Rioters blame Jan 6 on misinformation

[Manonthestreet]

People will say anything to avoid jail

Hope you'll read the whole article.. Jim Jones was very convincing too.

Its a political trial.....ergo say what they want you to say and hope for the best

 

[surada]

Sullivan, is not a blm member, nor a democrat....he's not even a registered voter from what I've gathered..

John Earle Sullivan - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Not what the information gathered shows. He attended BLM meetings and is an activist and fringe radical
figure in the anti police movement.

There is no evidence to show he is a democrat however all his activism places him well in the far left wing
of the democrat party. So he may well be. More research is needed.

Excerpt:

From a mental health perspective, conspiracy theories can impact a person’s actions, said Ziv Cohen, a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. Cohen, an expert on conspiracy theories and radicalization, often performs mental competency exams for defendants.

“Conspiracy theories may lead people to commit unlawful behavior,” Cohen said. “That’s one of the dangers. Conspiracy theories erode social capital. They erode trust in authority and institutions.”

Lawyers for Bruno Joseph Cua, a 19-year-old accused of shoving a police officer outside the U.S. Senate chamber, attributed his client’s extremist rhetoric before and after the riot to social media. Attorney Jonathan Jeffress said Cua was “parroting what he heard and saw on social media. Mr. Cua did not come up with these ideas on his own; he was fed them.”

In a Parler posting a day after the riot, Cua wrote: “The tree of liberty often has to be watered from the blood of tyrants. And the tree is thirsty.”

Cua’s attorney now characterizes such comments as bluster from an impressionable young person and said Cua regrets his actions.

Antonio, 27, was working as a solar panel salesman in suburban Chicago when the pandemic shut down his work. He and his roommates began watching Fox News almost all day long, and Antonio began posting and sharing right-wing content on TikTok.

Even though he’d never been interested in politics before — or even voted in a presidential election — Antonio said he began to be consumed by conspiracy theories that the election was rigged.

Court records portray Antonio as aggressive and belligerent. According to FBI reports, he threw a water bottle at a Capitol police officer who was being dragged down the building’s steps, destroyed office furniture and was captured on police body cameras yelling “You want war? We got war. 1776 all over again” at officers.

Antonio, who wore a patch for the far-right anti-government militia group The Three Percenters, is charged with five counts, including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder.

Joseph Hurley, Antonio’s lawyer, said he won’t use his client’s belief in false claims of election fraud in an attempt to exonerate him. Instead, Hurley will use them to argue that Antonio was an impressionable person who got exploited by Trump and his allies.

“You can catch this disease,” Hurley said. Misinformation, he said, “is not a defense. It’s not. But it will be brought up to say: This is why he was here. The reason he was there is because he was a dumbass and believed what he heard on Fox News.”

 

[wamose]

The bottom line is that if the election wasn't stolen, the riot would have never happened. So election fraud was the cause of the Jan. 6 riot.

 

[surada]

The bottom line is that if the election wasn't stolen, the riot would have never happened. So election fraud was the cause of the Jan. 6 riot.

The election wasn't stolen.. This is what you get with lies and conspiracy theories.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

And Mac's obsession with Jan 6th continues..............

 

[Mac1958]

Well, I guess this is good. A few eyes have to open, and hopefully that will create the momentum the country needs to escape this madness.

The madness of stealing the election? One of those ways being to stage a Capitol Beer Hall Putsch that
could be blamed on Trump, ending any possibility that Trump could be politically resurrected?

Yes, the old ways are the best ways for leftist provocateurs.

Yes, you're all victims. Boo hoo.

Look at the buffoon to whom they have sold their soul. The victimiest victim in the history of historical histories.

 

[Mac1958]

The bottom line is that if the election wasn't stolen, the riot would have never happened. So election fraud was the cause of the Jan. 6 riot.

The "you made me do it" defense, often used by rapists and terrorists.

 

[Mac1958]

And Mac's obsession with Jan 6th continues..............

 

[surada]

The bottom line is that if the election wasn't stolen, the riot would have never happened. So election fraud was the cause of the Jan. 6 riot.

Hahahaha .. That will be Trump's excuse.

The bottom line is that if the election wasn't stolen, the riot would have never happened. So election fraud was the cause of the Jan. 6 riot.

The "you made me do it" defense, often used by rapists and terrorists.

Oh yeah... Playing the victim is classic Trump. All his groupies have caught on.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

And Mac's obsession with Jan 6th continues..............

And yet I can't recall you making a single comment about the night after night rioting in Portland where we've had people trying to torch public facilities, or when BLM types injured more than 60 Secret Service agents who were protecting the White House, but boy you sure seem to have plenty of time to start thread after thread about Jan 6th.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Well, I guess this is good. A few eyes have to open, and hopefully that will create the momentum the country needs to escape this madness.

The madness of stealing the election? One of those ways being to stage a Capitol Beer Hall Putsch that
could be blamed on Trump, ending any possibility that Trump could be politically resurrected?

Yes, the old ways are the best ways for leftist provocateurs.

Yes, you're all victims. Boo hoo.

Look at the buffoon to whom they have sold their soul. The victimiest victim in the history of historical histories.

Same shit, different day.

 

[Mac1958]

And Mac's obsession with Jan 6th continues..............

And yet I can't recall you making a single comment about the night after night rioting in Portland where we've had people trying to torch public facilities, or when BLM types injured more than 60 Secret Service agents who were protecting the White House, but boy you sure seem to have plenty of time to start thread after thread about Jan 6th.

Actually I did, but that won't matter to you. Start a thread on it and I'll be happy to contribute.

Regardless, Jan 6 was far more significant from a historical perspective. You will deny that, and I don't care.

 

[Lastamender]

Sorry. I tend to be skeptical of people who are trying to avoid jail…

Then you should be skeptical of everyone involved in the fraud. That is close to the whole Congress, the FBI, and the DOJ.

 

[surada]

Sorry. I tend to be skeptical of people who are trying to avoid jail…

Then you should be skeptical of everyone involved in the fraud. That is close to the whole Congress, the FBI, and the DOJ.

LOLOL.. Now the Trumpies are saying they had to storm the Capitol because the election was stolen. They sure a bunch of whining victims.

 

[wamose]

The more Democrats scramble to derail the investigations, the more obvious it becomes that they are guilty as charged. They'll be jumping like rats from a sinking ship before long.

 

[Dana7360]

Well, I guess this is good. A few eyes have to open, and hopefully that will create the momentum the country needs to escape this madness.

These people are responsible for their actions, but those who have been feeding them this garbage are responsible for their part in this, too.

Defense for some Capitol rioters: election misinformation

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them in court or at least produce some sympathy.

apnews.com

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them or at least engender some sympathy.

Lawyers for at least three defendants charged in connection with the violent siege tell The Associated Press that they will blame election misinformation and conspiracy theories, much of it pushed by then-President Donald Trump, for misleading their clients. The attorneys say those who spread that misinformation bear as much responsibility for the violence as do those who participated in the actual breach of the Capitol.

“I kind of sound like an idiot now saying it, but my faith was in him,” defendant Anthony Antonio said, speaking of Trump. Antonio said he wasn’t interested in politics before pandemic boredom led him to conservative cable news and right-wing social media. “I think they did a great job of convincing people.”

So their defense is basically they aren't capable of thinking for themselves to find the truth and are stupid and lazy enough to believe a liar.

Stupidity isn't an excuse for criminality.

It is usually required to be a criminal though.

 

[Dana7360]

Well, I guess this is good. A few eyes have to open, and hopefully that will create the momentum the country needs to escape this madness.

These people are responsible for their actions, but those who have been feeding them this garbage are responsible for their part in this, too.

Defense for some Capitol rioters: election misinformation

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them in court or at least produce some sympathy.

apnews.com

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them or at least engender some sympathy.

Lawyers for at least three defendants charged in connection with the violent siege tell The Associated Press that they will blame election misinformation and conspiracy theories, much of it pushed by then-President Donald Trump, for misleading their clients. The attorneys say those who spread that misinformation bear as much responsibility for the violence as do those who participated in the actual breach of the Capitol.

“I kind of sound like an idiot now saying it, but my faith was in him,” defendant Anthony Antonio said, speaking of Trump. Antonio said he wasn’t interested in politics before pandemic boredom led him to conservative cable news and right-wing social media. “I think they did a great job of convincing people.”

I have often wondered if these raving nut jobs were bored and didn't have enough to do.

A high percentage of them had no job. Jake “Q Shamin” Chansley had been unemployed for months

And living in his mother's basement.

 

[Quasar44]

Well, I guess this is good. A few eyes have to open, and hopefully that will create the momentum the country needs to escape this madness.

These people are responsible for their actions, but those who have been feeding them this garbage are responsible for their part in this, too.

Defense for some Capitol rioters: election misinformation

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them in court or at least produce some sympathy.

apnews.com

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them or at least engender some sympathy.

Lawyers for at least three defendants charged in connection with the violent siege tell The Associated Press that they will blame election misinformation and conspiracy theories, much of it pushed by then-President Donald Trump, for misleading their clients. The attorneys say those who spread that misinformation bear as much responsibility for the violence as do those who participated in the actual breach of the Capitol.

“I kind of sound like an idiot now saying it, but my faith was in him,” defendant Anthony Antonio said, speaking of Trump. Antonio said he wasn’t interested in politics before pandemic boredom led him to conservative cable news and right-wing social media. “I think they did a great job of convincing people.”

Really nothing happened and many of them were leftist who were disguised as T supporters
. The real riots were during 2020 by the Dem leaders

 

[Mac1958]

Well, I guess this is good. A few eyes have to open, and hopefully that will create the momentum the country needs to escape this madness.

These people are responsible for their actions, but those who have been feeding them this garbage are responsible for their part in this, too.

Defense for some Capitol rioters: election misinformation

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them in court or at least produce some sympathy.

apnews.com

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them or at least engender some sympathy.

Lawyers for at least three defendants charged in connection with the violent siege tell The Associated Press that they will blame election misinformation and conspiracy theories, much of it pushed by then-President Donald Trump, for misleading their clients. The attorneys say those who spread that misinformation bear as much responsibility for the violence as do those who participated in the actual breach of the Capitol.

“I kind of sound like an idiot now saying it, but my faith was in him,” defendant Anthony Antonio said, speaking of Trump. Antonio said he wasn’t interested in politics before pandemic boredom led him to conservative cable news and right-wing social media. “I think they did a great job of convincing people.”

Really nothing happened and many of them were leftist who were disguised as T supporters
. The real riots were during 2020 by the Dem leaders

Nothing really happened. It was the leftists. Okay!

 

[Quasar44]

Well, I guess this is good. A few eyes have to open, and hopefully that will create the momentum the country needs to escape this madness.

These people are responsible for their actions, but those who have been feeding them this garbage are responsible for their part in this, too.

Defense for some Capitol rioters: election misinformation

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them in court or at least produce some sympathy.

apnews.com

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them or at least engender some sympathy.

Lawyers for at least three defendants charged in connection with the violent siege tell The Associated Press that they will blame election misinformation and conspiracy theories, much of it pushed by then-President Donald Trump, for misleading their clients. The attorneys say those who spread that misinformation bear as much responsibility for the violence as do those who participated in the actual breach of the Capitol.

“I kind of sound like an idiot now saying it, but my faith was in him,” defendant Anthony Antonio said, speaking of Trump. Antonio said he wasn’t interested in politics before pandemic boredom led him to conservative cable news and right-wing social media. “I think they did a great job of convincing people.”

Really nothing happened and many of them were leftist who were disguised as T supporters
. The real riots were during 2020 by the Dem leaders

Nothing really happened. It was the leftists. Okay!

It’s all a big misdirection to mask the failed policies of Xiden