‘Blame Trump’ defense emerges among Capitol riot suspects

CNN legal analyst Paul Callan says that he expects more people arrested for participating in the deadly riot at the US Capitol to employ a "blame Trump" defense to limit bail or jail time, but says that it likely won't work.
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  1. they acted as though they knew a pardon was coming.. the tangeLOW threw them all under the bus, yet all too dense realizing it

    1. as sad as it is.. Q is all about the merch sold, what pushed it; the dangerous lunatics eat it up .. the so called united states destroyed to sell tee shirts & caps to morons ..see our entire collection.. all crap made in china ..no mystery or conspiracies.. just plucking that sweet rube cheese ..after all what is a republican w.o their trained rubepublicans voting against their own best interest *can’t forget the ‘gear’

    2. @Aru B if your going to try and correct someone’s English you must learn how to speak it first. Good day😎

  2. Does anyone else find it odd that members of the party that preaches “personal responsibility” are now using the “Trump made me do it” defense?

    1. Yep, These MAGA Dummies is trying to played the victim after they getting caught doing dirt to satisfied Trump 😌.

    2. @Gary B The people who stormed the Capitol. I think Cruz and Guiliani are not gullible but merely sycophants who enjoy power and status enough that they are willing to go along with any scheme.

    3. If you ever been interrogated it’s very easy to manipulate a confession if the cops keep pushing the same Line. 🤦🏿‍♂️

    1. @Viva LaMinion “No weapon that is formed against me shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against me in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.” Isaiah 54:17

    2. @Reach Honduras So basically, if someone calls you out on your hypocrisy they will be condemned? That doesn’t sound like a religious person with morals, that sounds like someone who can’t take being criticized.

    3. @WasatchMan I believe you either did not read or did not understood my comment. There are certainly plenty of videos out there that could be construed as him inciting a riot. Like it or not, it’s just the way it is – I can not change this fact, and neither can you as neither one of us owns a zap gun which instantly changes people’s way of thinking. to what ever we please.

      I can only tell you that If one always looks for good then they will generally find it. Likewise, If one always looks for bad in things then they also will find it.
      To the pure, all things will be pure but for the pessimist their expectation is bad tidings.

  3. Another version “I was following orders” it didn’t work for the Nazi war crimes and it shouldn’t work for these Yahoos

    1. The nazis were socialists just to let you know. And which party is censoring and has literally burned books? The open socialist left.

    2. The Nuremberg Defense isn’t… Er…this is YouTube, am I allowed to mention history here or should I just drool and throw my own poo?

    3. @M M You use a word, whose meaning you not understand, as some sort of partisan slur. If the Nazis had called themselves the National Kentuckyists, you would conclude that the Nazis were linked to fried chicken.

    1. i commented that earlier. How many of them fled to South America to hide. Hope the Rs dont end up having to flee the US.

  4. We had some riots, they caught some of the scumbags and confiscated their cars and and other valuables they had.
    Good example 🥳🥳
    Greetings from Amsterdam

  5. I’ve had people directly tell/ask me to do things I knew were bad ideas my whole life. Funny how I never acted on any of them. Almost like I had freewill to make my own decisions. Weird.

    1. Patriots protect the Constitution , Partisans Protect the president . It’s very easy to say that the people that attacked our capital are not patriots and are Ignorant of the Constitution of the United States of America And ignorance is no excuse .

    1. While the majority of them were paid leftist ANTIFA like the Shaman. He’s a climate change activist protesting. Paid leftist.

    2. @gojobuddy I’m sure you can provide evidence of what your claiming and not regurgitating what OAN or fox news is spouting right?

    3. @mandy burns
      I hated him for being a pathological liar, a narcissist, a serial cheater, a conman unable to pay his bills, a racist, a sexual predator, a crybaby, a childish name caller, a hater, an inciter of an insurrection, a cager of children, and the worst president in history. Other than those things he was a really great guy.

    4. @Gemma Cook he was fighting for you and me to have the power back not the government…he was fighting for every child that has been put into the black market to be sold in sex trafficking or child labor, he fought all those responsible to be put in jail, he fought for unborn children to be able to come into the world, you should watch sky news Australia seems to have better coverage than America does

    1. how were they ‘following orders’ when trump said “GO PEACEFULLY and make your voices heard” are you just stupid and you dont understand basic words or is it more malicious than that?

    2. @will williamson trump said to FIGHT for months and months! He had make 1d1ots and uneducated sheeps hatefull to make a Coup. But 1d1iots cant do coups there not uneducated for no reason

    3. @will williamson He uses buzzwords with repetition to brainwash weak-minded people. We know most people were peaceful, but certain ones took it as a call to action. You can’t even pretend that you didn’t hear the word ‘fight’ about 50 times. The question for guilt is… Was Trump aware of how words work on mobs, or was that just his lack of knowledge shining through.

    1. @David Russell Just GOP reps and people who believe in trump. Trumpism is a very serious threat to The Nations Democracy!

    2. Himmler never said that. He shot himself after he got arrested. He thought he still had the power to negotiate with the allies. As a devoted nazi, he would have never said this and he would have known it does not work for him.

      So please stop inventing BS.

    3. @Jorge of Albion Never said it either. He escaped to South America. Changed his name to Jose. In the 50s …or was it when he was in his fifties…? Anyway, he drowned while going for a swim. One of the worst of the worst and he escaped capture entirely.

    1. yea when trump said ‘go peacefully and make your voices heard’ he was “playing them” so hard!

      are you ever embarrassed by how uninformed you are or are you just totally oblivious?

    2. @will williamson my way or the highway. The arrested dudes themselves have said it was a “set up”. Their words not mine.

    3. Yeah but they’re treated in the second justice system instead of the real justice system for the rest of the world! Which means they get to go home free without any Monitoring whatsoever.They got to walk away from the capital go back to their hotels get on Facebook and Instagram and what not TickTock and then go back to their homes into their jobs and then they were arrested. But When they were Black Lives Matter protest, there was unmarked vans and unmarked cops out there taking people off the street not even reading them rights didn’t even tell anybody where they were going with these people. They used rubber bullets they use teargas they use pepper spray they use their cars ,They use their batons and shields. But what did they do against the white trump protesters not much of anything pretty much just gave him the keys and said OK here I’m gonna escort you to the senate chambers! I’m going to escort you to Nancy Pelosi’s office or Chuck Schumer’s office. Here where else would you like to go in the capital building because I can escort you I’m a cop I know how it works around here!Sure they give up their passports but it doesn’t stop them from taking off. Their bank accounts aren’t frozen. Sure some of them lost their jobs rightfully so! This just shows the world how broken the United States has always been! But now it’s actually in the wide open eyes in on every news media outlet in the world that the United States it’s just a false bravado! The only thing that we do have is a fair and free election! Well that was almost gone !we’ll see what happens next Election!

    4. @will williamson Oh my god! It’s adorable to see how many people you claim to be uneducated. Almost like your overcompensating for your own lack of education. Then again, sheep don’t do well on tests I bet.

  6. Admitting you can be easily manipulated to commit an act of terror kinda makes one an obvious threat to the society. Serves them right to be locked up without bail to keep them safe from being manipulated again. 🤦‍♂️

  7. Congress isn’t going to do anything, they seem to approve of what happened, some of congress not only supported this behavior but helped the attempted takeover of the capital. Trumps only punishment will be the BIGGEST LOSER, but that isn’t enough

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