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WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump fanatic who assaulted officers with pepper spray and called for additional violence after the Capitol attack while confessing in the third person was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison and fined $200,000 on Thursday. Ryan Nichols pleaded guilty in November to one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding and one felony count of assaulting officers performing their duties. U.S.
' Joseph McBride, a Donald Trump supporter who served as Nichols' lawyer, called Nichols 'a good man who did a bad thing.' McBride called what came out of Nichols' mouth on Jan. 6 'madness,' and compared Nichols to a 'tropical storm' rather than a hurricane. McBride, a former Tucker Carlson guest who has repeatedly fed into conspiracy theories about the Jan.
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