Suburban Chicago man gets 3 years in prison for saying Trump, others ‘should all be executed’
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A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a Winthrop Harbor man to more than three years in prison for threatening President Donald Trump and others, saying she found it “rich” that prosecutors sought an even stiffer sentence after Trump pardoned scores of Jan. 6 rioters.
The sentencing of Trent Schneider, 58, comes more than three months after a jury found him guilty of making a threat with a video he posted online last fall. In the video, he railed against people he thought had done him wrong and ultimately dropped the president’s name.
Federal prosecutors originally sought a five-year prison sentence for Schneider. Assistant U.S. Attorney Hanna Helwig lowered that request to four years during Schneider’s two-day sentencing hearing.
Still, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said she was bothered by the feds’ original recommendation.
“We have a ton of people — hundreds that have been pardoned — who, you know, tried to execute threats and harm to people who were law enforcement and government officials at the House of Representatives at the Capitol, and they all got pardoned,” Coleman said Wednesday.
“That is the irony of this whole situation,” she added, “and gets this court extremely upset.”
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