Donald Trump's Jan. 6 defense has long been that he wasn’t responsible for deploying a radicalized mob to Capitol Hill. As stevebenen writes, a new report highlights the fact that 174 Jan. 6 defendants have explicitly said the opposite.
, many of them have said in no uncertain terms that they were acting in response to Donald Trump’s directions.
Nearly 200 of the people arrested and charged for attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have said they were responding to calls by Donald Trump to help keep him in the White House, according to a new analysis by a government watchdog group.
Nicholas Languerand, who assaulted officers with a traffic barrier, pepper spray can, and other objects, posted a “#MessageFor45” on Twitter four days after Trump’s “will be wild” tweet, saying “We’re picking up your messages, and we’re listening. We’re ready to do this thing.” ... Douglas Austin Jensen, who chased Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman up a flight of stairs inside the Capitol, told investigators, “Trump posted make sure you’re there, January 6 for the rally in Washington, D.C. .
To be sure, none of this is especially surprising. Indeed, the bipartisan House select committee that investigated the insurrectionist violence, and congressional investigators bolstered their findings with voluminous evidence. But as special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal investigation advances, and prosecutors consider the possibility of charging Trump again, the Republican’s defense has been that he wasn’t responsible for deploying a radicalized mob to Capitol Hill. Several dozen of his followers are on record explicitly saying the opposite.
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