Concerned American
Diamond Member
And he was wrong and you know it because you have heard the actual statement. Give it up, the congress came up empty and so are you. LOL, but you and your avatar keep playing with yourselves and you'll get it one day.Ah, poster Concerned American is fretting over a slight to Don Trump he imagines my poor avatar may have made. Unfortunately, his zeal overcomes his studiousness. Others have claimed Don Trump directed them to riot at the Capitol. Others.....such as MAGAPerps have, in fact, made that very assertion in their criminal trials. And frankly, they have much greater skin in the game than my avatar an would know more than me. True that.
One example:
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"Ohio man who argued he was "directed" by Trump to join the Jan. 6 Capitol riot convicted on all counts"
Thompson chose a different legal strategy, fighting the counts that ultimately brought him before a jury. He didn't deny he had taken part in the breach and instead argued that at the time, he believed that Trump's speech near the White House authorized his actions.
During that rally, Trump used incendiary language like "fight like hell" and told the crowd he would join them in marching to the Capitol to contest the 2020 election results.
"It is hard to imagine a more striking example than the President of the United States directly instructing an individual to engage in the precise conduct for which he is later indicted," Thompson's legal team argued in pretrial briefs. His lawyers even asked the court's permission to call the former president and his allies as witnesses in the trial.
"Mr. Trump and his conspirators engaged in a concerted effort to deceive the public, including Defendant, into believing that American democracy was at stake if Congress was permitted to certify the election results," they argued.
Ohio man who argued he was "directed" by Trump to join the Jan. 6 Capitol riot convicted on all counts
Dustin Thompson, who unsuccessfully tried to call former President Trump as a witness in his jury trial, was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs.www.cbsnews.com