A federal jury on Thursday found a U.S. Capitol rioter guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding and theft of government property during last year’s riot. 

The man, who belongs to Ohio, claimed that he was obeying and following the orders of former US President Donald Trump when he burgled items from U.S. Capitol last year. 

The jury in the District of Columbia convicted 38-year-old Dustin Thompson and found him guilty on all the charges he faced. However, Thompson stated that he was simply abiding by Trump’s orders, and ultimately, it is the 75-year-old politician who is responsible for the Capitol attack.

Thompson also admitted to entering the Capitol and looting a coat rack and a bottle of alcohol during the riots.

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“Besides being ordered by the president to go to the Capitol, I don’t know what I was thinking,” Thompson told the jury, according to CNN.

 “I was caught up in the moment,” he said. 

Thompson’s lawyer told the jury Trump was an “evil and sinister man” who had asked his supporters to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell.”

Thompson will be sentenced at a hearing in July by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, who oversaw the trial. The judge ordered Thompson to be detained in prison until the July hearing.

“The insurgency, and it was in effect that, is very troubling,” Walton said.

“I think our democracy is in trouble because unfortunately we have charlatans, like the former President, in my view, who don’t care about democracy and only care about power,” he added. 

The conviction comes as yet another significant win for prosecutors.

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It also marks the first time a January 6 rioter attempted to convince a jury that Trump was accountable for the crimes committed during the attack.

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Now, the U.S. Justice Department has won all of the three Capitol riots prosecutions in a jury trial. One defendant was absolved in a non-jury trial.

About 800 people have been prosecuted for committing crimes during the January 6 attack.