Capitol Rioters Say Trump Is The One Responsible For Their Actions

In trial after trial for the individuals charged with storming the Capitol on January 6th of last year, a popular theme is emerging: This is all Donald Trump's fault. More and more rioters are blaming Trump for their actions, claiming that he is the one who got everyone "enraged" enough to storm the Capitol. This might be the case, but it doesn't absolve these individuals of their own crimes. Farron Cousins explains what's happening and how it could impact the cases moving forward.

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CBS news recently looked at what is happening in the ongoing trials for the capital riot defendants. And they're starting to see an interesting pattern emerge among the people that have been accused of breaking the law, taking, uh, part in the capital riots and more and more frequently, these Rio are going into court, not just begging for leniency, but begging for leniency by arguing that Donald Trump is responsible for their actions effectively, we did what we did because we had gotten so enraged and riled up by the words that Donald Trump told us what they mean is when he told us the election was stolen at that stop, the steel rally that morning, kind of feeding off of each other's inner energy, getting angry, marching to the capital and storming it again. More and more people are doing this. And of course, more and more frequently, we're beginning to see the judges overseeing these trials, say the same thing, actually blaming Donald Trump for getting that crowd riled up or to put it another way, inciting a riot. Now some of the judge are in fact being more lenient on these capital rioters who do come forward with this argument. So undoubtedly, we're going to see more and more of them try to use it in an attempt to get more leniency in their sentencing. But here's the thing the judges are saying this, the people involved are saying this, this doesn't bode well for Donald Trump's chances for winning the civil lawsuits that have been filed against him for the lawsuits accused, inciting a riot.

Now what could happen. And honestly, I feel what should happen at this point. And this would be a very interestingly strategy should, you know, the, the, the folks with the civil lawsuit choose to do it. So here's my advice. Call the riot or the, uh, rioters themselves to testify, read back their own court statements. If you have to, to get them, you know, to tell the truth here. But that to me is the biggest piece of evident ins available that shows that Donald Trump is in fact guilty of inciting this riot, inciting an insurrection, whatever you want to call it, which of course, if you do call it an insurrection, then Trump's words would be considered sedition, which then by the 14th amendment probably would be barred from ever holding office. Again, here in the United States. See how that slippery slope see how fast that goes.

And of course it all hinges on what these defendants are telling the judges right now. And there are still by the way, hundreds left hundreds that have not gone to trial yet, and we're gonna see more of this. But again, those civil lawsuits filed by capital police filed by members of Congress. They need to have these people come in and testify, bring them in one after the other, bring in 50, bring in 100, if you have to, because that's how you make the case. You don't just show the footage. You don't just read back the words that he said at the stop, the steel rally, you have to go further than that. And you have to bring in the individuals that actually took place in it. The vis who say that they thought Trump was giving them orders on what to do because after all isn't that the smoking gun, if you're trying to prove that he incited this, why not talk to the people who say he incited me, he riled me up. He enraged me to the point that I did this.

That's how you win that case. Now, these people may not want to go to trial and testify against the man that they loved so dearly, but their words are already in court records. They can't run from them. They cannot deny them. Of course, if they do, you know, they could find themselves in another legal predicaments. So call 'em in, have them tell their stories about what happened that day, because that may be the only way to take down Donald Trump via the January 6th involvement. Obviously there's more things happening in New York, but if the January 6th lawsuits wanna prevent Trump from running for office again in get those current defendants to come in as witnesses, and you may just be able to capture the narrative that way.