{"id":2018808,"date":"2023-08-31T23:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-attorney-asks-judge-why-his-client-and-not-trump-got-seditious-conspiracy-charge\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T23:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:17:30","slug":"jan-6-attorney-asks-judge-why-his-client-and-not-trump-got-seditious-conspiracy-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-attorney-asks-judge-why-his-client-and-not-trump-got-seditious-conspiracy-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"On Jan. 6, attorney questions why client, not Trump, faces &#8216;seditious conspiracy&#8217; charge."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjan-6-attorney-asks-judge-why-his-client-and-not-trump-got-seditious-conspiracy-charge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2018808&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Defense Attorney Questions Why Trump Isn&#8217;t Charged with Seditious Conspiracy<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I wonder why that man isn&#8217;t charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-adam-kinzinger-is-a-namby-pamby-clown\/\" title=\"KNOWLES: Adam Kinzinger Is A Namby-Pamby Clown\">seditious conspiracy<\/a>,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>attorney\u2064 Norm Pattis said in front of a D.C. courtroom ahead of \u200chis\u200c client, Zachary Rehl,\u2064 receiving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-attorney-asks-judge-why-his-client-and-not-trump-got-seditious-conspiracy-charge\/\" title=\"On Jan. 6, attorney questions why client, not Trump, faces 'seditious conspiracy' charge.\">15-year prison\u200b sentence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s GOP Support Has Only Climbed \u2063Since the Indictments Began<\/h3>\n<p>Rehl, a former U.S. Marine, was one of\u200c four Proud Boys \u2064leaders convicted\u200c of the Civil War-era seditious conspiracy \u2064charge, conspiracy to \u2063obstruct an official\u200d proceeding, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-erred-in-allowing-hunter-biden-to-forgo-foreign-agent-registration-lawsuit-alleges\/\" title=\"Lawsuit claims Justice Department made mistake by exempting Hunter Biden from foreign agent registration.\">related \u200dcharges<\/a> for his role in organizing and leading a group of \u2064roughly 200 to breach the Capitol in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He received\u2062 one of the longest prison sentences of the roughly 600 sentences handed\u2062 out so far \u2063in connection with the riot.\u200d Ahead of U.S.\u200d District Judge Timothy Kelly announcing Rehl&#8217;s penalties, his attorney laid into \u200bTrump.<\/p>\n<p>Pattis called the anticipated sentencing &#8220;breathtaking&#8221; for\u200c &#8220;basically taking your history too seriously, taking your\u200b president seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What they did is they listened to the president of the United States who for months said &#8230; the election was stolen,&#8221; Pattis continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What reason did they have to know otherwise?&#8221; \u2063he asked.<\/p>\n<p>He argued\u2063 that his client, whose crimes involved leading a crowd to the Capitol, breaking\u200d down a fence barrier,\u2063 and shooting an \u200cofficer with a chemical spray, was participating in what he thought was a valiant act on behalf of his president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This wasn&#8217;t\u2064 a crowd that decided to engage in mayhem,&#8221; Pattis noted.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was indicted on August 1, more than two \u2064and a half years after the riot, on four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mar-a-lago-property-manager-pleads-not-guilty-in-trump-documents-case\/\" title=\"Mar-a-Lago Property Manager Denies Guilt in Trump Documents Case.\">federal charges \u2063related<\/a>\u2064 to the 2020 election. \u200bHis trial is scheduled to begin in March.<\/p>\n<p>While \u2063his charges do not include seditious conspiracy,\u2064 they do include conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, the same \u200das the Proud Boys now facing some of\u2063 the harshest penalties of \u2063any defendant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s indictment also, however, focused far less on the riot or its incitement and more on schemes to \u2062overturn the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has pleaded not guilty\u200c in the case and continues to maintain that the 2020 \u200delection, which he\u200b narrowly lost, was &#8220;rigged&#8221; and &#8220;stolen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A defense attorney representing a former Proud Boys leader, convicted of seditious conspiracy, questioned why ex-President Donald Trump wasn&#8217;t charged with the same offense. 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