During the closing arguments of a court case involving a January 6th defendant, a federal prosecutor urged a jury to turn down a claim that then-President Donald Trump caused the man to breach the Capitol building.

The case involves Dustin Thompson and allegations that he broke into the Senate parliamentarian’s office twice and stole a bottle of bourbon and a coat rack on Jan. 6, 2021. Thompson claimed during the trial that he entered the Capitol, in the hope of gaining Trump’s “respect, his approval.”

Newsmax reports:

But during the closing arguments, prosecutors urged jurors to reject that claim and said it was a “sideshow.”

“Defense counsel wants you to focus so much on what President Trump said on the morning [of] January 6. He wants you to forget what his client did on the afternoon of Jan. 6,” said Assistant U.S. attorney William Dreher.

Defense attorney Samuel Shamansky told jurors to consider “human nature.”

And Shamansky urged the jury to consider the “mental” impact that Trump’s words in a speech earlier on Jan. 6  had over time. He told jurors Thompson had spent nearly a year out of work before Jan. 6 — isolated amid the pandemic, while he consumed pro-Trump information, Shamansky said, according to Politico.

The federal prosecutor’s words undercut a popular claim by some Democrats that Trump is guilty of the Jan. 6th riot.