Posted on 02/28/2021 4:06:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The “Trump-made-me-do-it” defense is already looking like a longshot.
Facing damning evidence in the deadly Capitol siege last month — including social media posts flaunting their actions — rioters are arguing in court they were following then-President Donald Trump’s instructions on Jan. 6. But the legal strategy has already been shot down by at least one judge and experts believe the argument is not likely to get anyone off the hook.
Trump was acquitted of inciting the insurrection during his second impeachment trial, where Democrats made some of the same arguments defense attorneys are making in criminal court. Some Republican lawmakers have said the better place for the accusations against Trump is in court, too.
While experts say blaming Trump may not get their clients off the hook, it may help at sentencing when they ask the judge for leniency.
“It could likely be considered a mitigating factor that this person genuinely believed they were simply following the instructions of the leader of the United States,” said Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney in Michigan who’s now a professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
It could also bolster any potential cases against the former president, experts say.
“That defense is dead on arrival,” said Bradley Simon, a New York City white-collar criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor. “But I do think that these statements by defendants saying that they were led on by Trump causes a problem for him if the Justice Department or the attorney general in D.C. were to start looking at charges against him for incitement of the insurrection.”
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>> rioters are arguing in court they were following then-President Donald Trump’s instructions
People who didn’t vote for Trump or support him
People who were already headed to the Capitol while President Trump was speaking
People who’d already plotted on Facebook to gather and storm the Capitol before January 6th
Their false narrative is falling apart
>>Trump was acquitted of inciting the insurrection during his second impeachment trial, where Democrats made some of the same arguments defense attorneys are making in criminal court. Some Republican lawmakers have said the better place for the accusations against Trump is in court, too.
Conspiracy cooks
Hey Ass Presss, the better place for accusations about voter fraud is ALSO in court but the activist gods in black dresses said “nope!”
Waste of time. The prosecution is going to request the harshest possible sentences for everyone convicted in this, saying that anything less will encourage it happening again.
Did Trump summon his supporters to Washington on the 6th? Yes. Did he encourage them to storm the Capitol and trash it? No.
These pieces of Commie Mitt are SO transparent.
The Commie whore [legal advisor to Biden Transition] might have pulled it off it she wasn't on Twitter:
How many have actually been charged with insurrection?
But being Rat Party operatives they probably won't.
“Their false narrative is falling apart.”
It doesn’t matter. It’s all you’re going to hear until the mid-terms.
The only person who could have orchestrated the cutting off of the debate was Nancy Pelosi.
Trump could not have controlled the timing.
When that one Republican Senator objected THAT was supposed to begin the debate.
The debate would have caused all the truth of the fraud to be exposed on live TV.
Pelosi could not let that happen.
The Trump "insurrection/impeachment" crap is Russia-gate all over again.
Trump could not have caused the so-called insurrection to happen because too many things were out of his control.
Nancy is the hinge.
In the 1990s Bill Clinton and the media blamed the OKC bombing on right wing talk radio.
It’s the same game plan. Forever.
Has the BLM guy who called his website some “insurrection” thing been charged with leading a riot and insurrection yet?
Here is what your gonna say..................................
Seems they’d be better off saying “Hey...cops let me in...”
"deadly Capitol siege"
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