Jake Angeli’s lawyer claimed Donald Trump had”a duty” to pardon his client, who he said”adored” the president.
Defense lawyer Albert Watkins informed CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday the clemency are the sole”honorable” thing following the president’s rhetoric summoned his assistants into a frenzy which triggered last week’s malevolent Capitol riot. Trumphe added,”has a duty” to dish out pardons.
It was”as though his voice had been for the very first time being discovered,” the attorney added.
Chansley, 33, of Phoenix, “adored” Trump and”felt as though he had been calling the call of the president,” Watkins explained. He had been in Washington”at the invitation of the president, who had been planning to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue with him,” he added. Trump told his assistants in the pre-riot rally he would accompany them into the Capitol, but moved back into the White House to see the insurrection on TV instead.
Watkins confessed it was a long-shot try at clearing his customer’s name.
However,”with Trump that you will never know,” he added. “Who knows next time he might be represented with the Shaman instead of Rudy Giuliani?”
Chansley, that had been quickly identified from photographs showing him within the Capitol in his identifying ensemble, was taken into custody over the weekend.
