The former Infowars correspondent will be sentenced Thursday. Biggs “served as an instigator and leader" during the Capitol attack, federal prosecutors said, requesting 33 years in federal prison.

A Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy who the government says “served as an instigator and leader” during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol could face decades in federal prison at his sentencing Thursday.

The government wants Joe Biggs, an Army veteran who sustained a head injury in Iraq and then served as a correspondent for the conspiracy website Infowars, to serve 33 years in federal prison. That’s 15 years longer than the longest sentence in a Jan. 6 case to date: the 18-year sentence that went to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, also convicted of seditious conspiracy, after prosecutors sought 25 years in federal prison.

Federal prosecutors say Biggs was a “vocal leader and influential proponent of the group’s shift toward political violence” and used his “outsized public profile” and his military experience as he “led a revolt against the government in an effort to stop the peaceful transfer of power.”

  • @Fapper_McFapper
    37•1 year ago

    And you have the likes of Marjorie Taylor calling these asshats political prisoners. Fuck you GOP, Fuck you Marjorie and a big long 33 year fuck you to the one and only Joe “Traitor” Biggs. Hey maybe Trump will come visit you.

    • @[email protected]English
      13•1 year ago

      Whoa wait a minute, this was a seditious conspiracy? Then who was in charge? We should go after that guy!

  • mo_ztt ✅English
    27•1 year ago

    Remember: “If you come at the king, you best not miss” cuts both ways. There’s a pretty good chance that some Trumpy Republican is planning to let all these guys out of prison as the vanguard of the new order in 2024, or in 2028.

    I’m glad they’re going to prison. But also, please vote.

    • @toasteecupEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      land him in a grave.

      Ftfy. Sedition is punishable by death according to federal code. We should uphold it

  • @CharlesDarwinEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    17 years!

    YAY! I mean, I’d like to see 33 years, but at least it’s something.

  • @TokenBoomer
    -8•1 year ago

    Dude went to war for his country. Got brain damage. Didn’t get help for the “crazy” when he got back. And tried to overthrow the government that did this to him. Now, he’s going to prison. American Pie

    • Jaysyn
      15•1 year ago

      Hundreds of thousands of other veterans didn’t betray their country. Stop symping for traitors.

      • @TokenBoomer
        2•1 year ago

        Your interpretation concerns me. I’m not simping for traitors. It is an indictment of America. Hence, American Pie. How did he get this way? America did this to him. It’s doing it to you and me. That’s why you’re antagonistic. I’m not your enemy, capitalism is.