Posted on 01/25/2021 5:30:00 PM PST by lowbridge
A Texas man charged with invading the Capitol and threatening Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Monday that he was effectively following then-President Donald Trump’s orders when he joined a mob that stormed Congress on Jan. 6.
Garret Miller also apologized to Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., for writing “Assassinate AOC” in a Twitter post. He said he would be willing to testify to Congress or in a trial about the riot.
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MIller is one of dozens of people charged with participating in the riot, which began shortly after Trump held a rally outside the White House, where he urged supporters to pressure Congress to reject the election of Joe Biden as president.
In a statement released by defense attorney Clinton Broden, Miller said he had been motivated by Trump’s false claims about having been cheated out of reelection by ballot fraud and said, “I am ashamed of my comments.”
U.S. could be headed for an era of increased political violence: Hayden Center
“I was in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, because I believed I was following the instructions of former President Trump and he was my president and the commander-in-chief. His statements also had me believing the election was stolen from him,” Miller said.
“Nevertheless, I fully recognize Joe Biden is now the President of the United States and that the election is over. Donald Trump is no longer president and I would not have any reason to continue to follow his lead.”
“While I never intended to harm Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez nor harm any members of the Capitol police force, I recognize that my social media posts were completely inappropriate. They were made at a time when Donald Trump had me believing that an American election was stolen,” he said.
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The Dems will cite his testimony as proof Trump incited the mob. Simple.
That would require a prosecutor that was more interested in prosecuting this guy than in persecuting Trump ... and his supporters.
Sounds like a Chinese public apology.
Look at his finances.
How deep will an honest reporter have to dig to find his LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist/Communist/Democrat background?
The Capitol Building was a mile and one half away from Trump's speech. There is no way they could have walked that distance from the speech and get into the Capitol Building when they did.
He should have been given additional charges of making a false statement to the FBI.
IF the guy was already in DC to riot on Jan. 6th, then he wasn’t responding to any alleged Trump orders that day.
I smell a forced plea and recantation/admission re a long jail sentence threat. In DC, the concept of “justice” is slowly disappearing with the District’s DA being a reported Soros bought and paid for leftist and UD DA for DC being on a “crusade” whether he wants to or not. Hope I’m wrong but I’ve been in this game too long to take anything at it’s face anymore.
[Been through one false arrest, which the police even admitted it was. When the local prosecutor refuses to bring charges and the judge refuses to hear the case, you know it was a set-up. Interestingly the officer who had to order the arrests became an acquaintance of mine - I was an accredited DC journalist - told me the whole story about 6 months later. It was done to prevent some foreign relations
repercussions].
Need definitive proof that Racine got Soros money so that we can add it to our research files.
Some of the DOJ “Deep State”, anti-Trump apparatchiks are still in high positions so a “recantation/faked admission” is feasible.
I’ve seen the Left use people and then throw them away. Even have a photo of the late Hanoi propaganda asset Dave Dellinger, the one-time pacifist turned communist, with an injured Vietnam veteran named Derek at the Counter-Inaugural demonstrations in Jan. 1969 wherein after he spoke, he disappeared from the protest scene.
he was used like toilet paper and then abandoned. I really felt sorry for this American who served his country, who fought the communists in Vietnam, and then was used and discarded by the communists here at home.
Welcome to “1984” reality.
Yet another false flag action.
That reads like a forced confession from the Soviet Union.
Is this going to turn out to be a
scenario thing??
“I was trying to get Jodie Foster to notice me.”
The chin’s excess is making up for the brow’s lack.
I wonder what other things he might be compensating for?
A lot of detectives hjave had experience with folks that crawl out of the woodwork after a gory, major crime and try to claim that they were involved in it.
One hair-raising tweet directed at Queens Rep. AOC caught the eye of investigators.
On Jan. 6, shortly after the riot, AOC posted the word “Impeach,” on Twitter.
“Assassinate AOC,” Miller responded, using a now-suspended Twitter handle.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/23/accused-capitol-rioter-called-for-aocs-assassination-court-docs/
Sounds like a little weasel to me.
Just trying to avoid prison time.
He's not the first one to claim that he thought he was just doing what Trump wanted and he won't be the last.
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