“We’ve talked, we’ve debated, we’ve disagreed and finally we’ve reached an agreement among the four of us but obviously this is not something that is going to become law or fail to become law because of a small group of senators. But I think we have found some areas where there’s space for compromise and we’ve also found that there are some red lines and no middle ground,” Cornyn said on the floor of the Senate. “This is an issue that divides much of the country, depending on where you live, and maybe divides people living in the same household. If it holds up, that would itself be an extraordinary achievement after years in which mass shootings have devastated American communities, with numbing reality. Republican John Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas, who was formally rebuked by the Republican Party of Texas on Saturday evening for taking part in bipartisan negotiations, said he felt confident that senators would see the deal as a reasonable compromise. It also includes money to help young patients access mental health services via telemedicine, money for more school-based mental health centers, and support for suicide hotlines. "And that is why some of these witnesses who say that we were pawns, they were pawns and these people above us who are the ones really doing it - that could lead up the food chain."ġ1th Hour The legislation also includes $11 billion for mental health services and $2 billion for community-based anti-violence programs. "And if they were put up to it by people? if they were misled into doing that by others? Then those people could be in legal jeopardy too," he continued. "I do think that is important because we heard about plans to have a conspiracy with John Eastman, to defraud the American people, we heard about the whole ripping off of Trump voters by the spreading of lies, and seeking donations, and you hear about potential criminal statues were violated in Georgia, but here we have one more statute which is this, if people submitted fraudulent documents to Washington, to the National Archives, they could be in a lot of jeopardy, legal jeopardy,"he explained. "To me, that was just - there are so many pawns in these schemes that were unwillingly duped because they didn't do their own research, and he was one of them.īroadwater also had analysis on Trump's "pawns." his testimony today showed that the campaign in his words, treated him as a useful idiot.and knowingly misled him now that he regrets it," he explained. "He told the false electors to act in secrecy, and trick state Capitol officers. District Judge Thomas Hogan is scheduled to sentence Reeder next week, and prosecutors are recommending a two-month prison term, but the judge may impose up to a six-month maximum.īluestein said one of the "biggest moments" involved "Robert Sinners, a former low-level Trump aide who was involved in orchestrating the phony GOP electors scheme in Georgia. For the nation, it was a permanent source of shame and sorrow," wrote assistant U.S. "For the Defendant, these unlawful acts were a source of pride and accomplishment. Reeder's attorney described him as an "accidental tourist," but prosecutors noted in a court filing Friday that he recorded himself breaching the Capitol twice, recorded video of a police officer's assault and boasted that he "battle(d) the police."
"He did not care much for President Trump, although he favored some of President Trump's policies and he was not a strong supporter of his Democratic opponent in the election," Bonsib wrote. The lawyer claims Reeder attended the Trump rally, which had been heavily promoted by right-wing social media accounts, because he thought it might be the last time he would hear the then-president speak. Reeder is not politically active, is not and has never been a member of any right-wing or anti-government or extremist group and has, unfortunately, been publicly grouped with many others (whose) views he abhors," wrote defense attorney Robert Bonsib. The attorney for Robert Reeder, who pleaded guilty to joining the riot, claims in a new court filing the 55-year-old took a train from Maryland to Washington, D.C., to hear the defeated president speak at a "Stop the Steal" rally because he had "nothing better to do," and made a "spur of the moment decision and regrettable mistake" when he followed the crowd of Trump supporters into the Capitol, reported the Associated Press. Capitol rioter now claims he's a Democrat and not a Donald Trump supporter - although he was seen wearing a "MAGA" hat and heard chanting "fight for Trump" during the Jan.
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