Trump supporter who admitted he stormed the Capitol and stole a bottle of liquor and a coat rack on Jan. 6 testifies during his trial that he was 'following presidential orders.'
Thompson, who worked at a pawn shop and as an exterminator after he graduated from The Ohio State University in 2008, testified on Wednesday that he became unemployed at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, and then"went down the rabbit hole on the internet."
“If the president is giving you almost an order to do something, I felt obligated to do that,” Thompson said, adding he felt like he “had to do something to gain his respect or, like, approval.” “We are going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, congressmen and women, and we are probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you will never take back our country with weakness,” Trump added that day.
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