A jury yesterday convicted a man from Ohio, who claimed to be following orders from former US President Donald Trump when he was looting objects from Capitol during invasion in January 2021.
A federal jury in the District of Columbia found 38-year-old Dustin Thompson guilty of all charges, including obstruction of official proceedings and theft of public property.
Thomson, according to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, admitted that he entered the Capitol and stole a bottle of liqueur, but also a monk during the riots.
However, Thompson argued that acted on Trump orders 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 by the moment».
District Judge Reggie Walton will announce Thompson’s sentence in July and request 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. Charges of committing crimes related to these events have been leveled at 800 people.
Source: News Beast
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