and thanks to you at home for joining us tonight. really happy to have you here. so, his son was 18. his daughter was 16. and on christmas eve 2020, so that s like a month and a half after the 2020 election was called for joe biden, on christmas eve 2020, this 18 year old son went online to the fbi website, to tips.fbi.gov, and he submitted a tip to the fbi about his dad. he told them that his dad was planning to do something violent, that is, that was not only calling for there to be violence against government officials. the son told the fbi, when he submitted that online tip, that he believed his dad was actually planning to do something violent himself. he told the fbi, his father was planning to, quote, do some serious damage. that was christmas eve 2020, when that young man submitted that tip to the fbi. he didn t hear back, initially, took a couple of weeks. it took until after the january 6th, 2021 attack on the u.s. capitol building. then, the fbi decided that the th
now, his defense lawyers have asked the judge to give guy reffitt less than five years in prison. who knows? federal sentencing guidelines say that just the term of more or like, 9 to 11 years in prison. but this is interesting. and this provides us some new insight. the federal prosecutors in the guy reffitt case have now asked the judge for something called an upward departure from the sentencing guidelines. again, sentencing guidelines are again from like 9 to 11 years. they re asking for the court to consider a longer sentence than that. they re asking them to consider adding a sentencing enhancement in his case, on the grounds of terrorism, on the grounds that what he did fits the statutory definition of terrorism. quote, reffitt engaged in acts of violence that were intended to influence the government through intimidation or coercion, acts that have been defined by statute, as domestic terrorism. now, it is up to the courts, up to the judge, whether or not to actually do that, t
who knows. federal sentencing guidelines suggest a term of more like nine to 11 years in prison. but this is interesting. and this provides us some new insight. the federal prosecutors in the guy reffitt case have asked the judge for something called an upward departure from the sentencing guidelines. sentencing guidelines are nine to 11 years and they re asking for the court to consider a longer sentence than that, asking to add a sentencing enhancement to the case on the grounds of terrorism. onng the grounds what he did fi the statutory definition of terrorism. he engaged inst acts of violenc that were intended to influence the government through intimidation or coercion,o act been defined by statute as domestic terrorism. now, it is up to the court, up to the judge whether or not to actually do that, to accept this terrorism enhancement on guy
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