During a sentencing hearing for a Jan. 6 defendant who pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said America is “in trouble” if its citizens don’t accept the results of legitimate elections. Walton went on to say that he doesn’t expect Donald Trump to accept defeat if he loses again in 2024 — and added that, unlike Trump, former Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore “was a man about it” when he accepted his loss in 2000. Walton sentenced Jacob Zerkle to 24 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to the two felonies: assaulting, resisting, or impedi…