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Pleads to Drunken Threat to Rep Swalwell
So 27-33 Months With Trump Impersonation
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTROOM,
Oct 28 - In the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
on October 28, Joshua Hall
pleaded guilty to calling the
office of US Rep. Eric
Swalwell, drunk, and making a
threat. Inner City Press was
there for the plea,
before SDNY Judge Gregory H.
Woods, as it had been for
Hall's previous proceedings
for impersonating
members of former President
Trump's family.
On October
29, Hall allocuted that when
he got out of a detox in
Yonkers on August 29, 2022, he
went on conservative social
media. "Someone had posted the
office number of Congressman
Eric Swalwell and I called
it."
He was asked if he made
a threat. He guessed he did;
he had been drunk.
On October 29 he
was in an orange Westchester
County DOC prison jumpsuit. He
told Judge Woods he previously
worked in hospitality, at
Econolodge and then Best
Western Plus. As he was led
from the courtroom by US
Marshals, he had a smile that
seemed stoic.
After the
proceeding, it was announced
that "On a telephone call with
Staff Member-1 and Staff
Member-2, HALL stated, in
substance and in part, that he
had a lot of AR-15s; that he
wanted to shoot the
Congressman; that he intended
to come to the Congressman’s
office with firearms; and that
if he saw the Congressman, he
would kill him. He
further stated, in substance
and in part, that he wanted to
'beat the shit out of' the
Congressman."
For the
previous charges and this one,
Hall is now set to be
sentenced on December 8, with
a (combined) sentencing
guideline of 27 to 33 months.
His Federal Defender Clay
Kaminsky said no additional
time was needed as the
existing Pre-Sentencing Report
already to some degree
addresses this conduct (that
is, the drunk threatening
call). The PSR, of course, is
not public. But the plea
agreement is, now on Inner
City Press' DocumentCloud, here.
The case is US v.
Hall, 21-cr-605 (Woods).
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