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MAGA rioter who requested Jamaican vacation gets chewed out by judge on January 6th anniversary

Anthony Robert Williams at the Capitol (Department of Justice)

MAGA rioter who requested Jamaican vacation gets chewed out by judge on January 6th anniversary

A federal judge has forcefully rejected one Capitol rioter's request to travel to Jamaica while on pre-trial release.

Insurrectionist Anthony Robert Williams, who faces several charges including a felony, "wishes to leave the Michigan winter to spend ten days in the warmer climes of Jamaica to meet the family of a woman with whom defendant has been in a committed relationship for 'more than a year,'" according to U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell.

In an order rejecting Williams' request, Howell wrote, "Although such a meeting may be an important step in defendant's personal relationship, defendant surrendered his entitlement to unfettered international travel when, also 'more than a year' ago, on December 30, 2020, he allegedly announced his intent to 'Storm the Swamp' ... and one week later, on January 6, 2021, followed through by joining a mob at the Capitol that, in his words, 'took that f*cking building,'" Howell wrote.

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The judge also noted that, alongside selfies he shared from inside the Capitol, Williams wrote that Jan. 6 was "the proudest day of my life."

"This Court will not commemorate the one-year anniversary of this attack on the Capitol by granting defendant's request for non-essential foreign travel when he is awaiting judgment for his actions on that day," Howell wrote.

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