“Elect me to Congress! I have no idea where they meet!”
republiQan front runner material there.
Their voter base doesn’t know either, so why risk knowing things and being labeled as an elitist?
Are all Republicans criminals?
No, some of them are just really stupid.
Those two aren’t mutually exclusive, they could be (and many are) really stupid criminals.
Oh, so they’re vetting their candidates now, are they?
Are they? Or did the media dig this up?
That’s what they said. Republican “vetting” has been done by the media for decades, because the party is unable/unwilling to do so,
They really just don’t care.
He’s fucking perfect! Never change, GOP!
Grillo’s attorneys had argued that he “believed he was authorized to engage in the conduct set forth in the indictment.”
When your attorney wants to say something better than “he’s guilty as fuck, but he’s also paying me so could we not pretty please?”
“Your honor, we must assume he didn’t knowingly commit this severe of a crime so publicly without any attempts to hide his identity. If not for his sake then for the sake of our livers.”
He tried, with this acorn-looking beenie. It’s so unlike him!
He was authorized by the former president.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — A New York man who is running for the congressional seat previously held by George Santos was convicted this week of charges relating to the Jan. 6 riot after testifying during his trial that he didn’t know Congress convened inside the Capitol.
Philip Sean Grillo of Queens was found guilty Tuesday of the felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding, along with a series of misdemeanors like entering restricted grounds and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, the Justice Department said in a news release.
Grillo, 49, entered and exited the Capitol on Jan. 6 multiple times, at least once through a broken window, according to the Justice Department.
Grillo’s attorneys had argued that he “believed he was authorized to engage in the conduct set forth in the indictment.”
Grillo in May filed as a candidate for New York’s 3rd Congressional District — the seat previously held by Santos until his expulsion from Congress last week following a scathing House Ethics Committee report.
The Justice Department noted that during his trial, Grillo testified that he had “no idea” that Congress convened inside the Capitol.
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"Prosecutors said Philip Sean Grillo, who is running for the seat previously held by George Santos, had videotaped himself during the 2021 attack on the Capitol.
Interesting. I’m curious why he brought 20+ year old video equipment with him. It seems like the article would address that oddity. It’s getting tough to find new old stock blank video tapes.
The picture in the article he’s shown holding a cell phone shooting what looks like a selfie video but with the back camera.
Don’t need a blank tape. Just need one that you can write to.
But in a way, I’m not surprised. Being paranoid about smartphones and tracking info goes hand in hand with conspiracy theories about stolen elections and State-run cannibal pedo rings.
