CNN: “A January 6 rioter who downplayed the insurrection in a Fox News interview one day after she was sentenced to probation for storming the Capitol was ‘played by Laura Ingraham’ and manipulated into whitewashing the attack, her lawyer said Thursday. Anna Morgan-Lloyd received national attention in June for becoming the first Capitol rioter to be sentenced for their role in the insurrection. She offered an emotional apology in court and swore that she had a political awakening after January 6 – and she avoided jail. One day later, she went on Fox News’ Ingraham Angle and seemed to defend what she called ‘very polite’ people involved the assault.”

“Her attorney Heather Shaner said at an unrelated court hearing on Thursday that Morgan-Lloyd ‘was played by Laura Ingraham’ and accused the conservative Fox News host of taking advantage of a frazzled grandmother to push a pro-Trump counternarrative about January 6. A spokeswoman for Fox News didn’t answer CNN’s request for comment on Thursday.”

“During the brief on-air interview, Ingraham focused on whether Morgan-Lloyd participated in the violence or whether she personally witnessed anyone attacking police. She said people were ‘polite’ and claimed she only went into the Capitol to protect a 74-year-old woman. In reaction to the interview, Shaner said, ‘I was angry. I felt humiliated. I felt betrayed.’ ‘She was played,’ Shaner said in court Thursday about the Fox News interview.”