An attorney for a man who took a coat rack and a bottle of liquor during the U.S. Capitol attack argued to a jury Tuesday that former President Donald Trump authorized the assault. Guy Reffitt and former police officer Thomas Robertson were the first to be tried by jury. Thompson is accused of obstruction of an official proceeding and theft of government property. Robert Lyon pleaded guilty last month, admitting that he and Thompson traveled to Washington together, stole a coat rack and fled from police when confronted on the grounds of the Capitol. Samuel Shamansky, an attorney for Thompson, told jurors Tuesday that his client had snatched the coat rack and that there was no question that he took part in the horrible crime. The attack began months before the Capitol was attacked, and the responsibility was on Trump, according to Shamansky. Shamansky argued that it was a conspiracy that began at the highest levels of the government. Thompson and other vulnerable Trump supporters believed the lies that were told to them, according to Shamansky. Thompson lost his job at the beginning of the Covid epidemic and was left sitting at home to digest the news. Shamansky argued that this is the garbage thatDustin Thompson is listening to. Shamansky conceded that the question for jurors to answer was not whether Thompson went to the Capitol, but why. According to a previous court filing, Shamansky tried to subpoena the former president at his Mar-a-Lago club, but was turned down. Trump has blamed others who were at the Capitol for the riots that day. More than 800 people have been charged in connection with the attack. There are hundreds of cases in the works. Mentions of Donald Trump have been rare at the first few trials for people charged with storming the U.S. Capitol. The Ohio man charged with stealing a coat rack from the Capitol joined the mob on January 6, 2021. According to defense attorney Samuel Shamansky, the former president engaged in a plot to encourage Thompson and other supporters to do his dirty work. The June trial date for two men accused of attacking police at the U.S. Capitol was delayed after an attorney for one of the defendants expressed optimism a plea deal could be reached. The trial for the two men was to have taken place on June 6 and they were accused of attacking at least three Capitol and Washington police officers with a chemical agent. The trial will be held in October to give the parties more time to negotiate. You can find and compare your legal options online. George Will said that if she won election to the House, she would be ready to be the fourth-most-powerful person in the US. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered an unprecedented investigation that could lead to the removal or suspension of Superior Court Judge Alice Bruno, who has collected as much as $400,000 in salary while missing nearly 2 years of work for health-related reasons. The justices appointed Robert Devlin, a retired judge and federal prosecutor. A photo used in a campaign ad is authentic. Mandell is with five Black Marines. A man builds a trap to catch a thief. Kurt Jantz sings of his latest muse, Florida Republican Matt Gaetz. Adding busts of Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, andRosa Parks to the Oval Office made it look like the United States, according to VP Owens. Michael Cohen rarely misses a chance to criticize Donald Trump. He is avoiding the lawyers who want to grill him about the Trump Tower protest. Some acts of street art are funnier than criminal acts, and we believe many would agree. The congresswoman claimed Americans are fed up with hearing about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that happened once. Trump was accused of inciting an insurrection and of withholding aid to Ukraine for personal political gain. The two men accused of posing as federal agents and giving gifts to Secret Service personnel were not jailed on Tuesday. The two men were arrested last week and are accused of giving thousands of dollars in gifts to Secret Service agents, including one who protected the first lady. The president is protected by the Secret Service. He believes that the new technology could be 2,000X bigger than the current one. The ex-cop said he was as dangerous as he would ever be after he participated in the Capitol attack. The late-night host played a clip of the most important moment over and over again. The mortality rate for patients with severe cases of COVID was halved by the drug sabizabulin. Saving for retirement is all about investing, and capital gains taxes can eat up a significant portion of your earnings each year. A person familiar with the matter said that the Justice Department declined a request from the House oversight committee to reveal the contents of records that former President Donald Trump took to his Florida residence after leaving the White House. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform was ramping up its investigation into Trump's handling of sensitive and even classified information during his time as president and after he left the White House. A person who was not authorized to discuss the matter by name told The Associated Press that the Justice Department's decision was part of an effort to protect confidential information that may compromise an ongoing investigation. Frank Luntz told The Daily Beast that Trump isn't the same man he was a year ago. Hunter Biden's laptop loses its sting big time. The five episode-run of Private Eye was solid, but the timing of the show was bad. The chairman of the electoral board in Virginia has stepped down after a racially charged Facebook post he made about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and others came to light. Two days after his social media posting was discovered, the former chairman of the Electoral Board resigned. The former candidate wanted to make a point about national unity, but he was quickly exposed to U.S. history. With inflation at a 40-year high, President Joe Biden traveled to corn-rich Iowa on Tuesday to announce a modest step aimed at trimming gasoline prices by about a dime a gallon at a limited number of stations. Biden once promised that inflation would fade after the recovery from the coronaviruses recession, but it has only accelerated in recent months. A government report Tuesday that consumer prices jumped 8.5% in March from a year ago only deepened the political challenge for Biden and fellow Democrats ahead of this year's elections.NBC News
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