A 24-year-old Costa Mesa, California, 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.
Christian Alexander Secor — a former UCLA student who founded a conservative organization on the campus — accepted a plea deal earlier this year requiring he admit to a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding in return for the dismissal of other charges, such as assaulting, resisting, impeding officers and civil disorder.
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.”
