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Fifteen months after they tried and failed to overturn the 2020 election, the same group of lawyers and associates is continuing efforts to “decertify” the vote, feeding a false narrative.
In about eight hours of questioning, investigators pressed the former White House aide on former President Donald J. Trump’s use of “we” in his speech to supporters before the riot.
Senator Mike Lee and Representative Chip Roy, once backers of President Donald J. Trump’s claims of a stolen election, eventually urged his top aide to change course.
Dustin Thompson, an unemployed exterminator from Ohio, was the first defendant tried in the Capitol attack to offer a Trump-made-me-do-it defense before a jury.
Dustin Thompson was the first defendant tried for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to use a Trump-made-me-do-it defense in front of a jury. He was convicted on all six charges against him.