Jan. 6 Defendant Pleads His Case to the Son Who Turned Him In

[BidenPresident]

The Capitol attacks ruptured their mutual trust. In the weeks before Brian Mock’s sentencing, could he mend the divide with his son A.J.?

“There. That’s me,” he said, pausing the video, zooming in on a man wearing a black jacket and a camouflaged hood who was shouting at a row of police officers. He pressed play and turned up the volume until the sound of chants and explosions filled the kitchen. “They stole it!” someone else yelled in the video. “We want our country back. Let’s take it. Come on!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/politics/jan-6-trial-father-son.html

 

[Nordberg]

You teach your children to be patriotic and love America. Then you go with Trumpys and get involved in a violent insurrection trying to overthrow a fair and honest election. That does require explaining.

 

[BidenPresident]

You teach your children to be patriotic and love America. Then you go with Trumpys and get involved in a violent insurrection trying to overthrow a fair and honest election. That does require explaining.

Yes, the irony that the father and son are both patriots. But one is going to prison.