On Thursday, Gionet, who pleaded responsible in July to illegally demonstrating contained in the Capitol constructing after he livestreamed his attendance on the riot, introduced he will likely be in federal custody in Miami “very quickly.” He was sentenced to 60 days in jail and ordered to pay a $2,000 high-quality final month.
“Just received phrase I will likely be spending my time on the federal jail in Miami,” Gionet wrote to his 130,000 Twitter followers on Thursday.
At sentencing, District Judge Trevor McFadden scolded the 35-year-old for making an attempt to revenue off his antics contained in the Capitol constructing.
“You livestreamed, hoping individuals would pay you,” the decide stated. “That places you in a unique class from the overwhelming majority of individuals there. You broadcast to 16,000 followers. Such blatant criminality is not going to be tolerated.”
In his hour-long livestream on streaming platform DLive, Gionet is first exterior the Capitol, encouraging Donald Trump supporters to breach the constructing.
“Everyone, patriots, let’s go, different aspect of the constructing,” Gionet yells as he makes his method across the Capitol.
Gionet continues to movie after he enters the constructing alongside a whole lot of rioters. He movies himself inside two completely different senators’ places of work. At one level, he’s captured utilizing the desk cellphone as he jokes about calling the previous president and the Senate about “getting their boy Donald J. Trump again into workplace.” Inside the opposite workplace, he lounges on the sofa along with his ft up, saying, “We are in our home.”
“I’m sleeping on this room,” he stated. “Occupy the Capitol. Patriots are in management.”
In the livestream, Gionet referred to as one police officer an “oathbreaker” and repeatedly yelled obscenities at police.
Gionet was arrested in January 2021, lower than two weeks after the riot. He declared his innocence at a May listening to, a transfer which referred to as into query whether or not his plea take care of prosecutors would maintain. However, prosecutors struck an settlement with Gionet this previous July underneath which he pleaded responsible to a single misdemeanor cost.
Before changing into a preferred media character among the many alt-right and white supremacist group as “Baked Alaska,” an ode to his house state, Gionet labored at BuzzFeed and recognized as a libertarian.
It was not till the 2016 election season that Gionet turned more and more extra radical. He rose to prominence from his livestream movies, the place he routinely spouted white nationalist rhetoric and harangued bystanders on the road. Viewers would remark and donate in assist.
Prosecutors stated Gionet’s livestream from January 6 garnered greater than 16,000 viewers and raked in $2,000.
Gionet marched alongside white supremacists and neo-Nazis on the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Most mainstream platforms, together with YouTube, have banned his content material, although his Twitter account was reinstated in December underneath Elon Musk’s possession. The Anti-Defamation League classifies Gionet as a white supremacist.
Gionet has been a supporter of fellow white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ “America First.” He chanted the phrase all through his January 6 livestream. His Twitter bio signifies his assist of Nazi-sympathizing rapper Ye, previously often known as Kanye West, for the presidency in 2024.
Gionet repeatedly confronted authorized bother in Arizona after shifting to Phoenix in 2019.
As reported by Phoenix New Times, Gionet was convicted of disorderly conduct, assault, and trespassing after he pepper sprayed a bouncer at a Scottsdale bar in December 2020. He had been kicked out as a result of he was harassing individuals on the bar for considered one of his reside streams.
After prosecutors caught wind of Gionet’s video inserting him on the rebel, they filed a movement to revoke his pretrial launch from the December 2020 incident. However, Gionet allegedly skipped a listening to, and the decide issued a warrant for his arrest after figuring out Gionet broke the phrases of his pretrial launch by leaving the state. In January of final yr, Gionet was sentenced to 30 days in jail and compelled to pay $3,200 in restitution over the assault.
In October 2022, Gionet was discovered responsible of making an attempt to commit legal harm for vandalizing a Hanukkah show exterior the Arizona Capitol in late 2020. He livestreamed himself destroying a Hanukkah poster and stated, “No extra Happy Hanukkah, solely Merry Christmas. This is a shame.”
Gionet moved to Clearwater close to Tampa in 2021, the place he continues to host his livestreams.
His sentencing paperwork state that he’s set to report back to jail upon demand from the federal probation workplace or pretrial service division.