Closing arguments in the first Jan. 6 trial are set to begin in 10 minutes. Jurors will likely begin deliberating Guy Reffitt’s fate tomorrow morning.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Risa Berkower — who prosecuted the Charlottesville "Unite the Right” killer and other high-profile federal defendants — is now delivering the government’s closing argument.
Berkower: He had squared off with the Capitol Police, and now he squared off with his own children.
“He was ecstatic about what he did, about what the mob did,” she said. “Back home in Texas, he thought he has gotten away with it.”
Berkower: Armed with a handgun, the defendant pushed his way to the front of the crowd, and confronted police.
“Every time he advanced, the crowd advanced,” she says. “You saw him lead the crowd.”
“Every time he advanced, the crowd advanced,” she says. “You saw him lead the crowd.”
DOJ: "This was not bragging. This was not hype. This was real."
Trump fanatic Guy Reffitt "just decided he was above the law,” Berkower tells jurors. He knew that it was illegal to carry a weapon on the grounds of the Capitol, but he did so anyway.
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