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.
THE FRAUDS ARE SCAMING, CHEATING ETC; EVERY CHANCE THEY CAN??????ANY TIME A JUDGE OR PROSECUTOR SCORE FOR JAN 6TH…..THEY COME BACK AND SAY THE LAW IS NOT BEING CORRECTLY????? “EXCUSE ME”…….IT IS THE FRAUDS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE AND THE PEOPLE WHO CREATED THE DAMAGE AND PROBLEMS ON JAN 6TH???????????? REALLY THE WHOLE THING WAS PLANNED BY THE DEMS/FRAUDS!!!!!!!!!!! THEN BLAMED OTHERS!!!!!!!
To paraphrase a popular quote by Flip Wilson “The Devil (Trump) made me do it”. What a lame and childish defense.
No one has ever forced me to listen to President Trump. I listen because I believe as he does. We can save America. He is the only one using common sense, maybe a little wild, but he believes in the rule of law as many people do. But lately it seems the lawmakers and the law enforcers don’t follow the law themselves. And President Trump did not tell rally goers to riot on the hill. I watched the rally live on TV. And the cops did motion protesters to enter the Capitol building.