Christian Alexander Secor, of Costa Mesa, was handed a three-and-a-half-year sentence after admitting to a felony
A 24-year-old Costa Mesa man who sat in former Vice President Mike Pence’s vacated seat while storming the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection was sentenced Wednesday to three and a half years in prison.on the campus —
In a 2020 Election Day text cited by prosecutors in court documents, Secor wrote “We’re going to win bigly and if we don’t we’re taking this ship down in flames,” following up a day later by writing, “They’re cheating. Trump will pull through by legal or illegal means.” Secor entered the Senate building as a rioter with a bullhorn shouted “They can’t stop us all!” Other members of the crowd chanted “Take it back! Take it back!” according to court documents.
Secor’s attorney, Brandi Harden, wrote in a sentencing brief that Secor “will forever regret” his decision to enter the Capitol, adding that his life since has been “turned upside down.”
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