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A defendant charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol testified Wednesday that he believed he was “following presidential orders” from President Donald Trump when he stormed the building and stole liquor and a coat rack during the deadly riot.
Dustin Byron Thompson, 38, has not contested the allegations, specifically that he broke into the Senate parliamentarian’s office twice and stole a bottle of bourbon and a coat rack. He testified at his trial that he made the trip from his home in Columbus, Ohio, to Washington, and later entered the Capitol, in the hope of gaining Trump’s “respect, his approval.”
“Besides being ordered by the president to go to the Capitol, I don’t know what I was thinking,” Thompson told the jury, according to CNN. “I was caught up in the moment.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/14/jan6-trump-presidential-orders-thompson-capitol/
Dustin Byron Thompson, 38, has not contested the allegations, specifically that he broke into the Senate parliamentarian’s office twice and stole a bottle of bourbon and a coat rack. He testified at his trial that he made the trip from his home in Columbus, Ohio, to Washington, and later entered the Capitol, in the hope of gaining Trump’s “respect, his approval.”
“Besides being ordered by the president to go to the Capitol, I don’t know what I was thinking,” Thompson told the jury, according to CNN. “I was caught up in the moment.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/14/jan6-trump-presidential-orders-thompson-capitol/