Posted on 04/28/2023 1:52:45 PM PDT by Kevin C
WASHINGTON — Attorneys for the Proud Boys placed blame for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on Donald Trump in closing arguments in their seditious conspiracy trial Tuesday.
An attorney for Enrique Tarrio, the head of the Proud Boys, said federal prosecutors were trying to make him a "scapegoat for Donald J. Trump and for those in power." A lawyer for Joe Biggs said the defendants came to Washington because their "commander-in-chief" told them it would "be wild," referring to Trump's infamous tweet on Dec. 19, 2020, that called on supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6.
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In my view, as I’ve said for years, the “proud boys” never looked real.
Consistent with this hypothesis, they’re now going anti-Trump.
NBC is really reaching. He incited violence by saying his rally would be “wild”?
“federal prosecutors were trying to make him a “scapegoat for Donald J. Trump and for those in power.””
By that logic, he’s also blaming “those in power”. So Donald Trump and those in power got together to pick on poor widduw Enrique?
NBC isn’t irrational. It’s anti-rational.
Politically, they have no clue how to defend Conservatives against a Democrat judge, a Democrat prosecutor, and a Democrat jury.
So, all of the defense lawyers reach for the only political narrative they have ever known - "Trump is evil. Therefore, my client is completely innocent."
Jury Response - "Guilty, on all charges."
The only good news - some of the Proud Boys have public defenders, so they did not have to actually pay for this pathetic defense.
“I will speculate that 100% of the defense lawyers in this case voted for Joe Biden “
I don’t think it’s 100%, but it’s close, according to MTG. Often, their lawyers are harder on them than the judges, verbally abusing and browbeating them — telling them they’re guilty.
Why our pols aren’t raising hell about these POWs 24/7 is a mystery. Only four or five of them seem to care.
And there was the TV show 60 minutes portraying Epps as an innocent little man who was defamed by Tucker Carlson. I doubt very much Tucker told Ray Epps to encourage people to storm the Capital.
These ProudBoys are some Patriots, hell, even most Nazi Nuremburg Trial defendants didn’t betray Hitler.
Washington D.C. voted 95% for Joe Biden in 2020.
Remember the Scooter Libby trial around 2006?
Libby had the best criminal attorney in Washington D.C. His lawyer was Black and a life time donor to the Democratic Party.
Libby's lawyer made the same pathetic "fall guy" defense almost 20 years ago...
"Where is President Bush? Where is Vice President Cheney? Why aren't they on trial in this court room?"
The Democrat jurors who found Libby guilty were actually asking those same questions out loud after the trial!
The defense said that, not the media.
Well, then, the Proud Boys ought to be ashamed, because it’s really reaching.
It’s stupid to blame President Trump.
But Trump had bad political instincts for spark-plugging that rally on 01/06. What did he think would happen? *Multiple* people warned that crowds would be infiltrated, that there would be violence. Guess what - they were and there was.
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