Twenty-five-year-old Reily Jane English, transgender and facing six years in prison for plotting to assassinate Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with Molotov cocktails and a knife, turned herself in after being caught outside the Capitol. Influenced by a recent violent incident and enraged by Bessent’s TV appearance, she shifted her target from House Speaker Mike Johnson to Bessent — whom she despised for his stance on minimum wage. The Justice Department sought ten years, but Judge Rudolph Contreras sentenced her to six, citing no victims, her self-surrender, and the implausibility of the plan. With 20 months already served and three years of supervised release ahead, English, who’s preparing for surgery and seeking sobriety, acknowledged her turbulent past while pleading guilty to weapon possession on Capitol grounds.
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