Posted on 12/14/2023 7:29:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 defendant whose attorney said was infected with "Foxmania" from watching too much Fox News pleaded guilty in connection with the attack on the U.S. Captiol.
Anthony Alexander Antonio, a 29-year-old who lives in Delaware, pleaded guilty to a felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting. The guilty plea came the same day the Supreme Court agreed to take up a challenge to the obstruction of an official proceeding charge.
At an early hearing in his case, Antonio's attorney Joseph Hurley said that Fox News “played constantly” in his home for six months.
“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 said.
In his agreed-upon statement of offense, Antonia admits that he yelled at police before joining the stand-off at the lower west tunnel of the Capitol, where some of the worst violence of Jan. 6 took place.
“You want war?” he shouted. “We got war. 1776 all over again.”
Antonio, in an interview with the FBI, later said that he did not help an officer when he should have. His sentencing range is 33 to 51 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson will sentence Antonio, who is now represented by attorney Robert Lee Jenkins, Jr., in August 2024.
More than 1,200 people have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and hundreds more have been identified by online sleuths but not yet arrested.
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Just like the Republican Party.
Probably public defenders.
Which of course in DC means Democrats appointed them, and Democrats appointees are always hired for reasons of favoritism, not merit.
You can claim anything you want, but he plead guilty so it obviously didn’t work.
Too much Fox News would make him anti Trump.
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