A jury yesterday convicted a man from Ohio who claimed to be following the orders of the former president Donald Trump when he was looting objects from Capitol during the invasion in January 2021offering another important victory to the prosecutors.
A federal jury in the District of Columbia ruled guilty 38-year-old Dustin Thompson for all the charges he faced, including obstruction of the formal process, but also theft of public property.
Thompson admitted to entering the Capitol and stealing a bottle of liqueur, as well as a monk during the riots.
However, Thompson argued that he was acting on the basis Trump’s mandates and that the former president is responsible for the mob invasion of the US Capitol.
“Apart from the order I received from the president to go to the Capitol, I do not know what I was thinking,” Thompson told the jury, according to CNN. “I was carried away from the moment.”
District Judge Reggie Walton will announce Thomson’s sentence in July and has requested his pre-trial detention by then.
The US Department of Justice has so far won all three trials for the January 6 invasion, while one defendant has been acquitted. Moreover, accusations of committing crimes about these events have been recited to 800 people.
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