Via Scott MacFarlane
Hours after #Trump statement that #Jan6 defendants are "hostages"...in jailhouse phone call to nightly J6 vigil, defendant Marc Bru: "The judges are bank tellers & human traffickers. They've kidnapped J-6ers &are holding them hostage..We *are* hostages. Trump said it. We fit every definition...." 1/...
2/ 🚨cont'd...
He wasn't making a political statement by calling them hostages, he was making a lawful statement... enough with the politics, we need to get out of here! People have to claw back the power. & they have every right to. Every man & woman has a right to a nation.. they've declared war against the public"
Trump's statement about Jan 6 defendants being "hostages" quickly made its way thru the jail.
@GottaLaff Terrifying. "The entire US government is illegitimate and needs to be violently overthrown." MAGA people *hate* America.
@junecasagrande @GottaLaff Exactly. And nothing new here. I've heard the same rhetoric from right-wingers since the early 1990s. I'm sure it existed before that time.
Trump didn't create this. He simply took the lid off the pot.
