entered the Capitol were no less then he has always done. He filmed it. That is what he does," Thornley wrote in a court filing last year.
Mainstream internet platforms, including Twitter, suspended Gionet's accounts before Jan. 6. At the Capitol, he was livestreaming video using a fringe service called DLive.
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