As Trump’s team argues at his impeachment trial that nobody should take Trump literally, two Trump supporters (one from Georgia, one from Connecticut) who did will take him literally are about to have simultaneous hearings to determine whether they’ll be locked until trial. 
A prosecutor is currently arguing that Patrick McCaughey III, caught on video crushing an officer with a stolen police shield, should be locked up pretrial.
“There is no self-defense claim here,” prosecutor says in McCaughey case. “He wasn’t using that stolen shield defensively, he was using it to attack officers.”
Prosecutor reveals that McCaughey went to D.C. with his father, who is now offering to help out with his bond.
Simultaneously, Bruno Cua’s dad is testifying about his trip to D.C. with his son, and what his son told him about his time inside of the Capitol.
Bruno Cua’s dad said he couldn’t reach him on his phone after his son went into the U.S. Capitol. “It was a shock that he had gone in there,” his dad says.
(We can’t hear the defense lawyer, or the judge, on the public line in the McCaughey case, so the decision in that case might be a mystery for a bit.)
Back at the Bruno Cua hearing, his father is testifying that he (the father) now believes that the claims about election fraud are not true.
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1359165308213334035
Bruno Cua’s dad testifies that he’s now embarrassed by his belief in mass voter fraud conspiracy theories, which he now calls “B.S."
Joseph Cua specifically name-checked Lin Wood. He claims he came back to reality after Jan. 6 after realizing the “big reveal” was never coming.
Joseph Cua, asked if he now believes the election was stolen.
“No.”
Says he didn’t have any expectations of violence on an invasion of the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“No.”
Says he didn’t have any expectations of violence on an invasion of the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“I feel like I should’ve maybe known a little bit better at my age,” Joseph Cua said. Again emphasized he’s embarrassed they drank in the rhetoric.
Joseph Cua acknowledged knowing his son had a baton with him, but claimed he didn’t know he was going to go inside the Capitol. Said he allowed him to climb the scaffolding.
Judge calls the Cua family “aiders and abettors” of the crime, and said he hadn’t seen this type of family involvement in a crime outside a drug case.
“I’ve rejected custodians with far less involvement in the criminal conduct of the defendant.”
“I’ve rejected custodians with far less involvement in the criminal conduct of the defendant.”
And with that, Bruno Cua is coming back to D.C.
https://twitter.com/cjoyner/status/1360344392658276352
McCaughey isn’t going anywhere either:
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1360381769128808451
Anyway, here’s a story about Trump’s legal team shoving his strongest supporters right under the bus: huffpost.com/entry/trump-de…
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