Anthime Joseph Gionet, better known as the far-right internet troll “Baked Alaska,” was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in prison with two years’ probation for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Gionet, who will also be required to pay a $2,00 fine, pleaded guilty last summer to one misdemeanor count of knowingly entering restricted grounds, which carries a punishment of up to six months behind bars.
He was part of the crowd that rammed through police barricades and through Capitol doors and windows after then-President Donald Trump gave a speech based on falsehoods about the 2020 election.
“We are the kraken! Unleash the kraken! Trust the fucking plan, let’s go!” Gionet chanted on a livestream inside the Capitol, according to court documents.
Gionet then made his way up to the office of an unidentified senator, where he made a pretend phone call to the “U.S. Senate,” urging them to “get our boy, Donald J. Trump, into office.”
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“Occupy the Capitol, let’s go!” he said. “We ain’t leaving this bitch!”
Minutes later, when law enforcement shooed him out of the building, Gionet yelled at an officer, “You’re a fucking oathbreaker, you piece of shit,” among a string of other insults.
Gionet used the service DLive to post his 27-minute livestream, as many mainstream social media platforms had booted him from their services by the time of the Capitol attack ― although he was permitted to return to Twitter under Elon Musk’s ownership late last year.
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