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Five years is literally the worst sentence you can get for the crime he pled guilty to. From how it's worded, the most recommended penalty for that crime appears to be a $5000 fine and maybe a little jail time.
They "threw the book at him" by all definitions of the word.
So, they gave him the maximum sentence, and the pro-Trump judge was pissed the sentence couldn't be any higher? What a piece of shit.
Apparently Ana Reyes was appointed by Joe Biden. You can't really call her a fascist, but her delusional liberal view of the world make her an indirect but effective supporter of fascism: If the inequality caused by the insane concentration of wealth and the resulting systemic corruption and injustice is not addressed, it causes degradation of material conditions and creates a fertile ground for fascism. But this they don't want to hear.
In my view the wealth inequality violates the intent of the constitution and Littlejon is a political prisoner.
I can't speak for whether the judge was pro-Trump. It doesn't sound (from other replies) like that was the case.
I think it's more that the everyone in the System (from prosecutors to judges) have a strong dislike for whistleblower crimes.