Doctor known for spreading Covid misinformation is sentenced to prison for role in US Capitol attack

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Doctor known for spreading Covid misinformation is sentenced to prison for role in US Capitol attack
CNN Expansion DC - November 2021, Shoot ID: 1089822 , 11/16/2021, Hannah Rabinowitz

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN

Updated 1:31 PM ET, Thu June 16, 2022


Simone Gold on January 6, 2021.

(CNN)Dr. Simone Gold, a Beverly Hills woman known for spreading debunked claims about Covid-19 was sentenced on Thursday to 60 days in prison for illegally entering and remaining in the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection.

Gold, founder of the group America's Frontline Doctors, was also ordered to pay a $9,500 fine -- the largest fine imposed to date among the almost 200 rioters who have been sentenced.

"Your organization is leaving people with the misimpression that this is a political prosecution or that it's about free speech," district Judge Christopher Cooper said as he imposed the sentence, slamming America's Frontline Doctors fundraising efforts that call January 6 "political persecution."

Cooper called the fundraising efforts, which have raised more than $400,000, "unseemly" and a "disservice to the true victims that day."

"It ain't about free speech," Cooper added. "January 6 was about a lot of things, but it wasn't about free speech or Covid vaccinations... the only reason you are here is where and when and how you chose to express your views."

Gold spoke at the January 5 Stop the Steal rally the day before the riot, telling the crowd that "if you don't want to take an experimental biological agent deceptively named a vaccine, you must not allow yourself to be coerced!"
The next day, according to prosecutors, she and her co-defendant John Strand joined a group of rioters who pushed past a group of officers attempting to stop the mob from breaching the Capitol. Once inside, Gold spoke through a megaphone to a crowd gathered in Statuary Hall.

Strand has pleaded not guilty.

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/simone-gold-january-6-covid-us-capitol/index.html

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What was "debunked"?

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What was "debunked"?

If CNN says it was debunked, you know it was really superdooper debunked, probably by Joy Reid or Brian Stelter or Johnny Weir or some such medical expert.

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"Debunked" lie adj. Leftspeak for something the Leftists did not want you to know, claimed to be false, even though it is true.

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Founder of America’s Frontline Doctors Sentenced to 60 Days in Federal Prison for January 6 Speech in U.S. Capitol

https://www.thepostemail.com/2022/06/16/founder-of-americas-frontline-doctors-sentenced-to-60-days-in-federal-prison-for-january-6-speech-in-u-s-capitol/

On Thursday afternoon, the organization America’s Frontline Doctors () issued an emailed press release in which founder Dr. Simone Gold, MD, JD, announced she would be sentenced on a misdemeanor charge of “” stemming from the January 6, 2021 rally at the U.S. Capitol to which she entered a plea of “guilty.”

The press release reads:

    The Loss of Equal Protection

    Washington, D.C, Six months after America’s Frontline Doctors’ viral video of their press conference on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on July 27, 2020, Founder Dr. Simone Gold traveled to a free speech rally in Washington, D.C., to speak on January 6, 2021.

    In the months between the press conference and January 6th, Dr. Gold was asked to present publicly on numerous occasions about physicians’ free speech and her experience of being fired for prescribing early treatment to Covid-19 patients.

    By this time, she had also founded America’s Frontline Doctors, a division of the Free Speech Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization. Dr. Gold was scheduled to speak on January 6th alongside numerous other presenters after President Trump’s appearance at the rally, which had a government approved permit. At her expected start time, Dr. Gold was then told all speeches were suddenly canceled without explanation. Upon hearing this, Dr. Gold was amongst thousands swept into the Capitol building when the doors were opened from the inside, with law enforcement officers ushering people in. While there, Dr. Gold realized it was the only remaining moment to deliver her message to those who came to hear it, and so she gave her remarks there. When an officer instructed her to move towards an exit, she complied, and shortly after when asked to leave the building entirely, she did so.

    The media coverage after January 6th showed carefully selected edits of violent scenes, but that was not Dr. Gold’s observation of the day. Subsequently, Dr. Gold was arrested and prosecuted along with hundreds of other non-violent citizens for being present at the Capitol. Dr. Gold reached a plea agreement for entering a restricted building. Her sentencing is scheduled today, June 16, 2022.

    Dr. Gold did express regret for being involved in a situation that later became unpredictable, but what she is facing are the consequences of exercising free speech in today’s America. Like most January 6th defendants, she is a victim of selective prosecution – a defining feature of corrupted governments, and a direct violation of the equal protection guarantee of the US Constitution.

    For example, consider that there were hundreds of arrests for violent protests in association with President Trump’s Inauguration in 2017. The government subsequently dropped all of those charges, including charges against people who were actually disrupting Congress from inside the Congressional gallery while Congress was in session. But with the January 6th arrests, the government has not only failed to drop any charges against nonviolent persons in public spaces, such as Dr. Gold, it has instead aggressively violated defendants’ civil rights at nearly every turn.

    There are innumerable well-documented instances of January 6th defendants not receiving due process noted in the book January 6 authored by Julie Kelly. For instance, some defendants have been held in prison for nearly 18 months pretrial. In Dr. Gold’s case, she peacefully gave a speech on medical freedom and Constitutional rights in the public Rotunda. This resulted in the government violently arresting her in a surprise raid, breaking the front door of her home, using over a dozen FBI and law enforcement officers with assault weapons pointed at her from two feet away. The intent to terrorize her with this tactical assault suited to a raid on a violent drug cartel was unmistakable; she suffers from PTSD to this day.

    Dr. Gold’s peaceful exercise of her 1st Amendment rights also resulted in numerous restrictions of her personal civil liberties and severe interference with her ability to serve the millions who look to America’s Frontline Doctors for life- saving information and civil rights support. This continued for over a year before any adjudication.

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