A Donald Trump supporter was sentenced to five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the attack on the US Capitol, the harshest punishment yet handed down in the investigation into the January 6 violence.
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He had tried to enter the Capitol but was ultimately pushed back by pepper spray deployed by security officials.Read MoreFederal judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Palmer's arguments for leniency of a troubled childhood and a handwritten apology that said that he and others had been duped into attacking the Congress by the former president, whom he called "tyrannical" and "desperate to hold on to power.
"Palmer’s violence was in pursuit of his political goal of subverting a democratic election and the peaceful transition of power."'This is how I'm going to die': Police testify about defending US Capitol from Trump supporters
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