Free Republic

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...

Alleged US Capitol rioter Anthony Antonio was hooked on Fox News and developed "Foxitis," his lawyer said Thursday in a virtual hearing interrupted multiple times by another defendant's profane outbursts. Antonio, his lawyer Joseph Hurley said, had lost his job at the beginning of the pandemic and for the next six months watched Fox News constantly. Antonio developed what his lawyer called "Foxitis" and "Foxmania," and believed the lies about the 2020 election from Fox News and then-President Donald Trump. "He believed what was being fed to him," Hurley said. Many Capitol riot defendants have blamed Trump for their actions,...

An attorney for a capitol rioter who allegedly stole an officers gas mask and stormed the Capitol building through a broken window says that his client's participation in the deadly January 6 riots was a result of watching too much Fox News, a condition he dubbed 'Foxitis.' Anthony Antonio's attorney, Joseph Hurley, says that the 27-year-old spent all his free time watching the conservative news network after the was laid off due to COVID. '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,'...