‘A similar call coming out in the coming months’: Federal judge sentencing Jan. 6 rioter says it isn’t a stretch to imagine Trump spurring call for violence — again

Jeffrey Sabol on Jan. 6

Jeffrey Sabol (courtesy U.S. Dept. of Justice)

Call it a stark remark.

In a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C., a judge offered a blunt assessment of the future as he presided over the sentencing of Jeffrey Sabol, a Colorado geophysicist who assaulted police at the U.S. Capitol so violently he managed to lift one officer’s torso completely up off the ground merely by grabbing his baton.

Sabol, prosecutors and the judge concluded, did this and more because then-President Donald Trump and his allies had “spurred” the riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Sabol himself had admitted to the FBI during his interviews that he was fueled by his own rage and that felt he was a “patriot warrior” who had “answered the call.”

“It doesn’t take much imagination to imagine a similar call coming out in the coming months,” U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras reflected on Thursday, first reported by NBC News.

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