{"id":128815,"date":"2021-06-14T22:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T22:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=128815"},"modified":"2021-06-14T22:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T22:36:20","slug":"married-couple-pleads-guilty-to-criminal-charge-in-case-of-pro-trump-capitol-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/married-couple-pleads-guilty-to-criminal-charge-in-case-of-pro-trump-capitol-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Married couple pleads guilty to criminal charge in case of pro-Trump Capitol riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A married couple pleaded guilty to crimes related to their participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol supporters of then-President Donald Trump.<\/li>\n<li>Joshua and Jessica Bustle, who live in Bristol, Virginia, agreed to plead to a charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building in exchange for prosecutors agreeing to drop three other charges.<\/li>\n<li>Jessica called then-Vice President Mike Pence a &quot;traitor&quot; and bragged &quot;We stormed the Capitol&quot; in a Facebook post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The couple that invades the U.S. Capitol together gets convicted together.<\/p>\n<p>A married couple on Monday pleaded guilty to crimes related to their participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol supporters of then-President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua and Jessica Bustle, who live in Bristol, Virginia, agreed to plead in U.S. District Court in Washington to a charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building in exchange for prosecutors agreeing to drop three other charges.<\/p>\n<p>The couple, who face a maximum possible sentence of six months in jail, are the third and fourth defendants to plead guilty to Capitol riot-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>More than 450 other people are still facing charges in related cases.<\/p>\n<h2>CNBC Politics<\/h2>\n<p>Read more of CNBC&#x27;s politics coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Israel votes in new government amid parliament chaos, ending Netanyahu\u2019s 12-year rule<\/li>\n<li>Biden and Erdogan meet as U.S. sanctions hang over Turkey following Russian missile deal<\/li>\n<li>Justice Department to step up enforcement of voting rights protections, Attorney General Garland says<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before the riot, Jessica Bustle had written in a Facebook post, &quot;We don&#x27;t win this thing sitting on the sidelines. Excited to stand for truth with my fellow patriots and freedom fighters in D.C. today.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>After the riot, Jessica wrote on Facebook: &quot;We need a Revolution! We can accept an honest and fair election but this is NOT fair and patriots don&#x27;t want to see their country brought into communism and destroyed over a lie.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Jessica also called then-Vice President Mike Pence a &quot;traitor&quot; and bragged &quot;We stormed the Capitol&quot; in another post.<\/p>\n<p>The riot began after Trump urged supporters at a rally outside the White House to march to the Capitol, where Congress was meeting in a joint session to confirm the Electoral College victory of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Pence was presiding over the proceedings when hundreds of Trump backers stormed the Capitol complex and invaded the halls of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Data records from cell phones associated with the Bustles indicated they were in the Capitol Rotunda for about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video from the inside of the Capitol showed the couple entering the building. Jessica Bustle is seen on that video holding up a sign that said, &quot;VACCINE INJURY is the REAL PANDEMIC&quot; on one side, and and &quot;MANDATORY MEDICAL PROCEDURES have NO Place in a FREE Society,&quot; according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Bustle, who appeared to record his wife on a cell phone during their time in the Rotunda, &quot;carried a similar sign,&quot; according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>During the couple&#x27;s plea hearing on Monday, Jessica Bustle said, &quot;I wanted to say I&#x27;m admitting [guilt] to the things that I said and that I&#x27;m sorry for saying them, but also that there were other things that were said in those posts that were kind, like &#x27;pray for America&#x27; that weren&#x27;t included&quot; in the court filings.<\/p>\n<p>Trump for months has falsely claimed to have beaten Biden in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/14\/married-couple-pleads-guilty-in-trump-capitol-riot-case.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A married couple pleaded guilty to crimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23055],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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