Judge Amy Berman Jackson said on Wednesday that the former president and his allies “explicitly encouraged [attendees] to go to the Capitol and fight … to make sure the certification of…
, adding, “I’m sorry. I don’t know. He’s a human being with children. And he’s not a bad guy, it sounds like. He’s just doing his job, and he — I’m an asshole.”
Rodriguez, who has pleaded not guilty to assaulting Fanone, later concluded, “We thought that we were going to save America, and we were wrong.” Judge Berman Jackson is presiding over Rodriguez’s case in addition to Peterson’s. Though the Obama appointee and vocal critic of Trump slammed the former president and his allies for “stoking the flames of fear” in Peterson’s sentencing hearing on Wednesday, she emphasized that this doesn’t mean the blame doesn’t also lie with the individuals who carried out the attack. “No one was swept away to the Capitol. No one was carried,” she said.
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