Guy Reffitt, a 49-year-old oil industry worker from Wylie, Texas, is facing charges of bringing a gun to Washington, battling police officers and impeding an official proceeding.
WASHINGTON - The first criminal trial stemming from the 6 January assault on the US Capitol by Donald Trump supporters began on Wednesday with prosecutors accusing a Texas man of leading the attack on Congress.
"A mob needs leaders," Nestler said, and Reffitt, a member of a right-wing group called the Three Percenters, was "the tip of this mob's spear."William Welch, Reffitt's defense attorney, denied that his client had brought a handgun to the Capitol and said he never actually entered the building or assaulted anyone.
A member of another right-wing militia group, the Oath Keepers, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the charge of seditious conspiracy in connection with the assault on Congress. Reffitt, who has pleaded not guilty, drove to Washington from Texas with another member of the Three Percenters, according to the affidavit supporting his arrest.
"If you turn me in, you're a traitor and you know what happens to traitors... traitors get shot," Reffitt was quoted as saying.
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