Prosecutors are inflicting new damage on one of Trump’s key falsehoods from January 6

Two days earlier, NBC News reported: “A Donald Trump supporter who federal authorities say plotted to kill FBI special agents investigating him on Jan. 6 appears to have been armed with a handgun when he attacked the fourth rioter.” who broke the law. The U.S. Capitol, prosecutors said during the trial on Tuesday.”

Unfortunately, this is not the end of the list. It was earlier this year when NBC News reported on John Emanuel Banuelos, who appeared to be filmed firing gunshots into the Capitol on January 6.

The NBC News report added: “Although numerous rioters were armed with guns on January 6, none were known to have actually fired their weapons; Banuelos is the first to be accused of this.”

Despite Republican rumors that the rioters were not armed during the pro-Trump violence, the facts have been clear for some time. Remember this Washington Post report from two years ago?

The same report noted a Jan. 6 defendant who explained during his trial that from his vantage point on the west side of the Capitol, he counted eight firearms carried by five people. Other rioters have been charged with bringing weapons onto the Capitol grounds.

A New York Times report highlighted a series of other specific January 6 rioters who were identified as having carried firearms during the attack.

In other words, Trump’s statement “not one of those people had a gun” is getting worse.

This message updates our related previous reporting.