BREAKING: Opening arguments underway in 1st #CapitolRiot trial, U.S. v. Guy Reffitt. AUSA Jeff Nestler calls the Capitol ‘the heart of democracy,’ says Jan. 6 was ‘worst assault on the Capitol since the War of 1812.’ Of Reffitt: 'The defendant was the tip of this mob’s spear.'
After prosecution’s half-hour recitation replete with inflammatory quotes from defendant, Reffitt’s defense attorney William Welch offers an opening of just three minutes.
Parts of it seem Seussian. ‘He did not break anything. He did not take anything,’ Welch says. Denies his client was armed. Notes he never entered Capitol.
Says his client was all talk. ‘Guy does brag. He exaggerates and he rants. He uses a lot of hyperbole and that upsets people,’ Welch says.
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