A jury convicted an Ohio man yesterday of allegedly following orders from former President Donald Trump when looting items from the Capitol during the January 2021 invasion, offering another major victory to prosecutors.
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.
Thompson admitted to entering the Capitol and stealing a bottle of liqueur, as well as a monk during the riots.
However, Thomson claimed that he was acting on Trump’s orders and that the former president was responsible for the 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.
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 in connection with these events have been leveled at 800 people.
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