US District Judge Beryl Howell, chief federal jurist for the District of Columbia, responded incredulously to one defence attorney who said his client believed Trump requested his unlawful conduct. She said if a president could authorise overturning an election he would be no different from “a king or a dictator,” and “that is not how we operate here.”
When the attorney added that the man, the accused leader of a Proud Boys group, had been “chastened rather than emboldened” by the federal charges and that his anti-government “fever has broken,” Howell clapped back.
“Essentially, that’s what your argument is, saying, ‘Whoops,’ now?” Ms Howell asked. “Has he expressed any remorse or rejection of his membership in the Proud Boys, a gang of nationalist individuals? Does he reject the fantasy the election was stolen? Does he regret the positions that animated the mob on January sixth? Is there anything on the record about any of those things?”
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