Capitol Rioter Who Stole Gas Mask From Officer Was Suffering From 'Foxitis' After Consuming Fox News for 6 Months, His Lawyer Says

Daily Mail UK ^ | May 7, 2021 | Gina Martinez

[sevinufnine]

An attorney for a capitol rioter who allegedly stole an officers gas mask and stormed the Capitol building through a broken window says that his client's participation in the deadly January 6 riots was a result of watching too much Fox News, a condition he dubbed 'Foxitis.' Anthony Antonio's attorney, Joseph Hurley, says that the 27-year-old spent all his free time watching the conservative news network after the was laid off due to COVID. 'He became hooked with what I call Foxitus or Foxmania and became interested in the political aspect and started believing what was being fed to him,' Hurley told U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin M. Meriweather on Thursday. Hurley argued at a hearing that Antonio believed he was following Trump's orders to march on Washington and was participating in a patriotic movement to serve the United States. Antonio moved in with roommates in Chicago who were fans of Fox News and 'for the next approximate six months, Fox television played constantly,' Hurley said.

[sevinufnine]

You mean like “white privilege?”

[AppyPappy]

Prediction: It will be discovered they never watched Fox News

[Chode]

100% i could eat a box right now...

[gundog]

I’d believe CNNeumonia.

[StAnDeliver]

"Many who pass the bar exam are dumbasses."

And Joe Hurley qualifies...

Lawyer reprimanded for explicit and demeaning comments "A Delaware criminal defense lawyer was reprimanded and ordered to take a professionalism course for comments made to a former client and state prosecutors, including an assertion that he used to expose his “thing” to girls in a movie theater using a popcorn box held on his lap. The lawyer, 75-year-old Joseph Hurley, was accused in two consolidated petitions, report the Delaware News Journal, Law360 and the Delaware Law Weekly. The Delaware Supreme Court imposed the reprimand in a March 14 order noted by the Legal Profession Blog. One petition accused Hurley of making sexually explicit and demeaning remarks to several deputy attorneys general, including the popcorn box statement. He suggested that one of the prosecutors had no “brain wave activity.” He wrote to another saying the prosecutor was “a young Jewish man, I suspect” and he should be “a goat herder in Lebanon.” In an email to another, Hurley said the prosecutor was “another beautiful, but arrogant female.” Another prosecutor said Hurley had sent her an email referring to her as “Kurvacious” and “Kooky.”

[StAnDeliver]

Joseph Hurley also recently fined $1000 for criminal contempt of court, which means, added to his #MeToo comments, Old Joe ain't getting his 15 minutes of fame on tv like he wants, and instead the "Foxitis" story to be memory-holed in 5,4,3,2,1...

[StAnDeliver]

In fact, Antonio should be made aware of Hurley's contempt for his own clients...

""Who defends the attorney?" Hurley wrote. "No one! Pity the poor attorney who has the bad luck to represent 20 'nutballs' and, therefore, has 20 complaints filed against him or her."

[D_Idaho]

Most of my friends and I never turned Fox News back on after election night. I call BS.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Affluenza.

[Flick Lives]

Antonio attended the riots in a tactical bullet proof vest with a far-right ‘Three Percenter’ patch, a camouflage shirt and and had a tattoo of the words ‘Carpe Diem’ on his right wrist, according to an FBI affidavit.

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OMG! ‘Carpe Diem’. That’s got to be some alt-right nazi dark-web code word.

[sevinufnine]

You, your friend, and me too my friend. Me too.

[Flaming Conservative]

Some Trump suppoter. Threw Trump right under a high speed train. His lawyer obviously made up the defence. Guy’s apparently too unaware to hire a conservative lawyer. And then the judge proclaims the other defendent mentally ill for objecting to the idea of “foxitis?” Oh, talk about a rigged court!

[Flaming Conservative]

Different rules. They’re all just exercising free speech. Who removed the criminality of burning the flag? After that, it seemed anything goes, if you’re a liberal.

[tina07]

It was used as a defense for killing four people in a drunk driving accident...and it worked! The punk got probation.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2013/12/teen_who_killed_4_drunk_driving_claims_affluenza_gets_probation.html