Bruno Cua, who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 while still in high school, has been sentenced to one year and a day in prison. He is one of the youngest Jan. 6 defendants charged in relation to the Capitol attack.
U.S. District Court, District of ColumbiaWASHINGTON — A would-be social media influencer who helped breach the Senate gallery by engaging with a law enforcement officer and then jumped onto the floor of the Senate and sat in the vice president's seat was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison on Wednesday.was an 18-year-old high school senior who'd traveled to the nation's capital with his parents when he entered the Capitol on Jan. 6.
"I'm so embarrassed," Bruno Cua said of his actions."I falsely believed that the election was stolen." Cua's defense attorneys said his social media posts and actions on Jan. 6"should be viewed in the context of Bruno’s overarching goal — to develop a large social media following in the hopes of monetizing his accounts, including on YouTube" and that his"interest in developing a robust social media following is not uncommon among young people these days."Cua said in his letter that his social media was not an accurate representation of who he really was.
"I don't want to be in the public eye," he said, adding that he'd talked to his youth group about impulse control and issues with social media."I put myself in this situation."
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