'You’re going to die': Jan. 6 rioter who filmed himself assaulting officers pleads guilty
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“The trio attended the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, but watched Trump's speech from a TGI Fridays in Virginia where they were having lunch.”
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“Sandlin repeatedly referred to the U.S. Capitol as the “State Capitol building’ before storming the building as alarms blared, court documents show.”
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Think about this moment a lot:
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Dustin Thompson, a 38-year-old married college graduate, told jurors that he felt “good” when Donald Trump told him on Jan. 6 that he was “stronger," “smarter,” and had "more going than anybody.”
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That humiliating testimony, in which Dustin Thompson set out to make himself look as pathetic as humanly possible, did not work out well, and will ultimately earn him a longer sentence: nbcnews.com/politics/justi
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“If the president is giving you almost an order to do something, I felt obligated to do that,” testified Jan. 6 rioter Dustin Thompson, who told jurors he didn’t really have “any strong male figures” in his life and wanted to gain Trump’s “respect” and “approval."
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His codefendant, meanwhile, took the smarter route:
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Robert Lyon got 40 days, per @DispatchAlerts twitter.com/ryanjreilly/st…
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While my son and I watched this, we couldn’t believe that no one showed up to stop it.
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