Ohio Man Who Blamed Trump for Storming the Capitol Is Found Guilty

[BidenPresident]

“If the president’s giving you almost an order to do something,” he told the jury, “I felt obligated to do that.”

But the jury in Federal District Court in Washington took less than three hours to reject that claim and find Mr. Thompson, 38, guilty of all six charges he was facing. The most serious charge in the indictment accused Mr. Thompson of obstructing Congress’s duty to certify the final results of the election, a count that carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/us/politics/dustin-thompson-jan-6-trial.html

 

[BidenPresident]

Though jurors were apparently not swayed by the claim that Mr. Trump had been responsible for Mr. Thompson’s actions, Judge Walton suggested after the jury was dismissed that he believed the relentless flood of conspiracy theories and lies stoked by the former president had helped give rise to the riot, and continued to pose a danger.


“I think our democracy is in trouble,” he said, “because unfortunately we have charlatans like our former president who, in my view, doesn’t care about democracy but only about power.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/us/politics/dustin-thompson-jan-6-trial.html

 

[BidenPresident]

He doesn't care about the country either, except as a vehicle for his own ego. What he's been doing for the past 18 months is something that no loser has ever done before, and with good reason. But he doesn't give a damn.

And some still think he's the greatest.

I think more people going to trial will not rely on blaming Trump, but certainly that without Trump no one would have travelled to the Capitol