Defense attorneys for five members of the far-right group “Proud Boys” demanded that former President Trump be subpoenaed to testify in court to prove that it was not the indicted “Proud Boys” members who instigated protesters to riot in Congress, but Trump himself .
Prosecutors accused the five of being suspected of rebellion on the grounds that they instigated dozens of far-right demonstrators to rush into Congress on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to prevent members of Congress from confirming the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The ” New York Times ” reported that the defendant’s lawyer had prepared a subpoena and handed it over to presiding judge Timothy J. Kelly, but it is unknown whether the judge approved it. Even if the judge agrees to subpoena Trump, Trump will inevitably resist to the end, lest he be forced to stand on the witness stand and take an oath, and accept questions from lawyers about his role in the Congressional riots.
Other defendants involved in the case also wanted to subpoena Trump and his staff to testify in the trial court, but they did not take any specific actions. Last year, a defendant finally asked the judge for permission to subpoena Trump and others to testify in court.
The attorney for Dustin Thompson, another defendant in the Congressional riots on January 6, wrote to the court, saying that if Trump and others were called to testify, he and his cronies would definitely say that they had carefully planned a plan to make the people of the country question The legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election and the legitimacy of a Biden election.
However, the judge who presided over the case listened to Thompson’s own testimony, put aside the subpoena, and directly sentenced all six charges charged by the prosecution and sentenced him to three years in prison. Thompson testified that he ran into Congress purely at the behest of Trump.
However, the five Proud Boys defendants, Enrique Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, Dominic Pezzola and Joseph Biggs, may be more legal than Thompson The stand subpoenaed Trump.
The defense lawyer said that the government accused them of being “tools of a conspiracy” used to incite other demonstrators to run into Congress, and they certainly have the right to present their own theories to refute the prosecution’s allegations and explain them to the jury.

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