A defendant standing before a federal judge who will determine his sentence on his guilty plea on a single charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, stemming from his participation in the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol made some curious claims about his activities and culpability, reports Ryan J. Reilly of HuffPost.
You may remember John Lolos: on January 8th, he singlehandedly caused a Delta flight at Reagan National airport to return to the gate from the runway because he would not stop chanting “Trump 2020.” He was arrested for that, and will face charges for that later.
But Friday morning, during his sentencing hearing for his J6 activities, Lolos started on a different tract: by questioning election results in Philadelphia, Chicago and Detroit. When it came to questioning from the judge, things did not go better:
Judge: What made you think you could go in there?
Lolos: I thought that was the designated area that we were going to protest.
Judge: You went in through a broken window to get to a designated protest area?
Lolos: “I see a window, it’s broken, people are going inside, yeah, I went inside, your honor.”
Lolos claimed that he was invited into the Capitol by “the smallest police officer I’ve ever seen in my whole life” and that police unfairly detained him at the airport.