There is a more than ample record to support the judge's remarks about Trump.
She noted that this one man remained free—which was also true. But her point was that this fact weakened Priola’s efforts to blame him: because Trump had not at that time even been charged, much less convicted, it was less appropriate to point a finger at him. The judge certainly never said Trump was guilty of any crime or that he should be criminally charged, much less imprisoned.
The second statement that Trump complains about was made by Chutkan in sentencing another defendant, Robert Scott Palmer, and is even more benign:And it is true, Mr. Palmer—you have made a very good point, one that has been made before—that the people who exhorted you and encouraged you and rallied you to go and take action and to fight have not been charged. That is not this court’s position. I don’t charge anybody. I don’t negotiate plea offers. I don’t make charging decisions.
Indeed, Chutkan faced a long line of Jan. 6 defendants who used the “somebody else made me do it” excuse. Sometimes the person the defendants referred to in making these arguments was Donald Trump. Sometimes it was someone else. The “somebody else made me do it” defense does not fly in Chutkan’s courtroom. Nor should it. These were adults who make bad and criminal choices for which they were culpable. And that’s exactly what she told Palmer and the others.
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