"Duped" and "egged on": Capitol rioters use Trump as excuse in court

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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The Senate may have acquitted Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection, but the former president still faces accusations of incitement from another source: Capitol rioters themselves.

Attorneys for at least seven accused rioters have referenced Mr. Trump in efforts to explain their clients' actions, according to statements and documents reviewed by CBS News.

The attorney for Matthew Ryan Miller — who was allegedly photographed discharging a fire extinguisher on the steps of the U.S. Capitol — said during a hearing Tuesday that his client was "there at the behest of then-President Trump." He wrote in a February 7 filing arguing for his client's pretrial release, "Mr. Miller concedes he was on the Capitol grounds to protest along with thousands of other protesters and was merely following the directions of then-President Trump, the country's chief law enforcement officer, and other speakers to march to the Capitol."

Similarly, the defense attorney for Ethan Nordean, an accused Proud Boys member, wrote in a filing that then-President Trump "egged on" his client.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/duped-and-egged-on-capitol-rioters-use-trump-as-excuse-in-court/ar-BB1dK12Y?li=BBnb7Kz

Dumbasses are finding out the hard way what most of us learned years ago. Trump doesn't care about anyone but him self. You're all useful idiots.

[CanonRay]

1. Aren't you all in The Party of Personal Responsibility?

[BeerBarrelPolka]

2. This

This is actually a good thing. For starters, it won't help them in a court of law. But, these criminals have a social network. When that network sees them floundering and blaming Trump, it may sway some of them. That is what we need.

[spooky3]

9. Seeing them convicted and imprisoned should help, too. Nt

[BeerBarrelPolka]

10. Yes

[kimbutgar]

3. Michael Cohen said mf45 uses you and discards when you're no longer use to him

Those traitorous insurrectionists will find out the hard way when their lives are destroyed.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Why weren't these statements entered into evidence?

They are saying, and I have no reason not to believe this, that Trump instigated their actions.

[brewens]

5. They have nothing to worry about. Secret pardons are waiting for all of them. I can't say

how I know this, but someone should spread the word.

[elleng]

7. ;-)

[elleng]

6. 'Rioting at the behest of Trump,'

that'll go far as a defense.

[roamer65]

8. "The Devil made me do it!"

Sound familiar?

[Xipe Totec]

11. Followers finger their leader

[Bluethroughu]

12. To bad, they deserve prison time.

If you are in the building after breaking in and someone is murdered and people are maimed, you go to jail for being part of the conspiracy, now this was against our own Country, that is sedition.

Bye bye.

[tanyev]

13. It's like getting a free scholarship from Trump University.

[gratuitous]

14. Baffling

All these rugged, individualist he-man studleys are remarkably suggestible and easy to dupe.

[TreasonousBastard]

15. They're really using the "I vas only followink orders" defense?

[sakabatou]

16. Yup

[Vivienne235729]

17. Good. They're absolutely right. He did egg them on. And they're stupid enough to do it.

But they are adults, right? No one coerced them into doing what they did. They need to take responsibility for their actions. I hope they drag his fat orange ass down right w them. It would be great if they all went to the same facility.

[mnmoderatedem]

18. "egged on"? That can't be!

According to Jason Miller, trump had nothing to do with egging on the insurrection.

Gee I guess we will have to re examine that....