severed green hand on his sweatshirt, he could have mental illness.
Posted on 04/12/2022 3:52:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — An attorney for a man who took a coat rack and a bottle of liquor during the U.S. Capitol attack argued to a jury on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump "authorized" the Jan. 6 assault on the building by convincing "vulnerable" people like his client that the election was stolen.
Dustin Thompson, a 38-year-old from Ohio, is the third Jan. 6 defendant to face a trial by jury after the convictions of Guy Reffitt and former police officer Thomas Robertson.
Samuel Shamansky, at attorney for Thompson, told jurors on Tuesday that his client had "snatched the coat rack, foolishly," and that there was "no question" that his client took part in the "horrible" event on Jan. 6 that interrupted a "solemn and sacred proceeding."
But, Shamansky argued, the "genesis" of the attack began months before Jan. 6, and responsibility fell at the feet of Trump, who "authorized this assault" on the Capitol.
"It was a plot, it was a scheme, it was a conspiracy... that began at the highest levels of our government," Shamansky argued.
Thompson and other "vulnerable" Trump supporters like him "believed the lies that were fed to them" in the months leading up to Jan. 6, Shamansky argued. Thompson was "predisposed" to "this lunacy," Shamansky said, but losing his job at the beginning of the Covid pandemic left him sitting at home to digest the "garbage" that Trump and his supporters were spreading.
The question for jurors to answer, Shamansky argued, wasn't whether Thompson stormed the U.S. Capitol — "he most certainly did," Shamansky conceded — but "why."
Shamansky, who argued Tuesday that Trump took part in a "sinister, disgusting" plot to overturn the election results, had tried to subpoena the former president at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
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Assault where they opened the doors and waved everyone in?
So Hillary is responsible for the attack Rand Paul because she convinced the perp that conservatives are evil? That sounds like what this shyster is arguing.
When the Dems lose Congress, all the video tapes will be released to the press...unless Pelosi destroys them.
We all know what opinions are “like”.
Every attorney has one
OFFS!
(Shamansky, who argued Tuesday that Trump took part in a “sinister, disgusting” plot to overturn the election results)
How the hell did this guy know what Trump was up too. Was he sitting in on his daily briefings?
What a bunch of nonsense. Trump correctly complained about the election procedures. He tried to protect the Capitol. That doesn’t equal a conspiracy to do a damn thing.
severed green hand on his sweatshirt, he could have mental illness.
If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side pound on the law. If neither are on your side, pound on the table.
And David Berkowitz believed a dog ordered him to kill people.
Believing something doesn’t make it true.
Flawlessly logical /s
“former President Donald Trump “authorized” the Jan. 6 assault on the building by convincing “vulnerable” people like his client that the election was stolen.”
Where is his evidence? Did he speak with Trump?
So now we have a member of the mob at the Jan 6 Capitol breaching claiming victim status? Pathetic loser.
Perhaps this defendant should look up the actual meaning of “authorization.”
This guy is just another thief and looter. Who would steal a hatrack, really?
This attorney is a jerk off
The attorneys name starts with sham..
Well who can argue with that? Doesn't everyone recall Trump saying if you enter the Capitol and remove the offending coat racks and bottles of liquor you will stop Joe Biden from becoming President?
I heard there is 14000 hours of footage.
what a sniveling piece of brain dead diarrhea that can’t own up to their own bad decisions. Sorry pal I do not see your actions instigated by someone else. You own what you did, no one else does.
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