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April 16, 2017
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Johnnie Campbell hasn't taken a hot shower since before Halloween, and neither have his neighbors.
Tenants at an apartment complex in Jacksonville, Arkansas, have been forced to boil water and bathe in their sinks for months because their landlord ignored a broken water heater for nearly three months until KARK-TV started texting and calling.
“Since October the 20th, 2022,” Campbell said. “Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year -- we’ve had no hot water. I have a big pan. I heat the stove up and I put it in the sink and that’s how I took a bath today, and that’s how I took a bath since Oct. 20, 2022.”
An official with Jacksonville's department of code enforcement said the city had received numerous complaints about the issue and sent inspectors to Stone Village Apartments seven times between October and January, but he said the landlord -- who is the director of worship at a church in Hot Springs -- appears to have turned over deceptive invoices for plumbing work.
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“We’ve interacted with them and tried to get them to fix it," said code enforcement Lt. Ryan Wright. "They’ve given us invoices where they’ve called plumbers out– come to find some of those invoices, weren’t completely accurate. They gave them to us under the impression it had recently been done and they weren’t."
A plumbing crew showed up while the TV station's reporters were speaking to Campbell, and the workers said their service was requested 24 hours earlier -- the same day KARK tried to contact the landlord.
“We have plumbers that’s here and I believe they’re here because of the media, Channel 4,” Campbell said.
The property is owned by an out-of-state company, and the city cited the building manger and ordered him to appear in court by the end of the month, and Campbell said he's relieved that hot water has been restored to the building but still harbors some resentment toward the landlord.
“After so many months, I texted him and said, “May God have mercy on your soul,” Campbell recalled.
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When January 6 rioters were convicted and stood before a judge arguing for a lenient sentence, many showed remorse, condemning their own actions and saying they regret what they did. Some even broke down crying.
But according to the Associated Press, at least some high-profile participants in the Capitol attack who said they were sorry have a very different attitude now that they are no longer in front of a judge.
"Some defendants have drawn ire from judges or the Justice Department for their inconsistent comments," reported Alanna Durkin Richer and Michael Kunzelman. "But there’s not much the legal system can do for an adjudicated defendant. And because some conservatives hold up Jan. 6 defendants as martyrs, there's a political and possibly financial incentive for them to change their tune. It could push judges to impose stronger punishments for rioters who haven’t yet made it to the end of their criminal cases."
Among the rioters highlighted by the article is Derrick Evans, a West Virginia state lawmaker who resigned after being arrested for his participation and called his actions a "crucial mistake" that let his family down. After finishing his 40-day jail sentence, Evans is now running for Congress, claiming he was the victim of a "miscarriage of justice," even calling himself a "J6 Patriot" and the day itself a cause to "celebrate." He even signed a deal for a book bemoaning how he has been treated in the media.
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Another high-profile January 6 defendant was Brandon Straka, the Trump-loving social media star who founded of the "Walk Away" movement encouraging LGBTQ and nonwhite voters to join the GOP, and helped organize the "Stop the Steal" rally preceding the Capitol attack.
He avoided jail time after turning in several of his co-organizers to the FBI, and calling January 6 "nothing more than an incredibly shameful day that had absolutely no positive attributes whatsoever." But after his legal battles ended, he put on a pro-J6 performance art display at the Conservative Political Action Conference, sitting in a cage with a MAGA hat and orange jumpsuit to characterize those sitting in jail for attacking police officers as political prisoners.
According to the report, Straka's post-trial behavior could actually open him up to a prosecution for false statements: "A written statement of offense that Straka agreed was correct under his plea deal says that he yelled 'Take it! Take it!' while filming others trying to take a police officer's shield. Straka later told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he told his lawyer that he never made that comment. He suggested he admitted doing so because he was under pressure to take a deal."
As of this writing, almost a thousand people have been charged in connection with the Capitol insurrection — the largest number of people criminally prosecuted for a single event in U.S. history.
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Former President Donald Trump is not known for his sensitivity, but a new report from Semafor describes him as being "hurt" by the fact that other Republicans may soon announce 2024 presidential bids.
One source close to the Trump campaign tells the publication that Trump had assumed no one would run against him because he's experienced "six years of people sucking up to him" and telling him "that he was the greatest president ever."
Trump has been warned by advisers that complaining about rival candidates not showing him the proper deference could be a turnoff to some voters, but he's blown them off and continued publicly airing grievances about "very disloyal" Republicans who are challenging him for the 2024 nomination.
That said, the report also notes that a crowded field could benefit Trump in 2024.
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In 2016, for instance, a crowded field split the non-Trump vote in the Republican primary, which resulted in him securing the nomination with only a plurality of the total primary vote.
"“I would view a crowded primary to be much like a repeat of 2016," one GOP strategist told Semafor. "I think the worst case for the Trump team would be if everyone else coalesced around one candidate."
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