Mod: Will the "My Client Is A Dumbass" defense work for the hundreds of Trumplings facing trial and imprisonment for their roles in the Jan. 6 riot? Capitol rioter’s lawyer: My client is a ‘dumbass’ who watches too much Fox News (Dead Statelink): The lawyer for accused Capitol stormer Anthony Antonio, 27, is planning to argue that his client wasn’t interested in politics until he started watching Fox News, which played a part in influencing him to travel to D.C. on Jan. 6, Newsweek reports.
Joseph Hurley,
Antonio’s lawyer, says that while blaming
Fox News and
Donald Trump— which is a strategy multiple
Capitol riot defendants reportedly plan to use — may not ultimately be successful, it will be utilized to explain to the court that the influence of
Trump and right-wing media is the reason the defendants were at the
Capitol in the first place.
Earlier this month, Hurley told the judge his client had “Foxitus” and “Foxmania” from watching six months of Fox News and started believing what was being fed to him by the network and Trump.
Antonio allegedly wore a tactical bulletproof vest emblazoned with a “
Three Percenters” patch, which is a right-wing militia group, at the
Capitol that day. He was arrested in
Delaware on April 20.
Antonio is accused of squirting water and throwing a plastic water bottle at an officer who was being dragged down the Capitol steps. Antonio told FBI agents that he “locked eyes” with the officer and could see “death in the man’s eyes,” but chose not to help him “when I should of.”
Trump Is Now A Failed President And Failed Blogger(
PoliticusUSAlink):
Trump lasted a month as a blogger, as the former president has shut his blog down and removed it from his website. The page “
From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” has been scrubbed from
Trump’s website after going live less than a month earlier.
It “will not be returning,” his senior aide Jason Miller told CNBC. “It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,” Miller said via email.
The real reason why
Trump’s blog is gone is that no one read it.
Trump was so outraged by reports that his blog was garnering little traffic that he put out a statement criticizing those who claimed that no one was visiting his blog.
That statement came about a week before Trump shut down the blog and had it scrubbed from his website.
Trump’s blog was basically his unreadable tweets without the context of
Twitter. It was even more difficult to figure out what he was talking about than it had been when he was allowed on social media.
The post-presidential second act of Donald Trump is off to a rousing start. The former president has failed as a blogger and is looking at a potential criminal indictment in Manhattan. Donald Trump is now a failed president and a failed blogger.
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