WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Protesters supporting U.S. President Donald Trump break into the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building during demonstrations in the nation's capital. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
A Delaware man, Anthony Antonio, currently facing five charges related to his involvement in the January 6 Capitol insurrection claims that his regular viewing of Fox News contributed to his behavior during the riots. Antionio’s lawyer calls his client’s condition “Foxitis.”
“Fox television played constantly,” Antonio’s lawyer Joseph Hurley said during a video hearing Thursday. “He became hooked with what I call ‘Foxitis’ or ‘Foxmania,’ and became interested in the political aspect and started believing what was being fed to him.”
Antonio and his lawyer, however, are unlikely to change the opinion of a judge or a jury, as footage of Antonio shown during the hearing display him wearing a bulletproof vest and wearing a patch for the extremist group “the Three Percenters,” a white nationalist organization, while being intensely active during the chaos of the riots.
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