Wed Oct 27, 2021 – 4:02 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — A man accused of attacking a police officer during the Capitol riot on January 6 has been released from custody after he wrote a letter denouncing former President Donald Trump and parroting President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” slogan linked to a movement to restructure U.S. and global economies along socialist lines.
35-year-old Thomas Sibick, who has been held in a Washington, D.C., jail without bail since March, was released to the custody of his parents after he wrote a letter to U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson saying he now “loathe[s]” Trump and holds him “ultimately responsible” for the disturbance at the Capitol in which Trump-supporters protested the final counting of electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election.
“January 6th was a disgrace to our nation that left a scar Trump is ultimately responsible for,” he wrote in the letter, adding that “[w]hile many praise Trump I loathe him.”
Sibick told Judge Jackson his behavior on January 6 — allegedly joining a group of rioters who assaulted and robbed D.C. police officer Michael Fanone — was “unequivocally an aberration of the high moral standards
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