You know you’re in trouble when your lawyer appears on camera – and you seem to admit that the authorities have convicted you.
A lawyer for the Trump supporter was caught on camera smiling and waving while carrying Mayor Pulpit Nancy Pelosi’s pulpit during Wednesday’s Capitol riots, told reporters in a surprisingly frank interview on Monday that the photo your customer has a problem.
“You have a picture of our client in a building, not allowed to be, with what looks like a podium or a podium, I’m not sure what the name is. But that’s what we have, ” said Dan Eckhart, attorney for suspect Adam Johnson, according to the footage’s posts on Twitter.
A reporter can be heard saying to Eckhart: “Obviously, this is a problem for you as a defense attorney. ”
The lawyer replies: “Yes, I don’t know how to explain this.
“But yes, that would be a problem. I’m not a magician, ” he said. “So, yes, we have a photograph of our client in what appears to be inside a federal building or inside the federally owned Capitol. ”
Johnson, 36, of Parrish, Florida, was arrested on Friday for chaos on Capitol Hill and faces charges, including intentionally entering or staying in any restricted building or land without legal authority and theft of government property.
He was released on Monday on $ 25,000 bail, according to WTSP, an affiliate of Florida’s CBS-TV.