Proud Boys Member Says Trump to Blame for Inciting Capitol Riot
A member of the far-right Proud Boys charged for his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol blamed former President Donald Trump for his conduct, claiming he was “misled by the president’s deception.”
As Trump faces trial in the Senate on charges that he incited the Jan. 6 insurrection, a lawyer for the Proud Boy, Dominic Pezzola, filed a memo in federal court in Washington on Wednesday making an argument Democrats have stressed repeatedly in the impeachment proceedings: that the riot was the culmination of weeks of conspiracies and misinformation spread by the president to overturn the election results.
When he stormed the Capitol, Pezzola was responding to “the entreaties of the then commander in chief, President Trump,” according to the filing by lawyer Jonathan Zucker. “Defendant did not act out of criminal intent but out of conscience, albeit a frighteningly confused and distorted sense of conscience.”
So far, law-enforcement authorities in Washington have arrested more than 200 people in connection with the Capitol siege. Pezzola was charged with conspiracy and civil disorder, among other offenses. And he was accused of confronting a Capitol police officer, Eugene Goodman, at the foot of a staircase inside the building.
New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call off the rioters
In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did.
“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump said, according to lawmakers who were briefed on the call afterward by McCarthy.
McCarthy insisted that the rioters were Trump’s supporters and begged Trump to call them off.
Trump’s comment set off what Republican lawmakers familiar with the call described as a shouting match between the two men. A furious McCarthy told the then-President the rioters were breaking into his office through the windows, and asked Trump, “Who the f—k do you think you are talking to?”
The newly revealed details of the call, described to CNN by multiple Republicans briefed on it, provide critical insight into the President’s state of mind as rioters were overrunning the Capitol. The existence of the call and some of its details were first reported by Punchbowl News and discussed publicly by McCarthy.
The Republican members of Congress said the exchange showed Trump had no intention of calling off the rioters even as lawmakers were pleading with him to intervene. Several said it amounted to a dereliction of his presidential duty.
“He is not a blameless observer, he was rooting for them,” a Republican member of Congress said.
In 50 years this country will be done. Because the next president, who knows what to do and how to do it, will stage a coup, kill the opponents in Congress and do what puity is doing over in Russia.
But everyone involved inside the government has to be found, charged and put away for 30+ years.
First, the “Republicans” need to understand/accept that what they were doing was immoral and seditious and behave like people that love America NOT a delusional celebrity authoritarian ruler spreading hate and division.
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
Vicious lying dictator loving republicans give Uncle Sam a headache.
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
Proud Boys Member Says Trump to Blame for Inciting Capitol Riot
A member of the far-right Proud Boys charged for his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol blamed former President Donald Trump for his conduct, claiming he was “misled by the president’s deception.”
As Trump faces trial in the Senate on charges that he incited the Jan. 6 insurrection, a lawyer for the Proud Boy, Dominic Pezzola, filed a memo in federal court in Washington on Wednesday making an argument Democrats have stressed repeatedly in the impeachment proceedings: that the riot was the culmination of weeks of conspiracies and misinformation spread by the president to overturn the election results.
When he stormed the Capitol, Pezzola was responding to “the entreaties of the then commander in chief, President Trump,” according to the filing by lawyer Jonathan Zucker. “Defendant did not act out of criminal intent but out of conscience, albeit a frighteningly confused and distorted sense of conscience.”
So far, law-enforcement authorities in Washington have arrested more than 200 people in connection with the Capitol siege. Pezzola was charged with conspiracy and civil disorder, among other offenses. And he was accused of confronting a Capitol police officer, Eugene Goodman, at the foot of a staircase inside the building.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-10/proud-boy-tells-court-trump-to-blame-for-inciting-capitol-riot
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call off the rioters
In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did.
“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump said, according to lawmakers who were briefed on the call afterward by McCarthy.
McCarthy insisted that the rioters were Trump’s supporters and begged Trump to call them off.
Trump’s comment set off what Republican lawmakers familiar with the call described as a shouting match between the two men. A furious McCarthy told the then-President the rioters were breaking into his office through the windows, and asked Trump, “Who the f—k do you think you are talking to?”
The newly revealed details of the call, described to CNN by multiple Republicans briefed on it, provide critical insight into the President’s state of mind as rioters were overrunning the Capitol. The existence of the call and some of its details were first reported by Punchbowl News and discussed publicly by McCarthy.
The Republican members of Congress said the exchange showed Trump had no intention of calling off the rioters even as lawmakers were pleading with him to intervene. Several said it amounted to a dereliction of his presidential duty.
“He is not a blameless observer, he was rooting for them,” a Republican member of Congress said.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-mccarthy-shouting-match-details/index.html?
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member about 3 years ago
If he is acquitted, then the system doesn’t work.
In 50 years this country will be done. Because the next president, who knows what to do and how to do it, will stage a coup, kill the opponents in Congress and do what puity is doing over in Russia.But everyone involved inside the government has to be found, charged and put away for 30+ years.
superposition about 3 years ago
First, the “Republicans” need to understand/accept that what they were doing was immoral and seditious and behave like people that love America NOT a delusional celebrity authoritarian ruler spreading hate and division.
Redd Panda about 3 years ago
A question. If push came to shove, would Pence’s secret service detail have used deadly force to protect? Discuss.
honeypot53 Premium Member about 3 years ago
But yet, he was still acquitted. How?